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ris Rainer Dart has written some
eight books about the importance
of human connection.
Beaches, made into a
movie with Bette Midler and
Barbara Hershey for example,
follows the lives of two women
who meet at the seashore as
children and together cope with
one's fight against cancer. Her
latest, Some Kind of Miracle
(William Morrow; $24.95), also
follows the lives of two
women, this time talented
songwriting cousins bat-
ding one's schizophrenia.
"The real miracle in the
tide refers to the people
and their relationships,"
says Dart, 59, who will be
part of a luncheon panel of women writ-
ers when she addresses the book fair.
"Having an advocate, having somebody
to help you through the bad times, is so
crucial in all of our lives. It's something
that everybody wants and needs."
Dart's newest book was inspired in
part by the author's personal experiences
as a teenager in Pittsburgh. Already
interested in writing, she came up with
personalized songs requested by Jewish
groups while working with a partner
who also became successful — Stephen
Schwartz, composer of Godspeg Pippin
and Pocahontas.

Sixty-Six Author Barry Levinson, the
acclaimed film director of Diner, Rain
Man and Avalon, takes readers to his
hometown of Baltimore, circa 1966,
to join a group of young men who are
about to be faced
with as wrenching
a set of challenges
as any American
generation.
Levinson speaks 8
p.m. Sunday, Nov.
9, at the JCC in
West Bloomfield;
$5.

The newest book also was influenced
by knowledge of a much older cousin
diagnosed with schizophrenia. The
author wanted the story to dispel some
of the myths associated with mental ill-
ness, help lift the stigmas that go along
with all that and call
attention to the ways in
which treatments have
developed and
improved.
"My main characters
are extensions of me, so
they're usually Jewish,"
says Dart, a Californian
preparing to discuss her
creative process, personal
life, initiation into writ-
ing and impetus for this
book. "I grew up in a
household where
Yiddish was spoken more
than English. Sometimes,
I didn't know which words were English
and which words were Yiddish."
Dart, who majored in acting at
Carnegie Mellon University, wrote the
varsity musical shows at college before
moving to Los Angeles and finding
small parts. In between acting assign-
ments, she teamed with a writing part-
ner and sold several sitcom episodes for
shows like That Girl and The Odd

Couple.
After marrying for the first time and
having a child, Dart decided she wanted
to stay home for a while and was able to
write episodes for animated television.

Lucky Stars: Author Jane Heller
turns her eye for
social satire on the
tricky business of
being famous in
Hollywood in a
funny mother-
daughter story of
an aspiring actress
and a widowed
mom who
becomes an
overnight show-biz sensation. Heller
speaks 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12,
at the JCC in West Bloomfield; free.

