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CALEND. San Diego County Part VI NATtrZlMON Lat Friday, March 3a 198 CLASSICAL S.D. REVIEW 2 1-ACT PLAYS OFFER LOVE AND LAUGHS By BILLIARD HARPER NATIONAL CITY It's not often that audiences get to hear the luxuriant blank verse of a contemporary English playwright like Christopher Fry matched with the wry turn-of-the-century phrasing of Mark Twain. But that's exactly the chemistry of "For Ever After." two one-act plays Fry's "A Phoenix Too Frequent" and a Twain-based concoction called "The Diary of Adam and Eve" which comprise a -rated evening of laughter and love at the Lamb's Players Theatre. "The Diary of Adam and Eve" takes us back to the halcyon days in the Garden of Eden, just before our archetypal marital forebears and pioneers in wedlock partook of the forbidden apple.

Only this time, slippery Eve would have Adam believe that the forbidden fruits are not apples but, as she describes them, chestnuts, those ancient jokes Adam loves to tell. Listen as he invents the first joke about why the yellow clucker crossed the path. Since the play takes place shortly after the creation of the world, half the fun is naming things. Adam and Eve are pretty much opposiles. Adam (Robert Smyth) is diligent and workman-like but not very discriminating as a namer, lumping things together generally as crawlers, growlers, flyers stuff like that.

Eve (Deborah Gilmour) has more of a flair, born of intuition. She calls Adam's yellow clucker a chicken. Why? Because It looks like a chicken. Gilmour flits on and off scenic designer Nate Peirson's nearly bare stage as a pushy yet charming wood nymph. Smyth sketches Adam as a blunt, basic provider.

He's increasingly hemmed in by this rather forward creature with the fancy names for everything, who quickly talks her way into his "dry top." or house. After the snake (Carolyn Schade) tricks Adam and Please see FRY, PageS it I HOWARD ROSENBERG RACE FOR BEST ANCHOR HEATS UP The campaign continues. And now there are three, a trio of faces seen regularly on TV, personalities famous enough to draw huge crowds and stop traffic. By watching them on these political debates and hearing them on the issues. America can now decide which of the three is best qualified.

No, not the surviving Democratic presidential candidates. Barbara Walters, John Chancellor and now. after Wednesday night's debate on CBS. Dan Rather. Walters of ABCs "2020" and NBC News commentator Chancellor earlier moderated TV Democratic candidate forums sponsored by the League of Women Voters.

Oh, I know I'm omitting Ted Koppel of ABCs "Nightline." who held forth at the January TV debate sponsored by the House Democratic Caucus. But he's in another category, having shared moderator duties then with syndicated talk -show host Phil Donahue. Walters, Chancellor and Rather courageously went it alone. Several things were apparent from Wednesday night's CBS News debate at Columbia University. One is that network news anchors may be too big for the job of debate moderator, being bigger celebrities than even the presidential candidates.

An anchorman can't help being famous. But there were times Wednesday night when it seemed that the candidates should have been questioning Rather, instead of vice versa. And if the TV audience were polled about whose autograph they'd prefer, you just know that Rather would easily win over former Vice President Walter F. Mon-dale, Colorado Sen. Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson.

And Rather's got the Nielsen ratings to prove it Rather displayed some arrogance at the start when he said about the CBS-arranged debate: "We believe this a good time to try to sort some things out." That sounded as if CBS were riding to the rescue, as if the earlier TV debates and other media coverage were too tepid and meaningless to stand on their own merits. CBS was able to put on the debate Dave Heath and Deborah Gilmour in "A Phoenix Too 3 STATIONS START OWN TV PROGRAMS S.D. RADIO JUMPS ON VIDEO-ROCK BANDWAGON marketing tools. "It's simply a great promotion for the radio station." said Tim Hackett. 31X's creative director and the man behind the TV show.

"We're doing it mainly to get new listeners and to reinforce presence with current ones." "Radio is less mass-appeal than TV, so this gives us the opportunity to touch people we haven't touched before." added Ted Edwards, music director at KGB and director of its TV show. "Videos have become a part of rock 'n' roll, and just as concerts are important to our listeners, so are videos. That's why we co-present concerts, and that's why we have this TV show we want to take care of all our listeners' needs." While all three shows consist chiefly of video clips produced by the artists' record companies. "The 91X TV Show." hosted by the station's morning man. Steve West, is perhaps the most individualized and the most localized.

Of the five video clips featured each week, Hackett said, three are of national new wave acts fitting in with the station's "Rock of the '80s" format. A fourth is also of a national act but one that recently appeared in San Diego. It is intercut with an interview conducted by one of the station's deejays. The fifth video is of a San Diego band like Joey Harris and the Speedsters or Bratz playing in a local club, filmed live by producer Lenny Magill and his one-man "crew." "The TV show is basically a video version of our radio station." Hackett said. "Instead of just playing videos, we do everything we do on the radio-, we do drop-ins from old movies, feature local talent, and (morning co-anchor) Russ T.

