56 Friday, April 18, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS SPRUNG SHAPE-UP hesSPring spr iingt ...d an SAVE! $7500 Discount* PEOPLE 'Elsewhere's' Lloyd: Human Interaction BY MICHAEL ELKIN Special to The Jewish News 1•YEAR•WOMEN'S HEALTH CLUB MEMBERSHIP During the month of April, take advantage of the JCC'S SPRING SHAPE-UP $75.00 DISCOUNT. Enjoy the fabulous Health Club facilities: Sauna, whirlpool, nautilus exercise room, pools, track, racquetball and squash courts. There is a large selection of SHAPE-UP classes — at no extra charge! Call Today! 661-10001 extensions 166, 167 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT 6600 West Maple Road West Bloomfield, MI 48033 . 4, Q • U u 0 'This offer not valid for perions who have been Health Club Members during the past,12 months. 44, e • ‘‘ ,e• Ai • 4 a • , Vt 4** • t A 8' f Norman Lloyd as Dr. Auschlander checks the chart of a former $ t sweetheart (Geraldine Fitzgerald) in a recent "St. Elsewhere episode. aft Paging Dr. Auschlander! Norman Lloyd answers the call each week on "St. Elsewhere" as the benign liver specialist who is suffering himself from liver cancer. Lloyd's is one of 'the more effective performances in the award-winning NBC-TV hospital drama that pulses with excite- ment. But the NBC-TV series doesn't rely on car crashes — unless you count a misguided gurney bump- If * A a a 4 4 ta a N A it 41, The Haggadah was read. The goodbyes were said. brim' bar brim' n pit a4fINATEDa° Cup after cup, The coffee was Brim.® Fill your cup to the rim 144th the richness of Brim.® ft COM' DARK kr, 457 noth•tt133 c 1985 General Foods Corporation GENERAL FOODS ing into a wall — or blonde bombshells — unless you consider Nurse Rosenthal's right hook a formidable weapon — for its ac- tion. "St. Elsewhere" culls its action from human interaction. It is the personal crises — and celebra- tions — of its diverse staff that helps make this weekly examina- tion of a big city hospital such su- perb drama. And when it comes to crises, Auschlander has had a few of his own. Now fighting off the ravages of his cancer, Auschlander learned early on how to play the warrior. His early bouts with anti-Semitism taught him that the milk of human kindness too often curdles with use. • Actor Lloyd certainly identifies with the gentle doctor he por- trays. "I recall anti-Semitism being generally rife in my young acting days in New York al- though," he adds, "I didn't per- sonally experience any." Nevertheless, Auschlander and what Lloyd describes as "the Jewish immigrant experience" strike a chord in the actor. "It touches within my own experi- ences," he says. Those experiences center on a love of tennis, a love of fine music and a streetwise New York up- bringing. "I was what you would call a street kid," says Lloyd, who enjoyed a good game of stick ball at the drop of a broom. There was also the common Jewish heritage, one in which family played a central role. The actor, in that sweet, soothing lul- laby of a voice, fondly remembers visits to his grandparents who lived on the Lower East Side. But Lloyd calls on more than past childhood recollections to give shape and tone to Auschlan- der. He bases his character on his own doctor, Donald Hoytt. "Both share that sense • of humor, that bemused quality of looking at life," he says. "Auschlander has seen it all." Indeed, so has Lloyd. At the age of 71, he has built an incredible repertoire of films and.television work. A protege of Le Gallienne Civic Repertory Theater, Lloyd made his Broadway debut in Noah and starred in the Federal Theater's Living Newspaper.