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SEPAnilTE UilCATIOriS Sometime in this century, people will be able to travel on a shuttle to the moon. But their luggage will end up on Mars. Erma Bombeck's column on 3C. MONDAY SEPTEMBER 17. 1984 ROCHESTER NEW YORK SECTIOIl 2C TELEVISION 3C COLUMNISTS Democrat ano (Cbronirk MOVIES CLASSIFIEDS 1 mmmm I 3C SB 4C 5B COMICS in SMTT 1 Singer Mandrell's son released from hospital The 14-year-old son of Barbara Man-drell was released from a Nashville, hospital, while the country music star continues to recuperate from injuries suffered in a car accident Matthew Dudney went home Saturday from Hendersonville Hospital.

He had been kept there for observation of minor injuries he suffered in the Sept 11 crash. Meanwhile, MandrelL 35, remains in good condition. She suffered a broken leg and mild concussion in the collision. Singer pulls self together Pop singer Rickie Lee Jones, whose success with the hit Chuck in Love sent 'jr a Matt Rinaldi, the host of Bowling for Dollars on Channel 13. her into a whirl of fast living and drinking, says she pulled herself together in France after realizing "you change or you die." The 28-year-old Grammy winner went to France last year, looking forward to being alone and regaining her balance after a '1982 tour that saw Rickie Lee Jones her drinking and Right: A bowling contestant lining himself up with the pins on Friday night.

stew's imp yyir aDDev slurring her words on stage. "It's a strange thing," she said. "You're so anxious for people to like you that you don't know how to stop and enjoy it the touring or the records." Now, she said, she is exercising, watching her diet and avoiding "abusive substances." Dali put in private room Salvador Dali, recovering from life-saving surgery, spent a "peaceful night" in a private hospital room in Barcelona, Spain, after demanding to leave an intensive care ward because he was "fed up being dressed like a lizard and cooped up in a cage," doctors said yesterday. Doctors said concern for the 80-year-old surrealist painter's mental state had prompted their decision to allow his return to a private room Saturday. But doctors said that Dali, who suffered extensive bums in a fire at his home, was still not out of danger.

Travolta flies MacArthur plane Actor John Travolta flew into Austin Straubel Field in Green Bay, over the weekend in a Lockheed Constellation airplane once owned by Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur. Travolta, 30-year-old star of the movies Saturday Night Fever and Grease, and his pilot were ferrying the plane from Canada to his ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif. Constellations are "pretty extinct," he said, adding that he may donate the rare plane to the Smithsonian Institution in two years. MacArthur owned the plane privately in the 1940s and early '50s.

Tes8' star weds in N.Y.C. Actress Nastassia Kinski has married Ibriham Moussa, her longtime lover and ray. "The ratings had slipped, maybe people were getting a little tired of it it was time for a change." There are some minor differences between the new Bowling for Dollars and the '73-77 version. The new show is hosted by Matt Rinaldi, co-host of the WBBF-AM AM Live show, instead of Ron DeFrance, who now works at Channel 8. Instead of airing from 7 to 7:30 p.m., the new version of Bowling for Dollars will run from 5 to 5:30 p.m.

And instead of being shown live, Bowling for Dollars will be taped in advance. But Murray promises that the station will do its best to retain the live, spontaneous quality that made the original show so appealing to thousands 4 -mm-) xfrm II feftn irj i i Vo 'mx-j. viy-'' i At last, you can root again for neighbors to strike it rich on 'Bowling for Dollars' By Andy Smith Democrat and Chronicle It's back. Complete with Pin Pals, jackpots, nervous bowlers, waving family members, a smiling host and its own inimitable charm, Bowling for Dollars returns to the Rochester airwaves tonight at 7 p.m.. "I'm glad it's on again but why did they have to pick me first?" asked Angelo Capuano of Rochester, the very first bowler at the line as Bowling for Dollars was taped Friday night at Channel 13.

