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Entertainment The Indiana Gazette Wednesday, September 22, 1993 Page 22 Dear Abby By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN DEAR ABBY: I heard my husband talking on the phone this morning. He said, "Sure, Mom, it's OK it will be just fine no problem for us." After he hung up, I asked him what that was all about, and he hit me with the news that it was his mom's turn to have the annual family party at her house, but she had volunteered our house for the occasion. I got really upset because he didn't even ask me he just agreed to take it over without consulting me. Our house is small, but we have a large porch and a pool. I know we will end up paying for all the food and drinks, and nobody in his family will offer to lend a hand in the work involved before, during or after the party.

I flew off the handle and told him I would go away for the weekend and he could handle the whole thing himself. He says I'm overreacting because I hate his family, which is not true. He's got a couple of sisters I'm not crazy about, but I don't hate them. I guess I'm upset because he didn't consult me before agreeing to have the party at our place. Am I wrong, Abby? And what should I do? MARRIED TO A MOMMA'S BOY DEAR MARRIED: He should have consulted you before making the commitment, but don't make a federal case out of it.

The fat is in the fire. Make a list of things to do before the party, food to be served, and then appoint your mother-in-law as your co-hostess. Call her and between the two of you, decide who should bring what. Paper plates and cups, and plastic forks, knives and spoons should make your picnicstyle party a breeze. By cooperating, you will save face for your husband and avert a lifetime of possible resentment from his ly.

DEAR ABBY: I just read a letter from a female medical student who was studying to become a doctor. It reminded me of a riddle that I heard recently: A teen-age boy had been in a serious car accident. The hospital called his father so he could sign a consent form to authorize surgery if it was needed. His father went to the hospital and signed the form. After the boy was wheeled into the operating room, the doctor looked at the boy and exclaimed, "I can't operate on him! He's my son!" Question: Who is the doctor? Answer: His mother.

PROUD NOT TO BE STEREOTYPED, Cherry Hill, N.J. DEAR ABBY: This is in response to the letter stating that it was tacky for the spouses not to be invited to the class reunion pool party. I refuse to attend any of my class reunions for the very fact that spouses ARE invited to everything. Come on, grow up, people! I had absolutely no sexual relations with any of my classmates, but we did have some really crazy, fun times that I am sure the spouses would not enjoy hearing about. I do not see what the harm is.

A class reunion should be just that a class reunion, not a bunch of strangers there being bored. (I have not and will not attend my husband's class reunions, either. Let him go and enjoy the past. It's his past, not mine.) I think all class reunions should be for class members only. FLORIDA GRADUATE DEAR GRADUATE: To this I say, "Amen, Sony chief enjoying run of good luck NEW YORK (AP) How much good luck does one man deserve? Tommy Mottola, who married pop star Mariah Carey three months ago.

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"I established myself as a jazz player. Then I said, 'Well I can (do this) now." Elias grew up listening to Tom Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and the panoply of music that is uniquely Brazilian. But she got attention playing the compositions of American jazz greats like Art Tatum, Bud Powell and Keith Jarrett. After years of apprenticeship in Brazil, she came to New York 12 years ago, playing with the jazz-fusion group Steps Ahead. She got her chance to record a solo album, "Illusions," in 1987 and followed it with "Crosscurrents" in Turner's quest of the war's great defenses.

"There were ghosts," he says. "Could you hear them or see them? No. But you could feel them." He also was initially unnerved by that peculiar creature known as the Civil War re-enactor. He says that during the filming, none of them ever referred to him as anything but "Colonel Chamberlain," often saluting him as they passed. "You're sitting there in a T-shirt, jeans, drinking a Diet Coke, and they're walking by saluting and saying, The first time, you want to say, 'Get a But then it keeps happening, and you realize the importance of the war, of Gettysburg, to them, and you realize this ain't just a job to them." After filming the impassioned speech Buford gave his men before ordering them to charge the enemy, Daniels says the re- enactors in front were crying.

"It was like a Broadway play, he says. "They were right there. You had to reach down and pull out these big heroic emotions. It was different than being the hero i in 'Die Sheen originally turned down the role of Lee. He says that not being from the South, he couldn't imagine breathing life into Dixie's ultimate icon.

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Elias, 33, recently accompanied Brazilian singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil at the JVC Jazz Festival in New York, enrapturing listeners as she has done in Montreax and other major jazz venues. Performing 'in a elegant black evening gown, Elias' style is engaging; her whole body seems an extension of the instrument. "For me, the piano is almost a continuation of my body," said. Elias lives today in Manhattan with her husband, jazz musician Randy Brecker. But she hasn't forgotten her experiences growing up in Sao Paulo, Brazil's industrial and financial hub.

While the Rio scene caters to tourists who long for "authentic Brazilian" samba, Sao Paulo allows more leeway for other forms and has for mo Bobby" by the re-enactors. He says the eeriest moment came one afternoon when he rode on a horse by the Confederate re-enactors as they waited to film Pickett's Charge. With no cameras rolling, the phony Rebs suddenly rushed out of the woods, surrounded him and his horse, reached out to touch him and chanted Lee's name. Director Ron Maxwell (an Emmy nominee for 1978's "'Verna: U.S.O. was so moved by the weird moment he had Sheen ride past the re-enactors again to catch it on film.

