Tucson Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • 58

What's to do I EI8T AVOW COPY Entertainment Tucson Citizen 3F Wednesday April 2 1986 TV so he bought Invisible theatre is ipresonung "the Miss I ireiraiker Coniesi" a comedy nhotii the trials and tribulations of a would he beauty (iiecn 8 pm 1 burs ihiysiliimiglrSundnysuiilii April 18 at the Invisible Ihemre 1400 Avenue I here ill heu 2 pm mniinep on April (i I ii kets are $8 general ad mission mid $7 forsiudenisniid senior citizens nil 882 072 1 Gaslight henire is doing he Peril of tlie Duik River" a jungle adventure comedy at Gaslight theatre 7000 I ampic Verdi Road Show times are at 8 pm Wednesdays and Thursdays 7 mid 0:20 pm 1 ridiys and Saturdays 7 pm Sundays through June 7 I ickeis are $805 plus tat for adults $803 fur children 12 or younger I here is a $1 discount for students senior citizens and active military per somiel Tor reservations rail 888 0428 7 rZJL IL-L I i David Polan is general manager town has been for years and years and years a network affiliate oriented town" lien KPOl became the thitd independent station Tucson had more television stations per capita than an place else he knew of With so much competition ad vertising money was hard to get he said 1 it make monev go a long wav (sV Music and dance Hie ton Angeles String Quartet will perfmm hi 8 im tomorrow in cow dor Hull ill tlie Seliool of Music imiMing I lie icperloire Inis a wide rnitgoi from eontemporiiry Imek to the Renaissance with much diver-siiv in lieiween Tickets are $4 for htiidems Riders in the Sky will it-rforni western songs complete with yodcling and cowboy humor 8 pm tomorrow in the Arizona Hillroom in the UA Stu jU'M I'nitm the Titan Valley War-lieads will open the show with Peter McLaughlin a slate flat picking rlianV piou dvnnce tickets are $8' $5 for ngesfito 14 at Discount Records PDQ Records laties Blues Co and Only Records Puioy Hollow and Workshop Music and Sound tickets $2 more at the door The Tucson Symphony Orchestra "presents guest conductor Henry it Charles Smith resident conductor of tho Minnesota Orchestra He will he joiip'il bv photographer Wes 1 I water fora pel lormanee of 1 lie Wil Suite" taken from Aaron Co-i pUnd'y "tender Land Suite" 8 pm tomorrow and i'riday in the Tueson v('(immunity Center Music Hall photograph's will be shown 4 'on a mull! screen color slide projector Its irctic Images" will lie set to w( nocturnes "Nuages" mid Mendiers of the Puna (amimunity College Chorus will also jimi'the Tucson Symphony Orclies-jtra Scenes of Arizona will accompany Copland's "Billy the Kid" Also on the piogiam are Lrmamio Wolf I lie Secret of Siiatine" Otto Nu-o- i lie Merry Wives of Windsor" selections from "Swan iaike" and tickets are $11 and $14 with disclaims available for students call 882 8583 Theater Arizona Theatre Company previews Noel lives" at 8 tonight in the Tucson Community on tCt little Iheatre The official opening 'wilt lie at 8 pm tomorrow Call 622-282i for tickets Movies APACHE DRIVE-IN: (1) Jewel of the Nile (PG) 7:15 11:21 iron Eagle (PG-1 3) 9 20 (2) Rocky IV (PG) 720 1 104 FX (R) 910 (3) Nightmare on Elm Street II (R) 7 15 10 26 Silent Night Deadly Night (R) 9 BUENA VISTA (Mann): (t) Gung Ho (PG-1 3) noon 2:1 5 4 30 7 9 20 (2) Pretty in Pink (PG-1 3) noon 1 '2 10 425 6 55 9 10 CAMPBELL (AMC): (1) Romance (PG-1 3) 230 5 730 9 55 (2) Police Academy 3 (PG) 215 5 157159 30 (3) Kiss of the Spider Woman (R) '2 3057309-55 CATALINA The Color Purple (PG-1 3) 2 58 CINEWORLD (AMC): (1) House (R) 2 30 5 30 8 955 (2) FX (R) 230 5:1 5 7 45 9 55 (3) Back to the Future (PG) 2 5 7 30 9 46 (4) Best of Times (PG-1 3) 215 5 15 7:309 45 CORONADO Romance (PG-1 3) 450 705 9 15 DE ANZA: (1) April Day (R) 19 10 49 Silver Bullet (R) -9 09 (2) Rad (PG) 7:27 10 54 Crossroads (R) (3) Romance (PG-1 3) 722 1116 Spies Like Us 9 29 (4) Knights of the City (R) 710 10 37 House (R) 8 59 EL CON (AMC): (1 Out of Africa (PG) 2 5 30 8 45 (2) Lucas (PG) 215 5'15 730 9 45 (3) Wildcats (R) 230 5 30 745 9 55 (4) Care Bears 2 (G) 2 5 (5) Crossroads 7-15 9 30 (6) Money Pit (PG) 2:30 5'30 745 9 55 (7) Rad (PG) 2:15 5:15 730 9 30 EL DORADO Police Acad He liked By TERRY WILSON Citizen Staff Writer David Polan remembers a time when he didn't know anything about television except how toturn it on But when his father in Chicago jumped at the chance to buy a Tucson television station and asked him to run it Polan said lie thought the offer sounded like a fun change of pare always spent a lot of time in front of the television I thought it would be interesting to iry it from the other he said from his office at KPOL-TV Channel 40 The station went on the air in January 1984 Polan 35 and his father Julius Polan obtained a license from the Federal Communications Commission And then Polan a former criminalpersonal injury lawyer who had stopped practicing law to work in real estate moved to Tucson to try managing a TV station was something new and entirely different" Polan said He read everything lie could find on how to operate a television station He visited stations in other cities and lie asked a lot of questions about how things were done Then he researched the television market here to see what the other stations were doing Polan said lie found a strong spirit of competition between the network affiliates and between independents KZAZ (now KMSfM Channel 11) and KDTU-IV Channel 18 Public television station KUAT-1V Channel 6 was also holding its own in the race for viewers Polan said he also found Tropic Mdgazine Kathleen Turner Kathleen Turner poses in Playboy Wire Services Kathleen Turner co-star of the and "Jewel of the has refused doubles in her movie career for even the most dangerous scenes I was a tomboy" says Turner mother get me into a skirt very Turner be using any doubles in the May issue of Playboy magazine either where she appears in a new second foldout section called Playboy And it appears that her mother still is having trouble getting her into a skirt flows a station there many gigantic toy stores in town to buy advertising time he added Instead the 15-million-watt sta- tion went for adults by getting the rights to air a lot of syndicated suspense series and dramas like Bold Ones" and It has kept viewers by showing its cache of horror series like "Night Gallery" "Tales From the Dark and of course the flirtatious mistress of darkness Elvira and her "Movie trying to attract our piece of the audience and to hold onto it" lie said best thing you can do is find your sliare and keep it satis- fied" Polan combs the syndicated programs market for first-run shows lie hopes viewers are eager to watch And he also tries to keep the station up to date technologically When KVOA-TV Channel 4 started broadcasting in stereo KPOL made some adjustments to its equipment and went stereo too Thus far ratings have been poor for Channel 40 When the station conies in third among tlie three independents Polan said feel bad for about three minutes "We would like to be number one hut if providing service for viewers happy to he able to do that" Polan hopes to arrest constant money losses the station has suf fered by the end of this year But lie do it by selling the station nor ill he let KPOL "go (off the air) an optimist going to be a fight for 1 1 40 and 18 for a lie aid "We have to let Tueson know independent television is a quality too gently Gasdal and Pepe are the gold-digging Rita Walker done in a blond wig by Glenda Young and the I rench officer Captain DuJour who is delightfully portrayed by Tim Gilbert Caught between these opposing forres are Quinn and his native honey Takonga sweetly interpreted by Jane Merrifield Gregory in waist-length hair and a painted face Most of the special effects are confined to papier-mache crocodiles a hippo a tiger and an elephant Two long scenes on the Dark River with the shoreline rolling by are dizzying in last show though the promise ut the concept fulfilled in the performance What could have been a great send-up of all the dated jungle cliches