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Friday, July 20, 1919
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Tinzi-Contini' Producer Embarks on New Project
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APPEEGATE SIM • NORTHWESTERN at INKSTER
By HERBERT LUFT
(Copyright 1979, JTA, inc.)
Arthur Cohn, the Swiss-
based film producer, a
three-time Academy Award
winning independent who
has made pictures in the
French and Italian lan-
guages in many parts of the
world, for the first time will
come to the United States to
• work with American actors.
His current project is a
futuristic movie set in the
years 1980, 2000 and 2020,
"Freezing Down," based on
a novel by Danish author
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N.Y. later this year.
Most recently, Cohn went
to Jerusalem for the pre-
mier of his Oscar-winning
epic of two years ago, "Black
and White in Color," in its
entirety shot in the Ivory
Coast in Africa. A number
of members of Israel's Knes-
set attended the screening
as a tribute to Cohn who in
1971 produced the
Holocaust picture, "The
Garden of the Finzi-
Continis," dealing with the
ancient Jewish community
of Ferrara, and was directed
by the late Vittorio de Sica.
It is being told that
Menahem Begin, upon se-
eing the film, commented,
If Arthur Cohn became a
film producer just to make
this movie — Dayenu."
DAVID STEINBERG
appears in a documentary
feature, "Yiddish, the
Mame-Loshn." The noted
comedian who made himself
a name both on the night
club stage and on such na-
tional TV outlets as the
"Tonight" show, now
quickly is branching out
into the field of motion pic-
tures. He has also guest-
hosted many times for
Johnny Carson before mak-
ing his movie debut in such
films as The End," opposite
Burt Reynolds and "Some-
thing Short of Paradise," in
which he co-stars with
Susan Saradon.
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MILTON BERLE, a munities throughout the
youthful bon vivant of 70, country.
PADDY CHAYEFS-
currently makes one of his
KY'S novel "Altered
annual night club appear-
ances at Hotel Riviera in States," dealing with a sci-
Las Vegas, in his inimitable entist who experiments
casual fashion telling the with mind-blowing drugs,
audience wistful stories of will be brought to the screen
yesterday and today. Simul- by producer Howard
taneously, Berle can be seen Gottfried with whom the
as a slight crooked used car author was connected in the
dealer in the "Muppet- highly successful "Net-
Movie," in which he com- work" movie. British
petes with the droll puppets "genius" Ken Russell, the
most eccentric of film mak-
and is outsmarted by Ker-
mit the Frog when the latter ers, is at the helm, guiding
drives into the Mad Man the cast of unknowns.
PETER STONE is wAir,
Mooney lot to buy a '47
ing the screenplay forri
Woodie station wagon.
comedy about the first
Berle is busy on many
fronts sharing presentation Jewish U.S. presidential
honors at the inaugural candidate adapted from
Halberstam's
Michael
dinner of the Jewish Sports
Hall of Fame and par- \ novel. Titled, "The Wanting
of Levine," the picture stars
ticipating in the fund-
Walter Matthau who most
raising activities of St. Jude
recently completed the re-
Children's Research Hospi-
tal Foundation dedicated to make of Damon Runyon's
"Little Miss Marker," in
find a cure of the dreadful
lymphoblastic leukemia, a which he appeared in the
Adolph Menjou role.
form of blood cancer in chil-
CARL REINER was at
dren.
DANNY KAYE has been the helm of "The Jerk," the
named recipient of the first feature motion picture
American Federation of of madcap comic Steve Mar-
tin in which the director
Musicians "Gold Card Hon-
also appears in a featured
orary Life Membership."
role with his son Rob Reiner
Over the past 20 years,
Kaye has raised close to $6 at his side. Bernadette Pet-
Million for the benefit of the ers is Martin's leading lady.
musician's pension fund The rags-to-riches farce has
serving as humorous guest a twist in the appearance of
conductor without fee for black Mabel King as Mar-
symphony orchestras in tin's mother.
