Arts & Entertainment THE BEST OF EVERYTHING Here's The Skinny Frizzy-dizzy blonde Marilyn Ray has a face fit for a mug. p OTPOURRI She'll have one of the 400 booths (#1120) at the Michigan International Women's Show, May 3-6, at Rock Financial Showplace, Novi, that is expected to attract more than 10,000 gals. But Marilyn Tringali was only 14 years old when it really all started for her ... A girlfriend's sister was getting married, and, while at the friend's home when arrangements were being made, Marilyn asked the party planner if she could make a suggestion ... The planner not only took her idea, but charged the bride-to-be's father for it! Marilyn didn't know then, but that was to be the entree into her own business world ... After years of making money for others as an optician setting records with eyeglass sales, she formed her own company. As that 14-year-old, Marilyn Bogues started drawing the cartoon of a skinny blonde who eventually became her trade- mark ... The Marilyn Ray Design Co. now has a line of greeting cards, nightshirts, beach cover-ups, mugs, coasters, tote bags, etc. She'll make her own display for the Women's Expo and have three gals plus herself dressed like cartoony Marilyn Ray, wearing the shirts and blond curly wigs ... To view the things she sells and see what the Marilyn Ray cartoon looks like, visit marilynraydesigns.com ... Yes, she is the same fun-loving Marilyn married to swell guy localite Bob Tringali. ENDING IS SATURDAY, March 31, for the Caribbean Foods Festival at Bill Kruse's Kruse & Muer Restaurants ... Delicious Las Vegas today is much specialties like Bahamian Conch more than just world-class Chowder, Bahamian Mahi-Mahi, entertainment or gambling Island Seafood Pasta, etc. ... It is also one of the world's CLOSING OF ROMANTICA greatest dining spots ... is restaurant number four shut- Reason is that many of the tered at the Applegate Square chefs are formally trained in location in Southfield ... It fol- culinary arts, either in Europe lows A La Cart, Bernardi's and or in some of America's finest Le Metro. Danny Raskin restaurants. HIS LITTLE delicatessen's Senior Columnist And there's more to din- name, New Deli on Middlebelt, ing in Las Vegas than haute east of Northwestern Highway, cuisine ... Price and choice are two of the Farmington Hills, may sound like the more appealing things about eating in city in India (New Delhi), but owner Tom Vegas ... Because there are so many fine Piasek is from Poland ... New Deli joins restaurants competing against each other, a other delicatessens through the years with fun names ... (Pic-A-Dilly, Hello Deli, Dilly first-class meal is a lot of times less expen- sive than in most major cities. Deli, Deli Rama, Delicate-Essen, etc). AS FAR AS anyone knows, the annual JAZZ BUFFS AND pop music lovers fundraiser by American Lung Foundation, can't ever get enough of Johnny Trudell, Michigan Chapter, is the only one of its who will be featured with his I8-piece kind anywhere ... The Third Annual band and great trumpet every Thursday Flavors of Michigan, Monday, June 11, night through April ... It'll be onstage at at Ritz-Carlton, Dearborn, will have 25 Seldom Blues, the fine dining restaurant chefs (the limit) donating their time, and jazz club in Detroit's Renaissance talents and food, with all using personal Center ... Johnny and his gang also do gas burners to cook five-course dinners their gig on Tuesday evenings at Andiamo behind half-moon tables of 10-12 per- Celebrity Showroom, Warren. sons each ... The Ritz charges American THIS IS THE second time one of that Lung a very nominal fee for two rooms city's cab drivers bemoaned its popula- used (one for cocktails and gourmet hors tion growth ... He came to Las Vegas d'oeuvres by the chefs) and provides a more than 20 years ago, didn't make a lot server at no charge for each table ... The of money but it was a good-paced place chefs like to bring their own servers, too for his family ... The house he bought is ... The committee of chairgal Suzanne worth "a ton of money" now but he says he Gilson, Peggy Goldberg, Janet Stein, Linda rarely gets to see his wife and children ... Carver, Arlene Helms, Bonnie Moonka "I'm too busy, can't enjoy easy relaxed liv- and Anita Fontana do a remarkable job ing like before. Las Vegas has always been ... For tickets, call Suzanne at (248) 561- a fast-paced city," he said with a sigh, "but 0777. never like this!" JOINING THIS year's Grand Marshal Florine Mark of the annual personality- studded Walk of Ages, Sunday, May 6, 10 a.m at the Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus in West Bloomfield, will include walkers Cheryl Chodun, Murray Gula, Don Shane, WXYZ- TV; Murray Feldman, Rich Luterman, WJBK-FOX TV2; Dell Warner, WDIV-TV; "Big Al" Moskovitz, 104.3 FM; Robin Schwartz, Detroit Jewish News and FOX- 2; George Cantor, journalist, author and JN columnist; Judges Susan Moiseev, Ed Sosnick, Marc Barron, etc. MAIL DEPT. ... "I see the name of Joel Surnow as executive producer on many television shows, and wondered if he was related to Jack Surnow who I knew very well." ... Shirley Geyer, Royal Oak. [I know that the late Jack Surnow had a son named Jeff in the development busi- ness with him, Le Chateau Apartments, Oak Park, etc., and moved to Las Vegas and California dabbling in TV and films ... His birth name was Jake Shnurowitz Don't know if Joel Surnow is a relation, but maybe a reader can answer this for you.] NO MORE rain checks at Jax Kar Wash ... Second one is free if within 48 hours of the first one, shower or shine. CONGRATS ... On their birthdays, to Clara Krugel, 91; to Ann Miller, 90; to Pearl Moss, 80; to Norman Lebowitz, 80; to Paul Lebowitz, 81, to Brandon Lebowitz, to Shelly Kalmus, to Lori Glick ... On their 54th anniversary, to Seymour and Marilyn Garsoff. ❑ Danny's e-mail address is dannyraskin@sbeglobal.net. The entire staff of Bloom's, Vineyards and Nibbles & Nuts wishes all our customers a happy & healthy Passover VOTED #1 GEFILTE FISH Tr ad j C, Jewisb S , . Je•si.ltC' 62 ❑ t rri n_.c