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The Salina Journal's Weekly Entertainment Guide Friday, March 29,1991 E1 Mfat'e hot A look at the top books, movies, music and television shows BOOKS WEEKS ON LIST 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 9 11 10 12 13 15 14 11 15 14 THIS LAST WEEK WEEK 1 1 2 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 FICTION BEST SELLERS Heartbeat, Danielle Steel 6 The Druid of Shannara, Terry Brooks 3 The Eagle Has Flown, Jack Higgins 3 Cold Fire, Dean R. Koontz 10 The Plains of Passage, Jean Auel 24 The Firm, John Grisham 3 Magic Hour, Susan Isaacs 8 Forgiving, LaVyrle Spencer 7 Damage, Josephine Hart 1 Circle of Friends, Maeve Binchy 10 The Secret Pilgrim, John le Carre 12 The Stories of Eva Luna, Isabella Allende 3 Possession, A.S. Byatt 15 The Witching; Hour, Anne Rice 20 Battleground, W.E.B. Griffin 10 WEEKS ON LIST 5 3 4 6 9 7 8 11 12 12 11 13 10 14 13 15 THIS LAST WEEK WEEK NON-FICTION BEST SELLERS Iron John, Robert Bly 19 And the Sea Will Tell, Vincent Bugliosi, Bruce B. Henderson ...7 You'll Never East Lunch in This Town Again, Julia Phillips 1 You Just Don't Understand Deborah Tannen 34 The Prlie, Daniel Yergin 9 The Next Century, David Halberstam 4 The Civil War, Geoffrey C.

Ward, Rick Burns, Ken Burns 25 Riders on the Storm John Densmore 2 A Life on the Road, Charles Kuralt 20 Millie's Book, Dictated to Barbara Bush 27 The Spiritual Life of Children, Robert Coles 11 The New Russians, Hedrick Smith 11 Darkness Visible, William Styron 23 Patrimony, Philip Roth 10 The Japan That Can Say No, Shintaro Ishihara 7 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 MISCELLANEOUS Homecoming John Bradsha 33 Financial Self -Defense, Charles J. Givens 17 Wealth Without Risk, Charles J.Givens 104 Where's Waldo, Martin Hanford 21 The Great Waldo Search Martin Hanford 65 Source: The New York of March 17-23 NEW BOOKS AT SALINA PUBLIC LIBRARY Magic Hour Susan Isaacs And the Sea Will Tell Vincent Bugliosi The Japan That Can Say No Shintaro Ishihara Heart Beat Danielle Steel Make Room for Danny Danny Thomas MOVIES THIS LAST WEEK WEEK 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 4 3 8 5 9 7 6 TOP BOX-OFFICE FILMS WEEKEND Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II $20 Silence of the Lambs $6.7 New Jack $4.4 Class Action $4.3 Sleeping With the Enemy $4.0 Dances with Wolves $3.8 The Hard Way $3.0 Home Alone $2.8 The Doors $2.3 Perfect Weapon $2.2 GROSS IN MILLIONS TOTAL $20 $78.3 $22.3 $9.8 $73.9 $136.3 $16.4 $253.1 $26.9 $7.3 WEEKS IN RELEASE 1 6 3 2 7 20 3 19 4 2 I Source: Exhibitor Relations of March 22-24 THIS LAST WEEK WEEK 1 7 2 3 4 6 5 10 9 8 WEEKS IN RELEASE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 TOP RENTAL FILMS Flatliners 4 Arachniphobia 2 Air America 4 Die Hard 2: Die Harder 7 Dark man 5 Navy Seals 7 Days of Thunder 6 The Two Jakes 2 Death Warrant 2 Problem Child 6 Source: Billboard of March 23-29 MUSIC THIS LAST WEEK WEEK 1 1 WEEKS ON LIST 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 9 3 10 THIS UST WEEK WEEK 1 1 TOP POP SINGLES Coming Out of the Dark, Gloria Estef an 6 I've Been Thinking About You, Londonbeat 3 You're in Love, Wilson Phillips 3 Hold You Tight, Tara Kemp 4 Sadeness Part 3 One More Try, Timothy 9 Baby Baby, Amy Grant 1 Signs, Tesla 2 This House, Tracie Spencer 5 lesha, Another Bad Creation 1 WEEKS ON LIST 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 THIS LAST WEEK WEEK 1 2 TOP POP ALBUMS Mori ah Carey, Mariah Carey 34 Gonna Make You Sweat Music Factory 4 Wilson Phillips, Wilson Phillips 41 Shake Your The Black Crowes 5 The Soul Cages Sting 8 To the Extreme, Vanilla Ice 23 Heart Shaped World, Chris Isaak 2 Into the Light, Gloria Estefan 6 I'm Your Baby Tonight, Whitney Houston 17 Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, M.C. Hammer 47 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3 6 9 1 8 7 5 4 Source: olMarch 23-29 TELEVISION THIS LAST WEEK WEEK 1 2 3 4t 4t 6 7t 7t 7t 10 7 1 lOt 6 3 6 TOP COUNTRY SINGLES Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House, Garth Brooks 6 I'd Love You All Over Again, Alan Jackson 6 Heroes and Friends Randy Travis 4 Down Home, Alabama 3 Loving Blind, Clint Black 7 True Love, Don Williams 2 (Got You, Shenandoah 3 I'm That Kind of Girl, Patty Loveless 4 I Couldn't See You Leavln', Con way Twitty 7 Only Here for a Little While, Billie Dean 1 TOP TV SHOWS 60 Minutes, CBS 19.7 Cheers, NBC 19.1 L.A.Law.NBC 18.6 Family Matters, ABC 17.4 Major Dad, CBS 17.4 20-20, ABC 17.3 A Different World, NBC 17.2 In the Heat of the Night, NBC 17.2 Murphy Brown, CBS 17.2 The Cosby Show, NBC 16.9 Wholesome superstar Whitney Houston is trying to stay normal in an abnormal world By DANA KENNEDY Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) When she's not picking up a Grammy award, singing the "The Star Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl, taping a music video or recording an album, Whitney Houston insists she tries to live a normal life. How normal is normal? For Houston, it means making her home miles from the glitz of Los Angeles, in the small town of Mendham, N. J.

