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Call 44 968-0022 Lincoln Shopping Center, 10 1/2 Mile & Greenfield • Oak Park imitri s Chop House ENTERTAINMENT Actress Has Regrets About Leaving Stardom Behind In The USSR LIONEL ROLFE Special to The Jewish News L arisa Eryomina can't go home again. Actu- ally, she probably wouldn't want to go home again. She had good reason for leaving "home" in the first place. In the Soviet Union where she came from, her plastic face, her green eyes, her light brown hair, all project a cer- tain undefinable star quality. She admits to enjoying play- ing women of mystery, and, after all, this was her trademark when she was a movie star during the '70s in the Soviet Union. Larisa was in the odd posi- tion of being a Jew who was making it big in her native land, yet she was constantly surrounded by an intense and demoralizing anti-Semitism, from friends and colleagues as well as neighbors and bureaucrats. She felt she had to rebel, had to protest. Her dignity demanded it. Her sense of self-worth gave her no choice. No doubt for that reason, Larisa, as well as her col- leagues in the Soviet film in- dustry, on occasion, pondered whether that qu'ality that enabled her to play so many intriguing characters, was somehow a part of her Jewish nationality. Larisa has regrets about having left an important act- ing career behind in the Soviet Union and moving to a country where she is in no way a household word. She doesn't have to wear dark glasses, and go around with- out make-up so she won't be recognized as she used to do in the Soviet Union. She came to the United States in 1979, with most of the members of her family during the Brezhnev years when Jews were being allowed to emigrate. She may not have immediately become a big star in her adopted Lionel Rolfe is editor of "B'nai B'rith Messenger" in Los Angeles. Spend New Year's Eve With Us No Cov.-Strolling Music OUR SUNDAY BRUNCH IS BACK! 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. 1 0 and Under $4 95 Adults $995 JOIN US FOR OUR MONDAY ITALIAN BUFFET All-YOU-CAN-EAT 6 p.m.-10 p.m. $11 95 Adults $ 195 10 & Under LIVE MUSIC AND DANCING BEGINNING MID-JANUARY 569-08 5080 Southfield Road at 10 Mile 68 Friday, December 19, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Larisa Eryomina is rebuilding her^ acting career in the United States. avoided me because they country, but you may well themselves were ashamed of have seen her in such films being Jewish. They regarded and television shows as Mos- being Jewish as a disgrace. cow on the Hudson, Brews- Being Jewish interfered with ter's Millions, Raise the their lives and could spoil Titanic, The Young and the their careers. Usually such Restless and Scarecrow and people tried to marry Rus- Mrs. King. She didn't play sians so their children would the starring role, but rather not have a hard time of it." lesser characters — in one, It was a Jewish director for example, she was a Rus- who told her he could not sian agent. In another she hire her because he could see played a high society British in her face she was Jewish. model. "That wouldn't be good for In the Soviet Union, she the film," he stormed. starred in everything from She was aware of anti- Chekov on the stage to roles Semitism when she journeyed as aristocrats and ballerinas to Leningrad. She went to on the screen. Altogether, she audition for some parts and starred in 14 Soviet films. they "treated me very well She also played the lead roles until the moment they looked in Moscow Art Theatre prod- at my passport and saw my uctions. nationality." She did not come from an She laughs, bitterly. exalted background. Her I asked her how the Rus- people were Jews 'without sians think about some of money. Her father died their greatest cultural heroes young, and her grandfather who are Jewish, names such supported her family. He was as Eisenstein and Oistrakh. a tailor in Moldavia. Life was She says they "don't think hard. about it. Moiseyev, he is a She thinks now about the Jew (whose troupe played re- fact that her mother and cently in Detroit). Moiseyev grandfather had singing, doesn't consider himself a dancing and performing abil- Jew. He considers himself ity, but the world they above being a Jew. He con- existed in was so far from one siders himself a Russian." in which people ever thought She says despite the fact about doing these things for a that she changed her name living. from Grossman, she always Like more than one child of protested anti-Semitism veh- poverty, she spent a lot of emently. But it was time reading and dreaming of everywhere. Even her best different, more glamorous, girl friend was amazed, for example, whe she discovered kinds of lives. that Karl Marx, who is con- During her Soviet years, sidered a god in the Soviet she was rarely employed by Union, was himself Jewish. Jewish directors — mostly "How can that be?" the Russian directors. "And there girlfriend said in amazement. are many Jews in the film To Larisa, P. Massalsky — industry in the Soviet Union her teacher and mentor at — usually they are directors, the Moscow Institute — was not actors. The directors ,