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Minneapolis Star and Tribune Nov. 1, 1983 NBG played a beastly trick How is he? He's sick and tired of greeting by axing amusing 'Manimal' 3C Ann Landers vn. earlier sequences. Customers familiar with the elaborate and highly ambitious staging involved in the Guthrie Theater's recent eight-hour production of "Peer Gynt" for example, can't help but crack up when "Peer Gynt" becomes a passing issue in the education of Rita, played by Julie Walters. Caine's professor character asks his unlikely student to discuss how to resolve the staging difficulties inherent in Ibsen's massive classic.

Rita's five-word essay on that subject is, "Do it on the radio." The moment is so good, however, that producer-director Lewis Gilbert and scripter Willy Russell can't bear to let it slip away, and they keep coming back to the response as a kind of theme, continuing to beat it to a pulp long after the movie has slipped its gears. I was lucky enough to get back from vacation in time for one look at "Manimal' before NBC dumped it Will anyone mourn Who will mourn a series about a crime-fighter who turns himself into assorted animals as he goes about solving cases for the New York Police Department? I will, for one. The one episode I was able to see, at least, struck me as quite an amusing alternative to watching "Dallas" while waiting around for "Falcon Crest" on Friday nights. It was the funniest new show I've seen this season, and I don't much care to what degree the laugh moments were intentional. "Dallas" is funniest when it is ostensibly at its most serious, and so was "Manimal." There was triple howling at the tube the other night when Simon MacCor-kindale, as Prof.

Jonathan' Chase, ironed out the problems of a fetching young woman who had been raised by wolves In the wilds of India. The wolves howled, the wolf girl howled, and I howled, too. With glee every time MacCorkmdale's skin and facial features began to swell and bubble in the latest high-tech-movie style as be began his metamorphosis into a hawk, or a black leopard, and then a porpoise for the climactic undersea rescue sequence, i Earlier, a heavy-breathing promo announcement had offered the hint that the good professor might even cvme on to the wolf girl (after turning himself into a wolf, but the laughs stopped short of that development And NBC already had used up its evening's quota of bestiality with an earlier "Mr. Smith" episode in which the hyperin-telligent orangutan title character, longing for love, found his overdeveloped human characteristics a block when trying to get it on with an ordinary female orangutan. That show tried quite hard to be funny, arjd The best experience I've had lately with laughs that are clearly meant to be laughs is the dialogue that keeps popping away in the movie, "The Big Chill." The setting is a funeral that turns into an emotionally cathartic house party for all the old college, chums of the suicide they have just ic to go on.

0 Simply say you'd love to go, but only) if your brother is invited also. Then instruct him to stick to you like a mustard plaster which, of course, includes bunking in the same room. If Uncle Jed does one single thing ihat seems improper, tell him you are going home and take your brother with you. Dear Ann: I can't believe it has been seven months since I've taken a drink. I have your column to thank for my sobriety.

Here's what happened. I read the letter from the woman who decided to quit drinking for six months. She said she was doing it for herself, not to please anyone, and, if i after six months she still wanted a. drink, she'd take it Well, after six months she did not want a drink and she has been sober for three years. Dear Ann: So many friends I meet on the street say, "Hi, Tom, how are you?" and keep on walking, they don't even wait for an answer.

They couldn't care less how I am. I've made up my mind that when the next joker asks, "Hi, Tom, how are you?" I'm going to grab him and say, "Wait a minute, I've been very sick and my doctor bills are out of sight Could you lend me a couple hundred to tide me over?" That will stop all the insincere "How-are-you's?" From Butte Ann says Sorry, I disagree. People will still ask, "How are you?" because it's a customary greeting, not an indication of genuine concern. But go ahead and do your number. If anyone gives you $200, I'll eat the Montana Standard in front of the newspaper building in Butte on the fifth Sunday of December 1983.

Dear Ann: I am a 14-year-old girl with a great big problem. My uncle, who lives in Texas, is a bachelor. He owns lots of cattle and has a big ranch. As far back as I can remember, Uncle Jed called me his favorite girl. He used to pull me on his lap and bug and kiss me to pieces.

I liked it when I was small, but about three years ago I began to feel uncomfortable. His hands started to roam and his kisses got too mushy. I did a pretty good job of avoiding him by asking my little brother (age 9) to tag along at the last minute. Now something has come up and I need some advice from an outsider. Uncle Jed 'has written my folks and invited me to take a trip to Washington, D.C, with him during Christmas vacation.

I have never been to Washington and would love to go, but I'm afraid of what he might try. I can't tell my folks my true feelings. They would say I was out of my mind and get mad at me, for having such evil thoughts. What should I do? Cornered in the Midwest Ann says: Congratulations on trusting your instincts. They sound pretty reliable to me.

