Arts & Entertainment
About
The White Stripes,
New York City, 2003.
Amazing Images
Famed portrait photographer Annie
Leibovitz has photographed an entire
galaxy — from rock singers, writers and
politicians to artists, actors and athletes.
Her latest conquest: Baby Suri, the "reclu-
sive" offspring of Tom Cruise and Katie
Holmes, whom she recently photographed
for Vanity Fair.
Coming to the Detroit Institute of Arts
Sept. 24-Jan. 7 is the traveling exhibit.
"American Music:' in which Leibowitz,
who is Jewish, focuses her gaze on the
landscape of American music. The exhibit
includes more than 70 photographs
arranged by musical genre — folk, blues,
Most of her subjects
are uncomfortable being
Gail Zimmerman
photographed, Leibovitz
Arts Editor
explains in the book
that accompanies the
exhibit. So in many of
country and west-
the images, they look away from the cam-
ern, jazz, gospel,
era, lost in thought or in their music. (In
rhythm and blues,
October, Random House will publish A
rock, hip-hop and
Photographer's Life: 1990-2005, Leibovitz's
rap. Represented
presentation of more than 300 photographs
are musical icons
from her work of the last 15 years.)
like Pete Seeger and
Leibovitz, 56, currently a contributing
Bruce Springsteen
photographer to the New Yorkel; Vanity
and contemporary artists like Dr. Dre and
Fair and Vogue, got her start at Rolling
the Dixie Chicks.
Stone magazine in 1970. One of six chil-
A gallery of Detroit musicians fea-
dren, she studied painting at the San
tures Aretha Franklin (looking out from
Francisco Art Institute. A night course
the sumptuous surroundings of her
in photography hooked her on a new
Bloomfield Hills home), Iggy Pop, Patti
medium.
Smith and the White Stripes.
In 1969, she lived in Israel for a semes-
Jewish musicians represented include
ter as part of a work-study program in
Bob Dylan, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Lou
which she worked on a kibbutz and par-
Reed, Beck and Chris Stein (with Deborah ticipated in an archeological dig at King
Harry). There also is a shot of famed
Solomon's Temple. Her then-boyfriend
music producer Rick Rubin and another
gave her a subscription to Rolling Stone.
of New. Orleans' Preservation Hall. The
When she approached the magazine with
former art gallery was transformed by
her portfolio, she included a photograph
Jewish jazz lovers Sandra and Alan Jaffe
of ladders at Kibbutz Emir.
into a site where the Preservation Hall
Museum hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Jazz Band has its roots.
Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m.-
9 p.m. Fridays, and 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays. Adult tickets for
the exhibit are $10 and for youth, ages 6-
17, $5. Children ages 5 and under and DIA
members are free. Tickets cover museum
admission and exhibition audio tour and
are available at the DIA box office, (866)
342-8497, or online at www.dia.org. A
$3.50 handling charge applies to tickets
ordered online. For membership informa-
tion, call (313) 833-7971.
At 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15, Tim Hossler,
former in-house art director for Annie
Leibovitz, presents a tour through the
work of the Leibovitz Studio during his
more than five years there. In addition to
providing an inside look at the creation of
the photos in the "American Music" exhi-
bition, he will discuss Leibovitz's editorial
and advertising work.
Balletic Count
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, founded in
1939, is not only Canada's premier ballet
company but also the longest continu-
ously operating ballet company in North
America. Next week at the Detroit Opera
House, its dancers bring to life the legend
of Dracula, the vampire immortalized in
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Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News
NFL Hebrews
Here is this year's Jews in the NFL run-
down, prepared with the help of Jewish
Sports Review newsletter.
Sal to say, four
Jewish rookie play-
ers who signed as
NFL free agents
didn't make the
final cuts, including
former University
of Wisconsin star
Matt Bernstein,
Igor Olshansky
who was cut by the
Lions. Also cut was former Dolphins and
Jets quarterback Jay Fiedler. He was
signed by Tampa Bay in February but let
go before this season began.
The returning Jewish players include
Igor Olshansky, 24, a starting defen-
sive end with the San Diego Chargers.
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September 21 - 2006
Igor, a practicing Jew, went to a Jewish
day school and recently married his
Jewish high-school sweetheart. He has
very little fat on a 6-foot-6-inch, 300-
pound body, and you would not believe
the weight he can bench press.
Mike Rosenthal, 30, an offensive
tackle for the Minnesota Vikings and
an eight-year veteran, has been battling
injuries and he's not expected to start
many games. Josh Miller, 36, the start-
ing punter for New England, is corn-
ing off a good year in which he played
in every game. Miller often speaks to
Jewish groups.
Lennie Friedman, 30, is a reserve
offensive guard for Cleveland who has
been with Denver, Washington and
Chicago. In August, the Browns acquired
him from the Bears for a draft pick.
Mike Seidman, 25, a reserve tight end
who is in his fourth year with Carolina,
is coming off an injury-plagued 2005
season. Sage Rosenfels, 28, a backup
quarterback who joined Houston last
March, did so well in 2006 pre-season
games that he may get a start at some
point.
TV Premieres
Premiering 10 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24,
the ABC series Brothers and Sisters
is a complex family drama with a great
cast that includes
Sally Field as the
family matriarch,
Calista Flockhart
and Rachel Griffiths
as Field's daughters
and Ron Rifkin
(Alias) as Field's
brother.
David Julian
The show's cre-
Hirsh
ator is well-known
Broadway playwright Jon Robin Baitz,
whose works include The Substance
of Fire, a play about a Jewish family
that was made into a 1996 film starring
Rifkin and Sarah Jessica Parker.
The NBC show Heroes, debuting 9
p.m. Monday, Sept. 25, is about a group
of ordinary people who wake up to
discover they have different, incredible
powers. Greg Grunberg, 40, who co-
starred with Rifkin in TV's Alias, plays
a police officer who gains the ability to
hear the thoughts of others.
Love Bites is being called the
first "micro-series" on American TV
because its episodes are just 2 minutes
long. Love premiered Sept. 13 on cable
channel TBS.
The show follows the romance of Max
and Katie, a witty young couple. Playing
Max is handsome Jewish actor David
Julian Hirsh, who has done a lot of
TV work and co-starred as a Jewish
character in the Showtime TV series
Leap Years. (Hirsh, who was born in
Montreal, stars in a four-part CBC dra-
matization of St. Urbain's Horseman,
Mordecai Richler's novel'about
Montreal Jews; it will air in 2007.)
Produced by American come-
dian Paul Reiser, Bites is based on