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weekend fridoy extra classified ads5-1 6 The Oregon Statesman, Friday, April 1 8, 1980 ron fo cowan Talk show paves way at KVDO i 'Yr v- i 'A -) -VU c- "hr. By RON COWAN Orrfoa Statesman Reporter At KVDO-TV, Salem's public television station, people are talking. Talking about Scientology, Palestinian rights, cancer and Marion County's financial problems. Those are the some of the subjects of "Conversations," an afternoon talk show some KVDO-TV people consider symptomatic of the changes at this Salem station, a onetime commercial outlet which has more often been a subject of disdain than admiration. EVEN NOW, THE Oregon Commission on Public Broadcasting is talking seriously about moving KVDO from Salem and, adding insult to injury, a recent article on "meet the staffs" in the public broadcasting program guide, Hungry Eye, left out KVDO without explanation.

And India Simmons Olsen, KVCO producer-director, is wondering why KGW-TV got so much attention for a recent documentary on Scientology, a subject KVDO tackled six months earlier. There's a new spirit at KVDO, she says, a spirit which belies the stories of rampant discontent in Oregon Educational and Public Broadcasting Service. "Not at this station, no," she insists. "There is a good spirit of cooperation here. "THE PROGRAMMING has been greatly improved.

The set has been improved." The technical quality of KVDO productions may still leave room for improvement, but Olsen points out that today the station has three color cameras a year ago it had only one. She is particularly proud of "Conversations," a 4:30 p.m: weekday program hosted by Linda Posell. It's one of the KVDO local productions, which include "Oregon Report," an issue-oriented show rotated among the three public television studios, at 7 week-nights, and "Communicaciones del Barrio," directed to the Spanish community, at 5 p.m. Saturdays. SINCE IT WAS TAKEN over by OEPBS, the station has generally been looked down on as merely providing delayed repeats of pro- 11 I llTI'" Miinnun Phirto by Ron Cooper Linda Posell, left, and India Simmons Olsen have a conversation on the set of KVDO-TV's Conversations.

Kate Sullivan's music will make it to Boon's Yes, Kate Sullivan and Company will be at Boon's Treasury Saturday night, but it almost didn't happen in more than one way. About a month ago, someone stole Sullivan's guitar; a week ago she had an auto accident, getting out of the hospital just last Sunday; and this week the Boon's employees all quit and started picketing, much to Sullivan's dismay. But, have hope she's got a new guitar (and some new musicians), she's off her crutches and on a cane and the Boon's "family" will not picket her performance. So it should be a good weekend for Sullivan, a gutsy rock 'n roll singer who will also be part of the second year of Woman Sound this Sunday and April 27 at Monmouth Woman Sound being an event for women musicians which says "hey, it is possible. If you have the desire and will, you can do it." THOSE ARE THE WORDS OF Sullivan, one of the founders, and living proof that you can do it.

A native of Salem who grew up on military bases and later flirted with a journalism career, Sullivan entered music professionally on July 4, 1976, believe it or not, at the Fairgrounds in Salem. Since then, she's built a solid reputation in Salem, Portland and elsewhere and now she's planning to record her group's first album in May. In doing that, she will become the publisher, but she's already a songwriter, musician, manager, booker, etc. It started, she says, when "a friend of mine gave me a guitar. It just seemed to be something I could identify with right away.

I could hear it, I had this ear it just became something I could do." And she's worked steadily at improvement "I'm trying to do a little more and do it a little better." IT'S NOT TYPICAL FOR a woman to run an all-male band and do it happily. "On some levels it is (hard)," she concedes. "It's really a male-oriented business." But her band is different "we have developed a mutual relationship because of the band we are. we have a real love relationship going on. We have a family kind of thing." The band at the 8:30 p.m.

Saturday show (which has a $2 cover) will consist of three original Company people Don Justice on guitar, Greg Larson on drums, Mike Coe on saxophone and some new people guitarist Richard Day Reynolds and bassist Greg Burton. The album will come out in September, she says, and she's working at a Fotomat store in Portland now to make it possible. "I always have faith that someday the big break will come," she says, but that means you have to work in the meantime. SULLIVAN, CHRIS PATTERSON and Linnea Brooks founded the Woman Sound program in order to share their professional experiences with other women. The free festival, sponsored by the Women's Resource Center at Oregon College of Education, will run from 11 a.m.

to, 9:30 p.m. Sunday at the College Center. Workshops will be emphasized this Sunday, with performances emphasized next Sunday, April 27 a free concert starting at 6 p.m. "Woman Sound," says Sullivan, "is this big hand, which is either pushing or pulling." The word is move. Back at Boon's, Mike Horner is one member of the Boon's family who is not moving.

