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The News and Observer Raleigh NC Wednesday March 7 1990 Films in the area Channel 50 will be market's third independent the great equalizer cable Cablevision of Raleigh unaware that the station was in the works could not saywhether it would carry it "But any time there's new programming" says area manager Jimmy White "we're interested" LOOSE CANNONS (R) on Avkravd Gene Hackman Terrace Twin MADHOUSE (PG-13) John Larraattette Kirstie Alley Carmike 7 Mission Valley SIX Forks Station Tower Merchants' Waverly Place Carolina Chapel Hill Willowdalle our A MAN CALLED SAME Gary Kratner Marc Singer Terrace Twin MEN DON'T LEAVE (PG-13) Jessica Lange Imperial Pleasant VaneyTower Merchants Village Twin Ram Chnizel South Square Mail Durham MY LEFT FOOT (R) 1)4nittl DaYLawis Fiona Shaw Mission Volley NIGHTBREED (R) Zero (tom ei-Dovid Cronenherg Charles laid Tower Twiti4Sauth Square Mall Durham REVENGE (R) Kevin Costn0 4ocleseine Stowe Anthony Quinn Carmike 7 Si Forks Station Tower MerchantsWaxierlY Place Ram Chapel Hill Center Ddrhan) ROGER ME (R) Docymentari Pleasant Valley South Square Moil Durham SEX LIES AND VIDEOTAPE (R WT- James Spoder Andie MacDowell Studict 1141 SKI PATROL (PG-3) Martin Mb114RaV Walston Carmike 7 Pleasant Valley nwer Merchants Waverly Place( WiHowderte pur ham STEEL MAGNOLIAS (PG-13) -14 Sally Field Dolly Parton Shirley Maclaine Carmike 7 Imperial Tower MerchantipArtillow- daile Durham STELLA (PG-13) Bette MIdIet John Goodman Six Forks Station Plaza 010Oei South Square Mall Durham TRUE LOVE (R) Ron Eidard Annahella Sciorra Plaza Chapel Hill THE WAR OF THE ROSES (R) Michael Douglas Kathleen Turner Danny DeVi to Studio THE WHITE GIRL Beyer Imperial Willowdaile Durham Can a market this size handle los three independent TV stations? We'll find out in about a year I when Channel 50 comes on the air eSk Triangle "Somebody" predicts license voNy ainvaves holder Grant Cotton "probably -77'':" won't survive" Iv By Bob Langford He obviously wouldn't start a 'uoial station he thought would go under and WLFL is in fine shape so it's from a site in Apex and start no secret that Mr Cotton thinks a looking for an office in about three new station in Raleigh could put months Fayetteville's WKFT out of busi- Mr Cotton a Durham resident ness and board member of the Atlanta "Reports of our death have been TVradio ministry In Touth tas premature" says KFT general no plans to do religious program-manager Dick Armfield "I've ming beyond the usual paid pro-been hearing that for five years" grams that most independents The standard formula is that the run He'll show the usual iddepentop 25 markets can handle three dent fare like prime-time movies independents markets 25 to 50 syndicated first runs and reruns can support two and over that it But Channel 50's advantage depends on the market over KFT Mr Cotton says will Raleigh-Durham is No 33 ana be geography growing And although these are "Being a Raleigh station puts us tough times for Tv and radio in a position to cover the market stations (witness WRAL's drop- well" he says "Better than ping CBS three nights this week to Channel 40" air paid-for Billy Graham spe- Mr Cotton who owns the Econo cials) Mr Armfield says this Lodge in Durham and will soon market may be able to support open a fast-food franchise called' three independent stations Rally's was general manager at "We have the weakest NBC LFL until he sold it to Virginia affiliate in America" he says Beach-based TVX He says either "That frees up additional audi- he or "someone better qualified" ence for other sources" will run the station Mr Cotton who brought WLFL One thing that 'could make or on the air in 