But I would warn against telling your parents of your hunch since you have nothing specif- Free Open 10am to 1 mzt Hair It's be sensational those This Fall, Salon, and fastidious permanently. solution Simply call I used to get drunk every night. It went on for 10 years. That letter made sense to me. I knew I could quit for two months but not forever At the end of two months I decided, to go for another two.

Now it's been seven. I've never felt so well and had so much energy. You've changed my life. Happy in Houston Ann says I didn't change your life, you changed it Write again on your first anniversary! Letters like yours are a joy. Yourself This People who grew up in Minneapolis are forever telling me what a quaint rip-roaring place this town was back in the 1930s, and now further confirmation has arrived from an unexpected and more distant source: the 50th-anniversary issue of Hollywood's Daily Variety.

First off, let's mention that Daily Variety is not to be confused with its parent publication, just plain Variety, the thick, weekly newsprint tabloid published in New York. That's the one known as the bible of show business. Daily Variety and its competitor, The Hollywood Reporter, are slender, slick-paper news-and-gossip sheets published weekday mornings in Hollywood, Bound into Daily Variety's ad-heavy, 442-page birthday self-tribute is a reproduction of the very first issue that hit the streets of the movies' factory town in September of 1933, the depths of the depression. Readers in the movie colony were notified that the depression was worse than ever for Minneapolis movie theaters that week, because evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was here, and so many people were flocking to her revival meetings that Minneapolis theaters were hurting at the box office. McPherson was Daily Variety's page-one banner story that day be- they had lost their minds.

Seen between the gyrating bodies, appearing and disappearing like a reproachful strobe light, she looked supremely aloof and confident in her nonFunkiness. The distinctions between the first and second ranks faded away as the students got into it although some of the second rank retreated to the outer fringes and lost interest while some of those among the stragglers put their coats on and left The girl in the tartan skirt had a word with another girl, who may have been her younger sister, and who was beginning to get into it and that put an end to that Everything reached a crescendo about then. Piper had given them about as much as they could absorb. The two young girls left The real dancers were dancing without thought or hindrance, flailing around 1 was first FUNK: Dancers shimmered back, forth Fall of Unwanted FOREVER! 6:30 pm and you're (supposed to reeling scintillating and looking by But what to do with scraggly hairs growing where they should not? Will Jones after last night seen buried. Since they are all former campus radicals of late 1960s vintage, all now pursuing other interests, including money, with some degree of success, they do tend to go on a lot about whether they have sold out or misplaced their old values and their old love for one another.

Writer-director Lawrence Kasdan sees to it that amid their gropings, characters played by Tom Berenger, Mary Kay Place, William Hurt, Jeff Goldblum, and a few similarly talented contemporaries, are abundantly supplied with well-crafted laugh lines. Berenger plays the one member of the party who has achieved not only money, but runaway fame as the star of a hit TV series. The special tension in the way the star is required to wear his fame even among knew-him-when friends is a wry little sociological study that could have been a movie all on its own, but fortunately isn't It's Just one of the. riches among many. "Educating Rita," the current movie in which Michael Caine plays a university professor who takes on the chore of shaping the literary education of a lippy cockney housewife type, gives promise of a richness of wit too, in its opening reels.

Far from having the abundance needed for throwaway purposes, however, the movie seems to gasp for life later on by retreading jokes that were used in more sprightly fashion in Whichever side of the illusion they were on, the nodding looked faintly like a nervous disorder, and after a while it was dropped by the students. Piper did the nodding at a fast pace and on her it looked real. She -nodded left and right in tune with the overall movement of her body. White arms got extended and thrown around, disco-style, even though Piper had reminded them that this was not disco. People in the second rank moved off, needing room, through the outer stragglers.

Some of the people in the very back kept time to the music by shifting their weight from one foot to the other, overcoats and jackets folded over one arm. One incongruous element was added in the form of a smartly dressed girl of about 10 or 12 who stood with her hands In the pockets of her tartan skirt and stared at the dancers as if Channel 1 that may become a major issue in the (presidential) campaign." Worried about the safety of their teams in Beirut Channels 4 and 5 provided their crews with bullet- proof jackets. Channel 1 l's team went without such equipment but Tom Kirby, the station's vice president for news, said he expects his people to be careful out there. "A certain amount of risk goes with the territory of being a reporter," Kirby said. "But obviously, we hope Ted and John will exercise good judgment Most of us in reporting have been in a position one time or another where there was gunfire around and we'd expect Ted knows how to.

handle himself." Kirby said Channel 11 decided on the day the bomb destroyed the Marines' headquarters in Beirut to send a news team to Lebanon. "There was a tremendous amount of confusion over who was missing, who'd been killed and who was just fine," Kirby said. "So, really, the only way to find out was to send somebody." i Dennis Herzig of Channel 5 said thai between 20 and 30 Minnesota servicemen are stationed in Beirut and that they will be the focus of station's stories. "We're not going to be covering what the networks are covering," he said. "We're not covering the war per se.

