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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

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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

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