Arts & Entertainment

JCC JEWISH BOOK FAIR

Foreword: Special Events At Book Fair

Come hear of mysteries unraveled, learn the "why" of the
2008 financial crisis and taste some yummy food!

Patror Night

Tuesday, Nov. 3 — WB
Martin Indyk, Innocent Abroad: An
Intimate Account of American Peace
Diplomacy in the Middle East.
7:45 p.m.: The ambassador to Israel under
President Bill Clinton and a lead negotiator
at Camp David, Martin Indyk provides an
insider's look at Israel and its Arab neighbors.
$10 JCC members/$12 nonmem-
bers/$15, all tickets at the door. Preceded
by a reception (paying patrons only) at
6:30 p.m.

JET Presentation

Wednesday Nov. 4 — WB
Kitty Dubin, The Blank Page.
4 p.m.: Begin by seeing the 2 p.m. play,
the story of a professor filled with self-
doubt, at the Jewish Ensemble Theatre, fol-
lowed by a talk by the playwright, Oakland
University Professor Kitty Dubin.

Cooking Demonstration
Arro Tasting

Wednesday, Nov. 4 — WB
Shawna Goodman, Panache: Montreal's
Flair for Kosher Cooking.
6:30 p.m.: Enjoy new and traditional
recipes from Canada's best-selling kosher
cookbook.
Cost: $18.

Book Club Night

Thursday, Nov. 5 — WB
Norman Lebrecht, The Game of Opposites,
a novel that considers morals in a post-
war world.

7:15 p.m. (paying patrons only): Book
Lover's Package, $30, includes presale copy
of book, private book signing and dessert
reception; $18 dessert reception (book not
included).
8 p.m.: presentation free and open to
the public.

Business Breakfast

Friday, Nov. 6 — WB
Barry Ritholtz, Bailout Nation: How Greed
and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and
Shook the World Economy.
7:30 a.m.: One of today's most popular
bloggers looks at the financial crisis of 2008.
Cost: $10.

Local Author Event

Sunday, Nov. 8 — WB
10 a.m.–noon: Featuring Jane Alkon, Betty
Coven, David Crumm, Paul Ehrmann,
Corey Perlman, Gary Graff, Robert Green,
Ronelle Grier, Reginald Keith, Michael
Kovnat, Judge Zina Kramer, Susan Messer,
Jon Milan, Robert Newman, Sophia
Rivkin, Jamie Rubin, Joanne Levin Vine
and Jeannie Weiner.

Family Program

Sunday, Nov. 8 — OP & WB
Debra Darvick, I Love Jewish Faces — A
collection of photos reflecting the diversity
of the Jewish community. Marcia
Fishman, Rudolph's Nose Knows — A
brave dog shows that every life can make
an important contribution, with guest
appearance by Rudolph. Fran Manushkin,
The Tushy Book — A lighthearted look at

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Special to the Jewish News

Big Apple Tales

New York, I Love You, opening Friday,
Oct. 30, is an anthology of 11 short
films, whose respective directors were
given certain restrictions: Each film
had to have some sort of romantic
encounter, could not run more than
eight minutes and had to reasonably
meld (no blackouts) into the next film.
The same restrictions applied to
a similar anthology, 2008's Paris,
Je t'aime. The company that made
both films plans to release Rio and
Shanghai-based films in 2010 and, in
2011, Mumbai and Jerusalem films.
Jewish directors who made New
York film segments include Brett
Ratner (Rush Hour), Israeli-born

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French filmmaker
Yvan Attal, actress
Natalie Portman
and Joshua Marston
(Maria, Full of Grace).
Jewish members
of the star-laden
cast include West
Bloomfield-raised
Justin Bartha, 31;
Rachel Bilson, 28; James Caan, 69;
Shia LaBeouf, 23; Eli Wallach, 93;
Anton Yelchin, 20, and Portman, 28.
In her acting segment, directed by
Mira Nair of Monsoon Wedding fame,
Portman plays a Chasidic Jew who
is about to get married. She play-
fully haggles with an Asian Indian
diamond merchant about the price of
his wares. As they speak, they have
romantic daydream fantasies about

the world of tushies.
12:30 p.m. in Oak Park; 3 p.m. in West
Bloomfield:

Hadasbah Lancheui,,

Tuesday, Nov.10 — WB
Kati Marton, Enemies of the People: My
Family's Journey to America, a memoir tell-
ing about the author's parents' lives under
the Nazis in Hungary, their imprisonment
by the Soviets and her own discovery that
she is Jewish.
11:30 a.m.: $48 for lunch, book and
author presentation/$30 for lunch and
author presentation/$22 for book only.
For tickets, please call Hadassah at
(248) 683-5030.

The Illumination

Luncheon

Wednesday, Nov. 11— OP
Karen Tintori and Jill Gregory, The
Illumination: A Novel, in which a woman
investigates the murder of her sister and
the curious necklace she received before
her death.
Noon: Luncheon ($18); 12:30 p.m.:
Lecture (free).

Brunch With The
Authors

Thursday, Nov. 12 — WB
11:30 a.m.: Dara Horn, All Other Nights,
story of a Jewish family with loyalties to
both sides in the Civil War. Sally Koslow,
The Late, Lamented Molly Marx, in which
a Manhattan wife looks at her life — from
the hereafter. Steve Luxenberg, Annie's

each other – fanta-
sies that would take
them away from their
tradition-bound reli-
gious communities.
Marston directed
the film's last seg-
ment, a sweet story
Justin Bartha
about a bickering
but loving elderly Jewish couple
(Wallach and Cloris Leachman). The
camera follows them as they make
their way to Coney Island to cele-
brate their 63rd wedding anniversary.

Spooky Stuff

Composer Vic Mizzy, who died Oct.
19 at age 93, wasn't exactly a house-
hold name, but one of his songs
– the TV theme song for the Addams
Family – is a Halloween-time favorite.

Ghosts:A Journey Into a Family Secret, the
true story of two sisters in Depression-
era Detroit; Beth moves out and marries
— but what happened to Annie?
Cost: $30.

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Film Festival Event

Saturday, Nov. 14 — WB
Bryan Mark Rigg, Lives of Hitler's Jewish
Soldiers: Untold Tales of Men of Jewish
Descent Who Fought for the Third Reich, an
extraordinary look at the soldiers of Jewish
ancestry who served in the Wehrmacht
and Waffen-SS from 1939-1945.
7:30 p.m.: Includes a screening of the
film Hitler's Jewish Soldiers.
Cost: $10, one movie ticket; $32, one
movie ticket and one book; $42, two movie
tickets and one book.

Detroit Public Television
Special

Sunday, Nov. 15 — WB
Sue Marx and Allyson Rockwell, Detroit
Remember When: The Jewish Community
6:45 p.m.: The premiere of a Detroit
Public Television documentary exploring
the history and contributions of the Jewish
community in southeast Michigan.

— Elizabeth Applebaum

NOTE: For roundups of additional authors

making appearances, please see the following

"Chapters" beginning on page 48. If an author

appears in "Special Events," he or she may not

be listed for the same appearance in a subse-
quent article.

The producers of
the ghoulish '60s TV
comedy asked Mizzy
to write the theme
from "stock" music.
Mizzy countered by
offering them an origi-
A
nal theme song (words
Vic Mizzy
and music), provided
he would own the song's copyright.
They agreed, and Mizzy later said it
was the "best deal I ever made."
Mizzy sang all the song parts him-
self. Decades of reruns made the
theme's "Dah-dah-dah-dum! Snap!
Snap!" one of the best-known pop
culture musical riffs. Its popularity
bought Mizzy a Beverly Hills man-
sion. Mizzy also wrote the words
and music for the memorable Green
Acres TV theme song.