1981 will broadcast break a new station is getting on the fact that it wants to drive FXC out of the format All this especially the latter -has new program director Hozie Mack ready to throw down the gloves "It just makes us hit the streets more aggressively" Mr Mack says "This will just prove the viability of this staff and this program director" Still FXC with 3000 watts has to compete against a 100000-watt station licensed to South Boston "Everyone talks about power power power" Mr Mack says "We don't care about getting into Virginia we're the local station for Raleigh Durham and Chapel Hill The power thing doesn't intimidate me in the least" Mr Mack says his program ming will concentrate on the flow from one song to another and cut down on rap music Rap songs he says will be played mostly at night and farther apart "We had the perception of being the rap station" Mr Mack who has been at the station two years says "We'll be a lot more comfortable for adults" QUICK TAKES: The first five days of WUNC-TV's million-dollar fund-raiser is over at the end of "Sesame Street" Tuesday $214000 had been pledged Raleigh Symphony impressive in concert WFXC 1071 has been on the ropes before and has always been able to come back And although it finished a fairly strong seventh in the last Arbitron ratings There are those who are ready to write it off as a major player in the market Foxy has lost to urban contemporary rival WQ0K in five of the last six ratings books and rumors of its impending sale won't seem to go away "I've been hearing those ru mors too" says Stephen Seola chief financial officer of parent Pinnacle Broadcasting "But there are no immediate plans to Its program director Dell Sp6ncer who was named program director of the week by Billboard magazine last summer has gone to a new urban station in Louis ville Ky And to top it off WQ0K which was the top station in the market in the latest Birch monthly report makes no bones about ro a piece of plucking with 'jazz overtones that Mr Karr per formed with Jess Levin the sym--- phony's able -concertmaster The Raleigh Symphony in its final concert of its regular season showed mare signs of maturity Music Director Alan Neilson led a solid reading of Beethoven's Sym phony No 7 The string ensemble was generally excellent (except for an uncertain fugal section in the second movement) the wood Studio I II 1 1 1 1 The Fabulous War ot The Roses Baker Boys Hj 7:45 Sex Lies end Videotapes 9:45 Hillsborough StElectric Co Mall 755-1223 RryoN $qoo All A9es iL All Times 1 IT 772-6894 wIDhreecituired 1 TRYON HILLS SHOPPING CTN movie rated rjr i 1 :2 Eddie Murphy HELD oval I Eddie Murphy I 2nd HARLEM NIGHTS DE I Big Week MonFri 7:00 9:05 1 Sat Sun 2:50 4:55 7:00 9:05 9 AcNIADDmEgYAIAZiir g)PgiNg) misc93tAisi WORD OnEON IMMICARDINAM11 CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS FOR SHOWTIMES 7879S6S cARmiKE I CINEMA? 5501 Amantic songs Rd 8788778 al g): low AA 68 Wain EX 00EON MIIIILCARDINALMII I 767966 'CHECK LOCAL Eirrirtirrom LISTINGS SHorAllIVIES 834-8520 Springs Rd' '88778 1 Bassist Karr By DAVID PERKINS Correspondent Watching someone play a solol double bass is like watching an elephant dance No matter how gracefully it's done it's hard to believe it's really meant to hap- pen at all Gary Karr does not try to hide the humor that arises from getting his instrument up on its hind legs as it were and turning pirouettes Indeed he plays off it mugging daffily taking the occasional dance step showing off with his fingering hand But as one of the masters perhaps THE master of the instrument Mr Karr could (and probably should) forgo those tricks he can convince on purely musical terms In his performance Sunday night with