Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 30

4ii aateruunment Lansing State Journal Monday, July 14, 1986 Wm teCTi isteS stew 4 BirSTEPHEM HUNTER Mi few YORK Once upon a 53 time, Pat Mortta simply wanted to i) bein opening acL 3 the longest time," he re-Sfj cC, "the only thing I wanted in career was to be a really JjJ gold, aoikl' Journeyman come-25 dia)i, able to caen for anybody. Si There was something fascinating 15 In that If yoo could really get a Hf hot 22 or 23 In front of the star. don't think ifs affected me as me I rather enjoy this hype of success. It's rather dizzying sometimes but I like to be able to go home and just groove it with my kids. The down side is that that time gets smaller and smaller." So right now, Pat Mortta is facing a new antagonist success.

"You have to develop with sue-1 cess a high professional standard and I'm trying to oversee that right now it's new to me. I don't want to just jump at everything and take all kinds of roles." For example, he says, he's been offered a role in an expensive, British-backed sequel to David Lean's "Bridge on the River Kwai" They wanted me to play a real hard-butt Japanese colonel. I said, 'I can't do that' Maybe five or eight years from now; when I'm ready to go. The Miyagi-esque persona is too precious to. break the imagery of." dont know what those numbers mean.

And then when It Just went on and on and fan letters Just kept oncoming." It also earned an Academy Award nomination for a one-time opening act Now Mr. Miyagi and Pat Mortta are back in The Karate Kid Part "It's forced me to use my reading glasses more, because the contracts are fatter now," he says with a grin. Mortta, in the flesh. Is a far mellower, more humorous person than the reserved Miyagi: he's also a lot younger. He's also still baffled by what the success of the first film and the probable success of the second one means.

"I think It's still coming at me, what it means, in terms of like offers and considerations. I can walk in to an executive's office, where maybe as little as two or three years ago I couldn't get into the mail room. You know those things make a lot of difference." But personally, Mortta says, "I ana uu me ouuicncc qui qi incir seats and leave the star just enouth of a trail of smoke to come in on, it made their Job that much croovier. It made the whole 1 rreoutatian onenlns for oeoole and Tm really proudof if i i That's it An opening act A hot 22 or 25. Nothing bigger.

Just give the old headUner the trail of Sj smoke, and step aside, that was enough. He didn't even want to be 5S a headllner himself. Jfc MI think from time to time the jj desire sneaks in. But when you're up1 against a Buddy Hackett or a m. iteeds, leaving only 9 percent for It to find from other sources.

For 1985-1986. MSU provided just 12 percent of the $2.6 million operating budget However. Page hastens to point out that "MSU gives a lot of other support the building, utilities, legal and financial services and pertain fringe benefits for employees." And he adds: "Our success in obtaining public support has made it possible for the university to reallocate some of its funds." Sixty-five percent of the 1985-1986 budget came from public If Pat Morita was content as an the MSU board will appropriate and state legislation is pending, which could provide some additional funding for public broadcasting stations in Michigan. The first Channel 23 campaign' will be in November or early Dec-meber, the second in March, followed by the auction in May. This year, there'll be a change in the raffle.

Ernie Stuart Builders of Lansing has been the moving force behind building a house the past four years but lots are getting harder to find. Seaman said. Added Ray Woods, station manager of WUCM-TV at Delta College in University Center. "I think the general feeling is federal funding will plateau and be decreased in the next 10 years." Some state PBS officials also are worried that the recent decline in world oil prices and profits will force U.S. oil companies, including Gulf Oil Exxon Corp.

and Mobil to stop supporting PBS programs they have traditionally sponsored. Soloflex. a small exercise From ID throughout the nation. CPB funnels part of its congressional appropriations to local PBS-TV and radio stations nationwide, as Community Service Grants for program purchasing and production. WKAR-TV purchases some of its programs from the Public -Broadcasting Service (PBS) a private, non-profit corporation whose members are the nation's public TV stations.

