STN Entertainment e Valley JULIE YOLLES ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR S PHOTO BY ANN LIMONGE LLO/ABC uave. Sexy. Stand-up comedian. To "All My Children" (AMC) fans, the first two adjectives scream Walt Willey, who plays Pine Valley's No. 1 lawyer and every woman's dream, Jack- son Montgomery. For metro Detroiters, the third descriptor will take center stage when Willey performs two shows tomorrow night at Joey's Comedy Club in Dearborn. "[Comedy club patrons] sure can't expect Jack," he says from his dressing room in be- tween tapings at ABC's New York studios. "There's not much sense in me doing that ... it's not Andrew Dice Clay or Richard Pry- or, but there are definitely adult themes ... it is in a nightclub ... [my act's] about life, men and women, pets ... it's a different take on things. It's a one-hour-and-ten-minute mono- logue about life." And Willey has plenty of life experiences to extrapolate from these days. In the past two years alone, he married Marie, "definitely not an actress"; had a son, Chance Connor; bought a ranch in Santa Fe, N.M.; renovat- ed it with his wife into an "eclectic merge be- tween East and West" bed and breakfast; and he continues to commute back and forth to New York for three-week stints, depend- ing on his "AMC" shooting schedule. "I took the last year off [from stand-up com- edy] because of the baby," says the 45-year- old actor. "As of right now, I average about 13 gigs in two months. I missed [stand-up] when I wasn't doing it, but now that he's a grown man at 14 months, I can go out on the road again," adds Willey, who took a three- month paternity leave from "AMC" after Chance was born. "He's the brightest part of my life." A sculpture major at Southern Illinois Uni- versity, Willey's been honing some other art skills lately. The art of nesting. And we're talking literally. "I'm Mr. Feed the Animals. [My wife's] Mrs. Culinary," he says about their B & B roles. Besides a Sioux teepee that doubles as the Willeys' retreat when the B & B is MI, they've got a petting zoo, with pigs, goats, chickens, donkeys and hedgehogs. "We had our first litter of hedgehogs," he boasts. And, they've added a new child to their brood, Lucy the Loose Lipped Chicken. "She's not count- ing or making change or anything, but she's smart and likes to hang out with the fami- ly." But what's in store for the other family he's been a part of since 1987 when Willey joined "All My Children," inquiring viewers want to know. Any upcoming love connec- tions for Jack in Pine Valley? "I'm thinking maybe with Myrtle — I like red hair," he jokes about the sweet of Scot- tish grandinother-type. "After all, Myrtle owns a boarding house, and Jack's been living in a hotel for 10 years. We could consolidate and save a lot of money." El fl Walt Willey will perform at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Saturday, July 27, at Joey's Comedy Club. Tickets are $15. 5070 Schaefer Road, Dearborn. (313) 584-8885. For more information about the Wil- leys' Crystal Mesa Farm Bed & Breakfast in Santa Fe, N.M., call (505) 474-5224. Above: "If they took me out of Pine Valley in a pine box, I'd be happy. I like this show," says actor/comedian Walt Willey about his future at "All My Children." Right: Jack (Walt Willey) consults with Edmund (John Callahan) and Maria (Eva LaRue) about their problems adopting baby Sam. In the next few weeks, Jack will be busy with the evil Dr. Kinder. Ice Cream Social Eaton Nursery's 10th annual event lets you stroll through its gardens while eating Ray's ice cream to benefit the Multi- ple Sclerosis Society. 5899 W. Maple, W. Bloomfield. (810) 851-5440. Sat.-Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Arianna String Quartet The prize-winning youth en- semble performs a chamber music concert geared toward young people. Oakland Univer- sity's Varner Auditorium, Rochester. (810) 357-1111. Sun., 3 p.m. Tracy Chapman JET Play Reading The singer/songwriter will give you a few good "reasons to stay." With the Charlie Hunter Quartet, at the Meadow Brook Music Festival. (810) 645-6666. The Jewish Ensemble Theatre will present In Vino Veritas and a companion piece as a part of Heartlande Theatre's Playscape '96. At Meadow Brook Theatre. (810) 337-3300. Tues., 8 p.m. Wed., 8 p.m. Earthfest Fundraiser Lots of music and poetry, in - cluding the Mad Poetics, fea- turfing M.L. Liebler, the Motown Mayakovsky Poetry Band and others. Lili's 21, 2930 Jacob, Hamtramck. (313) 875-6555. Wed., 8 p.m.