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2 The Sioux City Journal, Friday, September 1 5, 1 989 Music's good but 'Eddie's' dead Country channel succeeds mtm Considering so much speculation has surfaced about a living Elvis, "Eddie II" could have been more detailed. Even Pare (who looks like Robert Chambers) might have insisted on something more than petulant stares and mid-life tantrums. There's one emotional reunion scene and a rousing concert number, but that's clearly not much of a peak. If a cult film is going to have a sequel, it has to be powerful. "Eddie II" is one step away from life supports.

Rated PG-13, "Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives" features some profanity. EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS II: EDDIE LIVES, directed by Jean-Claude Lord; starring Michael Pare, Matt Laurance. middle American audience. Fiddler-guitarist Charlie Daniels observes, "We were on the 'Tonight' show recently and I'll bet no more than six people mentioned seeing us. But after we're on TNN, people everywhere come up and say they saw us." Says singer Randy Travis, "TNN has taken country music to a lot more people and I think that's good for us all." "Nashville Now," broadcast for 90 minutes each weeknight, is TNN's answer to the "Tonight" show.

It has music, talk, a live studio audience and host Ralph Emery sitting behind a desk much like Johnny Carson. It is TNN's most popular weeknight show, seen by up to 750,000 households. TNN's "Crook and Chase" is similar to "Entertainment Tonight' except there's a live studio audience and emphasis on country music performers, who often appear to talk with the hosts. The network, available to about 46 million households on cable systems across the country, hasn't restricted itself to rhinestones to attract viewers. It has drawn on some prominent non-country celebrities in an effort to widen its audience.

Dinah Shore has a talk show. John Davidson and Florence Henderson star on cooking shows. Wolfman Jack is host of a rock 'n' roll oldies show. NASHVILLE, Tenn. AP) Programs on The Nashville Network may look like "The Tonight Show" and "Entertainment Tonight," but there's a twang with the talk on this ambitious channel.

TNN, an upstart 6-year-old cable station, is using guitars, fiddles and fringe as keystones of programming that highlights country music. The toe-tapping sounds and a potpourri of other shows are aimed at the American heartland by TNN, a cousin to the cornpone show "Hee Haw" in the Gaylord Broadcasting corporate umbrella. 'Our target audience is you and me, "said general manager David Hall. "We own a home, have cars, have kids. Our audience is America." Since 1983, TNN has brought a flavor to the screen that distinguishes it from its cable comrades.

On ESPN, you see football helmets it's cowboy hats on TNN. HBO has movies, but TNN has the legendary Grand Ole Opry. MTV offers screeching electric guitars, but TNN's music is wrenching country weepers about heartache and roaming romance. "Our mission is to be the No. 1 source for country music entertainment and information," said Hall, who swept floors at the Opryland USA theme park while in high school.

Some country music stars say TNN, which uses a guitar neck as its logo, is indeed reaching a receptive By Bruce R. Miller Journal staff writer What came first, the movie or the album? For many soundtrack-intensive films the question is moot. One can't exist without the other. 1 For "Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives," it's quite obvious: the album. There is no movie.

Oh, sure, there's the thread of a story dangling between songs, but it's just a transitional device. The story was told in the first film. Eddie Wilson (Michael Pare), a Springsteen sound-alike, disappeared after a '60s car accident. Some said he died; others said he was pulling an Elvis. The man's whereabouts weren't clear in the first film, so the second was warranted.

From the start of "Eddie II" it's clear he didn't go up in flames. Heck, he moved to Canada and got involved in construction. Nobody recognizes him (he has a moustache and a pair of fake side-; burns). Even when he pulls together a little bar band, the face and voice don't ring a bell. Certainly, absence hasn't dimmed Eddie's memory.

The folks back home are crazy about his music and send his newly discovered "Season in Hell" album to the top of the charts. The attention gets Eddie to think. He realizes that the music must come first and, as a result, pushes his new band to become the best. His girlfriend guesses the truth and encourages him to come out of hiding. When he does, the crowd goes wild.

A lot of years are glossed over in the process, suggesting that a string of friendships meant nothing. For a sequel that was supposed to answer questions, "Eddie II" doesn't. The music (again by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band) is wonderful and Pare is appropriately mysterious. Jean-Claude Lord's direction is skimpy and many of the production values look like they were purchased at a discount store. On a scale of four stars, "Eddie Lives" gets: (solely for the music) ii.

"Big Bands: Then and Now" will be featured at 6 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays, and "Music in the Afternoon" at 1 p.m. weekdays. Sioux City Symphony and the Sioux City North High School Jazz Bands on its programs of regional performers. "Siouxland Concerts" airs at 2 p.m.

