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12/26
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Women Of Style
explain how she does it
all:
Sandy Schreier: With
everything that you do,
how in the world do
you have time for your
family?
Jeanne Beker: It's not a
matter of how I find
time for my family —
it's how do I find time
for everything else I do?
While I may not
always have the luxury of
spending huge chunks of
"physical" time with
them, they are the driv-
ing force in my life and
occupy the major space
in my heart and mind.
On a practical level,
as a single mother, I try
to take two vacations a
year with my fabulous
daughters (now aged
14 and 16). But, trust
me, these days my girls
are the ones with the
big weekend social
commitments. Between
those, their schoolwork
and all their extracur-
ricular activities, I'm
lucky when they find
time for me.
But, as long as you
"Fashion Television's" Jeanne Beker: "Fashion has
keep focused, love what become a feel-good therapy during these troubled times."
you do, and never for-
get who you are, I
a bat mitzvah. We thought it might be
think it's a balancing act that's really
fun and meaningful to do it together.
quite manageable — and, certainly,
Most important to me is that my
very worthwhile.
kids have become poignantly aware of
SS: Did you have a Jewish upbringing their Jewish roots and consider them-
selves Jewish.
and is that the reason you're now
My ex-husband, who's not Jewish,
studying for your bat mitzvah?
and
I were never keen on giving our
JB: Although I attended Talmud
daughters
a formal religious education.
Torah studies when I was young, bat
mitzvahs weren't fashionable then. But But we exposed them to various tradi-
tions and holidays and figured that
now, I'm toying with the idea and it's
they could decide for themselves when
only because my youngest daughter
they were older.
wants one, even though she's 14.
Evidently they ended up identifying
Sandy Schreier, a metro Detroit cou-
She began studying with a rabbi last
with their Jewish heritage.
ture collector and author of "Hollywood year — more for the purpose of learn-
My mother, who is a Holocaust sur-
Dressed 6- Undressed" and "Hollywood
ing about the Jewish religion and tradi-
vivor,
had something to do with their
Gets Married," will host a "Fashion
tions than anything else. Now my older
decision.
They're inspired and awed by
Day" at the Southfield Public Library
daughter is also thinking about havinc,
story.
her
on March 10.
irlfriend" — a hip word,
tossed around loosely by
Oprah, Katie and Star ...
just a word to them. But,
to me and to a huge number of gal-
pals, "Girlfriend" means the one and
only Jeanne Beker.
Jeanne wears sO many hats — actress,
mime, TV producer and star reporter,
journalist, author, designer and, her lat-
est, editor in chief— that one wonders:
Has she a life? A family? Friends?
The answer is yes, yes and yes.
Jeanne and her two teenage daughters
live in Toronto, where her TV show,
Fashion Television (aka F7), and her own
line of bodywear, Inside Out by Jeanne
Beker, are produced and her newest ven-
ture, Fashion Quarterly (aka FQ), a slick
oversize style magazine, is published.
As a teen, Jeanne landed a sitcom
job on CBC, which led to drama
classes, both in New York and at the
University of Toronto.
From a budding Canadian actress to
a mime job in Newfoundland is quite
a stretch, but so is Jeanne's entire
resume — from studying with Marcel
Marceau's famed teacher, Etienne
Decroix, in Paris to covering arts and
entertainment for CBC radio and co-
starring on the award-winning
Canadian TV show The NewMusic.
In 1985, she began hosting and
segment producing FT, which airs
locally on cable's Style Network and
is now syndicated to 130 countries,
including Israel.
And, if that wasn't enough, just a
few months ago,
b Jeanne launched FQ,
a W-type magazine, circulated in
Canada with hopes of shortly becom-
ing an international publication.
Aside from all her daily pressures,
Jeanne is contemplating studying for
her bat mitzvah, along with both her
daughters.
I recently asked the fab Ms. B to