The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 106

Sunday, December 3, 1989 H2 The Beacon Journal COMING ATTRACTIONS times are 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. There are matinees scheduled at various times during the run, which concludes Dec. 30. Tickets are $18 to $23.

For more information, call 241-6000. 'Driving Miss Daisy' Driving Miss Daisy opens at the Palace Theatre, also at Playhouse Square Center, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Curtain times are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, with a 2:30 matinee Saturday and Dec.

10. The final performance is at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10. Tickets are $16 to $24.

The box office number is (800) 492-6048. THEATER A Christmas Carol' at Stan Hywet A Christmas Carol will open at Stan Hywet Hall, 714 N. Portage Path, Akron, at 8 p.m. Friday. This is a musical version of Dickens' famous Christmas story.

The play will be staged Saturday and Dec. 15 and 16. The curtain each night is at 8. Tickets, at $15, may be reserved by sending a check and self -addressed envelope to: Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, 714 N. Portage Path, Akron, Ohio 44303.

The date of attendance should be specified. Lakewood Little Theatre The Lakewood Little Theatre production of Coastal Disturbances opens at 8 p.m. Friday at the Beck Center for the Cultural Arts, 17801 Detroit Lakewood. The play will be staged I at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m.

Sundays (except for Dec. 24, when there will be no performance, and Dec. 31, when curtain is at 8 p.m.) through Jan. 7. Tickets are $7.

The box office number is 521-2540. Another Scrooge story The Great Lakes Theater Festival's production of A Christmas Carol opens at 8 p.m. Friday at the Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square Center, 1519 Euclid Cleveland. Curtain MUSIC Concerts Coliseum, 2923 Streetsboro Road, Richfield. Phone: 867-8910.

Motley Crue and Warrant, 8 tonight. Tickets: $19. Ice Capades, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; noon, 4 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 1 and 5 p.m.

Dec. 10. Tickets: $7, $10, $11. Front Row Theatre, 6199 Wilson Mills Road, Highland Heights. Phone: 449-5000.

The Osmond Family Christmas, 7 tonight. Tickets: $17.75. Barbara Mandrell The Do-Rites and T. Graham Brown, 8 p.m. Saturday.

Tickets: $28.75. Peabody's DownUnder, 1059 Old River Road, in Cleveland's Flats. Phone: 241-2451. Fate's Warning, 9 p.m. Wednesday.

Tickets: $7. Koko Taylor and Blues Machine, 9 p.m. Thursday. Tickets: $12. Tangier, 532 W.

Market Akron. Phone: 376-7171. The Scintas, 9:30 and 11:30 tonight and Thursday. Tickets: $10 tonight, $5 Thursday. E.J.

Thomas Hall, Center and Hill streets, Akron. Phone: 375-7570. David Copperfield, 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Tickets: 4 exhibits at Canton Art Institute The Canton Art Institute will exhibit Clyde Singer's New York through Dec.

31. Also on view through the month are three other exhibits: FranceUSA, Martha Holt: Ceramic Sculpture, and American Paintings From the Permanent Collection, 1910-1950. For more information, call 453-7666. Stow artist to be featured The paintings of Denise Hart Daugherty of Stow will be exhibited in the gallery at Taylor Memorial Public Library, 2015 Third Cuyahoga Falls, through December. For more information, call 928-2117.

KSU to host artist, work The Kent State University Student Center Gallery will exhibit Neon Compilations of Todd Schurdell through Dec. 16. A gallery reception for the artist will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday. For more information, call 672-2554, Ext.

217. 'New Work' showing in Cleveland The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, 11427 Bellflower Road, will exhibit the New Work of Marcia Gygli King on Friday through Jan. 16. An opening night reception for the artist will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. For more information, call 421-8671.

ART Manuscript sale, exhibition An Exhibition and Sale of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts and Leaves from the collection of Bruce Ferrini Rare Books, Akron, will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and next Sunday at Ursuline College's Florence O'Donnell Wasmer Gallery, 2550 Lander Road, Pepper Pike. A lecture on Illuminated Manuscripts and Leaves will be given at 8 p.m.

