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Detroit Heritage Tour Series:
Eastern Market.

Walkabouts

Get out your walking shoes and gain an
appreciation for some of Detroit's most
interesting architecture and history as
Preservation Wayne repeats it award-win-
ning walking tour program — of five dis-
tinctive Motor City neighborhoods — 10
a.m. Saturdays and 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays,
now through the end of September.
Highlights of the Detroit Heritage Tour
Series on Saturdays include the sights,
sounds and smells of Eastern Market,
America's oldest and largest market of
its kind; a Cultural Center stroll through
one of the country's most distinguished
concentrations of institutional architec-
ture; a Downtown overview of the ever-

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changing Central
Wayne members; free
Business District
for children 10 and
— from the new
under. Reservations are
loft developments
not necessary, but all
to the restoration
tours are limited to 25
of Campus Martius
people,
so it is a good
Gail Zimmerman
Park; an Auto
idea
to
call
ahead at
Arts Editor
Heritage get-ready-
(313) 577 - 7674. For a
for-the- Woodward-
complete schedule of
Dream-Cruise glimpse of the auto
tours and times, log on to
industry's roots, beginning at the Model
www.preservationwayne.org .
T Automotive Heritage Complex; and a
Midtown tour, where hip restaurants, bars
Make A Mavie
and boutiques blend in with restored
Victorian homes and converted loft
Cinemasports, an international grassroots
spaces.
filmmaking challenge that travels through-
Tuesday tours feature a Downtown Bar
out the year to cities worldwide — includ-
and Restaurant stroll through diverse
ing Paris, Moscow, New York, London, L.A.
eateries and watering holes; a Downtown
and San Francisco — makes its first visit to
Skyscrapers overview, including glimpses
Detroit on Saturday, May 19.
of Detroit's most magnificent lobbies; the
Teams have 10 hours to complete a
Downtown Buildings of Albert Kahn, the
short movie that will be screened that
Jewish architect who designed, among
night and may be made available for
other landmarks, the Detroit Free Press
online viewing worldwide. Participation
Building and Detroit Athletic Club; the
is free and the screening is open to the
Downtown Buildings of Louis Kamper, a
public.
Bavarian-born architect responsible for
The challenge works like this: After
the Book-Cadillac, the Book-Tower and
the announcement of the required film
the Water Board Building; and Downtown
ingredients is made at a morning kick-
Sculptures, Fountains and Art, an over-
off meeting, teams disperse to start their
view of public art.
filmmaking. Writing, rehearsal, shooting,
Tours last two-three hours and generally and editing happen within these intense
cost $10 per person; $8 for Preservation
hours of "extreme" filmmaking. Teams

reassemble for the screening that evening.
At a recent event in Sofia, Bulgaria, 65
teams (more than 300 people) partici-
pated in the first such event in Eastern
Europe.
With no time for elaborate sets, special
effects or editing magic, participating
teams only require access to a digital
video camera, basic editing system (e.g.,
iMovie, Final Cut, or in-camera) and the
ability to deliver their three-minute mas-
terpiece for screening (mini-DV or DVD).
The Detroit event kicks off 9:30 a.m. at
the Detroit Film Center, 1227 Washington
Blvd., in Detroit. While participation
is free, an 8:30 p.m. public screening
of the finished films at the center is $5
for the audience and the participants.
Participants may sign up online in one of
two ways: as a self-assembled team or as
a solo participant who will get matched to
a team.
To sign up for the May 19 Cinemasports
challenge, go to www.cinemasports.com .
For more info, go to www.DetroitFilm.org
or call (313) 961-9936.

Saluting Slava

University Musical Society will posthu-
mously honor Mstislav Rostropovich
— the cellist and conductor who was
renowned as one of the great instrumen-

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Special to the Jewish News

Black Comedy

Opening Friday, May 11, is the black
comedy The Ex.
Amanda Peet plays a high-pow-
ered lawyer who is happily mar-
I, vied to an amiable guy who hardly
works (Zach Braff).
Everything's fine
until Peet gets
pregnant and
decides to be a
stay-at-home mom.
Braff then takes a
job with his father-
Amanda Peet
in-law's (Charles
Grodin's) company.
Also working for Grodin is Peet's old
boyfriend (Jason Bateman), who still
desires Peet – and pulls a variety of
dirty tricks on Braff.
Peet's NBC-TV series, Studio 60 on
the Sunset Strip, was put on hiatus
in February due to poor ratings. It
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with six new episodes slated. But
it is unlikely Studio 60 will be back
next fall. On the
other hand, Braff
reportedly will
get a big raise, to
350K an episode,
if his TV show,
Scrubs, returns
next season as
Zach Braff
expected.
The Ex is Grodin's first movie role
since 1994. Raised in an Orthodox
home, Grodin, now 72, had some big
hits in the '70s and '80s, including
Midnight Run, The Heartbreak Kid
and Beethoven. He also was known
for his feisty appearances with
Johnny Carson and David Letterman.
In the '90s, Grodin mostly worked as
a talk show host and 60 Minutes II
commentator. He walked away from
60 Minutes after a minor editorial
dispute.
Grodin has been married since
1985 to Jewish author Elissa
Durwood, with whom he has a son.

She is the very wealthy daughter of
the late Edward Durwood, founder of
the huge AMC movie theater chain,
based in Kansas City, Mo. He invented
the multiplex cinema.

Still Thriving

Bob Dylan's XM Satellite Radio
program is an unqualified hit and
has been renewed
for a second sea-
son, starting next
September. Jewish
actress Ellen
Barkin will be an
on-air guest next
season.
Bob Dylan
Meanwhile,
there's a new Dylan
interview in Rolling Stone maga-
zine's 40th anniversary issue, out
now. Dylan, 66, refuses to comment
about his current religious beliefs
but indicates a vague distrust of all
organized religion.
Rush, the three-man Canadian
rock band, celebrates its 33rd year

together with Snakes and Arrows, a
new CD of all-new material. The CD
was released on May 1, and already a
single, "Far Cry," has reached No. 3
on Billboard's mainstream rock chart.
Rush's bassist, Geddy Lee, is the
son of Holocaust survivors. Working
with Lee must have influenced Rush
guitarist Alex Lifeson. After Rush
recorded its new CD in a Catskill
Mountains studio, Lifeson, who is
not Jewish, joked: "We finally got a
Borscht Belt gig!"
About Rush's
amazing ability to
still sell CDs and
fill concert halls,
Lee says: "We like
to feel we're cur-
rent. We listen to
Geddy Lee
a lot of younger
bands. A lot of
those bands cite us as an influence.
It's ironic that bands that have been
influenced by our playing have some
instruction for us, too. They help us
g row."