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Entertaiiimenl EDITOR: Bob Remington, 429-5346 EM mm MM) Entertainment, not anarchy, the stuff of Sex Pistols '96 Eddie gets edgy Eddie Murphy just wants us all to know that he DAN DELUCA Knight-Ridder Newspapers fine and, oh yeah, he's tired of hearing how his new flick, The Nutty Professor, is his last chance for a big London January 1978, when the nSex Pistols played what seemed destined to be their final concert at Winterland in San dox omce hit. "The reality of my situation is that if my career was on the decline I wouldn't be making movies," Murphy told Newsweek. "They don't give money to blacks Hollywood because they're swell." Murphy, 35, whose new movie opens Friday, says he does have a few big career regrets, however. Among them was turning down a starring role in the 1984 smash hit Ghostbusters and a chance that same year to sing on the charity record We Are The World. iLh Murphy "I was working on my own album and blew it he says.

"I was like, 'They'll probably put me in the back row with LaToya and Sonny Bono anyway. Then I saw the video, and I wanted to jump off the root. Knight-Ridder Newspapers Robert Downey arrested Actor Robert Downey was arrested for possession of cocaine, heroin and a concealed weapon after 4D fxSCi being stopped for speeding. i Downey, 31, was arrested Sunday night in Malibu 4 after police stopped him for speeding at 110 km an hour in an 80 km-h zone and he appeared to be intox TTT3 icated, a Los Angeles County Sheriff spokesperson A said. Deputies said they found rock and powder 1 cocaine his truck as well as tar heroin and discov VUJt ered a concealed .357 Magnum revolver that was not uTjsr fVt VAM, loaded.

Downey was booked on possession of a concealed -9 ts--mmww weapon, possession of a controlled substance and drunk driving. He was freed on $10,000 bail and ordered to appear in court July 26 Downey most recently appeared in a film version of Richard III. Francisco, they were the most notorious, widely loathed and threatening rock 'n' roll band in the world. On Sunday, the reunited Pistols came home to London, where they launched a punk revolution that still reverberates two decades later. Minus bass player and icon Sid Vicious, who died of a heroin overdose in 1979, they revealed themselves to be frightfully respectable entertainers.

"Fat, 40 and back! Oh, how you longed to see the day!" John Lydon or Johnny Rotten, as he was known in the quartet's heyday cackled to a pogoing throng in Finsbury Park, in the grim North London neighborhood where he grew up. It was the third show of the Pistols' snidely titled Filthy Lucre Tour, which began Friday in Finland, before an unimpressed crowd that pelted the band with beer bottles. The U.S. portion of the Pistols' unabashed money grab opens July 31 in Denver. The 1996 version of the Sex Pistols is the band's original lineup: vocalist Lydon; guitarist Steve Jones; drummer Paul Cook; and bassist Glenn Matlock, who, legend has it, was booted because he liked the Beatles and was replaced by Vicious.

Lydon who sent shock waves through Britain in 1977 with the theatrical God Save the Queen and Anarchy in the U.K. (during Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee, no less) performed in a black-and-white checked jacket, silver trousers and a spiked hairdo well-suited to his demented-court-jester demeanor. He was greeted with glee by more than 25,000 fans, short of a sellout despite a bill that included fellow geriatrics Iggy Pop, the Buzzcocks and Stiff Little Fingers, plus chicken curry, body-piercing and bungee-jumping, all in full view of the stage. There were young curiosity-seekers, as well as a contingent of celebs, including the current kings of British pop, Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis. And there was an army of aging punks: rarely have so many mohawked rockers with bad teeth been spotted in broad daylight.

Had the Pistols done the right thing by putting 18 years of bickering behind them? Not surprisingly, most concluded that the band they'd coughed up nearly $50 Cdn to see had acted properly. "At first, I was a bit dubious," said Jill Pearson, 40, of Newcastle, who was wearing head-to-toe black leather, a studded dog collar and a Phyllis Diller 'do. "There's the danger of spoiling it. But so many bands have come from their influence. Whatever Rotten wants to do is all right by me." Dave Donley, 27, a London guitarist, concurred: "God Save the Queen is more relevant now than it was in 1977.

The Royal Family are more ridiculous now than they ever were." The British press, far more wrapped up in the European football championships The Associated Press The Associated Press John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten), left, and Steve Jones at the Helsinki show that preceded the London concert: he comes on like a demented court jester Dance concert cancelled MuchMusic's Dance Mix '96 concert, originally scheduled to hit the Edmonton Convention Centre July 21, has been cancelled. Eight popular dance music acts Reel 2 Reel, Planet Soul, BKS, Emjay, Fun Factory, Cartouche, Wil will be over, too this time, for good. There will be no new songs or studio album. Steve Jones would love for the band to continue "more than anything." The guitarist who, like Lydon, now lives in Los Angeles has never been with another group as successful as the Pistols. Filthy Lucre will earn the band "more than a cab driver, but not as much as the Eagles," he joked.

