Arts & Entertainment
About
Self-portrait
of Jeffrey Abt,
one of the
artists whose
work will be
auctioned for
HIV/AIDS edu-
cation
Art For Life
More than 250 of Detroit's most
prominent artists will donate original
pieces of art to be auctioned at the 12th
annual Art Works For Life, a benefit for
the Midwest AIDS Prevention Project
(MAPP). The event, which begins 5 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 23, at the Ritz-Carlton in
Dearborn, features a live and silent auc-
tion with auctioneer Jim Miller, hors
d'oeuvres, a cash bar, valet or self-park-
ing and live musical entertainment.
Among the participating Jewish art-
ists are Susan Aaron-Taylor, Jeffrey
Abt, Lynne Avadenka, Prudence
Bernstein, Barbara Dorchen, Andrea
Eis, Sara Frank, Marcia Freedman,
Deborah Friedman, Richard Kozlow, Jay
Lefkowitz, Diane Levine, Edward Levine,
Hope Palmer, Elaine Redmond, Marilyn
Schechter, Linda Soberman, Fran Wolok
and Marilyn Zimmerman.
MAPP is a nonprofit, community-
based organization that provides HIV/
AIDS education programs for commu-
nity groups throughout the Great Lakes
region. Since 1998, it has provided thou-
sands of such programs for more than a
half million people in the Midwest.
Honorary chairpersons for this year's
benefit are Gov. Jennifer Granholm and
Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow.
Reservations are $85. For a complete
list of participating artists, reservations
(by Sept. 14) or for more information,
call (248) 545-1435 or go to the Web site
w\Arw.artworksforlife.org .
Aspiring writers and others interested
in Shapiro's literary career will have the
Gail Zimmerman
opportunity to meet the author 7 p.m. Friday,
Arts Editor
Sept. 7, at Borders, 34300 Woodward Ave.,
in Birmingham. There, Shapiro will read
and sign copies of her latest book, Only As
Good As Your Word: Writing Lessons from My
Seeking Susan
Favorite Literary Gurus (Seal
Press; $15.95). In the book,
Detroit-area native Susan
Shapiro recounts her obsessive
Shapiro has written for the New
quest for success as a profes-
York Times, Washington Post,
Only as Good
sional writer and reveals the
L.A. Times, Boston Globe, the
Word
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as
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mentors who saved her life
Nation, Salon.com , Village Voice,
and her career along the way
People, Glamour; Cosmo and
Her gurus include best-selling
Jane magazine. She also is the
novelist Howard Fast (who
co-editor of the anthology Food
was
married to her mother's
for the Soul and author of the
cousin)
and her high-school
memoirs Lighting Up and Five
English teacher.
Men Who Broke My Heart, which
For more information, call
has been optioned for a movie by
(248) 203-0005.
Paramount Pictures.
The former Birmingham-area resident
On The Mark
currently lives in Greenwich Village with
her husband, a TV-film writer and journal-
Brooklyn native Mark Rothman, a former
ism teacher at NYU, the New School and
writer for classic TV sitcoms The Odd
Mediabistro.
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Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News
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3:10 to Yuma, opening in movie
theaters Friday, Sept. 7, is a remake
of an under-the-radar
1957 western of the
same name; the origi-
nal has been hailed by
critics as a taut fron-
tier thriller with some
great shoot-'em-up
Ben Foster scenes.
In the new ver-
sion, Christian Bale plays hard-luck
Arizona rancher Dan Evans, whose
wife (Gretchen Mol) and son (17-year-
old Logan Lerman of the WB's Jack
and Bobby) have lost faith in his abil-
ity to provide for them.
Evans' desperate life takes a
turn when a payroll stagecoach is
attacked by outlaws. The outlaws'
leader, Ben Wade (Russell Crowe), is
September 6 • 2007
captured by a posse that includes
Evans.
Hoping to get out of debt, Evans
joins a group of men who are paid
to take Wade through some rough
country to a train station, where he
can be put on a train to Yuma and
be tried. Wade cleverly taunts Evans
as they travel, seeking to undermine
his confidence.
Meanwhile, Wade's gang shadows
the men guarding him. The gang
is led by Charlie Prince, a psycho
played by actor Ben Foster, 26.
Variety says in its review: "If
anyone's going to gain the most,
career-wise, from 3:10 to Yuma, it
will definitely be Foster, who puts [a]
kind of indelible imprint on this
juicy role. With his albino color-
ing, pinched mouth, reedy voice
and remorseless wall eyes, Foster's
lightning-draw killer brandishes a
dementia amplified by an intense
loyalty to Crowe that gently borders
on homoeroticism; he'll do anything
for his boss, for some reasons that
are clear and for some that must be
intuited.
"Foster is a mad delight to watch
and a reminder that the relative
scarcity of westerns deprives a gen-
eration of character actors opportu-
nities to shine."
Sizzling Scandal
Paula Zahn, 51, had
high-profile report-
ing jobs with ABC,
CBS and Fox News
before being hired
by CNN. In 2003,
the former beauty
queen got her own
Paula Zahn and primetime CNN
Richard Cohen
newscast, Paula
Zahn Now. Citing low ratings, CNN
fired Zahn, effective Aug. 2.
"Straight" newscasts like Zahn's
have been dying in the ratings,
while shows with highly opinion-
ated anchors, like Lou Dobbs and
Bill O'Reilly, have fared much
better. Frankly, short of doing the
news in the nude, there was little
Zahn could have done to bring up
her ratings.
Zahn, who isn't Jewish, has been
married for 20 years to millionaire
New York Jewish businessman
Richard Cohen. In 2004, she told
a Jewish women's group that she
was raising her three children with
Cohen in their father's faith.
Now, the New York papers are
filled almost daily with new details
about Zahn's hot affair with billion-
aire Jewish businessman and former
family friend Paul Fribourg. Last
month, they reported that Zahn is
claiming that Cohen long withheld
sex from her and that he won't tell
her where the millions she invested
with him is located.
To this, Cohen retorts that the sex