The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 17

ACTION LINE7B MOVIE TIMES4B COMICS6B TV-RADIO8B Tuesday May 10 1988 The Miami Herald Section 3 musicals top Tony Award heap Phantom Woods Anything Goes receive 10 nominations apiece tition Phantom faces for best musical Phantom might have led all nominated musicals except for a key omission Sarah Brightman who plays the imperiled diva Christine was ignored in the best actress category although Phantom of the Opera was created for her by Lloyd Webber who happens to be her husband There were other omissions among likely nominees including Morgan Freeman as best actor in a musical for The Gospel at Colonus Bernadette Peters as best musical actress for Into the Woods Joe Mantegna for best actor in Speed the Plow and Christopher Plummer who was snubbed for Macbeth though co-star Glenda Jackson was not despite the fact that his reviews Please turn to TONYS 2B for the fourth nomination in the all-American best play category Wilson's work did get a pair of nominations in other categories but star John Malkov-ich was also passed over despite his memorable performance as the incendiary Pale Unlike last year when three British shows and an American flop comprised the best musical category Phantom of the Opera is the sole British musical in the running for the Tony Chess whose leads are nominated as best musical actor and actress earn a best musical nomination and Carrie is opening this week too late for consideration this season The Sondheim-James Lapine fairy-tale update Into the Woods the little two-part American musical Romance Romance and the South African Sarafina! are the compe three musicals grabbed 30 of 76 nominations in 19 categories for the Tonys which will be presented June 5 during ceremonies broadcast from 9 to 1 1 pm on CBS Butterfly by Chinese-American playwright David Henry Hwang leads the best play category with seven nominations Six went to Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson who won both a Tony and the Pulitzer Prize for last fences and three (though none for Madonna) to David Speed-the-Plow Lee A Walk in the Woods beat out Lanford Bum This By CHRISTINE ARNOLD Herald Theater Critic It is shaping up as one of the hottest and most American Tony Award races in years Nominees for the 42nd annual awards honoring a rebounding best work during the 1987-88 season were announced Monday and a trio of musicals leads the pack with 10 nominations each: the sassy Lincoln Center revival of Cole Anything Goes Stephen South Florida-bound Into the Woods and the Andrew Lloyd Webber megamusical Phantom of the Opera Together the Michael Crawford as the Phantom and Sarah Brightman as Christine in The Phantom of the Opera Self-help is key to relief of back pain Genetics may play a role but you can still make a difference A glT'r! Did your grandfather or your mother have a Chances are you have a high-er-than-average risk of the same problem A new study by doctors at the University of Miami School of Medicine and the Maimonides Medical Center of Brooklyn NY suggests sore backs like bunions could run in the family just gloomily anticipate the inevitable says one of the researchers Dr Mark Brown chairman of orthopedics and rehabilitation at the Miami medical school Understanding that bad back could be yours years from now gives you time to strengthen your body His recommendation: Exercise and watch your diet to avoid growing a potbelly and becorn- ing overweight and smoke it interferes with the nourishing flow of oxygen to your spinal disks Smokers have a higher incidence of chronic back pain than nonsmokers and the problem increases in proportion to the amount of smoking learning good body mechanics you can decrease the incidence frequency and severity of attacks and once an attack occurs get better more quickly" says Brown However having no apparent family history of back problems guarantee you get them have known for a long time that the entire human population has a high incidence and prevalence of back pain and sciatica at one time or Brown says pain is second only to the common cold in time lost from work and expense to people and the So you have a bad back already Do you take to your bed whenever it hurts? You could do more harm than good Prolonged bed rest once the first-choice medical treatment for back problems is out of favor wrong to put people in bed for anything but one or two days when the pain) is really severe and they says Dr Alf Nachem- Pleuse turn to HEALTH 3B Topsy-lurvy TV: Sanchez is hack iS 9 TOM DOLPHENS Miami Herald Stall By LIZ BALMASEDA Herald Staff Writer CRACK GETS THE PUBLICITY BUT EXPERTS SAY ALCOHOL AND MARIJUANA ARE BIGGER PROBLEMS FOR TEENS There has never been a week like the last week in the once stable world of South Florida television This is a new week And it just gets curiouser and curiouser Monday WSVN-Channel 7 announced that it was re-hiring Rick Sanchez Yes that Rick Sanchez The local boy the kid who grew up in Hialeah and made good The STEVE SONSKY hen she was 12 Nicole tried to kill herself by taking a bottle of sleeping pills To cool her off her parents sent her to California to visit relatives The people she met there told her things so bad said would you commit suicide when she recalls And so at age 12 Nicole smoked pot That same year she moved to California with her mother and fell in with an older party crowd One night her cousin made her up to look much older and they went to a keg party on the beach That was the first time she remembers getting thoroughly drunk That w'as three years and a lot of hangovers ago Today Nicole which is not her real name is undergoing extensive treatment at Anon Anew a Boca Raton hospital specializing in chemical dependency This week Anon Anew patients will join activists across the state in the annual Red Ribbon campaign The signs are hard to miss: scarlet ribbons knotted everywhere a reminder of intensifying battle against the spread of drugs Dade 2-year-old campaign spread quickly across the state in a mov to change attitudes toward drugs and increase awareness of the problem Broward held its observances Monday Wednesday is the day in Dade and Palm Beach counties Those who battle drugs more than once a year say the campaign is good for the sake of education and prevention voung only 29 now glib TV newsman vv ho nearly two years ago now had to walk away in disgrace from his job as the weekend anchor with the big future at Channel 7 after he was linked by government wiretaps to Alberto San Pedro the accused Hialeah influence-peddler Sanchez was never accused of any wrong-doing himself other than exercising extremelv bad judgment with someone he thought was a "source Indeed His friendship with San Pedro tainted him irreparable- as a journalist in this town He let San Pedro pick up $2000 tabs at posh Coconut Grove nightclubs he let San Pedro get his uncle a job in Panama You function as a journalist w-ith that kind of judgment Or so it seemed hen Channel 7 vanked Sanchez off the air in 1986 finally inevitable not renewing his contract Monday he was rehabilitated Please tun TELEVISION 2B "Red Ribbon is not useless It serves to raise awareness But not the end of says James Rivers deputy director of the Office of Substance Abuse Control overseen by the Dade County manager campaigns tell you how to say no how to avoid the invitation from peers Kids have a need for graceful strategies that lose them friends or label them Rivers says He points to a May 1987 Harvard marketing study on the impact of anti-drug campaigns that found kids did not believe the celebrities in anti-drug commercials figuring the stars ere just getting paid for doing them Says Dr Frank La Vecchia director of the adolescent programs at Anon Anew: never know what kid is going to pav attention to what message I think these ads are Please turn to KIDS AND DRUGS OB 4 -1 i.