Sundays featuring a variety of concerts and recitals of primarily classical music recorded at colleges in Siouxland. Repeat broadcasts of the six concerts of the 1988-89 season of the Sioux City Symphony will air from 2 to 3 :30 p.m. Sundays. "Live From Studio a 90-minute recital featuring a Siouxland performer is set for 2 p.m. Sept.

24. "Siouxland Jazz Spectrum" is 30 minutes of regional jazz bands and can be heard at 8 p.m. Saturdays. Other jazz programs will air at 9 a.m.. 7 D.m.

and 11 D.m. Saturdays. BUY IT. SELL IT. FIND IT.

Environmental special planned Two special programs concerning the environment wil be broadcast Saturday and Sunday on KWIT. "Alaskan Oil Spill: A Nationwide Call-In" will be broadcast from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, and "Sustainable Development: A Strategy for the 1990s," airs from 6 to 8 p.m. Sundays. Auditorium hosts Sesame Street Live The Sesame Street gang comes to the Municipal Auditorium in September with three performances.

Show times are 7 p.m. Sept. 27 and 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sept.

28. The all-new show will introduce Tee Hee who joins "Big Bird and the ABC's." The show is presented by VEE Corporation in cooperation with Children's Television Workshop. Tickets are on sale now at the auditorium and all TicketMaster outlets. KM EG to carry Fox programs KMEG-TV recently announced that it will carry three half-hours of programming from the Fox Television Network beginning Saturday. In addition to its primary affiliation with the CBS Television Network, KMEG will air "Cops" at 10 p.m.

Saturdays, "Married. Children" at 10 p.m. Sundays, and "America's Most Wanted" at 10:30 p.m. Sundays. KWIT sets September program schedule Public Radio KWIT will present the MUSIC Jazz music, today, Saturday and Wednesday evenings, Spectacles Bar and Grill, 41 9 Nebraska St.

Peter Nero, pops concert with the Sioux City Symphony, 8 p.m. Saturday, Eppley Auditorium. Fred Frank, Christian concert, 8 p.m. Thursday, Christ Chapel, Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa. EVENTS Weekend wildlife films, 1:30 and 2:45 p.m.

weekends through Oct. 15, DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, Missouri Valley, Iowa. ART Tom Becker, photographs: Our Town, through September, Orange City Public Library, Orange City, Iowa. Byron Burford, screen prints, through Sept. 26, Te Paske Gallery, Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa.

Meet the Collectors, reception, 7 p.m. Thursday, Sioux City Public Museum, 2901 Jackson St. Debbie Fisher, paintings and handmade books, through September, Eppley Auditorium. Mary Massa, paintings and drawings, through Sept. 29, Wansink Galleries, Sheldon, Iowa.

Matthew Brady photographs; Siouxland Collects, through Oct. 22, Sioux City Public Museum, 2901 Jackson St. Jun Kaneko, ceramic sculpture; Byron Burford; Jim Soderholm, prisma-color drawings, Saturday through Oct. 22, Sioux City Art Center, 513 Nebraska St. Dakota 100: International Exhibit of Artwork on Paper, through Sept.

30, Warren M. Lee Center, University of South Dakota at Vermillion. If you or your organization has an event it would like included in "This Week," send it to "This Week," Sioux City Journal, P.O. Box 1 18, Sioux City, Iowa 511 02. (MluuttLli UlxLUi n)n)nj(ninj)n SMmmsisMsm.

Sept. 27, 7:00 P.M. finish FAMILY NIGHT X. Any seat $5.00 with coupon from Sunshine Foods Tickets: available at Auditorium Box Office; Younkers Downtown Southern Hills Mall; and all TicketMaster Locations. Children 12 and under receive a $1 .50 discount, courtesy of KMEG.

No Double discounts. FOR INFORMATION: 279-4850 Sept. 28, 4:00 P.M. KG95 FAMILY MATINEE Sept. 28, 7:00 P.M.

P0PING0 VIDEOKMNSKSEZ KIDS' NIGHT TO CHARGE TICKETS: 252-3434 99 SHRIMP AND EVERYTHING ELSE i in The Sioux City Symphony Thomas Lewis, Conductor Presents Peter Nero In The Season's First "Pops" Concert I Featuring An "All Gershwin" Night Saturday, September 16, 1989 8:00 P.M. Eppley Auditorium Morningside College Campus Sponsored in part by Target Stores. Not one. Not six. Not I just a dozen.

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