"In my opinion there's no other outlet for the type of music we do at Boon's," he says, so he's decided to continue scheduling entertainment there. The disgruntled ex-employees have agreed not to picket the entertainment. Boon's owner Larry Salmony spurred the mass resignations by changing the management and announcing he would be selling shares in the business. He has yet ta say who the three new partners are, but they are understood to be an unnamed McNary High School teacher; Richard Kennedy, administrator of the State Department of Justice; and Mark Nelson, executive assistant to Attorney General Jim Redden. WHAT ABOUT SOME LIVE entertainment at the Armory? That is the plan of Star West Productions, which includes Mark Ed-dinger of Las Vegas.

Recently he announced plans to book English rock star Dave Mason, known for hits like "You Know and I Know," at the Armory on May 9. According to manager Sam Hetland of the Armory, Eddinger (who is back in Las Vegas) has tentatively booked singer Engel-bert Humperdinck for May 11, Mother's Day. Humperdinck is still tentative, but tickets are now on sale at $8 for the Mason show. According to Dominic Quan, one of the owners of the Waikiki restaurant (which is working with Eddinger), tickets are now available at the Waikiki, Rising Sun Records, the Connection (Salem and Silverton) and Worldwide Entertainment. of Olsen, whose husband Is Robin Olsen, publisher of Salem's Oregon Observer newspaper; engineer Bob Ridgeway and Joan Bruun, who deals with operations.

They conduct a weekly meeting, sending the results on to Don Bryant, OEPBS director. Olsen has a degree in communications from Southern Oregon College and has worked ut the Legislature and for Salem radio stations KSLM and KSKD. "I'd like to stay in public broadcasting," she says. "I think I'll always be in television." POSELL, WHO ALSO seems to have found a place in television, says public broadcasting is to her liking, but she can see areas for Improvement here. She would like to have more technical mobility for production out in the community and perhaps a focus on the Northwest, which could be marketed nationally.

have done this all my life. "I don't find it hard at all to get four poople a week (one program is repealed). Sometimes we have very local issues to deal with and sometimes we have offered the real stars. "It seems that we're given completely free reign," she says of the subject matter. "Nobody ever tells me we can't do anything." People are welcome to call in their suggestions and comments, which they apparently do.

TODAY'S SHOW DEALS with cancer, for example, Monday's with Earth Day's 10th anniversary and Wednesday's with emergency medical planning. KVDO, one of three OEPBS stations with studios (the other two are in Portland and Corvallis) is run by a triumvirate composed grams carried on the other two OEPBS stations, but there is more production work going on here than in Corvallis at KOAC-TV. Both Olsen, 25, and Posell, 38, are new here in the last two years. Posell came to her job by way of Massachusetts and Los Angeles and work as a newspaper correspondent in Willamina and Sheridan. A feminist, she started out doing a weekly segment on "Woman's Week," inheriting a show then called Inner-view, which dated from KVDO's commercial days, in September 1979.

"It went from Valle.y View to Inner-view to Conversations," she says, and hopefully has also gone from local chit-chat to a global perspective. "I DON'T KNOW IF there is a hard part," she says of her newfound status as "Salem's Dick Cavett" (as Olsen calls her). "I should "The Black Stallion" a wonderful, exciting film JcTT reviBA while he indulges Caleb Deschanel's brilliant, boy, he and the horse refuse to be separated. The film then shifts to the boy's midwest home, as the horse first takes up unlikely residence in the backyard, then, startled by a garbage collector, races off to end up in an old horse trainer's (Mickey Rooney's) barn. The two form a touching friendship which leads to a major race important to man, boy and horse.

It's truly a beautiful film, handsomely crafted with an economy of details and a freshness that extends from the viewpoint to the imaginative cinematography. Both Reno, as a serious-faced, determined young hero, and Rooney, as his experienced mentor, deliver performances which never dip into triteness or predictability. Teri Garr and Hoyt Axton are enjoyable as the boy's parents, characters which also defy stale-ness. The story may not be new, but it's hard to imagine how the film could look any newer. From its fiery, dramatic opening to its edge-of-seat finale, the film has undeniable By RON COWAN Oregon Statesman Reporter "The Black Stallion," produced by Fred Roos and Tom Sternberg, directed by Carroll Ballard, screenplay by Melissa Mathison, Jeanne Rosenberg and William D.

