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2D ST. PETERSBURG TIMES WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1985 Live Aid from 1-D Latest hunger-relief event: human chain of 6-million x1 I Hummel Jubilee if 159 1 I I SALE By CAROL ROSENBERG United Prtss lmrntionl Project chairmen $24.00 Chick Girl (60.00) $39.00 Heary (60.00) $44.00 little Scholar (72.00) $49.00 I New chamber ensemble sets debut performance Concordia, a newly formed chamber ensemble, will present its debut performance Sunday, Oct. 27, 4 p.m., at First United Methodist Church, 411 Turner in Clearwater. The ensemble features soprano Jan Robertson, clarinetist Bess Tanenbaum and keyboardist Carl Gravander. Selections will include works by Bach, Mozart, Rossini, Chopin and Rachmaninoff.

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The event is the latest and most ambitious of the recent social action fund-raising peformances by entertainers that included the Live Aid and Farm Aid concerts and the pop song "We Are The World." Cosby and the other two announced the Memorial Day weekend event called Hands Across America speaking on video tape at a Manhattan news conference. "Hands Across America' is millions of Americans joining hands from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from coast-to-coast raising money for hungry and homeless Americans," said Rose. "Please help us. Be there." THE EVENT IS planned for 3 p.m. EDT, noon in Los Angeles, on Sunday, May 25.

Organizers said at least 6-million people must sign up to cover the 16-state route from the Statue of Liberty to Los Angeles. Iff BILL COSBY AirCOHOC COCAINE' and OTHER DRUG PROBLEMS A Complete Confidential Medical and Psychiatric Evaluation Private, Confidential, and Individual Treatment 24-Hour Medical Supervision and Support Executive Residential Setting 'Special Familization Program "Millions of Americans go hungry every day. Now it's time for Americans to help Americans. Bill Cosby lines have been kept open for a few days, as they were after the Farm Aid concert last month? "It's an irrelevant issue," Miller said. "In all telethons, there is a beginning and an end." The bulk of the money about $40-million raised by Live Aid came from worldwide pledges, said Miller.

Although the population of Britain is less than one fourth that of the United States, Britain raised SB-million more than America for Live Aid, $15 million versus $9-million. Miller said the anti-hunger campaign is much more of a national issue in Britain than it is in the United States. "Also, the U.S. has a lot more charities asking for money every day. In Britain, there's only four or five that can solicit funds over TV." BESIDES PLEDGES, the rest of the money raised for Live Aid came from the following: ticket sales for the concerts in London and Philadelphia corporate sponsorship from Eastman-Kodak, PepsiCo, and Chevrolet (totalling $5-million); sale of broadcast rights that included MTV, the ABC radio and TV networks, and other syndicated TV stations and merchandising Where is the money now? "About $11 -million bought 100 trucks," Miller said.

"We set up a transportation network and a trucking depot since transportation is such a problem over there (Africa). We also set up a training program for truck drivers and mechanics to learn about the trucks. "WE ARE FUNDING the United Nations food program in the Sudan, and that's costing about $2-million a month. We airlifted medical supplies to Mozambique; that cost about $5-million." The Live Aid Foundation will be in existence as long as there is money to distribute. "We're still getting pledges," said Miller.

USA for Africa, the organization behind the We Are The World record and video, and the Live Aid Foundation are separate organizations. Many of the same organizers are involved in both groups, but Live Aid was strictly a one-shot deal to get money quickly to Africa. Donations to Live Aid can be sent to: Live Aid Foundation, P.O. Box 10923, Marina Del Ray, Calif. 90295, or call 213-822-9940.

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Dr. J. Larry Brown of the Harvard School of Public Health, which this year released a physicians study on hunger and homelessness in America, also appeared at the news conference to outline the problem and laud the event. "I DON'T EXACTLY know if this is a case of Hollywood comes to Harvard, or Harvard comes to Hollywood. But I am very, very grateful for this effort," Brown said.

Fifty percent of the funds raised will go to support existing programs for the hungry and homeless in America, Kragen said. Another 10 percent will go to emergency relief and the last 40 percent to planning long-term programs. Other entertainers who have signed up to help include Harry Belafonte, Richard Dreyfus, Morgan Fairchild, Jane Fonda, Quincy Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Ed McMahon, Willie Nelson, Lionel Richie, Susan Saint James and Tina Turner. V'-r Call tor complete confidential information on our residential treatment program or insurance approval. Call tor our complimentary copy ol "Guidelines for Recovery." Call regarding our intervention services.

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"In Frankenstein, Boris Karloff did not have a word of dialogue," he says. "He just grunted. You were afraid of him, but he also made you feel sympathy for the monster and his plight. He was so alone. Same with King Kong.

He was terrifying, but once again, you ended up feeling sorry for the way he was dragged out of the jungle. I've got both those movies in my permanent collection." In Wrinston-Salem, Bennick got a job with a small television station. He did everything asked, from reading the weather to being a dance party host on a show like Dick Clark's American Bandstand. He says he was always looking for something to improve his chances at the station, so it was only natural that when the host for Shock Theater quit, he asked for the job of Count Shockula. In television's early days, many stations featured characters like The Count to introduce horror movies.

Miami had M. T. Graves. Detroit had Sir Graves Ghastly. Dayton had Dr.

Creep. Cincinnati had The Cool Ghoul. Philadelphia viewers were frightened by Dr. Shock. In Chicago, it was Marvin, the man in black.

