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C2 The Beacon Journal Suncjv. 'jy 29. 1933 COMING ATinACTSCfJS I i- Players Guild of Canton, 1001 Market Ave. with an 8 p.m. curtain Friday.

The musical will be staged Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2:30 p.m. through June 26. Tickets are $7 and $8. The box office number is 453-7617. Singing and dining in the rain Opening night for the Carousel Dinner Theatre production of Singin'in the Rain is Friday, with an 8:30 p.m.

curtain. The musical will be staged at the theater, 1275 E. Waterloo Road, Akron, Tuesdays through Sundays through Aug. 7. Ticket prices, which include dinner, range from $21 to $26.

For information and reservations, call (800) 362-4100. 'Superman' the play George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman opens Friday at 8 p.m. at the Ohio Theatre in the Playhouse Square Center, 1519 Euclid Cleveland. The production is part of the Great Lakes Theater Festival season, and will be staged Tuesdays through Sundays through June 18. Tickets are from $10 to $21.

For Information or reservations call (800) 492-6048. ART From landscapes to cityscapes The Cleveland Museum of Art has two new exhibits on its schedule: Alex Katz: Xocturnal Paintings, featuring the artist's most recent works all large cityscapes and landscapes on view in Gallery 40 beginning Tuesday and running through Aug. 21; and Richard Misrach: Color Photographs, on view in the Director's Gallery through July 24. For more information, call 421-7340. Quilting as an art The Artist as Quiltmaker III, the third biennial juried exhibit of works by contemporary quilt artists sponsored by the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts can be seen at FAVA Gallery, 80 S.

Main Oberlin, through July 24. The show contains 32 quilts by 29 artists from 12 states and Canada. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday.

The gallery is closed Mondays. For more information, call 774-7158. Oberlin hosts 2 new exhibits Oberlin College's Allen Memorial Art museum will have two new exhibits on view through Sept. 18: From Turner to Picasso: Masterworks irom busiest), will end its 1987-88 season Friday with a program at the Cleveland Play House's Drury Theatre that includes the premiere of Donald Erb's Solstice. The concert begins at 8:15 p.m.

Erb, composer-ln-residence at the Cleveland Institute of Music, has written more than 20 orchestral works that have been played by more than 100 orchestras worldwide. Solstice is a one-movement piece for chamber ensemble. It was commissioned by the Ohio Chamber Orchestra through an Ohio Arts Council New Works Grant. Also on the program, which will be led by music director Dwight Oilman, will be Mozart's Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter) and four of the five poems by Friedrich Rucker set to music by Gustav Mahler.

The soloist in the Mahler segment will be mezzo-soprano Lucille Beer, who has sung at the Metropolitan Opera and New York City Opera. Tickets for the concert at $13 for senior citizens, $10 for students and $17 for others are on sale at the Cleveland Play House box office (795-7000). The Play House is at 8500 Euclid Ave. THEATER Players perform 'Peter Pan' The musical version of Peter Pan opens at the La Sollltttdlne, by Italian surrealist Georglo de Is at Oberlin's Allen Art Museum. the Collection, including a newly acquired painting by Italian surrealist Georgio de Chirico on public view for the first time in more than 40 years; and Jean Dubuffet: The Bissett Collection, an exhibit of seven early works by Jean Dubuffet, said by some to be the most important artist to emerge from France after World War n.

For more Information, call 775-8665. MUSIC Premiere work to end season The Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Cleveland's second-busiest orchestra (guess which is the RADIO Tale of two disc jockeys has a curious ending Bob Dyer one tape through the mail for his own use. Years ago, Newton's name got on a mailing list because he bought an off-color art film that was praised by critics. Because he was on that list, government agents running a sting operation last summer sent Newton letters offering to sell him the porn. The sixth time an offer showed up in Newton's mailbox, he ordered one.

By all accounts, Newton was a joy to be around. There was not a shred of evidence that he made the purchase for any other reason than curiosity. "I had mixed feeling about the case," admits Catherine Goodwin, the U.S. attorney in Denver who prosecuted Newton. "He was someone who seemed to be more likable, and one of the less-aggravated cases.