from our beloved grade movie past turned out to he just pleasant entertainment The olio of song and dance was a nostalgia trip back to the senior prom with the cast in tuxedos and those overstyled gowns that ould look out of place anywhere else but in a high school gym As in many of these olio displays it was a Stewart Gregory vocal that stopped the show This time the song was "Only which Gregory sang to a broom Some other hits on the list were Teenage Prayer" "Tutti I and "Moments To Peril of the Dark continues Wednesdays through Sundays at the Gaslight Theatre 7000 Tanque Verde Road through June 7 1 23-piece portrait collection 2-SxlOt 3 Sx7s IS wallets 3 miniature charms on your choice of traditional nursery spring or foil background includes 95( deposit JdLE i o' TERRY WILSONTucson Citizen of KPOL-TV Polan said kepi costs low by maintaining a staff of just 24 people Then lie looked into the kinds of programs that lie thought would bring in viewers and rating points "I he say you go for the kids lirst" Polan said But that premise ver) promising because Gaslight Theatre Nick Sievert Glenda Young Joe Cooper are conniving to gel the other half of a treasure ma) for a hidden trove of diamonds I liter Maxie Baines the damsel ho quite in distress plated bv the sophisticated looking Susan Wedekind She lias tlie oi tier half of the map and wants to hoop it along with the half she have Being resourceful in her own waj she enlists the aid of the liarf rat Cappy played by a grizzled Michael Woodson and constant companion I alula a gorilla suited actor ho get anv listing in the east credits Joining the lorces of evil with Odds and ends Native American religion bs practiced by the Sioux will lie taught by lame Buffalo (aka Hobby Woods) 9 am to 4 pm Saturday and Sunday at Holiday Inn Broadway downiown Registration is $80 call 821-5073 the program is sponsored by the Native American Research and 1 raining Center and the Cross-Cultural Studies Program Arizona Archaeology Week at the UA uses the theme Past Made Public" Arizona State Museum will show its behind the scenes operations and collection rooms ui an open Iioiisp from 4 to 7 tonight ih the zSM North and South Buildings Tours of an ancient Hohokam village will be offered Irom 10 am to 2 pm tomorrow at tlie northwest corner of Sandario and Magee roads in Avra Valley At (lie Arizona Slate Museum main exhibit I mil then will he an autograph party for Lmil Maury from 3 to 5 pm today Stono-i lopping and poitery-inakmg demonstrations will he given from 8 to 8 pm Prom 7 to 9 pm tomorrow there will he slide presen-tu ions and disi ussionsofari haeologi-cil projects in Arizona in Room 20 1 of Hioseieuees est A tour of Northern 'I in sou Basin arc haeologieal sites is scheduled for Saturday 1 or details call William llolimann 821 4011 or 793 4381 emy 3 (PG) 5 30 7 20 930 (2) 9 12 Weeks (R) 5:15 7:30 9 45 FOOTHILLS (Plitt): (1) Care Bears 2 (G) 1:15 2504 15 (2) in Pink (PG-1 3) 6 8 9 50 (3) Gobots (G) 1:30 (4) Down and Out in Beverly Hills (R) 3 055 15 730 940 (5) Money Pit (PG) 1 3 5 7:05 9 10 (6) Gung Ho (PG-1 3) 1245 255 5 05 720 930 NEQ LOFT: (1) Turtle Diary (NR) 730 9 30 ORACLE VIEW (AMC): (1) April Day (R) 2 1 5 5 30 7:45 9 45 (2) Sleeping Beauty (G) 2 5 7 9 (3) Out of Africa (PG) 2 530 8 45 (4) Rad (PG) 2 30 5:15 7:30 9 45 PARK MALL (Mann): (1) The Color Purple (PG-1 3) 1210 3 5 50 8 45 (2) Down and Out in Beverly Hills (R) 12 15 2-354 557 15 935 (3) April Day (R) 1 2 45 245 a a a 45 a 45 (4) Sleeping Beauty (G) 12 50 4 40 6 30 8 20 SHOWCASE (AMC): (1) Hannah and Her Sisters (PG-1 3) 230 5 30 8 15 (2) Always (R) 2 1 5 5 45 8 30 TUCSON FIVE: (1) Sleeping Beauty (G) 7 1 5 1 0 1 5 The Journey of Natty Gann (PG) 8 45 (2) Gung Ho (PG-1 3) 7 1035 Summer Rental (PG) 9 05 (3) Money Pit (PG) 715 10 40 Breakfast Club (R) 9 (4) Pretty in Pink (PG-1 3) 7:15 1 0 55 Wildcats (R) 9 05 (5) Police Academy 3 (PG) 7:15 10 25 Pee Big Adventure (PG) 8 55 VALENCIA VISTA (AMC): (1 Best 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