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About

I've Got It

constant tour-
ing and critically
Jewish vocalist, guitarist and songwriter
acclaimed albums
Ira Kaplan co-founded indie rock band Yo
like Painful (1993),
La Tengo with his wife, vocalist, drummer, Electr-O-Pura (1995)
songwriter Georgia Hubley, in the early
and I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
1980s. The Sarah Lawrence College gradu- (1997), all of which signaled the band's
multi-faceted style that
ate previously worked
includes folk, pop, punk
as a music critic and
rock
and electronica. And
soundman, roadie and
Jo'
A--
Then Nothing Turned Itself
backup musician for
11.
Inside-Out came out in 2000,
New York-area bands
followed by Summer Sun in
and is a huge New York
2003. Yo La Tengo provided
Mets fan. He named
the soundtrack for the 2005
the group Yo La Tengo
indie film Junehug and in
(Spanish for "I've got
March 2005 released a two-
it") to reference a player
disc greatest hits package,
calling for a catch in
Prisoners of Love.
baseball.
In 2006, the trio put out
Band mates of the
Hoboken-based group
Yo La Tengo Is Murdering
the Classics, a compilation
came and went until
Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley
album
of the band's perfor-
1992, when bassist
and James McNew of
mances of cover-song mara-
James McNew joined. A Yo La Tengo
thons held every year to
growing cult following
raise money for a New Jersey
was the result of almost

radio station. On Sept.
12, I A711 Not Afraid of
You-and I Will Beat Your
Ass was released on
Matador. Its 13 songs
— which Entertainment Weekly dubbed
"shaggy, dreamy, cuddly, explosive indie
rock" — are sandwiched between two 10-
minute-plus jams.
If you want to hear the music in person,
head over to the Michigan Theater in Ann
Arbor, where Yo La Tengo takes the stage
on Wednesday, Oct. 4. Doors are at 6:30
p.m., and the show starts at 7 p.m. $20.
(248) 645-6666.

Changing Gears

Violist Lawrence Dutton is taking a four-
month leave of.absence from the Emerson
String Quartet to undergo rotator cuff
surgery, providing the opportunity to hear
other members of the quartet in smaller
chamber-music repertoire.
At 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29, in a University

Musical Society program at Rackham
Auditorium in Ann Arbor, violinist
Eugene Drucker will take up the viola for
Mozart's Divertimento for String Trio in
E-flat Major and Brahms' Piano Quartet
No 1 in g minor. Another Jewish member
of the quartet, violinist Philip Setzer, also
will perform, as will the quartet's cellist,
David Finckel.
Joining the trio on piano during the
second half of the concert is pianist Wu
Han, who is married to Finckel. She serves
with her husband as artistic director of
the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center.
Drucker's violinist father escaped from
Germany in 1938 with two brothers and
went on to play in the Busch Quartet and
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Setzer,
whose parents played in the Cleveland
Orchestra, has been a regular faculty
member of the Isaac Stern Chamber
Music Workshops at Carnegie Hall and the
Jerusalem Music Center.
Drucker and Setzer, who usually alter-
nate in the quartet's first violin chair, first

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come from very
distinguished
British Jewish
families, and she
is married to

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Special to the Jewish News

TV Premieres

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Jewish comedians David Cross
(Arrested Development) and H. Jon
Benjamin created the new Comedy
Central animated series Freak Show
and provide a lot of the voices for it.
The show is about a group of freak-
show performers who work after
hours for the government. It debuts
10:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4.
Cooking
expert Nigella
Lawson, often
listed among
the most beauti-
ful women in
Britain, begins
David Cross
a new 13-part
series on the
Food Network called Nigella Feasts.
Look for it beginning 1 p.m. Sunday,
Oct. 1.
Lawson's mother and father both

September 28

2006

Charles Saatchi,

a famous adver-
tising executive
and art collector
who is of Iraqi Jewish background.
Her father, Nigel Lawson, a former
chancellor of the exchequer (equiva-
lent to secretary of the treasury)
under Margaret Thatcher, was
granted a noble title after retiring
from politics. He's now – no kidding
– Baron Lawson of Blaby.
No, he didn't get the title "Blaby"
because he was a politician. It is the
name of an English town he used to
represent in the British parliament.

Nigella Lawson

Inside Studio 60

The premiere episode of NBC's Studio
60 on the Sunset Strip wowed critics
and audiences. This insider look at

a fictional comedy sketch show will
be a ratings and award powerhouse
if creator Aaron Sorkin can keep the
quality up.
Studio 60 clearly tracks many
events in Sorkin's life and TV career.
So, I thought, why not provide a real
insider rundown on the Jews fiction-
alized in Studio?
The director, played by Bradley
Whitford (Danny Tripp), and writer,
played by Matthew Perry (Matt
Albie), are modeled after Sorkin.
Albie is Jewish
like Sorkin, and
Tripp, like Sorkin,
has a problem
staying off
cocaine.
Like Sorkin,
Albie is a political-
ly liberal Jew who
Jamie Tarses
dislikes Christian
right-wingers. In the premiere show,
Albie and the very talented Studio
60 performer Harriet Hayes, played

by Sarah Paulson, re-hashed the rea-
sons why their romance ended. He
said they broke up because Hayes,
a religious Christian, promoted her
Christian music CD by going on a talk
show hosted by Christian conserva-
tive Pat Robertson. Hayes replied
that she is much more liberal than
Robertson but wanted to reach his
audience.
The Hayes character is almost
certainly based on Broadway sing-
ing star Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked),
who dated Sorkin a few years back.
She defines herself as a "liberal
Christian" and once appeared on
Robertson's show to promote her
Christian music CD. By the way, all
the guys Chenoweth has been linked
to are Jewish: Sorkin, Broadway star
Marc Kudisch and violinist Joshua
Bell. So, it is no surprise Chenoweth
recently signed a major newspaper
ad supporting Israel.
The network president, played by
Amanda Peet, Sorkin told the press