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Gail Zimmerman
Arts Editor
Sly Larry
Magidson, who also serves as director of the are $15-$28 with student rush tickets and
JCC's Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival,
group discounts available. Call (313) 577-
Larry Gelbart is a prolific comedy writer
Sly Fox is adapted from Ben Jonson's
2972 or go to www.hilberry.com .
and producer with
Volpone, or The Fox,
more than 50 years
a black comedy
of credits. He began
about a greedy
as a writer for the
swindler first pro-
Two docuinentary films of Jewish interest
Danny Thomas
duced in 1606.
come to television Monday, Feb. 6. Arna's
radio show during
Gelbart's version
Children airs 9 p.m. on the Sundance
the 1940s, and wrote
tells the story of
Channel, and Bonhoeffer broadcasts 10 p.m.
for Martin and
Foxwell J. Sly and his on many PBS stations.
Lewis and Bob
accomplice Simon
Filmmakers Juliano Mer Khamis and
Hope. On 1950s tele-
Able who set about
Danniel Danniel's Arna's Children tells the
vision, he worked
ways to rob from the story of a theater group established by Arna
for Sid Caesar on
rich to give to them- Mor Khamis in 1989 in the Palestinian
Mike Metzel as Foxwell J. Sly and Patrick
Your Show of Shows. Moltabe as Simon Able in Sly
selves.
They use
refugee camp of Jenin in the occupied West
Fox
He co-wrote the
greed to con-
Bank.
Broadway farce A
vince a trio of
Arna, a firebrand
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
fools to go to great lengths to become
from a Zionist family,
Forum in the 1960s, and co-created, pro-
what they each believe to be Sly's sole
fought with the Pal-
duced and wrote episodes of the hit TV
heir. Gelbart changed the setting from
mach as a teenager,
series M*A *S'ER in the 1970s. He went on to Renaissance Venice to 19th-century San
then joined the Com-
write the screenplay for Oh, God! and co-
Francisco and the tone from satire to
munist Party and
write the Oscar-nominated screenplay for
farce.
married a Palestinian
Tootsie in film and the book for the musical
Sly Fox plays in rotating repertory
Arab, Saliba Khamis.
City ofAngels on Broadway.
with Elko:a by Sophocles, translated by
Through her theater
Wayne State University's Hilberry Theatre Anne Carson, and Antony and
troupe, she helped the
opens Gelbart's Sly Fox 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3.
Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
children of Jenin to
A scene from Arna's
Directed by WSU.theater professor David J.
through Thursday, March 30. Tickets
express their everyday
Double Docs
Children
frustrations, anger, bitterness and fear.
Arna's son Juliano was one of the direc-
tors of Jenin's theater; with his camera, he
filmed the children during rehearsal periods
from 1989 to 1996. In 2002, he went back to
Jenin to see what has happened to them.
The film, going back and forth in time, pro-
vides much testimony about the wasted
potential of once-vibrant children.
Filmmaker Martin Doblmeier's
Bonhoeffer tells the story of a brave Catholic
theologian who stood up to the Nazis, par-
ticipated in a plot to assassinate Hitler and
was executed at age 39 shortly before the
end of the war. It is a slightly condensed ver-
sion of the film he produced in 2003 for the-
atrical release.
Check your local cable listings.
One Swell Tune
In 2000's Big Momma's House, actor Martin
Lawrence has his "largest" role ever, as an
FBI agent who is a master of disguise; to
trap a brutal bank robber, he went under-
cover as a corpulent septugenarian known
as Big Momma.
Since the opening of Big Momma's House
2 last Friday, local Jewish composer David
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fast friends when David introduces
Jordan to the bar mitzvah tradition. He
I Special to the Jewish News
is amazed by how elaborate the parties
are, especially the gift bags. Jordan has
Bernie Mac Mitzvah
a difficult decision to make when he is
The Bernie Mac Show, starring
invited to what will surely be the
African American comedian Bernie
biggest bar mitzvah of the year, but it
Mac, airs its 100th episode ("The
conflicts with David's
Bar Mitzvah Crashers") 8 p.m.
own bar mitzvah?'
Friday, Feb. 3, on FOX.
David is played by
The publicity release for the
Kyle Kaplan, 15, who
episode states: "Bernie pushes
is Jewish on his
Jordan to hang out with David, a
father's side. Kaplan
new neighbor who is Jewish, in
will also appear on
order to expand his cultural hori-
CSI: Miami on Feb. 6.
zons. Jordan thinks the kid is a
(The Emmy-winning
total nerd ... but the two become
Bernie
Mac Show is
Kyle Kaplan
appropriate for all ages).
Nate Bloom
February 2 * 2006
For the Record
The Grammy Awards will be broad-
cast 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, on CBS.
For whatever reason, it's a very weak
year for Jewish nominees, especially in
the glamour categories that actually
get presented on TV. I know of only
two Jewish performers in the "TV-wor-
thy" Grammys: Adam Levine, the
lead singer of Maroon 5 (for Best Pop
Performance) and Brad Wilk, the
drummer for the rock band Audioslave
(for Best Hard Rock Performance).
An incomplete list of other
Grammy-nominated Hebrews includes
Rick Moranis
and Lewis Black
(Best Comedy Album); composer Burt
Bacharach (Best Pop Instrumental-
Pop Album); saxophonist Joshua
Redman (Best Contemporary Jazz
Album); classical conductors Leon
Botstein and Leonard Slatkin; and
classical composer
Osvaldo Golijov, an
Argentine landsman.
Slatkin is double-
nominated for Best
Classic Album and
Best Classical Choral
Album, for William
Bolcom: Songs of
Innocence and
Adam Levine