Nailz does his comedy bits. "And the videos we play are not just the common ones you see everywhere, but the ones you can't see anyplace else. For instance, a few weeks ago we showed the Pretenders doing 'Middle of the which is all over the place, but we followed it with China Crisis' 'Working With Fire and which no one else Please see RADIO, Page 14 By THOMAS K. ARNOLD SAN DIEGO Taking a cue from cable-TV's video-rock success story. MTV, three local radio stations have taken to the tube.

The trend is part of a nationwide move by major-market radio stations to exploit the booming interest in video with low-cost, non-prime-time TV productions. In San Diego, rock station KGB-FM (101) premiered "KGB Rocks 10." an hour show at 11:30 p.irffSaturday, nearly two years ago on Channel 10. New-wave rival XTRA-FM (91X) introduced "The 91X TV Show" in September on Channel 6. The half-hour show is on at p.m. And Top 40 newcomer KSDO-FM (KS103) started its "Video 51" just two months ago on Channel 51.

The half-hour show is on Monday through Friday at 7 a.m. and again at 1 1 p.m. What the three programs have in common, besides being hosted by station deejays and built around videos by national artists, is that they are primarily As part of the musical festival and conference commemorating the death 100 years ago of Czech composer Bedrich Smetana. the San Diego Symphony and the Sequoia String Quartet will perform works by Czech composers this weekend. Paavo Berglund will conduct Smeta-na's "Ma Vlast" at 8 tonight at the Civic Theatre and at 8 p.m.

Saturday at the East County Performing Arts Center as part of San Diego State University's Smetana Centennial. The first major composer of the Czech national movement, Smetana blended Czech folklore with the international European musical style of Liszt and Wagner in the mid- 19th Century. In "Ma Vlast" (My Country). Smetana depicts Czech history and nature in the cycle of six symphonic poems that he completed in 1879. Presenting Dvorak's "Four Cypresses" and String Quartet No.

10 in E-flat Major, Op. 51. and Smetana's autobiographical work. String Quartet No. 1 in E-minor.

"From My Life." the Sequoia String Quartet, winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award, will perform at 8:30 p.m. Sunday at San Diego State University's Smith Recital Hall. The San Diego Early Music Society brings the Lydian Ensemble here from San Francisco for two performances this weekend. Tenor Randall Wong will join musicians on lute, theorbo and viola da gamba to present Baroque musical works, including a Handel cantata, songs by Purcell and selections from the opera "L'Ascanio" by Giuseppi Bernabei.

Performances at 8 p.m. Saturday at St Paul's Episcopal Church, at 5th Avenue and Nutmeg Street, and at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Lieb Auditorium. 505 S. Coast La Jolla.

FILM Tarzan is back, this time truer to the Edgar Rice Burroughs mythic masterpiece, in "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes." Raised by apes in the rain forests of West Africa. Tarzan is brought back to civilization in Scotland, where the man and animal are caught in a dual personality. "Chariots of Fire" director Hugh Hudson directs the film, opening at four area theaters. See story on this page. nflichael Douglas -produces and stars in I VI "Romancing the Stone." a romantic adventure comedy about a wild hunt for treasures in South America.

Kathleen Turner of "Body Heat" fame and Danny de Vito. the short dispatcher on TV's "Taxi." also star in the film, opening at eight area theaters. Gene Hackman plays a wealthy American shipping magnate in Tunisia who suddenly must shoulder the responsibility of his sons, ages 5 and 11. after the death of his wife in "Misunderstood." Jerry Schatzberg, director of 'Terms of Endearment," directs the film, which opens at seven area theaters. Fraternity brothers hit the streets to avenge the rape and beating death of a college student's sister in "Young Warriors." James Van Patten stars as the son of a police detective who finds himself fighting street crimes with his buddies when they pursue the gang that killed his sister.

It opens at 1 1 area theaters. EXTRA Civic organist Jared Jacobsen presents an April Fool's Day concert at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park. Presenting their off-beat parodies and satiric commentary in two late night shows this weekend, the winners of the Old Globe Theatre's 1983 San Diego Comedy Festival competition. The Piperoos.

will perform at 11 p.m. today and Saturday. Spike Takular, Biff Wiff, Billy Bipp and Duke La Doo present "The Piperoos Live at the Globe" at the Cassius Carter Centre Stage in Balboa Park. Anglers can test fishing rods and reels in two casting pools at the fifth annual Western Fishing Tackle and Fishing Boat Show this weekend at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. About 300 exhibitors will display fresh and salt water fishing gear, from waders to sea-going fishing boats, as films and seminars continue throughout each day at the Bing Crosby Hall and the Exposition Hall.