She avoids other trappings of superstardom. Not for her the hyperbaric chamber, pet llamas or frequent plastic WHITNEY HOUSTON surgery favored by Michael Jackson. She has no large entourage, as does Eddie Murphy. Unlike Madonna, she rarely wears a disguise when going out. Houston, 27, sounds almost too good to be true.

When she's not touring, she attends the same church in Newark New Hope Baptist that she went to as a child. When she can, she sings in the church's gospel choir that nurtured her voice when she was young. Her mother is still minister of music there. And life wouldn't be any fun without frequent runs to McDonald's. "I don't dress up and I don't dress down," says Houston of her forays for fast food.

"I look like anybody so I'm always surprised when people recognize me." Wholesome superstars are at a premium, so that may be why Houston is the headliner at a concert welcoming back troops from the Persian Gulf. The concert is Houston's first-ever solo concert on television. It will be televised live Sunday on HBO from the Navy base in Norfolk, Va. Houston said her emotional (albeit pre-taped) rendition of the national anthem at this year's Super Bowl sparked a sense of patriotism in her. She plans to open the HBO concert with the song.

"I was thinking about doing something else for the fellows over there and I was considering going overseas," said Houston. "Then the war ended and this came up." Houston plans to begin a national tour not long after the concert that will not end until August. "At that point, I won't be able to move," said Houston. Houston's third album, "I'm Your Baby Tonight," was released recently and appears headed for the same mega-sales racked up by her first two efforts, "Whitney Houston" and "Whitney." She is considering acting offers, but said for now she is "just fine" with the way her career is going. It sounds as if it has been a charmed career, ever since it began Lana Turner-like when a modeling scout spotted her on a Manhattan street when she was 16.

She signed with the Click agency and modeled for eight years. But Houston said fame has its drawbacks. "The thing about big success is that if you don't know who you are going in, then you'll never find out, "she said. Houston, who frequently cites her belief in God, said she came "face to face" with herself and her faith when she was never turned back. "I still value my parents, my family and friends the people who don't treat me any differently," she said.

"This whole thing has its wonderful, wonderful moments. But it has its price to pay. Nobody knows it until it happens to them. Your life is definitely not your own. It becomes the world's." So Houston said she works at normalcy.

"If you're smart, you can have your own life; you don't have to be isolated," she said. "It's a feat unto itself but I have to know that a part of my life is all my own." NORFOLK, Va. back home from the Persian Gulf are scrambling for seats at Whitney Houston's "Welcome Home Heroes" Whitney Houston will sing for the troops. concert Sunday. Only 3,100 people will fit into a Norfolk Naval Air Station hangar for the concert, and they must be military personnel who served in the war or their families.

Cmdr. Tim Taylor, spokesman for the Navy's Atlantic Fleet, said people don't want to be left out. "We've been getting a zillion calls," he said. The Navy is giving a share of the tickets to the Army and the Air Force. 'He Said, She Said' an unromantic romance By JANET MASLIN New York Times News Service On the theory that there are at least two sides to any love affair, "He Said, She Said" has come up with a good idea for poster art, if not for an entire film.