Friday by Charles Scillia, associate professor and chairman of the art history department at John Carroll University. For more information, call 429-4200. RADIO Ethnic broadcasters might move down the dial 0 Bob Dyer $sf quired the engineers can do their thing on the main transmitter while the other one kicks out the signal. WCLV is filling those graveyard hours with recorded (no kidding) classical music. Former WPHR (107.9-FM) jock Gin-ny Harman has been hired as a part-time fill-in at WLTF (106.5-FM).

Husband Bill is operations manager at the Wave, WNWV (107.3-FM). They write commentary, gather news and do on-location entertainment features. Akron students are invited to audition Saturdays between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. No appointment is necessary just show up at Rhodes Tower on the CSU campus, says director Don Hohman.

For more information, call 651-2272. It was a tragic end, indeed slain by a runaway Zamboni machine. But Los Angeles disc jockey Jay Thomas, the late "Eddie Lebec" on Cheers, is undergoing a television reincarnation. He's jumped from NBC to CBS, where he'll play an ultra-conservative talk-show host on Candice Bergen's Murphy Brown sitcom. The ethnic broadcasters who were booted off of the University of Akron's WZIP (88.1-FM) this summer may soon resurface a few notches down the dial.

Details have not been ironed out, but the deposed broadcasters are expected to be given a home by the Akron Public Schools' station, non-commercial WAPS (89.1-FM). The ethnic programmers, dumped when WZIP decided to focus on sports and contemporary music shows, reportedly would be heard for eight hours on Saturdays and another eight hours on Sundays. Although WAPS does not have a blockbuster signal by commercial standards, its transmitter does carry throughout Summit County and into portions of adjoining counties. Assuming the lawyers can hammer out a deal, the new marriage should be afternoon man Chuck Abel are really the same person. Chase allegedly arrived from Houston in March.

Abel allegedly arrived from Pittsburgh in September. But have you ever compared their voices? Have you ever seen them together? Lorain big-band station WRKG (1380-AM) has been sold for $300,000 to Victory Radio, which owns Lorain religion station WZLE (104.9-FM), as well as stations In Fairfield and Manchester, Ky. Cleveland fine-arts station WCLV (95.5-FM) is now on the air around the clock, thanks to the addition of a standby transmitter. The station used to shut down from 1 to 5:30 a.m. on Sundays for technical adjustments.

Now, when servicing is re a happy one. WAPS has never had the funds to operate on the weekends, so the station will not need to nuke any existing programs. And the ethnic broadcasters, who reportedly will be charged a bargain-basement price of $15 an hour, will be able to resume the programming that some of them started as long as a decade ago. Here's a theory: WQMX (94.9-FM) morning man Brian Chase and WQMX Cleveland State University's radio station, WCSB (89.3-FM), is opening its doors to Akron high school students who want to get behind the mike. High School Radio, currently staffed by Cleveland-area students, airs each Thursday afternoon at 5:30.

It differs from the normal high school radio fare in that students don't just spin records. Bob Dyer is the Beacon Journal radio writer. RADIO Little star's 'Prancer' role magic By Hillel Kali Associated Press Country (Cert) 105r7QXK-fM, Salem 99C-WT1G-AM, MassJcn 1220-WGAR-AM, Cleveland 1350-WSLR-AM, Akron Easy Urtensvj 94.1-WHBOfM, Canton 104.1-WQAL-FM, Cleveland 930-WEOL-AM, Byre 1310-WFAH-AM. AJenoe Jsa 90.3-WCmfU Cleveland Nm Age 107.3-WNWV-fM, Byna NewtTali 8ports 100.VWNIR-FM, Kent 570-WKBN-AM, Youngstown 1100-WWWE-AM, Cleveland 1240-WBBW-AM, Youngstown 1300-WERE-AM, Cleveland 1590-WAKR-AM, Akron Otdt 913-WB8G-FM, Youngstown 98.5-WNCX-fM, Cleveland 960WKVX-AM, Wooster 1520-WJMP-AM, Kent 98.1-WTOfVM. Canton 103.3-WCRrVW, Cleveland 104.9-WZLE-FM.

