10 Friday, August 10, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS NEWS A WINK =NW Amur Former Olympian joins in LA Wallenberg tribute The games are "a thread that binds" Jewish people around the world. MEI To Celebrate the Maccabi Youth Games the Jewish Community Center is offering a General Membership promotion from August 19 - 26 $50°° off a Family or Individual General Membership to new members.* •a new member is a person or family who has not been a member in the past 12 months. For further information call 661-1000 ext. 166 JCC • 6600 W. Maple • West Bloomfield, MI 48033 it The Jewish Center is "a thread that binds" our Jewish Community. Los Angeles (JTA) — Agnes Keleti, winner of 11 Olympic medals in gymnas- tics for Hungary during the 1940s and 1950s, joined Swedish Olympic officials here Tuesday in honoring Raoul Wallenberg at the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Members of Keleti's family were among the estimated 100,000 Hungarian Jews saved by Wallenberg during the Holocaust. The ceremony, which was attended by more than 200 Americans, Swedes and Is- raelis, marked the 72nd birthday of the Swedish dip- lomat, who was captured by the Soviet Union in 1945 and whose fate is still being debated. Soviet officials claim Wallenberg died of a heart attack whilein prison in 1947, but many people believe that he is still alive. Keleti, 63, a resident of Israel since 1956, said that Wallenberg "was a true humanitarian who came through for my family and Raoul Wallenberg: Olympic honors thousands of others during our hour of need. It is an honor to me to represent Jews from all over the wfrld in remembering this won- derful man." Her mother and sister were saved by Wallenberg in Budapest in 1944. He provided them with false Swedish diplomatic papers and sheltered them in so- called "Swedish safe houses" enabling them to elude certain deportati and imminent death at t hands of the Nazis. Kele herself, was saved by pu chasing Christian doc ments and working as housekeeper until the end the war. Her father was d ported to Auschwitz an murdered. Joining Keleti in hono ing Wallenberg wer Swedish Olympic official Gustav Anderberg and B Benston, chairman an secretary-general, respe tively, of the Swedis Olympic Committee' executive committee. Othe participants •include Swedish Consul-General fo Los Angeles Margaret Hogardt; Steven and Lil lemor Anderson, co directors of the Ad Ho Committee of Swedis Americans for Wallenberg and Bernice Ringman, close friend of Wallenber when he was a student a the University of Michiga during the 1930s. MOVIES Solid behind-the-scenes team led to 'Indiana Jones' success BY HERBERT LUFT It's a long way from Mt. Sinai to 13 Mile and Middlebelt, but oh... The stories we can tell. UHS believes that no child . should be denied a Jewish education. • Scholarships available •Transportation • 5 convenient locations • Accredited teachers UNITED HEBREW SCHOOLS • 354-1050 21550 West Twelve Mile Road • Southfield, Michigan 48076 KEEPING THE FAITH • Hollywood — Steven Spielberg's latest screen epic, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which pre- cedes in time the adven- tures of the American ar- cheologist in his earlier Raiders of the Lost Ark, is pure entertainment for children and those among the grown-ups who have maintained their sense of wonderment. The movie creates a 1,001 Nights feel- ing when taking us across Asia from a Shanghai nightclub to the palace of an Indian maharajah. Spielberg's fantasy has no bounds when conjuring up a world of illusions and fan- tastic apparations yet, the director sometimes goes overboard in excesses of cruel tortures, mayhem and murder. Still, he is able to interject a certain amount of homespun humor from the screenplay by Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck who adapted the story by George Lucas (of Star Wars), one of the producerg of the picture. The team is greatly helped by the performance of Harrison Ford as the sometimes sarcastic, often humanly warm Indiana Jones who is teamed with a delightful Chinese boy on the screen portraying the eight-year-old wiz "Short Round," and by Kate Cap- shaw, essaying the role of a 4 1 1000We: I;I4Y0, i 101 1:1 ■0 singer who tries to over- only once, with Cruising, come the hardship of the hard-hitting underworl dangerous trek with allures expose which, perhaps, wa of grandeur. ahead of its time. During recent years, Friedkin is now prepar Spielberg has emerged as one of the movie industry's ing a contemporary sus most successful directors. pense thriller for Twentiet Jaws and Close Encounters Century Fox that bega of the Third Kind, both star- filming in mid-July i ring Richard Dreyfuss, Wales and Scotland. Se made the list of all-time box Trial is a tale of surviva office successes and of mul- based on a novel by Fran tiple Academy Award De Felitta in which a youn couple charter a sailboat o nominations. Following this success, a famous sea captain an Spielberg co-wrote and co- then find themselves in produced Poltergeist and series of life-threatenin concurrently directed, what situations. he regarded a small film Jack Thompson, one o from his own idea, E.T. The Australia's most popula Extra-Terrestrial. actors, who in this countr Huyck and Katz, who is best known for Breake wrote the scenario to In- Morant and for the por diana Jones, first came into ti ayal of Golda Meir' their own as coauthors lifetime friend (opposite In with Lucas of 'American grid Bergman) in the two Graffiti, which catapulted part TV epic dealing wit young Richard Dreyfuss to the career of the late Israel fame. Michael Kahn, the Prime Minister, portray editor of Indiana Jones, the male lead in Sea Trial worked with Spielberg on a with Barbara Hershey (cur number of pictures before. rently on the screen in Th His first feature film work, Natural) at his side. _ however, was accomplished on Rage (George C. Scott. ZUBIN MEHTA and th Israeli Philharmonic Or WILLIAM FRIEDKIN is chestra have recorde another youthful director Mahler's First Symphon with a long list of successful for the Jack Eisner picture pictures to his credit, among The Children's War base them The Boys in the Band, on the, producer's childhoo The French Connection and experience in the Wipe The Exorcist, netting, with Ghetto and at the Au the last two, a number of schwitz extermination cen &was, kle ■ failed‘ ter in World War II.