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ArtsfiLi? Inside Astrology forecast, advice columns, comics, bridge column, television listings and crossword. BIO 12 Hie Beacon Journal Wednesday November 17, 1999 PageB8 1 I Akron Symphony job candidate is an innovator at podium or on wheels Akron newscast is no cheap feat City Council wants WVPX to provide one, but where does the money come from? If Akron city officials are so interested in having a local HOOKER LOOKER The diminutive 73-year-old man had been caught up in a police sting and now stood before Akron Municipal Judge Marvin Shapiro, charged with soliciting. "How do you plead?" asked his honor. "Can I hand you a note first?" the suspect replied. Told he could, he did, and when Shapiro opened it, he read that the man "offered a woman money, but not for sex, for foreplay." Besides, the note went on, "before I got into this trouble I voted for you." Well, that added touch may have saved him from a long stretch at Lucasville, but he was found guilty, fined and sentenced to two days of community service to reflect on his remarkably enduring libido.

Coincidence? Mount Everest grew by 7 feet just after Wilt Chamberlain died. Ink blot Actress Janeane Garofalo tells if. fey newscast, there's a simple way to make that happen. Pay for one. City Council members this week have tried to that the cause is completely lost, that local news might arrive, by cable if not broadcast.

"We've been talking with a lot of people," Time Warner spokesman Bill Jasso said yesterday. "We aren't ready to make any decision." But in trying to get Channel 23 to put on a local newscast, city officials are ignoring some unpleasant realities about the way TV works. First of all, a newscast, no matter how simple, isn't made by elves. Someone has to pay for it. WNEOWEAO (Channels 4549) presents a weekly panel discussion, NewsNiyht Akron, and spends about $750 per show.

That would add up to $39,000 for a full year of telecasts, a lot less than the millions of dollars you'd need for a full-scale news operation. But the money still has to come from somewhere. Channels 4549 uses funds from the Akron Symphony Orchestra and the Akron Bar Association to underwrite its program. A commercial station could also sell advertising time, but advertisers might not just jump on board a newscast because it's there. Phil Ferguson, the former sports anchor for Channel 23 now working as a morning See TV, Page B12 R.D.

Heldenfels Bust mart pino about the X' "eight or use a zoning request by WVPX (Channel 23) as a way to bully Channel 23 into putting an Akron newscast on the air. When Paxson Communications bought Channel 23 then WAKC in 1996, one of the company's first acts was to eliminate local newscasts. The station, now operating from Warrensville Heights, has become an affiliate of Paxson's network, Pax TV. It carries Pax shows to the Cleveland TV market, of which Akron is just a part. There's been hand-wringing over the years about Akron not having its own newscast.

And it never seems nine" tattoos she is adorned with. She got her first at 18 the word "Think" on her forearm. Most recently, the Garofalo i ft- 1 4 Fcdigo, Passen Associates Gary Sheldon will conduct the Akron Symphony on Saturday night at E.J. Thomas Hall. 1 Janna Dekker, who did this untitled print in 1986, uses no darkroom tricks in her black-and-white photography.

Art review Lens extends Dutch exhibit Modern photos complement Cleveland show on still lifes from Netherlands, 1550 to 1720 rcnes 35-year-old got a on her finger to represent "choice." "It's not choice, like, pro-choice, even though that's fine," she says. "I had read a book by Dr. Victor Frankel called Man's Search for Meaning, the basic thrust being that everything you do in your life is a choice." The name game Demi Moore in real life is Demetria Guynes. You're welcome The two most mispronounced words in the English language? Gyro, as in the sandwich, is pronounced yeero. Forte, as in something that a person does well, is pronounced fort, not fortay.

This day in music 1933 -No. 1 Billboard hit: Rags to Riclies, Tony Bennett. Electric messiah The Rev. Peter Draper on millennium plans in Blackpool, England, for a 24-foot-high electronic flashing Jesus, his arms outstretched over a flashing globe, with a star falling toward the globe and making the globe glow as the flashing Jesus rises up and the year "2000" flashes: "It will not be something tacky." Had us worried for a minute. The sporting news Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden, telling Sports Illustrated about his players' recent legal problems: "When it rains, it snows." Galling genius Roman I'olanski may have directed some of the greatest films ever (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown), but free spirit Johnny Depp is far from impressed.

The star of Polanski's The Ninth Gate says he's relieved the movie has wrapped, complaining it "was not an easy film to make" and that Polanski is "out there." Speaking of out there, Polanski all but admits in the new Esquire that he committed the statutory rape of a 13-year-old that forced him to flee the U.S. in 1979. "There's a different justice for people who are public figures than for those who are not," he says. "There was no plot against me. There was no setup.

