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FILM FEST
THE PEANUT GALLERY
If you're in or around Traverse
City, check out the lineup for this
A
year's annual Traverse City Film
Festival (through Aug. 2). Founded
by Michael Moore, and with a
board including Larry Charles and
Michigan-native Jeff Daniels, the
festival is committed to showing
"just great movies," including clas
sics shown
on
the waterfront
on
giant inflatable screen. Among
the screenings of 240 films, music,
food and parties will be "Shorts by
U of M Students," including Love
Assassins, co-produced by West
Bloomfield native Sydney Friedman.
a
rollicking spin
on
Hans Christian
Andersen's classic The Princess and
Upon a Mattress was
full-length musical writ-
ten by Mary Rodgers, daughter of
Richard Rodgers. Combining toe
tapping musical numbers with plenty
of shenanigans, the show, running
July 30-Aug. 1, is now staged by the
Peanut Gallery Players, a nonprofit
children's theater training program.
$15/adults; $12/students and seniors.
the Pea, Once
the first
Meadow Brook Theatre
on
the
cam
pus of Oakland University, Rochester
Hills. (248) 885-5129;
peanutgalleryplayers.org.
For full details, visit
t raversec ityfi I mfest.org.
plays James, Rusty and Debbie's
older son. Gisondo played Nick in
the last Night at the Museum movie
(three of his grandparents are
his paternal grandpa was
Jewish
Italian and not Jewish). By the way,
Chase and D'Angelo
Nate Bloom
Special
to the
Jewish News
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AT THE MOVIES
Opening yesterday, July 29,
was
Vacation, the seventh in the series
of films that
began
with National
Vacation in 1983. The
Lampoon's
original featured Chevy Chase as
the "put-upon" dad, Clark Griswold,
with Beverly D'Angelo as his under
standing wife, Ellen. In the new film,
their son, Rusty, is all grown-up and
he decides to follow in his father's
footsteps
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torial debut for
both.
was
Daley, who
raised in his mother's Jewish
Geeks, which
park: Walley
World. Ed
Apatow.
his role
the
as
was
produced by
now
known for
Lance Sweets
long-running
on
show, Bones.
Bosses. Goldstein is
Judd
Apatow) as Rusty's
sister. Skyler Gisondo, 19,
He is
In 2011, he and Goldstein co
wrote the hit flick Horrible
with Leslie Mann (Mrs.
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by John
Francis Daley,
in the TV series Freaks and
cross-country
to America's favorite fun
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in this film, too.
the kids
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Gisondo
University of
a
Michigan grad
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