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Jewish Rockers

Get ready to party at Metro Detroit's out-
door and indoor music arenas this week as
several rock bands (with at least one Jewish
member) con-
verge on the city.
First up is
Adam Duritz,
Jewish lead vocal-
ist of the pop-rock
Counting Crowes,
performing 7:30
p.m. Friday, July
21, at DTE Energy
Adam Duritz
Music Theatre
with the Goo Goo
Dolls. Tickets are $67.50 and $49.50 pavil-
ion and $27.50 lawn.
Dan Estrin is the Jewish guitarist of
Grammy-nominated Hoobastank, who
opens, with Three Days Grace and Hinder,
for Nickelback 7 p.m. Saturday, July 22,

at Joe Louis
Arena. Tickets
are $39.50 and
$47.50. Earlier
in the day, at 2
p.m., Hoobastank
offers an in-store
performance and
CD signing at
Dan Estrin
Borders, 612 E.
Liberty, in Ann
Arbor. (734) 668-
7652.
In 1984, broth-
ers Chris and
Rich Robinson,
whose father is
Jewish, formed
the jam band
Black Crowes in
Chris and Rich
Georgia.
The band
Robinson
went on hiatus
in 2002, as Chris pursued a solo career

Adam Gardner, Brian Rosenworcel and

during college and then traveled around
the country as the opener for many a group
— headlines a concert 7 p.m. Wednesday,
July 26, at Meadow Brook Music Festival.
Ray Lamontagne and Fruit Bats open the
show. Tickets are $32 pavilion only.
All tickets are available through
Ticketmaster, (248) 645-6666 or www.tick-
etmaster.corn.

Ryan Miller

— he is married to Jewish actress Kate
Hudson, daughter of Goldie Hawn. Now
reunited, the group takes the stage 6:30
p.m. Wednesday, July 26, at DTE Energy
Music Theatre. Tickets are $45 pavilion and
$23 lawn.
Finally, the all-Jewish boys band Guster
— whose members, Ryan Miller (guitar,
vocals), Adam Gardner (guitar, vocals)
and Brian Rosenworcel (percussion) got
together while they were students at Tufts
University, played around the Boston area

Sexual Healing

A new reality documentary series
from Joe and Harry Gantz, the Emmy
Award-winning creators of Taxicab
Confessions, debuts 10 p.m. Friday, July
21, on Showtime. Sexual Healing features
Chicago-area Jewish sex educator and
therapist Dr. Laura Berman and chronicles
the experiences of real-life couples as they
immerse themselves in an intensive, week-
long relationship workshop led by Berman,

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Special to the Jewish News

Bon Chance

means, was targeted because his kid-
nappers assumed all Jews are rich.

Bikini's Back Story

The Miss Universe Pageant, backed by This summer marks the 50th anni-
versary of the bikini. In June 1946,
(10 Donald Trump, has soared in popular-
French Jewish fashion designer
ity. Eighty-six contestants will be in
Jacques
Heim (1899-1967) introduced
W Los Angeles for the 2006 pageant,
what
he
called
"the Atome" - "the
which NBC will telecast live at 9 p.m.
world's
smallest bathing suit."
Sunday, July 23.
On
July
5,1946, Louis
Last December, Alexandra
Reard,
a
French
engineer, had
Rosenfeld, a 20-year-old
a
Paris
stripper
pose
before
blond beauty, was selected by
reporters
in
a
very
similar
a vote of TV viewers
suit. Reard called his suit "the
to represent France
bikini," and the name caught
at the Miss Universe
Rudi Ge rnreich on. (Historians give equal
Pageant.
credit to both men for invent-
In February 2006,
ing
the
bikini.)
Rosenfeld was one of many
In the 1920s and '30s, Heim was
French Jewish celebrities
Alexandra
an
innovator who brought Art Deco
and some 200,000 "regu-
Rosenfeld
and
Cubist motifs to fashion. He was
lar" people - who marched in
harassed
during the Nazi occupation
Paris to protest the kidnapping and
of the early 1940s but managed by
killing of Ilan Halimi, a young French
putting a non-Jewish front man in
Jew. Halimi, a person of very modest

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July 20 2006

9 p.m. Wednesday, July 26. Written by
charge of his fashion house.
Marvel Comics Jewish founder Stan
In 1956, Heim made the bikini an
Lee, Lightspeed is yet another tale
international sensation when Brigitte
about a young man discovering he
Bardot wore one of his designs.
has superpowers.
(Heim's grandson, also named
Director Ivan Reitman
Jacques Heim, is the director of the
(Ghostbusters) tries a
Diavolo Dance Theater, a well-
comic twist on the hid-
known Los Angeles company.)
den superpowers theme
In 1964, designer Rudi
in his new movie, My
Gernreich (1922-1985), an
Super Ex-Girlfriend,
Austrian Jewish refugee who
which opens Friday, July
settled in America, introduced
21. Luke Wilson plays a
the shocking "monokini" (bottom
Iva n Reitman
guy who tries to break
only). Geinreich was joking around
up with his girlfriend (Uma Thurman),
when he created his topless bathing
only to discover she has superpowers
suit and never intended to make more
and intends to use them to make his
than a few, but the press turned the
life miserable.
monokini into a big story.
In 1971, Gernreich invented "the
thong" - for use as both underwear
Go Blueburger
and a bikini swimsuit bottom.
It's not quite the hunt for an actress

Sci Fi Premieres

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The Sci-Fi Channel premieres the
original movie Stan Lee's Lightspeed

to play Scarlett O'Hara, but thou-
sands of Australian teens recently
auditioned for the role of a 13-year-
old Jewish girl in the Disney-backed