The 7CC lufitts Chajes/Encore Concert Series presents...

Peter Yarrow

of Peter, Paul & gtlary and-

Bethany Yarrow

In the film version
of "Tuesdays With
Morrie," Hank
Azaria, right, plays
Mitch Albom and
Jack Lemmon is
Morrie Schwartz.
"My first reaction
was how much Jack
Lemmon looked
liked Morrie and
reminded me of
Morrie," says Albom.
"It was almost a
little scary"

Saturday, December 4, 1999
at 8 p.m.

Performance at Temple Emanu-El
14450 West 10 Mile Road • Oak Park, MI
Members: $10 • Non-Members: $15

As a member of the legendary folk trio, Peter, Paul and Mary,
Peter Yarrow's rich tenor sound has been a profound voice for
progressive political change for almost four decades. Come hear
this living legend perform "Light One Candle" and other songs from
his collection with his daughter Bethany. This is a Chanukah
concert for all ages.

Sponsored by:
The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit

Co-sponsored with:
The Neighborhood Project & Temple Emanu-El

For tickets, call (248) 967-4030 in Oak Park
or (248) 661-7649 in West Bloomfield.

murder. I don't think I meant some-
thing that showed up on television
that was an adaptation of a positive
book. Maybe I need to modify that
statement in future editions.

JN: What did people who knew you
before the book came out learn
about you by reading the book?
MA: I guess that a lot of people
thought I was pretty much just a jock
and a guy who wrote about jocks
because they read my column or saw
me on television. In America, we have a
way of pigeonholing people into one
thing. We see them do one thing, and
we think that's who they are. There's the
guy who hosts the game show. There's
the guy who is the astronaut. There's
the guy who is the actor. Nobody's that
simple or one-dimensional.
After reading this book, some people
have said they didn't know I was that
sensitive or that human or had interests
outside of sports. People who are my
friends and really know me aren't sur-
prised by any of it. People who learned
something about me from the book or
the movie were probably people who
never knew me in the first place.
I don't believe you get to know any-
body just through a public persona.
Unless you've spent time with a person,
broken bread together, laughed together
and seen what goes on at home and
with family, you don't know a person.
I've always known there was a difference
between public life and private life.

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JN: Will there be any sequels for the

book and film?
MA: I've had many opportunities
since the book has come out to exploit
it in a business sense. People have
offered to make calendars, day plan-
ners and refrigerator magnets [show-
casing] Tuesdays with Morrie. There
are a hundred different schemes that
people have proposed to me, and they
would have made a lot of money.
I turned them all down because I
never felt this was about money. This
wasn't supposed to be an opportunity;
it was supposed to be an obligation.
The movie was the only thing that I
agreed to that isn't the book because I
trusted Oprah Winfrey. She seemed to
love the book so much and convinced
me that she would keep the film as
true as she could to the book.
There won't be any other exploita-
tions of the book, and there won't be
any sequels — Wednesdays With Morrie,
Thursdays With Morrie , Fridays With
Morrie or Chicken Soup With Morrie —
because I don't believe in that whole
franchising thing of self help.
I shared a very wonderful, unique
experience. It was supposed to be a
learning story, and I hope that when
people see this movie, they will keep
that in mind. Fl

Tuesdays With Morrie airs 9 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 5, on ABC.