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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 17, 1983
Are Hollywood Moguls
Exploiting the Holocaust?
Danny Raskin's
The Best of Everything
VICKI GREEN, daugh-
ter of Alice and Leslie
Green, officially inaugu-
rated the opening of Chuck
Muer's P'Jazz for 1983 .. .
by getting a drink spilled all
over her . . . as Woody Her-
man and his youthful
Thundering Herd group
opened this popular Mon-
day and Wednesday concert
series on the terrace pool-
side of Hotel Pontchartrain.
P'Jazz next year may be
taken over by the hotel it-
self . . . Posgibility that
Chuck will also leave the
place he began at 18 years
ago . . . continuing only in a
consulting capacity.
The soft, velvety strains
of Bobby Laurel at Top of
The Pontch, with his quar-
tet, bring back memories
. . . He's better than ever .. .
even when Bobby packed
'em like sardines at the
Apartment Lounge on W.
Six Mile . . . years ago.
Helping at Top of
Pontch party following
the opening concert,
4'11" bundle of sunshine,
waitress Janet Bohr,
stood out with her cute
smile and efficient,
courteous ways ... She is
a regular top-notcher at
Charley's Raw Bar in
Hotel Pontchartrain.
The time was post-World
War II . . . The place was
Trinidad . . . World War II
had left the Trinidad na-
tives with no way to get
musical instruments to play
their beloved Calypso music
. . . The enterprising na-
tives soon discovered that
abandoned oil drums left
behind from the war could
be used to make music.
The legend of these
Trinidad natives lives on
with Hugh Borde's Trinidad
Tripoli Steel Band, appear-
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ing at this Monday nite's
P'Jazz . . . still using the oil
drums to play an unbeliev-
able array of music, from
classical to Calypso to rock
and roll, etc. . . . Listeners
are amazed at the fidelity
and artistic accom-
plishments the band man-
ages to achieve with such
primitive instruments.
The Trinidad Tripoli
Steel Band was helped to
fame when Liberate in-
vited them to tour with him
for two years . . . Since then,
it has been actively touring
nine months of each year.
Wednesday night is
Jimmy Wilkins . . . He or-
ganized the Jimmy Wil-
kins Orchestra some
20-odd years ago as De-
troit's "resident big
band" ... These were the
days before big band had
its current resurgence in
popularity ... It was the
Jimmy Wilkins Or-
chestra, in fact, which did
much to stimulate return
of the big band sound.
The Wilkins group is 17
pieces . . . and includes
members from band greats
like Count Basie, Duke El-
lington, Dizzy Gillespie and
Ray Charles . . . His
brother, Ernie Wilkins, is
Count Basie's arranger.
DUNK-A-CHEF will- be
one of the "games" at Great
Soup Kettle Race and Fes-
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Southeastern Michigan
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By HERBERT LUFT
items appearing hidden on
(Copyright 1983, JTA, Inc.)
the backpage of the met-
be someone you can knock
HOLLYWOOD
— ropolitan newspapers.
into the water.
"Schindler's List," the
YA'SOO X Greek Festi- bestselling novel by Austra-
Today, the Nazis make
val . . . is today, tomorrow lian author Thomas Kene- good copy; a deluge of tab-
and Sunday . . . at St. ally, has been bought for the loids with Hitler as a
George Greek Orthodox screen by Universal Pic- cartoon-like villain flood
Church, Woodward north of tures, and may be produced the newsstands, especially
Square Lake Rd.
and directed by Steven since the fake diaries were
DETROIT BLUES Spielberg ("E.T.," "Close published. Sensationalism
FESTIVAL . . . is Saturday Encounters of the Third has taken over the press and
and Sunday . . . noon to 9 Kind").
air waves.
p.m. . . . at Michigan State
The book deals with al-
The flamboyant Schin-
Fairgrounds . . . It'll dedi- legedly factual events, the
dler very likely didn't object
cate the show to Muddy rescue by Oskar Schindler,
Waters, late writer of an enterprising German to the aims of the Nazis,
many fine blues songs dur- businessman, of a small when it was still time to do
ing last decade . . . Featured number of Jews during the so. But his jovial figure
at the festival will be John latter part of World War II. makes good movie fare.
* * *
Lee Hooker, Sippie Wallace, He took a formerly Jewish-
Willie Dixon and John owned manufacturing plant
IRWIN WINKLER, co-
Hammond . . . along with 30 in Poland, employed slave producer of Sylvester Stal-
local blues artists.
laborers from death camps lone's "Rocky" pictures, is
BEAUTIFUL OUT- and thereby saved their contemplating shooting
DOOR cafe of Troy Hilton lives.
"The Last Temptation of
Inn, Stephenson Hwy.,
Without reducing Schin- Christ" in Israel early in
called Fanny's Outside, has dler's merits, it is not clear 1984. The story is based on
re-opened . . . adjacent to what is being achieved the novel by Nikos
the hotel's outdoor pool .
when today, after 40 years, Kazantzakis and earlier
open seven days.
the theme of the righteous Aramaic texts.
POSSIBILITY . . . that German is being made
During an interview with
Eric Lutz and Tony Brown popular — at a time when
Winkler and director Mar-
. .. new owners of Raleigh
we still have to ferret out
House, Telegraph and 10 scores of war criminals tin Scorsese, the film mak-
Mile . . . may turn it into a roaming about three conti- ers stressed that the film
about Jesus has no anti-
convention center.
nents.
Semitic undertones and is
FACT ... Franklin
When it happened, there carefully phrased not to of-
Office Center will be built was silence; no books and no
on site of Constand's com- movies about the genocide. fend other religions. Robert
plex (former Vineyard's), With only the smallest De Niro will portray the key
character.
Franklin and Northwestern
. . . which is scheduled to
open with a completely new
look.
DEWEY'S LOUNGE at
Michigan Inn, J.L. Hudson
Drive, now has fashion
shows for guys 'n gals every
French, Jewish, American, International Cuisine
Tuesday through Thursday.
From 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tues-
day and Thursday, happy
hour guests get a women's
fashion show, live
entertainment and hors
d'oeuvres.
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961-3999
On Wednesdays, 7 to 9
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Sun. 9 a.m . o t 9 p.m.
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DAILY LUNCH &
ladies only, $5 buys them all
7 DAYS A WEEK-7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
they can drink . . . Male
DINNER SPECIALS
patrons in Dewey's are sea-
a.m. to 11 p.m.
ted in the library portion of
2 EGGS,
WAFFLE
the lounge.
FROM $ 2.95
TOAST &
AND
FIRST THING you
95' EXTRA INCLUDES: -
COFFEE
COFFEE
notice at the new Phoenicia
SOUP, YEG., COFFEE OR TEA OR 1 SOFT
on S. Woodward in Bir-
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$1.10
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mingham is plenty of free
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It seats 95 (the former one
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Our smiling, pleasant
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brought us a combination of
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carrot and apple juice . . . It
was delicious . . . Then
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