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series, it is divided
Gimme Some Truth
into six parts: How
The cable network Discovery Health and
To Be Healthy; How
the BBC have joined up to present a series
To Be Slim; How To
of scientific investigations that deliver
Feed the Kids; How
surprising insights on how diet directly
To Be Sexy; How To
affects the body and mind — and how
food can be used to increase the quality of Be the Best; How
To Stay Young and
daily life.
Beautiful.
A six-hour miniseries spread over three
"Foods can be as powerful as pharma-
consecutive days, The Truth About Food,
ceuticals in improving health and well-
hosted by Oprah fave Dr. Mehmet Oz,
being:' writes Dr. Oz in the book's
answers questions
foreword. "Use them well!'
and busts myths
*Hp
about nutrition.
Art With Heart
While playful in
TRUTH
The 33rd Art in the Park to benefit
tone, the series is
ABOUT
Common Ground Sanctuary, an
based on hard sci-
Oakland County-based nonprofit
FOOD
ence, with more
crisis intervention agency serv-
than 30 original,
ing more than 35,000 community
groundbreaking
members each year, will be held 10
experiments that
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a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5
were captured
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p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15-
on film. It airs
16, in Birmingham's
8-10 p.m. Monday-
Shain Park. The
Wednesday, Sept.17-19, on
event funds the
Discovery Health. Dr. Oz also
agency's community
will be featured on the Oprah
programs, including
Winfrey Show 4 p.m. Monday,
a 24-hour crisis line,
Sept. 17, to discuss the back-
shelters for youth in
ground behind some of the
crisis, family coun-
key experiments in the series.
seling, support and
A companion book to the
education groups
series, The Truth About Food:
and outreach to
What You Eat Can Change Your Sara and Michael Frank of
homeless
and run-
Life by Jill Fullerton Smith
West Bloomfield will show
away
youth.
(Bloomsbury; $34.95), has
their ceramics at Art in the
More than 200
just been published. Like the
Park.

THE

Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 4.
The son of two concentration camp
survivors, Ax, 58, was born in Ukraine
and raised in Winnipeg before his fam-
ily moved to New York City, where he
entered Juilliard. He first made a name for
himself when, at age 25, he won the first
Arthur Rubinstein International Piano
Competition in Tel Aviv.
His career has thrived since that time.
He has won multiple Grammy Awards for
his recordings of the Haydn piano sona-
tas. His recent performances
included separate recital tours
with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pia-
nist Yefim Bronfman. As a duo,
Ax and Ma have won several
Grammy Awards for Beethoven
and Brahms sonatas on cello
Pianists Perform
and piano. Ax resides in New
Welcoming back listeners
York City with his wife, the
with red carpet treatment and
pianist Yoko Nozaki. They have
champagne receptions, the
Emanuel Ax
two children together, Joseph
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
and Sarah.
opens its classical season
Tickets to the DSO concerts
under the baton of Principal
are $29-$60. (248) 576-5111 or
Guest Conductor and Artistic
www.detroitsymphony.com .
Adviser Peter Oundjian with
Multi Grammy Award-win-
concerts 8 p.m. Thursday and
ning soprano Dawn Upshaw
Friday, 8:30 p.m. Saturday
with pianist Gilbert Kalish
and 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13-
perform more than a dozen
16, at Orchestra Hall in the
Gilbert K alish
selections from various periods
Max M. Fisher Music Center.
to open the 2007-08 season of
Oundjian will lead the DSO in
the Chamber Music Society of Detroit 8
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, and guest
pianist Emanuel Ax will tackle Beethoven's p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Seligman
Performing Arts Center, 22305 W. 13 Mile
Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Emperor"). The
in Beverly Hills.
program also includes Joan Tower's

artists from around the
country will showcase
original works — from
ceramics, jewelry and
paintings to sculp-
ture, photography and
glass. Other attractions
include live musical
entertainment, food
and artist demonstrations and children's
drop-in workshops both presented by the
Detroit Institute of Arts. There also will
be a silent auction benefiting
Common Ground Sanctuary.
For more information, visit
www.commongroundsanctuary.
org.

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Emmy's List

The Emmy Awards – for TV excel-
lence – airs 8-11 p.m. Sunday, Sept.
16, on FOX.
Behind-the-cam-
era Jewish talent
up for awards
include produc-
ers Seth Green
(Robot Chicken),
James L. Brooks
(The Simpsons) and
Matt Stone (South
Matt Stone
Park), all vying
for best animated
series. Also going head-to-head are
Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights)
and Thomas Schlamme (Studio 60),
both up for the best director of a
drama series.
Over in music, composer Mark

September 13. 2007

Snow is nominated for best theme
song for the Ghost Whisperer, while
Andy Samberg snared a best song
nomination for a satirical hip-hop
tune on Saturday Night Live.
Nominated for best actress in a
drama series are Patricia Arquette
(Medium) and Kyra Sedgwick (The
Closer), while Debra Messing (The
Starter Wife) competes for best lead
actress in a miniseries. Also, Judith
Light (Ugly Betty) is nominated for
best guest actress in a comedy.
Last year's winner of best sup-
porting actor in a comedy, Jeremy
Piven, is again nominated for play-
ing Jewish talent agent Ari Gold
in Entourage. Veterans William
Shatner (Boston Legal), Ed Asner
(The Christmas Card), Martin Landau
(Entourage) and Eli Wallach (Studio
60) are nominated, respectively, for
best supporting actor in a comedy
series, best supporting actor in a TV

movie, best guest actor in a com-
edy series and best guest actor in a
drama.
Lewis Black's program for HBO
is up for best comedy special.
Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) is
nominated for best performance in a
variety program; the program itself
is nominated as best variety show.

Top 25

USA Today is celebrating its 25th
year in business this month. On the
newspaper's Web site, you can find
25 lists of the top people, events,
quotes or breakthroughs of the last
25 years. Anyone can quibble with
the selections, but they are enter-
taining to read (simply go to www.
usatoday.com and enter "top 25" in
the search engine).
Three Jews made the "25 Most
Influential People" list: Starbucks
entrepreneur Howard Schultz and

Google co-founders Sergey Brin and
Larry Page.
Jon Stewart's The Daily Show
is cited as one of the "Top 25 TV
Moments." Stewart also comes up in
the critically acclaimed new memoir
Hack, by Melissa Plaut, 31, a New
York City cab driver.
The college-edu-
cated Plaut hasn't
made her Jewish
parents happy by
driving a cab, but
she has met a few
celebrities, includ-
ing Stewart. When
Howard
Stewart got in her
cab, she writes, "I
Schultz
was so star-struck,
I forgot to turn the meter on for
nearly 10 blocks, but he turned out
to be a very modest, nice guy and
left me with a very decent tip."
Among the top quotes of the last