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48 June 30 • 2016

SUMMER IN
THE CITY
Downtown
Detroit’s
Quicken Loans
Summer in the
Parks 2016
kicked off this
month (and
runs through
Summer in the Parks
Sept. 1), offer-
Lynne Konstantin ing a revolving
Arts & Life Editor
roster of more
than 500 events,
weekdays and
weekends. Some upcoming highlights
include the sand-filled Beach Party with
live island sounds, Downtown Street
Eats from favorite food trucks and local
startups, great bands every Fourth
Friday (including American Authors on
July 22 and George Clinton on Aug.
26), Kidz Show children’s theater and
puppet shows, the Sports Zone with
four outdoor basketball half-courts
painted by local artist Jesse Kassel
The DSO at Greenfield Village
and a sand volleyball court, Faygo
Movie Night in the D, Dog Park activi-
ties, a farmer’s market every Friday,
LET FREEDOM RING
Gelato Shoppe, jazz, blues and more.
Spend a blissful midsummer evening
Downtowndetroitparks.com.
at Greenfield Village: The DSO will be

Celebrity Jews

Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News

BIG SCREEN, SMALL SCREEN
Opening July 1: There’s really good buzz
around the new Steven Spielberg film,
BFG. The basic plot: A girl named Sophie
encounters the (monstrous looking) Big
Friendly Giant. He turns out to be a kind-
hearted soul who is not liked by the other
giants because, unlike them, he refuses
to eat children. The screenplay, from a
Roald Dahl novel, is by Melissa Mathison,
who died of cancer, age 65, last year. The
film is dedicated to her. Mathison and
her ex-husband, Harrison Ford, 73, had
two children together. She co-wrote (with
Spielberg, now 69) his children’s fantasy
masterpiece E.T.
If the usually reliable Variety review is
correct, the film Swiss Army Man, a surre-
alistic comedy-drama co-starring Daniel
Radcliffe, 26, has some brilliant parts, but
doesn’t work in large stretches. Hank (Paul
Dano) plays a guy stranded on a desert
island. A corpse (Radcliffe) named Manny
washes ashore and they form an unusual
friendship. Even though he’s dead, Manny
has the ability to talk and possesses many
supernatural powers.
The ninth episode of HBO’s Game of
Thrones aired on June 19, and fans and

Radcliffe

critics raved about it — especially the
way in which its almost nonstop action
was directed. The battle scenes were
better than in most feature films — and
most battle scenes don’t have to seam-
lessly work in computer-generated flying
dragons and a giant warrior. I predict that
Game of Thrones will lead to major film
work for the episode’s director, Miguel
Rosenberg-Sapochnik, 35ish. He was
born and raised in England, the son of
Argentine Jews. His wife of eight years is
actress Alexis Ruben, 35. She was born in
Moscow, but raised in the States.

SAD NEWS
Actor Anton Yelchin died on June 19,

