Your Best Friend at the Zoo 10 a.m. to

5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 14-15,
in the zoo's front parking lot beneath the
landmark water tower. Hundreds of dogs,
cats, puppies and kittens will be available
for immediate adoption to loving homes.
No admission or parking charge for the
adoption event only. Information: (866)
648-6263; michiganhumane.org .
Michael Goldman presents the 22nd
annual Motor City Comic Con, with
comic book and multimedia dealers from
across the country offering a variety of
pop culture merchandise, including com-
ics, art, tee shirts, movie memorabilia,
posters and more, 12:30-7 p.m. Friday,
10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5
p.m. Sunday, May 13-15, at the Suburban
Collection Showplace, 46100 Grand River,
in Novi. More than 250 comic book cre-
ators, writers and artists will be on site, as
well as more than 40 actors from the tele-
vision and sci-fi movie industry. Adults:
one-day, $22 advance, $25 at the door;

weekend, $50 advance, $55 at the door.
Ages 6-10: one day, $10; weekend, $20.
Under 5, free. (248) 426-8059; motorcity-
comiccon.com .
The Detroit Institute of Arts hosts
Grandparents Day 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Saturday, May 14. Grandchildren are free
with adult general admission or DIA
membership. See puppet performances
of Little Red Riding Hood at 11 a.m. or
2 p.m., make some art together and have
a complimentary picture taken. Free valet
parking for grandparents. dia.org .

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Day at Eastern Market on Sunday, May
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Jews

Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News

Family Tales

Opening in movie theaters Friday,
May 13, is Hesher, a nominee for
the 2010 Sundance Grand Jury
Prize and the first film produced
by Natalie Portman's production
company. It's also the first feature
for director-writer
Spencer Susser,
34.
The film centers
on 13-year-old T.J.
(Devin Brochu).
After the tragic
loss of his mother,
T.J. and his pill-
Spencer
popping father
Susser
(Rainn Wilson)
are forced to live with T.J.'s elderly
grandmother (Piper Laurie, 79).
Enter Hesher (Joseph Gordon-
Levitt, 30), a "bad-ass"-looking
drifter with a lot of tattoos and a
troubled past. He sometimes men-
tors T.J. and sometimes gets him in
trouble.
A young grocery clerk (Portman,
29) steps in to protect T.J. and
becomes the object of his fanta-
sies. Meanwhile, Hesher moves into
Grandma's home and proceeds to
shake the family out of their torpor.
Susser told the Jewish Journal
of Greater L.A. that Gordon-Levitt
had to work hard to convince him he
could play Hesher. He said: "In many
ways, [the actor] is the opposite of
Hesher he's like this nice Jewish
boy."

A very different family — the
British royals — invited an unlikely
Jewish matchmaker to the recent
royal wedding between Prince
William and Kate Middleton.
His name is Sam Waley-Cohen,
and he is a top U.K. amateur jock-
ey. Sam's father is a major race-
horse owner and the founder of a
very successful diagnostic imag-
ing company. His paternal grandfa-
ther and great-grandfather, who were
both knighted, also were successful
businessmen.
In 2007, Whaley-Cohen invited
Prince William and Kate Middleton to
a party at his family's mansion.
The couple
had been
broken up
for months,
but they
reconnected
romantically
at the party
and the rest is
Waley-Cohen
history.
and Kate Middleton
Most
sources say that Waley-Cohen, 28,
was taking too little credit when he
recently told Yahoo News: "I don't
know for sure if I had anything to do
with it. They have both been friends
of mine for a long time, and they
make a fantastic couple.... Wherever
it happened, I like to think they got
back together of their own accord,
and we are all delighted that they
did." Li

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