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A COMMON GOAL: Jews on ice and on the tube These are the NHL guy who is described as players who have at having “no filter” on his least one Jewish parent mouth. Bad behavior got and were raised either him exiled to the traffic Jewish or secular: MIKE unit for five years, but Mike Brown Michael Cammalleri BROWN, 29, right wing, he’s been brought back San Jose Sharks; ANDRE to head up Portland’s BURAKOVSKY, 19, left new Special Crimes Unit, wing, Washington which works the city’s Capitals (he’s a Swede of most serious cases. Of Russian Jewish descent); course, he has a police MICHAEL CAMMALLERI, chief who doesn’t like his 32, center, New Jersey style. Angelson plays Devils, and JASON Detective Nicole Gravely, ZUCKER, 22, Minnesota who is described as “the Wild. (DAVID WARSOF- optimistic yin to Back- SKY, 24, briefly played strom’s yang” and works for Boston last fall and hard to counterbalance Dapper Mortdecai may return.) Of local his irritating behavior. bringing trilogy of interest: AARON KES- Angelson, who has Genevieve Angelson Beatrice Rosen SELMAN, a Mays Land- stage experience and novels to screen ing native, is on Princ- had a recurring role on sensation, and Ammon’s NATHANIEL RICH, 34, ● The mystery/thriller “Mortdecai” is based on the eton’s (Div. I) hockey “House of Lies,” only wife’s lover was convict- the son of famous writer team. Note: Jewish recently replaced Meryl ed of the crime. Now re- FRANK RICH, 65. The irst of a triloy of acclaimed 1970s novels by the late Sports Review aided with Streep’s daughter, Mamie located to New York City, couple are members of a Kyril Boniglioli. Charles Mortdecai (Johnny Depp) is a this item. Gummer, as Gravely. Her Mark and his wife, Lynn, New Orleans synagogue. debonair English art dealer of Dutch Jewish ancestry. I would have written father, MARK ANGEL- are a major power couple BEATRICE ROSEN, He is also a bit of a rogue. Johanna, his “randy” wife, is more in advance SON, 64, who grew up in in the arts and sciences. 30, has a supporting, but played by GWYNETH PALTROW, 42. The basic plot: about “Backstrom,” a Fox Caldwell, is an attorney (Lynn was not born Jew- regular role in “Backstrom” Mortdecai must travel the globe in a race to recover a police series that ish, and I don’t believe as Nadia Paquet, a foreign- (Rutgers law school) stolen painting rumored to contain the code to a lost premiered last night and businessman who she’s converted.) born civilian who works bank account illed with Nazi gold. Armed only with (January 22) at 9 p.m., worked in high finance Tweets by Genevieve, with the crime unit. A very but the most prominent and then headed up the and by her sister, JESSI- pretty lithe blonde, Rosen good looks and charm, he has to fend off angry Russians, Jewish member of the country’s largest printing CA, 30, a Brooklyn mid- was born in the States a terrorist, and the British MI5. Co-stars include Ewan cast, GENEVIEVE company. He served as wife, make it clear that but raised in France. She’s McGregor and JEFF GOLDBLUM, 62. Goldblum, by the ANGELSON, 28, is such a Chicago’s deputy mayor they identify as Jewish. A been working steadily way, recently announced he was expecting his irst child, relative newcomer that from 2011-12, streamlining third sibling, sister MER- in smallish French and a son, with his wife, Emilie Livingston, 32. (Opens today.) she doesn’t even have a government and bring- EDITH, 32, is a lawyer American roles since 1998.