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From 11:00am – 4:00pm
Dinner Service Begins at 4:30pm

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NATE BLOOM
COLUMNIST

Mother's Day
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Pre-order Lelli’s famous carrot cake for
your mom….voted best cake in town!

AT THE MOVIES

Dine on our terrace or veranda

We welcome you home
Mia casa e sua Casa

Your Host Mark Zarkin, Proprietor
and Chef John Somerville,
Former Executive Chef de Cuisine
of THE LARK

27925 Golf Pointe Boulevard
(12 Mile just west of Halsted)
Farmington Hills

MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH BUFFET

From 11:00am – 4:00pm
Dinner Service will begin at 4:30pm
with full Lelli’s Menu, including chef’s features

Two Super-Sized Buffets –

Mother's Day Hours 11am-9pm
Hours:
Mon: closed
Tues-Thurs: 11am - 10pm
Fri: 11am-11pm
Sat: 4pm - 11pm

One on the Terrace and
One in the Dining Room

$39.95
Children (12 and under): $19.95

Adults:

Reservations Accepted

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May 11 • 2017

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Opens Friday, May 12: Amy Schumer,
35, and Goldie Hawn, 71, are arguably
two of the most famous Jewish comic
actresses of the last 48
years (Hawn won an Oscar
in 1969 for Cactus Flower,
her first big film). Hawn rec-
ognized a kindred spirit in
Schumer when she agreed
to co-star in Snatched, her
first film since 2002.
Schumer plays Emily, a
dreamer who plans to take
Hawn
an exotic vacation with
her boyfriend. He dumps
her and she persuades her
ultra-cautious mother, Linda
(Hawn), to vacation with her.
Well, of course, things go hor-
ribly wrong — including wild
jungle adventures that require
mother and daughter to work Barinholtz
out their differences if they
are going to survive.
Ike Barinholtz, 40, has
a supporting role as Emily’s
brother. The film was directed
by Jonathan Levine (50/50
and The Night Before), 40. It
was written by Katie Dippold,
Schumer and Schumer’s sis-
Schreiber
ter, Kim Caramele, 33.
Opened Friday, May 6:
Chuck tells the story of Chuck
Wepner, a New Jersey small-time
prizefighter who got his 15 minutes of
fame in 1975 when he was picked to
box Muhammad Ali in a title fight. (Yes,
the film Rocky was partially inspired
by Wepner’s real-life fight.) Wepner
lost to Ali, but shocked everyone by
going almost 15 rounds with the great
champ. As the film depicts, Wepner had
a rough time coping with his new fame,
but recovered his bearings over time.
The film was written by Jerry Stahl,
63 (Permanent Midnight) and Jeff
Feuerzig, 52. Feuerzig, a New Jersey
native, previously made a documentary
about Wepner.
Liev Schreiber, 49, stars as Wepner,
with Naomi Watts, the real-life mother
of Liev’s two children, playing Wepner’s
third wife, Linda (Watts and Schreiber
split up shortly after the film was
completed last summer). Michael
Rapapport, 47, plays Wepner’s
estranged brother.
Ron Perlman, 67, has a pretty big
part as Al Braverman, Wepner’s Jewish
trainer and corner man. Braverman, a
good fighter in the ’30s, is credited with
making the Ali/Wepner match happen.

MARGULIES ON TERROR
AND SURVIVAL

Actress Julianna Margulies, 50, talked
to the French news service AFP on April
21 and revealed that she was near the
site of the terrorist killing of a police
officer (April 20) in Paris. She said: “I
was there just behind the shooting in a
car when everything stopped
and we just waited. We must
not give in … otherwise it is
the terrorists who win. The
terrorists do not measure our
capacity for resistance.”
She also told AFP that this
July she’ll be filming a movie
in which she plays a Syrian
Jewish woman from Brooklyn
who’s fighting breast cancer.
Other sources provide details:
The film is The Girl with the
Pink Hair; Margulies’ character
is Orthodox; and her character
shares her fight with a teen-
age friend who also has breast
cancer. The director is Susan
Seidelman, 64 (Desperately
Seeking Susan).
Margulies ended her AFP
interview by explaining why
she declined to be in The Good
Wife sequel, The Good Fight.
She said: “I had to say good-
bye to [Good Wife lead char-
acter] Alicia Florrick … Alicia
doesn’t wear her emotions
on her sleeves the way I do.
I am an actress and a Jewish
woman — very opinionated
and emotional.” (The last line, the AFP
noted, Margulies said with a laugh in her
voice).

A WORD ON RICHARD GERE

Richard Gere stars as the title (Jewish)
character in the new film Norman (see
article in this issue). Gere has garnered
some harsh Jewish media attention that,
I think, distorts what he told the Israeli
newspaper Haaretz when interviewed
in Israel on March 12. In summary, Gere
said that he had visited Israel several
times before and never discussed Israeli
politics before this interview. Gere, while
denouncing violence on both sides —
and noting that he’d met with Jewish
and Arab groups that push co-existence
— condemned the occupation and
settlement building as something “that is
destroying both sides.” Many reasonable
people, including many Israelis, take this
same view. You can disagree with this
view — but labeling him an anti-Israel
ignoramus is simply unfair and doesn’t
help Israel’s case in the world. •