Page showed a bill for $293,213 from PBS for about 24 different series of programs. But if WKAR pays it by the end of the month, waiting around the corner. are concerned that PBSs federal funding, which makes up more than a quarter of some stations' revenues, may be cut or eliminated. "The whole federal attitude toward public broadcasting is something to worry about" said Jerry Trainor, vice president for programming at WTVS-TV in Detroit. "Those federal dollars are critical to the success of public broadcasting." Federal money comprised only 8 percent of WTVS's 1985-86 reve Club paradise The vacation youH never fontet-no matter how hard vou tr)' BUM WARNER BROS lMMfNK ATKTKM'OWFANY Jf A VAINER PG-13 Michigan PBS stations now are faring well financially because their sources of funding are di-versified, and they don't depend sv too heavily on state funds, PBS of- 5(m; ficialssaid.

For instance, 50 percent of $2 million 1985-86 l- revenues came from private and the bill can be reduced to $262,572. Page plans to beat the deadline. The remaining 3 percent of the budget came from miscellaneous sources. Success at raising all the budget is "good news," Page said. The "bad news" is that as of July 1 the beginning of the fiscal year "we are back at zero again." Now WKAR-TV is about to begin its fund-raising efforts for this fiscal year though its budget can not yet be determined.

The station does not know how much nues, but federal dollars comprised 29 percent of WFUM-TV's 1985-86 budget and 25 percent of WNMU's. At Michigan State University's WKAR-TV in East Lansing, 20 percent of its current budget comes from federal funds, while at WGVK-TV on the campus of Grand Valley State College in Allendale, federal funds comprise 10 percent of the budget "We face each year the potential of a (budget cut) by Reaga-nomics, but we have, for the most part, been very fortunate so far," I WMrsriMH Mi-aaoo Mmcn Shecky Greene or a Don Rickles, you have to look at the realities of your place. And to me, opening for anybody was a gas. I accepted But then the business dried up. "I've always been blessed with great Instinct about the condition of our business.

I mean, you cant get work, agents wont hire you and that's got to tell you something. And because work became less and less, I decided to try and get into acting. I started to do lit-tie bits and pieces and commercials." One day he went to a cattle-call audition, and there won the part of Mr. Miyagi. Glory and triumph, riches and power, it all followed.

Mr. Miyagi, of course, is the Oki-nawan immigrant who taught Ralph Macchio how to throw spin kicks and chest punches in Karate one of the great hits of 1984. with over $190 million in domestic rentals. "I don't think anyone could perceive what could happen," he said. "I mean, people in their wildest dreams didn't know.

I From 1D fund-raising from individual or family viewers, from corporate underwriting, from the annual auction of merchandise supplied by local businesses and from the fourth annual house raffle, Page said. "Even a few dollars came from sponsoring some travel opportunities for our members," he added. Twenty percent came from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting a private, non-profit corporation authorized by Congress to facilitate the development of noncommercial television, radio and other telecommunication services Station officials said their viewer, contributions continue to increase. For example, community contributions to WFUM-TV at the University of Michigan's Flint campus increased 18 percent last year, said Gordon Lawrence, manager of the five-year-old station. WNMU's viewer contributions have increased from $975 in 1975 to $500,000 this year.

Seaman said. But officials at the state's PBS television stations are worried that hard financial times could be PH 676-5955 Ml SEATS 2.00 UNTW. frOO PM TOPOUN TODAY AT: 4:00. 7:00. 9:00 CO) MANHATTAN PSOJZCT TOOAV AT: 4.00.

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After all, he says viewers are enthusiastic about WKAR-TVs quality and variety of programming. And last fiscal year, only about 19,000 households pledged during the drives. "So we have a lot of potential," Page said. equipment company, sponsored for several years the nationally syndicated PBS program "Late Night America," hosted by Dennis Wholey from WTVS's studios in Detroit But, Trainor said, Soloflex found itself in financial trouble last year, and it discontinued its support of Late Night America and the show had to be canceled. "(Soloflex's) business climate changed, which is why I'm very, very worried about the oil companies' commitment (to PBS)," the Detroit television executive said.

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