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85 Architecture Gaining perspective on artists' renderings 9 THE BOSTON GLOBE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1994 i By Robert Campbell GLOBE CORRESPONDENT Maybe to a snob they're not fine art But a lifetime of devotion is needed to draw the real world well iMf ill- --yMattii ii mmhMmmmtu ijMffalittoilMHlMiiMMiMaMa David Sylvester's drawing of additions and renovations to Tuckerton Marine Research Field Station. David E. Joyner's perspective of the Hunter Museum of Art is better than the banal architecture of the building itself. The craft of drawing is fresh and vital in a new exhibit at the Boston Architectural Center. These are architectural drawings, 68 of them, the kind of drawings usually called "artist's renderings" when you see them in a newspaper richly detailed, realistic images of works of architecture.

Maybe to the snobbish they're not exactly fine art But a lifetime of skill and devotion is needed to learn to draw the real world well. And when the miracle is performed, it's deeply satisfying. The drawings are winners of an international contest, held annually for the past eight years among the world's architectural "perspecti-vists," who draw architecture for a living. Usually they work for architects, creating an image of a building that has been designed but not yet built. But they may do an existing appear to have learned a great deal from Oles' techniques including the current Ferriss honoree.

Perhaps Oles will turn out to be he Hambletonian of perspectivists: ihe horse who never won a race, yet sired a universe of champions. tels and computer-imaging. Perspectivist David Joyner, for example, makes a small drawing in pen and ink, enlarges it by silk-screen onto watercolor paper, and then applies color. The resulting image, of a proposed art museum reflected in a harbor, is superb far more so, alas, than the banal architecture of the museum itself. The perspectivists' Oscar is something called the Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize, named for a legend ary American charcoal artist of the 1920s.

This year's Ferriss goes to David Sylvester's extraordinary aerial view of a marine research station. In it a farmlike cluster of buildings on a salt marsh site is depicted by this New Jersey draftsman with something of the bright precision and repressed hysteria of an Andrew Wyeth painting. The exhibit's sponsor is a group called the American Society of Architectural Perspectivists ASAP for short, with a pun on the tight deadlines perspectivists often face. A small irony of this show is that once again, Newton architect Paul Stevenson Oles has failed to win the Ferriss Prize. Oles was the principal founder of ASAP and has long reigned as the world's most influential perspectivist But the master keeps losing out in the ASAP judging, done by experts who are not told the entrants' identities.

Compounding the irony is that often the win- Mr. Rogers, you're out of your neighborhood ROGERS Continued from Page 81 mad. But he has just published a new book of inspirational writings for adults called (what else?) "You Are Special." I'm sorry to say it. But it just isn't very special. Mr.

Rogers is not just a television icon, but an ordained Presbyterian minister, and as with everything else he writes, sings or says, this book is intensely well-intentioned. A collection of his thoughts and signature sayings, it is in a sense Mr. Rogers' little red book. It is the wit and wisdom of Mr. Rogers except without the wit.

Mr. Rogers doesn't do wit. Mr. Rogers, evidently, only does earnest. "The ideas in this collection have come from things that I have learned and thought about for a long time," he explains in the introduction.

The book is eclectically organized into 11 chapters, including "Relationships," "Childhood," "Difficult Situations" and "Growing in Adulthood." It features recollections from his youth, quotations from writers he admires and songs from "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood." "Once you've read them and made them your own, may they find their place in the innermost part of It is the wit and wisdom of Mr. Rogers except without the wit. you in that essential part of you that inspires you to be who you really are." This would be very fine and well if Mr. Rogers were, say, Khalil Gib-ran.

But Mr. Rogers is a preschool TV star, whose stock in trade is puppets and trollies. The musings of Mr. Rogers valuable and well-meaning as they may be are not always profound. They are aphorisms like: "I really think that everybody, every day, should be able to feel some success." "It's what's inside us that matters most." "You can't really love someone else unless you really love yourself first." "It's your very being that I like, not all the facts that you learn in school or all the things that people buy for you to wear or play with." Just when you start to think his Delia Reese, left, and Roma Downey star in "Touched by an Angel." 'Daddy's Girls' needs less of him; for our sins mm 1 He sounds like a fortune cookie.

publisher made a mistake, that Viking really meant "You Are Special" to be filed under "Children," the tone of the book suddenly shifts. Mr. Rogers starts to sound like Dr. Spock. And sometimes he sounds like a fortune cookie.

"Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss." "Creativity and imagination are the beginning of problem-solving for a young child." "Discovering the truth about our AHIU'S Tom HankSis Forrest Gump miomicHTeim muhouht nouns. ttii6iro.BBa building, or even invent an architectural fantasy for the pure joy of it As far as this writer is concerned, nothing but narrow-mindedness keeps this kind of commercial drawing out of the galleries and museums. Styles in the show range from hard-edged abstract modernism to soft, evocative romanticism. Technical wizardry is on display in every medium: colored pencil, watercolors, pen and ink, airbrush, acrylic, pas- Dudley Moore of 'Daddy's Girls' is not so cuddly anymore, and his leering wimpishness wears thin after about 10 minutes of old jokes about flat chests. dove while Reese sings in the beautiful day.

In the first episode, Downey is sent to watch over a young boy who has just lost his mother and little sister in a car accident If you loved Michael Landon's "Highway to Heaven," a show pooh-poohed by the critics that became a huge hit, you'll probably go for this sugary, maudlin, sentimental myth making. But "Angel" might need a guardian since CBS put it up against "Roseanne" and "Ellen" on ABC and "Models Inc." on Fox. "Friends" (NBC, premieres Sept. 22, 8:30 p.m.) As the saying goes, with "Friends" like these, who needs enemies? Sample: He: "Sometimes I wish that I was a lesbian." Pause. "Did I say that out loud?" She: "Unfortunately, yes." A nightmare from the folks who brought "Dream On" to HBO.

"The Five Mrs. Buchanans" (CBS, premieres Sept. 24, Sat, 9 p.m.) Remember "My Mother the Eileen Heckart stars as my mother-in-law, the carp. At Naked City Coffeehouse Open mike with Diana Rootnick. Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass.

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selves is the work of a lifetime." I "Love is like infinity Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too." It is hard, almost blasphemous, to disparage Mr. Rogers. He course, so unequivocally rigid. He is the High Priest of Feelings, the tireless advocate for children's needs, and this book is obviously his cri'de coeur for parents and other adults to be patient, thoughtful, reasoned, sensitive, nurturing and tolerant' of children, even other adults. The trouble is, Mr.

Rogers, who has built his TV career on recollecting the child he used to be, has only one mode of communicating speaking to everyone as though they are children. While his thoughts are intelligent and reassuring, his ruminations are sometimes too corny to be believed. When he starts his chapters with lyrics from his songs, you want to scream at him to stay in the neigh-borhoodl And then you want to remind him of one of his own songs: 7 hope that you'll remember Even when you're feeling blue That it's you I like, It's you yourself, it's you. C01 (111! SHOWCASE CINEMAS REVERE RTI. CI A JQUitl tp.

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The premiere episode has Moore preparing for his eldest daughter's wedding. Well, Dudley's not so cuddly anymore, and his leering wimpishness wears thin after about 10 minutes of reworking old jokes about flat chests. Since the success of situation comedies is based primarily on the characters creating a comfort level with the audience, there's not much hope for this one. Ever since "Arthur," Moore seems to play everything as if he were slightly tipsy. That might work for a few bits in his old "Beyond the Fringe" routines, but it's hard to take over the long haul of weekly television.

Even Harvey Fierstein, in the thankless, stereotypical role of a fashion designer, is dull. Maybe a little more with the daughters and a little less with Daddy Moore would help, but then none of the daughters are given enough time with Moore's scene-stealing. 'Touched by an Angel" (CBS, tonight, 9 p.m.) offers treacly tales of redemption in which Roma Downey, who played Jacqueline Kennedy On-assis in "A Woman Named Jackie," portrays an angel sent from heaven to keep an eye on folks making crucial decisions in their mortal lives. Delia Reese costars as her boss angel. One of the first images is a white kerchief that's transformed into a American Repertory Theatre 1 At the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Cambridge: "Shlemiel the First," musical.

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