The Minneapolis Star from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 29

A vr The Minneapolis Star Friday, Dec 5, 1980 1C Jim Klobuchar This group brought out the intimacy in H.P. Grant The Arctic ice pack will not melt in our lifetimes and Mount Everest will not tumble. But not all laws of nature are irreversible. Imagine Harry P. Grant of the Minnesota Vikings, for example, as kittenish, festive, droll and intimate.

If you believe. this convulsion is possible, then somebody should put another thermometer in that ice pack because it's possible the world may be about to spin out of control. On the other hand, the sight of 200 women clamoring for knowledge and hungry for gossip may be the one thing on Earth capable of unpeeling Harry P. Grant's public bark and armor. A man who can grow sentimental over the sight of a can of dogfood, after all, ought to be encouraged in expressing this internal side of his personality.

And I reveal no house secrets to tell you that the ladies luxuriated in Harry P. Grant again Thursday night. He was confidentialHe was arch. He was even a little tragic because he mourned the loss of cold waves and prairie blizzards as part of his late season offense with the imminent arrival of the domed stadium. The occasion of Thursday night's encounter at Jax Cafe in northeast Minneapolis was graduation night for my football clinic for an annual excercise in scholarship, faith and hope.

Grant is the traditional commencement speaker. He never gets into the first paragraph of his prepared address. The first question almost invariably demands why the coach doesn't allow the players' wives to spend the night before the Super Bowl with their husbands. By inference it rebukes Grant for missing a glorious chance to win a championship by insisting on archaic codes of celiba cy. He was spared Thursday night.

The first questioner wanted to know where he got his information to characterize Tommy Kramer as a lover and not a fighter. I don't want you to misconstrue the tone of that question. The members of the women's football clinic have no interest in casual eroticism. In the course of three months study, these people have become penetrating analysts, without the stylized timidity that workaday journalists bring to their daily interrogation of Harry P. Grant.

And so they drew from Grant Thursday night a prediction that the domed stadium will be of no competitive benefit to his football team; an admission that for Tommy Kramer or any other quarterback to call his own plays with the Vikings would take a change of coaches, and a testimonial to the retired Jim Marshall as unique among all the football players he has ever coached or seen, "a great, great man." When you toss Harry P. Grant into a ballroom with 200 women, you get more than Grant the coach. You get Grant the meteorologists. "You can't condition yourself to heat," he said, "but you can to cold. When we go to Tampa Bay this week, it can be 90 degrees and they'll have no advantage.

They'll get tired as fast as we will. Their radiators will steam over as soon as ours. But you can build up a tolerance to cold and that's what we'll be losing by playing football inside. When you see the visiting team hunkering around those heat- Klobuchar Turn to Page 3C Star Illustration by Kent Macintosh. Barbara Flanagan Full lips are sexy, but don't overdo it By PADDY CALISTRO The Los Angeles Times ft.

A the inner shelf of the lower lid just above the lashes, with a smudge of dark brown or black eyeshadow under the lashes "and tons of black mascara" on both the upper and lower lashes. When color is used on the eyelid, it's smudged and subtle, adds Dorothy Beil of Flori Roberts cosmetics, this country's oldest line for black women, founded in 1965. "It takes a very soft pencil to line the eye, but the same pencil can be used on the lid if the color is blended with the fmger," Beil explains. Foundation doesn't present the problem it did 15 years ago. Then, black women were limited to using makeup in the darkest shades available to light-skinned women.

They would use "suntan bronze" or forget it. Many of them did forget it. And even though the four comprehensive lines for dark-skinned women now offer vast selections of foundations shades, and though most major cosmetic companies include a range of shades for black women in their regular line "60 percent of today's black customers still don't use color on their faces," says For- nay. "Many of them believe that a foundation will make their skin oilier, when in fact, many of today's foundations work to help control olliness." Factor's Salvatore shakes his head at the mention of black women and oily skin. "It's a fallacy that all black women have oily skin," he says.

"Black skin can be dry, normal or oily, the same as any other complexion, and black women are faced with the same problems associated with these skin types. Makeup artist Antonio DuBois suggests that women coordinate lip and eye color. "One easy way is to go over any eyeshadow with a dab of the same lip gloss worn on the mouth. It helps to integrate the colors and also helps to add a gloss to the lid area," he says. Luscious, full, exotic lips.

The fuller, the better. Some women have 'em, and some women don't. "Full lips are a fashion statement," says Alfred Fornay, creative director for Rev-Ion's Polished Ambers, one of the many makeup collections especially designed for Mack complexions. He notes that until recently, women with large mouths have been reluctant to wear bold lip colors and strong makeup. "They've been brainwashed into thinking that thin lips are the only way to be beautiful.

I say look at Diana Ross, look at Sophia Loren," says Barbara Walden, whose cosmetics line offers lipsticks in vibrant reds, burgundies, plums and oranges, colors that were once taboo for women with dark skins and big lips. "A full mouth Is sexy, especially with a strong color on it," Walden asserts. About the only taboo left for woman with a prominent mouth is too much shine. "Nothing looks worse than a glob of greasy gloss," says Walden. "Many women think that not wearing lipstick and loading on clear gloss will make the mouth look less obvious.

