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ENTERTAINMENTLIV ELY ARTS CIO Asbury Park Press Friday, August 27, 1 993 Williams WENDY WILLIAMS, radio personality for WRKS (Kiss)-FM, 98.7,can be heard from 6 to 10 p.m. weekntahts and from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturdays. Her nationally syndicated radio show, "Top 30 USA," is broadcast on WRKS on Sundays from noon to 1 p.m. 97-FM after two years.

"I don't let all this go to my head because I've learned that when you're not No. 1 you ain't jack," she said. "People who you thought were your friends don't know your name anymore." Through all the rough times, though there has been her family mother Shirley, a retired teacher; father Thomas, a retired school principal; younger brother Tommy, a management consultant, and older sister Wanda, a lawyer with the public dej fender's office in Freehold. Williams said that while she likes being a role model for some of her younger fans she wishes they'd look around their own homes for role models like she did. Asked what advice she'd give to these young fans, Williams said, "Be true to yourself and don't hurt your parents.

Realize that everyone is not your friend. Nobody is going to be true to you except your family. That's what's really important. Family." trying to figure out how the heck I'm gonna get out of this mess," she said. "I just had my 10-year class reunion and I was the most popular.

It was disgusting. I felt like slapping people. "I'm not outwardly mean to people but I see all the phoniness going on." She also has seen the downside to popularity like fair-weather friends who disappeared when she wasn't on top. Overzealous fans (including a stalker) and ex-fans (she's received bullets in the mail) have made it necessary for Williams to have a bodyguard when she makes appearances or is at work. That's why Williams sticks by her family.

She talks about them constantly on and off the air. They are, she said, her biggest fans and her biggest reality check. In a world of phonies they are her best and only true friends, she said. Her eyes well with tears as she talks about her experiences with the downside of success, including her sudden firing from New York's Hot Williams is the real deal? "The real Wendy is a very, very strong strain of what people hear on the radio opinionated, emotional," Williams said. "I definitely am a 98.7 percent strain of everything they hear right down to the opinions and stuff." But there is another Wendy Williams that listeners only get an occasional glimpse of.

That Wendy Williams is a savvy businesswoman with clothing endorsement (Machine Wear), television and radio syndication projects keeping her busy when not on Kiss-FM. When this Wendy Williams talks, one hears the voice of someone whose pride in her current success stems, in part, from the bitter knowledge that few people in and around Ocean Township, where she grew up (and where her parents still live), ever expected Williams to be a hit. "When I was growing up I didn't have a whole lot of friends. I graduated in the bottom 20 of my high school class. I spent a lot of my time From page CI and 3 to 7 p.m.

on Saturdays, Wendy Williams is by turns flippant, outrageous, flaky and goofy. Hers is a brash, free-wheeling voice that smiles at you through the radio, even as she's cattily dishing the dirt, getting into listeners' business and telling her own. I The Ocean Township native declines to give her exact age but hints that she's older than 25 but not yet 30. She freely admits she plans to lie about her age once she hits her mid-30s. Bear in mind that this is the same Wendy Williams who once told listeners that her on-air guests were laugh-ihg because her ponytail had been lying on the studio floor for 20 minutes before Williams discovered the hairpiece and put it back on.

If the biggest buying power and the biggest listening audience is 18 to 25 then screw everybody who says 'grow up' because this is about business." Williams said she knew that the radio world was the right one for her. The locations have changed since she first got into the business at age 20 she worked on the island of St. Martin, then in Washington and at two other New York stations but Williams' style and attitude about her work have always been the same. "I liked radio because, to me, it's trickery. You trick people.

They think you're one thing and you might be another," she said. "They think you're pretty and you might be ugly. They think you're black and you might be white." So how much of the on-air Wendy Beach Haven alive with 'The Sound of Music' I "I got into radio because I wanted to do something where I could be myself and be myself in every aspect from whatever I wear, to what I say," Williams said. "I knew I wanted to do something kind of showbizzy but I wasn't exactly sure what it was." Williams' show has been in the top spot of the New York area's afternoon drive-time market ever since she came to the urban contemporary station Kiss-FM almost four years ago. "To everyone who wants to say something about how I should grow up, shut up and understand, my biggest numbers are age 18 to 34 with an accent on 18 to 25 and if that's where my numbers are, SORRY.

I'll be a child forever," she said. "I can relate to people of all ages in a Wendy kind of way but you want to know something? from strangers when the stereo system is being given a rest. It is almost as if 01' Blue Eyes lives there himself. The Smiths, who have their primary residence in Wyckoff Township, Bergen County, bought the property, located at the end of Water Street, about seven years ago. Before they did, they sent their son, Jeffrey, a contractor, to take a look.

