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The Orlando Sentinel Wednesday, August 29, 1984 Plllsbury Bake-Off recipe contest is Disney-bound for 1986, E-2 Trp'' iFy xmw alt Disney returns to its animated roots By Aljean Harmetz NEW YORK TIMES OLLYWOOD After nearly 30 years of throwing its energies into amusement parks and movies and XX Noel Holston from $41 million in 1978 to $111 million in 1983. Miller also likes to speak of The studio's research-and-development arm is considering a ride based on The Black Cauldron for Disney's theme parks; a series of new 21-minute animated shorts will be released theatrically, then sold on videocassettes; and these will have a third life on The Disney Channel, the studio's pay-cable network. "We have to keep our characters alive and create new characters for consumer products," says Miller, who has been trying to ignore Disney's current corporate problems. For the last six months Disney has been beset by corporate raiders. After pay- Please see DISNEY, E-8 TELEVISION half later, there will be another animated feature.

Two top candidates are a version of The Three Musketeers starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and Jose Cari-oca, and T.H. White's Mistress Masham's Repose. "Animation is more important to us now than it has been for at least 20 years," says Miller, the late Walt Disney's son-in-law, who has always had a soft spot for animation, which he considers the heart of the studio. Pay cable, the growth of videocassette recorders and the vast merchandising bonanza created by the Star Wars movies show how animation can be financially as well as psychologically important to Disney. Disney's revenues from merchandising characters and publishing increased fable, based on a series of award-winning children's books by Lloyd Alexander, was filmed in 70 millimeter at a cost of $25 million.

The film's Horned King villain is one of Disney's most sinister characters. The boy hero must find the Black Cauldron before the Horned King uses it to bring back dead warriors from past wars and gather an invincible army. It is conceivable, says Ron Miller, president and chief executive officer of Walt Disney Productions, that the movie will be the first Disney cartoon to get a PG rating. The studio is also at work on a Sherlock Holmes mystery played out by some mice who live in an apartment below the famous detective. This $13 million movie, Basil of Baker Street, will follow The Black Cauldron into theaters in 1987.

A year and a Intercepted signal spurs gripe to FCC television programs featuring live actors, the studio founded by Walt Disney is turning back to the brush strokes of its youth. Because of recent changes in the entertainment industry, including the arrival of vid-eocassettes, animation has become a priority once more at the empire built by Mickey Mouse. The Black Cauldron, the most complex and expensive animated feature ever produced by Walt Disney Studios, will be released next summer. This medieval Welsh 'as it grand theft video? 117 That's for the Federal 1W Communications Com 6, 'Jigsaw is a poor puzzler Street smarts help in design of Willi Wear si 'r -j By Jay Boyar SENTINEL MOVIE CRITIC yn Mje I'1 "S'W((p Designer Willi Smith has a way of turning the ordinary into something special. That's precisely what he has done with a new line of men's wear that includes a sleeveless shirt and an unlined sport jacket.

Such design surprises have come to be expected from Smith, who is the creative force behind the Willi Wear label. Unlike many top designers, Smith endeavors to keep his clothing affordable while readily adapting with a designer's eye styles that emerge from the streets. His sleeveless men's shirt is a sophisticated interpretation of an amateur, primitive style spawned largely by the movie Flashdance that has encouraged people to rip the sleeves off sweatshirts and leave the edges ragged. Smith also borrows tricks from his line of women's wear. This influence can be seen in the Willi Wear line's unlined, simply tailored jackets and in the fabrics and colors that are typically reserved for women's clothing.

LYNN TREXLER Some movies are so badly written and directed that while I am watching them I think, "Not even the greatest actor in the world could make this thing bearable." Hyperbole? Not in the case of The Jigsaw Man. This puzzling British picture features Laurence Olivier, who may very well be the greatest actor in the world. His co-star is Michael Caine, also an excellent performer. Yet the movie is one of the worst I've seen this year. Possibly, the worst.

