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MONDAY-THURSDAY!

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4 people to get lunch or dinner with a movie ticket for only $17* per person!

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and info for all events: (917) 687-4811;
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FUNNY PEOPLE
Paul F. Tompkins, Mama’s Boy, the 313
(former Second City Detroiters living
in L.A.), Susan Messing and more will
perform and host workshops during the
Detroit Improv Festival, Aug. 10-14,
at various venues around town. $5-$25
for performances; $40 for workshops.
Detroitimprovfestival.org.

MUSICAL NOTES
Phillip Phillips and Matt Nathanson
co-headline, with guest A Great Big
World, at Meadow Brook Amphitheatre
7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12. Phillips, who
won the 11th season of American Idol,
has become a platinum-seller. Pop-
folkie Matt Nathanson, whose father
is Jewish and mom is Catholic, grew
up celebrating “Yom Kippur and Rosh
Hashanah and Christmas and Easter,” he
has said. “It was really weird.” $20-$55.
(800) 745-3000; palacenet.com.

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nastics. Their parents are Russian Jewish
immigrants who live near San Diego.
The twins have lived in Northbrook, Ill.,
for several years, with a guest family, so
they can be near their coach. Merrill
Moses, 38, water polo goalie. Moses has
played in two prior Olympics. In 2008,
his team won silver. The U.S didn’t medal
in 2012. Aly Raisman, 22, gymnastics.
She thrilled America and Jews world-
wide with her 2012 gold medal-winning
individual floor exercises performance to
the tune of “Hava Nagila.” Raisman also
performed well in the team competition
and the U.S. won the team gold medal.
Zach Test, 26, rugby sevens. A top rugby
player, he played in the 2009 Maccabiah
Games in Israel. New Zealand: Jo Aleh,
30, women’s sailing (470 dinghy). Aleh,
the daughter of two Israelis, won the
gold in this event in 2012.

AN HONORARY TRIBE MEMBER
Director, writer and
producer Garry
Marshall died on
July 19, age 81. In
2006, film critic Mick
LaSalle gave a good
review to Keeping
Marshall
Up with the Steins,
a comedy directed
by Garry’s son, Scott
(whose wife is Jewish). About a family
celebrating a boy’s bar mitzvah, the film

includes Marshall in the role of the boy’s
elderly Jewish hippie grandfather. LaSalle
noted: “It may come as a surprise that
Garry Marshall is not Jewish but Italian
… And he doesn’t try to act Jewish for
the role — that’s really him. Marshall just
happens to be a Jewish-seeming Italian, a
sort of Harvey Keitel in reverse.”
Actually, LaSalle was just a bit off
— while Marshall’s father was Italian
Catholic, his mother was mostly WASP
and he was raised Protestant. However,
as Marshall details in his 2012 autobiog-
raphy, My Happy Days in Hollywood, his
Jewish connections began early and were
a lifelong constant. His Bronx neighbor-
hood was all Italian and Jewish and his
apartment building was almost all Jewish.
He acted as a buffer with other Italians,
telling them to leave his Jewish friends
alone. In 1961, Marshall began finding
big-time success writing sitcoms with (the
late) Jerry Belson. Then they began cre-
ating series; the second, The Odd Couple
(1970), was a hit. The first series Marshall
created alone, Happy Days (1974),
became a monster hit. Marshall often cast
Jewish actors — both stars of Odd Couple
were Jewish, as were four of the seven
lead actors in Happy Days. In tribute to
Marshall, rent Flamingo Kid (1984), the
first film he directed and wrote. Marshall
perfectly captured the milieu of a circa-
1965 mostly Jewish beach club — and it’s
a good movie, to boot.

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