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Rocky On
For the third year in a row, Brad and
Janet yet again do the time warp with Dr.
Frank-n-Furter and his madcap cohorts
as Meadow Brook Theatre and Palace
Sports and Entertainment bring back
The Rocky Horror Show returns to
Meadow Brook Music Festival.
cial incentive, all seats
the cult fave The
for opening night,
Rocky Horror Show
Thursday, Sept. 6, are
to Meadow Brook
$20. For ticket informa-
Musical Festival. The
Gail Zimmerman
tion, visit the Web site
show runs 8 p.m.
Arts Editor
www.mbtheatre.com or
Thursday-Saturday,
call the Meadow Brook
Sept. 6-8. The stage
musical made its debut in London in 1973 Theatre Box Office at (248) 377-3300.
Tickets also are available at www.ticket-
and inspired the cult 1975 film The Rocky
master.com and www.palacenet.com .
Horror Picture Show.
"We are extremely excited to bring this
show back:' says John Manfredi, managing Rock For Peace
If you're headed to Israel for the Jewish
director of Meadow Brook Theatre, who
High Holidays and will be there on Sept. 9,
returns in the role of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.
be sure to check out Jerusalem Rocks! —
"It's a great show, and we have almost as
much fun as the audience while doing
a nonprofit international music festival set
to take place at the Teddy Kollek Stadium
it" There will be a costume contest every
night with the winners being allowed to
in Jerusalem. The cultural extravaganza
aims to celebrate the freedom of expres-
"time warp" on stage with the cast during
the finale.
sion inherent in music and to shed light
Rocky Horror is co-directed by
on Jerusalem as a beacon of peace.
"While there have been festivals for
Manfredi, Terry Carpenter and David
peace and unity in the past, there has
Regal; in addition to Manfredi and Regal,
the cast includes James Bowen, Jodie Kuhn never been an event like Jerusalem
Rocks!, which brings this caliber of art-
Ellison, Andrew Huff, Jason Richards,
ists together in the Holy City," says Jacob
Andrea Smith, Kate Willinger Manfredi
Ner-David, co-founder and executive
and Michael Witwer.
Tickets range from $20-$40; as a spe-
producer of Jerusalem Rocks! "Our goal is
for Jerusalem Rocks! to draw concertgoers
from all parts of Israel, as we plan to dem-
onstrate the city's ability to host major
performances annually."
Headlining Jerusalem Rocks! will be
American hip-hop group the Black Eyed
Peas. "I can't wait to come back to Israel,"
says Peas frontman william."The 2006
performance we did in Tel Aviv was one of
the single best experiences of my life'
Also scheduled to perform are pro-
gressive hip-hop and two-time Grammy
Award-winning artists Arrested
Development, whose singles emphasize
positive, strongly spiritual Afrocentric
lyrics. "This is a lifelong dream:' says
social change advocate and Arrested
Development founder Speech. "I wrote
back in '89 that my next stop after tour-
ing America was supposed to be touring
in Jerusalem. Almost 20 years later, it is
finally happening, and we are excited."
Also headlining among the local and
international acts scheduled to appear are
the Commitments from Dublin, the band
whose album and soundtrack to the movie
The Commitments has sold 12 million
copies worldwide.
Jews
Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News
Lives Of The Rich
The Hamptons resort area at the
eastern end of Long Island often
sets the pace in tasteful excess.
For example,
this summer there
was a five-concert
series at a swank
Hamptons venue
that featured
baby-boomer faves
Dave Matthews,
Billy Joel
Tom Petty, Prince,
James Taylor and
Jewish singer Billy Joel. The cost
for one concert series ticket (five
shows) was a staggering $15,000
(gourmet dinner included).
The Long Island-raised Joel is a
local hero; and he once owned a big
home in the Hamptons, which he
sold to Jerry Seinfeld. So it wasn't
a surprise that demand for Joel
tickets was fierce, even though the
concert series itself didn't sell out.
The concert promoter disregarded
his own rule about limiting each
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concert to 1,000 people; he sold
1,200 tickets at $3,000 apiece to
Joel's Aug.17 concert. Joel report-
edly was paid $2 million for his
night's work.
The two-hour set was well
received, and Joel entertained the
crowd with some patter between
songs. The singer joked about his
age (58), telling the audience "they
were not seeing Billy Joel, but Billy
Joel's dad."
Celebs who showed-up included
Adam Sandler and Christie Brinkley,
the '70s supermodel who is Joel's
ex-wife and the mother of his only
child, singer Alexa Ray Joel, 21.
Film By Jake
Earlier this month, actress Gwyneth
Paltrow, 34, went to a special
screening at an East Hampton the-
ater of The Good Night, the first
full-length feature film directed by
her brother, Jake Paltrow, 31.
It was a celebrity event.
Moviegoers included Billy Joel,
film mogul David Geffen, fashion
designer Donna Karan, actress
Kate Capshaw (Steven Spielberg's
wife) and Paul McCartney and his
daughter, fashion designer Stella
McCartney (her late mother, Linda
McCartney, was Jewish). Most of
the celebs in attendance went to
the home of billionaire Ron Perlman
for dinner following the film.
The Good Night, a romantic
comedy, co-stars Gwyneth Paltrow
and Martin Freeman. It will open in
limited general release in October.
Also in October, Gwyneth, who
speaks fluent Spanish, will travel to
Spain to film a cooking show with
celebrity chef Mario
Batali. It later will
be shown on PBS.
The Seattle-born
Batali, known for
his Italian cooking,
studied the Golden
Age of Spanish
Theater
at Rutgers
Jake Paltrow
University before
pursuing a culinary
career. He splits his time between
New York City and Northport,
Mich., with his wife, University of
Michigan grad Susi Cahn of Coach
Dairy Goat Farm. She is the daugh-
ter of Miles and Lillian Cahn, who
founded Coach Leatherware in 1941.
They sold Coach in 1985 to Sara
Lee, retiring to upstate New York to
pursue their passion for artisanal
cheeses.
Gwyneth and Jake are the chil-
dren of the late Jewish director
Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe
Danner. Gwyneth and Jake were
raised Jewish, and Jake had what
the press described as "a traditional
bar mitzvah ceremony." Gwyneth,
however, did not have a bat mitzvah.
David Divorce
In July, it was announced that
comedian Larry David, 60, the co-
creator of Seinfeld and the star of
Curb Your Enthusiasm, and his wife
of 14 years, environmental activ-
ist Laurie David, 49, were divorc-
ing. Now comes news from the
fashionable summer island resort
of Martha's Vineyard, Mass., that
Laurie David is dating Bart Thorpe,
a hunk who used to work as Larry
and Laurie's gardener.
Laurie and Bart are staying at
the Vineyard estate that Laurie