Arts & Entertainment

About

Regina Spektor

Regina Rules

Since emerging on the New York City
club scene in 2001, Moscow-born Regina
Spektor has been hailed as a truly spe-
cial talent. The Jewish singer-songwriter
displays many remarkable gifts — from
her unique and provocative vocal style to
prodigious piano skills garnered through
years of classical training.
Immigrating to the Bronx with her fam-
ily when she was 9, Spektor spent seven
years attending yeshivah and eventually

ended up studying
music at State
University of New
York at Purchase.
An idiosyncratic
composer and lyricist,
she combines eclectic
and evocative melo-
dies with intricately
structured character
studies that owe more to Chekhov and
Gogol than to most modern songwriters.
Her acclaimed CDs include 2004's Soviet
Kitsch and last year's Begin To Hope.
"I don't have an overall sound," Spektor
explains. "I tend to think of each song as
its own little world, so one song can be a
complete punk song, while another could
be a chamber ensemble with strings. It's
more fun that way because I never have to
do the same thing over and over again."
"This is like a back door into what I've
always wanted to do my whole life," she
says. "I always wanted to play classical
recitals and concerts and go from place
to place and learn new programs and

practice new things and
play hours and hours of
piano for people. Now I
do that, except instead
of playing Chopin and
Mozart, I play my own."
Hear Regina Spektor
Wednesday, Oct. 10, at
the Fillmore Detroit.
Doors at 6 p.m.
Tickets: $25-$35. (248) 645-6666 or
online at www.ticketmaster.com.

Stage Struck

Meadow Brook Theatre opens its season
Oct. 10-Nov. 4 with the Michigan premiere
of Steven Dietz's Sherlock Holmes: The
Final Adventure, in which the Victorian-
era detective once again confronts his
arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty. The play
was awarded the 2007 Edgar Allan Poe
Award by the Mystery Writers of America.
Featured in the cast as the villainous
James Larrabee is Ann Arbor's Loren Bass,
the prolific in-demand Jewish actor who

graces many stages around town. Call for
show times. Tickets: $22-$38. (248) 377-
3300.
WSU's Hilberry Theatre opens its
season this weekend with The Complete
Works of William Shakespeare (abridged),
by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess
Winfield. Excerpts of 37 plays and 154
sonnets by William Shakespeare are pre-
sented in a mix of pratfalls, puns, clunky
female impersonations, clean-cut ribaldry
and broad burlesque. It will rotate in
repertory through Dec. 15 with The Lusty
and Comical History of Tom Jones by John
Morrison and Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon.
Tickets: $20-$30; student rush tickets
available day of performance for $10.
(313) 577-2972 or vsrww.hilberry.com .

Rebecca Rosen Correction

The correct links for tickets for her Oct.
11 and 13 audience readings as reported
in last week's Out & About are jakobrosen.
com/mommyindetroit.html and also
rebeccarosen.com/audiencedetroit.html.

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Pigskin Hebrews

This year's list of NFL Jewish play-
ers was prepared with the help of
IM F
the Jewish Sports Review newslet-
ter. Included are players with at least
one Jewish parent who were raised
Jewish or without religion and,
when contacted by the Review, had
no objection to being included as a
Jewish athlete in the Review.
The returning players are: Lennie
Friedman, offensive lineman,
Cleveland; David Binn, long snap-
per, San Diego (Binn was a 2007
Pro Bowl player); Sage Rosenfels,
quarterback, Houston (Rosenfels
had a great season in 2006 and may
yet start in 2007); Igor Olshansky,
defensive end, San
Diego (a top player,
Olshansky is a reli-
gious Jew and the
first Russian-born
player in the NFL);
Mike Seidman, tight
end, Indianapolis
Igor
Colts (Seidman was
Olshansky
cut by Carolina but

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was picked up in the off season by
the Colts and is now on the injured
reserve roster); Mike Rosenthal,
offensive tackle, Miami (cut by
Minnesota, he was signed by Miami
in the off season and currently
is on the injured reserve roster);
Josh Miller, punter, Tennessee
(although still a good punter, Miller,
who often appears at Jewish com-
munity events, was cut by Boston in
August but signed by the Titans on
Sept. 22); Antonio Garay, defensive
tackle, Chicago (he was cut on Sept.
1 but restored to the regular roster
on Sept.11).
The one rookie is Adam Podlesh,
a punter for Jacksonville. Podlesh,
a University of Maryland grad, was
named the team's starting punter
and has played in every game this
season.

Film Notes

The Heartbreak Kid, starring Ben
Stiller, is a remake of the hit 1972
film of the same name. In the origi-
nal, a middle-class Jewish guy on
his honeymoon (played by Charles
Grodin) chases after an upper-class
WASP blond beauty while his ste-
reotypical Jewish wife is confined

to their hotel room with a nasty
sunburn. The remake wisely gets rid
of the now tired ethnic angle and
has Stiller meeting and quickly mar-
rying a beautiful blonde. However,
she turns out to be a dud, and Stiller
uses his honeymoon to chase a fun-
loving dark-haired beauty. The film
opens Friday, Oct. 5.
Opening the same day is
December Boys, a little Australian
movie about four orphaned teen
boys who compete
to be adopted by a
"perfect" couple.
It stars Daniel
Radcliffe (best
known as the lead
character in the
Harry Potter films).
Earlier this year,
Daniel
Radcliffe,18,
first
Radcliffe
disclosed that his
mother is Jewish.
Right before Rosh Hashanah, he
told a Los Angeles reporter: "I am
very proud of being Jewish. I went
to a school called City of London
and that particular branch is all-
boys, and about 25 percent of it
is Orthodox Jews. Before I did my
[most important] exams, a boy called

Clyde, he and another boy named
Saul took me to one of the music
rooms where it was really quiet and
did some sort of prayer and blessing
with me. And even though I'm not
that religious, it was a really, really
cool moment to do it."

Drama Jews

K-Ville, which airs 9 p.m. Mondays on
FOX, is a police action show set in
the tough streets of post-hurricane
New Orleans. Playing a heroic cop
is handsome actor
Cole Hauser, 32,
who has been in
many action movies.
Hauser's mother
is Jewish, and he
identifies as Jewish.
His maternal great-
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grandfather
was
Cole Hauser
Harry Warner, one
of the founders of
Warner Bros.
Cane, which airs
10 p.m. Tuesdays on
CBS, is a melodrama
about the struggles
within a very rich
Cuban-American
Alona Tal
family, the Duques.

