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The Chair, a six-part original Netflix series, began streaming Aug. 19. The series received very good reviews. It’s a comedy-drama, with some romantic stuff.
The setting is a private college with financial problems. Sandra Oh stars as the new chair of the college’s English department. One of her challenges is saving the jobs of aged, no longer popular professors. Veteran character actor BobBalaban, 76, plays one of the “endangered.”
The Chair was co-created by actress Amanda Peet, 49, and she co-wrote the two first episodes. The Chair is the first time Peet has written for the screen (or stage).
While Peet never became a major star, she has had a substantial acting career. Her breakthrough role came in The Whole Nine Yards (2000), a comedy/crime film that became a surprise big hit. She was funny and charming.
Not long after that film opened, I found out that Peet’s mother was Jewish. Then an acquaintance who knew the Peet family told me he was sure that Peet was raised in a secular family.
Over the years, I followed Peet as she had some box office hits (SavingSilverman, Something’sGot to Give and 2012) and some film flops. She did quite a bit of TV, including a nice recurring role on The Good Wife and a much-seen role last year on Dirty John, the true crime anthology series.
Peet wed David Benioff in 2005, in what several sources said was a “traditional Jewish wedding.” Benioff, now 50, is a successful novelist and screenwriter, most famous as the co-writer and co-producer of Game of Thrones.
I liked Peet a lot, and it made me happy that she seemed to becoming “more Jewish.” In 2015, I finally got confirmation. She wrote a children’s book about how a Jewish girl coped with the “deluge” of Christmas. While promoting the book, she talked about her background. She said her parents were atheists and she grew up without religion. But, after her marriage, she embraced Judaism and Jewish rituals — and she referred to herself as a “Jewish mother.” (Peet and Benioff have three children).
Do watch the CBS Sunday News segment titled The Man Who Invented the CellPhone, which aired on Aug. 22. Just search that title and CBS News, and you’ll find it on the CBS site and on YouTube. “The Man” is Martin Cooper, 93. He’s in great shape, vibrant and explains things clearly. The news is a movie is going to be made about him. I talked to Cooper five years ago, and he was a delight. He told me that following Jewish tradition, he had his second bar mitzvah at age 83.
Also worth catching: Shiva Baby (2020), a dark “very Jewish” comedy film that got great reviews. It’s now streaming on HBO Max.
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