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Entertainment and Arts THE SUNDAY OKLAHOMAN Sept. 15. 1985 Powell Foxy Actor Makes 'Teen Wolf Enjoyable, Senseless, Good Time is eminently bland. So why did I enjoy it? Michael J. Fox.

He is the center of this movie, and he supports it well. He puts enthusiasm and appeal into every line. The filmmakers have wisely included him in virtually every scene, and he doesn't let them (or us) down. Credit must also go to James Hampton as Fox's father. He isn't given much to do, but his performance is a model of quiet confidence and restraint.

"Teen Wolf" is, therefore, a senselessly good time with one of the summer's most appealing' stars. It probably won't have much appeal for anyone over 20, and it won't stand repeat but it's worth a try if you're a fan of Fox. Tony Frazier Review The screenplay by Joseph Loeb and Matthew Wiseman borrows equally from bad teen-age sex comedies and Marvel Comics. There's not much invention in it, except perhaps in the way the wolf is treated as just another sports hero by his fellow students. The story never really answers all the questions it raises, which makes the ending seem complete.

The direction is mostly flat, although director Rod Daniel does put some energy into the basketball sequences at the beginning and end. The photography by Tim Suhrstedt is muddy. The werewolf make-up is almost embarrassingly silly. The supporting performances are generally good, but uninspired. The music "TEEN WOLF" (PG) Chisolm West, Heritage Park, MacArthur Park, Quail Twin, Reding 4.

About ten minutes before this film ended, I was startled to realize that I was enjoying myself. The movie was "Teen "Wolf," from Atlantic Releasing, and the more I thought about it, the more surprised I was that I liked it. Of course, with the smash success of "Back to the Future," it only makes sense that someone would release Michael J. Fox's other starring vehicle. "Teen Wolf" features Fox as an average student who discovers he's a werewolf and uses his abilities to become the star of Ms high school basketball team.

Along the way, he goes through the usual Good conflict and learns that with great power comes a greater responsibility. I From Page 1 we're going and what we're going to play, Powell said. "We started by playing strictly Italian things, but we've moving to a lot of jazzy '40s-type things, like 'Ain't Misbehavin', 'Thanks for the Memories and 'Sentimental he said. Weiss said, "We're not leaning toward being a jazz group. We're just adding some things because of requests and what we feel the crowd will like." Atwood said, "It isn't as much Italian music as it is French cafe music.

It's easy-listening music of the past, with a few tunes of the present like 'As Time Goes Powell wanted to create a group that could cover a wide range of musical styles, from chamber mu-sic to pop. "The accordion is so incredibly versatile," Powell said. "How many instruments canyou carry the harmony and melody on? It's like he's carrying around a piano! such a romantic instrument French, Italian, it plays it all. It's the most universal of instruments. "Then, when I think of so-called 'gypsy I think of the violin that's the most romantic of the melodic instruments.

"Originally, I really didn't know what I was going; to put together I just knew I wanted to form a group," Powell said. Powell, who teaches private guitar lessons, said he called several Oklahoma City musicians in an effort to generate interest in the group. "I got the same story from everybody: 'It'll never 'I don't have 'Nobody will pay for that kind of music' 'This is Wall, blah, blah. "But these two here," Powell said, gesturing to his musicians, "were over the next morning, and practiced day after day for hours. "These are the believers," Powell said.

"Every time we turn around, it seems we're standing in the right place at the right time, playing the right music with the right instruments for the right person," he said. "It just seems to have a life of its own." Recordings For Karen and Richard Carpenter, it's "Yesterday Once DISCOUNT ADM. TIL 6PM-50 I SR. CITIZENS AIL SHOWS 2.54) I MATINEES DAILY I NORTHPARKAND SHEPHERD I BILLY JOEL "GREATEST HITS: VOLUME I VOLUME II Columbia Mr. and Mrs.

Piano Man also known as singer songwriter Billy Joel and model Christie Brinkley are expecting a baby in early January 1986. And that's the earliest we can expect Joel to return to the studio to begin working on his next album of new material. For now, we Billy Joel fans can only wait for the new stuff and play over and over his latest rer lease, "Greatest Hits Volume I is a fine two-record set that contains his greatest hits since the 1973 Piano Man album. Both the greatest hits package and a "You're Only Human," one of two new songs on the double album, are in Billboard magazine's Top 10 and climbing. It's a greatest hits album not to be confused with a "best of." These are Joel's highest-chart- ROCKPOP ing singles.

There are several songs not on this record that could, or should, be, depending on your point of view, including "The Entertainer" and "Honesty." Also not on this two-record set are two of my all-time favorite Joel tunes, "Billy the Kid" and "Captain Jack," from the "Piano Man" album. In all fairness, "Captain Jack" should be the first song on side one, because after all, without "Captain Jack," Billy Joel might still be playing piano in dingy bars and dives in California. Born in 1949, Joel took up piano at an early age. He joined his first band, The Echoes, in 1964. They later became the Lost Souls.