Before emcee Matt Rinaldi and about 50 people crammed into the two-lane bowling alleystudio at Channel 13, Capuano demonstrated fine bowling form, but unfortunately left a pin standing and then failed to make the spare. A sympathetic audience groaned, and the second incarnation of Bowling for Dollars was underway. "It was my first time on TV, and I got a little nervous," said Capuano. "I had a good time, though. My thumb got stuck a little and I didn't want the ball to fly through the air, so I just let it down easy." Bowling for Dollars was a Rochester television phenomenon from 1973 to 1977, racking up the highest ratings of any local program in Rochester history.

With genial host Ron DeFrance at the helm, Bowling for Dollars at its peak was watched by 48 percent of the available television audience. CALL IT TACKY, call it corny, call it camp it was still a huge success, and now Channel 13 management has decided it's time for a revival. "It's fun, it's a game show, it's got local participation," said station manager Jon Murray. "We're a station that likes to do local things, and with all the competition from cable we think local programming becomes more important as a way of retaining our audience. And this is a big bowling town." So why did Bowling for Dollars go off the air in the first place? "It had been on for four or five years, which is a pretty long run for this kind of show," said Mur-' ot viewers, we just Keep the tape rolling, no matter what," Murray promised.

IF FRIDAY NIGHT'S taping is any indication, fans of Bowling for Dollars should have no trouble warming up to the new version. Rinaldi has even revived a familiar phrase from the past "Who'd ya bring with you tonight?" the signal for the bowler's friends and relatives in the audience to stand up, grinning and waving at the camera. The studio is so small the area behind the bowlers only seats about 30 people and the number of guests so large that studio personnel spend the commercial breaks shuttling guests in and out of the seats so bowlers will be sure to have their own rooting section prominently displayed. But the Bowling for Dollars audience is a friendly group in general, generous with its applause. Big ovations are encouraged by studio personnel for Rinaldi, for bowlers, for strikes.

Devoted followers of the original Bowling for Dollars might even recognize a few faces. "Yep, I was on Bowling for Dollars once before," said Fran Forkell of Rochester. "Boy, it must have been 10 years ago. I had a good time both times I was on I think Matt is a real nice guy." After a few fluffs at the beginning, Rinaldi seemed fluent and at ease during the show. He interviews contestants prior to the taping, asking about their occupations and hobbies, and then banters with them for a few moments before sending them off to bowl.

TURN TO PAGE 4C father of their 10-week-old son, it was reported yesterday. Kinski, 23, and Moussa, 37, a representative for Italy's Bulgari jewelers, were wed in a private ceremony last week at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City, the New York Post said. Kinski, who earned fame with the leading role in Roman Po- Nastassia Kinski Center: Fans are seated behind a two-lane bowling alley in the television station's studio. Patrick Sandof Democrat and Chronicle Making a choice between opera and operating lanski's Tess, is the daughter of German actor Klaus Kinski. Guys with the top threads President Reagan, Chrysler Corp.

President Lee Iacocca and Chicago Cubs third baseman Ron Cey made the 1984 best dressed men's list Saturday. Fred Mazzei, president of the Men's Fashion Guild of America, released the names in Chicago. "There really isn't a placement of first second or third. Each person is judged in their category of sports, business, politics or whatever," said Mazzei. Others on the list were actor Robert Wagner; Vito PaacuccL president of G.

Leblanc Corp. of Kenosha, Dr. William Schulze, Ravenna, Ohio; Thomas H. Lake, executive of the Eli Lilly Foundation, Indianapolis; Paul Finamore, president of Hairline Creations; Lee Flaherty, head of Flair Communications Agency; and Irv Kupcinet, Chicago Sun-Times columnist The men were chosen from candidates selected by the MFGA committee of 21 custom tailors in the United States. Compiled from reports by United Press International and Associated Press Tenor decided in college that he'd rather practice music than medicine nerian tenor but more than a lyric), and is especially enamored of the role.

"Early Verdi is more separately melody and accompaniment In Otello, you have a chance to inject that extra warmth and emotion. The lines blend and flow with the orchestra; it's not just melody on top of oom-pah-pah." Burgess feels comfortable with director Nicholas Muni's approach to Otello, though it di- verges from the Otello he last played in Wilmington, Del. "Nicholas is getting deep into the characters," Burgess said. "Like the Shakespearean play, it's very inward; the energy is inside." The Eastman School of Music's David Ef-fron, who will conduct the performances, is a longtime friend, a Curtis colleague and a man to whom Burgess looks for inspiration. "I did my first Boheme with him; my first Butterfly, my first Tosca, my first Rigoletto about 10 operas in all, I think." "David Effron, Max Rudolf, Rudolf Serkin they were all at Curtis.

