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NATE BLOOM

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Opening in late June was the Brit film
My Summer of Love, about two teenage
girls from very different backgrounds
who have a romantic affair. @Regular
Copy:While some reviews were so/so,
most were raves. The Detroit Free Press
loved the flick, and film critic Terry
Lawson singled out co-star NATHALIE
PRESS in these words:
"But it's the revealing performance from
Press that breathes life into the film.
Press makes Mona raw-boned and
unspeakably lovely, a child-woman who
has no idea what she wants to do at the
same time it's clear she wants to do
something."
Press, 23, is Jewish, from London, and
My Summer is her first full-length film.
Her performance didn't surprise critics
who had seen the pretty redhead's star-
ring role in WASP, a "little" movie that
won the 2004 Oscar for best short film
largely because of Nathalie's great acting.

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Airplane.; usually rated one of the best
film comedies ever made, was the sub-
ject of a 25th-anniversary celebration
put on last month by Jewish Family
Services of Milwaukee in honor of the
volunteer service of Milwaukee resident
LOUISE ABRAHAMS YAFFE and her
son JIM ABRAHAMS. He co-wrote
and directed Airplane! with co-writers
brothers DAVID and JERRY
ZUCKER, his friends since they were
boys.)
These three guys went on to make other
notable films, including Ghost and
Ruthless People, but Airplane! was the
one that really got their careers rolling.
They are "good guys" who cast their
respective mothers in small parts in sev-
eral of their films, including Airplane!
Meanwhile, IVAN REITMAN's hilari-
ous film, Stripes (1981), has been re-
issued on DVD with a true extra: 18
minutes of never-before-seen footage
that is re-integrated seamlessly into the
movie. This footage includes a very
funny scene•in which Stripes stars Bill
Murray and HAROLD RAMIS fly
along with a group of paratroopers for a
secret mission in Central America.

Shalom

SHANA. ALEXANDER, one of the

Nate Bloom is the California-based editor
of wwwjewhoo.com

first- top female journalists, died last
month, at age 79. She was most famous
for her "Point-Counterpoint" segment
on 60 Minutes, which was satirized on

Saturday Night Live.

Oddly, Alexander often had to deny a
rumor that she was JACK BENNY's
daughter. In fact, her parents were
famous songwriter MILTON AGER
("Happy Days Are Here Again" and
"Ain't She Sweet") and Variety reporter

CECILA AGER.

Unlike Alexander, who grew up in an
affluent family, ventriloquist PAUL
WINCHELL was born Paul Wichon
into a poor Jewish family on New York's
Lower East Side. He went on to fame in
the early 1950s, doing his ventriloquism
act with his dummy Jerry Mahoney.
Late in life he
was best
known as a
voice actor,
including the
voice of
Tigger,
Winnie-the-
Pooh's exu-
Paul Winchell with
berant friend, Jerry Mahoney
in several ani-
mated Disney Pooh movies. Winchell
was 82 when he died on June 24. ❑

HGTV Heads To Motown

Moving into your first place? The

Home and Garden Television net-
work is looking for fun, high-energy
people from the Detroit area who
deserve a one-room makeover. The
makeover will be featured on a new
series about first homes.
Dorm to apartment, parents'
house to apartment, multi-room-
mate to solo living, rental to first
mortgage all work — as long as the
new digs have the potential to "feel
like home."
Taping will be go on between
mid August and late fall 2005. If
you are moving during this time-
frame, HGTV would like to hear
from you — you could win a
makeover paid for by the network.
Call Scott Hiller, (313) 712-3308,
or Nicole Zaremba, (313) 712-
3233; or apply online at
www.highnoonentertainrnent.corn.
Click on BE ON IV.
If you are selected, please
notify Jewish News Arts Editor/
IN Platinum Creative Editor
Gail Zimmerman at
gzimmerman@thejewishnews.corn.
We'd love to feature you in
an article.