Arts & Entertainment
ON A POSITIVE NOTE
From the biggest Broadway smashes and splashy
MGM blockbusters, to the bustling Yiddish theater
and radio scene, Jewish musical creativity in the
1940s was an explosion of endless talent and cre-
ativity. Musical giants, such as Irving Berlin, Harold
Arlen, Jule Styne and Richard Rodgers and Oscar
Hammerstein II, set the standard in entertainment
for decades to come.
To celebrate the era, the Temple Israel Broadway
Music Series presents Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive:
Genius in the '40s, a concert featuring Temple Israel
Cantor Michael Smolish and Cantorial Soloist Neil
Michaels, as well as soprano Stephanie Michaels,
Temple Beth El Cantorial Soloist Rachel Gottlieb
and Shawn McDonald. It takes place 7 p.m.
Thursday, June 16, at the temple in West
Bloomfield.
The program is open to the community at
no charge. For complimentary tickets, contact
Rachel Hearshen at (248) 661-5700 or
rhearshen@temple-israel.org.
GOING IT ALONE
Growing up in Allentown, Pa., pop-rocker Adam
Richman made it through his childhood and
teenage years with one ear to the radio and the
other to a multi-track tape recorder. In his formative
years, he drew his inspiration from the Monkees,
Nine Inch Nails, Michael Jackson and Nirvana,
among others.
After a year at George Washington University —
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during which he discovered he really did
live in Royal Oak, as he opens for rockers
hate biology — Richman began pursuing
Better Than Ezra, 8 p.m. Thursday, June
a music career and writing a ream of pre-
16, at the Royal Oak Music Theatre.
cociously catchy songs.
Doors at 7 p.m. All ages welcome.
With an acoustic debut album made in
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his apartment, he quit school, packed up
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his GEO Prism and toured the country,
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mostly playing for small college audiences
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and building an active fan base.
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ROCK
"I'm a mad scientist," says the 22-year-
"Amazing Music Studio," a new travel-
old Richman, who's played the guitar and piano
ing exhibit opening Sunday, June 11, and running
since elementary school and accompanied and
through Oct. 2 at the New Detroit Science Center,
recorded himself with computers since age 12.
sets out to prove that music is as much about tech-
"Somewhere in my youth, I had a vision of being
nology as it is about talent.
frozen in front of a
With more than 30 hands-on activities, visitors
computer monitor
can investigate harmonics, test reverberation time
with a lab coat and and find out about digital sampling. They can try
goggles, psychoti-
out their talent as a DJ or at a mixing desk, sing in
cally singing and
the karaoke shower or dance in their own music
staring, uninter-
video.
rupted for weeks."
The exhibit also includes some great rock photog-
On his recent
raphy and displays on graphic and stage design,
release, Patience
making it appealing for fans of popular culture as
and Science, in
well as science and music.
addition to laying
The museum is located at the corner of Warren
down the vocals
Ave. and John R in Detroit's Cultural Center.
Richman played
Admission to the exhibit is $3 adults/$2 children
every instrument
ages 2 and up and seniors, with paid science center
on the recording
admission ($7 adults/$6 children and seniors/free
and took on the
under 2 years of age).
roles of producing
Hours vary, so call ahead. (313) 577-8400 or
and mixing the
www.detroitsciencenter.org .
album as well.
Adam Richman
Hear Richman
publisher introduced them. Like her
husband, Krauss now has a film deal
— Love has already been green-light-
ed with Alfonso Curaon, who made
the third Harry Potter film, signed to
direct.
Krauss tried to explain the couple's
attraction to a Brit paper: "My great-
grandparents died in the Holocaust.
His grandmother survived the
Holocaust. I think we intuited a lot
of the same things in the silences of
our childhood."
Krauss promotes her book in Ann
Arbor on June 17. For more on her
and History of Love, see the June 16
issue of the Jewish News.
LIEV SCHREIBER's film version of
the Jewish-themed novel Everything is
Illuminated, opening in September, is
getting a publicity kick because of
the literary success of NICOLE
KRAUSS, 30, the wife of Illuminated
author JONATHAN SAFRAN
FOER, 28. Her just published sec-
ond novel, History of Love, has got
sterling reviews and the pair, some-
what to their chagrin, are being
hailed everywhere from book reviews
Coup At Cannes
to Entertainment Weekly as New
JTA
reports that Israel's HANNA
York's new literary golden couple.
LASLO took the best actress prize at
The couple met "cute," in a book-
the recent Cannes Film Festival.
ish sort of way: She wrote her gradu-
"I want to share this prize with my
ate thesis on Foer, and their mutual
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To
mom, who
is a
. Holocaust
survivor,"
Laslo, 52,
said in
accepting
the honor
last month
for her role
in Free
Zone, an
Israeli road
Israeli actress
movie about
Hanna Laslo
Jewish-Arab
coexistence. "Also, to the victims on
the Arab and Palestinian side,"
adding, "It's time we sit and try to
solve the problem."
Prior to Cannes, Laslo's role in Free
Zone had been largely overshadowed
by that of her co-star, Natalie
Portman. Laslo is best known in
Israel for a range of comic roles, and
has most recently appeared as the
host of the Israeli version of the game
show The Weakest Link.
Her win at Cannes, the world s
most famous film festival, was Israel's
first since 1967.
Expensive Bar Mitzvah
People magazine reports that the girl
group Destiny's Child, including its
foremost diva Beyonce, performed
last month at the bar mitzvah of
BRANDON GREEN, son of British
retail billionaire PHILIP GREEN.
The pop trio was paid $2.2 million
for a one-hour set.
The weekend-long bar mitzvah
party, which took place in the South
of France, also featured opera star
Andrea Bocelli.
Total cost for the festivities? An
estimated $7.4 million. ❑
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