The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 19

The Beacon Journal B3 Thursday, February 19, 1987 Big spenders can get up close and personal NIGHTLIFE nl Mark (f fSf Faris COMING UP The Spinners, one of classic ensembles, will be in the Sultan's Cabaret at Tangier for 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. performances Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $12.50 and $15. The Romantics, whose fans fell in love with the group's recording of Talking in Your Sloop back in '85, rock 'n' roll at 8 p.m. Wednesday in McNas-ty's in Kent.

Tickets are $10 in advance. Guitar hero Robin Trower performs at 8 p.m. Friday, March 6, in the Agora Metropolitan Theatre, 5001 Prospect Cleveland. Tickets are $12 and $11. The Chameleoas, one of Great Britain's leading proponents of the "New Liverpool Sound," show their colours at 10 p.m.

Saturday, March 7, in Peabody's DownUnder in the Cleveland Flats. Tickets are $10. British maestro Kenneth Alwyn leads the Mantovani Orchestra and pianist Mac Frampton (winner of the 1969 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition) in a concert of works by the late Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (the first musician to sell a million stereophonic records in the U.S.) at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 15, in the Renaissance Theatre, 138 Park Ave. Mansfield.

Tickets are $10. For more information, call 525-4884. Fans of the Chippendales all-male (and proud of it) dance revue may get more than an eyeful when the bare-chested boys in bikini briefs boogie into the spotlight Feb. 27 at the Front Row Theatre. Customers who ante an extra $75 for the $25 tickets not only will be seated in the first six rows, they'll also get to rub elbows with all that beef-cake-to-go at a post-show cocktail party.

But those who don't get backstage won't be left in the dark. Following the Chippendales' bump-and-grind performance, 18 hand-picked local bachelors (a few good men) will go on the auction block. The highest bidders not only get the gent for a night on the town, complete with dinner, limousine, lingerie, hair-'cut-manicure-pedicure-blow-dry-mas-sage-facial and all kinds of other but a four-day "dream date" vacation, to boot. Billed as A Woman's Affair, the evening, which begins at 6:30, benefits the Arthritis Foundation. Incidentally, the dancin' boys are the real Chippendales not the "Foxy Frenchmen" who were billed as the Chippendales for a Feb.

7 show at the NECI Convention Center. Ain't nothin' like the real thing. LET TTIEM ENTERTAIN YOU The help at Animal Crackers does more than just deliver drinks. You never know when the six waiters and waitresses who staff the Bedford Heights nightclub are going to jump onto the dance floor and knock out a few choruses of, say, Surfin' U.S.A., Hand Jive, Just a Gigolo, you-name-it. They don't just sing the songs, either.

They act them out, as well. For instance, during the crew's celebrated rendering of the fabled Leader of the Pack, club manager Dave Jones mounts a hopped-up Big Wheel tricycle and simulates the tune's title character. (He's got a unicycle and a 4-foot-tall go-rilla, too.) BON VIVANTS Things haven't always been great for Bon Jovi. Way back on March 24, 1984, untold dozens showed up to watch the band headline the old Galaxy Entertainment Center in North Canton. Little more than a year later, a less-than-packed house of 12,000 saw them open a date for Ratt at Blossom Music Center.

Then, late last year, the New Jer- 2Ll Bon Jovi: From left, David Rashbaum, Alec John Such, Jon Bon Jovi, Tico Torres and Richie Sambora dom a status that was fully evi-denced last Friday when all tickets (at $15 a copy) for BJ's March 30 and May 6 performances at the Coliseum were snapped up in less than two hours. And who said (lead singer and band namesake) Jon Bon Jovi was just another pretty face? sey-based ensemble put together an LP called Slippery When Wet, and things started happening. Good things. Big things. Featuring such smash singles as You Give Love a Bad Name and Livin' on a Prayer, the album caught fire and has rocketed the group to superstar- New Stallone film tops in grunts and snarls REVIEW Movie: Over the Top Stars: Sylvester Stallone, David Mendenhall, Robert Loggia Director: Brian Gibson Studio: Warner Bros.

Running time: 1 hour. 30 minutes Theaters: Akron Square, Chapel Hill, Mellett Mall. Kent, Medina, Wadsworth Rating: PG By Tony MastroiannI Special to the Beacon Journal Old boxers never die, they just take up arm-wrestling. Sylvester Stallone Is back on screen in Over the Top, a movie in which the climax is the National Arm-Wrestling Championship in Las Vegas. If it looks like the closing moments of Rocky, it is probably because it is supposed to.

