A men’s clothier in Claremont was interviewed by Morgan Freeman for his “The Story of God” miniseries, and somehow did not provide him with a coat of many colors.

The owner of Xerxes for Gents is an adherent of the Zoroastrian religion and chairs the Council on Zoroastrian Studies at Claremont Graduate University.

Freeman did not visit Claremont, darn the luck, but his crew did.

“In the introduction, unless they cut it out, they will show parts of the Claremont Village,” Arman Ariane told me with a chuckle.

Ariane said he was interviewed at the temple in Westminster he attends, as was Professor Gregory J. Riley of the Claremont School of Theology. The episode, the fifth of six, is set to air Sunday on the National Geographic Channel and concerns the existence of Satan. Ariane provides the Zoroastrian perspective.

“It’s going to air in 171 countries in 46 languages,” Ariane said. But who’s counting?

I found out about this from reader Shirley Wofford, who got in a conversation with Ariane and learned of the taping.

Ariane described Zoroastrianism to me as less a religion than a school of thought that has influenced West and East.

“It is more about self and how to make self a better person, so to become more compatible with Mother Nature, which we call Asha,” he explained.

I appreciated the shorthand, because the religion’s Wikipedia page says mystifyingly that it combines “a cosmogonic dualism and eschatalogical monotheism,” and I’m on deadline here.

More lucidly, Freeman said in an interview with the Belfast Telegraph: “It’s one of the ancient philosophies. It is based on three basic tenets: good thoughts, good words, good deeds. That covers pretty much all of us.”

He later told The Blaze that he was surprised in his research that he aligned most with Zoroastrianism. “That kind of shocked me, mainly because I didn’t know anything about it and when I found out about it, I found out I was one of its followers.”

Having delayed long enough, let me get to the question you surely most want answered: What was it like to meet Morgan Freeman?

“He’s got the voice of God,” Ariane quipped. More seriously, he said: “He is a thinker, a researcher, a discoverer. He is just as likable as most people find him to be on the screen.”

Thank God.

Cinema Corner

Unheralded singers and musicians behind many popular songs of the 1960s and later are the subject of two documentaries screening soon.

• “20 Feet From Stardom,” a 2013 Oscar-winning documentary on the anonymous singers who sang behind hitmakers such as the Rolling Stones, Ike and Tina Turner and Michael Jackson, will screen at 6 p.m. Saturday at The Theaters at Village Academy, 1444 E. Holt Ave. in Pomona, with one of the stars, Claudia Lennear, in attendance. The event is presented by the Pomona Valley Film Society. Admission is $10.

• “The Wrecking Crew,” a 2015 documentary on Los Angeles session musicians who played on records by the Monkees, the Byrds, the Ronettes and more, will screen at 7 p.m. May 6 at the Laemmle Claremont 5, 450 W. Second St. in Claremont. Director Denny Tedesco, whose father, Tommy, played lead guitar on such hits as the Beach Boys’ “Fun, Fun, Fun,” will do a Q&A. The event is part of the three-day Claremont Film Festival. Admission is $15.

Culture Corner

• Ever wanted to visit the Phillips Mansion, the 1875 home of Pomona pioneer Louis Phillips that’s open only once a year? That day is Saturday, when it will be open for free tours from 10 a.m. to noon. The mansion, now in an industrial zone, is at 2640 Pomona Blvd.

• The spring Antiquarian and Fine Book Sale at the Claremont Public Library, 208 Harvard Ave., takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, with Californiana, three donated libraries of art books, a collection of early Boy and Girl Scout materials, and dozens of Sherlock Holmes-related books. “I think this will be the finest collection of books for sale that we have ever had,” said Lanore Pearlman, president of Friends of the Claremont Library, which uses the proceeds to fund projects.

• An exhibit of photos by Valerie J. Bower from around Los Angeles, including punk parties in East L.A. and low riders in South L.A. parking lots, will be shown from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Mirrored Society, 206 W. Bonita Ave. in Claremont. Bower will attend and a limited edition book of the exhibit photos, “Me & You,” will be available for sale.

• On the last day of National Jazz Month, KSPC-FM’s (88.7) “All That Jazz” show will present its fourth annual Jazz Roundtable, in which a half-dozen musicians will share opinions, experiences and jokes with host Larry Fox from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday.

Valley Vignette

In their concert on the lawn Tuesday at Scripps College, Kentucky singer-songwriter Joan Shelley and her accompanist, Nathan Salsburg, commented more than once on a certain Garden of Eden ambience. But gardens need to be watered: As the last notes to the last song were played at 8:15 p.m., the sprinklers came on. Fans leaped to their feet, grabbed blankets and lawn chairs and scattered.

As finales go, Shelley later tweeted, “I’ll never top that.”

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