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Thursday Nights Sept. 19th thru Oct. 10th!

Live music from

Mark Randisi

singing

The Sounds of Sinatra"
7-10 pm

Tuesday Rollbacks
are Back!

Filet Mignon (with Zip Sauce) • • ..$16.54
Veal Marsala . .......... . .$14.54
Chicken Picante ........ ..$12.54
Sliced Beef Siciliana . . . . • . .$11.54
Manicotti or Canneloni . . . .$ 9.54
Broiled Whitefish ....... ..$11.54
*Lobster (114 lb.) ......... ..$10.54

* Includes corn & redskins only

Detroit Dinners Include: Antipasta with Salad Bowl • Minestrone or Onion Soup • Pasta Del Giorno • Bread Basket
Troy Dinners Include: Soup or Salad Bowl • Pasta • Bread Basket

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ET - 13 ARKING

Don't Mess With Bill

Acid-tongued "Politically Incorrect" comedian opens
fall season at Macomb Center for the Performing Arts.

BILL CARROLL

Special to the Jewish News

IV

ith the cancellation of
his highly acclaimed
television show,

Politically Incorrect,

comedian Bill Maher has returned to
his professional 'roots" — standup
comedy. He's doing one-nighters in
such places as Skokie, Ill.; Tacoma,
Wash.; Agoura Hills, Calif.; and,
now, Clinton Township, Mich.
The latter is the home of the
Macomb Center for the Performing
Arts — the beautiful theater with the
long drive time to Hall (M-59) and
Garfield roads. Maher will open the
center's new season Friday, Oct. 4.
Running through the end of April,
the 2002 2003 schedule features 63
events, ranging from singer
Engelbert Humperdinck and

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Bill Maher:
"His mother is
Jewish and he's
100 _percent one
of us — a strong
advocate of
Israel," says
West Bloomfield
attorney Debbie
Schlussel, a
frequent guest on
"Politically
Incorrect."

comedian Carrot Top to operas La
Boheme and Madame Butterfly and a
travel series that includes "Israel: Stories
From the Holy Lands" (Nov. 24).
Maher, who is Jewish on his moth-
er's side and is a strong supporter of
Israel, created the irreverent Politically
Incorrect in 1993 on cable TV's
Comedy Central, bringing together
politicians, journalists and entertainers
to participate in controversial, topical
and comical discussions. Winning four
Cable-ACE Awards, Maher and the
program grew in popularity each year,
catching the attention in 1997 of
ABC-TV, and landing in the post-
Nightline time slot.
The topical talk show was the epit-
ome of provocative late-night TV,
garnering 18 Emmy Award nomina-
tions, but the bubble burst in May
for the quick-witted and
sharp-tongued Maher.
Discussing.
the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist
attacks, he
made refer-
ence to past
U.S. mili-
tary action
as "coward-
ly" in lob-
bing cruise
missiles at ene-
mies. "Staying
in the airplane