The Baltimore Sun from Baltimore, Maryland • 39

THE SUN nrj SECTION 'Personalities -Movies -Television Comics THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1985 .1 I 4 'i-i i V-rv Im i 7 IV-' rL IHfc SUNJtD KJ-UjUHBAUM JR DEBBIE POOLE HAD A SONG IN HER HEART, BUT DIDNT REACH THE FINALS OF "BEST FEST COMPETITION. By Jack Dawson SHOW TIME SHOWDOWN Bestof'BestFest' faces the music in finale tonight ENISE "DEE DEE" BAILEY WAS SO SHY AS A CHILD THAT SHE wouldn't even sing for her mother. That all changed when her music teacher heard Ms. Bailey's soprano voice rising high above the Junior high choir. She's performed in groups or as a soloist ever since, and is one of the favorites in tonight's "Best Fest" finale at Brice's Hilltop Inn in Northwest Baltimore.

"She should be the next star to come out of Baltimore," assessed Glynis Yvette "Sweet Cookie" Rose, a 20-year-old singer who was one of the preliminary judges. "She's hot, has stage presence and she could break the ice." But Ms. Rose also likes the chances of several of the six finalists who were chosen from a total of more than 30 performers in the weekly series hosted by Randy Dennis, WXYV-FM's morning personality. "There's so much talent in this city," she said. "The contest is fun, it's a good experience and there's always a possibility something will happen." See BEST, 3B, Col.

3 TELEVISION New station will emphasize family shows AMPM THURSDAY Benefit office party The World's Largest Office Party, presented by 66 Hyatt hotels across the country, will be held here from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the downtown Hyatt Regency to benefit the Baltimore School for the Arts, the WBAL Kids Campaign and the National Committee for Adoption's Toys for Adopt-able Kids Campaign. Call 528-1234. Brass quintet The Annapolis Brass Quintet will present a program of holiday favorites and Baroque and Renaissance selections at a special candlelight concert at 8 p.m.

at the Lyn P. Meyerhoff Auditorium, the National Aquarium in Baltimore, 501 E. Pratt SJ. The concert wilt be followed by a reception. CaH 576-3840.

By Bill Carter Sun TV Critic i altimore will have a new TV station as kof next Tuesday and It is no coinci-'dence at all that that Is Christmas Eve. HO! HO! HO! MY HOUR AS SANTA By Luther Young practiced all the way from the Sunpapers I building to the Inner Harbor, walking along Calvert Street at dusk and startling street people already tucked into entrance ways for CJthe night: ho. ho. ho. MER-ry Christmas.

Or was it ho ho ho? How did Edmund Gwenn sound in "Miracle on 34th Street" anyway? Name. age. Christmas list I wondered what else was I going to ask how 'bout them Bears, maybe? during my upcoming hour as Santa Claus. as part of the "Guest Santa program now in its third year at Harborplace. On December weekdays until Christmas, at noon and 6 p.m..

the professional Saint Nick at Santa's House between the two pavilions takes a well-earned hour's break while amateurs from the Baltimore media, government and business community step Into his shoes and whiskers. Proceeds from the photographs-with -Santa sold during the guest appearances benefit Santa Claus Anonymous. My holiday spirit still needed work when I arrived at the brightly decorated glass house and peeked In the window. Now there was a Santa 46-year-old Ron Bogan. a Baltimore County firefighter whose 5-foot 10-inch.

200-pound frame and kindly eyes made him a natural for the Job. Maybe he wouldn't want to take a break on this lovely chilly night with Its quarter moon out over the harbor. I hoped Maybe he could be persuaded that an impostor in his chair would traumatize a generation of innocent children, with ugly lawsuits stretching on for years. "Ho. ho.

ho," I whispered, and nervously went off to the Harborplace office to be transformed into Kriss Kringle. Special events coordinator Nancy -4z- w-y i it' ii i i -in -n nr -f in i -i V.V The station is Channel 24. which makes a debut on the 24th logical. But WKJL is also going to be a station totally devoted to "family oriented" entertainment, which translates to a heavy quotient of strictly religious programming. The station has been in the formative stages since 1978.

when a local Christian religious group was granted a license to start a station. That group tried for six years to put together financing to get the station on the air. even making a deal with Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist College at one point. But the license was sold for $543,000 last July to an organization called Family Media. Inc.

The owner of Family Media Is Sam Moore, who also is in charge of Thomas Nelson Publishing, a Bible and religious books publishing firm based in Nashville. One of the stipulations the local religious group made in the sale was that Moore would agree to maintain the station as a "Christian family" outlet Channel 24 will go on the air Tuesday at 6 p.m. with those values evident in its pro-" gramming logs. An entire three-hour block every day. from 9 a.m.

to noon, will be devoted strictly to Christian religious program-See CARTER, 8B. Col. 4 Eating in a car is both an art and a science, maintains Erma Bombeck. S3 "Prizzi's Honor" has been Ctbsen as best movie of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle. 63 VJgllantism comes to the game table, courtesy of a Washington-area man.

3 indsx Bridge Comes Horoscope 43 23 S3 23 S3 43 Movies Liz Smith Television i See SANTA, 40. Col 1 He had his doubts, but The SuaLuther Young was a convincing Santa..