Best Bets CLASSICAL NOTES Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra performs a concert titled Virtuoso Italian, in which U-M professor/violist Yitzhak Schotten will be fea- tured in Berlioz's Harold in Italy, 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. $19-$36. (734) 994-4801. Birmingham Temple's Vivace Music Series pres- ents classical guitarist Paul Vondiziano 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16, at the temple in Farmington Hills. $15-$18. (248) 788-9338 or (248) 661-1348. The Wonderland Trio - harpist Kerstin Allvin, flutist/piccolist Jeffery Zook and violist Caroline Coade - perform in a Temple Israel Schmier Chapel Chamber Series concert 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16, at the temple in West Bloomfield. Free/open to the public; reservations: (248) 661-5700. POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK Michael Feinstein and composer Jimmy Webb bring their tour, in support of their new album, Only One Life: The Songs of Jimmy Webb, to Detroit's Gem Theatre 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10. $40. (248) 645-6666. With backgrounds in classical music, musical theater, jazz and rock, the members of Groovelilly -. electric violinist Valerie Vigoda, percussionist Gene Lewin and keyboardist Brendan Milburn - stage a show of their pop-folk-rock tunes 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, at The Ark in Ann Arbor. $12.50. (734) 761-1451. North Carolina singer-songwriter Chuck Brodsky performs his folk material 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, at First United Methodist Church, 1001 Green Road, in Ann Arbor. $12. (734) 662-4536. awn In The News NATE BLOOM Special to the Jewish News Fleiss Film Combine sex, Hollywood stars and money - and you have the reason for the endless media coverage of Jewish "Hollywood Madame HEIDI REISS. It's been 10 years since her arrest for pandering, but she's still big in "infotainment." Just when it looked like Fleiss fever was over, she got headlines this year when her former lover, actor Tom Sizemore, was convicted of terrorizing her. Fleiss took a lot of abuse, and went back for more, until she called the cops. You do the pop psychology on that one. In any event, Sizemore's trial helped the sales of Nate Bloom is the editor of jewhoo.com . Theatre stages David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy, Glengarry Glen The Players Guild of Dearborn Ross, about cutthroat real estate salesman stages Kander and Ebb's hit in search of the American dream, 8 p.m. musical/film Chicago Nov. 7-30. Call Friday and Saturday, Nov. 14-15. The for show times. $14. (313) 561-8587. production, directed by WSU theater Spotlight Players presents Neil professor David Magidson, runs in Simon's comedy The Odd Couple, a repertory through Jan. 31. $12-$20. dinner theater production directed by (313) 577-2972. Barbara Bloom, 7 p.m. Fridays and Village Players of Birmingham presents GAIL ZIMMERMAN Saturdays and 1 p.m. Sundays, Nov. Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman's Arts c;-- Entertainment 7-16, at Summit on the Park, 46000 Stage Door, based on the 1930s movie Editor Summit Parkway, in Canton. $30 about a bevy of young, talented actresses advance/$35 at the door includes living at the "Footlight Club," 8 p.m. Italian dinner and performance. (734) 394-5460. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Nov. 14- Stagecrafters mounts a production of To Kill A 23. Lauren Franklin of Bloomfield Township takes Mockingbird, a drama adapted by Christopher the lead. $15. (248) 644-2075. Sergel from the Harper Lee novel, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Nov. 7-23, at the Baldwin Theatre. $14-$16. (248) 541-6430. LAUGH LINES U-M Rude Monty Python's Eric Idle, with special guests Mechanicals, a student John Du Prez, Nigel Spasm, the Bruces, Sir Dirk theater group at McQuickly of the Rutles, Peter Crabbe and University of Michigan, Jennifer Julian, perform a program of songs and performs Shakespeare's skits on the stage of Ann Arbor's Michigan The Merchant of Theatre 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10. $36.50- Venice, a tragicomedy $39.50. (248) 645-6666. whose Jewish character, Shylock, continues to arouse controversy, 8 THE BIG SCREEN p.m. Friday and A new film adaptation of Thomas Findley's Saturday and 2 p.m. Elizabeth Rex, originally commissioned and Sunday, Nov. 7-9, at developed as a play by the Stratford Festival of Lydia Mendelssohn Canada, screens 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, at Theater in Ann Arbor. the Detroit Film Theatre at the DIA. The plot Lauren Franklin takes $6-$8. (734) 763-8587. imagines a fictional encounter between Wayne State the lead role in Village William Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I. University's Hilberry Players' Stage Door." $15. (313) 833-4005. ON THE STAGE Fleiss' 2003 book, Pandering, not so much an auto- biography as a scrapbook of her life, laced with her musings on various subjects. Now the USA TV network has announced that they do a TV movie on Fleiss, starring JAMIE- LYNN DISCALA, best known as "Meadow Soprano," from HBO's The Sopranos. (She was known as Jamie-Lynn Sigler until she married her manager last summer and took his name.) It looks like this film will paint Fleiss as the "poor little rich girl." In the words of Stan Brooks, the producer, The perfect actress for the role had to capture [Fleiss'] innocence, the intelligence behind her eyes and a sexual allure, and that's one thing Jamie has in spades. "And the fact that [Jamie's] a Jewish girl from a nice family in New York, and Heidi was a Jewish girl from a nice family 'n California, isn't a bad thing, either." Discala does come from a "nice Jewish family." Her father, STEVE SIGLER, is the founder/head of the Mens' Senior Baseball League, a national success. Her mother, CONSTANCE, is from Cuba and is a convert to Judaism. Jamie had a traditional Jewish upbringing and was a bat mitzvah. She has a fine singing voice and recently appeared in Aida on Broadway. Paltrow Returns GWYNETH PALTRO'W 31, has emerged out of her relative obscurity of the last year to promote her latest film, Sylvia, about poet Sylvia Plath, who committed suicide in 1963. Paltrow says she almost didn't make the movie because production began a week after the death, last October, of her father, director BRUCE PAL- TROW. Her brother urged her to go ahead with the project, and she was helped by the presence of her non-Jewish mother, actress Blythe Danner, in the Sylvia cast. Gwyneth, who identifies as Jewish, was very close 11/ 7 2003 70 FYI: For Arts and Entertainment related events that you wish to have considered for Out & About, please send the item, with a detailed description of the event, times, dates, place, ticket prices and publishable phone number, to: Gail Zimmerman, JN Out & About, The Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034; fax us at (248) 304-8885; or e-mail to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com Notice must be received at least three weeks before the scheduled event. Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. All events and dates listed in the Out & About column are subject to change.