"Bring Him Home." It is no won-
Venom"; The World According to
der the show's producers chose
Me, the soundtrack of comedian
Keith to take the lead role for
Jackie Mason's first one-man
the long-running musical's final
Broadway show of 20 years ago;
Broadway performances.
and Connie Francis Sings Jewish
You can take Keith's "Bring Him
Favorites, first released 45 years
HOme" home with you on Keith's
ago and to this day one of the
first CD, Life Has Been Good to
biggest-selling records of Jewish
Me, a compilation of songs the
music ever.
actor-singer
On his landmark comedy album,
has sung dur-
long out of print, Rickles, in a press
ing his career
conference format, insults everyone •
on the musical
and everything from Dean Martin and
stage, as well
Frank Sinatra to Notre Dame football
as numbers
and then-President Richard Nixon.
he has always
Mason won a Tony Award for his 1986
wanted to per-
one-man show, which resuscitated his
form.
career; he blends his unique observa-
The CD's 13
tions on life with Jewish humor and
tracks include
insightful political satire. Francis, who
Randal Keith
is not Jewish, went to speak to the rabbi "Music of the
Night" from
across the street to find out which
Phantom of the Opera — Keith
songs were the most popular Jewish
favorites for this album; she sings some played the Phantom, Raoul and
Monsieur Andre during the six
in Yiddish and includes "My Yiddishe
years he toured with that corn-
Momme" and "0 Mein Papa."
. pany; "Where I Want To Be" from
The CDs are $12.98 each. For
Chess; and "I Need to Know" from
more information, go to
Jekyll and Hyde.
www.jewishmusicgroup.com .
It is available in the Fisher
In the current national touring
Theatre lobby during the show's
version of Les Miserables, now at
run, towerrecords.com or on
Detroit's Fisher Theatre through
Keith's Web site,
April 23, Randal Keith, as Jean
www.randal-keith.com. ❑
Valjean, brings the house down
with his tremendous rendition of

animated show in which the title
character was Jewish.
Over on the Cartoon Network,
you'll find the new animated series
Minoritearn, about racism-fight-
ing superheroes from five minority
groups. It's shown as part of the
network's "Adult Swim" bloc of car-
toons; for scheduled showings, go to
schedule.cartoonnetwork.com . -
One of the superheroes is
"JeNvcano," who is described as "pos-
sessing the power of the Jewish faith
combined with a raging volcano."
Come to think of it, Jewcano
sounds a lot like Moses to me.

.

Recent
Premieres

Joseph Gordon-
Levitt, 25, is still best -
known as the cute
Tommy Solomon on
the hit TV sitcom
3rd Rock from the
Sun. He stars in the
film Brick, scheduled
to open Friday, April

21, at the Main Art -
Theatre in Royal.
Oak.
Brick is sort of
a teenage film noir
set in a - high school.
.Gordon-Levitt
plays a student who
Josh Peck
becomeS involved
in an underground
crime ring when he
investigates the murder of the girl he
loves.
Finally, racking up huge box office
this month is the animated flick Ice
Age- 2: The Meltdown. Jewish actor
Josh Peck, 20, has a major
supporting role as the voice
of-Eddy, an opossum.
Peck has been acting
since he was 8. His credits
include several childten's
movies. His single Jewish
mother and maternal
grandmother raised the
young actor in a tough area
Of New York City. -1

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Maggie & Ron Asmar,
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