Why just have dinner tonight,
when you can spend an evening
with your friends at Andiamo
Italia? Only minutes off 1-696 in
nearby Warren, we're very close
friends.

Experience the regional Italian
creations of Master Chef, Aldo
Ottaviani, who brings 40 years of
experience to each carefully
prepared dish. Enjoy a famous Aldo

original such as Fettuccine Alla
Bolognese or our tempting Linguine
Alla Marinara.

Don't just have dinner tonight.
Spend an elegant evening with your
very close friends at Andiamo Italia.

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Lunch: Mon.-Fri. 11:30-2 p.m. • Dinner: Mon.-Sat. 5:30-10:30 p.m.
Sunday 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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EXTRAS N/VANTED

The producers of All OR, a
- feature film about a young woman
who returns home to Michigan for
Yom Kippur, needs "Jewish-look-
ing" extras for a scene to be shot at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek on
Wednesday, Oct, 29, For informa-
tion and to register to be an extra,
call John Layne at (248) 865-
9684.

Tibetan art and costumes, and a
superb re-creation of one of the
world's grandest buildings, Lhasa's
Potala palace.
This surpasses what Bertolucci did
for Tibet in Little Buddha and sets a
mark for Scorsese to match in his
coming Tibetan epic, Kundun.
Annaud tells a terrific yarn. Only in
the last half hour, with the obligatory
history lesson about the communist
Chinese ravaging of Tibet, a mon-

SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET
During my childhood in the
'50s, Tibet was the most remote
and exotic place in the world.
Its aura lingers, not ruined even
by "Tibetan chic" in trendy
Hollywood.
Long before Star Wars ruled
boyish hearts, we read about
fabled Lhasa in Richard
Halliburton's adventures and in
James Hilton's Lost Horizon,
which also turned up as Frank
Capra's old film fantasy (the
face of Sam Jaffe as the High
Lama put a halo on kitsch).
Heinrich Harrer's book
Seven Years in Tibet was a leap
forward in fascination. A top
mountaineer, Harrer came to
the Himalayas in 1939 with an
Brad Pitt stars as Heinrich Harrer in Seven
expedition from Nazified
Years in Tibet.
Austria, to climb a peak the
Germans called unser Berg (our
mountain). They failed, and on
strous tragedy, does the film slog a bit
descending were imprisoned as enemy
dutifully, yet movingly.
aliens in British India, as World War
The film's box-office ticket is Brad
II started.
Pitt as Hauer. No doubt he is less
Harrer made repeated escape
"manly" than Harrer was, but his boy-
attempts and finally did flee into "for-
ishly golden smugness fits the role
bidden" Tibet, the "rooftop of the
well. Pitt, cocky without even trying,
world" that rarely admitted foreigners.
does an OK German accent and looks
His great trek was done with almost
like a guy who simply must scale
no supplies and only one companion,
mountains and enter forbidden realms
Peter Aufschnaiter. During their Lhasa
(he also makes a fine contrast with
years, as tolerated and then loved
magnetically homely British actor
guests, Aufschnaiter married a Tibetan
David Thewlis as Aufschnaiter, who
woman and Harrer became unofficial
can't stand him, then comes to cherish
tutor and close friend of the teen-age
him).
Dalai Lama.
This may be Pitt's best work so far,
The story has been simplified, but
only hurt by a few hints of posturing.
has lost little power in Jean-Jacques
His rash insulting of a Tibetan politi-
Annaud's movie. This is an adventure
cian, a Judas, smacks of bravado, a star
story of amazing vividness, and
moment. And in his most vulnerable
Annaud (Quest for Fire, The Bear) has
scene, telling the Dalai Lama about
the eye for it, widening our own gaze
the son he's never seen in Austria, his
'with staggering Himalayan views and
hair overhangs the emotions (why is

Photo by Davi d App leby

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