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V.V-' PAGI TIN Thursday late night (AMC) Movie "The Big Sky (1952, Adventure) St (NICK) Patty Duka St (AAE) Wildlife Mysteries St (VISN) Songs Of Praise St (DISC) Rediscovering America St (CNBC) Real Personal St (CSPN) Congressional Hearing St (LIFE) Unsolved Mysteries (at (MAX) Movie eVi Purgatory (1988, Drama) 12:05 as (TBS) Movie Kelly's Heroes" (1970, Comedy) 12:30 (X) 0 Oersido CD 0 Lets Make a Deal at 0 Love Connection OS News OS (USA) Movie 9 to 5" (1980, Comedy) St (ESPN) Warren Miller's Ski Magic St' (BET) Screen Scans at (FAM) St (LIFE) Paid Program St (NICK) Donna Reed St (VISN) Faith, Hope and Clarity (CNBC) Smart Money 12:35 (SO (DO Later With Bob Costas 12:50 (B (HBO) Dream On 1:00 GE)(DISN) Movie Swiss Family Robinson (1960, Adventure) (S National Geographic on As- NOVEMBER 26, 1992 EVENING 11:00 CO 0 Currant Affair CD (HBO) Movie The Last Boy Scout" (1991, Drama) ffl a Mama's Family 0D 0 Victory CD Big Rad Football HigMIghta (11) at Sdh Stalk Inga (i Roaaanna 04 (CNN) Newsmght (it (NASH) Millar Company (it (VH1) Saturday Night Uva Ot (ESPN) Tunnai Boat Racing St (BET) Midnight Love St (FAM) Bonanza: Tha Loat Epi-aodaa St (NICK) Miatar Ed St (AAE) Real Waat On (VISN) Prima Tana Playhouaa St (DISC) Safari St (CNBC) Dick Cavatt St (LIFE) China Beach 11:30 di a Ruah Umbaugh (X) Nightkna (X) 0 Breakthrough 05 0 Araenio NaD (it (CNN) Croaafire (it (USA) Hitchhiker (it (VH1) Rock Attar Hours Si) (WON) Movie Help Wanted: Mala" (1981. Comedy) (TNT) Movie Vi Prehistoric Woman (1967, Fantasy) St (NICK) Dobie GUlis St (CNBC) PoznerDonahue 11:35 (I) 06 0 Late Night With David Letterman 12:00 (I) 0 Hawthorne Communications (7: 0 Whoopi Ooldbarg d) 0 Help on tha Way 03) 0 Ruah Umbaugh (it (CNN) Larry King Ot (USA) Ray Bradbury Theater 0t (MTV) Alternative Nation Ot (NASH) Dinah Shore: A Special Conversation With Burt Reynolds 0t (VH1) AN Nightar St (ESPN) Powder Magazine St (BET) Conucview St (FAM) Bordertown i I 4 Pirates of The Mississippi sailing despite rough waters CD Benny Hlnn OS 0 Perfect Score 0t (CNN) Worldwide Update 0t (MTV) Dreamdme St (ESPN) Thoroughbred Digest at (BET) Video Soul S4 (FAM) 700 Club St (NICK) America 2Ntght at (AAE) Brute Force: The History ot Weapons at War St) (VISN) One in the Spirit I (DISC) Undersea Safari Mi (CNBC) Your Portfolio at (LIFE) Paid Program 1:05 CD Jerry Springer 0D NBC News Nlghtside 1:20 (D (HBO) Movie The Godfather, Part III (1990. Drama) 1:30 0D 0 Overnight Report (D Cornerstone 0 Personate All the energy and everything is still there, Severs says. Live music, getting out and playing, thats the reason the Pirates got started, so for us to get out and do it 200 days a year in front of thousands of people, its just the fulfillment of a dream. The Pirates of The Mississippi will be appearing in Owensboro on Dec.

5 as part of their 1992 United States Tour. They will perform at The Executive Inn at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Festival of Lights on November 27 A "A ceremony of illumination highlights activities planned for Madisonvilles annual Festival of Lights. This years event is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov.

27 at the Hopkins County Courthouse, with caroling beginning at 6 p.m. The ceremony, featuring entertainment, a best-decorated tree contest and over 15,000 white lights, begins an evening of festivities for Hopkins Countians of all ages. The First Baptist Church Choir, directed by Jim McMur-trie, will sing hymns and carols, while children eagerly await the arrival of Santa Claus. Other Festival of Lights events, including open house activities, are being planned. The Festival of Lights is sponsored each year by Discover Downtown, Inc.

For more information, call Charlotte Sellers at (502) 821-3435. wearing the suit and tie every day and making really good money and kind of on his way up the ol career ladder, and a lot of people told him: Man, youre crazy. You went back to school and worked real hard to get this, and now youre just going to give it all up and go out on the road with these guys? You must be out of your mind. Several of the band members, who are married and have families and house payments and car payments and stuff like that, had to take pay cuts when they turned professional, Severs says. When you're getting a band started, even after you have an album out, you're not making any money.

It was a long time before this thing started generating any money so theres a lot of truth to that song. It's hard when you go tell your family: Listen, I'm gonna quit my job and go out on the road with this band. We're not gonna make any money right away, but its gonna be great, wait and see. Fortunately, things turned out fine with the Top 10 success of Feed Jake, from the group's debut album, Pirates of the Mississippi. The band, whose sound is as much Southern rock as it is country, has built a reputation on its rowdy live shows, released two more albums, Walk the Plank, and A Street Man Named Desire, charted another half-dozen Top 20 country singles and was named the Academy of Country Music's Top New Vocal Group in 1991.

But apart from being financially stable once again, success seems to have changed little for Pirates of the Mississippi. By l)ae LARSEN ox Ser it Pirates of the Mississippi steel guitarist Pat Severs has this advice for those who hope to make it big in country music: First thing you have to do is sell everything you own, quit your move to Nashville and starve to death for a few years. Severs says this laughing, but is entirely serious. The Pirates, best known for their 1991 country hit Feed Jake, all had steady day jobs when they began playing together and had no intention of pursuing performing careers. Severs worked as a recording session musician, lead guitarist Rich Alves and lead vocalist Bill McCorvey were songwriters for a music publishing firm, drummer Jimmy Lowe was a computer program- mer for an insurance company and bassist Dean Townson was a 1 factory worker.

None of us were doing any live performing at all and we missed that, so we just started the band as kind of an alternative," Severs says. Just something to do to -have some fun get out and mess with our guitars and play in front of people and have a big time." Basement rehearsals and weekend gigs eventually led to an offer of a recording contract by a label executive who had seen the band live, although the reaction of the Pirates' friends and families is summed up in a song on their new release: "Dont Quit Your Day Job. A lot of people told us that, Severs says. Lowe, the former computer programmer, for example, was -IV- I Vi -M -4. Pirates of The Mississippi left to right: Dean Townson, Rich Alves, Jimmy Lowe, Pat Severs and Bill McCorvey.

Danny-Glover (1.) and Mel Gibson (r.) are back in action as Los Angeles police detectives Roger Murtaugh and his partner Martin Riggs in 1989 Lethal Weapon 2, airing Taesday, Nov. 24, on CBS. They lead an investigation into South African diplomats using their shield of immunity to smuggle drugs. Joe Pescl also stars as a troublesome accountant who seeks protection after he 9 launders nearly half a billion dollars in narcotics money..