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ART ADDICT

MEET THE AUTHORS

Head to Book Beat bookstore in Oak Park

Celebrity Jews

Daydream on
Broadway

PHOTO BY ROLOFF BENY / COURTESY OF NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF CANADA

Peggy Guggenheim

Heiress Peggy
Guggenheim was
a pivotal figure in
the modern-art
movement of the
20th century. A col-
orful, courageous
character herself
(with her own
Lynne Konstantin share of personal
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tragedy, including
her father dying
on the Titanic),
Guggenheim “collected” artists along with
their art (now enshrined in her Venetian
palazzo), giving rise to many of the most
influential artists of the period, includ-
ing Samuel Beckett, Marx Ernst, Jackson
Pollock, Marcel Duchamp and more.
Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland (the
fashion icon’s granddaughter-in-law)
follows up her acclaimed debut, Diana
Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel with Peggy
Guggenheim: Art Addict, screening at
the Detroit Film Theatre at the DIA March
11-13. $7.50-$9.50. (313) 833-7900;
dia.org.

from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, March 12, to meet
poet Helen Frost and Michigan-based pho-
tographer Rick Lieder, who will speak and
sign copies of their newest collaboration
for children, Among a Thousand Fireflies
(Candlewick Press). With exquisite photo-
graphs and lyrical text, Fireflies tells the true
story of how two fireflies come together
after finding each other’s light among thou-
sands of others. To help highlight the need
for protecting our local natural environ-
ment, Book Beat (owned by Cary Loren and
Colleen Kammer) will donate 20 percent of

Portman

all customer purchases on March 12 directly
to the Southeastern Michigan Chapter of
the Sierra Club. (248) 968-1190; thebook-
beat.com.

Arbor Hands-On Museum and Ann Arbor
Art Center) from 2:30-3:30 p.m.). Michigan
Theater, Ann Arbor. (734) 994-4801; a2so.
com.

DISNEY MAGIC

LOCAL STARS

Come dressed as your favorite Disney char-
acter to experience the original music of
iconic Disney movies performed by the Ann
Arbor Symphony Orchestra at The Magical
Music of Disney, part of the Family Concert
Series. Projections of movie animation will
be screened while the A2SO plays selec-
tions from Beauty and the Beast, The Lion
King, Frozen and more. 4 p.m. Sunday,
March 13, (preceded by pre-concert activi-
ties — including photos with Princess Elsa,
a petting zoo and activities with the Ann

Take a rollicking tour of Broadway musicals
with Project DayDream’s Broadway revue
Daydream on Broadway. Songs from Frozen,
Peter Pan, Willy Wonka, Annie and much more
are performed by local kids, teens and adults.
Among the kids performing under creative
director Tiffany Victoria Sims are Cameron
Klein, Trudy Gechter, Brooke Bell and Zoe
Stoller. March 18-19 at Groves High School,
Beverly Hills. $15. Projectdaydream.org.

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Greenfield

Lubezki, by the way, filmed Knight of Cups,
so I can almost guarantee that Knight will be
visually exciting.

Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News

AT THE MOVIES/MOVIE NEWS

APPEARING IN FLINT

Opening Friday, March 11, is Knight of Cups.
This Terence Malick film, which is labeled as
experimental by the director, stars Christian
Bale as Rick, a successful, but unhappy
screenwriter who finds his only solace in
women. Natalie Portman, 34, stars in one
of eight “chapters” in the film; each chapter
centers on one person in Rick’s life and
Portman plays a woman who Rick wronged
in the past.
Opening the same day is Hello, My Name
is Doris. It stars Sally Field as Doris, a woman
who is smitten with John, her company’s
new, much-younger art director. Playing
John is Max Greenfield, 35, who’s best known
as Schmidt on TV’s The New Girl. Doris mines
the Internet for info on John and finds out
who his hip friends are and where they hang
out. She adopts these friends’ bohemian
ways and they like her, but her family and old
friends think Doris is making a fool of herself
pursing this crush. Co-stars include Natasha
Lyonne, 36, and Elisabeth Reaser, who grew
up in Bloomfield Hills and is the stepdaughter
of William Davidson, the late Detroit business-

Early in February, Empire Star Jussie Smollett,
32, visited Flint and donated $10K for relief
efforts. On Oscars night, Feb. 28, he joined
other African American stars on the stage of
Flint’s Whiting Auditorium to raise awareness
of the Flint water crisis and to raise money
for Flint residents. Smollett sang a song and
prefaced his tune with this statement: “We
may not be residents of Flint, but we are Flint.”
The son of a Jewish father and an African
American mother, Smollett (his words) —
identifies as “an African American and a
Jewish man.” By the way, his sister Jurnee
Smollett-Bell, 29, co-stars in Underground in
Louisiana, a new WGN cable station 10-epi-
sode series. It’s about the Underground
Railway, the network which spirited slaves to
freedom. Christopher Meloni (Law and Order:
SVU) co-stars. It began on March 9, but catch
up via encores or online. New episodes air
Wednesdays at 10 p.m.

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man who owned the Pistons and other pro
teams. The director is Michael Showalter, 45.
You might have heard Charles Randolph, a
co-Oscar winner for his The Big Short screen-
play, say “I love you, Mili” in Hebrew from the
Oscars’ stage. He was speaking to his wife,
Israeli actress Mili Avital, 43. As noted in my
recent Oscars’ article, their son is being raised
Jewish. You also might have heard best actor
winner Leonardo DiCaprio and Revenant
director Alejandro G. Inarritu thank “Chivo” in
their speeches. Chivo means “goat” in Spanish

and it’s the nickname of Revenant cinema-
tographer Emmanuel Lubezki, 51, who won
his third consecutive Oscar for that film.
(Still checking why “goat” is his nickname.)

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