Lorain 640-WHLOAM, Akron 1000-WCCO-AM, Cleveland 1 150-WCUE-AM, Cuyahoga Fals 1260-WRDZ-AM Cleveland 1M0-WABQ-AM, Cleveland Rock 92.3-WRQC-FM. Cleveland 93.7-WOOfM. Mount Vernon 95.9-WNPOfM, New Pri. 96.5-WKDOfM, Akron 97.5-WONE-FM, Akron 100.7-WMMS-FM, Cleveland 101.1-WHOT-FM, Youngstown 105.3-WYHT-fM, Mansfield 106.1-WNCWM, Niles 106.9-WRQK-FM, Canton 107.9-WPHR-FM, Cleveland 1330-WHOT-AM, Youngstown 1520-WRQK-AM, Canton Urban Contemporary 93.1-WZAK-FM. Cleveland 900-WBXT-AM.

Canton 1040-WJTB. North Ridge 1490-WJMOAM. Cleveland S-WOJOFM, Atence 94.9-WQMX-FM, Akron 9B.9-WKBN-FM, Youngstown 102.1-WDOK-FM, Cleveland 1057-WMJrfM, Cleveland 106.1-WNOfM, Mansfield 106.5-WLTffl4, Cleveland 60OWSOM-AM Salem 1060-WRCW-AM, Canton 1330-WELW-AM Easttake Canton Big Band 800CKLW-AM, Windsor, Ont 850-WRMR-AM, Cleveland 1340-WNCO-AM, Ashland 1380-WRKG-AM, Loran 1390-WFMJ-AM, Youngstown Buekass 1420WHK-AM, Cleveland 89.7-WKSWM, Kent 96.5-WCLV-FM, Cleveland Country 99.5-WGAftfM, Cleveland 101.3-WNCOfM, Ashland 104.5-WQKT-fM, Wooster same time. "I am so similar to that character and, it was funny, when I came home I was more of a Jessica Riggs than a Rebecca Harrell, but nobody knew I had changed except for my mom. By talking to me now, that lets you know what Jessica was like." She had never heard of most of her co-stars, who include Elliott (Mask), and veteran TV actors Abe Vigoda and Michael Constan-tine.

She did know of Cloris Leachman, who portrays Jessica's eccentric neighbor. Rebecca has never seen her old TV sitcoms, The Mary Tyler Moore Show or Phyllis, but is a fan of her recent series, Facts of Life. and some gold, and there can be gold in a pot. Those things can actually happen. "Getting to make Prancer was more luck than magic.

But luck is kind of like magic." But making Prancer was work. Rebecca noted she appears in 95 of the 98 scenes. Filming, schoolwork and meals gave her little free time. Luckily, she said, feeling comfortable with her part was easy because she and Jessica had so much in common. She listed four traits she shares with her character dramatic, sad, happy and alone and saw nothing unusual about having all those feelings at the gested that Rebecca get an agent in New York.

She did, and quickly made a successful audition for Orion Pictures' Prancer, portraying Jessica Riggs, who befriends one of Santa's reindeer and establishes a lasting bond with her moody, temperamental father, portrayed by Sam Elliott. (The film is currently running in the Akron area.) Rebecca will tell you the movie is just a movie, only pretend. She'll also say there's magic in the message. "Fairy tales aren't true, but they can be," she said, choosing her words carefully in a recent interview. "A man has married his wife and finds a pot of gold, that's possible.

