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very week day at 11:45 a.m., Sherry Mar-
golis takes a few moments before "show
time" to peruse the day's news script. She
skims through the 20 or so pages, occasion-
ally making notes, checking grammar,
reading over the stories with her producer,
and is finally briefed by her director, who decides which
cameras and live shots will be used.
At 11:55, Margolis takes her seat in the newsroom
while technicians buzz around, making final ad-
justments and microphone checks. Last minute instruc-
tions are issued by the director and producer and then,
at 11:58, the "on air" light gives its signal. The count-
down begins, background music surges and the TV 2
Eyewitness News logo dances across the screens of
180,000 viewers. The announcer declares, "This is TV
2 Eyewitness News with Virg Jacques, Sherry Margolis
and the Eyewitness News Team."
How did Detroit, the seventh largest television
market, woo this articulate, intelligent newswoman
whose superb investigative and reporting skills won her
two Associated Press Awards for reporting contributions
while in Buffalo, and who, in 1982, was named Outstan-
ding Young Woman of America?
According to Margolis, she had completed three years
at WKBW-TV in Buffalo, an ABC affiliate, anchoring
the week-end 6 and 11 p.m. news and also functioning
as a reporter for the 6 p.m. weekday news program.
When her contract ended, Margolis faced the difficult
decision of staying in her hometown, comfortably sur-
rounded by family and friends, or of moving to a new
city and a larger television market — the only way to
move up in the profession. Ultimately, when the Detroit
challenge came, Margolis accepted.
As glamorous as it appears to those on the "outside,"
being a television news anchor is a consuming occupa-
tion. To prepare for her job, every day Margolis reads
JOANNE ZUROFF
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Special to The Jewish News
Award-winning
Sherry Margolis
brings the news
to hundreds
of thousands
daily
WEEK OF JUNE '11 11
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
SOUTHFIELD ARTS COUNCIL:
Southfield Civic Center, 26000
Evergreen, Southfield Arts
Festival, 5-9 p.m. today, 11
a.m. - 9 p.m. Saturday, noon
- 6 p.m. Sunday, free,
354-1151.
MUSIC
MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE:
Masonic Temple, Porgy and
Bess, 8 p.m. today, 1:30 and
8 p.m. Saturday, 1:30 and 7:30
p.m. Sunday, admission,
874-SING.
PINE KNOB MUSIC THEATRE:
Howard
Clarkston,
Jones,7:30 today, Eddie
Money, 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
Steppenwolf, 7:30 p.m. Sun-
day, admission.
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF
ARTS: 5200 Woodward,
Detroit, cellist Judith Vander
Weg, pianist Lynne Bar-
tholomew, 10 and 11:30 a.m.
Sunday, admission, 832-2730.
CITY OF OAK PARK: Shepherd
Park, Oak Park Civic Chorus,
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, free,
545-6400.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM: Shain
Park, Birmingham, Birming-
ham musicale, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, free, 644-1807.
BEL CANTO CHORAL SOCIE-
TY: Southfield-Lathrup High
School, concert, 8 p.m. Mon-
day, free, 353-5486.
MICHIGAN LYRIC OPERA:
Marquis Theatre, Northville,
The Marriage of Figaro, 8
R.m. Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sun-
day, admission, 531-2085.
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF
ARTS: 5200 Woodward,
Detroit, Indian Gallery, Arts of
Asia concert, 2 and 3 p.m.
Saturday, free, 832-2731.
COMEDY
DUFFY'S ON THE LAKE: 3133
Union Lake Rd., Union Lake,
Mike Ridley, 7-10 p.m. Tues-
day and Wednesday, Betty
Ridley, 7-10 p.m. Thursday, no
cover; Ron Coden, 9 and 11
p.m. every Friday and Satur-
day through July, admission,
353-9469.
THEATER
JIMMY LAUNCE PRODUC-
TIONS, INC.: Somerset Din-
ner Theatre, It Had to Be VW],
dinner 6 and 7 p.m., curtain
8:15 p.m., through June 13,
admission 649-6629.
DETROIT
REPERTORY
THEATRE: 13103 Woodrow
Wilson, Detroit, Time Cap-
sule, Thursday through Sun-
day, now through June 21, ad-
mission, 868-1347.
STAGECRAFTERS: Baldwin
Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette,
Royal Oak, Annie, 8 p.m. to-
day and Saturday, 7 p.m. Sun-
day, admission, 541-
6430.
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