He visited on a Wednesday in July, which turned out to be the same day as the annual off-shore powerboat race. He found the boardwalk jam-packed with people. "I said, 'Why would someone want to live I thought it was a normal Wednesday," he recalled. Ultimately it was decided that the existing house, about 50 years old, should be torn down and replaced. The job, done by Jeffrey and his brother-in-law, Pat Stinneford, took about a year-and-a-half to complete.

During construction, Paul Smith said, "we had a lot of sidewalk super- August 28 DIANE September 3 PHYSICAL GRAFFITTI THE LCD ZlfflUN SHOW bLHUUK intendents." The final product, which they call Seascape, earns them a lot of compliments. A columnist for the local weekly newspaper, in fact, recently named it "the best house on the boards." So nice and so visible, in fact, that people regularly stop by looking for a room, thinking it's a bed and breakfast. Once, a man walked through the front door, sat down on one of the bar chairs at the kitchen counter and ordered a drink. Paul Smith says all the activity doesn't bother him. In fact, he loves it.

"Boring" is how he describes what it would be like in a big, secluded oceanf-ront house with a private beach. "My doctor told me (the house) probably added 10 years to my life. It totally relaxes me," he says. "I can sit here and enjoy the beach, the ocean, the breeze all year round." More than the lush landscaping, the charming porch, the well-appointed interior (seven bedrooms, three bathrooms, a huge recreation room in the basement featuring a pool table, slot machine, an arcade video game and a Place from page CI or at least they feel like they know hem.They see them often out on their open-air porch playing cards with family and friends. (The game of choice is Hearts.) They can easily look through the sliding glass doors that wrap around the front and side of the house, Especially at night when it's lit up in-Side, and see what's for dinner, what's on the large-screen TV, what kind of a lpte-night snack they're fixing for their grandchildren.

And they definitely know their taste in music: It is a rare occasion when you don't hear the croonings of Frank Sinatra coming from the porch's built-in speakers. "The Voice" waltzes down the boardwalk and floats over the beach toward the Atlantic. I "Where's Frank?" is the refrain Au9u27 THE OUTLAWS 1 September 4 BUodI HUMPHREY Sptmbr 1 4 ALEXANDER O'NEAL By CHUCK DARROW PRESS CORRESPONDENT IHIi aving loaded its summer 1993 schedule with adult-oriented programs Todd," "Sweet Charity," "Phantom of the Opera," "Promises, Beach Haven's Surflight Theatre is currently serving up one of the grandest of all family musicals, "The Sound of Music." The 1958 Rodgers Hammerstein classic is the textbook definition of the theatrical term "evergreen." Its story of one family's triumph over the evil of the Nazis is forever uplifting (and even somewhat timely, given the volatile political situation in modern-day Germany). And the sometimes simple, sometimes majestic score inarguably one of Broadway's most familiar remains appealing even in this day of computer-generated sounds and gut-punching lyrics. For those of you who've spent the last four decades in another solar system, "The Sound of Music" is the true tale of the singing von Trapp family, a large Austrian brood who gives up its privileged lifestyle to escape the tragedy of World War II.

The tale is told from the standpoint of the stepmother, Maria Ranier, a September 1 0 September 1 1 JERRY BUTLER RICHARD ELLIOTT September 1 7 SPECIAL EFX September 1 ICUIM UElinu OF SATUtOAYl IVCVIll HWUVn NIvHT LIVE October 2 WALTWILLEY of All My Children October 1 6 BOB NELSON September 24 PETER WHITE September 25 THE TUBES fwmrimmvwfiiu October 8 ANGELA BOFILL October 6 ADRIAN BELEW PIUS SPECIAL GUEST DAVE ALVIN FULL MEAL six-person Jacuzzi) it is the music that sets the house apart and gives it its character. It stands to reason. Paul Smith has spent all his professional life in the music business, starting in an appliance store in St. Louis and rising to his current position as president of Sony Music Distribution. (Three or four times each year, he brings his top employees to Seascape for strategic planning retreats.) He likes all kinds of music but Sinatra, whom he has met yeah, he's very cordial," Smith says) stands tall above the rest.

"To me, he's the greatest vocalist of all time," he says. "Nobody sings like he does." This fall, Smith will be involved in the distribution of a major new Sony release a 12-CD set of Sinatra's early recordings with Capital Records, now a division of Sony. Those who can't afford to plunk down $249.95 for the set (it will come with a hardcover book in a wood case), can always stroll the boards in Point Pleasant Beach and get their fill of Frank. FRI. AUG.

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'I young convent student who originally joins the clan as' governess of the seven von Trapp children. But from the moment she arrives at the von Trapp's baronial estate in the Alps, she entrances the children and, ultimately, the father, Capt. Georg von Trapp, who is transformed by Maria's sweetness and wholesomeness from a discipline-obsessed martinet to a tender, sensitive father and, ultimately, husband. The Surflight's regulars do a unspectacular, job with the roles. Surflight's rendition of "The Sound of Music" is a delightful way to spend a late-summer's evening on Long Beach Island.

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