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"I had friends who helped me write the paper. At the time the only alternative papers were the Detroit Shop- ping News and the Northwest Detroiter. I was 17 and found I couldn't major in journalism and meet publishing deadlines at the same time, so I dropped out of Wayne. I tried everything to remain in school, even tried Monteith for awhile, but my main focus was publishing. "One thing that has been consistent with my work is a need for community and uni- ty. In the '60s you had the politicos on one hand and the freaks and artists on the other. The same building housed the Detroit Commit- tee to Stop the War in Viet- nam and John Sinclair's Ar- tists' Workshop. The freaks wouldn't be political, and the politicos wouldn't do drugs," he said. So the Fifth Estate became a vehicle for the two grouups to listen to each other and pass along information. "Mainly,' Ovshinsky laughed, "it became my new club for the '60s. We believed, it, we experienced it, we thought it would never end." 'Ibday Ovshinsky continues to write and tell his stories, but in a diversity of ways. He writes scripts, produces documentaries and gives two- minute commentaries each weekday on WCSX-FM, discussing politics, family life, Detroit culture and whatever else he is feeling strongly about at the time. The Detroit News has term- ed Ovshinsky "one of the country's finest storytellers." His Movie of the Week script, RI and the Dragon, is current- ly optioned to Longbow Pro- ductions in Los Angeles and a treatment for a television mini-series has been optioned by Lorimar Telepictures. Ov- shinsky has several other scripts in various stages of development. In the early '70s he was news director at progressive rock radio station WABX-FM and also hosted the popular call-in talk shows Night Call and Spare Change on WXYZ- FM and WRIF-FM. Ovshinsky recently return- ed to Channel 56 after a year's leave of absence. As director of program produc- tion there; he supervised all local and national produc- tions. He received a national Emmy nomination and seven local Emmy Awards for documentaries he produced at Channels 4 and 7. He is the recipient of an Ohio State Award, medals from the Inter- national Film and TV .Festival of New York, as well Ovshinsky returns to his "office" to do some film editing. as of state, regional and na- tional UPI awards. Among his award winning films are: Landgrab — the Taking of Poletown, The Peo- ple Next Door, A Gift for Serena, Christmas in Crisis, The Deer Hunters, City Nights, Lay-Off and Visions in Bubblegum, Canvas and Stone with LeVar Burton. His current producing ar- rangement is a co-production agreement between Channel 56 and 4. He will produce documentaries utilizing Channel 4 facilities and pro- duction crews, the same talent with whom he worked during his years at that station. Ovshinsky said he enjoys producing documentaries because "there are stories that don't fit into a two- minute radio spot and that don't fit into a two-hour movie:' He has "written" a Chanukah story about the lit- tlest Maccabee which he tells to his children Natasha and Noah's classmates each year, but that story is not yet com- mitted to paper except in outline form. This year at Rosh Hashanah Ovshinsky discussed his feelings for this holiday as a time of reassessments and new beginnings during one of his radio commentaries. Another dealt with the need for a mensch to run for President. He views such discussions about things Jewish as a means of public service in educating others about Judaism. Additionally, Ovshinsky teaches two courses at Cran- brook PM, the popular adult education series at the Cran- brook Educational Facility in Bloomfield Hills. One class is a weekend seminar on screen- writing, the other is a class on how to think like a producer. "The producer is a problem solver," Ovshinsky said. "Cameras and lights are im- portant, but the most impor- tant tool is the producer's brain." As an independent writer and producer Ovshinsky fulfills his dual need to write and to control the finished product. He is committed to Detroit and lives with his wife, Catherine Kurek Ov- shinsky, a clinical specialist in psychiatric nursing, and children in Lafayette Park. "The essence of storytelling is drama, conflict and ten- sion," he said. "Detroit is a candy store loaded with stories. The stories are here, the production crews are here, all the talent is here to make movies in Detroit, which is something I'd eventually like to do. I'm very happy living in Detroit and telling my stories." Ovshinsky, who will turn 40 in April, says that the produc- ing end of himself protects him as a writer and the writing end of himself gives him something to produce. "I have finally come to ac- cept my fate . . . that I can write in a variety of formats. In the past I had been afraid. It's hard to tell the truth. It's been easy for me to write. But you can't really separate the two. Now I've decided to tell the truth . . . most of the time." "A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his pro- blem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it." Ernest Hem- ingway. ❑