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The Pack Is Back

Frank, Sammy, Joey and Dean are back in
Motown in The Rat Pack Is Back, open-
ing Sept. 12 for a limited run at the Gem
Theatre, 333 Madison
Ave., in Detroit.

The Rat Pack
is Back, a tribute
to Frank Sinatra,
Sammy Davis Jr., Joey
Bishop and Dean
Martin, is a theatrical
musical play based
on a night in the
Mickey Joseph
Copa Room of the
Sands Hotel in Las
Vegas, circa 1961. It is not an imperson-
ator show. Rather, actors who have studied
the performers re-create the characters as
they appeared half a century ago.
Dick Feeney and
Sandy Hackett, the
son of the late Jewish
comedian Buddy
Hackett, produce
Rat Pack. Appearing
in the Detroit cast
are Les Lankhorse
(Frank Sinatra), Kyle
Diamond (Sammy
Kyle Diamond
Davis Jr.), Mickey

Joseph (Joey Bishop)
and Bobby Mayo
Jr. (Dean Martin).
Bishop, the only surviving member of the
group, is Jewish, as was Sammy Davis Jr., a
convert to Judaism.
Performance times are 8 p.m. Tuesdays-
Wednesdays, 2 and 8 p.m. Thursdays, 8
p.m. Fridays, 3 and 8 p.m. Saturdays and
2 and 7 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $39.50-
$44.50. Specially discounted preview per-
formances benefiting area charities will be
held Sept. 12-14.
For more information and group sales
(15 or more) and friends and family dis-
counts (groups of 10-14), call
(313) 963-9800. Regular tickets
also may be purchased through
Ticketmaster, (248) 645-6666
or www.ticketmaster.com .

rather morphs into a new series, Bouskila
explains. When the newest paintings
appear significantly different from the
first few of a series, the artist renames the
series and moves on. "This approach to
making art is only a means to an end, a .
strategy that suits my temperament and
keeps the juices flowing:' says Bouskila.
"The goal for me as an artist is to make
compelling images, regardless of means,
and in spite of theories!"
There will be a meet-the-artist recep-
tion 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept.
7. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
Mondays-Thursdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturdays and 1-5 p.m. Sundays. For more
information, call (248) 581-2696.

Experimenta
Forms

The Baltimore rock band Milkshake
— whose music videos have been seen
on Noggin's Jack's Big Music Show and
Move to Music and PBS Kids' Share
the Earth Day and will be seen soon on
Discovery Kids' ToddWorld — makes its
Detroit-area debut 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept.
10, in a concert at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek, 27375 Bell Road, in Southfield.
Milkshake is fronted by vocalist Lisa
Mathews and guitarist Mikel Gehl —

Raised in London, Jewish art-
ist Martyn Bouskila moved to
Israel for three years after high
school. He returned to England
to complete his undergradu-
ate work and then was offered
a scholarship to Cranbrook

Academy of Art, where
he received a master
of fine arts degree in
1981. Now a full-time practicing artist
with a studio in Corktown, the Detroit
resident has shown in galleries through-
out the U.S. and has paintings in many
corporate and private collections. He will
exhibit his works in a one-man show at
the Woods Gallery, in the lower level of the
Huntington Woods Library, 26415 Scotia,
in Huntington Woods, through Oct. 25.
Bouskila's paintings are usually cre-
ated in series, where an idea leads to
experimentation with various materials. If
these experiments
produce forms that
are interesting and
worthy of further
investigation, a
series is under
way. In the current
series, "Postcards
From Monera,"
Bouskila utilizes the
chemical properties
of industrial paints
to create an imagi-
nary microbial
world.
A painting from Martyn
A series doesn't
Bouskila's "Postcards From
come
to an end but
Monera" series

Shake It Up!

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Nate Bloom

Special to the Jewish News

Kryptonite Caper

When the first Superman TV series
ended in 1957, the actor who played
Superman, George
Reeves, was unable
to find other work
because he was
so typecast as the
superhero.
In 1959, Reeves
was found dead of
a gunshot wound,
Adrien Brody
and his death was
officially ruled a suicide. Unproved
theories have been put forth that
Reeves was murdered and that the
killer was George's fiancee or a

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movie executive with gangland ties
who was angry because Reeves had
an affair with his wife.
These theories provide most of the
plot for the movie Hollywoodland,
which opens Friday, Sept. 8.
Adrien Brody (The Pianist) plays a
private detective who is hired to run
down the truth. The movie exec is
played by Bob Hoskins who, accord-
ing to one advance review, plays him
as a "Jewish-type" gangster (the
exec was Catholic in real life).
By the way, Brody's Hungarian-
born mother, in recent profiles, has
shed light on the family background.
Adrien's father is an American Jew,
and his maternal great-grandparents
were Hungarian Jews who died in
the Holocaust.

Brody's maternal grandfather,
a Catholic, hid Brody's Jewish
maternal grandmother during the
Holocaust.
Apparently "for safety reasons,"
Adrien's mother, who was raised
Catholic, was not told of her moth-
er's Jewish background while she
was growing up.
The final footnote is that the
actor's mother is distantly related to
actress Hedy Lamarr, whose parents
were Austro-Hungarian Jews.

Jews Pick Sides

As you've probably heard, Paul
McCartney is seeking a divorce from
Heather Mills, whom he married in
2002. Mills is reportedly seeking a
settlement that could cost the ex-

Stella McCartney

Beatle up to $360
million.
On Paul's side
is his close con-
fidant, American
lawyer John
Eastman. John
is the brother of
Paul's late wife,

Linda Eastman,

who was Jewish. Also in Paul's cor-
ner is his daughter, fashion designer
Stella McCartney, who never hid her
belief that Heather was bad news.
(Stella has called herself Jewish, but
she doesn't practice.)
Paul hired Prince Charles' former
divorce lawyer to represent him, so
Heather ran out and quickly retained
Anthony Julius, Princess Diana's