It doesn't work that way. That technique just looks gooey not pretty." Bob Salvatore, beauty director of Max Factor, concurs. "Instead of shiny lipsticks, I usually recommend something that doesn't contrast greatly with the skin tone. Vibrant pinks, light fuchsias and brilliant magentas wonTt work well on women with very dark skin," Salvatore cautions. But, he adds, black women have the advantage of being able to wear dark, exotic colors that would be too much for lighter skin tones.

To balance this year's luscious Hps, women are in for a year of more eye makeup than they've seen since the '60s. Ron Marable, creative director for Fashion Fair cosmetics, says colors such as teal, orchid and bright green are being used on Minnie tells a pearl of a story Minnie Pearl hooted a loud "How-DEE" at the crowd, clapped on her hat with the dangling price tag, and settled down to sign more than 300 copies of her new book. In an aside to me, she said, "Now, darlin', you just ask me your questions because I'm bl-minded, you know. "I can carry on several conversations at once. And she did both with the loving crowd at Powers book depart-' ment and with me.

"My stars, but Minneapolis Is a friendly place," said Minnie, as she greeted men, women and children of all ages and status with a smile. Sometimes, she added a hug and a kiss on the cheek. When a handsome man came up to the table and several did during the 90 minutes she was autographingMinnie fluttered her eyes in fine Grand Ole Opry style, giggled and said, "My, but you're good looklnV Every time she said it, I saw grown men blush with pleasure. Minnie Pearl, a favorite since 1940 on the Grand Ole Opry show In Nashville, has written one of the better books about show business that I've read. Its title Is "Minnie Pearl An Autobiography." In it, she tells the story of herself how Sarah Ophelia Colley, the daughter of Southern gentry, became the knee-slapping country comic named Minnie Pearl.

She writes about her friendships with such country stars as Roy Aenff, Hank Williams and Eddy Arnold. And about her own true romance with her husband, Henry Cannon. He was a handsome Air Force officer who swept Sarah Ophelia off her feet just the way Minnie Pearl always dreamed. That love story continues today. Cannon usually accompanies his wife on personal appearance tours.

At Powers, he was standing quietly at the back of the crowd. That's where he likes to be," she said, smiling at him. I asked Minnie if she had any regrets about her career. In the book, she explains that she really started out to become a dramatic actress. "Well, honey, In my heart, I always saw myself as Katharine Flanagan Torn to Page 7C Los Angeles Times Today's look: short hair and exotic makeup John Carman Scrooges send greetings on pink slips A new budget cutback was blamed for the dismissal of Silbert, Liedtke and May, the latter of whom had been at the station only four months.

Powell, however, was fired after Burden became angry at her because she didn't produce a "package" story for two consecutive weekends. A "package" is a story in which the reporter is photographed on location. Powell has had clashes with Burden in the past. Yet she was perplexed by her dismissal because, she said. Burden had given her a satisfactory job evaluation only a few weeks before she was fired.

Opinions about Powell were split in the newsroom. The same Is true Carman Turn to Page 6C media executive. The president of the Metromedia Television operation is Thomas Til-son. Tilson has not returned several phone calls since he dismissed Fransen last week. Meanwhile, the staff exodus from the Channel 11 newsroom Is continuing.

Weekend sportscaster Steve Pascente, who earlier denied that he was quitting, has been given a release from his contract and plans to leave WTCN-TV in January. Pascente Is moving back to Phoenix, Ariz. At KMSP-TV, the staff cuts are in the news department. At Channel 9, you'll recall, news is considered an expensive annoyance. News director Tony Burden has fired reporters Amy Powell, Peter May and Joe Silbert, and photographer Chuck Liedtke.

Fransen's interim replacement Is Richard Modig, the station's business manager. Naturally, the mood at the station is gloomy. Employee feelings are running strongly against the absentee owners. There is apprehension about whether the shake-up will claim more victims within the local executive corps, and there's a new rash of rumors about whether the station is on the auction block. In addition to its nationwide broadcasting holdings, Metromedia owns an outdoor-advertising division, the Harlem Globetrotters, Ice Capades and a mail-marketing firm called Flgi's, which specializes in cheese packages and other gift items.

John Kluge, chairman and president of Metromedia, reportedly is the nation's highest-salaried parent company, has decided to close Metro Productions. The decision apparently baffled most of the WTCN-TV staff, including Orren. "No one knows why," said Orren. "It came down from corporate. The reason they gave is they wanted Channel 11 to be a full-time television station." The curious thing, Orren said, is that Metro Productions is "a money-maker.

It was carrying its own weight." Last year, he said, Metro Productions grossed about $1.5 million. He estimated that $500,000 to $750,000 of that was clear profit. The new round of dismissals comes only a week after Metromedia, based in Secaucus, N.J., fired WTCN-TV'8 veteran general manager, Robert Fransen. No permanent replacement has been picked; Merry Christmas, you're fired. That's the seasonal message on the top end of the TV dial.

WTCN-TV (Channel 11), which cut deeply into its technical staff only two months ago, laid off another nine employees this week. KMSP-TV (Channel 9) has dismissed three reporters and a photographer in recent weeks, whittling an already embarrassingly small news operation to nearly nothing. The Channel 11 cuts are from the semi-autonomous Metro Productions unit, which produces TV commercials for outside clients. The station dismissed Daniel Or-ren, Metro Productions sales director, along with his assistant, five engineers, a director and a floor man. Metromedia the station's 25" COUPON (IncludM Lop Sewn Moltnu, Safety Unf, Thermoitatkally Controlled Heater) III! MassawSntem 9" "il- jgAZ.

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