At The Movies THE INTELLIGENT CHICKEN WHERE SMART PEOPLE EAT AMIOUnCing rn Intelligent Chicken has acti u e ived The Stupid Pig! Cinema Baron Now of Baby Back Ribs Hollywood screenwriter's interest in storytelling started at JPI; now the former Oak Park resident is writing for millions of moviegoers. at dinnei time. ; -i --------- yon : - II parties I 1 I giaduation now and ieceive 1 1 I 1 off. 15% I I (offer valid thru 5/01) 1 ALICE BURDICK SCHWEIGER Special to the Jewish News Pasta and Ribs are available I for all catering"" ".. .... a I I (248) 855-4455 32431 Northwestern Hwy. (between 14 & Middlebelt, Farmington Hills) M-F: 11 am-8:30 pm; Sat: 11 am-3 pm I BANQUET AND CATERING AVAILABLE COUPON COUPON OFF Second Entree Lunch or Dinner of equal or lesser value thro-gh Thursday - exp.udes pr.& 55.ncisst.ches b sated Good through x'162001 Limited to 1 coupon ,102 I' tat. - Dine sn only Does not rnclude dIrner for 2 SPePel rbt to be c,.strined wltT any other otter Sunders, OFF Second Entree Sundt, through Thursday - excludes pPre, sanchssches b scrod Good through ri164001 0, , - 2 0e t: vteo to 1 coupon Per trot to be combined with any other offer 248.476.0044 III NI III t took several groups of writers before the producers of the film See Spot Run found a screen- writing team they liked. That was lucky for Danny Baron, formerly of Oak Park. Baron and his partner, Chris Faber, were the ones chosen to write the final draft and do rewrites during the film- ing. , "Warner Brothers had been working on the script for a while," reports Baron, who now lives in Los Angeles. "They read something that my partner and I wrote and called us in and asked what we would do to rewrite it. I guess they liked what we said, "What I wrote covered Danny Baron, because we were hired. There right, on the set of Jewish history from the were a lot of changes along the 1890s to present day. It was "See Spot Run," it started off as a way with his writing a memorable occasion." movie about a pig." His next experience in partner Gary The film, which stars David the dramatic arts occurred Faber, left, and Arquette, Paul Sorvino and while attending Ferndale actor David Michael Clarke Duncan, is a Arquette, center High School, where he par- comedy about a mailman, a ticipated in school plays little boy he's babysitting and a and created short films. drua-sniffma b dog doa that is being chased "I wrote, edited and acted in little by the mob. While the reviews have films, using video, which vas relatively been mixed, Baron says critics' opin- new in those days," says Baron, who ions are not important to him. went to Best Elementary and Lincoln "The audiences love it, and it's well- Junior High before graduating from received all across the country," says Ferndale in 1980. Baron, who spent six weeks on loca- After high school, he went to the tion in Vancouver during the filming. University of Michigan, pursuing "The polling of people is very favor- drama and majoring in art and social able, and that's what matters. Some change. reviewers loved it and some hated it, While he was in Ann Arbor, Baron but I don't let a bad review ruin my and some of his Oak Park friends day. Plus, it's not a review-driven started a thespian group called the Film." Royal Underwater Shakespeare As for working with David Traveling Troupe Society, with which Arquette, Baron says the actor was they performed short spoofs of easy and fun. "He is open and friendly Shakespeare plays at the Residential and funny off screen and I think he College. was well cast." also worked on documentaries at For Baron, 37, an interest in drama Michigan and won some grants," he and writing began at age 14, when he — BEST WISHES TO OUR CUSTOMERS & FRIENDS FOR A HEALTHY & HAPPY PASSOVER!! 4052 Haggerty • Walled Lake • (248) 360-0190 We Wish Our Friends and Customers A Happy and Healthy Passover &Oder) 11$ 60e02X Chinese American Restaurant 4/6 2001 Sugar Tree Plaza 6257 Orchard Lake Rd. ■ West Bloomfield 855-3570 a. .4 127 I T; .4 k _ was at the Jewish Community Center's Jewish Parents Institute, now located in West Bloomfield. "I got my religious education at JPI, and for the graduation ceremony everyone in my class had to write a Jewish historical piece and present it in front of the whole audience," recalls Baron.