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o local personality can dish first-
hand dirt on Hollywood and its
celebrities better than Sandy
Schreier, author of Hollywood Dressed and
Undressed and Hollywood Gets Married
(she's currently working on Desperately
Seeking Fashion and Hollywood's Having
a Baby). The nationally known fashion col-
lector-historian and Hollywood maven will
speak on celebrities and movies with Jewish
connections 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield
at the National Council of Jewish Women's
Opening Meeting, which kicks off with
boutique shopping at 9:30 a.m. and follows
Schreier's talk with lunch at 12:30 p.m. Tickets
are $45. Call (248) 355-3300, Ext. 0.
More celebrity watching can be yours that
same evening, as cable station TCM premieres
a new episode of the old Dick Cavett Show,
featuring special guest Mel Brooks, 8 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 7. The last time Cavett inter-
viewed Brooks on his legendary interview
show was in 1972. Filmed in front of a live
audience on a contemporized version of the
original set from the '70s, Cavett gets Brooks
to discuss his childhood, Sid Caesar, therapy
and his films, among other topics. The show
is a kickoff to TCM's airing of eight memo-
rable classic episodes of the Dick Cavett
Show, each with a celebrated figure of the
silver screen, followed by movies from the
interviewed guest. Woody Allen is featured
beginning 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, and
Groucho Marx is heard 8 p.m. Thursday,
Oct. 12. For more information, check your local
cable listings or go to wwwtcm.com.
And for the rise of another Jewish star, com-
poser-conductor Leonard Bernstein, be
sure to catch Leonard Bernstein: Reaching
for the Note, a film recounting how the
famed musician rocketed to fame while
bringing classical music to the masses. Part
of PBS's American Masters series, it airs
9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, on PBS stations
nationwide (check your local listings). Also in
the series is a profile of famed Jewish architect
Frank Gehry; American Masters broad-
casts the recent theatrical release Sketches of
Frank Gehry 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27.
Finally, if you're seeking a respite from
all the images of war your children see on
television these days, have them turn to the
Sundance Channel at 9 p.m. Monday, Sept. 4,
when it premieres Eyal Avneri's one-hour
documentary Little Peace of Mine. It follows
Nadiv, a 13-year-old Israeli boy, who is on a
personal journey to build a youth movement
for peace.

Vince Paul: "Rabbi [Sherwin] Wine had a profound effect on my life. He
encouraged me in what I wanted to do."

Music Hall Mogul from page 49

Rosh Hashanah and Passover with
relatives.
"My father, Charles Paul, is past
entire college career, and I was able
president of the Birmingham Temple,
to earn money at the performing arts
where I studied from the time I was 9
center all four years that I was there."
years old until I graduated from high
Those experiences, joined with
school," explains Paul, who has toured
experiences gained during summer
the production Martha @... to Israel.
residencies with the Joffrey Ballet
"Rabbi [Sherwin] Wine had a pro-
appearing in Grand Rapids, led to
found
effect on my life. He encouraged
Paul's getting a job as an assistant
stage manager with the Joffrey in New me in what I wanted to do."
Paul, who is getting ready to
York City, and helped getting work
announce
the new Music Hall season,
with other troupes as well.
has
many
goals.
"I graduated from stage manage-
"We are going to make Music Hall
ment to company management to tour
the
theater of the people, a unique
management to executive manage-
jewel in the downtown theater dis-
ment to general management," recalls
trict," he says. "Over the years, I've rep-
Paul, who worked some Broadway
resented many of the most prestigious
shows and some dance shows. "When
I worked on tours, I would look for the and exciting stage productions from
around the world, and we're going to
next tour as soon as one would finish.
bring that kind of performance excel-
In 1994, I opened my own agency."
Paul's wife, Meg, was a dancer for the lence to the people of Metropolitan
Detroit on a regular basis at affordable
Joffrey and recently was dance captain
prices."
for the show Movin' Out. She put
together the cast that came to Detroit.
Etta James performs 8 p.m.
The Pauls, who have two sons, have
Saturday, Sept. 30, at the
found a home in Grosse Pointe Park.
Music Hall in Detroit. $45.50-
During previous years, the family
$65.50. (313) 887-8500.
visited the area regularly to celebrate