Tucson Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • 13

Entertainment Saturday April 15 1989 Tucson Citizen 30 Interchangeable Monte sequences lack freshness one step further Instead of repeating one movement over and over she has taken a few movements and built an entire dance company repertoire from them by adding an endless assortment of maddeningly small variations You find three minutes of significant difference between any two of the four pieces presented to a Centennial Hall audience of some 700 at the University of Arizona last night Monte may be developing the art of subtle evolution but an unpleasant side-effect is a sameness in the programming The narrow appeal of this approach is further complicated by refusal to do anything surprising Her choreography is distinctive but it is distinctive without any sense of risk At no point was there any feeling that her dancers wanted to rush to the edge of creativity and reach out into the black abyss beyond Instead her dancers preferred to keep their feet on the floor and go with a very graceful flow of muscle and mood The spirit of their movement always came from folk dance traditions that reach back to primitive times At its most intriguing choreography used modern dance technique to recreate the mystery that filled tribal life with threatening shadows to close the concert was the most expansive expression of this fascination First the stage was filled with smoke carved into cathedral arches by thin beams of changing light On the stage floor far below four women and three men in stylized tunics and breech cloths moved independently with a rigid detachment from any time or place They could have been dancing in the murky beginnings of Christianity sometime during the third century or they could have been celebrating an unnown ritual of the First Church of Outer Space It matter for the compelling part was the naivitd the dancers implied in their body language a belief that their uncertain lives would definitely be safer because they all knew this dance The knowledge brought them comfort But unfortunately the other three pieces and Eat also played on this belief that dance could be a hot line to the gods All of the dances were typified by slow sensual movement set in contrast with abrupt frantic movement Frequently to help space out such changes the dancers would sway from the waist like sea anemones in a gentle current This two-speed company doesn't go in for the leaps and lifts that flavor the acrobatic styles many newer groups use to attract attention in the crowded arts market style is more polite The Elisa Monte Dance Company performs again tonight at 8 pm in Centennial Hall The program will contain three new pieces plus Tickets are $14 $12 and 1 0 For details telephone the Centennial Hall box office 621-3341: prograimning dilemma Allison disputed much of the criticism of the operation of the station i He too said he know exactly who convinced the bishop to build a first-class entertainment-oriented station Whoever it was Allison said it really matter because the of the the then-pending sale of Channel 11 and the application of some would-be broadcasters for a license to operate on Channel 40 all justified the decision to make Channel 18 a full-blown commercial station The change in plans to go commercial certainly caught the competition KZAZ-TV Channel 1 1 and newcomer KPOL-TV Channel 40 off-balance KZAZ (now KMSB) on the air since 1 968 reportedly never made a profit for its owners until they sold it to a media chain a couple of years And during most of its years it was only independent station in towns How some observers ask could noi only one other but two other statioifs come in thinking that they could divide up the inadequate advertising pie even more and make a profit? KPoi was unaware i David Polan general manager olf KPOL said he was unaware that thfe diocese had changed its original plans until it was too late 1 By CHUCK GRAHAM Citizen Dance Crtic Watching the Elisa Monte Dance Company last night was like sleeping through one of those restless dreams where you wake up for a minute only to fall back asleep and have the same dream all over again Each dance was just like the one before it All of choreography was made up of the same set of completely interchangeable parts True it is fashionable in these days of minimalist art to keep repeating a note or a color or a narrow rhythm over and over until the pattern is so well established that the suggestion of any progression seems like a rude thought Now Monte has taken the concept career in 4th decade By DANIEL BUCKLEY Citizen MuacCntic His star may have been obscured by clouds at times in his thousand-song-plus career but Neil Sedaka has