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The issues that this lecture series focuses on will attempt to unfold a variety of topics of shared concern for Israeli and American Jews. Monday, March 23 7:30 - 9:30 pm The Struggle For Religious Pluralism Rabbi Donniel Hartman Senior Research Fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, founding member of the Orthodox peace movement. Dr. Yoram Peri Political analyst for daily newspaper Davar and Professor of Political Science. Tel Aviv University. Monday, March 30 7:30 - 9:30 pm Israeli Women In Social Change: Forwards or Backwards Dr. Ilsa Schuster Assistant Professor of Anthropology, SUNY, Stony Brook. Monday, April 6 7:30 - 9:30 pm Zionism: The Dream and The Dilemma Dr. Ehud Sprinzak Senior Lecturer of Political Science, Hebrew University. For further information call 352-7117 Open to the Public • No Charge PLANNING COMMITTEE Dr. Joseph Gutmann Chairperson Bertha Chomsky Erika Herzceg Dr. Leonard Lachover Elaine Lebenbom Dr. Irving Panush Mitilda Rubin Edwin Shifrin Dr. Jack Wayne Renee Wohl Dr. Gerald Teller Rabbi Morton Yolkut • Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Building • 21550 W. Twelve Mile • Southfield. MI 48076 26 Friday, March 20, 1987 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS had my heart ripped out in an Aztec ceremony — by this guy who used to cut me with a knife for real every night. I used to have big arguments with him after the show." Somewhere along the way, Paul Ruben- feld became Paul Reubens. Living in California, he juggled the aspiring per- former's usual assortment of "between engagements" jobs — as a busboy, a Fuller Brush man, a submarine-sandwich maker, a setup person in the kitchen of a pizza shop. Engagements he was between in- cluded appearing in small parts in two Cheech and Chong movies and not appear- ing as the voice of Freaky Frankenstone on the TV cartoon The Flintstones. (Paul's vocal diversity continues. In last summer's movie The Flight of the Navigator, the voice of Max is credited to Paul Mall. And in the new George Lucas Star Tours ride at Disneyland, the main robot, Rex, would be speechless without him.) With a former classmate from BU, Charlotte McGinnis, he developed an act called the Hilarious Betty and Eddie. "It was an out-of-trunk kind of vaudeville duo," McGinnis says. "We did a puppet show and a stand-up sound-effects routine." After winning twice as best act on TV's Gong Show, the Barris Island boot camp for entertainers, they tried to win as worst act, because the award money was the same. They weren't bad enough. Paul also appeared on the show as a Flathead Indian lounge singer, with a sidekick playing the tom-tom in the backgrbund. He won twice for that, too. "I feel like I owe Chuck Barris an enormous debt because I made a living from The Gong Show for a couple of years." Residuals from those appearances keep rolling in. "I get $7.50 checks once in a while. And the first five or six times they rerun 'em, you still get more prizes. I got a shrimpburger cooker and a bowling-ball set, and I got this really cool textured- paint stuff that I used on the walls of the Groundling Theatre that's still there." As a member of the Groundlings, an L.A. improvisational theater group, Paul created a frenetic little guy named Pee-wee "I used to have a little harmonica, a little teeny one about one inch long, and it said Pee-wee on it, and the name stuck." In 1980 Paul starred in The Pee-wee Her- man Show at the Groundling Theatre. A rough predecessor of Pee-wee's Playhouse — but more boisterous and with sexual in- nuendo — it became a cult hit, playing to adults after midnight and to children at weekly matinees. Eventually it was shot at the Roxy Theater for an HBO special. Behold Pee-wee wearing mirrors on his shoes to reflect a girl's underwear and hyp- notizing a young woman in order to get her to take off her dress. Once she's in her slip and awaiting his next suggestion, he doesn't know what to do. Pee-wee has similarities to Jerry Lewis and Pinky Lee and Soupy Sales, but he doesn't seem to come out of any comic tradition. He's like Beaver Cleaver as raised by Mommie Dearest. — MICHAEL McWILLIAMS, TV critic Jerry Lewis I saw when I was little. Soupy Sales I probably saw when I was younger. I never knew who Eddie Cantor was until years later, when a lot of older people used to go [an old Russian-Jewish furrier's accent], "You're like a young Eddie Cantor." I started to watch Eddie Cantor, and I could definitely see the resemblance. His movies are just incredible, very fantasy oriented and comedy oriented. . — PEE-WEE HERMAN He's mentioned to me that he won't be doing Pee-wee forever. I think that gives the character a poignant edge, because he does represent childhood, something temporary, the soul of whimsicality. There's something fragile and non- lasting about the image he projects. And that gives it another power also, besides the weird freakout quality. — WAYNE WHITE Pee-wee is eager to write and perform in next season's episodes of the Playhouse. "The most fun we had writing the show was when we would come up with stuff we "My only fear about this subject is that it becomes more of a subject because I'm unwilling to discuss it. The problem, to me, is that I have two names, and beyond that, there's not much of a story."