I have no reason to This is a tale of two radio announcers. Announcer No. 1 is an upbeat, well-liked, apparently harmless fellow with one hangup: He once bought a pornographic videotape. Announcer No. 2 is a convicted wife-beater who said last week on the air that it would be a good idea for someone to rape the daughters of a public official because the official did not handle a case the way he would have liked.

Two weeks ago, both announcers worked for the same station. One still works there. Guess which one? Our second gentleman, Gary Dee, continues to cruise along in his 10 a.m.-to-2 p.m. weekday shift at Cleveland talk station WWWE(llOO-AM). The first announcer, David "Fig" Newton, was forced to think he's ever molested anyone or (otherwise) acted out." And then we have Gary Dee.

The day after a television reporter broke the Newton story and broke Newton Dee went on the air and ranted that he would not work at the same station as a child molester. This came, mind you, from a man who on May 12, 1980, was convicted of assaulting his former wife, television personality Liz Richards. Most callers to WWWE also failed to differentiate between viewing a tape and attacking children on the sidewalk. One week later, Dee was urging exactly that. Because Summit County Prosecutor Lynn Slaby and Juvenile Court Judge William Kannel did not manage to get a 17-year-old, retarded rapist tried as an adult, Dee said that Slaby's daughters and Kannel's granddaughters should be raped so the two would know how the victim's family feels.

Dee gave the office telephone numbers of both men. As a result of that show, Slaby's office received phone calls threatening him with physical harm. But after urging the populace to commit felonies, Dee was back on the air the next day. Same time, same station. Akron disc jockey Matt Patrick sometimes criticized for controversial programming called Dee "an ass" and said he should be fired.

"I don't care who he is or what his style of announcing is," said Patrick. Amen. It's one thing to be controversial. Controversy equals ratings, especially on talk shows. But no responsible broadcaster should permit the slime that creeps from the mouth of Gary Dee.

The U.S. attorney with the mixed emotions about Newton said that, although he seemed like a fine fellow, she believed in her case because "disc jockeys do tend to become role models." If we accept that premise, what is Gary Dee doing on the air? We don't know, because Harvey Simms, the boss of WWWE, apparently is no longer speaking to the Beacon Journal. He has not returned phone calls for more than a week. But the man convicted of wife-beating goes on and on, and the man who bought the nasty videotape is trying to find another profession. resign.

Newton's career came to a sudden end because he purchased a videotape containing pornographic acts involving children. Now, no one in his right mind would try to defend child pornography. It's simply indefensible. And by purchasing such garbage, Newton was helping to keep the industry alive. But Newton was not directing the films, producing them or distributing them.

He bought CHANNELS UPDATES RADIO Hogan takes star treatment as just part of the job, mate AduN Contemporary 92.5-WDJO-FM, Alienee 102.1-WDOK-FM, CtewHand 570-WKBN-AM. Youngstown 600-WSOM-AM. Salem 930-WEOL-AM. Byna 1040-WJTB, North Ridges 1060-WRCW-AM, Canton 1330-WELW-AM. Easllake 1330-WHOT-AM, Youngstown 1390-WFMJ-AM, Youngstown 1480-WHBC-AM.

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1-WZAK-FM, Cleveland 900-WBXT-AM, Canton 1490-WJMOAM. Cleveland 1500-WGFT-FM, Youngstown JLhewayl like to deal is that I come here to Hollywood, play movies and vanish. 1 Paul Hogan 6 a.m. SD Summit Report Peter Jen nings covers President Reagan's arrival in Moscow to commence his summit with Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. 8 a.m.

03 Sunday Today The U.S. Soviet summit In Moscow; Soviet youth; Raisa Gorbachev's impact on Soviet women; David Stoeller, American expatriate living in the Soviet Union; ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. From the Soviet Union. 8:30 a.m. 6B Robert Schuller What in the World Are You Doing With Your Freedom? 9 9 a.m.

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Gen. Colin Powell, national security adviser; Gennadi Gerasimov, Soviet foreign ministry spokesman; Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser. 11:30 a.m. McLaughlin Report Mission to Moscow Will the Summit Bear Noriega Says No Deal; Dukakis and Jackson California Here We Come. 2:15 p.m.

EH Baseball Houston Astros at Chicago Cubs. 3:30 p.m. EE Pro Basketball Western Conference Final, Game Four: Los Angeles at Dallas. 5:30 p.m. Ejj3 Newsmaker Sunday Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci.

