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Iconic Images

In 1965, English-born photographer
Barrie Wentzell had a chance encounter
with the young Diana Ross and made a
riveting image of the relatively unknown
future superstar that landed on the front
cover of Melody Maker, the seminal
British music publication famously edited
by Ray Coleman. .
Wentzell was soon signed on as chief
photographer for the paper. From 1965-
1975, he photographed some of the most
famous music icons of the time, includ-
ing Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Bob
Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Pete
Townshend, Jimmy Page, the Doors, Aretha
Franklin, Louis Armstrong, Little Richard,
the Kinks, the Rolling Stones and Johnny
Cash.
To capture the essence of a person,
Wentzell — who names Jewish photog-
rapher Robert Capa as one of his biggest

influences — often would position himself on his work.
just 2 feet away from his subject. Back
The Art Gallery of Windsor presents
then, "we had an intimacy with the musi-
"Pictures in Music, 1965-1975," an exhibi-
cians and the
tion and sale of
artists:' he said in
photographs by
a recent interview.
Barrie Wentzell,
"It was great. It's
from June 16-July
the look in the
16 in the Betty F.
eye. It's the per-
Wilkinson Room
son. It was the real
at the gallery.
thing."
Signed, numbered
Now living in
silver gelatin and
Toronto, Wentzell
giclee prints of
continues to
images will be
contribute his
available for pur-
work to exhibi-
chase or corporate
tions, museums,
rental. There will
private collec-
be an opening
tions, books and
reception with the
Barrie Wentzell: Bob Dylan, BBC TV Studio
CDs worldwide,
artist 7-10 p.m.
Canteen, 1965.
while licensing
Friday, June 16,
reproductions of
with entertain-
his older images. He is working on a book
ment, refreshments and a cash bar.
of his own to coincide with a documentary
The museum is located at 401 Riverside

Drive West in Windsor; admission is $3.
For more information, call (519) 977-0013.
It's a different kind of Bruce Springsteen
concert — think gospel, folk and blues
— 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 17, when
the musical rocker tours to DTE Energy
Music Theatre with the Seeger Sessions
Band in support of his new CD, We Shall
Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. The
album includes Springsteen's personal
interpretations of 13 traditional songs
associated with Pete Seeger, the guiding
light of American folk music.
Springsteen describes the music like this
on an album note: "It was a carnival ride,
the sound of surprise and the pure joy of
playing. Street corner music, tavern music,
wilderness music, circus music, church
music, gutter music, it was all there waiting
in those old songs, some more than 100
years old."
In addition to Springsteen on vocals,
guitar and harmonica, the 17-member
Seeger Sessions Band features, among oth-

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Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News

[Hazel Toy
As this column went to press, Jewish actor-

musician Jack Black and his Jewish wife,
artist-anima-
tor-cellist-singer
Tanya Haden,
were expecting the
imminent arrival of
a baby boy.
Meanwhile,
Black's film, Nacho
Tanya Haden and
Libre, about a
Jack Black
half-Mexican monk
who wrestles professionally to earn money for
orphans, opens Friday, June 16.

Calamity's Jewish

The HBO series Deadwood began its third
season on June 11. Sadly, the high cost of mak-

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ing this great Western led the cable network
to decide it will be the show's last. However,
Deadwood creator David Mulch was just
given the green light to make two two-hour
special movies that will resolve the Deadwood
saga. The airdates of those movies are not yet
set.
Deadwood actress Robin Weigert, 36,
who received a 2004 Emmy nomination for
playing Calamity Jane on the series, could
hardly be more different from the real-life
Calamity Jane, who has been described as
"an unattractive drunk." Out of Calamity Jane
makeup, Weigert is an attractive woman who
has had a stellar stage career on Broadway
and in leading regional theaters.
She grew up in Washington, D.C., the daugh-
ter of a very talented concert pianist mother
and a psychiatrist father.
In a telephone interview, Weigert said her
parents were secular, but they do celebrate
some Jewish holidays with the more religious

members of their extended family. Weigert got
a further dose of Jewishness when she went
to Brandeis University for her undergraduate
education.
She may not have had a religious education, -
but Weigert spoke intelligently on a variety
of Jewish-related topics — from the length of
the Haggadah to the difficulty of finding an
English-language religious service that has the
power of a Hebrew one.
After Brandeis, Weigert earned a graduate
degree in acting and, as she put it, entered
into the "uncertain life" of a working actor.
Deadwood has given Weigert national atten-
tion, but she is concerned that casting direc-
tors might not realize what a very versatile
actress lies under the Calamity Jane getup,
she said.
Weigert will appear as a German strip-
per with an anti-Semitic streak in The Good
German, a movie that comes out in December.
The thriller, set in post-war Berlin, stars

George Clooney. Weigert said she agreed to
play a stripper, in part,
because the character
is so different from her
Calamity Jane image.
The actress does fit
the Western stereotype
in one way — she is a
crack poker player. She
Robin Weigert
has won some competi-
tions and just finished 12th out of 200 players
at the 2006 Deadwood, S.D., poker tourna-
ment.

Buff Jew

The Peaceful Warrior, a film that opened earlier
this month in select cities (no Detroit date is
set) didn't get very good reviews, and you may
have to wait for the DVD to see it. But the flick
does have a couple of things to recommend it.
Warrior marks the first starring role for
hunky Jewish actor Scott Mechlowicz,

