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Gass starred
in a self-titled
HBO televi-
sion series,
takes the
stage 8 p.m.
Saturday, Nov.
25, with a stop
at Detroit's
Masonic
Temple
Tenacious D: Gass
Theatre.
and Black
Black and
Gass will
be debuting songs from their new,
recently released album, Tenacious
D: The Pick of Destiny. The tour will
feature a Tenacious backing band that
includes John Konesky (electric gui-
tar), John Spiker (bass) and Brookes
Wackerman (drums).
In the fictional film of the same
name, which arrived in theaters yes-
terday, naive Midwesterner JB (Black)
bonds with local slacker KG (Gass),

who form Tenacious D and set out to
steal what could be the answer to their
prayers and a shot at becoming "the
Greatest Band on Earth" — a magical
guitar pick housed in a rock 'n' roll
museum some 300 miles away.
The 37-year-old Black — whose
acting career exploded with films like
High Fidelity, Shallow Hal, School
of Rock and King Kong — was born
to a Jewish mother (Judith Cohen) and
a father (Tom Black) who converted to
Judaism before their marriage. They
divorced when Jack was 10 and are •
both retired satellite engineers.
Jack was a bar mitzvah at age 13;
he eloped earlier this year with Jewish
artist-cellist Tanya Haden, and the
couple have a son, Samuel Jason, who
was born in June.
Tickets to the.Nov. 25 concert are
$38 and $46.50: (248) 645-6666,
OlympiaEntertainment.com or
Ticketmaster.com. For additional
information, call (313) 471-6611.1

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become the best rock 'n' roll band
in the world (see Out & About
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of the woman he loves (Oscar-win-
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His English paternal grandfather,
who wasn't Jewish, was a doctor
and a Labour Party Member of
Parliament. In
1950, he was
given a heredi-
tary baron title,
the title that
Christopher
inherited in
1996.
Additional
research by
Christopher
this columnist
Guest and Jamie
reveals that
Lee Curtis
Guest's pater-
nal grandmother, Muriel Carmel
Goldsmid, was a bohemian leftist
who came from a famous English
- Jewish family (an ancestor was
the first practicing Jew to be
given a British noble title). Muriel's
father, Col. Albert Goldsmid, was
a friend of Theodore Herzl and a
very important early supporter of
Zionism.
Guest and actress Jamie Lee
Curtis have been married since
1984 and have two children. Jamie,
the daughter of actor Tony Curtis,
usually refers to herself simply as
"Jewish" (even though her mother,
Janet Leigh, wasn't Jewish) and
says that her family celebrates
Chanukah.
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