The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 18

B2 The Beacon Journal Sunday. November 15, 1987 COMING ATTRACTIONS RADIO WWWE psychologist out Bob Hp -V'- WO-' i Li I fk, 1 Akron psychologist Michael Freedman can be forgiven if he's beginning to develop a phobia about conferences. For the second year in a row, he has been fired by Cleveland talk station WWWE (1100-AM immediately after returning from a phobia conference. Last time, he was rehired two months later when Joel Rose defected to WERE (1300-AM), leaving a gap in the WWWE lineup. This time, Freedman and station management had a falling-out over vacation time, Freedman said.

"They were not willing to negotiate," he said through his secretary. WWWE operations manager Jim Glass, who sacked Freedman, said the psychologist was getting "almost eight weeks" of vacation per year. Glass has replaced him with psychologist Diane Axel. Freedman presided over the weekday afternoon call-in show for about five years. He did not have a written contract.

WQAL (104.1-FM) morning man Larry Morrow vill never be confused with fiery personalities such as John Lanigan or Pete Franklin. Morrow is paid to guide his easy-listening audience to the land of mellow, with soothing, measured tones. But on Wednesday, Morrow will have tc pick up the pace. He's scheduled to become a play-by-play announcer for 104 seconds. That's the length of time a contest winner will have to run through a Cleveland clothing store and grab anything he or she wants.

ville, recently gave away a "Day of Decadence." The winner will get $10,000 and a trip to Las Vegas, Nev. But he can't just take the money and run he has to spend it all on the trip. Anything he wins at the gaming tables is his to keep. If he comes up empty, though, he has to make the return trip to Tennessee in a bus. Just in case you can't get through the weekend without it, the WMMS (100.7-FM) morning team is now available on records and tapes.

Jeff Kinzbach, Flash Ferenc and the rest of the Buzzard Morning Zoo have delivered a "greatest hits" package to area record stores. Included are such all-time favorites as The Governor Meets Sam Kinison, Best of the Blow Ups and The Morning Zoo Garage Band. List price is, ahem, $8.98. But proceeds will go to Cops for Kids and Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital, said station spokesman Scott Strong. WMMS got the idea from sister station Z-100 in New York, which has released a couple of records.

WMMS general manager Lonnie Gronek has been promoted to vice president by parent company Malrite Communications. He launched his career at WMMS, moved to Mal-rite's top-rated New York City station for three years, then returned to the Buzzard roost last year. He also oversees WMMS' low-ranked AM sister, WHK (1420-AM). Morrow will be on the scene live at 8:45 a.m. Even easy-listening stations try harder during the fall ratings period.

If Matt Patrick of WKDD (96.5-FM) is going to die of laryngitis, which seemed possible early last week, I wish he wouldn't do it on the radio. Some radio promotions are better than others. Here's the kind you run when you're too cheap to do things right: KRTH in Los Angeles bought a newspaper ad plugging a "Home for the Holidays" promotion, staged in conjunction with American Airlines. Because L.A. has more than its share of residents who grew up elsewhere, that sounds pretty good, right? Well, when you checked the fine print, you discovered that the "holiday" visits "cannot be taken during these inclusive blackout dates: Nov.

20 to Dec. 1 and Dec. 15 to Jan. 4." Wonder what holidays KRTH had in mind? Here's a better contest: WYHY in Nash RADIO aeuna is more than guns, chases By Jerry Buck Associated Press Barbara Uicchmnn portrays Miranda and Anthony Ejarque Is Ferdinand in the National Shakespeare Company's production of The Tempest, to Iki presented at K.J. Thomas.

THEATER Double doss of Shakespeare The National Shakespeare Company, currently celebrating its 25th anniversary on tour, will visit E.J. Thomas Per forming Arts Hall, Center and Hill streets, with a double bill of Shakespearean theater. Julius Caesar will be presented Thursday. The troupe will present The Temptst Friday. Curtain for each show is 8 p.m.

Tickets for each are $'J and Tickets are available at the Thomas Hall box office, 375-7570, and at area Ticketron outlets. One-acts at Mbari Mbayo Theatre The African Community Theatre Arts Program at Kent State this weekend opened its 1987-88 season with two one-acts, The Owl Killer and Sugar-Mouth Sam Don't Dance No More. The first play focuses on a crisis in a black, urban family. A father turns against his renegade son, who killed a man and is hiding from police. The second play, according to Francis E.

Dorsey, director of both plays and co-founder of ACTAP, "portrays the joys and sorrows of black womanhood." The plays will be staged at the Mbari Mbayo Theatre in Franklin Hall at 3 today, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $5 general admission and $3 for students and senior citizens. For reservations, call 672-2300.

