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Sweet Strings

Canadian harpist Jennifer Swartz made
her solo debut with the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra at age 16 and was awarded the
position of principal harpist with the
Montreal Symphony at age 22. In addition
to her orchestral duties, she appears as a
featured recital artist throughout Canada
and can be heard in frequent concert
broadcasts with the BBC.
The Schmier Chapel Chamber Music
Series at Temple Israel hosts Swartz
— who happens to be a cousin of TI
Cantorial Soloist Neil Michaels — in

Jennifer Swartz

and compassion as they
can muster.
The PBS series
Independent Lens will
premiere the film,
narrated by Terrence
Gail Zimmerman
Howard, 10 p.m.
Arts Editor
Tuesday, Oct. 30, on PBS
stations nationwide.
Check your local listings for exact times in
Israeli Doc
your area as they may vary. The compan-
ion Web site, pbs.org/stormofemotions,
The 1982 peace agreement between Israel
features detailed information on the film,
and Egypt obliged thousands of Israelis
including an interview with the filmmaker
to leave their homes in the Sinai Desert.
and a talkback section for viewers to share
From the options they were given by the
their ideas and opinions.
government, many chose Gush Katif in
the Gaza Strip as their new home. Twenty-
three years later, in 2005, the Israeli gov-
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ernment ordered the evacuation of the
Gaza Strip.
In 1965, ABC aired an opera called The
Shot during the course of one month
Final Ingredient; it told the story of a seder
and told in a cinema verite style, the
held under threat of machine-gun fire in a
documentary Storm of Emotions, directed
Nazi death camp. Composer David Amram
by Yael Klopmann (who was nine months
and librettist Arnold Weinstein created the
pregnant during the filming), follows the
one-hour opera based on an earlier tele-
Israeli police as they mobilize to enforce
play by Reginald Rose (1920-2002), a film
this controversial order and uproot their
and television writer most widely known
fellow citizens with as much sensitivity

a performance at
7:30 p.m. Sunday,
Oct. 28, at the West
Bloomfield temple.
For complimen-
tary tickets, call the
temple office at (248)
661-5700.

for his work in the early years of television
drama.
Born in Manhattan, Rose briefly attend-
ed City College before serving in the U.S.
Army in 1942-46, where he became a first
lieutenant. He sold his first teleplay, Bus
To Nowhere, in 1950 to CBS's live dramatic
anthology program Studio One, for which
he wrote 12 Angry Men four years later.
This latter drama, set entirely in a room
where a jury is deliberating the fate of a
man accused of murder, was inspired by
Rose's service on just such a trial.
Rose received an Emmy for his teleplay
and an Oscar nomination for his 1957
feature-length film adaptation; he wrote
a stage version in 1964. He created and
wrote the weekly courtroom drama The
Defenders in 1961.
Detroit's Fisher Theatre stages a nation-
al touring production of Rose's 12 Angry
Men, starring Richard Thomas, 8 p.m.
Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays
and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sundays, Oct. 30-Nov.
18; there also will be a 1 p.m. Thursday,
Nov. 1, special matinee. Tickets are $23-
$65. (248) 645-6666 or
www.BroadwayInDetroit.com . I I

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Special to the Jewish News

The AP reports that Israeli President
Shimon Peres, a personal friend of
Barbra Streisand, hopes to coax her
to Israel for the country's 60th anni-
versary celebrations in May 2008.
Peres said he wants Streisand to
participate in one of the anniversa-
ry's keynote events:
a three-day conven-
tion, starting May
of 3,000-4,000
international guests,
including American
representatives of the
Barbra
"highest level." As
Streisand
for Streisand, Peres
noted that he "has heard many can-
tors, but nobody can sing 'Aveinu
Malkeinu' like Barbra."

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Petty Concerns

Director Peter Bogdanovich, 68,
hasn't had a box office hit since
1973's Paper Moon, and he's now
best known for playing the psychia-
trist who treated Tony Soprano's
psychiatrist (portrayed by Lorraine
Bracco, ex-wife of actor Harvey
Keitel) on The Sopranos.

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Maybe that's why Peter – whose
late mother was Jewish – agreed
to direct a just released, virtually
straight-to-DVD four-hour docu-
mentary on Tom Petty and the
Heartbreakers, the famous rock band.
Two top-notch Jewish musicians
played in Petty's band: bassist Howie
Epstein, who joined in 1982, and
original drummer Stan Lynch, now
52, who came on
board in 1975. Lynch
left the group in 1994
and has done well as
a musician-producer.
Epstein died in 2003,
at age 47, from chron-
ic drug abuse.
Peter
In 1986, the
Bogdanovich
Heartbreakers backed
Dylan when Dylan played Israel.
Lynch told author Scott Benarde
that the trip profoundly moved him,
including his visit to Jerusalem's Yad
Vashem Holocaust museum.
The rest of the band, Lynch said,
didn't seem to care where they were,
kvetching about the necessary heavy
security. Meanwhile, Petty threw a
public tantrum when the kosher din-
ing room in his Israeli hotel wouldn't
serve him bacon for breakfast.

Fisher Found

The hit ABC series Lost ended last
season with the voice of the mysteri-
ous Minkowski on a satellite phone
telling the survivors' leader, Jack,
that he and the others would be res-
cued. There were plot clues that the
name Minkowski referenced famous
German Jewish mathematician
Hermann Minkowski,
a former teacher of
Albert Einstein.
Minkowski's most
important work,
referred to later as
"Minkowski space"
Fisher
(a four-dimensional
Stevens
system including
the three dimensions of space plus
the dimension of time), was used in
Einstein's special theory of relativity.
The Lost character named
Minkowski will appear in the flesh in
February when Lost resumes. He will
be played by Fisher Stevens, 43.
Stevens has popped up in a lot of
roles since the early 1980s, including
a co-starring role in the TV series
Early Edition. Stevens' father is
Jewish, and the actor identifies as
Jewish.

Women Only

The Women was a hit 1930s play
and a smash 1939 movie, directed
by the great George Cukor. The
story centers on a nice, middle-aged
high-society woman who finds out
her husband is having
an affair with a much
younger department-
store clerk and seeks
a divorce.
There are 12 other
female characters
Bette Midler
– mostly other high-
society women – but
the gimmick is that there is not a
single man in the cast (the men are
only talked about).
A remake is now filming, written
by Diane English, who created TV's
Murphy Brown. Meg Ryan plays the
about-to-be divorced woman, with
Candice Bergen playing her mother.
Eva Mendes plays the store clerk.
Bette Midler has just joined the
cast as a five-time divorcee. The
other Jewish cast members are
Debra Messing, Carrie Fisher and
Joanna Gleason, the daughter of
Monty Hall of Let's Make A Deal
fame. Other roles are filled by Cloris
Leachman, Annette Bening and Ana
Gasteyer. II