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Fabulous Photos
The University of Michigan's Frankel
Center for Judaic Studies and Institute
for the Humanities presents "Look
Given/Looks Taken: Jews and Urban
Photography" March 10-May 16 at the U-
M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202
S. Thayer, in Aim Arbor.
Reflecting the rich heritage of urban
photography Jews have created from 1936
New York to Los Angeles in the 1990s, the
,
,4J it
Morris Engel: East Side Sweet Evelyn,
New York City, 1938.
exhibit showcases
an ongoing dialogue
between three gen-
erations of photog-
raphers, including
Bruce Davidson,
Morris Engel, Lauren
Greenfield, Sid Grossman, William Klein,
Rebecca Lepcoff, Leon Levinstein, Richard
Nagler and Weegee.
An opening reception takes place 4:30-6
p.m. Wednesday, March 19, with a gallery
talk by curators Deborah Dash Moore and
MacDonald Moore at 5:15 p.m. A collo-
quium in conjunction with the exhibition,
with English Language and Literature
Associate Professor Sara Blair speaking
on "The View From Below: The Lower
East Side & the Vision of Modernity," will
be held noon Thursday, March 13, at 202
Thayer, Room 2022.
Also, a film series will be presented 4-6
p.m. in Room 2022 on the following dates:
Tuesday, March 11: The Naked City.
Subtitled "The Most Exciting Story of the
World's Most Exciting City; this 1948 film,
directed by Jules Dassin with screenplay
by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald and nar-
ration by Mark Hellinger, is based on the
photos of Weegee. It won two Oscars and is
considered a turning point in film noir.
Wednesday, March 12:
Little Fugitive. This 1953
movie from filmmakers
Ray Ashley, Morris Engel
and Ruth Orkin is about
a 7-year-old boy who is
tricked into believing he
killed his older brother; he flees Brooklyn
and ends up on Coney Island. The film is
credited with influencing French New Wave
filmmakers like Francois Truffaut.
Tuesday, March 18: Thin. This 2006
documentary film from director Lauren
Greenfield takes viewers inside the walls
of a residential facility for the treatment of
women with eating disorders.
Gallery hours are 9-5 p.m. Mondays-
Fridays. All free and open to the public.
Groups are welcome. (734) 936-3518 or
www.lsa.umich.edu/judaic;
lsa.umich.eduthumin.
Family Days
Now in its fifth year, Ann Arbor Family
Days — a collaboration of 12 Aim Arbor-
area cultural organizations presenting free
and low-cost family-friendly cultural events
— takes place Saturday and Sunday, March
8 and 9, in venues throughout Ann Arbor.
Activities include live music and dance
performances, interactive science exhibits
and fun writing and art making projects
— all concentrated near the downtown
and U-M Central Campus area. Appropriate
activities are designated by age, and many
events are free and open to the public.
Participating organizations include
826 Michigan, dedicated to supporting
the creative and expository writing skills
of students ages 6-18; the Ann Arbor
District Library; the Ann Arbor Hands-
On Museum; the Ann Arbor Symphony
Orchestra; the Ann Arbor School for the
Performing Arts; the Main Street Area
Association; the U-M Center for Southeast
Asian Studies; the U-M Exhibit Museum of
Natural History; the U-M Kelsey Museum
of Archaeology; the U-M Matthaei
Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum;
the U-M Museum of Art; and the U-M
Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments.
For a complete schedule and more infor-
mation on events and tickets, go to www
annarbor.org/family days.
Artful Spaces
New exhibits around town are filling art
spaces with interesting exhibits featuring
Jewish artists.
At Paul Kotula Projects, 23255
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Jews
Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News
Keep On Dancin'
The 12 celebrities
who will appear on
the next round of
the hit ABC series
Dancing with the
Stars, premiering
8 p.m. Monday,
March 17, have been
Steve
announced. Three
Guttenberg
are Jewish: actor
Steve Guttenberg (Police Academy),
49; Martee Matlin, the Oscar-win-
ning deaf actress who is now on
Showtime's The L Word, 42; and
Marissa Jaret Winokur, 35, who won
a Tony playing the lead role in the
original Broadway musical version of
Hairspray.
Expect Matlin's deafness to attract
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a lot of interest and comments.
Personally, I'm intrigued at how well
she will be able to dance without
being able to hear the music.
Other celebs on the show this sea-
son include Adam Carolla, Priscilla
Presley, Shannon Elizabeth, Penn
Gillette, Monica Seles and Kristi
Yamaguchi.
Former Beverly Hills 90210 co-
star Ian Ziering, 43, competed
on Dancing last year and finished
fourth. The show helped rekindle a
little public interest in the actor and
no doubt lead to his job as the host
of the new Lifetime cable show Your
Mama Don't Dance, airing 9 p.m.
Fridays.
This show's gimmick is that 10 pro
dancers – five men and five women
– will dance with their real-life par-
ent of the opposite gender. In the
words of the series' publicity release:
"[It] explores the sometimes love-
hate but always complicated rela-
tionship between kids and their par-
ents. These dancers will be counting
on their parents to learn the moves
to help them realize their dreams,
while their parents will undoubtedly
feel the pressure to work harder
than ever to keep in step and not let
their kids down."
Black Is Back
Lewis Black, 59, became a hot comic
at a much older age than most come-
dians. He was raised in a middle-
class Jewish home, was a bar mitz-
vah and earned a master's degree
from the Yale School of Drama. He
started out as a playwright.
About 10 years ago, he began
to break big with an HBO comedy
special. Shortly thereafter, he began
doing his "angry man" rants on Jon
Stewart's The Daily
Show on Comedy
Central. Black's
comedy is acer-
bic but ultimately
moralistic, and his
anger is literate, as
opposed to just stu-
Lewis Black
pid or vicious.
Black's new
Comedy Central series, Root of All
Evil, is tailored to fit his style. The
show pits two people, such as Paris
Hilton and Dick Cheney, or pop-
culture topics, such as YouTube vs.
porn, against each other in an open
debate setting. A rotating group of
comedians will take the stage and
argue who or what is most evil,
with Black making the final decision
between the two.
Root of All Evil premieres 10:30
p.m. Wednesday, March 12.