remained a bright and active participant in the music world for 30 years He sold more than 30 million records between 1959 and 1963 with songs like Girl" Up Is Hard to and Birthday Sweet With the rise of the Beatles Sedaka faded into the background But he never dropped out of sight there was a change of Sedaka recalled in a recent telephone interview from New York stopped recording and performing for almost 10 years During that time I was raising my family (Sedaka has a 25-year-old daughter and a son 22) and writing songs for other Sedaka will be appearing tonight with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra jLOnejLof songs sold almost 4 million copies worldwide and was a hit everywhere but in America Other Sedaka-penned songs fared better in the States notably and on a Groovy He continued to write songs for Tom Jones Peggy Lee The Monkees the 5th Dimension Johnny Mathis and Andy Williams was nice to be at home and have a normal life but I missed the audiences" Sedaka said In 1972 he moved himself and his family to London to try to get his concert career going again In 1975 was released on Elton Rocket label That same year another Sedaka song Will Keep Us became a big hit for The Captain and Tennille And his own versions of and Hungry imade the a good decade for Sedaka In recent years Sedaka has come back around to his student days doing dates with classical ensembles I started out as a student of the Sedaka said studied on a scholarship at the Juil- He said Tucson has very few local businesses which regularly need elaborate production house facilities for their commercials The production business never materialized and KDTU was left with a facility capable of doing far more than needed by a station with no news department and almost no local programming according to Tuoti and competitors Tuoti said speaking out about it now not to hurt the church or the people involved in the station but to let Catholics know what happened to their money and to let them know that Bishop Moreno is not to blame No entertainment planned The documents in Channel a file containing records of the required FCC procedures show that the diocese intended to run no entertainment or sports programming The station would also run no more than 10 minutes of advertising per hour (Tuoti says that although he anticipated that the station would run little or no ad- vertising he recommended applying for a commercial license That would allow the station to run some advertising to meet its costs and protect the investment by making the station more valuable upon resale as a commercial rather than an educational station) Its original stated intentions also nli wl All 1 II hAiiM aF mitimA included allotting 1 0 hours of prime time to Hispanic and minority affairs programming The applicant Bishop Green also stated that the station would not be used strictly by the Catholic Church but would be ecumenical in nature making its facilities and air time available to many of religious and community service-oriented groups Tuoti who was a member of a communications committee established by Bishop Green in 1980 to investigate the possible use of electronic media by the diocese said he withdrew from the application process long before the station went on air in early 1985 Tuoti then a sales executive with what is now KMSB-TV Channel 11 said he withdrew because of concern about the appearance of impropriety (He left KMSB last year but still holds stock in the company He now manages the business end of his artist career) As an employee of another commercial station he said he was concerned that his work to get the diocese a license for Channel 18 might be construed by potential competitors as an effort to limit competition for his employer Channel 11 Public service stressed Documents from the public file show that one of the strong arguments to the FCC was that the diocese would provide non-entertainment public service programming which met needs of the Tucson community not being addressed by any other station APACHE DRIVE 4N(D Anza CoY (1) ThrM Fugitives (PG-13) 7:30 11:20 Twins (PG) 9:28 (2) Leviathan (R) 7:42 1 1 Dead-Bang (R) 9:42 BUENA VISTA- (Mam) (1) Disorganized Crime (R) 1 2:45 3:1 5 5:30 7:451 a (2) Major League (R) 12:45 3:15 5:30 8 10:10 CAMPBELL PLAZA (AMC): SATURDAY (5) The Lend Before Time (G) 1 2:20 1:503:30 SUNDAY (1) A Cry in the Dark (PG-13) 12:10 2:456:107:3510:05 (2) The 'Burba (PG) 1 2:30 3 5:20 7:50 9:55 (3) Twins (PG) noon 2:30 5 7:20 9:45 (4) Her Alibi (PG) 5:30 8 10:15 (5) The Land Before Time (G) 1 2:20 1:50 3:30 CROSSROADS FESTIVAL (Cineplex Odeon): (1) iacknife (Ft) 2:15 4:4579:15 (2) Fletch Lives (PG) 2:15 4:30 7:30 9:30 (3) The Mighty Quinn (R) 2:30 5 7:15 9:25 (4) Cyborg (R) 2 3:45 6:30 7:30 930 (6) Cousins (PG-1 3) 2:30 4:45 7:1 5 9:30 (6) The Accidental Tourist (PG) 2 4:3079:20 DE ANZA DRIVE-IN (De Anza Co): (1) The Dream Team (PG-13) 7:30 11:23 They Live (R) 9:28 EL CON (AMC): SATURDAY (1) The Dream Team (PG-13) noon 2:355:107:5510:30 (2) Rain Man (R) 1:45 4:30 7:16 10:20 (3) Chances Are (PG) 11:50 2:15 4:507:259:45 (4) Skin Deep (R) 12:30 3 5:30 8:0510:1512:15 (5) She's Out of Control (PG) 12:20 2:45 5:20 7:45 10:05 12:10 (6) Say Anything (PG-13) 12:10 2:25 5 7:35 9:55 midnight SUNDAY (1 The Dream Team (PG-1 3) 1 2:05 2:355:107:5510:15 (2) Rain Man (R) 1:45 4:30 7:15 10:05 (3) Chances Are (PG) 11:50 2:15 4:507:259:40 (4) Skin Deep (R) 12:30 3 6:30 8:05 10:10 (5) She's Out of Control (PG) 1 2:20 2:455:207:4510 (6) Say Anything (PG-13) 12:10 2:2557:359:50 EL DORADO (Cineplex Odeon): (1) Fletch Uvea (PG) 2:15 4:30 7 9:15 (2) Working Girt (R) 2:30 5 7:30 9:45 (3) Dead Calm (R) 2:20 4:45 7:15 9:30 (3) Cyborg (R) 57:20 9:20 (4) Mississippi Burning (R) 2 4:30 79:30 (5) Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (PG) 248810 FOOTHILLS (Cineplex Odeon): (1) Dead Calm (R) 3:30 5:30 7:30 9:30 (2) Major League (R) 3:15 5:30 7:46 10 (3) The Dream Team (PG-13) 2:15 4:45 7:15 9:45 (4) Rain Man (R) 2 4:30 7 9:35 (5) Chances Are (PG) 2:30 4:45 7 9:15 (6) Out of Control (PG) 3:15 6:167:169:15 GALLERIA (Mam): (1) The Rescuers (G) 135:15 (2) Skin Deep (R) 8 10:30 (3) Cyborg (R) 12:45 2:45 4:45 7:30 10 (4) Major League (R) 12:15 2:45 67:3010 (5) Disorganized Crime (R) 12:15 2:4557:3010 (6) Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure 13 5 7 9 (7) Beaches (PG-13) noon 2:30 5:157:4510:15 NEW LOFT (Art Cinema Guild): (1 Pelle The Conqueror (NR) 1:30 4:15 79:30 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R) midnight (Saturday only) ORACLE VIEW (AMC): SATURDAY (1) The Three Fugitives (PG) 12:20 2:405:207:501012:10 (2) Fletch Lives (PG) 12:30 2:50 5:10 7:409:50 midnight (3) Rain Man (R) 1 4:45 7:20 10:10 (4) Troop Beverly Hills (PG) 12:10 2:30 5 7:30 9:40 midnight SUNDAY (1) The Three Fugitives (PG) 12:20 2:406:307:50 (2) Fletch Lives (PG) 12:30 2:50 6:207:40 (3)RaMMsn(R) 158 (4) Troop Beverly Hills (PG) 12:10 2:306:107:30 PARK MALL (Msnn): (1) Dangerous 12:302:4557:15 990 (2) Cousins (PQ-13) 12:30 2:45 6 7:159:20 (3) Ths Rsscuers (PG) 13 5 (4) Lsan on Ms (PG-13) 7 9:15 (5) Leviathan 169 (6) Dead-Bang (R) 3 7 VALENCIA VISTA (AMC): SATURDAY (1) Ths (PG) 12:20 2:20 6 9:65 (2) A Cry in ths Dark (PG-13) 12:10 2:40 6:10 10:18 (3) Polios Academy 6 (PG) 6:20 8 10:05 (4) TWIns (PG) boon 2:30 4:80 7:169:46 (5) Ths Land Bsfors Tims (G) 1 1 :60 1:35 SUNDAY (1) Ths 'Burba (PG) 12:20 2:20 6:067:369:50 (2) A Cry In ths Dark (PG-1 3) 4 12:30 7 9:30 4 (3) Polios Academy 6 (PG) 4 6:16 7:269:20 I (4) Twins (PG) noon 4:60 7:189:40 (6) Ths Lend Before Time (G) 12:10 1:483:30 KDTU faced Continued from 1 diocesan funding policies and commitments will remain intact Funding will come from commercials sales grants underwritings an contributions Program content will en-coinpass family entertainment' human values Community assistance and educational and informational opportunities Religious programming will consist of Catholic and of an ecumenical Cutbacks in 1887 By the time the first financial crisis at the station became public in 1987 and it made its first massive cutbacks in staff the station had 58 employees They were working in a brand new building on North First Avenue Although the money used by the diocese to build and run the station come from the parishes the debt burden from the TV station has kept the diocese from its traditional practice of loaning money to parishes for building projects It has also forced the diocese to sell its ceme- teries to the Archdiocese of Los geles and try to sell the Regina Cleri property The diocese has been reluctant to talk about the operation of the station and answers few questions about its demise Bishop Manuel Moreno in the past has commented only indirectly about the station and for this story referred all comments to diocese spokesman Fred Allison Nord-meyer the former station manager also has referred reporters to the diocese for comment Allison said the loan payments will never come from the regular weekly parish collection baskets blit from a small portion of the annual Appeal fund and from favorable loans from other US dioceses Moreno who took over as bishop and the license holder after Bishop Green retired in 1982 has only spoken once about the station publicly "That was last February in a letter to the parishes explaining the financial crisis Extravagance denied Allison a former Tucson newscaster and program director for KDTU before becoming a spokesman for the diocese denied the charges