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Birmingham Temple's Vivace Series pres-
ents Chamber Soloists of Detroit ... in
Quattro!, a program comprising music for
duo, trio and piano quartet, with violinist
Aaron Berofsky, violist Kathryn Votapek,
cellist Erik Asgeirsson and pianist Pauline
Martin, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9, at the
temple in Farmington Hills. Refreshments
and afterglow follow the concert. $28/$25
members and seniors/$10 students. (248)
788-9338 or (248) 661-1348;
vivaceseries.org.

POP / ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK

The Green Wood Coffee House Series
presents Chuck Brodsky, known for his
humorous observational lyrics and songs
about baseball, at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, at
the Green Wood Church in Ann Arbor. $15.
Reservations suggested: (734) 662-4536;
greenwoodcoffeehouse.org .
Just 21 years old, Jewish-American
rapper-songwriter Jake Miller, a Florida
native, is already signed to Warner Brothers
Records and takes the stage at St. Andrews
Hall in Detroit on Wednesday, Nov. 5. All
ages welcome. Doors at 7 p.m. Tickets start
at $27.50. livenation.com .

ON THE STAGE

Stagecrafters presents Jon Robin Baitz's
Other Desert Cities, a 2012 finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize for Drama about a family
with different political views and a long-
held family secret, Oct. 31-Nov. 16 at the

Jews

Baldwin Theatre in Royal
Oak. $18-$20/$2 more at
the door. Show times and
tickets: (248) 541-6430;
stagecrafters.org.

ing its Detroit debut
in Giselle, perhaps the
world's most roman-
tic ballet, at 7:30 p.m.
Albert Uhry's Driving
Saturday and 2:30 p.m.
Miss Daisy, set from 1948-
Sunday, Nov. 1-2, at the
Gail Zimmerman
1972 in the Deep South
Detroit Opera House.
Arts Editor
and telling the story of a
Giselle tells the story of
72-year-old Jewish woman
a beautiful peasant girl
who is too stubborn to admit she needs
deceived by a nobleman, her transforma-
assistance, the illiterate black man hired to
tion into a Wili (the ghosts of women
be her chauffeur and the strong but reluc-
betrayed on their wedding day) and her
tant bond that grows between them, will be
forgiveness of her errant lover that results
performed at 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7:30
in his salvation. The libretto was partially
p.m. Saturday, and 1 and 5 p.m. Sunday,
inspired from a prose passage written by
Oct. 31-Nov. 1, at Detroit's City Theatre.
German-Jewish-born poet and essayist
$30. (800) 745-3000;
Heinrich Heine. A free dance talk begins
olympiaentertainment.com .
one hour prior to each performance. $25-
Macomb Center for the Performing
$83. (313) 237-7464; michiganopera.org.
Arts in Clinton Township hosts a produc-
tion of the Richard Rodgers and Oscar
LAUGH LINES
Hammerstein II classic Carousel at 2 and
7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, and 3 p.m. Sunday,
Dave Attell, perhaps most well-known for
Nov. 2. $54-$59. (586) 286-2222;
his Comedy Central shows Insomniac and
macombcenter.com .
Comedy Underground, takes the stage at
Featuring some of the most popular hit
Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle in Royal Oak
songs of the '80s and '90s, Girls Night: The
at 8 p.m. Thursday ($25), and 8 and 10:30
Musical takes audiences on a journey into
p.m. Friday and Saturday ($30), Nov. 6-8.
the lives of a group of female friends as they (248) 542-9900; comedycastle.com .
relive their past, celebrate their present and
THE BIG SCREEN
look to the future on a wild night out. It
runs at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 3 and 8
The East Lansing Film Festival, running
p.m. Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6-9,
Friday-Thursday, Oct. 30-Nov. 6, offers
at the City Theatre in Detroit. $38. (800)
two films of particular Jewish interest: the
745-3000; olympiaentertainment.com.
documentary The Jewish Cardinal, tell-
DANCE FEVER
ing the story of Jewish-born Jean-Marie
Lustiger, who converts to Catholicism
The Michigan Opera Theatre hosts the
and rises in the ranks of the Catholic

