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Mother's
Day
Dinner

From
11:00 to 2:00

Greek and American Cuisine
OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

154 S. Woodward, Birmingham
(248) 540-8780

Halsted Village
(37580 W. 12 Mile Rd.)
Farmington Hills
(248) 553-2360

Featuring
Our Fabulous
Dinner Menu

Children:
$15.95

Excalibur Restaurant, Banquet & Convention Center
28875 & 28847 Franklin Rd.
Southfield, MI 48034
248.358.3355
FAX 248.358.3227

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6527 Telegraph Rd.
Corner of Maple (15 Mile)
Bloomfield Township
(248) 646-8568

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4763 Haggerty Rd. at Pontiac Trail
West Wind Village Shopping Center
West Bloomfield
(248) 669-2295

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ROSE GUrflViiiN'S

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841 East Big Beaver, Troy
(248) 680-0094

TRADITIONAL JEWISH ,HOME COOKING!

DON'T FORGET TO
ORDER YOUR BAGEL DELI
DAIRY OR DELI TRAYS
FOR MOTHER'S DAY!
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SOUTHFIELD SOUVLAKI
CONEY ISLAND
Nine Mile & Greenfield
15647 West Nine Mile, Southfield
(248) 569-5229

FARMINGTON SOUVLAKI
CONEY ISLAND
Between 13 & 14 on
Orchard Lake Road
30985 Orchard Lake Rd.
Farmington Hills
(248) 626-9732

OUR GREAT TRAYS
DAIRY AND DELI
INCLUDING ROSE'S HOMEMADE
SOUR CREAM
NUT CAKE
• 10 Person Minimum

•With Coupon Only • Expires 5-6-99

YOUR HEADQUARTERS FOR SMOKED FISH & HANDCUT BELLY LOX

6088 W. MAPLE
AT FARMINGTON RD.
West Bloomfield

(148) 85 I 4666

HERCULES FAMILY RESTAURANT
33292 West 12 Mile
Farmington Hills
(248) 489-9777

FAX:

(248)851-5698

Give Mom the Finest

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A mother is she
who can take the
place of all
others, but whose
place no one else
can take.

4/30
1999

110 Detroit Jewish News

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30715 W. TEN MILE RD.

(Just East of Orchard Lake Rd.)

248.474.3033

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A retelling of a familiar
story from Genesis.

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2:00 to 8:00

Adults:
$22.50

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Noah's Ark — a two-part, four-hour

miniseries based on the sweeping bib-
lical saga — cost some $30 million to
produce. But Jon Voight, who por-
trays Noah, slopped the pigs and shov<
eled manure for dozens of animals in
the picture most days after work.
Mucking out stalls was not in the
distinguished Academy Award-winning
actor's contract, and he didn't do it for
pocket money. A student of compara-
tive religion, the tall, soft-spoken and
bearded 60-year-old actor wanted to
portray Noah as faithful to biblical and,
historical accounts as possible.
The huge project, which airs 9-11
p.m. Sunday and Monday, May 2-3,
on NBC, started last July and contin-
ued through Australia's chilly winter,
with freezing rain and gale-force
winds, at Point Cook RAAF base
about 20 miles south of Melbourne.
An enormous replica of the ark was
built in the same water tank where thi
miniseries Moby Dick with Patrick
Stewart was filmed the year before.
Scores of critters "two by two" were
used in the film along with hundreds of
computer generated images of animals
— including several extinct species.
"I wanted to know all the animals
that I was going to work with, so I
and cleaning ouct<
started feedin g
their stalls," Voight says over a vegetar-
ian lunch at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in
Pasadena, Calif.
"I also needed to know what Noah
and his wife, Namaah (Mary
Steenburgen), were facing on the ark.
What do you think it was like? Not nice
and clean ... it was a big mess, this boat."
He also observed the personalities
and temperaments of the various ani-
mals to find ways of calming them
down on the set, a place of frantic
activity, loud noises and hot lights.
The rangy, low-key and slow-talk-
ing actor — who earned an Oscar for
Best Actor in Coming Home (1978)
and nominations for Midnight Cowboy
'(1969) and Runaway Train (1985)
was particularly enthralled with an
abused camel named Emma.
"Her trainers explained everything,
plus camels have bad reputations any-
way as being cranky, biting and spit-
ring at you," says Voight, a man up to
the task of playing Dr. Doolittle off-
camera for weeks on end.
"Every day I came in to visit
Emma, talking to her, petting her any''