Veloz and Maria-Lisa were scheduled to perform at the show. Tickets can be refunded at point of purchase. Journal Staff Demi doffs it her hair, that is This time taking it all off didn't mean her clothes. Demi Moore showed up Sunday night in New York for the premiere of her new film Striptease, with a quite uncharac teristic crew cut. The nearly bald look similar to that of singer Sinead O'Connor is for a film Moore is working on called G.I.

Jane, in which she plays the fictitious first woman to receive training as a SEAL, or navy commando. Accompanying the actress were "A journalist said we were just in it for the filthy lucre. It was a nice insult then, and even funnier now. But I've never done anything strictly for the money. If there wasn't a sense of fun and purpose, I wouldn't do it" John Lydon, formerly Johnny Rotten Blowfish, just me walking down to the street corner and back is a shocking act." Lydon says he titled the band's jaunt the Filthy Lucre Tour in honor of an insult the Pistols were hit with in 1977.

"A journalist said we were just in it for the filthy lucre. It was a nice insult then, and even funnier now," he explained, giggling. "But I've never done anything strictly for the money. If there wasn't a sense of fun and purpose, I wouldn't do it." Lydon has remained involved with music, mostly as leader of Public Image Ltd. He refuses to be sentimental.

Sid Vicious? "He came in towards the end," said Lydon, "and really as a coat-hanger. He never contributed, he just kind of wrecked the whole thing." The singer doesn't have a kind word for any of the current Pistols-influenced "punk" bands, either though he has particular contempt for Green Day. "I'm horrified when I hear these bands saying 'Oh, yes, thanks to the Sex I can't distinguish one band from another. Why don't they do something original?" Punk in 1996 is nothing more than "fashion," he said: "A set of rules and regulations and a rigid lifestyle. In other words, everything I hate, loathe and despise!" The Finsbury Park show was recorded for an album, Filthy Lucre Live, to be released by Virgin on July 30.

But when the tour is over, says Lydon, the Pistols daughters Rumer and Scout, and ri A husband Rnice Willis. The Associated Press Moore Hearst raises Kane 9 4 Critics' remarks notwithstanding, he said, it's a legitimate show: "We're one of the best rock 'n' roll bands that ever happened. I just want people to see us, that's all." At Finsbury Park, people saw a crisp, charged-up rock band the beneficiaries of a better sound mix than they probably ever enjoyed at the few, sparsely attended gigs they actually played back when critics accused them of disrupting the social order. After being introduced by footballer Stuart Pearce, a hero of England's Saturday victory against Spain, Lydon leapt into Bodies, perhaps the ugliest and most powerful song from the band's only full-length album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, which was played in its entirety. While Jones bashed out power chords, Lydon spewed the lyrics with exaggerated venom: it couldn't approximate the power of 1977, but it was enough to send the crowd into a paroxysm of pogoing.

"Any journalists out there?" Lydon called out to the throng. "We're not that bad, are we?" No, but the Pistols' 75-minute set wasn't earth-shattering, either. Monday morning, 12 hours after they'd played the once-banned God Save the Queen on British soil, Elizabeth was still wearing the crown. There was no Anarchy in the U.K. Just, as Lydon had promised, the memory of some "full-on entertainment." Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst loves Citizen Kane.

So much so, that she's introducing Orson Welles' 1941 classic at the Bryant Park Summer Film Festival in New York. The movie is based on the life of her grandfather, William Randolph Hearst. 'It a very biting portrait but I adore it, Hearst told The New York Times. John Waters said to me, 'You realize you're the only person in your family who will talk about "she said of the contemporary film-maker. Hearst, who was born after her grandfather died in than in the Pistols reunion, has dismissed the tour as a sellout, or worse.

"Here come the Sex Pistols with their salivary ducts well oiled for a sorry middle-aged comeback," shot The Guardian on Friday. "Is it really any different from a Gerry and the Pacemakers reunion?" cracked former Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren in The Independent. Lydon thinks so. Asked a few weeks ago whether the band could achieve anything shocking at this late date, the Pistols' leader became defensive: "In a world of Hootie and the 1951, has been an occasional actress and author. She was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974 and got involved in bank robberies and a huge trial.

