KU ENTERTAINMENT , HOWVo u ro i r The Cornell Clan Is Dressed Up With Many Places To Go Twilight's gentle shadows signal sensational cuisine at significant savings with our exclusive Dinner at Dusk. STEVE HARTZ Staff Writer T hey were once kids with no interest in dancing. Then, their parents enrolled them in a ballroom dance class. It was the class all their friends were taking. The one to take a year prior to bar and bat mitzvah, so that after they read their haftora and danced the horah, they'd be ready to boogie. Unlike many of their peers, Steven Fink, David Schechter, Robert Fink, Steve Jasgur, Steve Wolf and Ken Harris have not yet hung up their dance shoes. The six gentlemen never left the dance school — Joe Cornell — that first showed them how to waltz and tango. They now work for Cornell, the guru of ballroom dancing, whose studio also employs emcees for bar mitzvah celebrations. "My parents made me take dance lessons; I didn't want to," said 18-year-old Steven Fink, a freshman at Mich- igan State University who makes the 90-mile drive to his emcee job in Detroit. It only took a few lessons before Fink's attitude changed. Following in his brother's footsteps, Fink joined what he calls The Joe Cornell Family two years ago, assistant teaching and then emceeing. "The job is a blast," he said. "You get to eat, dance, party — and get paid for it." "The hours fly by at the different parties I emcee that I'm almost upset when they're all over. I enjoy what I'm doing so much I wouldn't want to do anything else," said Schechter, 19, a freshman at University of Michigan. When he was 12, Robert Fink studied at Joe Cornell. By the time he turned 15, he was assisting its dance classes. A year later, he was spinning records, too. "You have so much fun with these kids that you can't pass the job up," said Fink, 20, a junior at Mich- igan State University. Jasgur caught dance fever nine years ago when he placed second in Joe Cornell's Spring Ball, but he didn't join the Cornell team until a few years later. 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Joe said, 'Why not ask your older brother, Steve?' And that's the only reason I'm here today be- cause my sister got the job." The Jasgur duo were co- assistant instructors for two years. For the past four years, Steve, a junior at the University of Michigan, has been emceeing parties. Wolf, who will graduate from the University of Mich- igan's Dental School next year, took dance lessons from Joe Cornell for three years. During that time, he was a member of Cornell's exhibition travelling dance troupe. Wolf was also a finalist in his bid to appear on TV's "Dance Fever." He has worked for Cornell for the past 10 years. "Once I get out of school, I'll be focusing my work on dentistry, but I'll still want to emcee a party here and there," Wolf said. Harris, an attorney, began taking lessons in 1968. And when he's not dancing around the courtroom, he en- joys judging (dance competi- tions) at the parties. He has been part of the Cornell clan for more than 12 years. "It's infectious," said Harris, 30, a studio cham- pionship winner in 1972. "Once you're a part of it, you don't want to leave. It pro- vides me with a great bal- ance." 0 Moore's Film Opens In Israel A report in the April 1990 issue of Spy magazine that the popular film, Roger and Me, would not be screened in Israel because of the direc- tor's "pro-Palestinian" feel- ings is not accurate, the Anti- Defamation League learned this month. In a May 3 letter to Abraham H. Foxman, ADL's national director, Irving N. Ivers, a vice president of Warner Brothers, Inc., the film's distributors, responded to an inquiry from the League. His letter said: "This is to simply confirm that Roger and Me will be presented at the Jerusalem Film Festival and is schedul- ed to open theatrically in Israel on either July 12 or Ju- ly 19." The Spy article reported that Warner Brothers had complied with a request from Michael Moore that his film not be shown in Israel. Accor- ding to the magazine account, Moore is "adamantly pro- Palestinian and plans to ex- amine the Israeli government in his next documentary, Yit- zhak and Me?"