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7 h' Ju IS I a rf if TftD I ItQIIII llll i 1' iriiiiinn.nn 1 11. ii in, Hi mi 11 in. 11 11 1111 i i il mi imin-iini in.r i mini i tin i I nil ANDY ARENZmw Tn)M-Nwt I 2 23 Yasmin Musayon-Juker and Don Lattln relied on critic instincts and a little luck to win grand prizes in the Oscar contest. Twin Falls man picks all the big winners By Julie Fanselow Times-News writer TWIN FALLS More than 250 people entered, but only one picked all seven winners correctly in the Academy Award Contest sponsored by Interstate Amusement and 77ie Times-News. Don Lattin, 33, of Twin Falls, is one of' two grand prize winners in the competition.

For his efforts, he won a year's worth of free weekly admissions to any Interstate Amusement theater. No one picked six categories correctly. Out of the 15 entrants who guessed five Oscars right, Yasmin Musayon-Juker of Buhl was selected as the second grand prizewinner. Musayon-Juker, 35, moved to the Unit-' ed States two years ago from Peru. "She was so tickled when I came home, she was grinning ear to ear," says her husband, Bob.

Although Yasmin saw "Ghost" in Lima during a holiday visit to Peru late last year, she and Bob only attended the movies in Twin Falls twice last year, viewing "Dances with Wolves" and "Quigley Down Under." "But we'll be going more now," he says. "I just voted for the ones I thought would win," Lattin says. A Universal Frozen Foods employee, Lattin adds he had not seen several of the nominated films and performances, including Jeremy Irons in "Reversal of Fortune" or Joe Pesci in "GoodFellas." "That, was just an eenie-meenie-minie-moe," is how Lattin explains his selections of Irons as Best Actor and Pesci as Best Supporting Actor, Still, his instincts were right on target as he picked those two actors as winners, along with "Dances with Wolves" as Best Picture, Kathy Bates of "Misery" as Best Actress, Whoopi Goldberg in "Ghost" as Best Supporting Actress, Bruce Joel Rubin's "Ghost" screenplay as the year's best original script and Michael Blake's "Dances with Wolves" as the best adapted screenplay. Latin goes to the movies about once a Wolves" and "Ghost" prevailed over "GoodFellas" and "The Grifters" Monday night, and many area film fans chose enough categories correctly to win a prize in our contest. In addition to Lattin and Musayon-Juker, other winners are: Two free movie passes per month for six months (two sets awarded) to Robert Reynolds, Twin Falls, and Alice J.

Mcln-tyre, Twin Falls. Twelve drive-in passes (two sets awarded) to Nicole Pearson, Twin Falls, and Jerry Hillman, Twin Falls. Two electric ice-cream machines to Jody Brown, Kimberly, and Dawn Jones, Twin Falls. Neon-colored Pepsi hats to John Hous-er, Virginia Lee, Judy Reynolds, Jim Sorenson, Ruby Thomas and Lynda Hill of Twin Falls; Irene Chess, Jerome; Bryan Stone, Ketchum; Vicky Jagels, Buhl; and Lisa Gooch, Filer. Winners can claim their prizes at The Times-News office, 132 Third St.

W. month and says it's a favorite family activity for him, his wife, Renee, and their children Dorothy Jo, 1 3, and Roy, 12. "Ghost" was his favorite movie of 1990 and one of his all-time top films, Lattin says. He saw it four times and notes it had all the elements of the perfect movie action, comedy, drama, romance. And it didn't hurt that the film starred his favorite actor, Patrick Swayze, and favorite actress, Goldberg.

Twin Falls film fans were at a disadvantage in balloting since many Oscar-nominated movies never played here or appeared on an area screen for just a week or two. Cinema lovers had to travel to Boise to see "Reversal of Fortune" or "The Grifters," for example. "GoodFellas" made it to the Mall Cinema in the summer, but the violent, intense Martin Scorsese film named by many critics as the year's best didn't stay long. In the end, however, movies more popular with audiences than with critics did well at this year's Oscars. "Dances with King Videocable will switch some channels TWIN FALLS King Videocable plans a round of channel changes starting Monday, when American Movie Classics becomes a permanent part of King's basic package on Channel 31.

