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ALIVE AND
WELL IN ANN
ARBOR

Three week-
ends left to see
Jacques Brel Is
Alive and Well
and Living in
Paris, presented
by Ann Arbor’s
Lynne Konstantin Penny Seats
Theatre Company
Arts & Life Editor
and co-starring
Lauren London.
Originally performed off-Broadway in
1968, Jacques Brel was revived off-Broad-
way in 2006 to overwhelming acclaim —
mesmerizing music, engaging humor and
sentiment. The musical revue of the songs
of Belgian singer Jacques Brel — consid-
ered a master of the modern chanson and
hugely influential with English-speaking
songwriters from David Bowie to Leonard
Cohen — was written by Eric Blau and
Mort Shuman, who also translated Brel’s
songs into English. Through March 3. $20/
dinner and show; $10 show only. (734)
926-5346; pennyseats.org.

Because we care.

of the most ethnically diverse neighbor-
hoods in New York City: The result is In
Jackson Heights, which will be screened
Friday-Sunday, Feb. 19-21, at the Detroit
Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of
Arts. Wiseman captures the thriving
crossroads of cultures, cuisines, religions
and languages, along with the textures
of contemporary life in New York — gen-
trification, workers facing deportation,
strapped retirees, skyrocketing rents and
incredible optimism. In one of the film’s
most hilarious scenes, Wiseman sat in on
a class for student taxi drivers. “I knew that
I’d led a clean and moral life when God
gave me that sequence,” he told the New
York Times. $7.50-$9.50. (313) 833-7900;
dia.org.

IN JACKSON HEIGHTS

ROCKIN’ AND ROLLIN’

The son of a Russian immigrant father,
Frederick Wiseman, the 85-year-old mas-
ter of American documentary filmmaking,
was interested in making a film about a
neighborhood with new immigrants. He
turned his eye to Jackson Heights, one

Hardcore attitude, an unwavering oath of sportsman-
ship — and an affinity for names like Ghetto Barbie,
Peaches N. CreamYa and Lollypops Em Hard — make up
the players of the Detroit Derby Girls. Real-life
doctors, waitresses, engineers, teachers, mothers and
wives (including Martha Goldberg), the Derby

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AT THE MOVIES

Opening Feb. 19: Race is the first dra-
matic film about Jesse Owens (played
by Stephan James), the great African-
American track star who won four gold
medals at the 1936 Olympics
held in Nazi Germany. The
film covers Owens’ college
career, his difficult time as
a movement grew in the
United States to boycott the
Games, his performance at
the Games and the “bench-
ing” of the only two Jewish
members of the U.S. track
team. I haven’t seen the film,
so I don’t know how they
Owens
cover a couple of big myths
about the Games —first,
that Hitler snubbed Owens after his wins
because Owens was black (not true) and
that Owens won the Games by establish-
ing that blacks could beat the “Aryan
master race.” While reasonable people

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could agree with the latter point, the
Nazis shrugged off Owens’ wins and, over-
all, the Games were a great propaganda
coup for the Nazis — Germany won the
most medals and the film of the Games,
Olympia, directed by the evil genius Leni
Riefenstahl (who appears in the film),
greatly aided the Nazis’ image.
An American boycott of the Games
was headed-off by Olympic
Committee head Avery
Brundage, an odious anti-
Semite who is played by
Jeremy Irons (who plays “odi-
ous” very well). As depicted
in the film, he ordered the
head of the American track
team to replace, at the last
minute, two Jewish runners
(Marty Glickman and Sam
Stoller) on a four-man relay
team, with two non-Jews.
The motive was clear — not
to embarrass Germany by having them
lose to two Jews after losing to Owens in
four events. Of course, this motive was
denied at the time with absurd excuses,
but the evidence was so clear that in 1998