Wittliff, based on the novel by Walter Farley, photography by Caleb Deschanel, music by Carmine Coppola. Rated G.now at Capitol Theater. It's a story of a young boy's love affair with a horse, influenced by a clever old-timer, and climaxing in a race which could probably never happen. It sounds like the ingredients of a stale movie, but forget that. "The Black Stallion," Carroll Ballard's new version of the classic Walter Farley novel, is an absolutely wonderful, fresh and exciting film; a film permeated with an unusual sense of mystery and wonder.

It may be G-rated, but it's sophisticated enough to be as rewarding to adults as to children. Director Ballard at times makes too much of his arty inclinations, letting the story slip stylish cinematography, but the atmosphere and the true attention to a youthful point of view carry the film. Dialogue is used to a minimum and, while there is a sense of this adventure taking place in a real world, vintage 1946, reality is never allowed to overwhelm the young hero's singular point of view. The film opens on a ship plying the stormy waters off North Africa, where our hero (Kelly Reno, in his first acting role) encounters a suspicious band of Arabs mistreating a wild, beautiful black horse. Just as mysteriously, a storm and shipboard fire excitingly, succintly rendered -change the course of both horse and boy.

The boy releases the horse, then gets swept overboard, but is saved by the horse. They find themselves on a strange, exotic coast where they edge uneasily to an unusual friendship. When a fishing boat rescues the MICKEY ROONEY Free musical events, fashion and gem shows scheduled today, tomorrow, etc. i citizens, free for children under 12 with School Little Theater, 505 Sandy Drive Salem. Tickets $2.

"The Vigil," telling the Easter story as a courtroom battle, 8 both nights, Wood-Mar Auditorium, George Fox College, Newberg. Tickets $2.50, $1 studentssenior citizens. Elementary students' music performances, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.

Saturday at Lancaster Mall, Lancaster Drive and Center Street NE, Salem. Physical education demonstrations, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Free admission.

"El Grande de Coca Cola," a musical review about a seedy South American night club, 8:15 both nights, Pentacle Theater, 52nd Avenue NW, six miles west of Salem off Highway 22. Tickets are $4. urday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Polk County Fairgrounds, Rickreall.

Free admission. "Fiddler on the Roof," the musical of Jewish village life in Czarist Russia, 8: 15 each night at Sacred Heart Academy, 3750 Lancaster Drive NE, Salem. Tickets $2.50, $1.50 studentssenior citizens. "The Pirates of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, 8 each night, Willamette Playhouse, Willamette University, 12th and Slate streets, Salem. Tickets $4.

A draft horse auction and show will include a preview at 10 a.m. and horse clinic and fiddlers bee at 8 p.m. Friday, auction at 9 a.m. Saturday and show at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in Linn County Fairgrounds, 3051 Oakwood St.

SE, Albany. Admission $2 adults, 50 cents children, $5 per family. Wood In all forms may be seen 10 a m. to 5 p.m. daily Western Forestry Center, 4033 S.W.

Canyon Road, Portland. Admission $1.50 adults, 75 cents senior citizensstudents. The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day at 4015 S.W.

Canyon Road, Portland. Admission $1 .25 adults, 75 cents children 6 to gram with Das'y the Clown, 11 a.m. to noon, Far West Savings community room, 630 Center St. NE, Salem. A free concert by pianists Wendy Wickman and Anne Martinsen and violinist Carl Johansen, 2:30 p.m., Smith Auditorium, Willamette University, 12th and State streets, Salem.

A spring fashion show by Salem Credit Women International, 12:30 p.m., Black Angus Restaurant, 220 Commercial St. SE, Salem. Tickets are $6.50. An oil painting workshop by Fran Hansen and Chemeketa Community College, 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Scotts Mills Elementary School cafeteria, Scotts Mills.

Fee $2.50. Bluegrass by Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys, 8 p.m., Memorial Union, University of Oregon, Eugene. Tickets are $3.75 UO students, $4 general. SUNDAY An art and talent show by Molalla Loaves Fishes and Molalla Community School, 12:30 p.m., high school, Molalla. Admission $1.50 adults, 75 cents senior 12senior citizens.

Planetarium shows 7:30, 9, 10:30 p.m. and midnight FridaySaturday, 7:30 and 9 p.m. Sunday. Planetarium shows are $3.50 for adults, $2 students 6 to 12 years and senior citi-; zens. Northwest Dairy Goat Assocation show Saturday and Sunday.

The Washington Park Zoo is open 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. each day at 4001 S.W. Canyon Road, Portland. Admission $2 adults, $1 children 6 to 11.

