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Traditional Rosh Hashanah Carr -Out Menu Prime Filet Mignon . a.SaWA I5f4 i: their college years, Holly, who's always been a voracious reader, finds herself in her element. Curious, intellectual and living on her own at last, she thrives. Until, that is, she makes the mistake of falling for one of her professors (Kyle MacLachlan) — albeit a handsome Jewish one. But Marina, whose. self- esteem and power are (like her moth- er's) tied up with nabbing any guy she chooses, makes a play for the same guy. Needless to say, once Holly finds out she breaks off her friendship with Marina. But there are plenty more ups and downs in store for the two women. A vibrant film, replete with color- ful vintage clothes and a stellar soundtrack, Me Without You is a highly enjoyable pop-culture trip — even when . soap opera melodramatics threaten to sink the movie in bathos. '74 111P Proudly Presents What's Your Wish? JAPANESE CUISINE The girls deliberately attended separate universities, although growing apart "felt as painful as a divorce." As Goldbacher began writing screenplays in the 1980s, intense female friendships repeatedly emerged in her work. Around 1995, she began writing Me Without You with the bookish, introverted Holly as her alter ego. Marina (Anna Friel) is as exu- Michelle Williams (Holly) and Anna Friel berant as Tasha, but the director (Marina) star in "Me Without You." says the similarity ends there. Unlike her childhood friend, books on Judaism and attended a Marina is a disturbed, vampish young Shabbat dinner at Goldbacher's home. woman with a Valium-addicted moth- Pop culture history lessons were also on er and an absent father. the curriculum, as Me Without You trav- She's also a non-Jew who longs to erses the London post-Punk and New convert to Judaism. Romantic periods with the requisite "I wanted to show how girls often Clash and Adam Ant tunes and the awful want to possess their best friends' fashions Goldbacher wore at university. identity," says Goldbacher, whose late "I actually did dye my hair jet-black father was an Italian-born Holocaust. and wear a plastic garbage bag to a survivor. "Because Marina comes from party," she says. When she taught a broken home, she envies Holly's Williams the poker-faced, robotic closely knit Jewish family." dancing of her time, the young actress To play Holly, the Jewish character, "fell about laughing," Goldbacher says. Goldbacher chose Michelle Williams, an The director turns serious when actress best known for portraying trou- describing the almost voodoo-like bled all-American characters, such as Jennifer Lindley on TV's Dawson's Creek. affect the film had on her post-child- hood obsession. "At first I didn't think she'd be the "I used to dream of Tasha several one because of her previous work," times a week, but I've stopped now," she Goldbacher says. says. "It was a form of therapy for me. Then she met the 21-year-old I've gotten her out of my system." ❑ actress and found her to be quite unlike her TV persona. "She's quite bookish," Goldbacher Me Without You opens Aug. 9 at says, "and was reading Proust on the set." the Maple Theatre in Bloomfield To prepare for the part of Holly, Township. (248) 542-0180. Williams, who is not Jewish, read Only Kosher Products Used In The Preparation of Atr.,.. Our Food www.VineyardDeli.com Orders Taken Through August 30, 2002 illE VOW 4 Icr = All Food Prepared in Shirlee's Private Kitchen VISA -\-P ‘114114U P.:71 _ 32418 Nort western Hwy. bet. Middlebelt & 14 Mile Rd. 63,. 8/ 9 2002 77