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— Michael Elkin
Philadelphia Jewish Exponent

7295 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield, Michigan 48322
Robins Nest Shopping Plaza
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as advisers on the show. But whether
the series is touched by an angel or
damned to ratings hell, the producer
cautions those who take their sacrilege
seriously that this is, after all, a come-
dy, not the Dead Sea Scrolls.
And as far as predicting whether
fellow Jews will be offended, Myman
decides to play the prophet. It won't
be bad, he predicts. After all, "Jews
have a good sense of humor."

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Harvey Myman's not one to put the
fear of God into friends and family.
He's opting for comedy.
"This isn't God the biography,"
kibitzes a mischievous Myman of the
very funny God, the Devil and Bob, an
animated NBC-TV Tuesday night
series that he's executive producing
But seriously folks — "I would
think that serious theologians will find
this a pretty interesting show," he says
of the series that has James Garner,
Alan Cumming and French Stewart
lending their respective and respected
voices to this tag team wrestling for
control of the earth
The cosmic comedy focuses on a
pact with the Devil, co-signed by God
and an autoworker from the Motor
City named Bob whose mind is usual-
ly on autopilot.
It's a hell of a deal between the
three, with the Devil betting God for
control of the world that Bob — not
one to run on all his Detroit pistons
— will ultimately choose evil over
good in the onerous options life offers
up on a daily basis.
In portraying God, does the series
go by the book — the big book, as in
the Bible? "This is not a God who
plugs into any particular religion,"
says Myman, himself Jewish.
Yet "some in the Jewish community
may be bothered by what is depicted,"
reasons Myman of the religiously
irreverent series in which God's heav-
enly presence is depicted as a celestial
Jerry Garcia (who knew?).
The humor may be irreverent, but
it's all kosher, relates Myman, who
notes that a team of theologians served

Go4 the Devil and Bob airs
8:30 p.m. Tuesdays on NBC.

Give 'Peace' A Chance

Birmingham Temple hosts

Unthinkable, a benefit performance for

the Lillian Mellen Genser Internship
for Peace Through the Arts, a program
of the Center for Peace & Conflict
Studies at Wayne State University, 2
p.m. Sunday, April 9.
The show features songs by Rudy
Simons and Mort Zieve and stars Steven
Kosinski, Mary Callaghan Lynch,
Bobby St. Thomas, Ursula Walker and
Buddy Budson, and Kate Willinger and
John Michael Manfredi. Rabbi Sherwin
Wine will provide commentary.
General admission is $12.50;
reception and light refreshments fol-
low the show.
Sponsorship opportunities, which
include reserved seating and a compli-
mentary video of the show, as well as a
peace poster autographed by Lillian
Genser, also are available. For more
information, call (313) 577-3453.
Birmingham Temple is located at
28611 W. 12 Mile Road in Farmington
Hills. For tickets, make tax-deductible
checks payable to: WSU Center for
Peace and Conflict Studies, 2320
Faculty Administration Building, Wayne
State University, Detroit, MI 48202.

Oral History

"Do you have nightmares?"
When schoolchildren ask Siegfried
Halbreich this question, he answers
that he never does — "because I live
with it, day and night."
The testimony of the 90-year old Los
Angeles resident, who survived five years