Arts & Entertainment THE BEST OF EVERYTHING So Long, Bro' Jazz-lover Marvin Raskin got a royal send-off from the Duke. p OTPOURRI Jazz music before services at a funeral home? ... Attendees hardly believed their ears as Duke Ellington's theme song, "Take the A Train" wafted from speakers at Ira Kaufman's in Southfield. Brother Marvin Raskin was a jazz buff, and his wife, Shirley, hoped it would be appropriate to play the music that Mary loved so much ... Marv, being a member of the Hot Jazz Society and close friend of its founder, Jim Taylor, along with New McKinney's Cotton Picker's soloist, Dave Wilburn, along with Marv's musical passion, were reasons enough for Rabbi Daniel Syme to give his OK for Shirley to bring a disc. Mary made a lot of people happy when he would tote that box of 78 rpm records to South Haven ... Many would ask Benny Teitel, operator of Mendelson's Oakland, where Mary usually stayed, if he had brought his record player and box of Noro Morales, Jan August, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Jonah Jones, Cab Calloway, etc., including of course, just about every 78 recording that the original Ellington band had ever made. Wonder if Mary met "the Duke" up there? ... If so, what a thrill he must have gotten. "The Duke Ellington music played at Marv's funeral was very appropriate," writes Robert "Bob" Moreillon, Chuck Muer's former right-hand public relations man. I'm also a jazz fan, but not as rabid as Mary was. I tend more to Dixieland. As a member of Jim Taylor's Hot Jazz Society, I helped him promote funds for tradition of handling kosher products for the community. Thank you for making note of the fact that was Norman Cottler's aim for a Jewish supermarket. Norman, my father, would have been so pleased." ... Sylvia (Caller) Cohen. ERRATA, TYPO, ETC. Dept ... Apologies to songstress Judy Collins ... She is 68, not 80 ... That 80 is the age of Meadow Brook mansion, in whose ball- room Judy appeared to honor the 60th birthday of Elaine Serling, given by hubby Michael Serling ... Thanks to Michael, Steve LeVine, Sandi Matz, and Fred Levine for noting that Judy was born on May 1, 1939. REUNION DEPT. ... 55th togetherness shindig by Detroit Central High class of 1952 is Saturday, Nov. 3, at Peking House, Royal Oak ... For more info, call Selma Cohen, (248) 541-7864. CONGRATS ... To Blanche Duke on her birthday ... To Jeanette Epstein on her 76th birthday ... To Susie Klein on her birthday ... To Lillian Dean Title on her 86th birthday ... To Shirley Schultz on her 85th birthday ... to Leonard Schultz on his 90th birthday ... To Harold "Hutch" Bobroff on his 85th birthday ... To Mille Chad on her 75th birthday ... To Miriam Meyers on her 80th birthday ... To Shirley and Ed Rosenberg on their 61st anniver- sary ... To Sheila and Steve Silverstein on their 26th anniversary ... To Florence and Leonard Furman on their 60th anniver- sary ... To Shirley and Leonard Schultz on their 62nd anniversary. Andrew MacDonald, associ- the Louis Armstrong statue ate casting director of CBS's in New Orleans, which stands Guiding Light . . . He and Bob at the local cemetery there. Lambert, associate director When it is my turn to visit the of ABC's All My Children, great Dixieland sextets in the will give valuable informa- sky, I plan to have a cocktail tion and tips on how to act reception at a local hotel. I will in soaps and how to get jobs have a half-dozen CDs of my in them ... For more info, favorite jazz, gospel and country give Michelle a call at (646) music to be played, so anyone Danny Raskin 479-0076. who comes, and there won't be Senior Columnist THE RESTAURANTS many, will have to enjoy these in AND caterers usually go all return for an open bar and hors out with their best tastings for the annual d'oeuvres." ANOTHER APPLE doesn't fall far from Lights, Camera, Action by Variety, the Children's Charity ... But the big thing the tree with Michelle Rott Rosenblum, each time for this full evening of food, daughter of musical localites Shel and drink, and entertainment is where the Carol Rott, behind that Soap Opera money raised goes and how it is used ... Intensive Weekend Workshop being held About 21 restaurants and specialty cater- here, Saturday, Oct. 27, and Sunday, Oct. 28, at Hotel Sheraton Novi ... Dad had the ers are again donating their yummy food samplings for this year's always wonderful Shel Rott Orchestra and Mom, Carol Rott, Variety event ... It'll be 6 p.m.Tuesday, used to belt out songs with the band. Michelle has been singing and perform- Oct. 23, at the Emagine Theatre at Fountain Walk shopping center on W. 12 ing the past 15 years in New York and in Mile, Novi, with the happening highlight- Michigan on the Michigan Star Clipper ing another sneak preview of a Hollywood Dinner Train, etc. ... The Detroit Pistons feature film, silent auction, cocktails and loved it whenever Michelle sang the national anthem at their basketball games, the usual large selection of choice vittles. Michael Bressler and Judith Solomon winning every time she warbled for them are co-chairs, with proceeds raised for ... When Michelle was music director at Variety's Bikes For Kids, one of its fine Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington programs that help children with special Hills, she increased its chorus from four needs in the Metro Detroit area ... The to 88 young folks ... Now a New York Variety office has tickets, (248- 258-5511), resident, Michelle was recently flown here $50 per person and patrons $100 p.p. by Jeff Bass, writer-producer for Eminem, MAIL DEPT. ... "I enjoyed your to record two new songs Jeff has written mention of Dexter-Davison Market and with Julie Glazer. 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