For Openers

Is That Your Final Answer?

Yiddish Limericks

SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN
StaffWriter

Complained an old bachelor named Laird,
“It's true that she's shtark vee ah faird,” *

Jr

udy Tigay is married to a
psychologist, has six chil-
dren, attends Wayne
Stare University and initi-
ated a new women's support
group at Adat Shalom Synagogue.
But even with her busy, fulfill-
ing life, Tigay still jumped at the
chance to try her luck at becom-
ing a millionaire.
Egged on by her daughter
Sarah's fiance, Kevin Hirsch of
Southfield, who encouraged
everyone he knew to call ABC-
TV's Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire? for an audition,
Judy Ti gay on the TV show 'Who Wants
Tigay correctly answered a series
to Be a Millionaire?'
of questions by phone. Two days
later, she was on a plane to New York.
Joined by her daughters Donnie, 22, and Sarah 24, the show, which
aired Feb. 8 and 10, was taped in two parts; one on a Friday, the second
the following Monday. There was a nerve-racking weekend in between.
While her daughters shopped, went to restaurants and a Broadway play
and met with friends, Tigay stayed in her room, distracting herself by
reviewing her school notes on Basic Mechanisms of Human Disease.
An intuitive individual, she knew going into the first round of the show
how she would do. "I heard a voice tell me, 'This one is yours.'"
Unfortunately, a Sunday night dream proved accurate. "I visualized myself
sitting in the chair — getting a question wrong."
But when she answered the third question away from the million dol-
lars incorrectly (the name directors use as a pseudonym? Alan Smithee),
she remained self-assured and gracious. "About 20 people out of 6 billion
on earth" would know the correct choice of pseudonyms most commonly
used by movie directors, she says of the question that stumped her.
"And I did answer 12 questions correctly," she adds proudly. She
returned home with $32,000 (less considerable taxes) that she didn't have
before she left her West Bloomfield home.
Another perk of the show was a kiss from the show's host, Regis
Philbin. Tigay describes him as "so likable, gregarious, warm and sunny."
But the perk she refers to was his: "Regis was lucky, he got to kiss me." ❑

Shell Liebman Dorfman can be reached at (248) 354-6060, ext. 246, or
by e-mail at sdorfman@thejewishnews.com

So call me a cad
For saying this, Dad,
But shenereh laigt men in drerd!' **
— Martha Jo Fleischmann

* Strong as a horse
** Prettier ones they bury!

sables

"Someone asked me, Are you glad to be
here tonight?' I said, Asn I glad to be here?
I'm glad to be anywhere.'"
— David Hermelin, former U.S. ambassador to
Norway, stealing Shecky Greenes shtick at the
inter-congregational Men's Club/Brotherhood
dinner Feb. 10 at Temple Beth EL Hermelin is
recovering from cancer surgery.

FISCAL.
POLIC_Y?

"If I die here, no one will take care of me
and there will be no one to bury me."
— Rabbi Yitzhak Levi, 59, the last remain-
ing Jew in Afghanistan, which is under the
rule of the Taliban, the hard-line Islamic
movement.

"It shows that young women who read our
magazine want a bit more than just to be
good looking."
— Marina Meyer-Bungert, of the German
teen magazine "Brigette." Readers named stu-
dent-resistance group member Sophie Scholl of
Munich, executed for criticizing the Nazis, as
the most important woman of the century.

JEAN. LAM DIDN'T NE TUST
GATHER ALL AVAILABLE RES-
OURCES AND STRUCTURE A
LEVERAGE!? SUS-OUT OF THE
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"The minute it's possible, I'll ask the prime
minister to bring Eli's remains to Israel. As
far as I'm concerned, it's one of the first
demands that has to be made."
— Nadia Cohen, widow of Israeli spy Eli
Cohen, who was hanged in Damascus 35
years ago. She wants the matter to be raised
in peace talks with Syria.

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