KIDS, PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS
JOIN US.FOR. A COMMUNITY-WIDE

CELEBRATION

TV B'

eaturing singer/songwriter

N

I

,tea

• M •

aril BettyBuilding
er• D. Dan and
baum Je ft Co unity ; Campus
16:- .110.4 West Bloomfield
TEMINE'KOL AMI
RAIG IN THE PERFORMANCE.

e

TICKETS*

$6 JCC member • $8 : non member • $24 JCC member family of four or more
$32 Non-mernber #ar ly of four or more • Special rate for SAJE participants

-

For,conpert tickets aria information, call the JCC
Jewish Life and Learning Department, (248) 432-5577.

."'
The Craig Taubitian concert is r*e possible by these Julius Chafes/Encore Series supporters, including Manny
and Natalie Charach Endowment Irwin and Sadie Cohn Fund for the Arts; DeRoy Testamentary Foundation;
Benard L Maas Foundation, Hiram Dorfman and David Engelbert, trustees; Ray and ,4tara Zimmerman Fund; Boaz
Siegel Culture Fund; Milton- and Jeanette Miller; Samuel and Jean Frankel; Larry and Andi Wolfe; Mrs. Lawrence
M. Weiner; Minkin Family Foundation; Claire L. Grosberg; Beryl Z. Winkelman; Esther and Peter Shifrin
Philanthropic Fund, Marjorie and Saul Saulson, Jack Miller, Henry S. and Mala Dorfman.

Benny sneaked out of the services only
to be confronted by the irate father,
who hit him with a prayer book. Benny
went sulking to his room.
The father later felt bad about the
incident and came to apologize, saying:
"Remember, son, its a mitzvah to be hit
by a prayer book on Yom Kippur!"
Eddie Cantor (Isidore Itzkowitz) also
is interred in the Hillside mausoleum.
An all-around entertainer for more than
35 years who died in 1964, Cantor also
had a dispute with Jolson, over one of
Cantor's trademark songs, "If You
Knew Susie, Like I Know Susie." Jolson
claimed Cantor stole it from him;
Cantor said Jolie gave it to him.
At the height of his popularity in the
1930s,. Cantor was forced off of radio
for a year when his sponsors withdrew
from his show after Cantor publicly
criticized Royal Oak radio priest Father
Charles Coughlin for his anti-Semitic
diatribes.
Jack Benny intervened with the spon-
sors and the network to get him back
on the air. "Banjo Eyes" Cantor later
helped launch the careers of singer
Dinah Shore, also buried at Hillside,
and entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., a
Jewish convert often rated as the best
all-around talent in the history of show
business.

THERE'S MORE!

JCC
The Center of Our
CommunityJbr75 years

Traditional Italian Cuisine

Live Entertainment FR{. - SAT • Banquet Room up to 70 people

7750 E. Metro Parkway • Sterling Heights, Ml 48312 :4,

2002

48

*W

I

rot

CA'

Rest In Peace

George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum), a
great friend of both Jolson and Benny,
is not buried in Hillside nor at Beth
Olam. Instead, he lies at Forest Lawn
Memorial Park in Glendale with his
wife, comedienne Gracie Allen, who
was not Jewish. Sammy Davis Jr. also
rests there.
And while the Three Stooges, the
popular slapstick artists, soared to fame
as a group in more than 200 comedy
film shorts, they are separated in death.
Their leader, Moe Howard (Horwitz),
is at Hillside, Larry Fine is at Forest
Lawn and Shemp Howard — one of
is
three who played the third Stooge
at Home of Peace Memorial Park in
Los Angeles.
Hillside officials, like those at Beth
Olam, talk freely and proudly of the
famous people buried on their grounds.
Hillside even distributes a list titled
"Permanent Residents," with a guide to
their whereabouts.
Also at rest in the Hillside mau-
soleum are Jessel; actor Jeff Chandler
(Ira Grossel), who died at 42 of blood
poisoning after back surgery in 1961;
David Janssen (David Meyer), star of
TV's The Fugitive, who died at 49 of a
heart attack in 1980; comedian Dick
Shawn, who played the flak), actor play-
ing Hitler in Mel Brooks' movie version
of The Producers; and Allan Sherman,
the comic satirist of "Hello Muddah,
Hello Fadduh" fame.
Luminaries in other parts of Hillside
include Hank Greenberg, the Detroit
Tiger slugger and Baseball Hall of
Farmer who died of cancer in California
in 1986; movie makeup king Max
Factor; and Lorne Greene and Michael
Landon, stars of TV's Bonanza.
Hillside's Rothman declined to dis-
cuss the costs of the celebrity graves.
"Some are very humble and inexpen-
sive, " he said. "But we're proud of all of
our permanent residents." fl

—

1 p.m.-Tu B'Shevat seder • Admission: $5
2 p.m. - Paper-making and recycling education mitzvah project for kids
"If you purchase tickets to the concert,
you may attend the seder and craft activity at no charge.

586-268-7100

the Family," referring to the Mafia fam-
ily, not his own; Mel Blanc, the voice of
Porky Pig and countless other cartoon
characters, whose tombstone reads, fit-
tingly, "That's All Folks"; actor Paul
Muni; producer Jesse Lasky; comedi-
enne Cass Daley and bandleader
Nelson Riddle.
Family members of many of them
can be seen visiting graves during birth-
day and anniversary times, but it's noth-
ing like the large yearly memorial gath-
erings of fans at the graves of heartthrob
stars Rudolph Valentino and Tyrone
Power in Hollywood Forever's nonsec-
tarian section.

Beth Olam

Another Hollywood burial ground,
Beth Olam Cemetery also has its share
of celebrities. Once part of the old
Hollywood Memorial Park, it is now
owned by Hollywood Forever, a nation-
wide chain of cemeteries with "Forever"
names.
Beth Olam was founded 100 years
ago and sits next to Hollywood
Forever's nonsectarian cemetery in the
movie capital, covering a total of 65
acres. It used to be double the size, but
half of the property was sold in the
1920s to create the Paramount Pictures
studio.
"We have a full-service funeral home
on our grounds [as does Hillside], and
we are strict about observing all of the
Jewish burial rituals and traditions, no
matter how famous the deceased is,"
said Rabbi Israel Hirsch, a consultant
and counselor at Beth Olam.
"We also have two mausoleums and a
beautiful Holocaust memorial garden,
with a waterfall and six water channels,
depicting the six million Jews who died.
There's an eternal flame and a tree
stump, illustrating a cutoff of life."
Some of Beth Olam's famous cus-
tomers are mobsters Benjamin "Bugsy"
Siegel, whose tombstone reads, From