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SHOW TIME
The Village
Players of
Birmingham cel-
ebrate the 50th
anniversary of
Auntie Mame.
Based on the
novel by Patrick
Dennis, the
Lynne Konstantin musical about
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a larger-than-
life personality
living the high
life in the Roaring Twenties in New York
City who suddenly becomes the guard-
ian of a 12-year-old boy is packed with
equally ebullient music and lyrics by
Jerry Herman. Starring Jay Kaplan and
Jillian Felch Frederick with Patty Ward
as Mame Dennis and assistant directed
by Rachel Biber. Opening Friday, Oct.
28, the show runs through Nov. 13. $21.
(248) 644-2075; birminghamvillage
players.com.

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Anthony Bourdain

al brunch cook, but probably disturbing
in a husband or parent.” The host of
CNN’s wildly successful Parts Unknown —
during the show’s 2013 visit to Israel, the
West Bank and Gaza, Bourdain revealed
that he is Jewish (on his mother’s side)
— heads to Detroit’s Fox Theatre 7 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 30, where he’ll serve up The
Hunger, a live show reflecting on diverse
culture, street cuisine and his travels
to lesser-known locations around the
world. $45-$300. (800) 745-3000;
olympiaentertainment.com.

FASHION FOR GOOD
Detroit clothing designer Leslie Ann
Pilling and Birmingham jewelry designer

Celebrity Jews

Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News

AT THE MOVIES
American Pastoral, from the Philip Roth
novel of the same name, opened last
Friday and is expected to play through
Nov. 3 in Metro Detroit. Ewan McGregor
stars as Seymour “Swede” Levov. In the
mid-1940s, his athletic skills make him a
hero to other Jewish high-school students
and nicknamed him “Swede” because of
his Nordic good looks. His charmed life
continues as he marries a non-Jewish
beauty queen (Jennifer Connelly, 45)
and becomes a successful businessman.
But things go terribly awry in the late
’60s when his daughter (Dakota Fanning)
disappears after being accused of a politi-
cally related violent act.
Advance reviews of Pastoral aren’t
good. Still, it’s worth at least a rental
because of all the Jewish plot content.
An interesting sidelight: McGregor, who
also directed Pastoral, recently spoke
to the San Francisco Chronicle about his
Jewish family ties. He said that after the
interview he was returning to Los Angeles

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THE HUNGER
In Appetites: A Cookbook (Ecco), his first
book in 10 years, which hit shelves Oct.
25, chef and TV personality Anthony
Bourdain wrote that he has a “psycho-
Ina Garten-like need to feed the people
around me” and is “obsessive-compulsive
in my work habits and anally retentive in
ways that you’d find ideal in a profession-

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arts & life

Mavrakis and McGregor

to observe Yom Kippur with his wife,
designer Eve Mavrakis, 40ish, and their
four Jewish daughters. He said he hasn’t
converted — “It would be a false move
on my part because I was never religious”
— but, he added, he assisted with his
girls’ Sunday school and bat mitzvahs. He
concluded, “It is my children’s heritage. I
go with my wife if she is taking the kids
to synagogue. I enjoy the discussion of
the Torah and the rules people are to
observe.”

RUBIE’S ON THE POLITICS
OF HALLOWEEN
When CBS News wanted insight into the
sales of political costumes this Halloween,