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Jane Monheit performs at

Macomb Center.

Rose, I Won't Dance and
Embraceable You — she fell in
love with while watching classic
musicals as a child.
Monheit will perform 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 3, at the Macomb
Center for the Performing Arts.
Tickets are $30-$35, with dis-
counts for students, senior citi-
zens and for groups of 20 or
more. (586) 286-2222 or go to
www.MacombCenter.com .

Go Ask Alice

Alice Frank works in a variety of

quarters of the Intel computer
chip company. Reiner was on
hand to give celebrity gloss to
Intel's launch
of its new
Xeon chip, a
chip that
puts two core
processors
(the "brains"
of the com-
puter) into
each chip,
without any
Carl Reiner
increase in
heat.
Why was the decidedly non-
techie Reiner at this news con-
ference? Because Reiner direct-
ed and co-wrote the 1983 Steve
Martin film The Man with Two

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media,
including
watercolor,
enameled
jewelry and
fashion acces-
sories, multi-
media col-
lages and wall
sculptures.
She has had
her work
accepted by
the Michigan
Fine Arts
Alice Frank: Wall
Competition
and recently
was chosen to create a large win-
dow installation for Seiko-Pulsar
watches at the Motor City Casino
in downtown Detroit. Her often
whimsical creations have been
exhibited extensively in the
Detroit Metropolitan area.
From Nov. 1-26, the artist will
have a solo exhibition of her
works at the Lawrence Street
Gallery, 22620 Woodward, Suite

A, in Ferndale.
"I often
`experiment'
with many dif-
ferent artistic
media," she
says.
"Sometimes, I
will create a
piece that corn-
bines watercol-
or, enamels,
collage and
found objects.
Sometimes, my
sculpture.
attraction to
texture and
dreamlike quality will result in a
single media piece, watercolor
alone or enamel alone. My mood
will be my guide."
Gallery hours are noon-5 p.m.
Tuesdays-Saturdays. There will
be an artist's reception 6-9 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 4. For more informa-
tion, call (248) 544-0394.

Brains. That was enough of a
tie-in to get Intel to hire Reiner
as its spokesperson.

ratings show that viewers seem
to like Davis (a member of
MENSA) and the show's prem-
ise. Meanwhile, Aaron Sorkin
and Thomas Schiamme, who
were ousted last year as the
principal writer-producer and
director, respectively, of The
West Wing, are coming back
with a new NBC series called
Series 7. It follows
the behind-the-
scenes activities of
a Saturday Night
Live-type comedy
show. Industry
insiders say that it
is just about guar-
anteed a spot on
the fall 1996 sched-
ule.

Behind the Scenes

Steven Bochco

(NYPD Blue)
is in as the day-to-day producer
of the hit ABC series
Commander-in-Chief starring
Geena Davis as the first woman
president. He replaces
series creator Rod
Lurie, who also is
Jewish. Speculation
abounds about the
switch — from the
need for script tune-
ups to a too slow pro-
duction schedule. In
any case, the show's

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