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The Cat in the Hat, Horton and his Whos
and other beloved characters from Dr.
Seuss will come to life when Bloomfield
Players Community Theatre performs
Seussical — The Musical 7:30 p.m. Fridays
and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, March
20-22 and 27-29, at Lahser High School
auditorium in Bloomfield Hills.
The musical is the 20th anniversary
performance for Bloomfield Players, which
presents family entertainment as well as
the opportunity for families to participate
together in community theater.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for
seniors and students, with group rates
available. For tickets or more information,
call (248) 433-0885. The opening-night
performance of Seussical will be a fund-
raiser for Variety-FAR Conservatory of
Therapeutic and Performing Arts, a pro-
gram offering arts and recreation therapy
for people with disabilities. For tickets, call
(248) 646-3347.

The Big Screen

The 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival will
present a full slate of independent, art-

driven and experi-
ings, special events and
mental short, feature-
ticket information, go to
length, animated and
www.aafilmfest.org.
documentary films
March 24-29 at the
The Small
Michigan and State
Gail Zimmerman
Screen
theaters in down-
Arts Editor
town Ann Arbor.
Elizabeth Arden
The AAFF received
was born Florence
more than 2,600 submissions from more
Nightingale Graham and raised in poverty
than 40 countries and will present close to
on a farm in rural Ontario. She came to
200 films. This year's jury includes three
New York in 1907, and began work as a
accomplished film talents: Emily Hubley,
clerk in a beauty shop. By 1910 she had
Rob Todd and Betzy Bromberg, who will
reinvented herself as Elizabeth Arden and
judge approximately 120 films in competi-
opened her own salon.
tion for cash prizes and the chance to go
Helena Rubinstein was born Chaya
on the festival's acclaimed international
Rubinstein in Krakow, Poland, to Jewish
traveling tour.
parents. As a young woman, she fled to
One highlight: Cult animator and
Australia where, in 1906, she opened a shop
Academy Award nominee Don Hertzfeldt
and began selling pots of face cream. In
is coming to the festival for a rare, one-
1914, she arrived in New York and began a
night event on Friday, March 27, present-
lifelong competition with Elizabeth Arden.
ing the exclusive regional premiere of I
The Powder & the Glory, a 90-min-
am so proud of you, the second chapter
ute documentary by filmmakers Arnie
to Everything will be ok, winner of the
Reisman and Ann Carol Grossman, is
Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury
a fascinating look at these pioneering
Award in Short Filmmaking and named
entrepreneurs who, promising youth and
by many critics as one of the "best films
beauty, transformed the idea of cosmetics
of 2007."
from a sign of easy virtue to a necessity
For a complete schedule of film screen-
for all women.

The documentary airs 10 p.m. Monday,
March 23, on Detroit Public Television-
Channel 56.

Author! Author!

In her second novel, Sonata for Miriam,
Swedish-born, New Zealand-based author
Linda Olsson explores the unexpected
consequences of impossible choices and
the significance of understanding the past
in order to fully live our lives.
On the day of his only daughter's death,
composer Adam Anker visits the War
Memorial Museum in New Zealand and
discovers a photograph of a man who
shares Adam's name, or at least the name
he was born with: Adam Lipski.
After a year of mourning, Adam jour-
neys to Poland, where he meets Moishe
Spiewak, an elderly Jew who knew Adam
Lipski and his family well, and who was
one of the last people to see him alive. As
Moishe and Adam's friendship deepens,
Adam begins to understand what hap-
pened to his family.
Olsson reads from and signs copies of
Sonata for Miriam 7 p.m. Thursday, March
26, at Borders, 612 E. Liberty, in Ann
Arbor. (734) 668-7652. El

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Herd Of Hebrews

C) Never has there been in the history
■ of American film comedy so many
hit films featuring a "trifecta" of
Jewish writers, directors and lead
actors/actresses. You can thank
Judd Apatow for starting the ball
roiling as the writer, director and/or
producer of a string of these box-
office hits.
Now comes I Love You, Man, an
Ivan Reitman-produced and John
Hamburg-directed film opening
Friday, March 20, that features sev-
eral members of the "Apatow reper-
tory company."
Apatow-regular
Paul Rudd stars as
Peter, a nice, decid-
edly non-macho
guy who is about to
marry a nice, pretty
girl (Rashida Jones,
Paul Rudd
33). Jones, the

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daughter of actress Peggy
Lizzy Starz
best friends [from childhood] were
Lipton (The Mod Squad)
Lizzy Caplan, 26, co-stars in
on [the trip] with me. I want to go
and African-American
the new original Starz cable
back!"
music legend Quincy
channel series Party Down,
Jones, was raised Jewish
premiering 10:30 p.m. Friday,
Local Connections
and says she is practicing
March 20, about a group of
Comedian Andrew Dice Clay was
Jew.
young people who work for a
bounced at the end of the first epi-
In I Love You, Peter has
Los Angeles catering company
sode of the current edition of Donald
Rashida J ones
a problem – he has no
while otherwise pursu-
Trump's reality show Celebrity
male friends. Hence there's nobody
ing their career dreams.
Apprentice. But Joan Rivers
to ask to be his best man. He decides Caplan plays an aspiring
and her daughter, Melissa,
to quickly make such a friend – and
stand-up comedian, who
seem to be hanging in there.
in this he is advised by his gay
wonders whether she has
Not in any danger of being
brother, played by Saturday Night
the talent to make it in
bounced is local artist Steven
Live's Andy Samberg. After several
showbiz.
Goodman, who designed and
comically awkward failures, Peter
Most recently, Caplan had
made the signs of the celebrity
meets a quirky, free-spirited slacker
a recurring role as Amy,
team names featured on the
played by Jason Segel (Forgetting
a vegan with a taste for
show. Goodman, of Berkley,
Lizzy Caplan
Sarah Marshall). Peter is taken with
blood, in HBO's new vampire
also produces Judaica (ste-
Segel (in a non-romantic way) and
series, True Blood. She is on the
vengoodmandesigns.com ).
spends so much time with him that
cover of the current issue of JVibe,
The recent Isla Fisher film
he jeopardizes his relationship with
the Jewish teen magazine. She
Confessions of a Shopaholic gave a
his fiancee.
told JVibe that she went to Hebrew
credit to therapist-attorney-author
Rudd, 39, who is proudly Jewish, is school, was a bat mitzvah and went
Terence Shulman, who lives in
featured on the cover of this month's to Israel with an ulpan group when
Franklin. In the film, Fisher attends
Vanity Fair as a "new comedy leg-
she was 16. She says, "[Going to
a support group called "Shopaholics
end," along with Segel, Jonah Hill
Israel] was amazing. You're with
Anonymous." Shulman runs the real-
and Seth Rogen.
150 kids your age, and three of my
life site, shopaholicsanonymous.org . 1 ._