the Raleigh Symphony at Meredith College Mr Karr chose two I9th-century works that 1 The Aces (Recent filmS are rated by staff reviewers Ins to four stars in ascending order of gualitY3 ALWAYS (PG) 12 Richard DreyfusS and Holly Hunter star in this reworking of the 1943 Spencer Tracyirene Dunne flick "A GuY Named Joe" Cardinal Twin BACK TO THE FUTURE II (PG-13) Michael 1 Fox Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson are back for another time trip Falls Twin South Hills Twins Riverview Twin York towne Twin Durham BORN ON THE 4TH OF JULY (R) Tom Cruise portrays Vietnam vet-activist Ron Kovic Mission Valley Six Forks Station Waver ly Place Carolina Chapel Hill Center Willow daile Durham COURAGE MOUNTAIN (PG) Charlie Sheen and Leslie Caron star in this action drama Terrace Twin CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (PG13) Or Woody Al len-d irected dromat ic comedy with Alan Aida Mia Farrow and Martin Landau Foils Twin DRIVING MISS DAISY PG)Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman star in Bruce Beres ford's adaptation of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prizewinning play Cardinal Twin Carmike 7 Mission Valley Varsity Chapel Hill Willowdolle ham DRUGSTORE COWBOY (R) Mott Dillon and Kelly Lynch in a drama about four '70s-era drug addicts trying to kick their habits '70s-era drug addicts trying to kick their habits Rialto ENEMIES A LOVE STORY (R) Paul Mazursky directed this adaptation of the Isaac Bashevis Singer novel With Ante lica Huss ton and Ron Silver Pleasant Valley THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS (R)12 Comedy with Jeff and Beau Bridges Michelle Pfeiffer Studio 1811 FIELD OF DREAMS (PG)- An Iowa farmer (Kevin Costner) hears a voice telling him to build a baseball diamond In the middle of his cornfield South Hills Twin GLORY (R V2 Denzel Washington Morgan Freeman Matthew Broderick Mission Valley Pleasant Valley Six Forks Station Waverly Place Ram Chapel Hill Willowdaile Durham HARD TO KILL (R) Zero stars Steven Seogal stars as a cop who reawakens after seven years in a coma and seeks revenge for the murder of his family Cormike 7 Pleasant Valley Tower Twin Waverly Place Plaza Chapel Hill Center Durham HARLEM NIGHTS (R) Zero stare Eddie Murphy's gangster comedy Tryon THE HAUNTING OF MAURELLA (R) Edgar Allan Poe thriller with David McCollum and Lana Clarkson Village Twin THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (PG) Sean Connery plays Marko Alexondrovitch Ramlus the captain of the Soviet sub Red October When the vessel is discovered close to America's Eastern seaboard without authorization CIA analyst Alec Baldwin is summoned to Investigate Directed by John McTiernon based on the novel by Tom Clancy With Scott Glenn James Earl Jones and Sam Neill Carmike 7 Imperial Pleasant Valley Six Forks Station Tower Merchants Varsity Chapel Hill Center Willow doile Durham THE LITTLE MERMAID (G) Disney animated fairy tale Pleasant Valley THE LITTLE THIEF (R) in 19503 France this Claude Miller-directed drama tells LOOK WHO'S TALKING PG-I3) Travolta Kirstie Alley Tower Merchants Riv erview Twin Yorktowne Twin Durham CARDIAIMEr11111 Nonh Hills Shopping 87-9565 ALWAYS DRIVING MISS DAISY IR El 'TOWER 3 iTower 36 COMA '21 i NIGHT BREED RI HARD TO KILL TOWER MERCHA 1 6 3670 Bastion Lan 31-647 SKI PATROL 2 720-935 REVENGE gl 7:009:30 STEEL MAGNOLIAS 2 HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (NO PASSES NO VIP TICKETS) MADHOUSE affl LOOK WHO'S TALKING Kill -115 ONLY MEN DON'T LEAVE GIEEEI 9:20 ONLY (NO PASSES NO VIP TICKETS) SIXFORKS 1 Forum Drive 13' 2120 HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER ad (NO PASSES NO VIP TICKETS) BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY