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I GOING PLACES

WEEK OF
NOV. 27-DEC. 3

SPECIAL EVENTS

CYSTIC FIBROSIS
FOUNDATION
Marquis Theatre, 135 Main,
Northville, Peter Pan, 8 p.m.
today, admission to benefit cystic
fibrosis research, 552-9616.

MUSIC

MICHIGAN OPERA
THEATRE
Fisher Theatre, Detroit, Kismet,
8 p.m. now through Dec. 6,
admission, 874-SING.
POWER SERIES
University of Michigan, Power
Center, Ann Arbor, The Skin Of
Our Teeth, 8 Rm. Thursday,
admission, 764-0450.
BRUNCH WITH BACH
Detroit Institute of Arts,
recorder music, 10 and 11:30
a.m. Sunday, admission,
832-2730.
MICHIGAN VOCAL JAZZ
SOCIETY
Orchestra Hall, King's Singers, 4
p.m. Sunday, admission,
542-7337.

CHILDREN

Harvey Ovshinsky prepares to go on a shoot with his crew.

Glenn Triest

Harvey 0

Through writing, producing and commentaries,
Harvey Ovshinsky keeps on top of
what's happening in Detroit

KAREN A. KATZ

Special to The Jewish News

II f you wish to be a writer,

writer' Epictetus: Discourses.
Ink began to flow through
Harvey Ovshinsky's veins at
the age of nine. He wanted to
be a writer and cleverly devised a
vehicle for publishing his own
newsletter. He formed the Creative
Boys Club in his neighborhood. He
says that from there he went on to the
"hard stuff?'
At age 11 or 12, he wrote to Rod
Serling and asked him how to write.

"My most prized possession is a let- That was followed by the Idiom, a
ter from him," he said. "He said, literary publication produced with
`Write, and experience life to its some friends at Mumford High
fullest. Everything you experience is School. "I never got involved with the
grist for the writer's mill! He was Mumford school paper, the Mercury,"
he said. "I was either too lazy or too
right?'
At about the same time, Voshin- scared to get involved with real
sky discovered horror and monster writers?'
After a short stint writing for the
movies, which in turn gave birth to
Free Press, an underground
L.A.
the
Transylvania
Newsletter,
Fanzine,
which was his first attempt at mass paper of the '60s, Ovshinsky return-
circulation. "I placed ads in national ed to Detroit to start up the Fifth
magazines and had a circulation of Estate just off the Wayne State cam-
pus where he started out to major in
about 200," he said.
In junior high he became journalism.
"I wanted to publish badly:' he
legitimate with the Coffey Crusader.

PEANUT BUTTER PLAYERS
Austin Hall, 18000 E. Warren,
Detroit, Pinocchio, lunch at
noon, 1 p.m. Saturday and
Sunday, through Dec.
12, admission, 559-6PBP.

COMEDY

DUFFY'S ON THE LASE
8635 Cooley Lake Rd., Union
Lake, Bob Posch and John
Cionca, 9:30 and 11:30 p.m.
Friday and Saturday, admission,
363-9469.
COMEDY CASTLE
Northwood Inn Dining and
Lounge, 2593 Woodward,
Berkley, Mitchell Walters 8:30
and 11 p.m. today and Saturday;
Rich Jeni, 8:30 and 11 Rm.
Wednesday through Dec. 5,
admission, 542-9900.

THEATER.

BIRMINGHAM THEATRE
211 S. Woodward, Birmingham,
Biloxi Blues, now through Dec.
20, admission, 644 3533.
HILBERRY THEATRE
Wayne State University, Detroit,
Auntie Mame, 8 p.m. Thursday;
Whistler, 8 p.m. today and

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