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Arts & Entertainment

&About

River Days

GM River Days, a summertime festi-
val sponsored by General Motors, the
Detroit Riverfront Conservancy and the
Parade Company, returns to the Detroit
International Riverfront for a second
year Friday-Monday, June 20-23, with
fun for the entire family. Live music on
six stages, including performances by
the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Rick
Springfield, Michelle Branch, the Verve
Pipe and Brian McKnight; interactive
games; carnival elements; and activi-
ties involving Metro Detroit's fishing
and boating community, including the
Parade of Lights on the Detroit River
at 10:15 p.m. Saturday (anticipated to
be one of the largest boat parades in
the U.S.) are just some of the activities
planned.
Visit a tall ship, the Highlander Sea; view
as many as 100 different boats and vessels
taking part in the Detroit River Cruise;
see an exhibition of hydroplane racing
and demonstrations of jet skiing; take
a one-hour boat cruise on the Diamond

Jack; walk your pet in
tural centers in Detroit
the Pooch-a-Palooza
and Windsor, including
Pet Walk; get mov-
the College for Creative
ing in the 5K Saturn
Studies, Detroit Public
Fun Run — and
Library and University
cap everything off
of Windsor. Juried films
Go il Zimmerman
with the 50th annual
from all over the world
Arts Editor
Target Fireworks,
will be shown during
beginning at 10:06
the four-day festival.
p.m. Monday.
Special activities include a children's
Hours are 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday, 10
program of juried films (as well as films
a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
shown at the East Lansing Children's
Sunday and 10 p.m.-11 p.m. Monday. Most Film Festival) taking place at the Detroit
activities are free. For up-to-date informa- Public Library Main Branch (tickets
tion on schedules and events, go to www.
will be free of charge with registra-
gmriverdays.corn.
tion at DWIFF.org); and a filmmaking
tech fair at College for Creative Studies,
showcasing workshops, lectures, demon-
For Film Buffs
strations and exhibitions on everything
from screenwriting and costume design
Almost 200 hours worth of independent
to stunt fighting and the employment
films — including those that have been
opportunities available with Michigan's
part of Sundance and other renowned
new film incentives package for films
film festivals — will make an inter-
shot in Michigan.
national appearance at the inaugural
Among the mainstream stars appear-
Detroit Windsor International Film
ing in the festival's featured films are
Festival, running June 26-29 at seven cul- Jewish performers Henry Winkler

(fresh off his cameo role in Don't
Mess with the Zohan), who co-stars
in director Ari Palitz's directorial
debut, Unbeatable Harold, based on a
one-act Broadway play about an Elvis
wannabe in Las Vegas who dreams of
becoming the full-time manager of
the Wagontrain Steakhouse; and Sarah
Silverman, who appears in Certifiably
Jonathan, along with other comedians
trying to cheer up Jonathan Winters
after he loses his sense of humor when
one of his paintings is stolen on its way
to the MOMA.
Of particular interest to Jewish viewers
is Refusing to Be Enemies, a made-in-
Michigan documentary about 12 Ann
Arbor women of Palestinian or Jewish
descent and their desire to bridge the gulf
that has developed between the two corn-
munities.
Complete program listings and tickets
are available at DWIFF.org.
Tickets are $8 per screening; senior
and student tickets available for $6
( Unbeatable Harold will be priced sepa-
rately.)

FYI: For Arts related events that you wish to have considered for Out & About, please send the item, with a detailed description of the event, times, dates, place, ticket prices and publishable phone number, to: Gail Zimmerman, JN Out &
About, The Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034; fax us at (248) 304-8885; or e-mail to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com . Notice must be received at least three weeks before the scheduled event.
Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. All events and dates listed in the Out & About column are subject to change.

•MNI

I.

Nate Bloom

Special to the Jewish News

Premieres

Get Smart, a film remake of the hit
1960s spy spoof TV series created
by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry,
opens Friday, June 20. Steve Carel!
I) (The Office) stars as bumbling Agent
Maxwell Smart, Anne Hathaway
portrays Agent 99 and Oscar winner
Alan Arkin plays the Chief, Smart's
spy-agency boss.
Peter Segal (Anger Management)
directs and Bernie Kopell, who had
a recurring role in the TV series as
Siegfried, a hilarious bad guy, has a
cameo in the new movie. Kopell, 74,
went on to bigger fame in the '70s,
co-starring as Dr. Adam Brickner on
The Love Boat.
Showtime's dark comedy series
Weeds, which returned on June 16 for
a fourth season, and TBS's My Boys,
which began its second 10-episode
season on June 10, are bright spots in
an otherwise bleak June TV premiere
schedule heavy with reality shows.
My Boys stars the very cute
Jordana Spiro, 31, as a Chicago
sportswriter. New episodes air
Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. Past episodes
are free on the TBS Web site (a DVD

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of the first season
also is available).
Weeds, airing 10
p.m. Mondays, stars
Mary Louise Parker
as a non-Jewish sub-
urban housewife who
has to take up mari-
juana dealing when
the sudden death of
her Jewish husband
leaves her broke.

Alexander Gould,

14, plays Parker's
son, Shane; and the
very talented Justin
i 't.; Kirk (his mother is
Alexander
Jewish), 39, plays
Gould
her slacker Jewish
brother-in-law.
Albert Brooks, 60, joins Weeds this
season for the first five episodes. He
plays Parker's character's estranged
father-in-law.
The first three seasons of Weeds
are on DVD, and the first episode of
the new season can be viewed free on
the Showtime Web site.

Newman III
Roger Friedman of Fox News, a reli-
able source, reports that screen
legend Paul Newman, 83, has lung

cancer and has been
undergoing treat-
ment at Memorial
Sloan Kettering hos-
pital in New York.
Newman's only
Jewish movie role
was as the sabra
Paul Newman
hero of the 1960
movie Exodus, about
the founding of Israel. Newman has
maintained a few ties to Israel since,
speaking about five years ago to a
group of Haganah veterans living in
America and opening, later this year,
a Hole-in-the Wall camp in Israel for
seriously ill children of any back-
ground. Fourteen such camps now
exist around the world, funded by the
Newman's Own charitable foundation.
All the net profits of the Newman's
Own food company have gone to Paul
Newman, personally. In turn, he has
given them all away ($200 million to
date). Some of the profits go directly
to charities Newman picks and some
of the money goes to the Newman's
Own Foundation for charitable redis-
tribution. Friedman writes that in the
last three years Newman has quietly
turned over his entire $120 million
ownership stake in the food company
to the foundation.

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Newman's father was a secular Jew
and his mother, a Christian Scientist,
tried to get her son to follow her
faith. But Newman resisted, remaining
aloof from organized religion all his
life. He did once say that if he were
"really pressed" he would call himself
a Jew "because it is more of a chal-
lenge." In any case, he is a great actor
who's lived a life of personal rectitude
and astonishing public service.

Oh, Vanity
Sexy actress Gina Gershon, 46, is
fuming about a piece in Vanity Fair
that linked her
romantically with
President Clinton.
Gershon said she's
briefly met Bill
Clinton three times
at public events and
that's the extent of
Gina Gershon
their relationship.
Vanity Fair refused
to retract, pointing out the article
simply said Gershon was one of sev-
eral women Hillary Clinton's aides
thought might be "seeing" the ex-
president.

Contact Nate Bloom at

Middleoftheroad@aol.com.

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