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A scene from Murder Too Sweet

Film and Television).
"Cherry pie worked out well
for the story," said Ms. Lynn, 32,
whose mystery, set in 1936, sur-
rounds the death of a millionaire
gangster. The man leaves be-
hind a fortune hidden in his
mansion and a widow with a
knack for making the cherry pies
that were his passion.
"Cherry pie has certain as-
pects that are very visual, evok-
ing, luscious and familiar to a lot
of people," the budding screen-
writer said. "It worked themat-
ically in a lot of ways."
The richness of Michigan's
cherry crop did not bring Ms.
Lynn home for the filming. Her
motivation was the economics of
making a production where most
people would work for free.
"It wasn't a question of rais-
ing money; it was a question of
raising favors," Ms. Lynn said
about completing the movie that
was the thesis project for her
New York University master's
degree.
The nearly $30,000 needed for
equipment, services and mate-
rials came from Ms. Lynn's full-
time computer banking job
supplemented by fees earned
through independent production
work. Outside of paying salaries
to the four main actors, she was
able to assemble a cast and crew
of about 200 volunteers.
Members of the premiere au-
dience might recognize former
state Sen. Jack Faxon; Cin-
derella's Attic clothing store
owners Heidi Lichtenstein and
Jim Shaw; the filmmaker's
mother, Judy Jacobs- Alexander;
or her grandparents, Florence
and Clarence Jacobs.
Possibly familiar locations in-
clude Thornlea Mansion on the
Cranbrook grounds, where Ms.
Lynn attended Kingswood; the
Franklin Cider Mill; the Soup
Kitchen Saloon; and Evergreen
Cemetery.
Murder Too Sweet won the
CINE Eagle Award for 1994 and

has been picked up by Tapestry
International for worldwide dis-
tribution. Cable TV seems the
market most likely to blossom
based on her experience with her
previous short productions,
which she finished after earning
master's degrees in film from
Northwestern University and
the Sorbonne in Paris.
"I like to challenge myself by
doing different things with each
film," said Ms. Lynn, whose
movie interest supplanted her
theater interest during under-
graduate studies at Northwest-
ern.
"I like the comic aspects of
something that's not necessari-
ly a comedy, and sometimes the
humor comes when I'm not plan-
ning on it. There's a tendency in
my nature to poke fun at things
or bring up ironies.
"Part of my humor has to do
with being brought up Jewish
and being able to laugh at my-
self"
Ms. Lynn, who enters her
films in festivals around the
world, has won a variety of
awards including certificates of
merit from the Chicago Inter-
national Film Festival for Cootie
Garages and the New York Film
Expo for Whether Willed.
"I am working on a number of
scripts, and they are in various
stages of being written," Ms.
Lynn said. "Now that Murder
Too Sweet is done, it hopefully
will be helpful to me in getting
more work." ❑

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