Eg At the Movies Crocodile Dundee and Rambo III and the originals. 7 p.m. OGJS3D80 Minutes American students at Moscow University; citizens of a South Carolina town run their newspaper's editor out of town; conditions at a Florida minimum security prison. 9 p.m. Vremya Nightly Soviet HIGHLIGHTS Continued from page CI New York and running into serious trouble along with co-star Linda Kozlowski.

But once again, he handles his tribulations in the squeaky-clean, gentle fashion that has made him a phenomenon. "The trick is to make a movie that your grandma can enjoy and not get offended," Hogan said, "but also one your 14-year-old won't fall asleep in. That nobody was doing." While an Immediate success in the United States, the 48-year-old actor hardly traveled the straight road to stardom. Long before hitting it big, the high school dropout (who married at 18 and had three children by the time he was 22) earned bucks as a prizefighter, construction worker, salesman and bridge rigger. His shot on an Australian version of The Gong Show called New Faces led him to regular stints doing satirical bits, which later landed him his own show and made him a national TV star.

"I had this little streak," he said. "As a kid, if somebody said, 'You know, someone should break that window or set that then I did it. I had this sense of humor that was Just sarcastic. Later, on TV, that took off, and I Hogan. In fact, this simple, self-effacing star seems ill at ease with the attention.

"I don't revel in attention," he said, puffing on a cigarette. "The way I like to deal is that I come here to Hollywood, play movies and vanish. And I'm getting away with it. So I have the best of both worlds." The other world is the one back in Australia, the one he shares with his wife, Noelene, and five kids. Scott, 14, and Loren, 18, still live at home, and there are frequent visits from Clay, 25; Todd, 24; and Brett, 27.

Brett co-wrote the sequel with his popular dad. "Everyone's pretty happy with all this, except that I'm missed a lot, working," Hogan said. "Soon, I'll go home and stay until they're sick of the sight of me." Between leisure times, Hogan plans to work on another film but not a sequel to the sequel. "The story is done," he said. He intends to break out of the Mick Dundee role with another comedy.

It is, he understands, a risky career move. "I don't think anyone looks at me and sees another Robert De Niro or Sir Laurence Olivier," he said. "I talk funny. So it will be hard for me." just think the fact that I wasn't trying weighed more in my favor than being funny." With TV stardom came roles as an pitchman, which led him to become his country's premiere tourist spokesman. His humorous ads are credited with changing the image of Australia and drawing droves of Americans.

"I don't think Americans had an image of Australia, really," he said. "All you ever saw was some koala bear that flies a plane badly. So I thought I'd just tell them this is a great place. Besides, you won't get off the plane and hear, 'Go home, or get Montezuma's revenge. You'll really be welcome." And welcome he made Americans feel becoming a bigger star then ever before in the process.

Yet, fame doesn't faze thoven and Bruckner on Encores from Severance Hall on WCLV (95.5-FM). Wednesday 8 pjn. Yoel Levi leads works by Ravel, Nielsen and Mozart on WKSU (89.7-FM). Thursday 8 p.m- An Akron Symphony Orchestra concert, recorded by WKSU (89. 7-FM) In April, involves works by Beethoven, Enesco and Richard Strauss.

Friday 9 p.m.: The Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of Faust, conducted by Jean Fournet, airs on WCLV (95.5-FM) Saturday 6 p.mj Science writer David Quammen is among the guests on Good Evening with Noah on WKSU (89.7-FM). 7 p.m.: Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony in works by Beethoven and Bartok on WCLV (95.5-FM) Today 7 anu The Pet Shop Boys are Rick Dees' guests on The Weekly Top 40 on WKDD (96 5-FM). Noon: Klaus Tennstedt conducts the Phila-dephia Orchestra in Mahler's Ninth Symphony on WCLV (95.5-FM) 9 p.m.: A Celtic Summer, a program featuring music that lauds the extended twilight of Celtic summer evenings, airs on WKSU (89 7-FM) Monday 8 pm: WKSU (89. 7-FM) looks at the sound of radio in Vietnam during the war, from the official Armed Forces Vietnam Network to the GIs' own underground operation. The National Public Radio special includes archival recordings and Interviews with vets, announcers, journalists and ex-CIA agents.

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