The scene, one of the film's most moving, was not in the script. "The ghosts that inhabit that ground are pretty special stuff," says Sheen, whose own voice, oddly enough, kept dropping into a Virginia accent. For Maxwell, who also wrote the screenplay, "Gettysburg" is the end of a 15-year ordeal. Since reading "Killer Angels" that long ago, he became obsessed with wanting to turn it into a film. He lugged his screenplay all over the place, but.

nobody would touch it. He eventually sold his house in New York and borrowed money from friends to keep the project alive. Then Turner came along. "It took somebody as crazy as me a bustling jazz scene. "The reason for me to record Brazilian songs is to bring some of my roots," Elias said.

But incorporating her native music into jazz trio style has been "very tricky, very difficult," she said. "The melodies are right inside the chords, and they don't give a whole lot of room, especially for piano, to do things. And what I wanted to bring into the music was incorporate my jazz melodies, and my jazz experiences Elias plans to do another album of works by Brazilian songwriters. Yet, after succeeding in both straight- jazz. and Brazilian rhythms, she also is looking now to stretch into a new field classical music.

She is recording an album featuring Bach, Chopin, Ravel and Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos. Smashing musical boundaries was a challenge Elias feels she has met and overcome. "I can do the things I want to do without having to worry about whether people are going to be surprised." But she says the hardest roadblock to overcome stemmed from her gender. Brazilian pianist Eliane Elias poses 'Gettysburg' By DREW JUBERA Cox News Service NEW YORK Ted Turner's big, duck-on-helium voice booms through the mannered grandeur of The Regency's early-century ballroom. It's turned up a notch on this Saturday morning, goosed by a sleepless night following a press screening of his cable company's new theatrical epic, "Gettysburg," a bid to buy Paramount Pictures and another late-night win by the Atlanta Braves.

"Between the Braves, Paramount and I couldn't sleep," Turner says. "The Braves by themselves would be enough to blow anybody's mind. I'm so But afler a career of being tagged magnate," Turner is clearly anxious to add "movie mogul" to his resume. He's about to close deals to buy two Hollywood production panies, New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment, for a reported $667 million, and has just for Paramount Communications, the Hollywood giant that earlier accepted an $8-billion offer from Viacom (Turner won't comment on the latter bid, saying only, "What is it worth doing anything unless you do it in a big way? (Paramount) will go to who will be the best custodian. It will go to where it ought to For now, however, Turner Pictures' $20-million "Gettysburg" is as close to moguldom as Turner can get.

It's his "Birth of a Nation" meets a 4-hour, 7-minute adaptation of "The Killer Angels," the 1975 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Shaara about the men behind one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history. It has an all-star, Sheen (Confederate Gen. Robert E. guy cast that includes Martin Lee), Tom Berenger (Confederate Lt.

Gen. James Longstreet), Jeff Daniels (Union Col. Joshua Chamberlain) and Sam Elliott (Union Brig. Gen. John Buford).

It will have a world-premiere screening at Washington's National Theater on Oct. 4, another screening at the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta on Oct. 5, and then be released in about 75 theaters nationwide on Oct. 8. The movie also features about 5,000 extras; the closing credits of Civil War re-enactors scroll up the screen like a Manhattan telephone directory.

There's also Turner himself. He plays an anonymous Reb who squawks out a single line, "Let's go!" before dropping dead ROmEO'S PIZZA 349-7663 15 N. 6th Indiana Call for Daily Specials. Eat-In or Take-Out in her New York apartment. (AP photo) during Pickett's famously doomed charge took about four he says of his blink-and- you'll-missit part.

"When 1 fell, I just didn't want to drop my sword on "Gettysburg" is a sweeping, relentless thing. It doesn't mess with the usual Hollywood conventions of love interests or fretting loved ones back home. Instead, it concentrates on the nobly tortured souls of those leading both sides of the war as well as, seemingly, every single one of the Battle of Gettysburg's roughly so 50,000 sounds casualties, all dropping musical to score. the Civil War buffs especially will love it. Originally planned as a miniseries for Turner's TNT network, the movie was soon viewed as too big for the small screen.

Turner, who seems never to have met an idea that wasn't the grandest thing to come down the pike, already is calling it an Oscar winner. He compares it to past epics such as "Lawrence of Arabia," "Dr. Zhivago," "Ben Hur" and. of course, "Gone With the Wind." He rattles off the film's numbers as though he were quoting batting averages: biggest cast in North American history have been more in Europe and North longest American movie ever made 'Cleopatra' was 4 hours and 3 minutes. I wanted it to be the longest.

It makes a statement. Says it's impor- "He's like a kid with a toy," Daniels says of Turner. "I met with him this morning, and it was like standing in front of a wind tunnel." For those involved in actually making the movie, "Gettysburg" was a different kind of experience than they're used to. Few of the actors were from the South and had little attachment to the Civil War. But many of them quickly found themselves consumed in researching the era and their parts.

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He's like the old impresarios. "It's an exorcism," he adds of getting the movie made. "I feel unburdened." Turner, meanwhile, says he feels like he always feels: on top of the world. "I told Jane (Fonda), 'What do I do for an he says. "This was like hitting five homers in a game.

It's a lifetime achievement. If I die tomorrow, I'll be grateful: I did green light a movie, against the strong advice from a lot of quarters. Now I want to make as many great films as possible." At last finished with three hours of interviews to stump the movie, Turner returns to his suite. The mogul is a bushed little mogul. He's slouched on a couch, his shirt collar open, his feet planted on a coffee table.

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