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Always outspoken, Michael Medved shares
his views on a national radio-talk show making
its Michigan debut, and in an April 10 lecture
at the West Bloomfield ICC
production of family fare.
"There's some discussion about the
Special to the Jewish News
program's becoming a weekly show
ichael Medved, media • on the Hallmark Channel and PAX-
critic and author, never TV," says Medved, whose radio pro-
runs short of opinions,
gram also explores politics and pop
and he soon will bring
culture and invites call-in comments.
them to Michigan.
Locally, the show will air Mondays-
Medved steps up to the West
Fridays on WCAR-AM (1090 on the
Bloomfield Jewish Community
dial) between 4 and 6 p.m. starting
Center podium Wednesday, April 10,
April 1. A three-hour broadcast in
for the sixth biennial Reva Stocker
other parts of the country, the pro-
Memorial Lecture hosted by Jewish
gram, in its entirety, can be heard 4-7
Family Service of Metro Detroit. His
a.m. the next day.
visit, co-sponsored by the Jewish
"Michael Medved will do his radio
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit,
broadcast in Royal Oak on the day of
follows shortly after the Michigan
his speech," says Gina Horwitz, JFS
debut of his nationally syndicated,
board member and chairperson of the
daily radio-talk program, The Michael event. "We decided to invite him
Medved Show.
after the recommendation was made
"My talk in Michigan will focus on
at a board meeting. He's spoken at
Hollywood and family values with an
other Jewish events in the area."
emphasis on Jewish values," says
The lecture, endowed by Larry
Medved, 53, author of Hollywood vs.
Stocker and the late Reva Stocker,
America, an exploration of the enter-
seeks to promote healthy families as a
tainment industry. His recent book,
way of reducing the risk of family
Saving Childhood: Protecting Our
violence and child abuse.
Children From the National Assault on
Medved, who lives in Seattle with
Innocence, was co-written with his
his wife and their three children, was
wife, Dr. Diane Medved, a clinical
born in Philadelphia and raised in
psychologist and author in her own
San Diego. He graduated with honors
right.
from Yale and attended Yale Law
"After Saving Childhood came out, I School. After working as a screen-
talked about it at [Detroit's] Jewish
writer in Hollywood, he reviewed
Book Fair," says Medved. "[I believe]
movies for CNN and later as chief
film critic for the New York Post.
we ought to look not just at enter-
tainment values but also at the values
The radio host also has been a TV
of entertainment. I think there's a
co-host, for Sneak Previews, the
need and demand for that kind of
nationally televised PBS weekly
perspective."
movie-review show where he worked
That approach was at the heart of
for 12 years. The author of eight
Good Entertainment, a Medved televi- nonfiction books, he has been a fre-
sion show developed last December
quent guest on national television
to critique feature films, television,
talk shows, and his columns on
video games, music, Web sites and
media and society appear regularly in
other diversions that come to public
USA Today.
attention. The idea was to recom-
"I've enjoyed doing radio for the
mend, with the help of guests, whole- past three years because of the
some choices and encourage more
engagement with people every day
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