'Rappaport' at Playhouse Square The national touring company of I'm Not Rappaport opens Tuesday at the Playhouse Square's State Theatre, 1519 Euclid Cleveland. The show stars Vincent Gardenia and Glynn Turman. The play was written by Herb Gardner, author of A Thousand Clowns. Rappaport will play through next Sunday. Tickets are $14 to $22.

Curtain times are 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 2 and 7 p.m. next Sunday. For reservations, call 241-6000.

MUSIC Verdi's Requiem on tap Giuseppe Verdi spent virtually his entire creative life in the opera house, but a few other types of pieces also kept him busy on occasion. He wrote a string quartet and the Four Sacred Pieces. And then there's the Requiem, certainly one of the most resplendent works of its kind. The Requiem will take up the entire concert by the Akron Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. at E.J.

Thomas Hall, Center and Hill streets. The performance will be led by music director Alan Baiter, who will be joined by soloists Jean Herzberg, soprano; Carol LaSage, mezzo-soprano; Lee Henning, tenor, and John Paul White, bass. Tickets at $17, $14 and $10 are available at the Thomas Hall box office (Center and Hill streets, 375-7570) and Akron Symphony office (17 N. Broadway, 535-8131). Jazz team Benson and KSugh George Benson and Earl Klugh are two of the most acclaimed guitarists in contemporary jazz.

The pair, who teamed recently on the Collaboration LP, join forces again at a 7:30 performance tonight at the Front Row Theatre, 6199 Wilson Mills Road, Highland Heights. Remaining tickets are $17.75. For more information, call 449-5000. Country (Cont 1JS0-WSLR-AM, Akron 1S20WKNT-AM, Kent Easy Listening 94. 1-WHBC-FM, Canton 94 9-WDBM-FM, Medina 98.9-WKBN-FiA Youngstown 102 1-WDOK-FM, Cleveland 104 1-WQAl-FM.

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1-WQXKFM, Salem 1140-WCLW-AM. Mansfield 1220-WGAR-AM, Ctewland HIGHLIGHTS Shephard has only recently joined the Laguna Beach police, where his father had been a detective. Shephard quit the Los Angeles police force when he was unable to shoot an armed youth, who then killed Shephard's partner. Lagvna Heat also stars Jason Robards as Shephard's father, Rip Torn as a local developer who is Shephard's godfather, Hicks as a young woman whose father is killed, and Anne Francis as a tipsy matron who knows too much and can't keep her mouth shut. Hamlin said, "We're trying to do a murder mystery without gun battles or car chases.

It's more of a character study than a study of violence. "I was terrified by the cops when I was 4 or 5, and I still get the heebie-jeebies around policemen. I was playing in a sand pile and some cops saw us and chased me all the way home." Hamlin played boxer Joey Popchik in the theatrical film Movie, Movie and starred in three miniseries, Studs Lonigan, Master of the Game and Space. He played a writer who falls for a married man in the theatrical movie Making Love. L.A.

Law series star Harry Hamlin was chilled in the buff while filming a love scene with Catherine Hicks in the surf for Laguna Heat, a made-for-cable movie that will premiere on Home Box Office at 9 tonight. Hamlin and Hicks were thrown about by the heavy surf. They were rubbed raw by barnacles on the pilings of a nearby pier. Laguna Heat has its own raw edge. Hamlin plays Laguna Beach police detective Tom Shephard.

The movie is based on the book by T. Jefferson Parker in which Shephard investigates a series of murders leading to a long-buried scandal involving his father and his mother's murder. "I approach every project in a different way," said Hamlin. "With Laguna Heat I wanted to create an environment of absolute realism. Some people say that's not cinematic, but I think they interject a false energy into the word.

"I wanted to have no imposed veneer on the character. I wanted him raw and sensitive. He's just been through an experience that's lowered his self-esteem." land Orchestra and Children's Chorus in a program of music by Leonard Bernstein on Encores from Severance Hall on WCLV (95.5-FM). Thursday 1230 p.m; W.R. Timken chairman of the board of Timken.

Canton's largest company, is the featured speaker at the Akron Roundtable. WKSU (89.7-FM) will broadcast his talk live. 8 p.m.- The Akron Symphony's season opener, featuring violinist Shlorno Mintz, will be broadcasl from E.J Thomas Hall on WKSU (89.7-FM). 9 p.m.: Leonard Slatkin conducts the St. Louis Symphony in music by Hayden and Barber on WCLV (95 5-FM).

