ENTERTAINMENT
I GOING PLACES
WEEK OF JAN. 1-7
THEATER
BIRMINGHAM THEATRE
211 S. Woodward, Promises,
Promises, Wednesday through
Jan. 31, admission. 644-3533.
MEADOW BROOK THEATRE
Oakland University Rochester,
Educating Rita, 8 p.m. Thursday,
through Jan. 24, admission.
377-3300.
GREAT LAKES DINNER
PLAYHOUSE
31 N. Walnut, Mt. Clemens,
Showboat, now through Jan. 30,
admission, 463-0340.
FISHER THEATRE
Fisher Building, Detroit, Tango
Argentino, Saturday through
Jan. 10, admission, 423-6666.
ART SHOWS
Barr None
Comedienne Roseanne Barr gives being a wife and
mother a whole new twist in her stand-up routines
RITA CHARLESTON
Special to The Jewish News
C
hat for awhile with "do-
mestic goddess' Ro-
seanne Barr and you'll
come away with any-
thing but a feeling of
tranquil co-existence.
For example, when her husband
walks in the door and says, "Ro-
seanne, I want to have a serious talk
with you about our sex life," Barr
counters with, "You want me to turn
off Wheel of Fortune for that?
"Then he has the nerve to ask me
if I can wash a dish or two this week?
Get real, I tell him. What's the mat-
ter: is Lemon Joy Kryptonite to your
species?"
When it comes to other facets of
her domestic life, Barr volunteers that
she's finally discovered the best
method of birth control ever invented:
"Spend an hour with your kids just
before bedtime. That'll do it!"
A Jewish girl from the almost ex-
clusively Mormon environment of
Salt Lake City, Utah, Barr admits
she's always had a big mouth. The on-
ly difference is that now she's found
a way to make it pay off. She says she
draws a lot of her material from those
early years when being a Jew in Utah
was an isolating experience.
"Most everything I do as a comic
has something to do with my
Jewishness. I've recently been think-
ing that my particular kind of humor
has to do with three things: that I'm
intelligent, that I'm Jewish and that
I'm a women from Utah," Barr says.
"When I was a child we felt very exil-
ed. We were Jewish and poor, and we
were living in a Mormon community.
We never felt connected or part of any
community. We kind of turned in on
ourselves and entertained each
other."
She says in her case, that was pro-
bably a very fortunate twist of fate.
"That ended up to be a good thing for
me 'cause I started doing comedy. If
I'd been accepted and popular and all
that, I'd probably have ended up sell-
ing Amway or something."
lb tell the world just how strange
it was growing up as a Jew among
Mormons, in her act Barr says that
her childhood Jewish congregation
TOWN CENTER GALLERY
3000 Town Center, Southfield,
new works by Beverly Jean, R.C.
Gorman, and Jean Richardson.
Pottery by Jeffrey James and
Louis Vacarro, today through
Jan. 30, free. 352-9696.
RUBINER GALLERY
7001 Orchard Lake Rd. West
Bloomfield, exhibit of New York
and Santa Fe artists, including
Fredrick Prescott, Richard
Hogan, Rob Russell, Susan
Tunick, James Wolfe, now
through Jan. 30, free. 626-3111.
PARK WEST GALLERY
29469 Northwestern Hwy.,
Southfield, Erte exhibit, now
through Jan. 21, free. 354-2443.
DETROIT HISTORICAL
MUSEUM
5401 Woodward, Detroit, "Artists
from Michigan of the
19th Century," now through
March 6, 833-1805.
NAWARA GALLERY
1160 Welch, Walled Lake, "Three
Artists — Yuri Krochmaluk,
Yoldnda Sharpe and Joe Zajec,"
now through Jan. 9, 669-9543.
PRESTON BURKE
GALLERIES
240 E. Grand River, Detroit,
exhibit, now through Jan. 15,
963-2350.
FILM
FILM FRIENDS SERIES
Southfield Civic Center, 26000
Evergreen Rd. 42nd Street, 7:30
p.m. Thursday, admission,
354-9100.
DETROIT SCIENCE CENTER
5020 John R, Detroit, Seasons,
Tuesdays through Sundays,
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