ffE 8:00 ONLY STELLA LeTA REVENGE lifli MADHOUSE GLORY IN WAVERLY 2001 Midair Farm Rd 0519713 REVENGE Ell BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY 111 8:00 ONLY HARD TO KILL IE GLORY 031 MADHOUSE SKI PATROL i 03M Tut 1 or :1 ital essage BILLY GRAHAM 'TOMIGEN PLEASE CHECK SHOWTIMES DAIL 13M too ate to come g) home Tune" or :11 ra a Oat 7 TEMDS ome 4bb 1: 1424 i 0 t''- I 0- It i' 47: 41 tr 1 :00314 4 4 1 '1 1 1 BILLYGRAHAM 04 TOLlIGETT I RALEIGH CARY Spring Forest at At Wilt 1146 Kildatre Farm 878-8159 467-2386 rxrcyzatr---- 1141451 tit il 41 11 -iblil Box office opine I 30 REVENGE El RALEIGH CARY Spring Forest at Allarat 1146 Kildatre Farm 878-8159 467-2386 BARGAI MA INE 2 rsit-Imttognolocilt51 TiAW 11 Box office I 30 REVENGE El winds did nice solo'work and the horns went all out at the sion of the first movement Indeed the orchestra was so secure technically that one wanted Mr Neilson to demand more of it a deeper thrumming from the 'cellos in the second movement and a rollicking finale that pushed closer to the edge of dizziness The Raleigh Symphony has a lot going for it could use a little more of the courage of its convictions The Little Thief Francois Truffaut 7:00 Flavor Forecast Flavor of the Day Berry Malted SKI PATROL' HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER NO PASSEES NO DISCOUNT DRIVING MISS DAISY STEEL MAGNOLIAS HARD TO KILL 832-8151 MF RON Vit 00X OFFICE OWENS MEN DON'T LEAVE HAUNTING OF MORELLA BOX OFFICE OPENS 630 A MAN CALLED SARGE Ipat31 COURAGE MOUNTAIN pm 7:00 LOOSE CANNONS 9:00 A ffittelL 4FAitstg-a346K1 UP I SOS OFFICE OPENS 630 CRIMES lit MISDEMEANORS FV31 '111 BACK TO THE FUTURE 2 Is BOX OFFICE OPENS 630 BACK TO THE FUTURE 2 FIELD OF DREAMS 4 boi LEASANTNALLEYA US 70 Al:" VALLEY RD 713-0074 The Little Thief 1 Drugstore Francois Truffaut Cowboy I 111 7:00 9:00 1 le IRIALTO vow 1-ae9 :7 GOODBERRY'S FROZEN CUSTARO oar JIMA II SKI PATROL HARD TO KILL al 0 1161-47541 AM 2: 1 1 rF RON MI I' I AM EIOX OFFICE OWENS 630 81 I tio4 99C A Eil A 467-0387 I trolrdlilli 1 Lij 1 Villar A SOUTH HILLS SHPG CBI BOX OFFICE OPENS 630 BACK TO THE FUTURE 2 rg 4 FIELD OF DREAMS III 715410 'Do not climb the hill until you get to draw the last trump and the club to it" jack was cashed A heart was led to English proverb dummy's king and East's ace and dummy's club queen remained By BOBBY WOLFF stranded South lost two hearts a diamond and a club for one down NORTH 3-7-A A better plan is to delay the dia 85 mond ruff and lead the'club king at 542 trick two West wins and shifts to 4107 hearts East winning the queen and Q762 ace before leading a second trump WEST EAST South wins cashes his club jack and 4742 463 his top diamonds and then ruffs a IP J98 IP A Q106 diamond with dummy's trump king Q62 883 The club queen provides for a dia4 A1085 4943 mond discard and the defenders get SOUTH only two hearts and a club 4 AQ1109 When you plan your play there's 173 no substitute for counting your pos A 54 sible tricks and looking far enough ahead to ensure that they will be Vulnerable: Both cashable NORTH 3-7-A 4 85 542 107 4 Q762 WEST EAST 742 463 1P198 1PAQ106 Q62 4 1983 4 A1085 4943 SOUTH 4AQJ109 173 AK54 Vulnerable: Both 1 Music review valued pyrotechnics over melody and demanded a basic oom-pah-ph from the orchestra Thus he did not make a case for the double-bass as a singing romantic or modern ex pressive instrument which would have been interesting Mr Kerr set out to astonish he succeeded In a concerto by Dragonetti and a set of Paganini variations on a theme from Rossini's "Moses in Egypt" originally for violin he was technical supremacy itself His intonation was always pure throughout the fastest runs every