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Your daily guide to whaVs happening Russ Volunteer jam Volunteer fund-raisers for two local hospitals kept parking lot attendants busy at the Portage Country Club, writes Russ Musarra. Page D7. The Beacon Journal Sunday, June 7, 1992 Art Ancient Egypt in a big way 136 pieces from around world part of exhibit zr-'' i I i kfM AX 'f 1 4 i Peter Brown, whose targets include the Cavaliers' Larry Nance and broadcaster JoeTait, does his talking at WKNR. i BY DOROTHY SHINN I Beacon Journal art critic Well, you load 16 tons, and d'you get? A lot of coal. But If you load more than 19 tons into the Cleveland Museum of Art, you get seven heavy, not to mention big, works of art from ancient Egypt.

Between now and the end of June, that's what work crews will be doing in preparation for -Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep Wand His World, which opens July 1. This is the last, the largest and the most extraordinary of the museum's 75th anniversary exhibits. 1 This show, which will be open through Sept. 27, is the first to present both scholars and the public with some of the finest works of art from ancient Egypt's most outstanding and productive period in terms of raw power and refined culture. It is also the heaviest show the museum has ever installed.

So, Arielle P. Kozloff, curator of ancient art at the museum and exhibit originator and organizer, is not only counting the days, but the tons. Are things running smoothly? About as smoothly as can be expected with so many artworks 136 on the official checklist both small and large coming in from all over the globe. 5. Some of the pieces are so small, you could hold them in the palm of your hand; others, such as a few of the colossal granite 'sculptures, barely fit through the museum's largest door, which is more than 9 feet high.

However, Kozloff 's current top worry is not the size of the works nor their avoirdupois, but foreign bureaucracy. Three objects coming directly from Egypt have i yet to be released by the Egyptian government. "With the show opening in less than a month, I find it rather interesting that I still don't have a See EGYPT, Page D6 JOCELYN WILLIAMS Beacon Journal Sports talker to trash BY BOB DYER Beacon Journal staff writer It would be enough to push the average person into the throes of depression. When 14 members of the media are invited to participate in a three-point shootout at halftime of the first Cavs playoff game at the Coliseum, some of them receive scattered applause. Some receive no reaction.

But only one is booed. And he isn't simply booed. He is greeted with the kind of lusty, rafter-rattling crescendo normally reserved for such archenemies as Detroit Piston Bill Laimbeer. Now get this: The crowd's reaction surpasses his fondest expectations. Happy to be hated? You betcha, when you're a talk-show host who positions himself as Mr.

Objectivity, the only in Northeast Ohio. Meet Peter Brown, who has become the most talked-about sports talker in Northeast Ohio in only nine months on the air. Becoming Public Enemy No. 1 this quickly is a tribute to the force of his personality. That and a newfound penchant for larceny.

Brown, heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. on WKNR (1220-AM), clearly has stolen the act of Howard Eskin, a sports-talk host who is a legend in Philadelphia. Brown worked with Eskin for a year and a half at Philly's WD? before getting canned in January 1991. "Peter Brown does a very cheap imitation of Eskin," says Cavs play-by-play announcer Joe Tait. I listened to him for the first two weeks he was in town, sized up what he was doing and have not listened to him since.

He was very transparent. He just wasn't worth listening to." The feeling seems to be be mutual. Says Brown of Tait: "He's probably more of a homer than anybody else in Cleveland." That's the ultimate insult in Brown's eyes. A homer, by his definition, is someone blinded by loyalty. Someone who can't see the truth for the pompons.

A shill. Like most radio announcers, Brown See TALKER, Page D10 ocal legends And one, Joe Tait, calls Peter Brown a 'cheap imitation' of another radio host mm jWJW must pay to play ICBS shows i How would you feel if, after attending a neighborhood card game every week for 25 years, you suddenly were stopped at the door and asked to pay a cover icharge? i That's roughly how the people WJW (Channel 8) are feeling in the wake of an announcement that CBS will begin charging its affiliates to air certain programs. LIFE'S A BEACH AND THEN YOU DIE OF BOREDOM Christie Brlnkley says her swimsuit modeling days are over. Her parting shot, with her wearing a red maillot, will be the July cover of Ladies' Home Journal. "I don't want to do those anymore," she says of the beachwear biz.

