Tucson Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • 21

i i People i 'jV 1 Channel 18 to eliminate third of staff i i 4 o' i Turner consoled by nomination LOS ANGELES Kathleen Turner says her nomination for a best actress Oscar in "Peggy Sue Got Married" means among other things she have to handle this year Turner meant that I have to spend two weeks telling friends all right really Everybody feels so bad for you when they think you should get it and you she said Miss Turner had been considered nomination material for her earlier performances in "Body Heat" "Romancing the Stone" and Honor" but she came up empty each time i f' 4 A it 'f 4 -a EDWARD McCAINTucson Citizen Four-year-old Steven Prust uses tempera paints to create his masterpiece at The Montessori Schoolhouse By DAN SORENSON Citizen Staff Writer 1 111 1 i A third of the staff of KDTU-TV Channel 1 8 an independent station owned by the Catholic Diocese of Tucson will be eliminated by April 1 due to the financial drain on the diocese an official of the diocese said yesterday Monsignor Charles A Bast vicar general for fiscal and administrative affairs said the staff cuts will affect every department of the station except advertising sales He said the cuts which will bring the staff down from about 60 to near 40 were the result of a diocese fiscal committee meeting with the manager on Monday Bast said he did not know exactly when the cuts were announced but said the employees were given no warning that the firings were coming 3 Robert Nordmeyer the station manager did not return phone calls yesterday Marcia Aylesworth the program director and second in command said she could not comment about the cuts Bast said Nordmeyer is not being fired and said the diocesan-level intervention in the Operation did not reflect dissatisfaction with performance Bast said the firings are the result of a re-evaluation of the role in diocesan finances He said station revenues are good or better than our original He said the station was not expected to show a profit for three to five years Bast said that although the decision was made at the diocesan level it does not indicate financial problems for the entire diocese i Bast said the station was intentionally overstaffed when it began broadcasting about two years ago to make a strong initial impression He said 40 to 5Q staff members is the industry norm for stations in market areas of this size KMSB-TV Channel 11 oldest independent station employs about 45 people and KPOL-TV Channel 40 another local independent has 22 staff members according to spokesmen for those stations i Sources at competing Tucson stations have said that in addition to having a disproportionately larger staff KDTU also has consistently "overbid" for syndicated shows Bast said the direction has been more commercial than originally intended by the diocese or than it was anticipated to be by the public But he said commercial success is necessary to keep the station operating That pursuit of commercial success Bast said has forced the station to carry some programming which he said the diocese would not run under ideal conditions He said the station buys programming in which obligate it to buy and run some shows it is not interested jp to get the ones it really wants He said he did not think the staff cuts would be obvious to viewers "You can't let some people go who had full-time jobs and not have some ripple effect" Bast said JL ArT Children need classics not Michael Jackson professor says By JULIE SZEKELY Citizen Staff Writer Limited probation for Amy Carter PROVIDENCE 'RI Amy Carter and 19 other students received probation from Brown University for an anti-apartheid protest that disrupted a meeting Miss Carter daughter of former President Jimmy Carter and 18 students yesterday received limited probation the least possible penalty that the University Council of Student Affairs could have imposed short of finding them innocent Portrait by West sells for $28 million LONDON A portrait by the American artist Benjamin West has sold in London for a record $28 million said The buyer and seller were anonymous said the nearly 8-foot-high portrait depicts 18th century British naturalist and explorer Sir Joseph Banks The record for a West work was $78 1 000 paid last November by a dealer on behalf of the National Gallery of Art in Washington It depicted King Alexander III rescued from a stag West a Pennsylvania Quaker was born in 1738 and had a successful career in England as a portrait painter He was the only American ever to become president of the Royal Academy of Arts ending filmed in secret LOS ANGELES What will become of the romance between brainy barmaid Diane Chambers and the exathlete Sam Malone now that actress Shelley Long has left The net- work Lon9 telling and the final episode of the season to be shown May 7 was filmed under tight secu-J rity Tuesday She also said that good music should bel played in the classroom "I was real upset with Michael Jackson being played in the she said I asked the teachers not folk music Or I classical and they said is what they like This is what they hear at But if' the home expose the child to good music absolutely the responsibil- ity The schools there just to teach read- Ing and writing! but to pass downf the she said I Preview What: Conference Garbage in garbage out Computerphiles use the phrase to say that you get out of a system only what you put into it Stephanie Feeney uses it to describe aesthetic development in children Feeney professor of early childhood education at the University of Hawaii will be the keynote speaker I sick of seeing Big Bird