Knight-Ridder Newspapers Stage Polaris takes home bouquets for Secret Garden LIZ NICHOLLS Journal Theatre Writer i Henry. Phoenix, traditionally the biggest Sterling gatherer, got three, two including supporting actor and actress for Wendell Smith and Loretta Bailey for the Guedo production of Sam Shepard's Simpatico and one, Michael Spencer-Davis's best actor award, for directed by the company's new artistic chief John Cooper. The best new play of the year was deemed to be Lyle Victor Albert's wistful and hilarious one-man show Scraping the Surface, in which the playwright himself starred. And the new Brad FraserEdward Connell musical Young Art got a single Sterling, for Robert Shannon's fascinating high-trash set. In the Fringe categories, the big winner was the Noises in the Attic production of Elephant Wake, a funny and touching one-man fantasia on growing up French in Saskatchewan, starring Sterling co-host Joey Tremblay.

That show was directed by Jonathon Christenson, newly appointed as co-artistic director of Catalyst Theatre with Tremblay. The free-wheeling, amiable evening over which Tremblay and Sheri Sommerville presided, was dotted with excerpts from many of the nominated productions. Highlights included a sultry spoof version of Matchmaker from Fiddler on the Roof, Lily's Eyes from The Secret Garden, the Elmer Fudd homosexual-hunting sequence from Miss Chatelaine, the fish-selling monologue by the gruesomely unappetizing "hero" of Ron Chambers' Dirt, Actor in a Supporting Role: Wendell Smith in Simpatico (Phoenix). Outstanding Director: Diana LeBIanc in Three Tall Women, Citadel). Outstanding Original Composition: Binaifer Kapadia and Julien Arnold for As You Like It (Free Will Players).

Outstanding Musical Director: Randy Mueller for The Secret Garden (Stage Polaris). Outstanding Set Design: Robert Shannon for Young Art (Theatre Network). Outstanding Costume Design: Judith Bowden for The Secret Garden (Stage Polaris). Outstanding Lighting Design: Melinda Sutton for Metastasis (Northern Light). Outstanding Choreography: Marie Nychka for Cheaper By The Dozen (Stage Polaris).

Outstanding Production of a Collective or Independent: Dancing at Lughnasa (Pagan Productions). Outstanding Individual Achievement in Production: Cheryl Hoover. Outstanding Individual Achievement Theatre For Young Audiences: Robert Clinton for writing (Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde).

Outstanding Fringe New Work: Elephant Wake by Jonathan Christenson and Joey Tremblav Noises in the Attic). Outstanding Fringe Production: Elephant Wake (Noises in the Attic). Outstanding Fringe performance: Damien Atkins Chatelaine) tied with Joey Tremblay (Elephant Wake). Outstanding Fringe Director Jonathon Christenson (Elephant Wake). Edmonton You could call the 1996 Sterling Awards gala a knock-down affair.

At the height of Monday night's raucous festivities honoring the year's best in Edmonton theatre, two of the town's leading sound designers, joint recipients of a special Sterling citation, wrestled each other to the stage, hurling bone-rattling insults and crushing their tuxes. "I've always admired Darrin's ability to take a little ditty and spin it out for 28 shows," said Dave Clarke, who provided the soundscape for Letters in Wartime. For his part Darrin Hagen, cited for his work on Vigil, responded with the revelation that "Dave wouldn't even know how to strap on an accordian." There were other surprises as the ninth annual awards were divvied up in 21 categories, voted on by every working member of the theatre community this year. For the first time Stage Polaris led the pack with four Sterlings, three (including outstanding musical, costumes and musical direction) for its production of T)e Secret Garden. Dancing at Lughnasa, Jim Guedo's Pagan production singled out for eight nominations by the 14-person jury, went home with but one Sterling, as Outstanding Production of a Collective or Independent.

The Citadel version of Edward Albee's 11 tree Tall Women garnered top honors as Outstanding Production, plus Sterlings for director Diana LeBIanc and star Martha ile photo Jennifer Wigmore, Fiona Reid and Martha Henry in Three Tall Women, which won three Sterling Awards Monday night and an ungodly trio from Dr. Grot Goes To Hell. James DeFelice of A professor, actor, director, writer was honored with a special Sterling for his contribution to theatre in these parts, and spoke of the "courage, talent, and idealism" it takes to make theatre happen in these parlous times. The compete list of 1996 Sterling winners is: Outstanding Production of a Play Three Tall Women (Citadel). Outstanding Production of a Musical: The Secret Garden (Stage Polaris).

Outstanding New Play Scraping Tlie Surface (Lyle Victor Albert). Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Martha Henry- in Three Tall Women (Citadel). Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Michael Spencer-Davis in Vigil (Phoenix). Outstanding Performance by an Af tress in a Supporting Role: Loretta iJailey in Simpatico 1 Phoenix). Outstanding Performance by an.