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readings here?
CM: I don't do in-person readings —
only over the phone and all over the world.
I spend about three months of the year
in the Netherlands and divide the rest
of my time between L.A. and Michigan,
where I live on an almost 10-acre property
in Southfield.
Here in Michigan, my sister, Alicia
Tisdale, is a therapist who does past-life
regressions; past lives influence our lives
now She and my sister, Elaine Lippitt, and
their families are an ongoing support sys-
tem for me.

IN: The Secret is a huge phenomenon.
What is your opinion of its message
and reach?
CM: The intent is good. It is possible
to use energy to manifest things for our-
selves. The difference between my book
and The Secret is that my book teaches you
to understand if what you're wishing for is
healthy for you. Watch what you wish for
— you might get it.

IN: Do you think it is possible to find
spirituality in organized religion?
CM: What I do is not a religion. But it's
most important to go to the highest level
of goodness or love — whether you call it
"God" or "Allah" or "Christ" or "Buddha."
"Love is God and God is Love, and we

love you." That's what my
father wrote in the prayer
book that I take to temple
on the High Holidays. It's
very important to pray, to
put that white light of pro-
tection around us.
Prayer is positive
thought. Thoughts have
power. Thoughts create
reality. Thoughts are things.
That's why prayer and posi-
tive thinking are so impor-
tant. Positive thoughts
attract positive thoughts.
Negative thoughts attract
negative thoughts.
I feel that my religious experience at
temple has really helped me and helped
my [late] dad and mom, [Herbie and Ida
Margolis]. The only difference between my
beliefs and others, including some rabbis,
is that when they tell the story of, say, the
Angel of Death protecting Jewish first-
born boys [in the Passover story], I really
believe there was an angel. Some might
call it a [parable]; I believe it's true.

IN: Can skeptics learn anything from
your book? Are there some people who
just don't have the ability to be in touch
with their intuitive powers?
CM: I believe everyone has a sixth

sense, but not everyone
has the wisdom to want
to use it.

IN: Is there a person
in history or fiction you
admire who is repre-
sentative of embracing
the principles you write
about in your book?
CM: There is a story
about Winston Churchill
sitting with guests at his
dining room table. All of
a sudden, he got up, went
into the kitchen and told
all the help to go down into the cellar. He
returned to his guests at the table. Ten
minutes later, a bomb came through the
kitchen, shattering glass everywhere. It
would have injured everyone in the room.
That's listening to your gut feeling.

IN: In your book, you explain how
intuition in conjunction with common
sense and logic can help you improve
your physical health, find love and a
fulfilling sex life, make you a better
parent and guide your career. Can your
intuition help you in Las Vegas?
CM: Actually, it can. I'm not great at it
for myself, but I'm good when I'm helping
other people.

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Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News

Golden Globes

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Golden Globe awards, given by the
Hollywood Foreign Press Association,
are seen as a reasonable predictor
of who will be nomi-
nated for and win
Oscars. Globes also
are awarded for TV.
Due to the writers'
strike, this year's
ceremony, scheduled
to air 8 p.m. Sunday,
Jan.13, on NBC, was
Patricia
canceled. As of the
Arquette
JN's press time, the
HFPA announced that winners will be
revealed during an hour-long press
conference at the Beverly Hilton to
be covered live by NBC News begin-
ning at 9 p.m. EST on Jan.13.
Steven Spielberg, who is known
not to cross picket lines, was sched-
uled to get a special award.
Jewish nominees for acting include
Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer) and
Patricia Arquette (Medium) – both
have Jewish mothers. They go head-
to-head for best actress in a TV

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drama. Debra Messing (The Starter
Wife) is nominated for best actress
in an original TV movie, while English
landsman Jason Issacs (The State
Within) is up for best actor in an
original TV movie.
David Duchovny, whose late
father was Jewish, vies for best
actor in a comedy TV series for
Californication. Again this year,
William Shatner (Boston Legal) and
Jeremy Piven (Entourage) compete
for best supporting actor in a com-
edy series.
On the film side,
Julian Schnabel
(The Diving Bell and
The Butterfly) and
Joel and Ethan Coen
(No Country for Old
Men) are among the
nominees for best
Julian
director of a motion
Schnabel
picture. The Coens
also scored a best screenplay nomi-
nation for No Country. They compete
in this category with Ronald Harwood
(Diving Bell) and Aaron Sorkin
(Charlie Wilson's War).
Alan Menken and Steven Schwartz
are nominated for best original

movie song (Enchanted), as are Judd
Apatow and Jake Kasdan for co-writ-
ing the title song for Walk Hard.

Mega Mentsh

Actor Michael J. Fox, 47, is the
co-winner of the Union of Reform
Judaism's Maurice N. Eisendrath
Bearer of Light
award. Fox accepted
the award on Dec.
14 at the Union's
Biennial Convention
in San Diego.
The former star
of TV's Family Ties
Michael J. Fox and Spin City, who
has Parkinson's
disease, has been tireless in his work
for Parkinson's research and has
been a strong advocate for stem-
cell research. Union President Rabbi
Eric Yoffie praised Fox's work as "in
keeping with the highest ideals of
Judaism."
So far as I know, Fox, who was not
born Jewish, has not converted to
Judaism (although that is possible).
He belongs to a Manhattan Reform
synagogue, which he attends with his
Jewish wife, actress Tracy Pollan,

My father used to dream numbers and
have pen and paper by his bedside so he
could write them down. He would bet
them — but always take someone who
was poor with him. He'd ask that person
for a dollar and then put down $50 or
$100 himself, and say, "OK, we're partners:'
He gave half the winnings away to that
person and the rest to my sisters or mom.
He never kept the money himself.

IN: Is there another book or TV show
in the works? What's next for you?
CM: I'm in discussion for a ninth season
of my TV show in Holland and am work-
ing on my sixth book for that country.
I'm open about doing another TV show
in the States (Margolis' show Psychic at
Large aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2006),
but the shows on American TV now tend
toward the sensationalistic. That takes
away from the kind of spiritual teaching I
really want to do. ❑

Char Margolis does an in-store
reading and book signing 2 p.m.
Saturday, Jan.12, at Borders Novi,
43075 Crescent Blvd. This is a free
event, but arrive early to purchase
your book and get a wristband that
will allow you access to the signing
line. Info: (248) 347-0780.

and their four children. The oldest
one has been bar mitzvah.
Fox told the convention that he was
helping his 11-year-old twin daughters
with their Torah homework when they
came across a passage about David's
fight with Goliath. Other Israelites
wanted to give David a sword for the
fight, but David refused.
Fox, making an analogy to misin-
formation about stem-cell research,
said, "I think David understood
something fundamental about the
deepest ideals of repairing the world.
The armor, the weapons, the swords,
they're just distraction – and distrac-
tion is not what wins the battle. You
just need the truth."

TV NOTES

Film buffs may wish to check out the
TCM cable original documentary Val
Lewton: The Man in the Shadows. Val
Lewton (1904-1951) was the producer
in the '40s of a number of cult clas-
sic spooky-arty movies, including the
original Cat People. The doc airs 8
p.m. Monday, Jan.14, and repeats at
midnight. Lewton was born Vladmir
Leventon in the Ukraine and came to
the States in 1909. ❑