And they soon were lost in the shuffle. Joel joined the Hassles, which released two albums for United Artists, and then formed Attila, a duo that recorded one record for Epic. Turning solo, Joel recorded one album, "Cold Spring Harbor, which had some good songs but didn't go anywhere. Joel did go somewhere, however, moving to California. He performed In bars and hotels under the name Bill Martin.

His own composition, "Captain Jack," got the Carpenters From Page 1 Carpenters provided the treats. They had 12 singles break into the Billboard Top 10 in the U.S. Those hits included "Close to You" at No. 1, "We've Only Just Begun" (2), "For All We Know" (3), "Rainy Days and Mondays" (2), "Superstar" (2), "Hurting Each Other" (2), "Goodbye to Love" (7), "Sing" (3), "Yesterday Once More" (2), "Top of the World" (1), "Please Mr. Postman" (1) and "Only Yesterday" (4).

The music business always has been enjoyable for Richard Carpenter. And that was true for his sister, Karen, he said. "Karen was the star of the duo," he said. "I performed on stage (keyboards) but my primary role was to work behind the scenes arrangement and production and all that." "Karen was the star and that's fine with me. "We considered it to be an equal partnership.

One talent complemented the other. "Looking pleasing, satisfying, challenging, frustrating, rewarding all of those. I'd do it again in a New York second. And I can say the same for Karen. She loved the business." Carpenter, who turns 40 in October, has been married just over a year (no WIZARDS OF LOST KINGDOM 1:45 3:45 5:45 7:45 9:45 (PG) PEE WEE'S BIO ADVENTURE 1:45 3:45 5:45 7:45 9:45 (PG) children yet).

He is having a home built in Downey, Calif. where he has lived for the past 22 years since moving from New Haven, Conn. In addition to the various Carpenters' projects, Carpenter continues to perform in public, and he's working on a solo album. "I just got back from Florida," he says. "I performed at Epcot Center at the Disney complex in Orlando in a little different capacity something I enjoyed very much.

I played piano with an orchestra stuff all in the pops vein. "We did the some pops things, the 'Warsaw Concerto' and a 15-minute medley of Carpenters' tunes. "I started on the solo album in June. Six track are completed and I'm working on the background vocals now. The music will be in the same genre (as the Carpenters) but not exactly the there will be a few turns in it." The years may come, and the years may go, but Richard Carpenter never will forget his the his "As a duo, we introduced some very nice music and always did the best that performed to the best of their abilities," he says.

"I don't believe people will forget Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley attention of Columbia Records and led to a recording contract and the 'Piano Man" album in 1973. The single, "Piano Man," made Billboard's Top 30 and the album went platinum. It wasn't until his fourth Columbia album, "The Stranger," however, that Joel established himself as a major force in adult-oriented rock roll. That album, released in 1977, produced the hit single, "Just the Way You Are," which climbed to No. 3.

The Stranger become Columbia's biggest-selling LP ever, surpassing Simon Garfunkcl's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" classic. Joel's first No. 1 single, "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me," came! from the 1980 album, "Glass Houses." His latest album of new material, "An. Innocent Man," yielded five Top 20 singles, including "Tell Her About It." There are 21 songs on Greatest Hits: Volume I Votume II," starting with "Piano Man" right on through "Just the Way You Are" through "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" all the way up to "Pressure," "Allentown" and "Tell Her About It." "You're Only Human" and "The Night Is Still Young" presumably his next hit single are the only new songs on the two-record set. Joel prides himself on being an "album artist." He writes songs.

They just seem to turn into hits. His "Greatest Hits: Volume 1 Volume II" is proof positive. Chuck Davis 2.00 4:00 6 00 8:00 Recitals Open OCU Season Three recitals will open the fall music season at Oklahoma City University, with perfor-mances at 8:15 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Oklahoma City senior Tim Barrett will present a violin recital Thursday in Kirkpa-trick Auditorium, 2501 Blackwelder.

Barrett, a student of Lacy Mc-Larry, will present a sonata by Veracini, a concerto by Mendelssohn and a selection of works by Kreisler. University organist Antone Godding will present a faculty recital Friday in Bishop W. An-gie Smith Chapel. He will play Bach selections. Bethany senior Regi-na Birchall will present a percussion recital Saturday in Kirkpatrick Auditorium.

She will present an unusual variety of works, using solo snare drum, solo vibraphone, marimba, xylophone, milk bottles and duck calls. All recitals are free. 1:45 3:46 5:45 7:45 9:45 (R PEE WEE'S BIO ADVENTURE 1:35 3:35 5:35 7:35 9:35 (PG) 1:45 4:30 7:15 10:00 (PG-13) ST. ELMO'S FIRE 2:15 6:157:30 9:50 (R) 2:00 4:00 60 8:00 10:00 (PG) COCOON 5:15 7:45 10:00 (PG-13) VOLUNTEERS 2:15 7:45 10.00(B) CREATURE 2:00 4:00 6:00 8:00 10:00 (R) 1:45 5:45 7:46 0:45 (PG) CREATURE COMONPOS 1:15 7:30 9:30 R) YEAR OF THE DRAGON 2:00 4:467:30 COCOON Baby From Page 1 having babies" as much as it is about "relationships and love." "When two people are in love, there are different events in their lives they must deal with. If they're really in love, they find ways to work them out.

