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THE BULLETIN • MARCH 25 - 31, 2021
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“Charles & Diana: 1983”
This documentary goes back to the
early ’80s to recall a time when “Diana
Mania” began to take hold in Great
Britain and around the world, when
Princess Diana’s popularity started
to outshine that of her husband and
even senior members of the Royal
Family, which didn’t sit well. It’s also
when cracks began to appear in their
relationship that ultimately doomed it.
(ORIGINAL)
Checking in with
ADHIR KALYAN
BY GEORGE DICKIE
“Movie: Farewell Amor”
“Movie: Zappa”
This 2020 musical drama stars Ntare
Guma Mbaho Mwine (“The Chi”) as
an Angolan who is joined in the U.S.
after 17 years by his wife and daughter.
Now strangers sharing a one-bedroom
apartment in New York, they find
common ground through their love of
dance. Zainab Jah and Jayme Lawson
also star for director Ekwa Msangi
(“The Agency”). (ORIGINAL)
Writer/director Alex Winter’s (“The
Panama Papers,” “Showbiz Kids”)
2020 profile of the innovative and
iconoclastic rock artist explores his
private life, his rich, often controversial
musical career and legacy through
archival footage and interviews with
family, friends and contemporaries,
including Alice Cooper and his former
guitarist Steve Vai.
Adhir Kalyan didn’t need a chemistry read to know he clicked
with his “United States of Al” co-star Parker Young. He’d already
met him in the parking lot.
“(I) had just so happened to watch a show called ‘Imposters’ that
he was on, so he was fresh in my mind ...,” the 37-year-old South
African actor explains. “He arrives in the parking lot with his
massive truck that has got mud just splayed three quarters of the
way up the truck. And he gets out of this truck and I just think to
myself, ‘I think this is the guy. I don’t know who else I’m reading
with today but I think this is the guy. He just feels like Riley.’
“And so we ended up chatting and running the scene a couple of
times before his chemistry test,” he continues, “and we just from
the very beginning had an easy rapport. Anything I was able to
offer up to him in a scene he received and returned.”
In the half-hour sitcom, which premieres Thursday, April 1, on
CBS, Kalyan (“Rules of Engagement,” “Aliens in America”) plays
the title character, an Afghan immigrant brought to America by
U.S. Marine Riley (Young), for whose unit he served as interpreter
during the war in Afghanistan. Now on American soil, both
struggle with the surroundings – Al trying to understand an
alien culture and Riley adjusting to civilian life. And both men
reacquainting themselves with each other in the new setting.
So it’s a fish-out-of-water comedy but with some serious notes.
For his part, Kalyan admires the bravery it took for real-life
“Movie: WeWork: Or the
Making and Breaking of a $47
Billion Unicorn”
From writer/director Jed Rothstein
(“Before the Spring: After the Fall,”
“The China Hustle”) comes this
documentary that follows the story
of the real estate company WeWork
and its failed initial public offering in
2019 that led to the eventual forced
resignation of its co-founder and CEO
Adam Neumann. (ORIGINAL)
Afghans to work with American troops and against the Taliban
during the war.
“To know that these interpreters made the choice to work with
U.S. forces,” he says, “knowing full well that that could possibly
mean that not only their lives but the lives of their families could
be endangered because they believed in serving a greater purpose, I
think was something that really resonated with me.”
Full name: Adhir Kalyan
Birth date: Aug. 4, 1983
Birthplace: Durban, South Africa
Family ties: Wife is “General Hospital” actress Emily
Wilson; mother is Sandy Kalyan, member of the South
African Parliament
TV credits include: “Aliens in America,” “Nip/Tuck,”
“Rules of Engagement,” “Second Chance,” “I Love Dick,”
“The Guest Book,” “Arrested Development,” “The Goldbergs”
Movie credits include: “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” (2009),
Fired Up!“ (2009), ”Up in the Air“ (2009), ”High School“
(2010), ”No Strings Attached“ (2011), ”Killing Them Softly“
(2012), ”Buttwhistle“ (2014), ”Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2“
(2015), ”Square Roots“ (TV, 2016), ”Brothered Up“ (TV,
2017), ”Making Friends“ (TV, 2018), ”A Nice Girl Like You“
(2020), ”Chemical Hearts“ (2020)