SPORTS A doubleheader baseball game will be Oregon State University hosting University of Oregon at 1 p.m. Saturday at Coleman Field, Corvallis. Admission is $2 adults, $1 for 13 through high school age, 50 cents 12 years and under. Cascade Sports Car Club's road racing competition includes practice at 9 a.m., qualifying at 1 and novice racing at 4 p.m. Saturday, qualifying at 9 a.m.

and racing at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Portland International Raceway just off Inter state 5 north of Portland. Admission for either or both days is $5, with those 15 and under free. ET drag racing open with 9:30 a.m. trials and 1 p.m.

Sunday eliminations at the Woodburn Dragstrip, just west of Woodburn on Highway 214. Admission is $4 adults, $1 children 6 to 12, free under 6. Race fee $1. The Portland Meadows Horse Racing Meet will beat Friday and 1:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at 1001 N.

Schmeer Road, Just off Interstate 5 north of Portland. Admission is $1.75 to the grandstand and $2.50 to the clubhouse. Parking is $1. Information to be conddered lor thli calendar tfmuld be turned In by Thunday noon. It may be mailed to: Friday Calendar, Statesman Newsroom, tO.

Boa I Ml, Salem, 17X1. Road racing, clowns, a batch of free music events, fashion and gem shows are weekend features in the Willamette Valley. Among free events are the gems in Rickreall, a blossom drive in West Salem, "Hobbit" scenes and clowns in Salem, and music in Monmouth, Wood-burn, Mount Angel, McMinnville and Salem. FRIDAY The Preservation Hall Jazz Band from New Orleans, 8:15 p.m., Civic Auditorium, 222 S.W. Clay Portland.

Tickets $6, $7, $8, $9. A free flute and piano recital by James Adams and Vicki Young-Cordes, noon, Art Gallery, Smith Auditorium, Willamette University, 12th and State streets, Salem. The International Film Series will show "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands," a 1977 Brazilian movie, 7 and 9:30 p.m., Wilkinson Auditorium, Oregon State University, Corvallis. Admission $1.50. Tenor Tim Jeffers in a free voice recital, 7:30 p.m., Western Baptist College auditorium, 5000 Deer Park Drive SE, Salem.

A free planetarium show, "Twelve Signs of the Zodiac," noon, 7 and 8 p.m. in Building 3, Chemeketa Community College, 4000 Lancaster Drive NE, Salem. SATURDAY The Cherry Blossom Drive, a 15-mile loop through the Eola Hills, will begin at Wallace and Orchard Heights roads NW, West Salem. Direction signs are placed by Knights of Columbus. A free clown, magician and jester pro- an adult.

Women Sound 80, a music festival of workshops and performances, 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., College Center, Oregon College of Education, Monmouth. Free admission. A ham and pancake breakfast, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., St.

Mary's Parish Center, 9168 Silver Falls Highway SE, Shaw. Cost $2 adults, $1 children under 12. A free concert by the Oregon Trio, 8 p.m., Smith Auditorium, Willamette University, 12th and State streets, Salem. A free organ concert by John Forgard, 4 p.m., St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 1560 W.

Hayes Woodburn. A Catholic Daughters breakfast, 8 a to noon, St. Boniface Rectory basement, 375 E. Church Sublimity. Cost $2 adults.

$1 children under 12. An afternoon of Baroque with cellist Timothy Scott and organist Douglas Butler, 3 p.m., Mount Angel Abbey Church crypt, Mount Angel. Free admission. A trombone recital by Peter Dalen, 3 p.m, Melrose Auditorium, Linfield College, McMinnville. Free admission.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY "Paint Your Wagon," the Lerner and Loewe Gold Rush musical, 8:15 both nights at Albany Civic Theater, 111 W. First Albany. Tickets $3.50, students $3, Friday champagne opening $1 extra. "That's How the West Was Lost," a musical comedy by Alice Jones and Robert Voigt, 8 both nights, McNary High SATURDAY-SUNDAY "The Hobbit," a musical version of J.R.R. Tolkien's novel, 2 p.m.

Saturday in Salem Public Library auditorium, 585 Liberty St. SE, Salem, and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Lancaster Mall, Lancaster Drive and Center Street NE, Salem. A free movie, "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," captioned for the deaf, 7 p.m. Saturday; Oldtime Fiddlers concert, 1:30 p.m.

Sunday, at Salem Senior Center, 1055 Enxon St. NE, Salem. ALL THREE DAYS A gem and mineral show, the 25th annual by the Willamette Agate Mineral Society, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Sat.