Now it is not true that Stallone makes movies according to only one formula. He has two formulas. One is the Rambo, against-all-odds formula. In that kind of movie, he is allowed to use heavy weapons with tremendous firepower because his enemies come at him by the dozen and his mission is to kill, kill, kill. Cobra, although a police melodrama, used that Michael tries to run away, is kidnapped by his grandfather's hoods, learns to arm-wrestle while soaking up sugar-coated philosophy from his dad.

They are separated, reunited and separated again. The arm-wrestling championship eats up about a third of the movie, which is a lot of grunting, snarling and perspiring. All things being relative, this beats what passes for drama in the rest of the movie. Director of this soap opera with muscles is Menahem Golan. The script was co-authored by Stallone and Oscar-winner Stirling Silli-phant, who was probably called in to provide stirring dialogue like, "The world meets nobody halfway, kid." The grunting is better.

Over the Top is a Rocky formula movie. Stallone plays Lincoln Hawk, trucker and arm-wrestler. Hawk hasn't seen his 12-year-old kid since he was a baby. He parks his beat-up rig on the campus of a swank military academy on graduation day and picks up his son, Michael (David Mendenhall). This is on orders of his estranged wife, who is dying.

The kid, who has been raised in wealthy elegance by his grandfather (Robert Loggia), isn't too happy about this. Don't waste any sympathy on him, however. This is a poor little rich kid who is a spoiled brat. He's a snotty jerk is what he is, but his old man is going to change all that as he takes him screaming and kicking for a cross-country ride. The other one is the Rocky, you-can-win-if-you-try formula.

With this formula, there are no weapons except for Stallone's sweat-glistening brawn, and the battles are one-on-one. The other guy always outweighs him, has more brawn, thus making Stallone the underdog. Rick Zumwalt (left), Sylvester Stallone RECREATION "WHAT GIVES YOU THE VOX. 6 F() I I rr Ifkom magna cakia Al' 1 1I1I.I.IIMIH 11.11 It) THE CONSTITUTION 1 A once in a lifetime exhibit of priceless treasures. Magna Carta Declaration of Independence Northwest Ordinance U.S.

Constitution Bill of Rights AT THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOW THROUGH MARCH 1, 1987 The real scoop on 'Beauty' Continued from page Bl de ma Mere l'Oye and translated as Histories or Tales of Past Times, or The Tales of Mother Goose. The Brothers Grimm added their version, Little Briar Rose, in Grimm's Fairy Tales (1815), and another is the one by Andrew Lang, in The Blue Fairy Book(im). However, the version that this generation of children know is Walt Disney's movie. Ironically, when it came out, as an elaborated version of Perrault's tale but ending with the princess' awakening and marriage, it was considered one of his less successful achievements. Be that as it may, the video of the movie appeared last fall, and, according to a clerk at one video store, copies go out almost daily for overnight rental, and sales are good, too.

Choreographer Marius Petipa modeled his ballet of Sleeping Beauty on Perrault's tale, telling the composer of the music, Pyotr Uyich Tchaikovsky, exactly what he wanted. The joint vision of these two men resulted in a superb ballet, which has been a perennial favorite ever since. But, given a story that has been popular for a couple of thousanll years, how could. they lose? If you can't take the family to Florida for the weekend, you can still soak up some tropical ambiance Friday night. The Akron Metropolitan Park District is showing the nature film No Solid Ground To Stand On, about the Everglades National Park.

Other films on the night's bill are The Empty Nest, about the osprey bird, and The Earth: Changes In Its Surface, on how natural forces shape the earth's surface. Naturalist Burt Szabo will host the free films, which will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in the shelter at Goodyear Heights Metropolitan Park on Newton Street, west of Ohio 91 in East Akron. For more information, call the park district office at 867-5511. HIKES, NATURE WALKS Akron Metropolitan Parka Hiking Club, 2:30 p.m.

Sunday. A live-mile hike on mostly level ground at Lake Cable. Take 1-77 south to Portage Street exit in North Canton. Go west on Portage Street, then south on Frank Road about Iti miles to Kent State University parking lot. Cleveland Hiking Club: 9 a m.

Sunday. A 10-mile hike in Euclid Creek Reservation. Meet behind Adler's at Maylield and Green roads in South Euclid. 2 p.m. Sunday.

A live-mile hike. Meet at Maylield and Superior roads in Cleveland Heights. 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. An eight-mile hike.

Meet at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo parking lot. 410) Fulton Parkway. Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area: Hale Farm, 8:30 a.m. Saturday. A late winter bird walk with ranger Jett Maugans to see turkey vultures, woodcocks, phoebes, geese and a lew ducks.

Bring binoculars and field guides it you have them. Dress lor the weather. Take Riverview Road to Ira Road and follow the signs to Hale Farm. Happy Daya Visitor Center, 2 p.m. Saturday.

