The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 62

Thursday MAY 10. 1990 THE TCNNESSEAN 3-D TO SUBSCRIBE CALL LI Graduation Reunions f- 5 Tt i if i' Price All Ozark Mountain Jams and Mustard Sullivan takes top Ballet post Kathleen Sullivan, former general manager of the New Orleans Ballet has been appointed to the same position with the Nashville Ballet. Prior to here responsibilities at New Orleans, she was general manager of the Omaha Ballet She holds a master's degree from the University of Arizona and bachelor's from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. David Phillips, former general manager of the Nashville Ballet, has resigned to pursue other interests. Arpino exit hurts Joffrey Joffrey Ballet, in Los Angeles for a four-week run at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, is frantically juggling its schedule following the departure last week of co-founder and artistic director Gerald Arpino.

quit partially in reaction to changes in the company's management structure, enjoined the Joffrey from peforming his work, including "Trinity," "Round of Angels," and "L'Aird'Esprit." Attorneys for both sides continue to argue over the rights, but a Joffrey spokesman said the company hopes to present the disputed ballets this weekend. WE DO THE WORK YOU GET THE CREDIT Delores Delvin Staff The six screens of the new Carmike Cinemas at Harding Mall raise to 73 the number the company operates in the immediate Nashville area. Carmike helps out movie buffs 3 (A READY TO EAT HONEY 'N SPICE GLAZED SPIRAL SLiCED HAM Fully Cooked Half 6-8 lbs. Whole 12-16 lbs. 4.39 per lb.

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Don Amos, city manager for Carmike, says his company will open 24 more by May of 1991. Other companies are also expanding. In addition, 32 of the 73 auditoriums Carmike presently operates here will be completely remodeled. "A few years ago, there were people predicting that theatrical movies were going down the drain," Amos said yesterday, "but it hasn't happened. Last year was one of the best years ever.

"There are a lot of reasons. Technological innovation has made it possible for us to present more movies economically. There is a large new audience developing, particularly among older people. And there simply are a lot of good movies out there." The Carmike 6 is a new building attached to existing Harding Mall walls. Amos describes it as "state-of-the-art luxury theater constructioa" Delores Delvin Staff Mark Sailer, left, manager of Harding Mall, and Don Amos, city manager for Carmike Cinemas, greet guests at the opening of the new Carmike 6 theater.

The company plans 24 more screens here within a year. Hometown still loves Keith Whitley town or even their state." Whitley's continued popularity is not limited to eastern Kentucky. "His records sell remarkably well," said Greg McCarn, a spokesman for RCA Records in Nashville. 0 I 4 Stah a Free Mas. -11 'suse.

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"They still play him more than any of them," Pennington said of Whitley. "We were just talking about him, about how it's been a year," said Elliott County Clerk Daisy Lee Howard, whose office is decorated with about a dozen posters and snapshots of Whitley. She said several people in town planned to wear T-shirts with his likeness Wednesday in remembrance of him. "He was so kind to everyone," she said. Even after he became a star, "he never changed.

He stayed the same, sweet person. He never forgot where he came from." In the last few years, Whitley has topped the country music charts with a string of hits including "I'm No Stranger to the Rain," "Don't Close Your Eyes," and "I Wonder Do You Think of Me." Whitley was the most famous person to ever come out of remote Elliott County, where 6,908 people live in the hills of eastern Kentucky. For a financially-troubled county with high unemployment, his success was something people could boast about "Everybody was just so proud of Keith," said Judy Holbrook, a deputy county clerk. A Tennessee medical examiner ruled last year Whitley died of an accidental overdose of alcohol. Traces of cocaine and a tranquilizer also were found in his body, but authorities said his blood-alcohol level of 0.47 was enough to be lethal.

A level of 0.30 is considered fatal. The son of musicians, Whitley began playing the guitar at age 6 and two years later was appearing on Buddy Starcher's radio show in Charleston, W.Va. When he was in his teens, he and another future country music star, Ricky Skaggs, had their own radio program in West Liberty. They later joined Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys. Often compared to country music legends Lefty Frizzell, Merle Haggard and George Jones, Whitley's honky-tonk style ballads earned him national attention in the last few years.

But he continued to return to Sandy Hook and draw large crowds at the Elliott County Tobacco Festival. "He was a hometown hero," Skaggs, a native of nearby Lawrence County, said from his home in Nashville. "Keith always sung praises and sung songs about his home. He never forgot to mention where he was from." Arlene Stevens, a florist at Linda's Flowerland in Sandy Hook, said, "He just treated us like we were all close relatives or something. It's very rare for a star to do that They'll get on TV, and they don't mention their home (9 vm For Mother's Day this clever necklace features a glass flagon enclosed in goldtone filagree, on a silken cord it really holds bubble solution! Tiny bubble blower is in the capl Compare at 20.00.

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