We're going to be covering the men from Minnesota who are there and what their day-to-day routines are like." Kirby estimated the cost of sending Channel ll's team to Lebanon for a i week at $5,000 or $6,000. Channel 4, check out JaNina's Electrolysis discover how today's smart, women remove facial hair JaNina's has the sure fire Safe, pentle, Positive Permanent Hair Removal! today for an appointment and complimentary consultation. Simon MacCorklndale of "Manimal," which NBC dropptcU cause she was in the middle of a much-publicized fight with her husband, a showbiz type named Dave Hutton. The trade paper opined that McPherson and Hutton were making such a Barnum-type exhibition of their marital problems merely to hype McPherson's bow as a vaudeville attraction later that month at New York's Capitol Theater. "At present the overtures in Minneapolis go hot and cold," the trade paper reported, but predicted that the notorious pair would stage a big professional reconciliation scene onstage in New York.

What they were really building toward, Daily Variety claimed, was a production of a Biblical operetta, "Crimson Road," written and directed by Hutton, and starring Aimee. The open warfare between two rival Minneapolis theater projectionists' unions also made news in that premiere issue. Someone had fired a shot into the home of a union business agent wounding three people. Hollywood itself was no less rowdy in those days. In the paper's chatter column, two separate items reported film actresses sporting black eyes after fights with their male friends.

And if there was a gleeful sexist tone in those reports, there was also blatant racism in the new paper's attempt to be bright and breezy stuff that would be considered unprintable today, but which nevertheless has been reprinted in the name of reproducing publishing history. within the music, except that they had grafted some Funk onto what they already knew rather than Funking from the feet up. Whatever they were doing, they were good for the whole night Piper seemed to be enjoying the scene she had created and seemed to have given up on getting them to do specific Funk. Despite her efforts, she was the only one who had gotten it right If they were going to jerk around to Funk like a bunch of frantic white folks, there wasn't anything she could do about it and they were beyond recall. The point seemed to be that as long as they had gotten something out of it and nobody could deny that they had, that was enough.

in Beirut "I'm thrilled," Mihalik said. "This is my big opportunity to go to a top market (Chicago is the third-largest television market in the country; Minneapolis-St Paul is ranked 14th). I didn't want to settle for weekends." After her last day at WTCN Nov. 30, Mihalik plans to jump into her brand new black Datsun 280ZX with a leather interior loaded," she said) and drive off to the Windy City. All I can say about that Cora-Ann, is, "Have a SWE day!" Martin Keller, music editor for City Pages, was fired recently by publisher Tom Bartel.

Keller, who was paid about $340 a week, said Bartel told him he was too expensive. Bartel said he fired Keller because of "personality 'differences." Keller's departure is only the latest in a round of musical chairs at the weekly, which is in fierce competition with the Twin Cities Reader. Others to leave in recent weeks include General Manager John Wadsworth, Film Critic Phil Anderson, Art Director Dave Steinlicht and Calendar Editor Jennifer Holt Bartel said the changes result from an effort "to professionalize our editorial staff." For example, he said, News Editor Phillip Weiss, a recent addition, is a former staff member of the Columbia Journalism Review and the Philadelphia Inquirer. City Pages claims a weekly circulation of about 100,000, and the Reader claims about 140,000. Continued from page 1C disco or whatever.

After each minute of elementary Funking, Piper would stop everything and add something new. The ones in the front rank took advantage of these interludes to recover while the second rank got restless. Someone objected to Piper's using the opening six bars of the same record over and over, and she said she'd change it in a minute. It wasn't until she added the pelvic thrust and the rapid head nodding that it began to look black. 'Some people brought all the parts together into a complete dance, eveatf it still looked irretrievably whiter-while others made the cultural leap over the barrier and then back again.

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KSTP (Channel 5) hit the beaches on Saturday with a three-man team consisting of reporter Jason Davis, photographer Don Frledell and videotape editor George Moll. Their reports started Sunday night And WCCO (Channel 4), made it a three-way contest Sunday when reporter Al Austin, chief photographerproducer Keith Brown and photographer Ben McCoy checked into Beirut. Channel 4's reports started airing last night News directors at all three stations said they decided to dispatch reporting crews to Beirut so that they could get stories ofMinnesota Marines in action among the multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon. Reitf Johnson, Channel 4's news director, said Lebanon "is a major trouble spot on the globe and we've got to bring back what Minnesota and western Wisconsin (Marines) are doing over there, what they're thinking. We want to know what it's like to be fighting in an active combat zone.

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