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The Israeli film By Summer's End is a

Cliff Monear and Nicole New will perform music by The JCC in Oak Park hosts

Annie composer Charles Strouse will

multi-generational family tale set in a

Jewish composers from the 1940s-1990s.

jazz artist Barbara Ware, who

regale audiences in a special fund-

rural community in Israel as the 1978

will bring her interpretations to

raiser for the JCC.

peace accords with Egypt are about to

Jewish music.

be signed.

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bility" when it came to humor, and Will
Farrell, who was said to have "a feminine
sensibility."
"Women and men both joke about all
sorts of things!' Kohen said, and are likely
to find something funny or not "based on
personal experience and the taboos and
mores of a certain ere (Kohen says she
knows plenty of women who "find fart
jokes funny.")
We Kill is Kohen's first book, and she con-
tinues her successful career in journalism.
And like many of the comedians she
admires, she has a sense of humor about
herself. Instead of waxing philosophic
about the importance of dedication to
work, she confesses to being a bit of a
procrastinator.
"My work schedule?" she says. "Well,
I'd get up, and then I'd get some coffee,
and then I'd say that I'm hungry so I
need something to eat, and then I would
finally write"

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Nate Bloom

Special to the Jewish News

Worth Watching

The HBO publicity release begins:

W "Before Mary Albert and Bob Costas,

Aid there was Marty Glickman (1917-
NM 2001).
"A gifted Jewish-American athlete
who was denied the chance to rep-
resent the U.S. at the 1936 Berlin
Olympics, he went on to become one
of the most revered and influential
sportscasters in history, pioneering
many of the tech-
niques, phrases and
programming innova-
tions that are com-
monplace in sports
reporting today."
The documen-
tary Glickman debuts
Glickman
on HBO at 9 p.m.

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August 22 • 2013

Picture This!
"Trust yourself," Golda Meir said. "Create
the kind of self that you will be happy to
live with all your life. Make the most of
yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks
of possibility into flames of achieve-
ment"
Israel's fourth prime minister served
as a role model for Zionists and women
everywhere, and she continues to inspire
many to this day.
Broadway, film and TV actress Tovah
Feldshuh will star in Golda's Balcony at
the Berman Center for the Performing
Arts on Saturday, Aug. 31, and Sunday,
Sept. 1.
"When Tovah was here in Witches
of Lublin, she was so wonderful and
delightful that we wanted to give every-
one another treat to see her again," said
Sarah Gottlieb, co-founder, with her
husband, Harold, of the Gottlieb Family
Festival of the Arts. "Hers is a perfor-

Monday, Aug. 26, with many encore
showings.
Glickman, who began working for
HBO at its start (1972), was born
and raised in New York City. A high
school track and football star, he
went on to be named an All-American
when he played football for Syracuse
University. In 1936, he and sprinter
Sam Stoller (1915-88) were the only
Jews on the American Olympic track
and field team. At the last minute,
they were benched in favor of two
other runners.
Glickman was convinced they were
benched because the track coach and
the head of the American Olympic
Committee were anti-Semites. In
1998, the head of the U.S. Olympic
Committee gave Glickman a special
gold medal, concluding that the evi-
dence of anti-Semitism was over-
whelming.

mance that should not be missed"
Additionally, two of Metro Detroit's
leading artists will together create a
portrait of Golda Meir — and guests can
watch as they work.
Tony Roko's clients include Coca-Cola,
Vitamin Water, Vibe magazine and the
Dance Theater of Harlem. Recently com-
missioned to paint an official portrait
of Lady Gaga, his works hang in the
Michigan State Capitol Building, the
Charles H. Wright Museum of African
American History and the Motown
Historical Museum. Most recently, he
was featured in Ford Company's "Go
Further" ad campaign.
Bowen Kline is a Southfield native
whose works are held in private col-
lections in New York, Miami and
Chicago among other cities, as well as in
Michigan in Artspace II in Birmingham,
in Grand Rapids and Oak Park. He
makes his home in Romeo and has gar-

Glickman's disappointment was
deep and lifelong, but it didn't stop
him from becoming the voice of the
New York Knicks, Jets and Giants and
a mentor to many household names,
like Mary Albert.

Film Notes

Opening Aug. 23 is the film The
Spectacular Now, which has great
advance buzz as an intelligent por-
trait of youthful romance. It was
adapted for the screen by Scott
Neustader and Marc H. Weber, who
also co-wrote the
clever and touching
500 Days of Summer
(2010).
Miles Teller plays
Sutter, a high school
senior and effortless
charmer who unex-
Leigh
pectedly falls in love

nered a reputation for his expressive por-
traits and nudes.
The two collaborated for a year, and
a new exhibit, presented in conjunction
with the Gottlieb Family Festival of the
Arts, will reveal the magic they worked
together. "Out with the New, In with the
Old" opens at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22,
at the Janice Charach Gallery.
Following the 2 p.m. matinee of
Golda's Balcony, the two will create an
on-the-spot painting of the Israeli leader.
"We research an inspiration photo of
her, and then we both pick our sides and
start painting together at the same time,"
Kline says of the event. "This process
forces us out of our norm and helps us
evolve as artists. We have to work togeth-
er in order to be successful!'

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Elizabeth Applebaum is marketing director at
the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan
Detroit.

with Aimee (Shailene Woodley), "a
nice girl." Jennifer Jason Leigh, 51,
appears as Sutter's mother.
Also note that In a World, the
voiceover comedy-drama written and
directed by and starring actress Lake
Bell (Bell's father is Jewish, but she
doesn't identify as Jewish), with Fred
Melamed, 57, as her father, has had
its opening date moved to Aug. 23.

Nebbish No More

Digital cable channel Reelz broad-
casts Delete, which debuts at 4 p.m.
Friday, Aug, 23. It stars Seth Green,
39, as a guy battling self-aware com-
puters who are trying to destroy man-
kind. Green, who is best known for
playing the nebbishy son of Dr. Evil in
the Austin Powers movies, is anything
but nebbishy in this movie: He sports
a full beard and wields an assault
rifle.

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