"It's gotten too hard to suck in my stomach." Brinkley, 38, Billy Joel's uptown girl and wife and mom to their 6-year-old daughter, Alexa Ray, sounds ready to throw in the towel on her modeling career altogether. "I've been planning to retire for the last 10 years. Modeling is a very empty job," she tells the magazine. "It's been a great career, but I would rather be known as anything but a model. I desperately need more stimulation." Sign of the times At a Summit Mall shoe store: COME IN AND HAVE A FIT Oops! Wonder if the people of Canton realize they've been annexed by Akron? The June issue of Cleveland Magazine offers a story titled Afore rfl vV 7 I 5 I.

1 It VI Paul Cross of Akron wonders if GM's loss was so deep that it has to resort to this sort of incentive. "Does this mean louvers are optional?" he asks. Gov't in action There are 21 parking meters in front of the Summit County Department of Human Services building on High Street, and they ostensibly are for the welfare clients being served there. An observer reports that, while employees can park free two blocks away, a number of them six on a recent day tie up that many meters all day by plugging in quarters every hour. That's $20 a week to save a walk.

Fed up, and it shows Robert Oaks, an exec with UC Industries of Tallmadge, has devised a patriotic-looking bumper sticker red, white and blue in color that reads: RE-ELECT NO ONE Quote dujour A word from silver-domed Ed Bradley, after viewing a highlight tape of 60 Minutes' 25 years: "I was reminded vividly that when I started at 60 Minutes 12 years ago, I didn't have a gray hair and, 12 years later, Mike Wallace still doesn't have any gray hair. You figure it out." The eyes have it Texas Monthly magazine had some fun correcting an item that ran in The National, Playboy reports. The now-defunct sports daily "reported that the protective cup worn by Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan during his seventh no-hitter was sold at auction for $62,500. In fact, the item sold was Ryan's cap and the price was $6,250." The magazine was smiling when it titled the item IT PROTECTS THE EYEBALL. Boss from hell No, you don't have the most tyrannical employer extant, but Lorl Butler might have.

She tells the L.A. Times about the day a gold crown fell out of Mr. Mean's mouth and he demanded that the minions get down on their knees and search every inch of the office. He later found the crown himself on a trip to the restroom. It was in his shorts.

This day in music 1979 Chock Berry performs at the White House at President Carter's request. A month later he gets four months for income tax evasion. 1971 The Who performs its rock opera, Tommy, at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. Wordsmithing pays The Quarterly Review of Doublespeak reports that the contest conducted by the National Cristina Foundation to create a better word for "crippled" and "handicapped" resulted in the winning phrase "people with differing abilities." The winner received $50,000, The final word "Imagine that, Ross Perot says he doesn't want to be around any adulterers and he's going to Washington. Isn't that like trying to avoid rude people by going to France?" Jay Leno WANTED: Anecdotal ammunition and look-alikes, too.

Call Mickey Porter at 996-3849. Edited from staff and wire reports. For decades, the system was simple: Local stations all over the country happily aired the offerings of Mother Network because local viewers Bob ft gobbled up the network shows and Mother Network paid her affiliates to carry the shows. What did the network get out of A huge, coast-to-coast jaudience to dangle in front of jadvertisers. But the game began to change -when the explosion of cable and 'satellite TV started turning the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) into the Three Among Many.

I The latest who'd-a-thunk-it development took place last weekend, when CBS told its "affiliates that, as of next year, they'll get an overall cut of $20 million to $25 million and have pay to run certain CBS shows. Why do we care? Because network compensation See DYER, Page D5 Than 101 Summertime Things To Do in Akron. The 10th and 11th items on that list: the Canton Art Institute and the Canton Symphony Orchestra. Oops again The auto ad read: '92 Camaros, 10 in stock, from $10,250, with lovers. iV.