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Jacqueline Simonovich serves on the Bar Association of San Francisco Barristers Club Diversity and Inclusion Committee and runs the Committee’s Book Club. Jacqueline drafted a review of the Book Club’s most recent book, The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Delila Harris, for the Fall 2021 edition of San Francisco Attorney Magazine.  The article also includes a link to choose the Book Club’s next pick.

Zakiya Delila Harris’ The Other Black Girl, is both an extremely relatable office novel and a necessary critique of performative diversity.

You can read her full review of The Other Black Girl, here. 

On October 27 & 28 2021, Sotheby’s presented The Ricky Jay Collection, a miraculous and exacting tour through the history of the unusual and how it has captivated and inspired for centuries.  A video preview of the auction can be viewed here.  From Sotheby’s:

Magician, actor, scholar, author: the range of Ricky Jay’s accomplishments were as varied as are the formats and subjects of the material in his celebrated Collection: books, pamphlets, posters, handbills, broadsides, prints, ephemera, objects, and apparatus documenting the histories of magic, circuses, jugglers and acrobats, automatons, remarkable characters, learned animals, limb-deficient artists, con men, and scores of other related, if arcane, topics.

Read the 10/19/21 New York Times story on the collection here: The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay.

Stan Coleman represented Ricky Jay during his long and multi-faceted career and now represents his estate.  In addition to Jay’s legendary magic performance, consultation, and scholarship, he was well-known as an actor, appearing in the David Mamet films House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, and Redbelt, as well as the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights and Magnolia.  

USA Network premieres its two-hour film “Nash Bridges” on Saturday, Nov. 27 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The film brings back original cast members Don Johnson and Cheech Marin as elite investigators for the San Francisco Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit.

Produced by Village Roadshow Television, the film was written by Bill Chais and directed by Greg Beeman.  It is based on the original series created by Carlton Cuse, which originally ran for six seasons (1996-2001) on CBS. Don Johnson, Bill Chais, Greg Beeman, and Carlton Cuse will executive produce.

Cheech Marin is represented by Stan Coleman and Matt Sugarman of Weintraub Tobin.

You can read more about the film and its release date on Deadline, here.