ENTERTAINMENT Bob McKeo wn Channel 9 sportscaster Marty Adler is a little offbeat when it comes to sports reporting ... throwing paper at the camera is his signature very sporting n ALAN ABRAMS Special to The Jewish News of since the Golden Era of Channel 9 — the years of Bill Kennedy at the Movies, Robin Seymour's Swinging Time, The Bozo Show, and the after-school combo of Popeye cartoons hosted by Poopdeck Paul and Captain Jolly — have so many Michiganders been tuning their television aerials to catch the Windsor station's signal. The reason? The zany, irreverent antics of a 43- year-old Windsor baker's boy, latenight sportscaster Marty Adler. Adler has singlehandedly brought back to live tele- vision an excitement missing from local airwaves since Soupy Sales stopped sharing his breakfast, lunch and latenight snack with a generation of Detroiters. But if you haven't yet caught Adler, you better do it quickly, because like Soupy, he may be on his way to bigtime TV. Adler is now being handled by Detroit sports attorney Rick Brode, the man who got former Detroit sportcaster Eli Zaret a one-way ticket to New York City media stardom. "I finally get discovered after I've been here 17 years," says Adler, relaxing in the CBET-TV (the former CKLW-TV) studio from which he's been doing his Late Night Sports With Marty Adler show since Sep- tember 1985. And if the name of Adler's show sounds Continued on next page WEEK OF MARCH 20-26 GOING oPLACES LISTINGS WELCOME Performing a pas de deux? Screening a film? Staging a play? If so, The Jewish News wants to hear about it in our new entertainment calendar, Going Places. Send concert, film, dance, comedy, club and other entertainment ac- tivity listings to Entertain- ment Calendar, The Jewish News, 20300 Civic Center Dr., Suite 240, Southfield 48076. Items must be typed, double-spaced and include the time, date, place, admis- sion charge of each event and a name and phone number of someone to call during business hours. List- ings must be received at least two weeks prior to pub- lication. SPECIAL EVENTS DETROIT SYMPHONY OR- CHESTRA: Ford Auditorium, Rudolf Nureyev and Friends, 8 p.m. Sunday, ad- mission, 567-1400. HILL STREET FORUM/ HILLEL: Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, singer Chava Al- berstein, 8 p.m. Saturday, admission, 663-3336. CHILDREN PEANUT BUTTER PLAYERS: Austin Hall, 18000 E. Warren, Detroit, The Electric Sun- shine Man, 1 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through April 26, admission, reservations, 559-6727. COMEDY COMEDY CASTLE: North- wood Inn, 2593 Woodward, Malone and Berkley, Nootcheez, 8:30 and 11:30 p.m. today and Saturday; Robert Wuhl, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday through March 28, admission, 542-9900. MUSIC DETROIT SYMPHONY OR- CHESTRA: Ford Auditorium, Hiroshi conductor Wakasugi, pianist Horacio Gutierrez, cellist Italo Babini 8:30 p.m. Saturday, admis- sion, 567-1400. DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Detroit Symphony Ensemble 10 and 11:30 a.m. Sunday, admission, 832- 2730. MUSIC HALL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: 350 Madison Ave., Detroit, Madame Butterfly, 8 p.m. Sunday, Famous People Players, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, admission, 963-7680. JEWISH COMMUNITY CEN- TER: 6600 W. Maple Rd., West Bloomfield, Klezmer Tzvei and Wine Tasting Party, 8 p.m. Saturday, folksinger Judy Goldstein, 3 p.m. Sunday, 661 1000. - OAKLAND UNIVERSITY: Rochester, basso John Paul White, 3 p.m. Sunday, ad- mission, 370-3013. SOUTHFIELD SYMPHONY Southfield ORCHESTRA: High School, Southfield, concert and Rose Marie Floyd's Contemporary Civic Ballet Company, 8 p.m. to- day, admission, 535 6928. - WARREN SYMPHONY OR- CHESTRA: Thomas' Crystal Gardens, 50 S. Groesbeck, Mt. Clemens, Lerner and Loewe Pops Concert, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, admission, 754-2950. Continued on Page 70 59