ENTERTAINMENT

OYSTER BAR & GRILL

29110 Franklin Rd. • Southfield • 357-4442

$ 9 5.

9 5

Now
$ 8
For Only
4 p.m.-9 p.m.
You Can Be Fashionably Early

NOW OPEN

SUNDAYS

Arrive at Norm's Oyster Bar & Grill between 4:30 and
6:00 in the evening, Monday through Saturday, and 4:00 to
5:30 on Sunday, and enjoy one of Norman's specially
priced, Early Bird dinner selections.

From only 5.95-8.95 you can enjoy
one of the seven entrees offered. This price
includes soup of the day, garden salad or
coleslaw, hot bread and butter, and your
choice of coffee, tea or milk.

Choose from:
• Fresh Boston Scrod, $7.95
• Roast Half Chicken, $5.95
• Lemon Chicken Fettucine, $7.95
• Chopped Sirloin Stek, $5.95
• Char-Grilled Chicken Teriyaki, $6.95 • Petite Filet Mignon, $8.95
• Fresh Lake Superior Whitefish, $7.95
Your party must check in by 6:00 p.m. to order these specials

CELEBRATE A SUITE NEW YEARS EVE

4?*

WITH RADISSON SUITE HOTEL AND PERIWINKLES 1 N

SUITE NEW YEAR'S EVE PACKAGE I
$189.00

(plus tax)

• DELUXE OVERNIGHT SUITE ACCOMMODATIONS FOR
TWO WITH EARLY CHECK-IN AND CHAMPAGNE UPON
ARRIVAL
• DINNER FOR TWO IN PERIWINKLES
• DANCING TO THE EARL VAN RIPER TRIO
• NEW YEAR'S DAY BUFFET BREAKFAST
• LATE CHECK-OUT

.

SUITE NEW YEAR'S EVE PACKAGE II
$99.00

(plus tax)

• DELUXE OVERNIGHT SUITE ACCOMMODATIONS FOR
TWO WITH EARLY CHECK-IN AND CHAMPAGNE UPON
ARRIVAL
• NEW YEAR'S DAY BUN- ET BREAKFAST
• LATE CHECK-OUT

FOR RESERVATIONS, CALL
477-7800

ADDITIONAL ROOM NIGHTS AVAILABLE WITH ALL PACKAGES: $45.00 PER
ROOM/PER NIGHT. CONTACT HOTEL RESERVATIONIST FOR DETAILS AND
ADDITIONAL PACKAGES.

Radisson Suite Hotel

Farmington Hills

37529 Grand River Avenue
Farmington Hills, Michigan 48018
Telephone (313) 477-7800

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1987

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Rob Reiner left a successful acting career to become — a successful
filmmaker.

'Princess Bride' Turns
Into Fairy Tale For Reiner

MICHAEL ELKIN

Special to The Jewish News

0

nce upon a time,
there was a nice Jew-
ish boy with a nice
Jewish dad who gve his son a
nice book to read. "O000h,"
said the nice Jewish boy, "this
could make a really good
movie."
All right, so the nice Jewish
boy is 40, and the nice Jewish
dad is a famous comedy
writer. So what? That doesn't
detract from a good story, does
it?
Let me continue. So, the
boy, Rob Reiner, takes the
book from his dad, Carl
Reiner, and makes it into a
wackily fantastic fantasy of a
movie 14 years after he first
read it, earns more respect in
an already very respectable
career and lives happily ever
after.
Or at least until the next
movie project.
Fairy tales can come true,
they can happen to you.
They sure did to Rob Reiner.
Reiner is the producer and
director of The Princess Bride.
It is a tale of cut-ups who are
also swordsmen, beautiful
princesses and maidens with
Adrian Arpel complexions
and evildoers so evil and good
guys so good one knows he is
either in fantasyland or
Washington, D.C.

Sigh.

It would be easy to under-
stand why Hollywood would
want to knock down Reiner's
palace doors and lure the sen-
sitive filmmaker to their pro-
jects. Reiner's films are, in a
fashion, dreams come true.
.Little movies with major
impact: The Sure Thing,
Stand By Me and his first ef-
fort, the rock 'n' roll parody

This Is Spinal Tap.
Not bad for a bald Jewish

teddy bear of a filmmaker
once known as Meathead to
millions of All in the Family
television fans.
"I know that if I ever won
a Pulitzer Prize for becoming
a great doctor who discovers
a cure for a major disease, the
headlines would read
"Meathead Wins Pulitzer"'

There's no escaping the past
— but does he really want to?
After all, Reiner won two Em-
my Awards for portraying
Meathead, also known as
Michael Stivic. And life with
a famous writer for a dad
with celebrity friends coming
to dinner meant interesting
table talk.
Pass the salt, Mel Brooks. Is
the veal tender enough, Neil
Simon? And, can I go over to
swim in Sid Caesar's pool?
As Reiner told a reporter a
couple of years back, "I just
assumed that everybody had
people like that over for din-