that KDTU was extravagantly equipped He says the station bought good but not top-of-the-line equipment He says top-of-the-line would be Sony equipment not the Ikegami cameras and Ampex video tape decks the station bought Nonetheless the station was and still is the most spacious in Tucson and has facilities which are the envy of most other Tucson TV employees Tuoti said the station was outfitted with unnecessarily elaborate equipment It was to be part of a plan to make the station profitable through rental of its editing facilities for advertising production work sr IN STEREO SHOWTIMES DAILY -3 33 S007 20 9 30 IN STEREO SATURDAY SUNDAY 7- I ivnsmi umm imeaT 1 1U? IN STEREO SHOWTIMES DAILY -1 245 245 445 730 1000 Neil Sedaka Preview What: A Tucson Symphony Orchestra Pops Concert with guest Neil Sedaka When: Tonight at 8 Where: Tucson Convention Center Arena Tickets: Tables of eight are available for $35 per personal Tables of 10 farther from the stage are $20 per person Arena seating is $12 and $8 with a student rush price of $5 Tickets will be available through the TSO box office (882-8585) as well as all Dillard's outlets or at the door liard School in New York I was chosen the best high school pianist in New York City by Artur Rubinstein in 1956 and got to play on WQXR our classical radio station is kind of coming full circle for me been doing these symphony dates for the past three years The symphony will begin the program and then at intermission come out and sing my own compositions with the orchestra then play a classical work with them from the piano either be in or a medley of Chopin that I put The symphony dates are just a small part of busy touring schedule which this year will take him to England Australia and Japan In Japan Sedaka has had a loyal following since the beginning of his career was one of the first American rockers to go there in 1959 They thought the name Sedaka was Japanese and assumed I was an Ameri-can-bom Japanese I saw posters of me all over the Ginza Strip with Oriental this weekend to give a free slide presentation and reading from their book presented by Among Other Things at 8 tonight at Cafe Qle at 121 Broadway This afternoon from 2 pm through 4 pm they will be signing copies of a Peregrine Smith Book published by Gibbs-Smith at The Haunted Bookstore at 7211 Northern Ave color photographs are of the spectacular canyons mesas hidden waterways arches Anasazi cliff dwellings and desert vistas Tempest Williams' small stories celebrate the legend and ritual that have come out of this desert sanctuary of secrets Verde Road 721-0311 Writer author to talk about canyons we known what they werfe doing we would have probably lookejl at the situation more Polan said Harry West of Channel 11 saifi 18 not only hurt independent stations by competing for thje already thin-stretched advertising dollar but by bidding up the price of syndicated programming He and other Tucson TV executives say KDTU often paid unprecedented prices for the rights to syndicated shows (reruns) West says KDTU representatives sometimes even paid the asking prices never even bargaining Allison has said repeatedly that the charges that KDTU overpaid for programming are exaggerated and ape from competitors He says they resented the increase In price which naturally resulted froip the increase in the number of stations bidding for alimited number of syndicated shows Tuoti said he has nothing to gain from his criticism except some satisfaction in giving parishioners in tjite Tucson Diocese a long overdue explanation In the end he said the real tragedy might be the loss by the Diocese and other Tucson religious organizations of access to a wonderful medium 4 He wryly points out that even after spending millions of dollars KD'CIJJ never brought the people of Tucsoji much in the way of regular religious programming other than taking ove) KOLD-TV Channel live weekly broadcast of Sunday Mass I i I 1 Ml Ml Ml Ml Ml Ml 1 Ml Ml Ml Ml Ml Ml Ml Ml Ml Ml Ml Ml Ml 1 Ml -I Ml II i i i i i i i i i is an intimate collaboration between photography and folklore based on one of the most extraordinary landscapes: southern desert canyons Home to the Navajo and to the' Anasazi before them the canyons also serve as (he spiritual home of what the authors call "the coyote clan thousands of individuals who are quietly subversive on behalf of the Photographer John Telford Adjunct Professor of Art at the University of Utah and writer Terry Tempest Williams Naturalist-in Residence at the Utah Museum of Natural History will be in Tucs6n Sunday Buffet Honey Glazed Ham Carved Top Sirloin Ei Benedict Chef prepared Omelcti Other Creole Cajun Special! 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