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ack Wagner. John Travolta. Bruce Willis
Kathy Lee Gifford. The next thing you
know, Tim Allen's gonna want to sing, too.
TV stars have this thing about want-
g to be rock stars; maybe it's because they
spend too much time in the bright lights, but
without the screaming throngs of fans. What-
ever the reason, they seem to pursue this kind
of career diversity with alarming regularity.
The latest — Jamie Walters. A veteran of
FOX-TV's short-lived The Heights, he now
plays Donna's (Tori Spelling) abusing ex-
squeeze Ray on Beverly Hills 90210. Describ-
ing his music as "straightforward rock &
Walters also has an album, simply titled Jamie
Walters.
But the Boston-born Walters deserves a lit-
tle more respect than some of his musical TV
forebears. Before his acting days, he was a
Jimi Hendrix wanna-be. The Heights was a

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show about a band at least, and it shot the
Walters-written "How Do You Talk To an An-
gel" to No. 1.
"If people listen to the album, they'll know
that I'm not just some actor with a hobby,"
Walters promises. Judge for yourself He per-

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Drake Jewish Community
Center. (810) 661-7641.
Made in America: Ten Cen-
turies of American Art. Works
of art spanning 1,000 years of
America's visual history, through
Jan. 7. Toledo Museum of Art.
(800) 766-6048.
Clockwokk: American
Time and Timepieces. Hen-
ry Ford Museum and Greenfield
Village. (313) 271-1620.
Weaving Out Loud Sandra
Brownlee. Forty woven works
by Cranbrook Academy of Art

graduate, through Dec. 30.
Young Curators Choose
Chairs: A Museum/Conn/1u-
nity Collaboration, through
March 24, 1996. Cranbrook Art
Museum. (810) 645-3314.
Stitched, Layered, Pieced:
Michigan Artists and the
Quilt, through December 10;
Painting With Fire: Pewabic
Vessels in the Margaret Wat-
son Parker Collection. Pot-
tery, paintings and lithographs,
through Jan. 7. University of
Michigan Museum of Art. (313)
764-0395.
The PaineWebber Collec

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Royal Oak Music Theatre, 318 W. Fourth
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ters Collection includes ap-
proximately 70 paintings,
sculptures and works on paper.
Through Dec. 31. The Detroit In-
stitute of Arts. Drop-In Work-
shops 12-3 p.m. relating to
exhibit. (313) 833-7900.
Thomas Cole: The Voyage
of Life features a series of four
paintings from the American
artist. Through April 14. The De-
troit Institute of Arts. (313) 833-
7900.
Inherited Memory: A Con-
temporary Artist Confronts
the Holocaust. Through Dec.

28. Janice Charach Epstein Mu-
seum/Gallery. Maple-Drake Jew-
ish Community Center. (810)
661-7641.
Aspects of Realism. Michi-
gan-area painters find their ex-
pressive voices in realism.
Through Dec. 15. Henry Ford
Community College. 5101 Ever-
green, Dearborn. (313) 271-2750.
Nature Observed, Nature
Interpreted. 19th-century
American Landscape Drawings
and Watercolors. Through Dec.
31. The Detroit Institute of Arts.
(313) 833-7900.
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