Business & Professional

Film Staging

Guy Stern Wins
German Lit Prize

Studio center is taking shape.

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o attract more films and televi-
sion productions, three new
stages, support space and addi-
tional office space are in development at
the Allen Park Studio Center (APSC). The
first step was the recent pouring of more
than 150,000 square feet of concrete for
the stage floors.
Several productions have already used
the APSC, with more slated to come to
the complex in the next year. The new
construction, which will not interfere
with productions already under way, will
add two 20,000-square-foot stages for
feature film and television production and
one 12,000-square-foot stage for green
screen and commercials in a large facility
originally built for the auto industry. The
complex is adding 20,000 square feet of
production office space and 40,000 square
feet of space for film support companies.
The APSC is at 16630 Southfield Road,
south of 1-94, in Allen Park.
S3 Entertainment Group (S3), a
Michigan-based production company and

a liaison in bringing film productions into
the state, has entered into a preliminary
long-term agreement with Allen Park to
manage operations and production devel-
opment at the APSC.
With S3 involvement, a number of
film industry support businesses have
expressed significant interest in locating
their operations at the APSC, including
post- production facilities, visual and
special effects, grip, electric, and specialty
equipment, set design/construction, and
insurance/film finance, officials said.
"The Allen Park Studio Center project is
evolving into so much more than initially
anticipated and is now generating signifi-
cant interest from the industry,"Allen Park
Mayor Gary Burtka said.
"We have had great success in mak-
ing sure productions are satisfied with
the resources we have here in Michigan
to keep them coming back:' said Jeff
Spilman, managing partner of S3. "With
the attention that the city has given to
growing this industry, we plan on working

Family Services At Kol Ami
Temple Kol Ami is inviting prospective
members to join us for two different fam-
ily-friendly Shabbat programs in August that
include food and a family oriented one-hour
Shabbat service.

On Friday, Aug. 13, the service begins at
6:30 p.m. and will be followed by a Sushi
Oneg. On Friday, Aug. 20, at 5:45 p.m. Cruise
N' Schmooze Shabbat begins with a picnic
style dinner including hot dogs, ice cream.
Service that evening begins at 6:30 pm.

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S3 managing partner Jeff Spilman

together in making the Allen Park Studio
Center into the filming destination in the
Midwest."
Existing tenants at the complex include
Stautzenberger Institute, Roush Industries,
CFS, and Unity Studios/LIMS. While a ten-
ant at the site, Unity Studios is no longer
a part of the project's studio development
plan. ❑

Respond for either Shabbat by calling
(248) 661-0040 or e-mailing julie@tkolami.
org . For information, check the website at
www.tkolami.org or call the Temple Kol Ami
office.

Johnny Pomodoro's
Market Celebrates

ohnny Pomodoro's Fresh
Market will host its two-
year anniversary celebration
Thursday, Aug. 12.
In appreciation of its loyal custom-
ers, the market will offer 20 percent off
every purchase that day.
There will be giveaways, cooking
demonstrations and an array of special-
ty food samples from each of the food
departments.
Tuesdays are senior citizen dis-
count days with seniors 60 and better
receiving a 10 percent discount on all
purchases. ❑

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Complete
d bathroom remodeling as well as furniture
design and installations including granite, wood and othee -materials.

Johnny Pomodoro's Fresh Market is at

32906 Middlebelt Road, Farmington Hills

(www.johnnypomodoros.com ).

Lois Haron Allied Member ASID 248.851.6989

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August 5 • 2010

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r. Guy Stern of West Bloomfield,
distinguished professor
emeritus at Detroit's Wayne
State University, will receive the Geertje
Potash-Suhr Prize for Prose in German
from the Society for Contemporary
American Literature in German.
Stern is receiving
this award for his
years as a prominent
scholar and beloved
teacher with a variety
of scholarly and liter-
ary texts that draw
from his vast knowl-
Guy Stern
edge and many expe-
riences, mixed with
"wit and wisdom uniquely (his) own:'
said Frederick A. Lubich, president of the
society.
Stern retired from WSU in 2003
and became director of the Zekelman
International Institute of the Righteous
at the Holocaust Memorial Center in
Farmington Hills. The Institute pays
tribute to those who supported and res-
cued others at great risk to themselves
and their families.
He is the sole surviving member
of a Jewish family from Hildesheim,
Germany, that was lost in the Holocaust.
As the oldest child and only son, his
parents sent him to America, where he
joined his uncle's family in St. Louis and
resumed high school.
Among his most deeply held goals
was a desire to return to Europe to fight
against the Nazis. The U.S. Army estab-
lished a special training base at Camp
Ritchie in Maryland to prepare experts
on Germany, many of them Jewish exiles,
to be spies, interrogators and translators.
Stern served as a master sergeant in
the Army's military intelligence service,
taking part in the Normandy invasion.
Christian Bauer's 2004 film The Ritchie
Boys captures their experiences.
Stern won a Bronze Star for his inno-
vative interrogation techniques created
and applied during the war.
He co-created the academic discipline
Exile Studies, which focuses on the
contributions of authors, poets, play-
wrights and others forced to leave their
country of birth. He has received the
Distinguished Germanist of the Year, the
Grand Order of Merit, the Goethe Medal
of the Federal Republic of Germany and
an honorary doctorate from Hofstra
University in New York. n