According to King officials, American Movie Classics scored number one in an independent channel preference survey, with 62 percent of subscribers indicating high interest in seeing it. The channel features classic films from the 1930s through the early 1970s. In other changes, Headline News -now seen on Channel 31 will move to Channel 35. Local ABC affiliate KKVI moves from Channel 35 to Channel 6. KIVI, now seen on Channel 6, will share Channel 30 with The Home Shopping Network.

Public Broadcasting's KAID moves to Channel 4, and The Family Channel will be seen on Channel 11. King Videocable subscribers will receive a new channel card with their April statements. Channel cards also will be published in area newspapers or may be picked up at the cable company's office, 261 Eastland Drive. Northside Playhouse plans 'Anything Goes' as musical JEROME Northside Playhouse has set Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" as its 1991 musical, and auditions to select the cast are slated next week. The tryouts will be held at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday and Thursday at Jerome High School. The musical will be presented June 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14 and 15 with Mike Winterholler returning as director. "Anything Goes" is set aboard an ocean liner sailing from New York to England in the 1930s. The characters include a former night club singer-turned-evangelist, a young businessman and his Wall Street employer, a socialite and her mother and English fiance, a gangster and his girlfriend and numerous sailors and other interesting passengers. The score includes such songs as "I Get a Kick out of You," "Friendship," "Anything Goes," "Let's Misbehave" and "Blow, Gabriel, Blow." For more information, call Cindy Winterholler or Ranee Marsing at 734-9001 or 324-8193 days or at 324-5774 or 324-5781 evenings and weekends.

Art guild plans calligraphy -demonstration with meeting HEYBURN A calligraphy demonstration by Sally Cheney will be on the program when the Desert Art Guild meets at 7 p.m. Thursday Dick and Donna's Hobbies, 18th and streets. Supplies will be furnished so members can participate. The guild also announces that Lottie Hurst is its artist of the month for April. Her paintings will be on view at the office of Dr.

Paul Nester, 1254 Oakley Burley. Jerome Art Guild announces $25 award for fair artwork JEROME The Jerome Art Guild announces it will award $25 to the best artwork depicting the fair theme at this summer's Jerome County Fair. Official entry dates will be announced later, but the guild wants artists to start work soon to ensure a good collection of pieces for the fair. Entries may be in any size and in any medium including oil, water color, acrylic or pen and pencil. Entries must be properly wired for hanging.

Entrants may be from within or outside of Jerome County. For more information, call 324-7963. Wagon Days Poster Contest entry deadline set for May 1 SUN VALLEY -The deadline for the 1 991 Wagon Days Poster Contest is May 1. The annual poster contest will be judged and awarded May 7 with a cash honorarium of $100 going to this year's winning artist. The design should be appropriate for a poster as well as a T-shirt.

The artwork may be hand-drawn or photography. A complete list of guidelines for the contest is available by calling the Sun ValleyKetchum Chamber of Commerce at 800-634-3347 or 726-3423. Compiled from staff reports 'Wolves' sweep reflects thirst for uplifting movies Commentary By Jack Matthews Los Angeles Times HOLLYWOOD At one point in the long night that was either the 63rd Academy Awards or the second annual Billy Crystal Oscar Special, a videotaped Ronald Reagan said his favorite movies were Westerns because they were such simple tales of good against evil. That's what the academy's 5,000 voting members apparently thought of the movies of 1990, choosing the simple uplifting goodness of Kevin Costner's "Dances With Wolves" over the complex downbeat evil of Martin Scorsese's "GoodFellas" the only other nominated movie that might reasonably have been considered a rival. In the end, "Wolves" got pretty much what was predicted for it; the film won seven of the 12 Oscars for which it had been nominated, including those for best picture and best direction.

