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 — CELEBRITY JEWS NATE BLOOM Special to the Jewish News Similar Places Best Bets 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 $16.50-$18.50. (248) 399-2980 or his apartment, he quit school, packed up www.royaloakmusictheatre.com . his GEO Prism and toured the country, GAIL ZIM MERMAN mostly playing for small college audiences Arts Editor and building an active fan base. GET READY 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 JN 6/ 9 2005 44 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? 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