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LIFESTYLE Press Sun-Bulletin 50 Sunday, May 15, 2005 Stories of proms past Radio changes its tune to recapture listeners The 1963 North-Central "Moonlight and Roses" Prom was both happy and sad for Carol Ann Juracek and Ronald Hrunelli. "Ron would he leaving soon for Lackland Air Force Base, and 1 would be moving to Rialto, with my parents. Many miles may have separated us, but this prom couple was meant to be, and we were married on April 4, 1964, here in Bingham-ton," Carol Brunelli said. The couple still lives in the city. They went to the Catholic Central High School CONTINUED FROM 10 "We had a good time and it was a beautiful affair," Duke said.

When John Pichura Sr. and Peg Pichura attended their 1958 Johnson City High Sehool prom, the two were voted "class couple." Peg Pichura purchased her dress in Westchester County, where her grandmother lived. "No one else had the same gown," she said. The Junior i Prom Commit 7 prom ol 1969 together, and now Robert and Bogusha Bear of Endwell have been married almost 32 years. The couple's daughter, Marcy, donned her mother's gown (minus the elbow-length gloves) for her own High School prom in 1993.

Laurie (Tam-blyn) Foley turned 1 "lax r.f tlio by Air America, have sprung up in 75 markels, inc! udinn Greater Bing-hamton. WYOS-AM 1360 in Bing-hamton has just adopted this format, "li appeals to those left out of the current conversation in talk radio," Heine says. Some formats, such as contemporary Christian music, are bolstering ratings at 15 Salem Communications stations, says chief operating officer Joe D. Davis. Other stations are simply tweaking playlists.

New York'sWXRK-FM (K-Rock). home to Howard Stern until his 2006 ascent to satellite radio, modified its non-talk rock format to classic rock to keep core 25-to-54-year-olds. says industry consultant Robert Unmacht. Operators also are avoiding listener static by slashing commercials, follow ing Clear Channel. The USA's No.

1 operator, with 1,200 stations, has initiated a "Less Is More" campaign. "We had some stations with 15 to 16 minutes of ads an hour," Clear Channel programming executive Doc Wynter says. "Now, it's no more than 10 minutes." hit in Canada since 2002, Jack could be in 1 00 U.S. markets this year. Jack is often backed by "throw away your iPod" marketing hype because it employs play lists of ,200 or more songs triple most oldies-style music stations and a bit closer to iPod capacity.

"Jack's a reaction to stations that are tightly formatted and predictable," Inside Radio editor Tom Taylor says. Baltimore station WSQR jettisoned its 17-year-old oldies format for Jack on May 4. "With Jack, people don't know what to expect, and we hope that's what they'll gravitate to," says programming director Dave LaBrozzi. urban. Spanish-language formats are hot.

Hurban, a fusion of Spanish hip-hop and English-language targeting young second- and third-generation Hispan-ics, is even hotter. Strong in Southern markets, Hurban "is a concept coming up bigger ever)- week," Billboard Radio Monitor editor Paul Heine says. Progressive talk. Talk radio has long been dominated by syndicated conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh. But liberal formats, led tee of the first graduating class of Lakeland (Pa.) High School in I960 posed in front of an actual waterfall, rented from a florist to fit the Hawaiian theme.

From left to right are Carol Kita Maughan, Patricia Anderson, George Novitsky, Sandra Miller Lewis and Donna Lewis. i jM', Mlilti JOHN PEGGY PICHURA, 1958 JOHNSON CITY PROM 1986 Windsor High "URIE FOLEY, 1986 WINDSOR School prom. PR0M When Foley's daughter, Ciara, was little, she used to call this "her picture of when mommy used to be a princess." e-mail: hhayespressconnects.com "Check the crinolines, tiara, elbow-length gloves and wrist corsages on the girls also the crew-cut plus slight pompadour sported by George," said Maughan, an Endicott resident. By GARY STRAUSS Gannett News Service As more consumers turn a deaf ear to traditional radio, stations increasingly are switching formats. The Internet, iPods, computer games, podcasting, commercial-free satellite radio and staid programming have combined to slice average weekly listening time 9 percent since 1998, prompting many "terrestrial" commercial stations to jettison even relatively strong formats, such as rock, in several big markets.

Country, talk, adult contemporary and religious formats still dominate. But with satellite radio growth exploding, format flips are accelerating as stations "become more earnest addressing the erosion in listenership," says Sean Ross of Edison Media Research. Hot concepts: Jack. Aka Bob, Alice and other first-name monikers, the format focuses on '70s, "80s and '90s hits, sprinkled with current tunes. Target audience: twenty-somethings to baby boomers.

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But then. I'm doing comedy right now. so we'll see." Next up for Christensen is the I4th century comic adventure The Decameron, based on the tales of Boccaccio. he film is now shooting in Italy. The range of roles Christensen has earned hint he may avoid the typecastingsuffered by Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, whose careers went downhill after the original Star Wars trilogy.

But Christensen already figures Star Wars likely will be his career high point and Anakin the role he's most associated with. That prospect does not concern him so long as he can find challenging parts somewhere: "It's fun for me if I go off and make small movies that nobody sees." CONTINUED FROM 10 five years ago, when Christensen was hurled from relative obscurity to household name almost overnight. Lucas picked him from a handful of finalists to take over from child actor Jake Lloyd, who played Anakin as a boy in episode one, The Phantom Menace. At the time, Christensen, who was born in Vancouver and grew up in Toronto, had only a few TV credits and some small film roles. The news hit him like one of the bolts of blue lightning shot from the fingers of Vader's master, the evil emperor.

Christensen recalls "rushing out into my living room at the time and having a mock light-saber duel with my roommate. And he was a DJ, and he put on the Star Wars soundtrack and blasted it. That was a fun time." After shooting Attack of the Clones, Christensen quickly followed with Kevin Kline's small contemporary drama Life As a House, playing a petulant teen reconciling with his dying father. Life As a House hit theaters months before his Star Wars debut. allowing Christensen to present audiences an early glimpse of his acting chops untainted by the Anakin pers'ona.

Christensen then had the lead role in the acclaimed independent film Shattered Glass, playing a real-life journalist who went from wonder boy to disgrace after it was discovered he fabricated stories. With Revenge of the Sith, Christensen surpassed his work Attack of the Clones, presenting a full-bodied performance of a willful man who succumbs to his fears and ambitions, said lan McDiarmid, the veteran British stage actor who plays the emperor. "The thing about Hayden's performance is. I think he takes the audience with him every inch of that way. so that people will not be sympathetic to his actions but at least will understand why he has done them," McDiarmid said.

Playing to that dark side feels like an easy fit for Christensen, ho said he gravitates toward dusky figures with secrets to hide. "I guess I have a certain affinity with the more shadowy sides of life and people," Christensen said. "I've always thought of personality as Ell? Ranking 10 points or less: This is Star Wars, not Star Trek. 1 1 -25: This is why you fail. 26-40: You have much to learn, my young Padawan.

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