Israeli Soccer Star Avi Cohen Will Play
for Champion English Team Liverpool
By SIMON GRIVER
World Zionist
Press Service
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Currently associated
with Universal Studios, he
has just completed his own
screenplay, "Sex in
America," which he will di-
rect early next year. He is
now preparing to direct and
star in "How the West Was
Shrunk," from a scenario by
Robert Kaufman, to be
filmed in Canada this fall
with Carol Laure (of "Get
Out Your Handkerchiefs")
as his co-star.
As to his current film,
"Yiddish, the Mame-
Loshn," he comes up with
the mischievous observa-
tion that he learned the
language the best way:
whenever his father or
mother wanted to curse
him, it always came out in
Yiddish.
TONY CURTIS, the
former Bernie Schwartz and
son of an Orthodox immig-
rant from Hungary, went
back to the land of his an-
cestors — not only to pray at
the Western Wall in
Jerusalem but also to make
a picture in Eilat, a
Canadian-French-Israeli
production of "It Rained All
Night the Day I left" —
termed a swashbuckling
adventure story set in mod-
ern Africa. The character
portrayed by Curtis is a
gun-running mercenary
who doesn't want to grow
old and always chases rain-
bows. Nicholas Gessner who
previously guided Zev
Braun's "Little Girl Who
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JERUSALEM — Israelis
have excelled in a wide
range of sports, including
chess, athletics, basketball
and soccer. Perhaps the
most remarkable individual
achievement has just been
accomplished by 22-year-
old soccer player Avi Cohen,
whose club Maccabi Tel
Aviv has been paid
$400,000 by English cham-
pionship Liverpool team, for
his transfer.
Liverpool has been the
English champion four
times in the last six seasons
and European champion
twice in the last three sea-
sons.
Cohen is the proverbial
tall, dark and handsome
and at 6 ft. Tin. and 160 lbs.
an athlete par excellence.
Asked about his childhood,
Cohen said:
"I am not quite a Sabra,
for I arrived in Israel
from Egypt with my fam-
ily, when only a year old.
I grew up in the Abu
Kabir district of Tel
Aviv-Jaffa. We were poor
and life was very tough,
but we got by. My father
delivered milk from the
dairy to the shops and as
a small child I used to get
up at four every morning
and help him for a few
hours before attending
school. I think my early
childhood gave me a
sense of discipline, which
is very necessary in soc-
cer."
AVI COHEN
"When did you start play-
ing soccer?"
"When I was nine years
old, I joined the Maccabi
sports club in Tel Aviv. I al-
ways represented the club's
soccer team for my age
group and when I was 17, I
signed professionally for
them."
"How did you react when
you first heard that the
Liverpool team was in-
terested in you?"
"I couldn't believe it, it
was like a dream."
Now Cohen must confront
the reality of this dream. At
Liverpool, he will only be
allowed two weeks vacation
each year, which means vir-
tual exile from home for
him. Still, at least he will
not be alone, for he will be
taking with him his new-
lywed bride, Dorit
Rosenblum, a pretty, 18-
year-old Sabra of Romanian
parentage. I suggested to
Avi, that while it may be
difficult to tear himself
away from Israel now, in the
long term he may feel at
home amidst the affluence
of the West.
"No, I have only one
home. This is my country, I
have served three years in
its army and this is where I
will always want to live. I
am an Israeli. I hope to play
for five or six years in
Europe, then a fewyears in
America and after this I will
return to Israel. These are
my plans."
"Does the Liverpool
team manager Bob Pais-
ley want you to perform
the same role for him, as
you did for Maccabi Tel
Aviv?"
"Yes, with Maccabi Tel
Aviv I played in the middle
of the field, more in defense
than attack, breaking down
the opposition's attacks and
creating opportunities for
our own forwards. Paisley
hopes I can do the same for
Liverpool."
Dialogue Held
NEW YORK — Southern
Baptist and Jewish clergy
participated in a five ;day
seminar on issues of mutual
concern in North Carolina
earlier this month.
Educators and lay people
took part in the discussions
co-sponsored by the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai
Brith, the Department of
Interfaith Witness of the
Southern Baptist Home
Mission Board, the Wil-
dacres Center and the Blu-
menthal Foundation.