Saturday 2 p.m.: The San Francisco Opera presents FafefaffonWCLV (95.5-FM). 6 p.m.: Noah Adams hosts a special Thanksgiving season broadcast on Good Evening on WKSU (89.7-FM). Today 8 Kenny is Rick Oees' guest on the Weekly Top 40 Countdown on WKDD (96.5-FM). 835 am; AIDS education is discussed by Dr. John Carey on Rena Bkimberg Looks at Cleveland on WWWE (1 10f AM).

11 am: Francois Couperin, born Nov. 10, 1668, is saluted on Baroque Era on WKSU (89.7-FM). 2 p.m.- Ravenna doctors Steve Dean and Scott Smith answer listener questions about health care on WNIR 100. 1-FM) p.m.: Christoph von Dohnanyi conducts the Cleveland Orchestra in a Blossom Festival concert that includes music by Beethoven and Tchaikosvky on WCLV (95.5-FM). 7 p.m; Bob Seger is featured on Dick Clark's Roll Remember on WAKR (1590-AM).

Tuesday 9 p.m; Robert Page conducts the Cleve 4Shaka9 tells of Zulu leaders fight against the Britis mi rr 1 1 mmesnaKa luivl oecause we thought it was time to set the record William C. Faure director by Cele, Fox and Powell. The gripping drama also includes strong contributions from Dudu Mkize (cast as Shaka's mother, Nandi), Trevor Howard, Christopher Lee, Simon Sabela, Roy Do-trice and Tu Nokwe. Still, the miniseries does not try to turn Shaka Zulu into a saintly figure. If the Zulu king shared many of Caesar's and Napoleon's strengths, he certainly had some of their weaknesses.

"Power corrupts Caesar, Napoleon, Shaka," Ekechi said. "If you want balance, you have to show he was not a saint. Yes, he had autocratic tendencies. Like Caesar and Napoleon, he was popular and reviled." And we will be airing notices." While Ekechi hasn't seen the miniseries, he said, "it's obviously not sponsored by the racist government, but there are many people in South Africa who are not blinded by racism. If it shows Shaka as a great African warrior, it's bound to change some perceptions and raise some consciousness." Shaka Zulu features Henry Cele, a Zulu and a former soccer star, in the title role.

In Monday's opening episode, British adventurer Lt. Francis Farewell (Edward Fox) has been asked to make contact with Shaka a "depraved ogre whose thirst for conquest knows no limits" and "intimidate him into an alliance." Farewell recruits an Irish doctor named Henry Fynn (Robert Powell) for this daring 1823 expedition through Zululand. It is Fynn who sees the dangers of the game played by Shaka, who is obsessed with learning the extent of the whites' power, and Farewell, who dreams of wealth and glory. In addition to faithfully recording details of the mission, Fynn sets down what he learns about Shaka's life. What emerges is a tale of revenge, prophecy, ambition, intrigue and determination.

Expertly directed, Shaka Zulu contains powerful performances Continued from page Bl the locations where the actual events took place, Shaka Zulu is an impressive and insightful mixture of recorded facts, oral history and myths. This five-part miniseries, which WUAB-Ch. 43 will air Monday through Friday at 8 p.m., provides a fascinating examination of both Shaka's career and the arrogance of British attitudes toward the "dark" continent. The miniseries represents quite a gamble for Channel 43, which does fairly well with its 8 p.m. movies.

Should Shaka Zulu be perceived as a high-toned history lesson, the viewing levels could drop to the PBS range that the Cleveland independent station routinely beats. Poor ratings would be both unfortunate and ironic, however, because Shaka Zulu is anything but stuffy and pretentious. In fact, the stirring miniseries arrives in Cleveland with some controversy about its use of nudity and violence. And, on both counts, the term modest does not apply. set the record straight." Even though the miniseries has been slow getting into American television markets, strong ratings have shattered stations' reluctance.

When Shaka Zulu aired in top-10 markets Los Angeles and Philadelphia, it averaged 13 percent of each area's TV households. It did better in Dallas, Las Vegas, Seattle and Milwaukee. "The nudity and violence were not really a concern," said Ron St. Charles, Channel 43 program director. "It's a realistic depiction.

As long as the audience is given appropriate notice of the content, it's not a problem. Faure defends the violence and nudity by saying that they are necessary if you're dealing with authentic Zulu dress and warfare. Stations also have been criticized for carrying a South African export, yet Faure is quick to point out that his miniseries was neither funded nor censored by the apartheid government. Instead, it was researched with the cooperation of the Zulu royal family. "Basically, the argument seems to be that we are somehow suspect because we were allowed to shoot it there," Faure said during a visit to Cleveland.

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