There are pots New York Rebecca Harrell reads fairy tales. She knows they're not true, of course, because at 9 years old, Rebecca's too sophisticated for that. It's the feeling that counts, though how they make you believe something wonderful and unexpected can happen. Like magic. Starring in her first feature film was like magic, too.

It was a real-life fantasy with an agent as fairy godmother. The Hinesburg, resident was in a play with her best friend, Katie Reed, whose father, a Broadway singing coach, sug HIGHLIGHTS 222 HNFLFootbaHnonnal NBC News Lifestyles or the Rich Ahmad Rashad. frowns are a halt-flame ahead of Houston. (Live) 10 am: Summit County's Onana House Is featured on Sunday Magazine on WSLR (1350-AM). Monday 730 djiu In the religious drama Unshackled! on WCUE (1150-AM), a young man tries to live it up and almost dies as a result.

Saturday 1230 pjnj Die Frau ohne Schatten is broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera New York on WCLV (95.5-FM) Today 7 anu The band Expose joins Rick Dees on The Weekly Top40on WKDD (96.5-FM). Noon: Chris Charles talks with Sweethearts of the Rodeo on The Weekly Country Countdown on WSLR (1350-AM). 1 pm: Computer expert Jim Welsh answers questions from listeners on WNIR (100.1-fM). 5 pjiw Jeweler Robert Ball offers advice on jewelry on WNIR (100.1-FM). Benson Sportscast The Speed Merchants NFL Football: Washington Fledskins (6-6) at Phoenix Cardinals (S-7).

Announcers: Tim Brant, Paid Programming pan Jiggetts. Redskins try to hang onto their wild-card hopes. (Live) NFL Football: Denver Broncos (10-2) at Los Angeles Raiders (6-6). Announcers: Dick CD NFL Football Cincinnati Bengals (6-6) at Cleveland Browns (7-4-1). Bengals are tied with stealers for last in AFC Central (Live) fej NFL Football: San Franasco 49ers (10-2) at Atlanta Falcons (3-9).

Announcers: James Enberg, Bill Walsh. Raiders cling to hope tor a wild card berth. (Live) Movie CBS News News CD Brown, Ken Stabler. 9ers lead Rams by two games in NFC West. (Live) fcl NFL Football: Cincinnati Bengals (6-6) at Cleveland Browns (7-4-1).

Bengals beat Browns in El NFL Football: Denver Broncos (10-2) at Los Angeles Raiders (6-6). Broncos are only NFL vrrov Cincinnati earlier this season. (Live) Ream that already has clinched its division title. (Live) Tomorrow I NFL Football: Washington Redskins (6-6) at Phoenix Cardinals (S-7). Cardinal quarterback Paid Prog.

It Nearly Wasn't Christmas (1989) VyTRF Gary Hogeboom has been unbenched for today's game. (Live) 11:30 a.m. Knight-Ridder Newsmaker ITOTl Sen. George Mitchell, D-Maine. It's Your Business IlBSl The Stock Market: New Game? New Rules? Richard Lesher, president of the U.S.

Chamber of Commerce; Congressman Jim Cooper, Paul Craig Roberts. Business Week magazine; Gail Winslow, Ferris Baker Watts. a.m. Summit Report Q) Tom Brokaw and Garnck Utley analyze and review the weekend's events at the Malta meeting between PtesKtent Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev. a.m.

Sanday Morning QJ ftTtfl Summit coverage; review of No Place Like Home TV movie; Hungarian singers visit a Tucson repertory company. CJJ Minsters Today 3 Grandpa strikes a demonic deaf to get his wishes granted. C3 10:30 a.m. Face the Nation Secretary of State James Baker in Malta with host Lesley Stahl. Meat the Press National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft.

Travel Guide Day care for travelers; hotel greetings. ft 11:30 a.m. InSport Hosts Robin Swoboda, Ahmad Rashad. Business of Sports. Bob Woolf, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Reggie Jackson.