The Jigsaw Man just goes to pieces before your eyes. The problem isn't exactly that Olivier, Caine and the other cast members give bad performances as much as it is that those performances hardly matter. They are completely overshadowed and defeated by the movie. For the record, I should mention that Olivier plays Adm. Sir Gerald Scaith, the crusty old head of the British Secret Service.

Caine is Sir Philip Kimberly, a former Secret Service chief who Please see JIGSAW, E-4 RED HUBERSENTINEL Willi Wear from Burdines shirt, $29, pants, $47.50, and jacket, $60. Book details blunders on a monumental scale mm By Bob McKelvey KNT NEWS SERVICE ovie review mission to decide. WCPX-Chan-nel 6 has filed a complaint with the commission charging WFTV-Channel 9 with intercepting and rebroadcasting a satellite-fed signal to which WCPX had exclusive rights. Tuesday, Aug. 21, WCPX had an arrangement with Scranton, WNEP-TV, which has a satellite up-link, to get video of the Altamonte Springs' Little League team's World Series game against Los Gatos, Calif.

According to WCPX news director Tom Hauff, about an hour before the Scranton station was scheduled to begin feeding the pictures, WFTV called and asked for permission to pay half the cost and share the video. WCPX declined. "We thought they should have made arrangements a little earlier," Hauff said Monday. "If they had called two weeks earlier and said, 'We're going to do this. We know you're going to do this.

Let's all save ourselves some money and go together on we would have said, But with the call coming around 4 p.m. and the satellite feed set for 5 p.m., Hauff "didn't think we should give up our competitive advantage." Hauff discovered that WFTV had used the baseball footage when he saw the sports segment of WFTV's 6 p.m. newscast. When he complained by phone Wednesday to WFTV news director Bob Jordan, Jordan offered to pay for the feed. But money is not the point, Hauff argues.

Thus, the complaint to the FCC. "We're not asking for damages. But we do think there should be a record made that these people have violated FCC regulations and, in effect, stolen our property." Jordan acknowledged Monday that WFTV had used the satellite feed from WNEP and said that "it may end up that what we did was wrong." Jordan said that WFTV had permission to use the footage of the Scranton station (a fellow ABC affiliate whose general manager, Eldon Hale, is a former WFTV news director), even if it hadn't reserved the satellite time to get the pictures to Orlando. Jordan also said that WCPX had recently used ABC Olympic highlights without authorization, so the two stations "were in a tit-for-tat mode." Edith Wise, chief of the FCC's mass-media bureau, said Monday that she had not seen the complaint. When the circumstances were described to her, she said that WCPX's complaint is not common and that it would have to be checked out.

She also said that every complaint is considered on its merits and that, since mitigating circumstances are considered, "There is not anything that automatically happens." Stay tuned for further developments. Videolio: Far more people knew Truman Capote for his catty chitchat with Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show than for his writing. But the video legacy of Capote, who died Saturday, is far from totally vapid. His autobiographical A Christmas Memory and A Thanksgiving Visitor both became acclaimed dramatic specials in the '60s. And his The Glass House, filmed for TV in 1972, is one of the best dramas about life in prison ever produced.

As it happens, The Glass House is tonight's 8 p.m. movie on WMOD-Channel 43. If you were hoping TV's hooker-movie-of-the-week fad was over, forget it. NBC's first "World Premiere" of the season, set for Sept. 24, is Secrets of a Married Man, in which Cybill Shepherd, an NBC press release says, "plays a prostitute who just about destroys a family man (William Shatner)." 'The Jigsaw Man' Cast: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Susan George, Robert Powell, Charles Gray Direction: Terence Young Screenplay: Jo Eisinger Cinematography: Freddie Francis Theaters: Northgate 4, Plaza (Orlando) Running time: 1 hour, 36 minutes Industry rating: PG (parental guidance suggested) Reviewer's evaluation: couldn't be said for Britain's $1.6 billion error in its national checkbook.

