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The Detroit Jewish News, 2005-11-17

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Arts & Entertainment

BEST BETS

Gail Zimmerman
Arts Editor

One Man's
Treasure

and a tour — dubbed the
Found Magazine Lone Surfer
Tour — which is traveling to 51
cities in 55 days. On stage,
Davy Rothbart of Ann Arbor is
Rothbart reads his found items
a strange sort of collector — he
aloud, sometimes acting them
picks up lost notes, lists and
out, and excerpts from his book.
other kinds of communication
He
is joined by his brother, Peter
he finds on the street. Then he
Rothbart,
who has turned some
publishes them online and in
of
the
found
notes into songs,
his print and magazine, Found.
and
reads
his
own prose from
He's reached the point where he
Davy Roth bart
the
magazine
as
well.
doesn't have to search for these
The
Rothbarts
wind up the
writing scraps much anymore — fans now
tour
8
p.m.
Saturday,
Nov.
19,
at the
bring him much of his material.
Michigan
Theater
in
Ann
Arbor.
$10-$12;
Rothbart has presented some of his
tickets
available
at
the
door.
(734)
668-8463.
Found material in segments on NPR's This
American Life-, he's also come out with
Found books and CDs.
Hate Crime
His latest venture is The Lone Surfer of
Montana, Kansas, a book of short stories,
In October 1998, a young university student

named Matthew Shepard was brutally beat-
en, tied to a fence and left to die outside
Laramie, Wyo., because he was gay. His
death became a national symbol of intoler-
ance and cast the eyes of the world on the
small western town.
Jewish playwright Moises Kaufman and
five members of his tectonic Theater Project
traveled to Laramie to conduct
over 200 interviews with
townspeople. From these inter-
views they culled The Laramie
Project, a theater piece that will
be presented 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and
Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 17-20, at the Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre in Ann
Arbor. U-M grad Robert
Chapel, a theater professor at

the University Of Virginia, directs the U-M
Department of Theatre and Drama produc-
tion.
"There are moments in history when an
event occurs, and the event is of such power
that it operates as a lightening rod','
Kaufman has said. "It brings to the surface
all the ideas, the beliefs and the philosophies
that are permeating people's
lives. My idea was that if we went
to Laramie and we interviewed
the people of the town, we might
be able to create a document not
only about how Laramie was
feeling, but about how the whole
country was feeling and thinking
and talking — not only about
homosexuality, but also about
class and education and vio-
lence."

Moises Kaufman

FYI: For Arts and Life related events that you wish to have considered for Out & About, please send the item, with a detailed description of the event, times, dates, place, ticket prices and publishable phone number, to:
Gail Zimmerman, JN Out & About, The Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, Ml 48034; fax us at (248) 304-8885; or e-mail to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com Notice must be received
at least three weeks before the scheduled event. Photos are appreciated but cannot be retumed. All events and dates listed in the Out & About column are subject to change.

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Notes

The buzz is that Joaquin Phoenix might
just pick up an Oscar for his stunning per-
il; formance as the late country music legend
Johnny Cash in the
bio-pic Walk the Line,
,4 opening Nov. 18.
Joaquin's mother,
Heart, was born Arlyn
Dunitz into a Jewish
family. She and her
non-Jewish (now ex-)
husband were once
members of a hippie-
type Christian cult
group. While Heart's
Joaquin Phoenix
no longer a Christian
believer (and one gathers neither are her
children) — her kids' ties to "anything
Jewish" are minimal. Nowadays, Heart
moves from one New Age cause to another,

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lacing her fund-raising speeches with
Waterlogged
Yiddish, and riding on the fame of her
Premiering Sunday, Nov. 20, on NBC is a
children (Joaquin, the late River Phoenix
made-for-TV remake of The Poseidon
and actress Summer Phoenix).
Adventure, the 1972 big-screen hit about a
Contrast the "Jewish" Phoenix clan with
cruise ship that capsizes. The NBC version
Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley
stars Steve Guttenberg,
(who is a character in the
48, who has had trouble
movie). Elvis, a devout
keeping his career afloat
Christian, gave really big
since his early film hits like
donations to Jewish chari-
Three Men and a Baby.
ties (partially in gratitude
Heroic Jewish Poseidon
to a Memphis rabbi who
character Belle Rosen, who
was kind to his family).
was originally played by
Cash, also a strong
Shelly Winters, shows up
Christian, frequently visit-
again in this version.
ed Israel. The Israeli con-
Steve Gutt enburg
(Winters, 85, is reportedly
sulate said when he died:
recovering from a heart
"The State of Israel would
attack she suffered last
like to express its condolences to the
month).
family of the late Johnny Cash, a true
If this only whets your appetite, you'll be
friend of Israel. [Hej was loved by
thrilled to learn that next year another
Israelis and his music will live on in the
movie version of the tale, simply called
hearts of a grateful nation."
Poseidon, will hit movie theaters, starring
Richard Dreyfuss and Emmy Rossum

(Phantom of the Opera). The screenwriter
of this "most gritty" remake has apparently
written out (or thrown overboard) the
Belle Rosen character.

Anchors Aweigh

On Tuesday, Nov. 22, Ted Koppel, 65, will
do his final ABC Nightline newscast. His
guest will be Detroit's own Mitch Albom,
reflecting on Tuesdays With Morrie.
There's a persistent false story that
Koppel, the son of refugees from Germany,
converted to Catholicism. In his autobiog-
raphy, Koppel explains that his wife is
Catholic and for a time they attended the
Unitarian church as a compromise. Neither
found it satisfactory, he says, and he went
back to being a synagogue member and
she went to Catholic services. Their chil-
dren, Ted wrote, were exposed to both
faiths.
His daughter, Andrea Koppel, a CNN
reporter, married foreign-policy expert

November 17 2005

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