The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 34

TT" ENTERTAINM THE BEACON JOURNAL THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1990 C4 Harrison Ford's coal bin now a mine ENT diamond vf 11 'A ft i. i 1 4 if By Clifford Terry Chicago Tribune "The earliest ambition I can remember as a kid," Harrison Ford is saying, "was to be a coalman. They used to dump big piles of coal outside the windows of our apartment, and a guy would come out with a wheelbarrow and a scoop shovel, and through the day that pile would disappear. I was always amazed that one man could move such a big pile, and you could see the effect of his labor. That made a real impression." He never made it, of course although the screen star's fans should know by now that he put in a number of years laboring as a carpenter but for the last dozen years or so, Harrison Ford has been busy knocking down his own pile.

These days, he is said to make up to $10 million a movie, plus a hefty share of the gross, and because of his roles in the blockbuster Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, as well as such films as Witness and Working Girl, he was the top box-office star of the '80s, according to a previous occasions, not to pinpoint the town. "I just lost the battle. When I first moved to Jackson, I wanted to preserve my privacy for as long as I could and as much as I could. But after a certain period of time, the cat was out of the bag and I had to admit it I think because it's a part of my personal mythology that I am a private person that most people have some respect for that. So that's not the problem.

The problem is that all this doesn't allow you to focus. If you go to the hardware store, and the guy behind the counter wants to talk about movies instead of screws, it aberrates life." The occasion for the interview is Friday's release of his latest film, Presumed Innocent, the $20 million adaptation of Chicago lawyer Scott Turow's best-selling novel. In it, he plays Rusty Sa-bich, a Midwestern chief deputy prosecutor in fictitious, corrupt Kindle County who is accused of murdering a glamorous colleague with whom he has had an affair. "The reason I cast Harrison is that Rusty is nice, decent and everybody can relate to him," says director Alan Pakula, who wrote the screenplay with Frank Pierson. "He didn't shirk playing those kinds of Everyman things, whereas a lot of stars would have said, 'Well, I've got to be cooler than Once he decided to do it and he took his time deciding he gave himself to the role." A smile-sneer.

"I thought I was pretty quick," Ford says. survey taken by something called Orbit Video magazine. "That's a statistical construct that has very little meaning," shrugs Ford, who is sitting in a hotel penthouse suite on New York's Park Avenue, dressed completely in black, a kind of Manhattanized Darth Vader. Over the years, Ford has hammered out the reputation as a reluctant movie star. "I make myself available when I have a picture to sell," he says with a slight smile (which, characteristically, looks more like a smile-sneer).

"I'm aware of how much value it is to bring this film to the attention of the public. Certainly the anticipation of this process is the one thing that drives me crazy. Doing it is not nearly as hard as anticipating." No question he is a guarded person. We are not talking Richard Lewis here, friends. Ask about other actors who use their fame to promote various causes, he carefully answers, "If someone wants to discharge their social responsibility in a way different from mine, I don't think the less of them." Despite his reticence, though, he is a likable sort.

At 48, he has struck it rich, struck it famous, but there seems to be a genuine, well, Midwestern decency here. The coalman cometh. One obvious question is why a privacy devotee recently allowed a photographer from Vanity Fair to come to his home in Jackson Hole, instead of instructing the magazine, as he had done on Harrison Ford plays a prosecuting attorney accused of murder in Presumed Innocent WKSU bidding goodbye to the blues Radio station will focus on classical music and news By Bob Dyer Beacon Journal staff writer "But the findings were very clear as to the direction we should take." The major radio ratings service, Arbitron, does not list noncommercial stations such as WKSU. But in the most recent Birch ratings, WKSU finished in 16th place among all stations, with an average of 2.2 percent of the Akron-area listeners. That's about 11,400 Summit and Portage countians at any given time, and about 51,000 during an average week.

cal folk personalities such as Jim Blum and Jeff Esworthy are available." The only person losing a job is blues host Michael Fitzpatrick. No staff will be added. Perry said the most difficult decision involved pulling the plug on blues. WCPN, by the way, is gladly accepting the donation of WKSU's blues library. WKSU is bracing for some angry callers.

"As with all change, we know that (this) will not please everyone," Perry said. If you liked the movie you'll love the STEEL WnOYiAAS "Sharn' Dialogue" "(jSrate comedy" 836-2626 Thurs. thru Sat. 8:00, Sun. 2:30 of that show will be heard week-nights at 6:30, Sundays at 4:30 p.m.

and Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. News will take -a holiday on Sundays, when listeners will get nearly wall-to-wall classical offerings, such as Baroque Era and Midday Mozart. Other highlights: Folk music will gain some ground and be consolidated. It will be heard Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings at 8.

NightAire will be changed from New Age to classical format, effectively eliminating all New Age programming. Weekend Edition starts earlier on Saturday, running from 8 to 10 a.m. It will be preceded by Monitoradio at 6 a.m. and Ohio Portfolio at 7. WKSU will continue to carry Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company of the Air, which Keillor is revamping.

It will stay in its 6 p.m. Saturday slot. Perry said the cost of syndicated shows such as Mountain Stage have tripled, and "we could not justify this cost when talented lo- WEATHERVANE COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE Attila the Hun. Ivan the Terril 3. Al Capone.

They were all seven once. 4t After looking at the results of an extensive listener survey, Kent public radio station WKSU (89.7-FM) is giving its schedule a major overhaul. If you have any doubts that WKSU is serious, you won't after reading this: The station is donating its entire blues library to Cleveland public radio station WCPN (90.3-FM). Blues, on WKSU, is history. So is the musical variety show Mountain Stage, the Irish Thistle and Shamrock and the New Age program Hearts of Space.

Starting Friday evening, the station will rein in its diversity and focus almost exclusively on classical music and news. "Some extremely difficult decisions had to be made," said General Manager John Perry in a news release. In looking at the survey results, he and other managers concluded that WKSU's diversity was actually dividing its audience: No one group of listeners was getting enough of what it liked. The yearlong survey was funded primarily by federal grants. WKSU calls the poll "exhaustive." The popular national comedy-quiz-interview show Wnad'Ya Know, previously heard in this area only on WCPN, will be added at 6 p.m.

Sundays, and another popular syndicated show, Car Taiir, will air at its national broadcast time (10 a.m. Saturdays), rather than on a delayed basis. Last fall's decision to expand news and information until 8 each evening is now viewed as a mistake. Listeners said they want music back by 7. But they also like Terry Gross' interview show, Fresh Air.

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