entry was crisp every phrase a lesson in building and relaxing tension I His sense of Mischief escaped in I several encores including most I notably 4Tizzicats" by Paul 1111116111 BID WITH THE ACES South holds: 8 5 5 4 2 107 6 2 North South 1 1 IP 1 ANSWER: One no-trump This is not a constructive second bid It is merely a correction of contract and is non-forcing Send bridge questions to The Aces PO Box 12363 Dallas Texas 75225 with self-addressed stamped envelope for reply Copyright MO United Feature Syndicate 3533 -1 I IPttritrt! iloA ow vS cribuk LAST CHANCE 20TH CENTURY CIRCUS HERO Today at 11:00 AMt 7:30 PM thru Sun MAIL 11 Dorton Arena MC State Fairgrounds Thu MAR 8 Fri MAR 10 7 Sun MAR ec wirnurv Is 28at KROGER 4 WPIF-TV KIDS' 511911p SAVE $150 ON KIDS UNDER 12 with 7 coupons from KROGER Ete H0111100181 NIGHT One FREE Commemorative Circus PolUer will be given to each child under 12' yem of age upon entry to the Arena with full-priced paid admission to the show TONIGHT (MAR 7) TO GET YOUR TICKEIS IN PERSON: Donor ARENA pax OFFICE (no service charge) all TICMION locations RALEIGH CIVIC CENTER KERR DRUG (Mission Valley) SHIRTSTOP (Crabtree Valley Mall) THE DURHAM RITZ (Durham) VISART NEWS VIDEO (Durham Chapel HQ PARADISE (Fayetteville) 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TONIGHT (MAR 7) TO GET YOUR TICKEIS IN PERSON: Donor ARENA pax OFFICE (no service chair) all TICMION locations RALEIGH CIVIC CENTER KERR DRUG (Mission Valley) SHIRTSTOP (Crabtree Valley Mall) THE DURHAM RITZ (Durham) VISART NEWS VIDEO (Durham Er Chapel HQ PARADISE IIECORDS (Fayetteville) (service d'art added sit outlets) BY PHONE: 141004433041 MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED I (service barge added to phone orders) Information: (919) 936-1612 AIL SEATS RESERVED 0PRa INWIDTAt 9930 91150 G(3011 Sir S' RW11M MADHOUSE MADHOUSE rPG131 Dealer South The bidding: South West North East 14 Pass 24 Pass 44 Pass Pass Pass Opening lead: Spade four When is the best time to ruff a loser with one of dummy's idle trumps? As soon as possible" does not fit all situations and today's hand offers a good example South won the trump lead quickly cashed his top diamonds and ruffed a diamond in dummy He led a low club back to his king and West's ace and West persisted with another trump Declarer overtook dummy's king LiNifirErunRi I 4Tyr MISSION VAL a ent er Ft MY LEFT FOOT MADHOUSE trd DRIVING MISS DAISY al GLORY BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY 'TIE I MPERIALLCINEMAS :00 1211Macfhardi I 01 oo THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER gi (NO VIP DISC TILL 316) MEN DON'T LEAVE EA (NO VIP DISC 1ILL19) THE WHITE GIRL KA (NO VIP DISC TILL 9) 'STEEL MAGNOLIAS Fg 7:159:45 BOWL MOONLITE Every Weekend Fri Sat 11:30 pm 1:30 am Check in Time 10:30 pm LiNDgEW itr2meo ff ti 1 r': '''I 7 ci: ipciif 1 'ilc 't 1 i01 I I It: lili io Vs' 11 7 1 0:00 -at r'' 111 SPECIAL 00 at 5 "Bring the gang bowling" IYESTERII LAIIES BARGAIN MATINEES ALL SNOWS STARTING BEFORE 6 PM EVERYDAY DOLBY STEREO INDICATED BY HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER 1:00 4:00 7:00 4:50 VI No PASSES OS TIM OPTED ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS ENEMIES A LOVE STORY AA MO 9:30 al 3 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS DISNEY'S LIME MERMAID 1120 3:10 3:00 5 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS GLORY his to LE SKI PATROL i41 ii30 53O 1:45 10:05 El HARD TO KILL 7:10 ROGER ME MO lak MS a MEN DON'T LEAVE 225 4:501:35 1040 Poll NO MSC Ot tit NOES AMITED woe 2512 Hillsborough St 832 TIIE -ft Li MI 40 FOR filfri ro kiro THE HUNT IS ON sEnHcomiEr ALECEALTKEI! 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