It was all my fault. I think my wrongdoing was far greater than Bill Clinton's." The final word Walt Disney Studios is planning to spend $80 million filming the story of the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. Disney Producers say the film will delve into Kaczynski's criminal psyche and trace the manhunt that brought him to justice, as well as show in graphic detail how Mickey Mouse ended up with only four fingers. Colin Quinn Edited by Mickey Porter from staff and tyire reports. Details Concert: Akron Symphony Orchestra Where: E.J.

Thomas Hall, 198 Hill Akron When: 8 p.m. Saturday. Talk by guest conductor Gary Sheldon at 7 p.m. Cost: Information: 330-972-7570 Sheldon, a candidate for symphony music director, also will speak at a luncheon at noon Friday at the Martin Center, 105 Fir Hill, at the University of Akron. Cost is $10.

To reserve a ticket, call 330-665-3020. By Elaine Gureoian lli'timn Jmtnutl mmw writir People working for symphony orchestras tend to carry around ideas for attracting new listeners. Just ask, and they'll produce them as instinctively as a doctor might adjust her stethoscope. But of all the music director candidates for the Akron Symphony Orchestra, Gary Sheldon has been the first to bring up mountain biking as ahem, vehicle for audience recruitment. It's an idea from his job as music director of the Marin (Calif.) Symphony, which has a new social group.

The 46-year-old conductor hopes that sometime soon, the group will head out with him for a bike ride, then later, over wine and cheese, talk about upcoming programs. Sheldon, the seventh of nine candidates to audition, is in Akron this week to lead the orchestra and the Akron Symphony Chorus. It's an ail-American theme program of works by Aaron Copland, William Schuman and Leonard Bernstein. Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 also sneaks in there by association, since it's By Dorothy Shinn Hciu-iin Journal art mlir.

The idea in mounting Janna Dekker and Jan van Leeuwen Photographs: Contemporary Still Lifes was to extend the range of another show, the major Cleveland Museum of Art exhibit, Still-Life Paintings From the Netherlands, 1550-1720. That it does admirably, but it also brings together Dekker and van Leeuwen, a move that not only shows how the still life remains a viable subject, but also demonstrates the tremendous weight and authority of tradition, even as we approach the 21st century. Tom Hinson, the museum's curator of contemporary art and photography, has brought together two photographers from very different eras of the 20th century: Dekker, born in 1957, studied history and Spanish, but went into photography at a fairly young age (1982), when she became a photographer's assistant. Van Leeuwen, born in 1932, lived under the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam and later made his living distributing kitchen wares (and photographing them for sales purposes) until 1994, when he retired. He said he took up "serious photography" in 1986 only to have "something to do when he retired." The two photographers See Still, Page B9 subtitled "From the New World." The concert is at 8 p.m.

Saturday at E.J. Thomas Hall. In a recent conversation from California, Sheldon said that he wants to learn more about Akron before making any suggestions, regarding biking or anything else. (Don't worry. Having kept a residence in Columbus for the last 16 Sec BIKE, Page BIO Search for music director narrows slowly Metallica to start off millennium Sperry said the orchestra wanted to give the musicians and community the chance to hear as many candidates as possible, within reason.

"After the first candidate, a number of people said, You've got to stop the search and hire tlus That's happened after every candidate," Sperry said, with a good-natured laugh. "Dick Kemph (chairman of the search committee) said we needed CTC: courage to contfoue." conduct in February. Then -drumroll, please a decision will be made in March, according to Jeff Sperry, executive director of the orchestra. If the process seems more endless than a car trip to Grandma's house when you're 4 years old, there are good reasons. The pace of one subscription concert a month (the orchestra's usual season) is slow.

And the orchestra had more than 150 applications to narrow down, first by their resumtA then by videotapes. Six down, three to go. That's where the Akron Symphony stands in its search for a music director, which began after the death of Alan Baiter in August 1998. Alfred Savia, David Wiley, Barry Jekowsky, Paul Polivnick, Stephen Smith and Leslie B. Dunner have each auditioned through a guest-conducting appearance with the orchestra.

Following Gary Sheldon this month, Harry Davidson will appear in Ya-Hui Wang, the sole wontan on the list, will All won't be quiet this New Year's Day. Metallica will rock in the new millennium at Gund Arena on Jan. 1, with special guests Kid Rock and Sevendust. The band's latest album, due out Tuesday, is a hard rockers and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. However, the tour will be without the symphony.

Tickets for the show go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Gund Arena box office, through Ticketmaster outlets and by phone at 330-945-9400 in Akron and 216-241-5555 in Cleveland. collaboration between the.