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FEDERATION NEWS March 2020 5A

People of the Book: Josh Frank,

This series highlights mission-based programs and projects that are supported by Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers
The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee. Funding for these initiatives is de-
rived from the Annual Campaign. The series helps to explain where your generous and the strangest movie never made
dollars are spent and features certain initiatives that enrich the lives of Jews living Established 1971
in Sarasota-Manatee, local projects with area partners, and overseas programs that PUBLISHER By Gayle Guynup
support the social and humanitarian needs of Jews in Israel and around the world. The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee n Sunday, March 8, The Jew- pages of scripts, sketches and drawings
The Larry & Mary Greenspon
Family Campus for Jewish Life ish Federation of Sarasota- by the famous painter. He had it trans-
Klingenstein Jewish Center OManatee will host Josh Frank, lated from French to English and then

580 McIntosh Road author of Giraffes on Horseback Salad, went to work with Tim Heidecker and
Sarasota, FL 34232-1959 as part of its People of the Book series. illustrator Manuela Pertega, creating
Phone: 941.371.4546 The lecture will be held at 7:00 p.m. his graphic novel, Giraffes on Horse-

Fax: 941.378.2947 in the Beatrice Friedman Theater on back Salad: The Strangest Movie Nev-
E-mail: jewishnews@jfedsrq.org The Larry & Mary Greenspon Family er Made.
Website: www.jfedsrq.org

Campus for Jewish Life (582 McIn- “My goal was to finish the movie
Published Monthly tosh Road, Sarasota). Tickets are $10 without really making the movie,” he
Volume 50, Number 3 per person. said. That’s why he decided to create
March 2020 Giraffes on Horseback Salad was it as a graphic novel. The entire proj-

56 pages
USPS Permit No. 167 a screenplay originally written in 1937 ect, which took about six and a half
by surrealist artist years, included creat-
April 2020 Issue Deadlines: Salvador Dali for ing a “Cole Porter-
Editorial: February 27, 2020 his friend Harpo style soundtrack” for
Advertising: March 2, 2020 Marx and the Marx it, which you can lis-
Brothers. It was ten to along with the educate and intrigue audiences. Our
CHANGE OF ADDRESS:
Change of address inquiries rejected by MGM, book. many thanks to our Silver Sponsor,
can be sent to Bobbi Barger and the script was He describes it as the Community Foundation of Sara-
at bbarger@jfedsrq.org thought lost for- “wacky, wild and sur- sota County, and Bronze Sponsors,
or call 941.371.4546 x0 ever. real,” but says that as The Ackerman Group, Suncoast Pearl
PRESIDENT Seventy-some he delved into Dali’s Wealth Group/RBC Wealth Manage-
Randon Carvel years later, author notes on the project, ment, Jules & Carol B. Green, and Lori

and lost-film buff he came to understand & David Liner.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Josh Frank un- that though it was still Future speakers will include Jack
Howard Tevlowitz earthed the original way out there, all of Fairweather (The Volunteer: One Man,
script, along with the ideas in the story an Underground Army) and Sarah
SENIOR DIRECTOR OF Dali’s notes and Josh Frank were projections of Rose (D-Day Girls: The Spies Who
COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING
Marty Katz sketches, tucked away in the archives Dali’s personal life and struggles. Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the
of a Paris museum. “It is a deep story that I am proud Nazis and Helped Win World War II)
MANAGING EDITOR A lifelong Marx Brothers fan, that I was able to tell. Unlike Dali’s on Tuesday, April 21 at 10:30 a.m. in
Ted Epstein Frank said he was poking around on paintings, this story had words, plots the Beatrice Friedman Theater.
the internet for a subject for his next and characters that had great meaning Individual tickets are $10. To pur-
ADVERTISING SALES book – based on movies that were nev- for him. This was a piece of Dali’s art chase tickets, visit jfedsrq.org/books.
Adam Kaplan – 941.552.6307 er made – when he first came across that never got finished.” For more information, contact Jeremy

PROOFREADERS Giraffes on Horseback Salad. Frank Held in partnership with the Jew- Lisitza, Director of Innovation and Vol-
Edward D. Cohen, Rhonda Kaplan, says he became obsessed with the proj- ish Book Council, the People of the unteer Engagement, at 941.343.2113
Marianne Mandell, Elliot Ofsowitz, ect and started digging, and digging Book series features programs on a va- or jlisitza@jfedsrq.org.

Blanche Pasternak, Je Sherman, Jill some more, when he came across 90 riety of topics that are sure to delight,
Simons, Linda Stern, Bryna Tevlowitz
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