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Page B4, Tuesday, October 18, 199i The Beacon Journal Review The latest 'Nightmare' is the best of the seven TW MVIllllT TAUBWT MM TOKU. -n im.inutMHatMiiTOMWONiwoiuNttai avMiuiUMTTWwuiiMaiwaiu THE I 1) I nu e.u 1 SJAUI I I 1) MONTROSE MOVIES NOW tJHAMjl 2) SSfciff 'SS" I SHOWING 1 I TEMPEST BINGO Monday Tuesday Progressive Flashboard Doors Open 4:30 Games Start 6:30 American Legion Hall 110 S. Arlington Akron I jir ty 1 374-0401 i $1000 JACKPOT GUARANTEED Mr CKlKMiif Hot Mute Sacarity SuwwWf Vvtn'l fwiMt MvcMnt lit DM Mlfs St. Archangel Michael: 2552 Pickle Rd. New Viae Cinema It looks as If Heather Langenkamp (center) is getting a little upset about her kidnapped son in Wes Craven New Nightmare.

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That means Englund plays Englund, Heather Langenkamp plays Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon plays John Saxon, Craven plays Craven. Why a seventh movie? Craven's answer is the same on-screen and off. As long as the evil called Freddy remained captured in the Nightmare on Elm Street films, the evil genie, so to speak, was kept bottled. "They never should have killed off Freddy," we are told. The evil is trying to get out (how else?) through the nightmares plaguing Englund, Langenkamp and, of course, Craven.

Freddy's target is Langen-kamp's young son, Dylan (Miko Hughes). When Langenkamp turns to Craven for help, the director calmly tells her that these events TV Two reporter-anchors, White and Morgano, quit Continued from Page Bl will be replaced by a public-afiairs show. The latter change comes even as WAKC's news operation has hit turbulence from changes made by owner ValueVision International, a home-shopping service that took over the station just under a year ago. Questions about the company's commitment to news, and maintaining a news staff, have arisen repeatedly. Even the planned news hour has taken far longer than Tayek originally hoped.

"When you come into a place in the kind of disarray this was, things don't happen as quickly as you'd like them to," he said yesterday. He called the dropping of the weekend news "very temporary. With our redeployment of personnel, we had to pull back somewhere." He said he hoped to have a weekend news back on the air "in no longer than six months." Redeployment also comes as the station is losing staff, including reporter-anchors Linda White and Todd Morgano. "I hadn't anticipated that," Tayek said, but the loss of Morgano was at least blunted by station plans to put Mark Williamson in as anchor of both the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts.

Williamson, who is WAKC's news director, still will hold that title but will focus on anchoring, reporting and serving as executive producer of the 11 p.m. news, Tayek said. Tayek, meanwhile, has taken on the administrative duties Williamson had done previously. The station also is sensitive to the problem in losing White, who is moving to Grand Rapids, to become a general assignment re DOC 6 pOtOrd Ad Byl 97.5 PEPSI WONE I i.l)'L,.'r A4i vWl' TT Details Movie: Wes Craven's New Nightmare Stars: Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Miko Hughes, David Newsom, Tracy Middendorf, Fran Bennett, Wes Craven, John Saxon Director: Wes Craven Studio: New Line Cinema Running time: 1 hour, 51 minutes Theaters: Belden Village Cinemas, Carnation Cinema, Lake Cinema 8, Loews State, Lyric Twin, Canton Centre, West Market Plaza 7 Rating: (violence, language) Mark's grade: are occurring as he's turning his nightmares into a screenplay for the seventh movie. After Langenkamp leaves the room, the camera zeroes in on the dialogue Craven was writing when she arrived.

We see that it's the very scene just played out between Langenkamp and Craven. We see porter for WOOD-TV. She is not only well-regarded as a reporter but is the lone African-American on the air at WAKC. Asked if the station is seeking another African-American, Tayek said, "Absolutely. It's very important to us that we have proper representation on the news." The viewers vote Cleveland public-television station WVIZ (Channel 25) is getting a good response to its Viewer's Choice system.

Now, if only people would stop requesting Brideshead Revisited Don't get me wrong. I loved Brideshead. But the purpose of Viewer's Choice is to let people pick their favorite WVIZ show from the previous week, not from 12 years ago. Here's how it works: On Wednesday and Thursday nights, beginning at midnight, WVIZ has set aside two hours for programs that have aired during the preceding seven days; the programs replayed are chosen based on viewer mail (4300 Brookpark Road, Cleveland 44134), phone calls (398-2730) and faxes (749-2560, to the attention of Viewer's Choice). It's a nice idea in theory, and the station has gotten dozens of calls, but a bit awkward in practice.

For starters, shouldn't that be Viewers' Choice? Selections have to be confined to the previous week, while WVIZ has the telecast rights; older shows may not be available. But it makes more sense to draw the selections from a Monday-through-Sunday week instead of the less obvious Wednesday-Tuesday setup in place. The time set aside is too short for some programs; you couldn't vote for a week's worth of Baseball, for instance. But WVIZ is working around some of those limitations. For instance, it went ahead and scheduled a late-night replay of the FDR documentary, which was too long to fit the Viewer's Choice slots anyway.

"The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. It has camaraderie.

It has heroism. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon." Fred Lebow, founder, New York City Marathon REEL-to-REAL Entertainment the last words we heard them speak. Again and again, Craven plays with this nightmare sense of reality. As the advertising slogan for his movie promises, "This time the terror doesn't stop at the screen." Crammed full of sly jokes, New Nightmare makes splendid use of the behind-the-scenes people responsible for Freddy. Producers Robert Shaye, Sara Risher and Marianne Maddalena appear as themselves in scenes that almost wink at you with mirthful glee.

In daring to fashion a grander mythological context for Freddy, Craven has not only provided a legitimate reason for a seventh movie he's dredged up the best Nightmare of them all. Mark Dawidziak is the Beacon Journal's critic-at-large, a creature of the night prowling theaters and TV channels for fresh blood. He has been known to go for the throat. Wake-up call The Morning Exchange will broadcast live from the Carousel Dinner Theatre in Akron this morning from 9 to 11 on WEWS (Channel 5). Guests will include Tonya Lee Williams, who plays Dr.

Olivia Barber on The Young and The Restless; astrologer Sandra Leigh Serio; and cast members from the current Carousel production, Singin' in the Rain. Spectators are welcome but you have to be at the theater, 1275 E. Waterloo Road, by 8:30 a.m. Which could mean yawnin' in the rain. R.D.

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After high school, we took different paths. Bill quit college his freshman year and moved to New York. He was anxious to experience the real world. He worked as a restaurant waiter and off -off Broadway actor, New York's traditional path to stardom, oblivion, or somewhere in between. He always greeted me with a beer and an outrageous laugh whenever I showed up at his Brooklyn brownstone.

There he was, struggling to make the rent, welcoming a college kid who was starving, not for food but for a good dose of urban reality. On the way to a burger joint one night, Bill pointed out a ramshackle apartment house in a seedy Maibiattan neighborhood. "Dustin Hoffman used to live there," he said. "Before he made The Graduate." For a couple of 20-year-old guys, the sight of that famous "dump" conveyed a powerful mes-. sage: Rags-to-riches stories do come true in a place like this if you stick around long enough.

Bill never achieved stardom. Didn't matter. He had other aspirations. He lived in Europe for a while and taught dance. He returned to New York and wrote magazine articles about education.

Over the years, we tost track of each other. Yet I miss him. The memory of his laughter win stick with me. So will the Robin Williams character in Dead Poets Society, imploring his high school students to seize the day. "Carpe diem!" he whispered hoarsely.

"Carpe diem!".