The show will be held from 3 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. today, noon to 10:30 p.m. Saturday and noon to 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

For a more complete lifting of coming eventi in San Diego, see WHATS DOING starting on Page 13. -NANCY REED only because of a revised Federal Communications Commission rule that previously had stopped broadcasters from staging their own candidate debates without working Please see DEBATE, Page 24 JOSCGALVKZ Lot AnftlM TtBM It, sfet I A FILM CLIPS 'JOY OF SEX'S' STRAINED BEDFELLOWS By MICHAEL LONDON. Times Stafi Writer Even mighty Paramount Pictures gives birth to a problem child now and then. Consider "National Lampoon's Joy of Sex" a youth comedy named after the 1974 sex manual. The National Lampoon wants its name taken off the finished film.

Director Martha Coolidge hasn't talked to the studio in months. And Paramount executives are said to be arguing about how and if the movie can be salvaged. In the meantime, Paramount has canceled the film's April 13 release and is tentatively planning a late-summer date. The National Lampoon's possible disassociation surfaced in a March newsletter to company shareholders, publicized this week by Daily Variety. National Lampoon Inc.

Chairman Matty Simmons said in a phone interview Wednesday that the move "may have nothing to do with (the quality of the picture). We simply don't like to take credit or responsibility for a picture that we have nothing to do with." Simmons is officially titled as executive producer of "Joy of Sex" But his active participation ended when the original "Joy of Sex" project including screenwriter John Hughes Lampoon's and director Bill Norton collapsed. Paramount brought in screenwriter Kathleen Salter Row sll and director Martha Coolidge Please see FILM CUPS, Page 12 MOVIE REVIEW 'GREYSTOKE': AN ENDEARING TARZAN By SHEILA BENSON. Times Film Critic Tenderness, a defining intelligence and the sting of real emotion are perhaps the last things you'd expect to find in a Tarzan story, but "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan. Lord of the Apes" (Cinerama.

Plaza Bonita, University Towne Center, Loma) is to the Tarzan saga what "2001" would be to "The Three Stooges in Outer Space." In the hands of Hugh Hudson, acting as director and co-producer, "Greystoke" is as old-fashioned as his "Chariots of Fire," which is to say that it carries a deep-seated belief in the best of humankind and that, cinematically, it is sometimes so square that it is endearing. On the other hand, "Greystoke" also contains the best sort of film magic and a few nicely placed observations about the animal in all of us. The film, which has two credited writers, Michael Austin and H. Vazak" (Robert Towne), splits neatly into two parts: the jungle, and a highly' ironic view of British civilization. Which part you prefer depends on whether you are more fascinated by apes or by people.

There is a marvelous Swiss Family Robinson feeling to the beginning section, which we watch become more and more primitive. In a tightly sketched opening, the wispy and rather forgettable Jack Clayton (Paul Geoffrey), son and heir to the title of Earl of Greystoke, and his pregnant wife (Cheryl Campbell) are reluctantly sent off on their voyage of African exploration by the reigning sixth Earl (the late Ralph Richardson, in a rousing exit role In an exceptional career). It is great spectacle: a castle to end all lordly castles; phalanxes of scurrying, white-aproned maids; Lord Greystoke too overcome with emotion to come down to the carriage, and an exit heavy with portent as a storm blows up out of nowhere. The cut to the next scene is a lesson in economy. At the edge of the lush Cameroon jungle we are Introduced to the apes, who will be our characters for the next half of the film at the same time that we lose our humans, whose deaths orphan their 6-month-old son, John Clayton.

Then an unforgettable sight a shot in this deep green forest of this beautiful naked baby, intermittently crying and nuzzling contentedly in the arms of Its new ape "mother," whose own baby has just died. So perfect Is the work of Rick Baker, who created the primate Please tee' Page 17 Jose Jose recalls his career descent- "I reached ground zero." JOSE JOSE AT THE CREST OF A COMEBACK By AGUSTIN GURZA Jose Jose is a singer with a silly name, but his story is sobering, worldwide success in adolescence, a plunge from the heights of fame, fair-weather friendships and professional betrayals, alcoholism and despair, near-death from self-inflicted physical abuse. But it's also a story of spiritual resurrection, professional perseverance, faith and family loyalty. A little more than 10 years ago Jose Romulo Sosa Ortiz was mired in the collapse of his career and his psyche, but today he's at the pinna cle of an artistic renewal, with a distinguished new album that has sold more than a million copies. He will headline the Universal Amphitheatre on Saturday as part of a three-month international tour.

Enjoying a brief respite at his Beverly Hills apartment this week, the 36-year-old Mexican looked back on his turbulent trajectory with the sort of Internal gasp of one who's just been pulled back from a precipice. "I reached ground zero, definitely," he recalled in Spanish during an animated 90-minute conversation peppered with colorful Mexican colloquialisms. In November, 1972, Sosa was hospitalized with bronchial pneumonia that led to complete respiratory arrest. He learned later that the collapse of his lungs had crushed the singing ability that had Please see JOSE, Page 19 INSIDE CALENDAR FILM: "Heat of Desire," HLe BalN and "Misunderstood" reviewed on Pages 2, IS and 18. MUSIC: The American String Quartet reviewed by MarcShulgold.

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