From Los Angeles today, it's buxom Elvira who teases audiences coast to coast. "Count Shockula was sort of a living skeleton," Bennick says. "The character didn't work because he wasn't human enough. I eventually had a contest on how to kill Count Shockula. The answer, of course, was drive a stake through his heart.

I created Dr. Paul Bearer to kill Count Shockula. And after he did it, he took over the show." Almost 20 years later, he is still Dr. Paul Bearer. In front of the camera he still munches Lice Crispies or Mourn Flakes while reading Bleeder's Digest.

He still relies on horrible props like the mechanical Venus Fly out all right. Dr. Paul Bearer is the same way. "Oh, he goes off on tangents. There are elements of the Three Stooges and Abbott and Costello about him.

And he can be gross. I mean, he eats bugs sometimes. But aren't we all gross at times? I think people identify with him in some way." Although Dr. Paul Bearer is horrible looking, he is not horrible, says his creator. He does not scare people.

That may be good; it also may be bad. The doctor says there's nothing wrong with a good scare. "To a large extent, being scared is good for us," he says, over lunch at a St. Petersburg restaurant where he's wolfing down red beans and rice and a blackened grouper sandwich. "I may be criticized for saying this, but I'm a big boy, so here goes: If you grow up in a protected, walled-up society and are suddenly thrust into a hostile environment, you might get hurt because you're too trusting.

If you learn at an early age to be a little afraid, you may be better off. "WHEN I WAS growing up, we had this little clay basement. I hated going down there for the coal because I was sure Frankenstein and the Wolf Man were waiting just around the corner. I knew they really weren't, but I also learned to be cautious." What scares him now? What gives him the creeps now that he is pressing age 60 and has survived two divorces, loneliness, a triple by-pass surgery and the demands of celebrity for almost 20 years? "Well, I don't know. Most of the things we're scared about never turn out to be true.

You worry about getting fired; you never get fired. You're afraid the boss will say no; the boss doesn't say no. You're afraid the dog will bite; the dog doesn't bite." He thinks about it a little more. "I'll tell you about the hardest thing I ever had to do. It was talk to a dying child at All-Children's Hospital.

What he wanted was to meet Dr. Paul Bearer. So I dressed up and went down there and they brought the child out to the lobby so I could say hello. It was a strange thing, a man dressed up like an undertaker talking to a dying child." He lights up a Marlboro and stares out the window. Trap that consumes zippers from men's trousers.

He still pops from a casket to open the show and dresses in the same tattered black coat. The deep voice continues to sound as if his throat has been subjected to swallowing broken test tubes from a mad scientist's laboratory. BENNICK'S natural voice is deep, but not as deep as Paul Bearer's nimbler. "I brought it down by practice," he says. Once, at a personal appearance, the microphone failed and he ruptured a blood vessel from shouting in that voice.

The doctor told him to quit talking for 30 days or else face a lifetime of hoarseness. Bennick wrote a thank you note and left. Thirteen years ago, he left North Carolina and brought Dr. Paul Bearer to Channel 44. There is no evidence that audiences are tired of him.

"He's the one superstar of the local market," says Dick Dailey, Channel 44's programs director. Sometimes, when he calls upon radio ad accounts as Dick Bennick, he is met by indifferent secretaries who don't remember him. He doesn't like to take advantage, but if he says, "I'm Dr. Paul Bearer," doors open. Yet he often is recognized out of costume.

Once, at a restaurant, Bennick erfjoyed his meal and was leaving when the piano player began singing "Poisoning Pigeons in the the ditty Dr. Paul often croons on the show. At personal appearances, he is often mobbed. He has been known to use a bodyguard. Children who should be frightened flock to him.

"I think I'm like Bozo the Clown to them," he says. They often ask him to remove his glass eye. "I'm not sensitive about it," says Bennick, who lost an eye in an auto accident. "But I say 'No Even such firmness does not repel his fans. "I always think about why this character works," Bennick says, smoking a cigarette in a vacant Channel 44 office.

"Why was Charlie Chaplin so great? What was that one element? I think it was his pride and the fact he was a survivor. He always looked good, even during bad times, wearing that coat and spats, and though he got into all kinds of bad scrapes in his movies, he always came Ell covered spider webs, or he may listen to a disembodied talking head singing "I ain't got nobody," but in person he is as quiet and reserved as a real undertaker. He talks in a deep monotone about the role of horror in society and why he regards Dr. Paul Bearer the way some film buffs think of the comic genius Charlie Chaplin. At the same time, he wonders why Dr.

Paul Bearer remains so popular. He rhapsodizes about the joys of hearth and home. "I'm pretty much a homebody," he says. Twice divorced, his children grown, he lives alone not far from Cypress Gardens. He says he has grown to like living by himself.

He says he enjoys spending leisure time working in his yard and puttering around the house. "I'm good with my hands," he says. He likes watching old television episodes of Barney Miller, WKRP in Cincinnati and The Untouchables. "And I'm an attraction freak," he says. "I usually spend Christmas at Walt Disney World.

It's a good place to go if you have no family." He was an only child. His father was an Asheville, North Carolina druggist, and his uncles were druggists too. When he was old enough, he was expected to work in the drug store like everyone else. He found drug stores boring. What he found exciting was magic.

"I can trace my love of show business back to when I was 5," he says. "It was when Dad took me to a magic show." The only trick he remembers from that show was one where a girl was sawed in half. When he was old enough to read, he checked magic books from the library to learn tricks. By the time he was 9 he knew enough magic to charge 2 cents admission for shows he put on in his garage. At 12, he earned $12 with a magic show at a military officer's club.

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