This Week With David Brinkley ffl Summit review. President Bush's chief of staff, John Sununu, from Malta; Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, Minority Leader Robert Dole. Noon This Weak With David Brinkley See 9 12:30 p.m. Science It Technology Week EB Interpreting eye Winking. (jjj 1 :30 p.m.

Civic Forum of the Air 63 Civil rights in Ohio. Moderator Sally Henning. 3:00 p.m. Women at Work ICHtCl Househusbands: Do they exist? 4:00 p.m. Munsters Today Iwwoil See 9 a.m.

tj) 6:30 p.m. Artists Spotlight EH Eurythmics. 7:00 p.m. 60 Minutes fjB IWTIf Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov; singer Earths Kitt: authorities can't account for a Nebraska girl's disappearance. C3 Commonwealth Club of California It gUII John Keker, prosecutor in the Oliver North trial.

8:00 p.m. Ann Jtllian 0 31 IWTIItl Sanies premiere. Ann buys a dog, thinking it can predict earthquakes. (TV Stereo) Cf 8:30 p.m. Sister Kate 81 fi53 A nun (Marion Ross) with a vow of silence visits.

(TV Stereo) 9 7:00 a.m. Monday Today SI lflfll Co-anchor Bryant Gum-ble in Brussels. President Bush's meeting with NATO allies: prosecutor Charles Hvnes and Daniel J. Travanti (Howard Beach: Making the Case for Murder). (TV Stereo) l) TrMrxningQSISSQThe Kennedy Center Honors; entertainer Shari Belafonte.

Good Morning America Danny DeW to (direct oractor of The War of the Rosea theater fiknl; Island Son star Richard Chamberlain; hanrJess suthor-tennis player Roger Crawford (Playing From the Heart); summit wrap-up; holiday film releases; mass training for CPR (carrjjo-pulrnonary resuscitation); serf-destructive paper used in the nation's library materials; subterranean lake. tp Sure to be controversial, Hitachi bow selling TV monitor for cars Fri. December 29 at 7:30 pm $12, $10, $8.50 VIP Courtside Seats Available ON $AlE T0M0RR0VVi Aifl Cnat Stotking Stuifenli Tickets on tale at The Coliseum, all Ticketron locations or by calling Jlcketron Phone Charge Cleve. 524-0000. Outside of Cleve.

1-800-225-7337 ('per itght-Hidder Newspapers Sixty years ago Bill Lear walked into Paul Galvln's office with a new accessory for the car. The idea was to put a radio in the dash. But Galvin and traffic authorities around Washington, D.C., predicted that car radios would never be permitted, and that if they were they'd cause untold accidents and mayhem. Indeed, a few cities passed laws banning the use of radios while driving. But eventually those laws were repealed, and Lear's invention was the basis of what would eventually become the Motorola Corp.

Now another accessory is being discussed that will likely be just as controversial: television for the car. Hitachi has begun selling a 5-inch LCD monitor that is only 1.5 inches deep and therefore possible to mount on or near the dashboard. Sony and Audiovox already have video systems available for RVs and vans. And Alpine is developing a car video prototype. For some obvious reasons, there is considerable opposition to car video.

Hitachi is aware of the marketing nightmare TVs in cars pose. Suppose, for example, someone with a Hitachi television in the car gets into an accident. Is Hitachi liable? "You sound like our lawyers," said Gary Kelly, Hitachi's national sales manager audio-mobile communications. "And I don't know the answer." Hitachi is going to market its car videos for the back seat, as something families may wish to buy for their children to use as they go on long trips. Hitachi is offering two products a color monitor for $1,495 that can accept a video signal from a VCR, camcorder or video player, and a separate car video player, also $1,495.

The monitor does not include a tuner, so it cannot accept over-the-air signals like the rooftop antenna does for the television in your home. i. ticket tee applies) $2.00 discount tor youth 12 and under and senior citizens 60 and over. For additional intormation, can I ne Lonseum I TolieMkfnifri Akron 867-8910 or Cleve. 659-9107.

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