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Discover the beauty of the world's
many cultures at the International
Institute's Old World Market, 4-10
p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday
and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Sept.
12-14. Free. (313) 871-8600.
The Southfield Pavilion Antiques
Exposition runs 2-9 p.m. Friday,
noon-8 p.m. Saturday and noon-5
p.m. Sunday, Sept. 19-21, at the
Southfield Municipal Complex. $6/12
and under free. (586) 469-1706.

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he Four Tops, Motown
singing legends,.ma.y not
have been the in-person
entertainment at local b'nai mitz-
vah parties, but their music has
been played by the DJ talent
booked to introduce recordings
for guests of all ages.
"Baby I Need Your Loving," "I
Can't Help Myself" ("Sugar Pie,
Honey Bunch'') and "Standing in
the Shadow of Love are among
their biggest hits.
Fans of the Four Tops soon will
be able to hear the group in per-
son with two founding members
and two new members in concert.
The singers will star in the annual
benefit for Kadima, the nonprofit,
, nonsectarian mental health agency
offering residential, counseling
and employment services to adults
with psychiatric disabilities.
The evening, chaired by Lynne
and Richard Ludwig of
Huntington Woods, begins at 7
p.m. Monday, Sept. 29, at the
• Detroit Opera House, and will
feature original members Renaldo
• (Obie) Benson and Abdul (Duke)
• Fakir and replacement "Tops"
Theo Peoples and Ronnie
McNeir.
When the singers appear for
Kadima, they will be helping raise
funds for a variety of initiatives,
including supervised housing
arrangements and 24-hour crisis
intervention.

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— Suzanne Chessler

The Four Tops perform 7 p.
Monday, Sept. 29, at the
Detroit Opera House. $75.
(248) 559-8235.

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yen veteran horror film-goers
are frenzied about Cabin Fever,
a teenage-oriented horror flick
that opens today in area theaters.
The R-rated film, directed and co-
written by Eli Roth, 31, in his fea-
ture-film debut, received good
advance reviews at the Toronto Film
Festival and
set horror-
fan Web sites
abuzz.
This tale of
a flesh-eating
virus deci-
mating stu-
dents on
vacation —
Director Eli Roth: Ben
to quote the
Stiller look-alike.
"Fright Fan"
Web site —
"memorably
reinvigorates time-honored cliches to
construct a jet-black chiller finely bal-
anced between affectionate parody
and stark originality. Roth's assured
flair and keenly timed sucker-punch
suspense continually impresses in this
lurid delight."
Roth grew up in New York, the son
of a psychologist father and artist
mother. He told Film Quarterly that
his parents had a liberal attitude
toward his desire to watch horror
films and TV shows — they would
just sit around as a family and analyze
what was going on. (This liberal atti-
tude continued at his bar mitzvah
party, where he was "sawed" in half
with a chainsaw and his bar mitzvah
cake was splattered with fake blood.)
Roth went to film school at NYU
and served a long apprenticeship
under director David Lynch. His next
project is the teen comedy Scavenger
Hunt, which he'll direct for Universal
Pictures.
•
Roth resembles actor Ben Stiller. He
told About.com that during the film-
ing of Cabin Fever in North Carolina,
he heard everywhere that he looked
like Stiller. "Thank God for Ben
Stiller," he added.
"In the '80s, it was always like the
blond guy from Karate Kid who got
all the girls. But then in the early '90s,
it was like the New York funny Jewish
guy, which was me.
"It was Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Ben
Stiller that kind of came into vogue. I
owe a great deal to the three 'S's."

— Nate Bloom, editor,
www.jewhoo.corn

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