A short indoor workshop on tracking animals, followed by a search along Haskell Run Trail tor signs of animals that live in the park. Dress lor the weather. Meet at Happy Days Visitor Center on Ohio 303 between Ohio 8 and Peninsula. Cleveland Metroparka: Rocky River Nature Center, 2 p.m. Sunday.

A hike to see the first signs of spring. The center is north of Cedar Point Road in North Olmsted. Sanctuary Marsh Nature Center, 7 p.m. Sunday. A hike with naturalist Barb Post for a first look at spring.

The center is oil Ohio 91 in Maylield Village. Brecksvllle Nature Center, 2 p.m. Sunday. Chief Naturalist Bob Hinkle will lead a spring hike. The center entrance is off Ohio 82 or Riverview Road.

PRESENTATIONS, FILMS Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area: Happy Days Visitor Center, 7:30 p.m. Friday. The Lyceum lecture series continues with a program on the lives and work of two prominent artists associated with the Cuyahoga Valley Frank Wilcox (1887-1964) and William Sommer (1867-1949). William Scheele, director of the Northeast Ohio Art Museum in Cleveland, will show slides and talk about the artists. Some ot their paintings will be on display.

The center is on Ohio 303 between Ohio 8 and Peninsula. Canal Visitor Center, 2 p.m. Sunday. A slide show and discussion by ranger Terry Kreidler on examples in the National Park System ot the way the native American and European cultures influenced each other. Kendall Lake Shelter, noon to 4 p.m.

Sunday. A workshop on the sport of orienteering tor beginners and experienced participants. At noon, there will be an indoor session to teach techniques of map reading and using a compass. At 1 p.m., ranger Diane Banta will lead outdoor sessions for every level. Meet at Kendall Lake Shelter on Truxell Road between Ohio 8 and Akron-Peninsula Road south ol Peninsula.

Cleveland Metroparks: Lake Erie Nature and Science Center, 3 p.m. Sunday. Schuele Planetarium presents Islands in the Sky, a program that traces the history of native tribes who used the stars to navigate the oceans. Fee is 75 cents for adults and 50 cents for children 12 and younger and senior citizens. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

The center is at 28728 Wolf Road in Bay Village. For more Information, call 871-2900. Rocky River Nature Center: 7:30 p.m. Friday. A program around the campfire by naturalist Chris Larson-McKenzie on building camp-fires and how early mankind discovered and used fire.

1 p.m. Saturday. Learn the art ol maple sugar making in a workshop with naturalist Kathy Schmidt. Brecksvllle Nature Center, 8 p.m. Saturday.

A slide show on the Atlantic coastline with naturalist Dave Dvorak. The Wilderness Center, one mile west of Wilmot, will offer these programs: 7:30 p.m. Friday. Backpackers and Day Hikers meeting. Meeting topic is on geology.

7:30 p.m. Friday. Star watch, Canceled if cloudy. 8 a.m. Saturday.

Bird walk led by Ron and Barb Bauers. 9 a.m. Saturday. Nature photo club meeting with winning slides In the 1985 NEOCCC competition. 2 p.m.

Sunday. Safari in East Africa, a slide program by Loretla and Dave Hart, 3 p.m. Uranus planetarium show by Robin Gill. BICYCLING Akron Bicycle Club, 7 p.m. Tuesday.

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Must take delivery Irom stock by 4 30 87. Continued from page Bl lower extension, as Mozart probably intended. Alan Hacker, the editor of the part Cohen is using, has listed 20 changes in passages in the first movement, seven in the second movement and 16 in the third movement. When he is playing this edition, Cohen said, he must "try to forget the other version, which is so strongly ingrained. It takes a good unlearning and relearning process." Part of the challenge is coping with the four keys on the basset clarinet that don't exist on the A clarinet.

All of the lower notes on the borrowed basset clarinet that Cohen is using an instrument built by clarinetist William McColl of Seattle are pressed in various combinations by the right-hand thumb. On the A clarinet, the player's right-hand thumb is inert, used only for holding the instrument. Actually, Cohen is using only the bottom half of this basset clarinet, which is attached to the top half of his own clarinet. Still, the resonant acoustics of the basset clarinet have begun to suit Cohen so well that he has thought of making it a permanent fixture with a few redesigned keys to ease certain technical difficulties. "I plan to have a set made," he said.

"If it works out, I can see playing it all the time. I think it lends itself to certain music, like Brahms and Rach-maninov. "In some ways, it has a more haunting quality (than the A clarinet) something you haven't had before. I'm a fan of the less familiar. Now, all I need is a good reed.".