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A LAST CHANCE Today's Best of Detroit ballot is the final chance to vote for your favorite places in the metro area, pace ac. MONDAY April 2, 2001 WMT'S GOING ON BENEFIT rOR KIDS Celebrities create dolls for auction The List! 2 Movie Guide 4 Radio TV 5-6 Comics 7-8 ON THE WEB www.lreep.com VP in in ii 111 lU Ml HI 10 phone 313-222-6610 Section WDIV-TV (Channel 4) anchorwoman Carmen Harlan decked out her doll with cat's-eyes, lush blue-felt eye shadow, a crystal tiara and satin spandex tights. Communications executive Stephanie Carr bought coveralls and teeny Nike shoes for her doll, then Band-embroidered an elaborate face. They're among the 35 dolls made by local luminaries that have been collected by a pair of doll makers for Project Affections, a silent auction benefit fpr'the Detroit Children's Museum and Selma's Home for children with HIVAIDS. Marsha Taylor-Winn and E'Dee Eubank Robinson have been staples of the local doll-making community for more than a decade.

For the past 2 years, they have been teaching classes at the Children's Museum. Every Saturday morning, the two join a dozen or so students and crowd into Overheated room on the second floor for something like 5 doll maker's version of a quilting bee. Ml' I I I ,111. 1 i V. Mil II I.

i. nn i in inn 1 -if JOHN COLUEHDetroit Free Press Channel 50 anchors Rich Fisher and Amyre Makupson will also anchor Channel 62's news. I TO-TVtouse; sister station's night news crew; By JOHN SMYNTEK FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER jL Photos by TOM PIDGEONSpecial to the Free Press From left, Ian Crick, Carla Washington and Sam Donahoo of WhyWork Enterprises. DAVID LYMANDetrolt Free Press E'Dee Eubank Robinson, left, and Marsha Taylor-Winn are local doll makers. ri WHY tx a NOT? DETROITER TURNS HIS CLEANING COMPANY'S LOGO INTO A HOT FASHION LINE By HOLLY HANSON FREE PRESS FASHION WRITER (Xf, the age of 8, Samuel Donahoo was selling lemonade and cotton candy from a front Sometime after the end of the -NCAA basketball finale to- I night, a long-awaited i broadcast will hit the airwaves.

Detroit's CBS carrier, WWJ- I TV (Channel 62), will have a regular loca late-night newscast for the first time since December 1994. But to most, it will seem like everything new is old again. The "Channel 62 11 0'Clock News" the post-hoops debut might bring it more viewers than it ordinarily would have will be a recon-stituted version of "The 10 O'Clock News" from its Viacom-owned sister station, WKBD-TV (Channel 50). It will use the same anchors 'The Channel 62 Rich Fisher, 11 O'Clock News' Amyre Debuts tonight follow- Makupson, ing NCAA basketball weatherman Regularly airs JimMadaus 11 p.m. daily and new WWJ-TV, Channel 62, dIlunew Cbs sportscaster Chuck Garfien and the Channel 50 street staff.

Channel 62 didn't have a locaj news staff when CBS bought it in 1994 after its former Detroit affiliate, WJBK-TV (Channel 2), switched to the Fox network. Because of the giant start-from- scratch costs for local news, Channel 62 went without a news staff. Viacom's acquisition of CBS last year made channels 62 and 50 financial siblings and the Channel 50 news staff share-able. But the initial and very tough question for the startup: Why should anybody care about a modified version of a newscast that is already the least watched in metro Detroit? The chief of command at both stations, executive vice president and general hianager Mike Dun-lop, and the news director for both, Tom Bell, say there are a few keys to making Channel 62's newscast fly: Meshing marketing and content. Taking advantage of the audience demographics the CBS prime-time lineup delivers.

Dunlop says the "very disappointing" 10 p.m. news They talk and sew and share ideas and techniques as they re-create the dolls of the world. A few weeks ago, they made Egyptian dolls. Then it was dolls from sub-Saharan Africa. Then Mexican dolls.

Next year, says Taylor-Winn, they're hoping to do Arab and Polish dolls. "But now, it's time for us to give something back," she says. Taylor-Winn isn't sure how much money they'll make; admission is free. It's not a fancy affair, and she's not sure whether refreshments will be served. But the dolls, she says, are "very, very special.

And they're pretty good for people who aren't doll makers." The event is 3-6 p.m. Saturday at the museum, 67 E. Kirby, Detroit. Call 313-873-8100, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Saturday.

