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MUSICAL PICNIC
Temple Israel's annual Labor Day picnic on
Monday, Sept. 5, will feature a concert by Judy and
David, award-winning stars of Treehouse TV's hit
series Judy ea David's Boom Box, a sing-along show
featuring the duo's original music. The popular chil-
dren's recording artists have 13 albums to their cred-
it, including Songs from the Boom Box, Red's in the
Hood and BeanStock
Judy and David earned Canada's 2002 SOCAN
Award for children's
music, recognizing
their original composi-
tions as the top royalty-
earning children's songs
in the country. Their _ft.
Livin' In a Shoe record- g.
ing won the 1998 Juno f,
award (equivalent of
the Grammy award) for
"Best Children's
Recording" as well as
the Parents Choice
Gold Award.
Picnic hours are
11:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
Judy 6- David to per-
The concert will take
form at Temple Israel's
place at 2 p.m. Open to Labor Day picnic.
the community, the
.
Celebrity Jews
NATE BLOOM
Special to the Jewish News
Spielberg Does Lincoln
There is a terrible old joke that goes: "Mrs.
Goldberg thought Lincoln was Jewish because she
heard he was shot in the temple."
Lincoln, of course, wasn't Jewish. Nonetheless, the
president — whom freed black slaves called "Father
Abraham" — has been a special favorite of the
Jewish community.
So I was happy to read an interview with Liam
Neeson (the star of Schindler's List) in which he said
STEVEN SPIELBERG intends to start production
on a Lincoln bio-pic this fall. Neeson will play "The
Great Emancipator."
Reality Check
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2005
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Sir Alan Sugar:
Jewish Donald
Trump
While it's impossible to keep up
with all of the reality shows, here's
a couple of "reality Jews" I recently
discovered.
If you have mega-satellite choic-
es, you can catch SIR ALAN
SUGAR, an English Jewish com-
puter billionaire, playing the
picnic also will feature food, games and
a petting zoo.
All events are free. For more informa-
tion, call (248) 661-5700.
TIME WARP
Kicking off its 2005-2006 slate of
shows, Meadow Brook Theatre is part-
nering with Palace Sports and
Entertainment to bring the cult musical
BRING THE KIDS
favorite The Rocky Horror Show to
Meadow Brook Musical Festival for a
Another family concert — a foot-
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
four-day engagement. Show times are 8
Arts
Editor
stompin', sing-and-dance-around experi-
p.m.
Thursday-Saturday and 7 p.m.
ence for the whole family — comes your
Sunday, Sept. 8-11.
way later in September as Shalom Baby, a program
When MBT originally presented Horror Show, it
of Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's
became the most popular event in the theater's 40-
Women's Campaign and Education Department
year history, garnering a total of 12 awards and
and Jewish Experiences for Families, presents Shira
nominations from area newspapers and Rocky fan
Klein. The concert takes place 4-5:30 p.m. Sunday,
publications
all over the country. The upcoming
Sept. 25, at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield
production features the return of John Michael
Township.
Manfredi in his multiple award-winning role of
Kline, a New York-based musician and educator,
Dr. Frank-N-Furter, as well as other members of
offers a show that has been described as "outra-
the original cast including David Regal and Jodie
geously high-energy Jewish kiddie music." As a per-
Kuhn-Ellison.
former, song and service leader, Kline works with
There will be costume contests, audience partic-
Jewish communities nationwide to further deepen
ipation and other "inter-galactic" events during .
Jewish rituals, holiday celebration and love for
the limited outdoor run at Meadow Brook
Jewish life.
Musical Festival. Pavilion tickets are $20
The cost of the program is $5 per person or $18
Thursday, $32.50 Friday and Saturday and $25
per family. Babies under a year old are admitted free
Sunday. Superfan seating is available. Information
of charge. Reservations are requested by Sept. 12
and tickets: (248) 377-3300. Tickets also available
and can be made by calling Lisa Soble Siegmann at
through Ticketmaster at (248) 645-6666.
(248) 205-2534 or by e-mail at iegmann@jfmd.org .
Tickets also will be available at the door.
Donald Trump role in the British version of The
Apprentice. The show is about to start a second sea-
son, and it's as big a hit in the U.K. as it is here.
Like Sir Alan, LEN GOODMAN, 61, a judge on
the hit ABC series Dancing with the Stars, is an
English landsman. He told Philadelphia's Jewish
Exponent that he runs a dance school in England
and has "done hundreds of shows at Jewish events,"
including "all those bar mitzvahs I've appeared at."
So Sad
If you haven't heard about
actress NATASHA LYONNE,
26, you will be shocked when I
tell you that as this item goes
to press, Lyonne is gravely ill
in a New York hospital, suffer-
ing from hepatitis and a heart
infection. She is getting
methadone for heroin addic-
tion, and her arms, reports say, Natasha Lyonne:
in trouble
are covered in track marks.
The pretty redhead, who
went to a Jewish high school, is probably best
known for her supporting role in the first American
Pie movie. She also had major parts in the Jewish-
themed movies Slums of Beverly Hills and The Grey
Zone. While she wasn't a major star, she was cute
and a great wisecracker.
What went wrong? Well, Lyonne is a former child
actor whose parents divorced when she was young
— and she hasn't had a great track record of adult
stability. Still, almost none reach bottom like this.
Let's just pray she recovers and lives a full life.
Toronto Film Festival
There are so many movies with Jewish connections
scheduled to be shown at the upcoming Toronto
International Film Festival, running Sept. 8-17. So I
will just cover those films with Jewish characters or
about "real-life" Jews.
In the realm of films with Jewish characters, the
most fun will be In Her Shoes, from JENNIFER
WEINER's best selling-novel. It stars Cameron Diaz
and Toni Collette as two 20-something sisters, one a
knockout and irresponsible, the other heavy-set and
responsible. Their life difficulties are eased a great
deal when they finally get to know their maternal
grandmother (played by Shirley MacLaine).
In the novel, the family was Jewish on both sides.
However, Weiner told me that since Cameron Diaz
looks so "non-Jewish," the filmmakers made the
movie sisters Jewish only on their father's side. But
the film features a mentshy Jewish boyfriend (played
by MARK FEUERSTEIN) and a happy Jewish
wedding.
Probably the most anticipated dramatic film with
a Jewish theme is Everything Is Illuminatec4 directed
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