`DELIGHTFUL... A RIP-ROARING GOOD TIME!" Arts & Entertainment —LA Times %A JOYOUS MUSICAL!" Set Your DVRs from page 39 —Cleveland Plain Dealer *Oh** it, 1,444 ttirttn ‘.." * "Alt 14""tlk fisher Theatre • Oct. 15—Nov. 1. Tickets at Fisher Theatre box office & all ticketmaster outlets including select Macy's • Ticketmaster.com • 800-982-2787 Into 313-872-1000 • BroadwaylnDetroit.com • Tour.legallyBlondeTheMusical.com Groups (12+): 313-871-1132 or email GroupSales@NederlanderDetroit.com IN DETROIT Weddings Birthdays eat— • Shiri Appleby (Roswell, ER) stars in the CW midseason series Life Unexpected as a radio personality who gets a shock when the teenage daughter she gave up for adoption — and the high-school beau who got her pregnant — come back into her life. Appleby is the daughter of an Israeli mom. 17 Mark Your Calendars A healthy mix of televisions shows featuring Jewish characters and themes will air this fall — and not just on PBS as often is the case. Here is a list of those scheduled to date. Our Disappeared/Nuestro Desparecidos, 9 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21, on many NCIS, beginning 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, on CBS. Mossad agent on loan Bar/Bat Mitzvahs Showers Reunions Annivemries tic WE CATER AT MOST SYNAGOGUES, TEMPLES, HOTELS AND THE HALLS OFYOUR CHOICE 14 '11 • Julianna Margulies, 43, plays a wife and mother who re-enters the workforce as an attorney after her husband (Chris Noth) lands in jail following an embar- rassing political corruption scandal on The Good Wife, premiering 10 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, on CBS. PBS stations. Director Juan Mandelbaum returns to his native Argentina in search of friends and loved ones (many of them Jewish) who disappeared 1976-1983, during the years of the brutal right-wing military dictatorship. #4, Banquets • Looking ahead to midseason, Dave Franco (Superbad, Privileged), younger brother of actor James Franco, will play an inept medical student whose rich father donates a wing to the med school in the reboot of ABC's Scrubs, which will air 9 p.m. Tuesdays after Dancing with the Stars wraps. Franco, 24, was raised Jewish by his mother, whose ancestors emigrated from Russia. It-t‘• L. -BROADWAY Enthusiasm, which premieres 9 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20, on HBO."You will get an idea of what happened 11 years later," says David, 62, who co-created the classic sitcom. "The cast members will be playing themselves on epi- sodes scattered through the season!' Seinfeld also will be Jay Leno's first guest on his new nightly variety/talk show, debuting 10 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, on NBC. Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) will not be recalled to Israel and will play an increasingly important (and some say romantic) role this year. Numb3rs, beginning 10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, on CBS. The Eppes family, FBI agent Don and little brother/math genius Charlie, team up to catch bad guys using equations and games. Herb & Dorothy, 10 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, on many PBS stations. wt, JEWEL CLASSIC CUISINE Approved by Council of Orthodox Rabbis KOSHER CATERERS PHILIP TUE, food & Beverage Director 148-6614050 farmington Bills Following a brief theatrical release, this Independent Lens doc tells the story of Herb and Dorothy Vogel who, on two civil servants' salaries, amassed a multimillion-dollar art collection, largely by recognizing qual- ity works by then unknown artists. Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags, 9 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, on HBO. The story of the New York City garment industry, for generations a road leading to the American Dream. The People vs. Leo Frank, 10 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, on many PBS sta- tions. Explores one of the most sensational murder cases in American history. It ended, of course, with a lynching. Home of the Eggstra Big Breakfast Three eggs any style with choice of sausage links, bacon or ham with toast and jelly Mon thru Fri 5am-1 lam only • Dine-in or Carry-out • Senior Citizen Discount 10% No Senior Citizen Discount with any daily specials 26200 W. 12 Mile Rd. • Southfield • 248-353-3232 42 September 3 • 2009 The Jazz Baroness, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 25, on HB02. A member of the rich French banking family, Baroness Pannonica Rothschild's life changed when she heard a recording of "'Round Midnight." Known as Nica and raised in a religious household, she left her family and five chil- dren, went to New York and had a 10-year relationship with jazz master Thelonious Monk, the man who wrote the song. Among other oddities, drug addict Charlie Parker died in her apartment. WWII in HD November (dates and times to be announced), on the History Channel. A 10-part series; one of the soldiers interviewed is Jack Werner, an immigrant from Vienna, who served in the Pacific Theater. - Curt Schleier