THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, August 22, 1975 31

Strasberg Returns to Limelight in 'Godfather II'

- By HERBERT G. LUFT

(Copyright 1975, -JTA. Inc.)

HOLLYWOOD — Lee
Strasberg, for 27 years head
cy; the Actors Studio, made
his screen debut as Hyman
Roth in "The Godfather
Part II" winning an .Aca-
demy Award nomination
for his very first effort in
front of the cameras this
year. Simultaneously, he
was honored with a testi-
monial by the Hollywood
Masquers Club.
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energetic Strasberg who
has remained youthful and
enthusiastic throughout the
stormy events of his career
of 45 years in the theater.
The setting for our discus-
sion was the garden of his
huge estate in an older,
quiet section of Los An-
geles, the scene of past
grandeur — not unlike the
background of a Tennessee
Williams play.
The man who has fur-
thered the career of many of
today's great stage and
screen actors, America's
foremost interpreter of the
living theater, has not been
in the limelight since 1937
when he appeared in a
Group Theater production
of a companion piece to Clif-
ford Odets' "Waiting for
Lefty," in which he played
the part of a fugitive from a
Nazi concentration camp.

Much later in his career,
Strasberg engaged the
specter of German fascism

Young Israel of Southfield

is pleased to announce

HIGH HOLIDAY SERVICES

will be conducted in the
Stevenson Elementary School
24661 Lahser

anybody within walking distance is welcome

Tickets: adults $25, under twelve free

for ticket info EL 3-0096 or 354-3494

Congregation
Dovid Ben Nuchim

14800 Lincoln Rd. Oak Park

Cordially Invites

Sun. Aug. 31, 1975

SIFREI TORAH PROCESSION

will begin at 5 p.m.

Testimonial Banquet 6 p.m.

Rott

Guest speaker:

Internationally Renowned Orator

Hagoan Horav Borouch Sorotzkin,

Rosh Hayeshiva of Telshe Yeshiva

Rabbi Chaskel Grubner

spiritual leader

Charles Weiner Pres.

Strasberg said he feels
that motion picture acting is
no different from a per-
formance on the stage; yet,
in front of a "live" audience
you stand on your own,
must be absolutely sure of
yourself and cannot rely on
re-takes, pick-ups and edit-
ing.
While developing his own
characterization (of an
American gangster who in
reality is still with us), Lee
has high praise for youthful
film director Francis Ford
Coppola who not only
guided "The Godfather,"
but also is co-responsible for
the creative script which not
only caught and deepened
the drama of the earlier
part, but enlarged the
theme into the beginnings
of the Corleone family and
reached out into the future.
Strasberg bemoans the
fact that the great actors of
the contemporary American
scene, men like Marlon
Brando, Gene Hackman and
Paul Newman, have been
lost by the theater to motion

pictures, just as were in
bygone days giants of the
stage as Paul Muni and
Edward G. Robinson.

Strasberg, who com-
mutes between his Actors
Studio in New York and
his establishment in Holly-
wood, is striving for a Na-
tional Theater in America.
He submitted a plan to the
National Endowment for
the Arts but sadly admits
that the federal govern-
ment today is only willing
to support "minority"
theater, such as those for
blacks and Puerto Ricans.

Paddy Chayefsky, two-
time Academy Award win-
ner, has written an original
screenplay, "Network,"
highly dramatic yet comedic
view of the television me-
dium, to be brought to the
screen jointly by United
Artists and Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer, as was an-

`Brunch With Bach'
to Feature Pianist

Harpsichordist Bernard
Katz will be the featured
performer at "Brunch with
Bach" Sunday at the Detroit
Institute of Arts. A native
Detroiter, Katz is well
known in the area as a pian-
Meadow Brook
ist and harpsichordist.
Sunday's program will
Season Will End
include music by Bach,
The longest season in Scarlatti, Remeau and Cou-
Meadow Brook Music Festi- perin.
val history draws to a close
Performances in the mu-
with the four concerts of its seum's Kresge Court will ac-
10th and final week in 1975 company a special brunch.
Thursday through Aug. 31 There is a charge. Tickets
at Baldwin Pavilion, Oak- for the series are available
land University.
by advance paid reservation
Young Mexican conductor only, either by mail or at the
Eduardo Mata will make his art institute ticket office.
Three seatings of brunch
debut conducting the De-
troit Symphony Orchestra are offered, at 9:30 a.m.,
8:30 p.m. Thursday and 10:45 a.m. and noon. A lim-
Aug. 30 with pianist Lorin ited number of tickets for
Hollander. Pianist Roger coffee and pastry will be
Williams returns for his available immediately be-
third Meadow Brook ap- fore each seating. For infor-
pearance 8:30 p.m. Aug. 29, mation, call the DIA,
and conductor Mitch Miller 832-2730.
w ill lead the DSO — and the
audience — in a sing-along
to close the final concert

6:30 p.m. Aug. 31.

The entire Jewish community to the de-
dication ceremony of it's new syn-
agogue

Honoring Mr. & Mrs. Harry
in the new synagogue

when staging Ernest Hem-
ingway's "The Fifth Col-
umn," one of the earliest
events of the Broadway
stage I can remember from
the 1940s.

The Meadow Brook Music
Festival grounds, lawn and
picnic area are open from
two hours before concert-
time in the evening, and
meals and refreshments are
available at Trumbull Ter-
race. Parking on the
grounds is free. Tickets are
available at Hudson's, Grin-
nell's, and the Meadow
Brook Music Festival Box
Office, (377-2010).

City of Hope Plans
Bingo Booth at Fair

The City of Hope willhold
its annual bingo today
through Sept. 1 at the Mich-
igan State Fair.
Proceeds will go to the
City of Hope Hospital in
California. The free, nonsec-
tarian medical center's fa-
cilities are used for treat-
ment, research and
education in the fight
against cancer, leukemia
and other dread diseases.

The more a man knows
the more he is inclined to be
modest.

nounced by Daniel Melnick,
Gruskoff production
vIGM's senior vice presi- "Lucky Lady," an adventure
dent. The new film will be yarn dealing with a trio (-.;
Chayefsky's ninth; his most rum-runners during the pe-
recent effort vas "The Hos- riod of Prohibition. Much of
pital," starring George C. the film was actually photo-
Scott, a box office hit di- graphed on the ocean
rected by Arthur Hiller.
aboard the sloop callec:
Paul Mazursky, producer- "Lucky Lady," from which
director of "Harry and the film derives its title
Tonto," for which he was ac- Director Stanley Donen no\N
corded an Oscar nomination has completed the picture in
as co-author with Josh Mexico City. It stars Liza
Greenfeld, has completed on Minelli, Gene Hackman anc
location in New York City, Burt Reynolds. •
"Next Stop, Greenwich Vil-
lage," a wryly comic tale of
what happened to a young
man who left Brooklyn in
1953 to become a Broadway
actor. Lenny Baker, making ,
his bow on the screen, ap-i
pears as Larry Lapinsky; Latest medically approved
Ellen Greene makes her! I dermatology equipment used
debut as his girl friend,
• •
Sarah. Larry's parents are
played by Shelley Winters 35 Years Experience
and Michael Kellin.
Doctors Referrals
Gloria Katz and Willard
Huyck co-authored the
screenplay to the Michael

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