The telegram that helped lose a war. The $250 million Detroit mistake that gave us a new way to spell error: E-d-s-e-1. These are just a few examples of blunders, booboos and bloopers from the collection of M. Hirsh Goldberg, who has been a press secretary for the mayor of Baltimore and who is a free-lance contributor to Baltimore newspapers and national magazines. He became convinced he could turn his compendium of goof-ups into gold and the result was The Blunder Book (Morrow, Some of Goldberg's examples of Please see BOOK, E-4 Anyone who has ever said "Oops!" has known one of those days, when There's a $67.03 error in the checkbook, not in your favor.

The razor slips and turns your face into a scene from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The headlights of the car have been on all day in the parking lot, the battery is dead and the jumper cables are home in the garage. We've all been stricken with the disease known, not so scientifically, as Humanis blunderitis. But at least we can take comfort in the fact that our slip-ups weren't serious, something that Reviewing key excellent, good, average, poor, awful BILL WITSBERGER SENTINEL Clothes abusers wear their affliction on their sleeves By Mary T. Schmlch OF THE SENTINEL STAFF Only the day before the peach episode, she had visited a restaurant in new shorts and shirt and the waitress dropped a knife loaded with butter in her lap.

"No problem," she said as the feverishly apologetic waitress dabbed at her shorts with a rag. "I'm sure if I read my horoscope it would say, 'You will wear new overpriced clothes today and a butter-loaded knife will be dropped on you by a The woman recently joined CLABA (Clothes Abusers of America), and like the group's thousands of other recovering clothes abusers she now recites "The CLABA Caveat" each morning while dressing: Coffee, peaches, ice cream, tea They are good, but not on thee. Stay away from grease and ink On the days you're wearing pink. Respect these clothes and treat them nice. Renounce the clothes abusers' vice.

Remember just how much it hurts To dribble peach juice on your skirts. the other to grope through the Publix bag in search of a peach. Flushed with the victory of nabbing her fruit without causing a four-car pileup, she bit. Sweet success. Second bite, no spill.

She was smugly delving into the third bite when splat! All over jacket, skirt, knees. She hadn't felt such despair since the last time she saw a German art movie. She examined her entire outfit with self-contempt. Look at that skirt. A month old, expensive, foreign and until the peach juice landed the nicest skirt she'd ever owned.

She relieved her angst over the peach juice only slightly by reminding herself that the skirt was already marred with discreet bleach splotches. She had bleached it two weeks earlier, after sitting on a chair on which someone had left a chunk of Nestle's Crunch. And the shoes. They were nice shoes before she traipsed through parking-lot puddles in the middle of a rainstorm. The shirt was nice too, before she wore it in a car that wasn't air-conditioned and left the armpits ringed forever with sweat.

From a distance these pathetic women appear normal, occasionally even chic. But get close and their outfits shriek the news of a vice they can't control clothes abuse. According to scientific surveys, between 53 and 98 percent of the female population suffer from the heartbreak of clothes abuse. The condition is characterized by the tendency to rip, stain or otherwise defile new garments, usually within hours of purchase. The primary rules in the unruly world of the clothes abuser are: 1) The more expensive the garment, the more stubborn the stain.

2) If the garment is white, the stain will be red. 3) If you think it might spill, it will. Consider an incident in the life of one notorious clothes abuser. We will conceal her identity to protect what little fashion dignity she has left, though anyone who looks carefully at her attire will recognize her. The woman had just bought a trendy, oversize, overpriced jacket.

She wore it for eight hours without mishap, a personal best. Then, in the early evening of the first day of wear, she stopped by the grocery store for dinner supplies. Driving home, she decided she could not wait six seconds longer to have one of those soft, plump peaches she had just bought. A little voice warned her: "Don't do it. You will drool peach juice all over your new oversize, overpriced jacket." But no.

She knew she was a mature adult and qualified to eat a peach without calamity. With one hand on the wheel, she used i-MW f't -0- TV listings, E-6.