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When Lemberg Gallery moved from Birmingham to Ferndale last
year, the gallery held its first-ever sale on selected gallery-owned
inventory. It was such a success we've decided to do it again!
Selected gallery-owned and consigned inventory will be available
for purchase at significant savings.
Diagnosis: Murder?
Why are we doing this? Many of these items, while wonderful,
have been in the gallery's inventory for a long time.
Many have come to us through estate liquidations, divorce,
bankruptcy and other like circumstances.
Will West Bloomfield-bred med student
out-Fox TV sleuths?
JENNIFER LOVY
Special to the Jezvish News
l ust as the wildly successful
Survivor gave us local heroes
Keith Famie and Michael
Skupin, Fox's newest reality
show, Murder in Small Town X, gives us
vet another homer(' vn hero to root for.
During the program's recent pre-
mier, viewers were introduced to 10
players, including West Bloomfield
native Brian Porvin.
The group's mission is to solve a
murder that never really happened
in a New England town that does
not exist.
Porvin, 26, told his parents he
thought it would be fun to try out
for the show after a friend told him
about a casting call. This fourth-year
medical student at Nova
Southeastern University in Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla., drove to Miami to
audition. After being selected from
thousands of applicants, he was off
to New England for a month of tap-
ing.
In Murder in Small Town X, 10
ordinary people live together and
attempt to solve the "murder." Over
the course of eight pisodes, with 50
actors playing townspeople, all but
one of the "amateur detectives" are
gradually "killed off" until the mur-
derer is identified.
Porvin, a West Bloomfield High
School and Michigan State
University graduate, is strictly pro-
hibited from revealing any informa-
tion about the show.
His parents, Dennis and Renee
Porvin, who currently reside in
Farmington Hills, spoke ro their son
several times during the month of tap-
ing, although all calls were closely
monitored to maintain secrecy.
The Porvins do know that after their
son went to the casting call, he was
asked to send a day-in-the-life video to
the producers in California. Brian's
tape showed him rock climbing and
working ar a Florida hospital.
Because Porvin is a fourth-year medical
student, his schedulf consists of month-
long rotations at various hospitals and
clinics. School administrators allowed
him to condense his vacation time so he
could take off time for the shoot.
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Although the premise of the show is
a murder investigation, the reality
aspect of Murder in Small Town X is a
dominant factor. The cameras contin-
ue to roll well into the night,.captur-
ing the interpersonal relationships
among the players as they live and
work together.
Near the end of each episode, the
killer sends the players a map leading
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police techniques, teaching everything
from interviewing skills to lifting fin-
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"Fox spent a lot of money to make
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