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Film Notes

Opening Friday, Oct. 23, is Cirque
Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant,
UNE a sophisticated horror thriller about
1U a 14-year-old suburban boy named
Darren who stumbles on a travel-
ing freak show and learns that one
member is a real-life
vampire. Darren joins the
show and is drawn into
the vampire universe.
Cirque is directed and
co-written by Paul Weitz,
44, the son of the late
fashion designer John
Weitz and actress Susan
Paul Weitz
Kohner, 72.
Always and Forever
is an original Hallmark
Channel movie that pre-
miers 9 p.m. Saturday,
Oct. 24. Rena Sofer, 40,
plays Grace, who meets
up with her old flame
Michael, played by Dean
Rena Sofer
McDermott, real-life hus-
band of Tori Spelling, at their 20-
year high-school reunion. Sofer is
the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi.

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She and her Jewish TV director
husband are raising two daughters.

Beautiful Music

People magazine is reporting that
actress-singer Emmy Rossum
(Phantom of the Opera), 23,
recently sued for divorce by her
under-the-radar music executive
husband, Justin Siegel, and rock
star Adam Duritz, 45, the lead
singer of Counting Crows, are a hot-
and-heavy romantic couple.
Duritz, though a
very average look-
ing guy, is known
as a great ladies'
man; he has dated
such A-listers as
Jennifer Aniston,
Courteney Cox,
Mary Louise
Duritz &
Parker and Winona Rossum
Ryder.
People caught up with the couple
coming out of a Lincoln Center
ballet performance. Duritz said of
Rossum, "She can sing her tush
off. She toured with us onstage, so
I knew how she could sing. I sing
with her all the time. I like to make
music with her." I

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Wishful Drinking is a one-woman
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At Studio 54, 254 W 54th St., (212)
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The Material World features a
Russian Jewish family living in the
Bronx; their daughter, who hangs
out with Madonna and Britney
Spears; and an amateur gay Web cam
pornographer. Oct. 31 only.
At the JCC in Manhattan, 334
Amsterdam Ave., (646) 505-5708.

The Boychick Affair is an audience
participation show featuring the bar
mitzvah of Harry Boychick. The audi-
ence sees the ceremony, mingles, eats a
buffet meal and dances the hora with
the actors. Through Nov. 23.
At the Times Square Arts Center, 669
8th Ave., (800) 838-3006.

The Starry Messenger stars Jewish
actor Matthew Broderick as a strug-
gling astronomy teacher who is tired
of suburban married life and winds

up having a relationship with a
young, single mother. Runs Oct. 24-
Dec. 12.
At the New Group Theatre Row, 410
W. 42nd St., (212) 279-4200.

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Philsicallu, Daring!
Expect the unexpected!

Circumcize Me , a one-man show star-
ring and written by standup comic
Yisrael Campbell (ne Christopher),
recounts his life as a Catholic-born,
teenage drinking young man who
ends up embracing Judaism (first
Reform, then Conservative and finally
Orthodoxy), making aliyah and mar-
rying his Talmud teacher — all while
undergoing three circumcisions. A
documentary of the same name is
currently playing Jewish film festivals.
Runs Nov. 1-Jan. 3.
At the Bleeker St. Theatre, 45 Bleeker
St., (212) 239-6200.

Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through
Tears, presented by the Folksbiene
Yiddish Theater, is written by and stars
Theodore Bikel. The show combines
material from Aleichem's short stories
along with anecdotes and Yiddish
songs. Runs Nov. 8-Dec. 13.
At the Baruch Performing Arts Center,
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