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Liar-General

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offers a chilling glimpse into his brilliant
but disturbed mind, revealing how he
Television's longest-running, most-
continually stage-managed his life and
watched history series, PBS's American
reinvented himself.
Experience, now in
In this film,
its 18th season, has
Goebbels speaks for
produced more than
himself through voice
150 programs and
over readings of his
garnered every major
personal diaries by
broadcast award.
actor Kenneth Branag h.
On Monday, May
Rare historical footage
22, from 9-10:30 p.m.,
from German archives
on Detroit Public
traces his life — from
Television-Channel
his initial attraction to
the Nazi Party and his
56, the series will
adoration of Hitler to
present The Man
Behind Hitler, a look
his own orchestrated
at the Nazi propa-
death (Goebbels had
ganda mastermind
his
six children, ages
Joseph Goebbels: Hitler's
Joseph Goebbels, who right-hand man.
5-13, put to death by
helped launch Hitler's
lethal injection before
rise to power.
being shot, on his
Called "the genius of spin" and "Reich
orders, along with his•wife just before the
Liar-General," Goebbel's name is syn-
end of World War II).
onymous with political propaganda; his
Check your local PBS TV listings.
legacy is one of maniacal cruelty. The film

Art And Nature

Former Sybaris gallery co-owner Linda
Ross hasn't retired from the art communi-
ty; she continues to mount exhibitions in
temporary spaces through-
out Metro Detroit .
Her latest venture, "From
the Ground Up: Linking Art
and Nature featuring paint-
ing, drawing, photography
and sculpture, will highlight
the work of eight emerging

and mid-career U.S. artists
who focus on the subject of

museums of natural history, studying
objects, drawings and specimens of flora
and fauna. Her ventures developed into
a series of paintings based on animals
and their representation as trophies.
The pieces in this exhibit
depict vague figures of
rabbits splayed out on a
background that references
wallpaper designs based on
drawings by 18th-century
Swedish naturalist Carolus
Linnaeus.
Katleman's large rococo-
inspired wall reliefs explore

nature — addressing diverse
motifs of opulence and
themes including environ-
excess. She incorporates
Susan Gold: Trophy
mental ethics, humankind's
themes from nature into
impact on nature, life cycles of Room Rabbi t 1, 2001, oil her ceramic pieces along
birth and death, appropriation on linen.
with lots of baroque
of nature in art and the strug-
ornamentation and kitsch
gle between the natural and the artificial.
imagery including 1950s rubber squeaky
Jewish artists in the exhibit include
toys, mermaids wielding cell phones and
former Detroiter Susan Gold and Beth
cherubs watering garlands of spiraling
Katleman.
flowers.
In the past 10 years, Gold has haunted
The show will run inside P.F. Galleries,

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Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News

No matter how popular the Poseidon
remake,
its doubtful it will achieve the
irm
cult-classic status of the original. The
New York Times recently reported, that
.13 Splish Splash
fans of the original flick are like Star
Opening last week was Poseidon, a
Trek fans in their devotion to the film
410 remake of the 1972 hit The Poseidon
and even have fan conventions.
Adventure. Like the-original,
Like with any cult, bizarre
this version is about a small
rumors swirl around. Actress
group of passengers finding
Carol Lynley, who appeared in
their own way to safety after
the original, told the Times
their ocean liner capsizes.
about an obsessed fan ask-
The remake has new char-
ing her if she had co-star. Red
acters, including Richard
Buttons' "love child:' Lynley
Emmy R OSSUM
Dreyfuss as a despon-
said "No," and the fan replied,
dent gay man and Emmy
"Are you sure?"
Rossurn as one of a pair of
By the way, Buttons, 87, doesn't go to
young lovers. (Rossum, 19, the star of the
conventions because he has unpleasant
film version of Phantom of the Opera,
memories
of being wet during most of
has a great singing voice and is now
the
film
shoot.
making her first pop album).

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May 18 • 2006

ex-husband, producer-agent Jeff Wald,
Reddy Remembers
in 1967, and that she found out — after
Helen Reddy, 64, soared to the top
her conversion — that according to
of the charts in 1972 with her feminist
Halachah (Jewish law), she was'-
anthem "I Am Woman." She
born Jewish.
followed up with a dozen
Reddy, who currently doesn't
other hit songs.
follow any organized religion,
Reddy's career cooled off in
explained that her maternal aun
the early 1980s, and she says
(her mother's sister) waited until
she is now retired from show
1983 to tell Reddy that Reddy's
biz. But the singer is currently
maternal grandmother was born
on the interview circuit, pro- Helen Re ddy
Jewish and continued to practice
moting her autobiography,
Judaism after her marriage to
The Woman I Am, and a
Reddy's Protestant grandfather.-However,
greatest hits CD.
this grandmother didn't want her non-
Reddy recently talked about her
Jewish in-laws to know she still prac-
career, her book and her curious Jewish
ticed her religion. The fact of her being
background with Premiere Radio
Jewish was a family secret of which her
Networks journalist Mike McCann.
The singer told McCann she converted grandchildren were unaware until the
aunt spilled the beans.
to Judaism after she married her now