The romance between two competing Baltimore journalists, Dan (Kevin Bacon) and Lorie (Elizabeth Perkins), is explained from each of their differing perspectives, his that of someone seeking to avoid serious commitment and hers largely marriage-minded. There are also references to things like a "New Republic piece on the Sandinista educational system," to prove that the film has its serious side. The trouble is that most of the scenes are barely strong enough to hold the interest the first time, let alone on replay. We learn twice, for HE SAID, SHE SAID example, that Lorie's contact lens was stepped on when she and Dan went on their first impromptu date. And even the episodes that involve only one character, like Dan's visit to a florist who gives him advice in handling his complicated love life, seldom have much of an edge.

"You know what love is?" asks the florist. "It's a time bomb waiting to go off. Believe me." Although the principals (and the florist) discuss love so much they threaten to talk the subject to death, "He Said, She Said" rarely touches on anything romantic. It concentrates instead on the endless bickering that forms the core of Lorie and Dan's relationship, bickering that is not rendered watchable by virtue of its sounding lifelike. "I need more from you," she says at one point.

"I just don't know what else I can give you," he replies. The movie was directed jointly by Ken Kwapis and Marisa Silver, a real-life engaged couple who have divided up their directorial responsibilities along gender-related lines. So Kwapis' section of the film (the breezier of the two) is from Dan's perspective and includes a nightmare fantasy sequence in which a waiter tries to trick Dan into making a commitment, or possibly even marriage. Dan even imagines himself confined in an apartment he shares with Lorie by a ball and chain, while a beautiful ex-girlfriend materializes outside his window in a limousine and calls out, "You're missing the party!" Lorie's half of the story, on the other hand, is more sincere and much more heavily fraught with emotion. The directors have done a.

lot to reinforce sexual stereotypes even if that was not their intention. Bacon, by now typecast as a latter- day Peter Pan, does what he can to capture any spark of charm in the material. Perkins, who takes a much more prim approach to comedy, seldom appears as lighthearted as the story expects her to be. Sharon Stone, as the alluring ex- girlfriend who wants Dan back, steals each of her scenes and makes it nearly impossible to understand why Dan and Lorie are together at all. NOW PLAYING IN SALINA Career Opportunities Mid-State RatedPG-13 Review unavailable.

This comedy is from John Hughes, creator of "Home Alone." Class Action Sunset Rated Superb performances by Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio distinguish this film from other legal, predictable melodramas. It's your basic David-against-Goliath battle with a smoldering father-daughter conflict thrown in to spice things up. The Hard Way Central Rated Michael J. Fox is an egotistical film star mismatched with a street-hardened New York police detective played by James Woods in this hilarious culture-clash satire of Hollywood. But it takes predictable turns as each helps the other achieve their goals.

He Said, She Said Sunset Rated PG-13 See review. Home Alone Mid-State Rated PG This charming film may be the first Christmas black comedy for children, involving a family that accidentally leaves its youngest child behind when it flies off to Paris for the holidays. Macaulay Culkin plays the child trying to outwit two dimwitted burglars. Kindergarten Cop Vogue Rated PG-13 The normalization of Arnold Schwarzenegger continues with this action-comedy about a violence-prone cop who goes undercover as an elementary school teacher. The story hinges on cute kids and requisite violence.

Linda Hunt and Pamela Reed co-star. The Silence Of The Lambs Central Rated This is a gutwrencher that makes "Psycho" seem like a tea dance. An FBI recruit (Jodie Foster) is summoned for a perilous assignment to track down a serial killer. The key may be in the diabolical mind of an imprisoned psychiatrist (Anthony Hopkins). The nail-biting sequences are not for the squeamish.

Sleeping With The Enemy Central Rated Julia Roberts is impressive as a battered wife who plots to escape her abusive husband and eventually assumes a new identity in an Iowa college town. But her performance can't overcome shortcomings of the script and direction, some critics say. Patrick Bergin and Kevin Anderson co-star. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II Central Rated PG This sequel, "The Secret of the Ooze," finds the Turtles still camping out at the apartment of TV reporter April O'Neil. The story takes them back to their roots the ooze that transformed them from pets to movie stars.

This installment has less fighting and more clowning. From The Journal's Wire Services EVENING SPECIAL FRIED CHICKEN DINNER $039 3 pc. EVERY EVENING 5-10 pm 2301 N. 9th Salina Next to Petro II I Source: Nielsen of March 18-24 COMING THIS SUNDAY HOW WE WORSHIP Read about the religious diversity of the USA in the March 31st issue of USA Weekend. WEEKEND 1111 Siilin'ii Journal GO HAWKS Tar Feather Rally Don't miss the pre-game Help create some excitement for the Saturday game.

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