"Wolves" also won for photography, film editing, sound, musical score and adapted screenplay. Film buffs can debate now, and film historians later, where "Wolves" ranks in the previously underappreciated genre of the Western. Certainly, it has to get in line a half-dozen or so Westerns made by John Ford, two or three by Howard Hawks, plus an assortment by such directors as Sam Peckinpah, George Stevens and Anthony Mann. But for the moment, it is No. 1 the V.

first "horse opera" to win best picture since "Cimarron" in 193 1 and the first ever to win more than four Oscars. The acceptance of "Wolves," and its subsequent success in the various awards contests, not only bodes well for the Western but for retail video dealers everywhere. For that generation of babies whose notion of a classic Western is "Maverick," great pleasures await on the shelves of their local video stores. But the Academy Awards heaped on Costner's film say as much about the mood in Hollywood and in America as they do about the revived passion for a cinematic Old West. "Wolves" has a sweeping, epic heart, to be sure, and enough conventional action to keep you alert through its full three-hour running time.

But it also has its much-explored humanism, its unapologetic attempt to set the record straight about the true savages of Western expansion. In the newest Hollywood cliche, "Wolves" was the "politically correct" movie of the 1990 elite. It spoke to a better part of ourselves than "GoodFellas" and most of the other-quality productions, and that theme in such films as "Wolves," "Pretty Woman" and "Ghost" was rewarded at both the box office and at the Oscars. Yeah, there will be more Westerns made, but the real Please see WOLVESD2 4 a V. V.

V. v. APLnptoto Kevin Costner's 'Dances With Wolves' won seven of the 12 Oscars for which It was nominated. McDaniel's year-round tour stops in Jackpot By Terrell Williams Times-News correspondent JACKPOT Mel McDaniel tours year-round across the country, hopping out of his lavender bus, "Henrietta," to put on foot-stompin country music shows. Wearing his trademark derby and red bandana, the singer-songwriter and his honky-tonk band play "Louisiana Saturday Night," "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On," "Stand Up," "Big Ole Brew," "Stand On It," "Rock-A-Billy Boy" and others of his two-dozen chart hits.

"He loves people to really get into his music, and they do," said McDaniel's Nashville office manager, Michelle Dube. "He has a very high-energy show. He just gets the crowd really worked up." McDaniel's "feel good" music has established him as a favorite on juke boxes, nightclub stages and country radio formats from coast to coast 1976. Since then, he has been nominated for several Country Music Association awards, has been given a star on the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum's Walkway of Stars and, in 1986, joined the Grand OleOpry. His latest album, released this month, is called "Country Pride." The single release from that album is "Turtles and Rabbits," produced with a new music video.

Also released was the single, "Mama's Bible." In his spare time, McDaniel rides his Harley Davidson "hog" motorcycle and seeks out flea markets or antique looking for old car tools to add to his collection. He also collects and restores late '50s and early '60s vintage cars and trucks. When "Henrietta" breaks down on the road, the country singer crawls under to fix the rig himself. McDaniels and his high school sweetheart, Mary, have been married 30 years. They live in Tennessee and have one daughter.

With more than 250 shows booked every year, McDaniel is a tireless showman who has stayed in demand throughout his career. "He's constantly touring," Dube said. "He's gone all the time." McDaniel and his band "Oklahoma Wind" will perform at 8 and 1 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Cactus Pete's in Jackpot. Born in Oklahoma in 1942, McDaniel says he was 14 when he first saw Elvis Presley and decided to follow that style in the music scene.

"I saw the way people were reacting to Elvis, the relationship he had with his audience, and it made me want it for myself," McDaniel said in a biography press release. The young McDaniel sang in bands and wrote songs, working day jobs to keep the bills paid. After working in Alaska two years as a solo singer, McDaniel went to Nashville, and began his recording career in Entertainment calendar D2 Comics D5 Arts events calendar D6 Dear Abby D6 Mel McOaniel A favorite on Juke boxes.