TOR PAMPERED PETS This planter is a potty It's hard to know whether the Hid'n Litter Planter Potty is a stroke of genius or a terminally odd product that only an adoring pet owner could love. As the name suggests, it's a litter box with built-in planter and a live plant. It comes in several styles, ranging from a glitzy brass model that costs $249.99 and includes a 60-inch areca palm to a white plastic model that costs $49.99 and comes topped with an ivy plant. For information or to order, visit the P.E.T. company Web site, www.hidnlitter.com, or call 800-884-1917 anytime.

Compiled by David Lyman Contact us by e-mail: whatsgoingonfreepress.com By phone: 313-222-6848 By fax: 313-222-5397 Models Quileighqua Detroit and Chalisse Gray ofSouthfield sport WhyWork clothing. I If 1 porch in Detroit. An entrepreneurial career seemed both his destiny and his dream. But he couldn't have predicted that the cleaning-services compa-ny he started in 1991 would inspire a hot-selling clothing line barely 10 years later. Then again, when your company logo includes the words "Why Work" and it's screened on the front of your employees' shirts in very big letters you should expect people to notice.

Even when they did, it took Donahoo a couple of years of thinking about it before he decided to turn his "Why Work" concept into a line of T-shirts, caps and sweatshirts. Launched last year, the clothing line is beginning to build a following. Not only that, singer Jill Scott is wearing the shirts, and rapper Jazzy Jeff has asked to get some, too. When Donahoo first designed them, they weren't fashion items. He had no fashion background; he'd mowed lawns, washed windows, cleaned gutters and per- WHERE TO FIND THE CLOTHES Selections from the WhyWork Apparel line are available at three stores in metro Detroit: Spectacles, 230 E.

Grand River, Detroit, 313-963-6886. Funky 7, 303 S. Main Royal Oak, 248-398-6700. Record Time, 262 W. Nine Mile, Ferndale, 248-336-8463.

In addition, WhyWork Golf caps are available at Motor City Golf, 430 N. Telegraph, Dearborn (313-278-8300), and at Rouge Park Golf Course, 11701 Burt Road, Detroit (313-837-5900). For more information, surf to www.whyworkapparel.com. Please see WHY WORK? Page 3C E3 Please see NEWS, Page 6C Author honors Armenian holocaust By ELLEN CREAGER FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER i Adam Bagdasarian Book Signings 8 p.m. Friday ACBU Manoogian School, 22001 Northwestern Southfield 248-569-2988 2-3 Saturday Borders Books and Music 34300 Woodward, Birmingham 248-203-0005 6-8 m.

Saturday Armenian Community he Jewish holocaust had as a witness the girl Anne Frank. I i ye The Armenian holocaust had book is suitable for ages 13 and up. "In this society where there is so much gratuitous violence, to see the real thing and to be reminded what violence really is, is a good thing." Bagdasarian's visit to Detroit leads up to the official Genocide Commemoration at 1 p.m. on April 22 at St. John's Armenian Church.

For information on all events, call 248-642-1879 or 248-569-2988. Contact ELLEN CREAGER of 313-222-6498 or at ereagergfreeprvss.com cre of his family and 1.5 million of his countrymen. Written through the eyes of the 12-year-old Vahan, it sees tragic adult events through the prism of a boy who simply wants things the way they were before the soldiers came. Reviewers have described the book as graceful, gripping and intense. Yet it is more graphic than most young adult books, describing in unsparing words the deaths of Vahan's grandmother, brother, friends and sister.

"I do not believe it was sensationalized," says the author, who says the Bagdasarian will be in Detroit this week participating in a holocaust commemoration. Metro Detroit has about 60,000 to 80,000 people with Armenian heritage. But Bagdasarian's book is not just a homespun family memoir. "Forgotten Fire" was a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award in young adult literature and has been nominated for other prizes. Bagdasarian, 46, worked on the novel for 10 years, intrigued by his great-uncle's gritty tale of survival amid the massa as a witness the boy Vahan Kenderian.

"This book personalizes a very terrible event in our history," says Adam Bagdasarian, author of "Forgotten Fire" (DK, a fictionalized account of his great-uncle's experiences in the 1915 Armenian genocide in uemer lyaiohordRoad, Dearhnm 313-336-6840 Adam Bagdasarian's book is a fictionalized account of his great-uncle's experiences..