Nate Bloom

Special to the Jewish News

At The Movies
Opening Friday, Oct. 31, just in time
for Halloween, is Horns, a horror-
thriller. Daniel Radcliffe, 25, stars as
Ig Perrish, a small-town guy whose
life is devastated when his girlfriend-
since-childhood (Juno Temple) is
murdered. Everyone in town thinks
he killed her, although he isn't
charged with her murder.
A year after her death, Perrish
wakes up one morning to find he's
grown a pair of horns. He's surprised
to find out the horns have supernat-
ural powers that make people reveal
their darkest secrets
to him — including
clues to solve his
girlfriend's murder.
Appearing in a
supporting role as
Perrish's father is
veteran actor James
Remar
Remar, 60. Remar

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Houston Ballet, mak-

is best known for playing Dexter's
father, Harry, on Dexter (2006-2013)
and hotel magnate (and Samantha's
love interest) Richard Wright on Sex

and the City.
While Harry wasn't a bad guy,
Remar has mostly played bad guys
during his long career (including
Jewish gangster Dutch Schultz in the
1984 film Cotton Club).

Shia, Shia!
Shia LaBeouf, 28, who originally was
set to play Ig Perrish in Horns, has
created Internet buzz about his cur-
rent religious affiliation because of
comments he made in the October
issue of Interview magazine.
As you might expect, much of the
interview is about his weird behav-
ior over the last few years (includ-
ing plagiarizing playwright Daniel
Clowes' work for a short film; hav-
ing a fight with Alec Baldwin; and
screaming from the audience during
a Broadway-show performance).
In response to a question about

playing a religious soldier in Fury,
now in theaters, LaBeouf said: "I
found God during Fury. I became a
Christian man."
However, there is ambiguity here.
You can read all of LaBeouf's com-
ments about religion in the Interview
article without being able to say, for
sure, whether LaBeouf was referring
to inhabiting the religious character
he played or that he has flat-out
embraced Christianity.
Given his unstable nature of late,
who knows what he will feel next
month? I will try and keep you posted.

More Than A Minyan
By my count, about half of the "inno-
vators" in the bestseller popular his-
tory The Innovators: How a Group of
Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created
the Digital Revolution, by Walter
Isaacson, 62, are Jewish.
Isaacson does discuss the Jewish
background of five "biggies": John
Von Neumann (1903-1956), a brilliant
mathematician who made essential

Church in France while holding on to his
cultural Jewish identity, screening at 4
p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 31-Nov.
1; and the Israeli dark comedy Zero
Motivation, a portrait of everyday life for
a unit of female Israeli soldiers, screening
at 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, and 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 5. For details, visit
elff.com.
At 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, in the
Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit
Institute of Arts, Detroit musician Joel
Peterson performs an original score for

The Golem: How He Came Into the
World, a silent, 1920 German horror
film that tells the story of a clay giant
brought to life by a rabbi for the protec-
tion of the Jews of Prague. Architect Hans
Poelzig designed the sets, a reproduction
of the medieval Jewish ghetto of Prague,
and collaborated with cinematographer
Karl Freund to create highly expres-
sionist imagery, often cited as one of the
most outstanding examples of German
Expressionism in film. Free with museum
admission. (313) 833-4005; www.dia.org/
dft.
Then, at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1,
with live piano accompaniment by
David Drazin, the DFT screens Alfred
Hitchcock's rarely seen 1929 silent feature
The Manxman, set on the remote Isle
of Man, about two boyhood friends who
take very different paths in adulthood but
fall in love with the same woman. $6.50-
$8.50. (313) 833-4005; www.dia.org/dft.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the
Windsor International Film Festival
runs Nov. 1-9 across the border in
Canada. For a complete list of films and

contributions to computer program-
ming and design; Andrew Grove,
78, the engineer who turned Intel
into the world's largest maker of
microprocessors; Arthur Rock, 88,
a founder of a San Francisco venture
capital firm that provided the seed
money for Apple and Intel, among
others; and Sergey Brin and Larry
Page, both 41, who are the co-found-
ers of Google.
Isaacson doesn't overlook the
contribution of women in this male-
dominated field. There's a nice sec-
tion on the six women who were
recruited near the end of World War
II to program the first electronic
general-purpose computer (ENIAC)
for the Army.
Isaacson notes that two of the six
women were Jews: Ruth Lichterman
Teitelbaum (1924-1986) and Marilyn
Wescoff Meltzer (1922-2008).
As you might have guessed,
the work of these six "Rosie the
Programmer(s)" was not generally
known for decades.

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