It was like a big family." On invitation, Burgess followed Serkin to the Marlboro Festival in Vermont annually for several years. Serkin was then patriarch of both Curtis and Marlboro. "We used to call him Papa," Burgess said. Burgess has one son at Florida State University who he says is not interested in a musical career. Asked what his son was interested in, Burgess chuckled.

"Well, he was in pre-med," he said. "But I think he's tranferring." The Opera Theater of Rochester's production of Verdi's Otello will be performed Thursday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Eastman Theater. Tickets are $20, $15, $13, $9.50 and $6.50, and are available at all Ticketron outlets or by calling ft' By Robert V. Palmer Democrat and Chronicle music critic Gary Burgess hasn't always wanted to sing.

For a couple of college years he thought he'd be a doctor. But he changed his tune for two reasons. "One, it was getting difficult; and two, I always found myself in the music building," he said as he lunched between recent opera rehearsals. Burgess, whose easygoing, confident manner implies his experience, will sing the title role in the Opera Theater of Rochester production of Verdi's Otello on Thursday and Saturday. So now he practices music instead of medicine.

UNTIL THE 20TH CENTURY, opera found little space for black singers. Opera was written by whites, sung by whites and listened to by whites. This century, however, has seen and heard many great black operatic voices: Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Shirley Verett, Grace Bumbry all have stamped history, as have composers such as William Grant Still and even Scott Joplin, whose opera Treemonisha was revived in the 1970s. Successful tenors are rarer. "It's always been more difficult for a black male to land roles than for a black female," said Burgess.

"For some reason, it seems to have been more difficult for them to get a foot in the door. "Maybe it's something about a black man kissing a white woman on stage." Burgess, who is 42, has sung 72 roles, many of them with such love scenes. He said he's never encountered blatant hostility. And he said that "landing roles" is getting easier all the time, for whatever reason. "At my age I feel I can pick and choose," he said.

BURGESS, WHO attended Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and the Juilliard School in New York City, is currently associate professor of music and director of the opera workshop at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has about 15 students; one is black and a male. Burgess is one of those singers who refuses to specialize. As far as choosing between concertizing and opera, Burgess says he prefers not to. "I feel at home in both genres," he said.

"Of the operatic roles I've not done, I'd like to do Ariadne. But I've done so many roles, so many run-of-the-mill roles; now I like to do only about two operas a year." Burgess recently returned from a concert tour of France, where he was awarded the Prix Claude Debussy for performances of French Melodie. He said he was surprised by the tender age of European opera fans. "It was fantastic," he said, "all the young kids on the buses, walking to school, everywhere were listening to Carmen on their Walkmans. "Either that or 'MEEK -el Otello is late Verdian.

It was composed after a 15-year hiatus in Verdi's writing, and both its length and breadth challenge the most robust voices. Lyric tenors can forget it BURGESS CONSIDERS himself a spin-todramatic tenor (less chutzpah than a Wag THE DIG EVENT A Rochester revisited Rochester was pictured in a vari-ety of black and white pictures and postcards in the 19th and early 20th century. Recently three photographers from the city revisited the scenes, depicted in some of those earlier views, and reshot them as they are today. Both the vintage scenes of the city and their modern-day counterparts go on display today in a comparative exhibit titled "Rochester Revisited." The exhibit will be on display through Sept 30 at Rochester Institute of Technology's College of Fine and Applied Arts' Bevier Gallery on the Henrietta campus. The contemporary black and white photographs are the work of Linda McCaus-land, Ira Srole and James M.

Via. The exhibit is free. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, 7 to 9 p.m.

Monday-Thursday, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Today't What's Doing events column is on page 3C. Midiael Schwirz Democrat and Chronicle Gary Burgess rehearsing the title role of Verdi's Otello..