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A quaint, tight little package that should warm the nostalgic hearts of loyalists of the PBS series that shut down four years ago, “Downton Abbey” is more of an apt TV sendoff than, say, the “Sex and the City” films (and it turns out Michael Engler, the director here, helmed episodes of each). For one thing, the plot is focused on closure rather than future opportunities, and it doesn’t play like an extended episode.
The intrinsic charm of “Downton Abbey,” small or big, has always been its focus on those doing the cooking, tidying and fluffing in the bowels of the grand estate. It’s post-World War I, yet the entitlements of the feudal past remain – if just barely, as the modern earth and its complicated economics are crashing in to alter the staid landscape. The earl of Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) and his wife, the countess of Grantham (Elizabeth McGovern) are decent manse overlords, as manse overloads go; after taking in the series (I’m a dabbler, I must confess) and Robert Altman’s “Gosford Park” (, also written by Julien Fellowes, who won an Oscar for his effort) you wonder if all such passed-on grand estates are so civil and seamlessly run, with dignity between class bar
Famed Jewish director Steven Spielberg’s latest film “The Fabelmans” is his most personal yet. The semi-autobiographical film tells the story of Sammy Fabelman, a youthful filmmaker, and his complicated relationship with his family.
But who is playing Sammy Fabelman, you ask? Hollywood newcomer Gabriel LaBelle, who happens to also be Jewish!!
Here are 18 things to know about Gabriel LaBelle.
1. Gabriel was born on September 20, in Vancouver to a family with a Jewish father.
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2. His father is Rob LaBelle, an actor and producer!
3. Gabriel got his start in acting at age 8, when he got involved with a theater summer camp in his hometown.
4. Gabriel is still mad about some of the first roles he didn’t get at his theater summer camp!
He was cast as Lord Farquaad in “Shrek: The Musical” and Aladdin in “Aladdin,” despite wanting to play Donkey and Genie, respectively.
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Gabe LaBelle Tells Seth Rogen the Secret to Becoming Lorne Michaels
Gabe LaBelle, photographed by Myles Pettengill.
Gabe LaBelle has a knack for embodying real people with daunting legacies. After his breakout role as a young Steven Spielberg-esque personality in the director’s autobiographical magnum opus, The Fabelmans, LaBelle’s next big oppose came courtesy of Jason Reitman, who cast him in Saturday Night, an against-all-odds origin story about the frantic 90 minutes leading up to the very first episode of Saturday Night Live. It wasn’t until later that the year-old actor learned he’d be stepping into the shoes of a young Lorne Michaels, portrayed in the film as a scrappy upstart trying to keep the chaos in check. It’s a role that demanded same parts reverence and restraint—LaBelle avoided doing one of those ubiquitous Lorne impressions, he explains—eventually earning him a Golden Globe nomination. To unpack the top trip of portraying one of the most iconic figures in television history, Labelle reunited with his Fabelmans costar and three-time SNL host Seth Rogen, who knows a thing or two about Lorne Michaels himself.
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This movie kind of snuck up on me as charmingly twee, a throwback to coming of age movies of last decade, when representation need not matter and you could write a movie about two white teenagers trying to scam their way through the summer while dating babes and doing shenanigans, and I was happy to dismiss it as a small arthouse bro movie (I view you, Lighthouse), until Wife asked me which production I was seeing yesterday morning and when I said &#;The American Population of Magical Negroes,&#; she made a face and asked if I had read any reviews and then quoted to me, &#;There are no Ebony characters in this production, only black people,&#; which led to the fastest change of ticketing I have done in a long while, because I have trust issues since that one Tom Hanks movie. Anyway, that was my journey to seeing this last night at 8PM.
I&#;d read a little bit about the casting, the way that Conor Sherry and Gabriel LaBelle, two talented guys in their twenties were cast as fourteen year old boys, which I think is just amazing. Their slightly older partner who is simultaneously in college and also the National Guard which has been deployed to Desert Storm is played by a very not-gay Nick Ro
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