and Care Bears and other cartoon characters at this "Nurturing Aesthetic Development in Young Children" con- cartoon characters on preschool walls Kids can look at better than that" Feeney said she is often disappointed when she visits preschools seen places that are dirty and disor-- ganized often with materials that are not of high quality plastic junk Mattel toys things that break By contrast she said the materials used in Montessori programs are "Maria she said "designed materials that were beautifuL They were beautifully crafted and made out of natural materials Things a child would enjoy using that give a sense of form and Aesthetics is not something that can be taught to a child Feeney said "b4ut you can surround the child with it and make it available to the child and share your own appreciation of it If I can get teachers to do nothing but take down the old dental health posters on their walls and think about what they are putting up I would be happy" she added She said parents and teachers should pay attention to color and furnishings like off-white and beige so the art stands out" she said "I like plants and beautiful art objects real art art or beautiful photographs Even taking old chairs that are all different colors and painting them all the same color she said "Nurturing Aesthetic Development in Young Sponsor Tucson Association for the Education of Young Children When: 8:30 am to 3:30 pm Saturday Where: UA Kiva Auditorium Cost: $20 on preschool zona wails Kids can "Beauty is important" Feeney said during an interview part of what makes us human Research has shown that early childhood experience makes a difference in a aesthetic awareness she said we give kids stuff that is of no value how will they ever appreciate or learn to create things of she asked and then lamented JTm sick of seeing Big Bird and Care Bears and other Feeneysald that "herding-kids onto to take them to symphony concert once a year! is not desirable Rather she suggested that teach-! ers Invite higt school and college students to visit the classroom and allow! the children to play their Instruments "Keep it small and something they can deal with said It part of their lives" I To help children understand art she sug CHILDREN continued3C Andrew Sarah plan visit to LA LOS ANGELES His schedule permitting Prince Andrew will visit Los Angeles next year with his wife the former Sarah Eerguson during a festival linking the arts of the city and the United Kingdom the British Embassy has announced The festival runs from February thrpugh April 1988 Compiled by Bruce Johnston from wiro-servlce reports Touchitoot Film Richard Dreyfuss pursues Barbara Hershey Danny DeVito plays husband Librarian new managing director of ATG Susan Goldberg has been named managing director of Arizona Theatre Company The announcement was made yesterday by Henry Sargent ATC board chairman Goldberg is a career librarian who worked in library New York before moving to Tucson 1 0 years ago to join the publ (c library staff In 1980 she was named deputy director of theTqc son Public Library In addition Goldberg served bn the Arts and Culture Committceof Tucson Tomorrow and the boards of the Cultural Alliance of Turshn and Arizona Dance Theatre Slue presently serves on the Arizona Commission on the Arts very happy and our staff Is very happy about this choice" said Gary Gisselman artistic dircclof for ATC "I have zero reservations about it" "Although (Goldberg) doesn! come from the theater field! Mm has the executive administrative and development experience VVTO wants In its managing Sargent said In a press release derided to make the change for the challenge It Goldberg' said been a falthfufstipporter of ATC for so many years it ba? been almost like a hobby It Isn't any more" A story about men women and aluminum siding By JOHN JENNINGS Citizen FilmCmc Review Inside grade Rating: profanity adult aitua-tlons Playing at: Oracle View and Park Mall BB always has been a loner and self sufficient When Nora (Hershey) comes Into his life things start to change Suddenly he finds himself calling home when going to be late so she worry Tilley on the other hand Is glad to see Nora gone sort of The only thing he regrets about tossing her out after he finds out about her affair with BB is that his foe ends tip with her Although DeVito displays a lot of the same growling snarling sclf-ccntcrness he has shown us MEN continuodO "Tin Men" is an Intriguing little story about two aluminum siding salesmen who start feuding over a fender-bender and know when to quit Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito both turn in good acting performances as the squabbling salesmen or "tin men" as they ore known in the business Caught In the middle Is Barbara I lershey as DeVito's wife whom Dreyfuss decides to pursue as a -way of getting back at his There are some funny scenes in "Tin Men" which is set in 1962 Baltimore DeVito's partner for instance spends a lot of his time worrying that "Bonanza" lacks realism "You know that show has a 50-year-old father with three 47-ycar-old sons" he says "No wonder they all get along so well all the same Dreyfuss character BB Is a make lt fast spend It fast huckster who knows every sales trick Tics deals with death On episode of the popular situation comedy "lamily self centered Alex Keaton (Mit Intel Fox) ds traumatized by the death of his close friend Greg (Michael McNamara) in a car crtrh Fr 3C in the book DeVito plays Tilley who Is in a bad slump and under the scrutiny of the Internal Revenue Service as well as a special commission Investigating aluminum siding sales scams I MV i iwt.