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GUITARIST ERNESTO DITETTI PERFORMS IN TVO WORLDS Story on Page 7 LORIANNE CROOK'S CHASING SUCCESS ON DAILY SHOW Steve Hall's column on Page 5 ANN LANDERS 3 COMICS 4 MOVIES 7, 8 TELEVISION 4, 5 'y The Indianapolis Star THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1992 CONCERTS Deer Creek signs Janni, Ringo, Ray 2b Annual fair and first 1 1 of a projected 40-50 shows announced; ticket sales to start April 6. By MARC P. ALLAN STAR STAFF WRITER eer Creek Music Center opens its fourth season May 8 with a concert by New Age artist Yanni. part of an early-season lineup that includes Ringo Starr, Ray Charles and the Allman Brothers, Sunshine Promotions announced. The first set of shows vary from country (Travis Trltt) to folk (John Denver, James Taylor) to rock (RushMr.

Big, Chi cagoMoody Blues, Steve Miller). Also scheduled is comedian Gallagher and singer Wayne Newton. Country singer Alan Jackson is tentatively booked. Tickets for these shows go on sale at 10 a.m. April 6 at all TicketMaster outlets.

Giveaways slated Sunshine will be giving tickets away for the early-season shows on WFBQ-FM (94.7) beginning today and continuing through the weekend. Besides these concerts, fans can expect to see the Grateful Dead, Jimmy Buffett, John Mellencamp and others this summer at the Hamilton County amphitheater. Dates and ticket information for those shows have not been announced. Ringo Starr the All-Stars (from left): Burton Cummings, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit, Dave Edmunds, Starr, Nils Lofgren, Todd Rundgren and Tim Capello.

Spokeswoman Beth Bueltmann said Sunshine also is considering various middle-of-the-road shows for the summer. One, a performance by Red Skelton, will be announced sometime in April. Last year, Sunshine presented The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and The White Oak Dance Project, featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov. In all, Sunshine expects Deer Creek to be the site of 40 to 50 shows in 1992. Last summer, the amphitheater presented 55 shows.

Other Sunshine announcements scheduled for today: Deer Creek will introduce a high-tech video system for the lawn. They'll mount three 9-by-12-foot video screens See DEER CREEK Page 2 i I "i I I I Madonna, Danielle 4 im-cfai To much of the world, the media-made images of America the ore America. TELEVISION set for premiere By STEVE HALL STAR TELEVISION EDITOR ontrary to the cover of last week's TV Guide, Pauley does not think her new prime-" time news magazine is her "last chance." "That's not the way talk, and in fact it's not how I feel," said the Indianapolis native, who Joked that even me legs in me iuusirauon oi her sitting on a block of ice didn't look like hers. "I do recognize that NBC is not going to give me mag- i azine shows for perpetuity. But if.

God forbid, this doesn't work, I expect to be ,1 doing something else for the network. I fully expect to be working for NBC for the rest of my career." The former Today show co-host. 41 was on the phone from New York Wednesday to promote Dateline NBC. i The show, premiering at 10 P-m- Tuesday on WTHR (Channel 13). is NBC's 18th attempt to mount a success- ful news magazine like CBS' 60 Minutes or ABC's PrimeTlme Live and 2020.

'j Pauley and former 2020 correspondent Stone Phil- lips are hosts of the new show. Pauley said they get tj along famously, compared a to her sometimes-testy rela- tionship with Bryant Gum- a1 bel for the last eight years of her 13-year stint on Today. "Bryant and I didn't see eye to eye on a lot of si things," she said. "But that never compromised our working relationship or our friendship. Even when Stone and I have argu- w- ments, we're usually pretty if much on the same side." Failed coup Already Pauley has en- 5j dured one big disappoint- in ment with Dateline NBC.

About seven weeks ago, the former WISH (Channel 8) reporter arranged an interview with Hillary Clinton, wife of the Democratic presidential candidate. "We looked like geniuses," said Pauley, an Indiana University grad- uate. "Then the Gennifer Flowers story broke the next week, and there we were without a show to put the interview on. We lost it" to 60 Minutes, where Clinton and his wife denied Flowers' charges of an affair. Dateline NBC will apparently resemble the other TV news maga-- zines.

Each show will typically feature a hard investigative piece, a personality story (such as a celebrity or newsmaker interview) and a third story that either emphasizes news viewers can use or tugs at their emotions. Steve Friedman, the NBC News jj-xecutive In chajgje of Dateline i See PAULEY Page 2 Pauley Simpsons, STAR STAFF ILLUSTRATION JOHN BIGELOW she didn't know how big a celebrity Mike Tyson was until the tiny switchboard lit up with telephone calls from all over the world asking questions about the hotel and its now-Infamous guest. "Mr. Tyson was not a guest of the hotel but a guest of Black Expo," Lowry was quick to point out. She added that the hotel does a big business with Black Expo, and 606 happened to be in the block of rooms It had booked.

Like a lot of people, sh will be relieved when the trial is over, Lowry said. Steel FROM STAR WIRE SERVICES yrashington Ma-I 1 I donna embodies the I 1 1 spirit of American I I Individualism that's I I sweeping the world! No, Madonna embodies all that is trashy, vulgar and corrosive to decency; indeed, she and others like her present a profound challenge to the authority of law and morality. Har-umph! Or, maybe Madonna Is Just a popular entertainer unless censors give her a larger meaning by repression. That's the way it went earlier this month when more than three dozen prominent, mostly conservative, aging, white male Intellectuals debated "The New Global Popular Culture" at a conference sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank where the talk usually is about more traditional stuff like the federal budget and defense spending. Back to Madonna They tried to stay focused on grand themes, but somehow, they kept coming back to Madonna, proving if nothing else that she has become emblematic of a pop culture phenomenon that indeed Is sweeping the world.

"Was It necessary that we should have gone all the way from Judy Garland to Madonna performing a mock masturbation on stage?" wondered Robert Bork, a near-miss 1987 Supreme Court nominee, in a prepared paper. "To suggest that Madonna Is all that popular culture Is about is wrong," protested Ben J. Wattenburg, a conservative writer who asserts that pop culture sells America's deepest values to people around the globe. Indiana Jones, for ex-See POP Page 2 laughing and teasing, "but then what will we have to talk about?" The recent attention has helped the Canterbury, not tarnished it, said Lowry. Indeed, the only tarnish visible Wednesday was a trace on the silver sugar bowls in the wood-paneled dining room.

There, five tables of middle-aged patrons dined and talked softly about such affairs as Wabash College refusing to go coed and "Evaj dumping Frank and running Susarifor i unsullied by the events in Room 606 IN THE NEWS Canterbury By BETSY HARRIS STAR STAFF WRITER ike a proper and genteel old II lady, the much-publicized Can- terbury Hotel is quietly carrying on as if nothing happened. While its name was in the news regularly during the Mike Tyson rape trial, those who lunched there Wednesday seemed oblivious to any hullabaloo regarding Room 606. In fact, 606 has become the hot place stay In Indy. The Canterbury has received a num ber of requests from people asking to be booked in the room where Tyson at- tacked Black Expo Beauty Pageant contestant Deslree Washington. Hotel staff are Issuing a polite "no comment" until after today's sentencing, said sales manager Susan Lowry, but she confirmed the requests for 606 while graciously exchanging small talk with an uninvited reporter.

It isn't unusual for people to ask for rooms occupied by celebrities, said Lowry, mentioning singer Neil Diamond. Lowry, who is no fan of boxing, said.