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West Bloomfield man is
making a name for himself
on television in the Lansing
area after honing his TV
reporting skills in the most unlikely of
places. But first he had to weather a
post-Sept. -11 standstill in hiring.
Jeremy Ross, 29 and single, has been
a general assignment and education
reporter for more than two years at
Lansing's WILX-TV (Channel 10), an
NBC affiliate in the state capital.
He specializes in general news and
feature reporting and is a fill-in
anchor.
While getting a master's degree at
the prestigious Medill School of
Journalism at Northwestern
University, Ross joined the famous
Second City Conservatory in Chicago,
writing and performing improvisation-
al sketch comedy as a hobby.
"When you're doing live TV report-
ing on camera, you must be quick on
your feet --- or improvise," Ross
explains. "There aren't many who pur-
sue their master's in journalism and at
the same time take night classes at a
comedy club. But, as it turns out,
improv is a great tool for live reporting."
Ross' high-school teachers got him
interested in journalism as a career.
Before heading to Chicago, the West
Bloomfield High School graduate, who
became bar mitzvah at Temple Israel,
obtained a bachelor's degree in general
studies at the University of Michigan.
He was a sports reporter for WOLV-
TV in Ann Arbor, and also had TV
and radio jobs in Washington, D.C.
Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks, the young journalist, who is the
son of Olivia and Dennis Ross of West
Bloomfield, spent six months sending
audition tapes and resumes to various
TV stations, searching for a job.
"I was puzzled by the lack of
responses," he recalls, "and then I
learned the stations weren't even open-
ing my packages because of the anthrax
scare in the country at that time."
111ff uch has changed in the
world since Fiddler on
the Roof made its
celebrated trip to New
York by way of Detroit
40 years ago, yet the
Jewish Ensemble Theatre's
charming production shows how
affective it remains.
Certainly, its message of holding
onto one's religion and ethnicity
amid derision and terror has an
even richer universality today, to
people of all faiths.
From the moment you walk into
the theater in West Bloomfield and
confront Monika Essen's glowing
lanterns festooned over the audience
and folksy, golden, swirling cubistic .
shtetl set, you are in Anatevka, and
wistfully happy to be there.
There was no other ration-
al explanation for crying
when the orchestra barely
began a downbeat; this musical
has, in the past generation, become
encoded into Judaism's DNA.
Gillian Eaton, stepping in on the
fly as director for Nick Colani,
gives an enveloping, emotional
staging of the show. Several scenes
are truly elevated by directorial and
properties choices, namely, the cho-