"So, in a sense, love conquers all. Each of these couples had a crisis in their love-marriage to face, and we had to come up with a vehicle that could show that 'love conquers all "The most logical one was that of having a child because it's the one aspect of a relationship where both parties must compromise and must make changes because there's a loss of all types of things. "What's fascinating on stage is that you're watching three couples who love each other work out a situation, and the subtext is this baby, which you never really see until the very end. "One of the most rewarding things about 'Baby' was to see men crying In the audience at moments, and to see PEE WEE'S BIO ADVENTURE 1:30 3:30 6:30 7:30 0:30 PG) BACK TO THE FUTURE berg said. "Baby" receives about 50 stock and amateur productions per year, he said.

For the OU. production, Freydberg said he plans a new concert version of "Baby.V with an orchestra of 35 to 40. He said this approach differs from the Broadway version, where the orchestra was on stage, but was concealed at different times. The stock and amateur versions often are accompanied by only a piano and bass. "The decision to put the orchestra on stage, although we concealed it part of the time on Broadway, did indicate that this could be a concert type of show, a show that plays In front 5:157:30 men and women walking out, talking about their own situations, and what's happening to them.

"I realized it had something that moved audiences. "If we had put stars in the show, we'd have lost, that reality, because stars necessarily real to people," Freydberg said. The wordrof-mouth audience appeal was. one reason the company took the step of releasing stock and amateur, rights to the show while the musical was still on Broadway. "That's never really happened before, but it was my opinion that we should go out in the world with this," Freyd- raziMTiJMUn 16 3:16 6:30 7:4610:00 (PQ) :30 3:30 6:10 7:30 1 0:30 (RJ 6:45 7:45 0:45 (PQ) OKLAHOMA'S LARGEST SCREEN A FINEST SOUND.

ence Hall, 640 Parring-ton Oval, Vand for the Spencer Norton Distinguished Music Scries in Holmberg Hall Auditori-, urn. The Studio Theater offers "Four Play," Sept. 25-29; "A Delicate Balance," Oct. 23-27; "The Imaginary Invalid," Nov, 20-24; "El Grande de Coca Cola," Feb. 12-16; "Henrietta," Feb.

26-March "Electra," March 26-30, and "Baby with the Bathwater' April 16-20. Spencer Norton guest artists arc pianist John Browning, Oct. baritone Sherrill Dec. 10, and violinist Isaac Stern, Jan. 20, with all performances set to begin at 8:15 p.m.

In Holmberg Hall. John Bryan, OU audience development coordinator, said the new format simplifies the drama-music season and allows the patron to purchase different rjun-nitics of coupons that do not expire alter a particular show. "It will enable patrons to attend an event a week from mid-September to late April, at a wide va riety of prices," Bryan said. OU's "designer season of events," advertised as giving patrons the "widest possible range of selections in musicals, operas, dance and drama." The music and drama schools will offer a joint season of nine major productions with no overlapping dates, and joint coupon books good for Performing Arts Scries offerings in both Rupel Jones and Holm-berg Hall. Running only one week, except for "Baby," other fall Performing Arts Series programs include "Broadway Festival," Sept.

20-22, Holmborg; "Deathtrap," Oct. 2-6, Jones; and "Dance Horizons," Dec. 5-8, Jones. Spring PAS offerings are "Scenes From Groat Feb. 7-9, Holm-berg; "Amadous," Feb.

19-23, Jones; "Agnes of God," March 19-23, Jones; "The Ballad of Baby Doe," April 3-6, Holmberg; and "Evening of Ballet," April 23-27, Jones. Tickets can bo purchased separately for Studio Theater Scries productions In Old Sci of a major orchestra. "What we're going to do here in Oklahoma is to test that aspect of the show, which is more true to what we were doing originally, and could give it another type of life. "It's my belief that the clearly American art form of the musical will not be preserved, because of the cost, unless we find a way of doing musicals in front of symphony or Boston or Phllly pops kind of orchestras. 'Baby' has a wonderful score, which many critics felt was one of the best of the past 10 or 20 years on Broadway," said the native Philadelphian who became a producer after early success in the brokerage business.

"It's actually a rather contemporary score. David Shire Is a brilliant composer and musicians love to play his work, so why not give a big orchestra that opportunity?" The Joint music schooldrama school "Baby" production will be the showpiece of MHHm with! "YOU'VE NEVER SEEN I LEKHEHmCE I ANYTHING QUITE LIKE I JflWlT 'mm I MHl Exciting. explosive, daring. adventurous, I I splendiferous, exotic! I PEE -WEI HERMAN Pilots 1 Mllt ItJI Bl I ''EXPErTTLY ENJOVEOITr (KffiZKQSS fl VauhiiSbII I -slte axggsr Wmmaamm WQWMi I ffiflV aaaaaV TV TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE "THE EVIL DEAD' ess rjjl "THE GATES OF HELl" MOTION PICTURE RATINGS Qi General audianoai: All aot admitted, PQ; Parental guidance ugoealed. Soma material may not ba suitable for young, Immature vlewara.

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