Arts Entertainment 41 411S • Best Bets ..1t. soli • 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 4,1 9/ 1 2005 40 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. 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