Friday, October 20, 1918 IBM Typewriters Selectric, Mail Strike Ends etc. $400 Add 'n Type 342-7800 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 862-1300; WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service has ended its embargo of mail bound for Israel following the end of an Israeli postal strike last Friday. Men's Club of Cong. Beth Shalom Presents Their Annual CABARET NIGHT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28th-9:00 P.M. Show F THE TRACEY TWINS loor Also Dancing with With a special salute to American Jewish popular composers and performers The TOM PLOEGER BAND and VOCALIST • Late Evening Meal—Including Spaghetti and Salad • B.Y.O.B. — Free set ups provided $18.00 per couple — Mens' Club Members $22.00 per couple — Non-Members •ADMISSION PRICE For Early Reservations Mail Check to: Howard Tamer, 23860 Jerome, Oak Park, MI 48231 Director Claudia Weill's 'Girlfriends' Film Earns Acclaim Despite Great Procuction Odds By HERBERT LUFT (Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.) — HOLLYWOOD Claudia Weill, the 30- year-old New Yorker, achieved what many aspir- ing young film makers only dream about — to make a truly independent motion picture of her own concep- tion with comparatively unknown actors, reap artis- tic acclaim at international festivals such as Cannes and find a world-wide major distributor such as Warner Bros. Claudia, whose paternal grandparents hail from a small, medieval town at the river Rhine, fled to Zurich, Switzerland, to escape Nazi oppression and left for New York in 1938 with their children, herself a graduate of Radcliffe College, studied acting in New York and di- rected theater before break- ing into the cinema as free- THE NEW WAY TO BUY MEN'S CLOTHING Fashionable suits by one of the world's most esteemed designers. . .available in wick' selection of styles for Fall. Up to $70 All-Weather Coats with Zip-Out Liners Up to $200 Wool and Polyester 3-Piece Suits Very Latest 3-Piece Corduroy Suits NEAR WHOLESALE PRICES We can't offer you alterations ... but we do offer you National Brands at Discount Prices. • Similar Savings on Topcoats, Slacks, Shirts, and Jackets Ten day return privilege on any unaltered garment wAu(cR9S o9P.3 E 0NTD OA6 ILY . L 27319 SOUTHFIELD RD. LATHRUP VILLAGE 2 blocks north of 11 Mile Rd. TO 9 Phone 424-8711 lance still photographer and camera person. She has produced and di- rected numerous documen- taries for the Public Broad- casting System, among them "Joyce at 34," and a score of films for "Sesame Street." She went to China with Shirley MacLaine in 1975 to direct the Oscar- nominated documentary, "The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir." At a cocktail reception at Warner Bros., Ms. Weill revealed the genesis of "Girlfriends," the picture now under discussion. She told me that the film started as a $10,000 short, grew in scope and size because the story of loneliness and two young women's unfulfilled aspirations has universal appeal and needed a full treatment. With additional finances of grants, loans and contri- butions by friends, the budget extended to $80,000. Production commenced in December of 1975 in a walk-up flat in Manhattan, initially concentrating on the interplay between two young women portrayed by Melanie Mayron and new- comer Anita Skinner. Perfectly normal, they look to men for sexual ful- fillment, though they are very fond of each other, sharing a goal for artistic expression, the first one as photographer, the other one as a writer. After viewing the footage, Ms. Weill and her co-author Vicki Polon (who is solely responsible for the final sc- reen play) decided that more photography was needed to extend the story line and show what would become of the character por- trayed by Melanie Mayron after her girlfriend moves out and marries. Exactly a year after commencement of production, with fresh but still insufficient financing, the cameras started to grind again, this time on a 14- hour-a-day schedule. The ingenuity of crew, staff and performers was pivotal to the film's completion. The year of 1977 was spent completing photog- raphy, editing, scoring and dubbing in New York and the picture was ready for screening early in 1978. It had its first test at the Rot- terdam Film Festival, fol- lowed by the Los Angeles Film Exposition with Can- nes establishing an interna- tional reputation for Ms. Weill and her cast. We talked with Melanie Mayron, on the screen an Ugly Duckling, as she has been before in "Harry and Tonto" and "Car Wash," but in life a young woman with a refresh- ingly vibrant personality though not beautiful in an ordinary sense. The young actress is abso- lutely right for the cen- tral character of Susan Weinblatt portrayed by her in "Girlfriends," with Ms. Skinner, a blondish beauty, her more sub- dued roommate and con- fidante. "Girlfriends" is not a per- fect picture, but one made courageously without much money and hardly an ad- vance publicity campaign. It lets you think about your fellow human beings and, hopefully, about yourself. In the meantime, Warner Bros. have signed Claudia Weill to a two-picture de- velopment deal. At the Hollywood Bowl we were treated twice this year with outstanding Is- raeli artists. There was first Itzhak Perlman, the violinist who in spite of physical handicaps, rose to greatness as a concert vir- tuoso. It was a rare treat to hear him in the Brahms Concerto in A Minor with Mstislav Rostropovich at the cello and Zubin Mehta conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Our second guest artist from Eretz Israel was Tel Aviv-born pianist Ilana Vered, a young woman of great charm and poise, who at age 15, after graduation from the Paris Conservatory, had started her concert career making her New York debut in 1963. Miss Vered recently returned from London where she performed with the Royal Philharmonic. At the Bowl, she E.ppeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas who is a grandson of the great Yiddish actor Thomashefsky, a giant on the Second Avenue stage at the turn of the century. 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