Arts & Entertainment Best Bets program will be held in Auditorium 4 of the Modern Languages Building, on the corner of Thayer and Washington streets, in Ann Arbor. Parking is available in the Thayer structure for $4. For more infor- mation, go to www.ums.org. Humphrey Bogart. The Jewish actress, born Betty Joan Now in its 12th season, the University Musical Persky in New York, began a modeling Society's "Summer Sings" is a series of popular career and was discovered by the wife of choral reading sessions which allows choral music famed director Howard Hawks in an lovers the opportunity to sing great choral repertoire issue of Harper's Bazaar. Hawks hired her with special conductors and outstanding soloists. to play "Slim" opposite Bogart in To GAIL ZIMMERMAN Over the past 11 years, the no-audition, no-per- Have, in which she was required to sing Arts Editor formance evenings of music making have welcomed BACALL IS BACK in some scenes. Though Andy Williams more than 200 singers from southeast Michigan, had been hired to dub her voice, it was Lauren Bacall, who made moviegoers northern Ohio and Canada at a cost her own singing that remained in the film, setting sit up and take notice with her of only $5 a session — to cover the the stage for her later triumphs in the Broadway very first role in To Have and cost of musical scores and refresh- musicals Applause and Woman of the Year. Have Not and has maintained ments. The 81-year-old actress has no less than four films a screen career through more The season, closes 7-9:30 p.m. out this year — Manderlay, These Foolish Things, than 60 years, will join net- Monday, Aug. 1, with a choral read- Firedog and Hayao Miyazaki's animated feature work host Robert Osborne for ing of Jewish composer Ernest Howl's Moving Castle, to which she lends her the latest installment of Turner Bloch's Sacred Service (Avodath famous voice. She also recently released an updated Classic Movies Private Hakodesh), an extensive choral and version of her autobiography, By Myself ... And Then Screenings interview series 8 orchestral setting of the synagogue Some. p.m. Monday, Aug. 1, with an Shabbat morning service, conducted For more information, check your local TV list- encore presentation at 11 p.m. by Bradley Bloom. ings or go to www.turnerclassicmovies.com . The special will be accompa- Professor Bloom is music director nied by a full day of 10 films of the Flint Festival Chorus and featuring Bacall, as well as Associate Dean for Administrative AT THE ARK Bacall on Bogart, a 1988 doc- Affairs at the University of Michigan umentary featuring Bacall's The Ark in Ann Arbor brings back some School of Music. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall reflections on her husband favorites this week, starting with the irreverent Registration is at 6:30 p.m. The in "To Have and Have Not" and frequent co-star folk artist — and bald-headed wonder — Robbie VOICES IN BLOOM ARTS • CALENDAR • An Evening of Schubert — Louis Nagel on piano. Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N. Fourth, Ann Arbor. 8 p.m. Saturday, July 30. $10-$25, $5 students. (734) 769-2999 or www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com . Marcus Belgrave & Charlie Gabriel — New Orleans- style jazz at Burgh Park Gazebo Concert Series. Burgh Historical Park, Civic Center and Berg roads, Southfield. 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 3. No charge. (248) 796-2120. Vince Welnick and Friends — Tribute to Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Royal Oak Music Theatre, 318 W. Fourth, Royal Oak. 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4. $15. (248) 399-2980 or www.royaloakmusictheatre.com. American Idols Live! — Top ten contestants perform. Joe Louis Arena, Detroit. 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4. $38-$48. (248) 645-6666 or www.Ticketmaster.com . DTE Energy Music Theatre, 7774 Sashabaw, 7/28 2005 30 Clarkston. (248) 645-6666 or www.palacenet.com . Montgomery Gentry — Country-singing Kentucky duo appears with Bobby Pinson. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Flavors — The American Jewish Committee, July 28. $18.50-$35.50. Metropolitan Detroit Chapter and the Indian Hootie & the Blowfish — Pop-rock. 7:30 p.m. American community sponsor special screening of a Sunday, July 31. $15.50-$34.50. 3 Doors Down — Modern rock "Seventeen Days . comedy on the Indian American acculturation theme. Maple Art Theatre, 4135 W Maple, Tour" also includes Staind, Breaking Benjamin and Bloomfield Hills. 6 p.m. Sunday, July 31. $5; pur- No Address. 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2. $22.50-$48.50. chase through theater box office. (248) Sharona Backstreet Boys — Pop. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. Shapiro. 646-7686. 3. $49.50-$59.50. Ozzfest — Rock. 10 a.m. Thursday. Aug. 4. $50-$90. Jerome Duncan Ford Theatre, 14900 Metropolitan Parkway, Sterling Heights. (248) 645-6666 or wwwpalacenet.com . Hootie & the Blowfish — Pop-rock with special guest Ingram Hill. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 30. $18- $48. Donna Summer — R&B. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 31. $23-$48. Huey Lewis & the News — Rock, with special guest Paul Thorn. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 3. $28-$48. Elayne Gross Photography — "The Art of Celebration: Black and White Wedding Photography" features the photographer's fine art images from her first decade documenting weddings in and around the Detroit area. The Art Exchange Gallery/Museum, 2966 Woodward, Detroit. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday- Tuesday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, through Sept. 6; opening reception: 2-5 p.m. Sunday, July 31. (313) 831-2644. 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