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E111-- The News and Observer Raleigh NC Saturday Oct 13 1990 9P: Films in the area 1 vocAdk 1 RA -Tv 1 'AeNi-ir-q APNI II 11 A ILJ A drops' 41Wy 1- 'CBS's Nightwatch 9 because of 900 numbers 1171AW-0 i I I directs this adaptation of Georges Simenon's disturbing ond erotic novel Varsity Chapel Hill MR DESTINY (PG-13) Michael Caine gives Jim Be lush' another shot at winning a crucial basketball game he blew way back in high school With Linda Hamilton Jon Lovitz and Courteney Cox Directed by James Orr Filmed In North Carolina Carmike 7 Pleasant Valley Willowdoile Durham NARROW MARGIN (RI Gene Hackman battles hitmen chasing a government witness (Anne Archer) aboard a train across Cana do Directed by Peter Hyams Tower Twin PACIFIC HEIGHTS (RI Michael Keaton crashes into the lives of Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine when he teases one of their apartments At first on exemplary tenant he slowly begins a psychological attack on the two in this John Schlesinger-directed suspenser Car mike 7 Imperial Pleasant Valley Ram Chapel Hill Willowdoile Durham POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE (RI Adapted by Carrie isher from her best-selling novel this Mike Nichols-directed drama explores mother-doughter relationship set against the often-unreal backdrop of Hollywood With Meryl Streep Shirley MacLaine Dennis Quaid Gene Hackman and Richard Dreyfuss Carmike 7 Mission Valley Six Forks Waverly Place Pia za Chapel Hill Willowdaile Durham PRESUMED INNOCENT (R) son Ford leads the cast of Alan Pokula's film version of the best seller by Scott Turow about a prosecuting attorney who investigates the murder of a colleague his former mistress until he is accused of the crime With Greta Scocchi Bonnie Bedelia and Brian Dennehy Mission Volley PRETTY WOMAN (RI Garry Mar shall directed this love story starring Richard Gene and Julia Roberts Falls South Hills Yorktowne Durham PROBLEM CHILD (PG) Zero stars Suburban couple John Ritter and Amy Yosbeck adopt a child who turns out to be a terror ond nearly destroys their household Directed by Dennis Dugan Riverview Durham PUMP UP THE VOLUME (RI Christian Slater goes back to high school this time portraying an insubordinate disc lackey who uses his on-air influenee to whip up morale and reunite the class members Di Triangle airwaves 'IJLI By Bob Langford it could to make an affiliate of RAL Entertainment boss Brandon Tartikoff himself came here a few years ago to woo them That's one reason CBS is always so happy to send people like weatherman Mark Mc Ewen here Another one of those bigwigs from CBS sports president Neal Filson spoke to the Durham Chamber of Commerce on Thursday Interspersed with videotape Warner Wolf would be proud to go to were the following bits of wisdom: 111 On the charge that TV money (most of which comes from CBS) is corrupting college athletics: "TV money is the healthiest thing I could imagine for college athletics The misconception is unfortunate Colleges can spend that money on coaches' salaries or recruiting trips and bigger stadia Or they can spend it on education" On the charge that the only way to keep that money coming in is to do the former: "Colleges have to make that choice some schools do both TV money is irrelevant The same schools that cheated 40 years ago are cheating today" II On a college football playoff: "It would make great television" On the charge that TV has too much control of the games themselves: "In the grand scheme of things I'm not convinced that the world is all that inconvenienced by kicking a football at 2:43 All we say is if you want our money then kick off when we ask" On the increasing importance of sports: "I'm becoming extremely concerned that we're losing our sense of humor with TV sports in America Sports is designed to be a temporary substitute for life's problems As I travel around the country it seems people have made it one of life's problems Let's not let Roger Clemens become a role model for our country" fY4 7 I r- 1 Triangle a i rected by Allan Moyle Studio Terrace STATE OF GRACE (RI Sean Penn goes undercover in his childhood neighborhood to observe the friends of his youth whonow belong to a notorious Irish gang in Hells Kitchen' The supporting cost includes Ed HarrisOldman and Robin Wright Directed by Joanou Mission Valley Six Forks Tower Mel chants Center Durham TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS (PG11)e)' star James Belushi stars an escaped' who finds an appointment book in a telephone booth and decides to take over the identity 6rits owner (Charles Grodin) Directed bv Arthur' Hiller Studio 36 FILLETTE I2 Catherine Breillor directs Delphine Zentouo in a coming-abgge drama Rialto Not rated 4A t' TIE ME UPI TIE ME DOWN! Banderas Victoria Abril Studio Not riSted one under le admitted WELCOME HOME ROXY caRmitmAE( (PG-13) Winona Ryder Jeff Daniels crrtrlik0 7 Imperial Pleasant Valley Plaza Chapel 1010 South Square Durham 44 WHITE HUNTER BLACK HEART Clint Eastwood Mission Valley Willeviclqa: Durham WILD AT HEART (R) Niptalat Cage Laura Dern Studio THE WITCHES (PG) Anielico ton Mal Zetterling Tower Twin YOUNG GUNS II (PG-13) Emilio EAtex-: et Lou Diamond Phillips Kiefer Sutherionct Waverly Place 5 Buddy Greene: In Concert A "Singles Celebration" Eveilt1 Saturday October 27th 7:30 PM Providence Baptist Church- 9225 Leesville Rd Raleigh I believe that Buddy Greene is one at the finest new artists to come along in recent '6 years I'm excited about what's happening in hie 4 ministry Bill Gaither I Buddy Greene '300 Admission Tickets Available At: Sign of The Fish Bookstores and Providence Baptist Church For Info Call Sherry at 847-541e LOCATED VS WILES WEST Cf CRABTREE PALLET MALL AT PLEASANT VALLES ROAD WELCOME HOME 6 ROXIE CARMICHAEL(G43) MEMPHIS BELLE (10:131 2:30 5:00 7:30 9:35 2:20 4145 7:20 9:45 NO VIP ACCEPTED PACIFIC HEIGHTS (A) I 2:40 5:15 7:35 9:50 I GHOSTG-13) 2:00 4:30 7:00 9:30 NARKED FOR 0E004 2:15 4:15 7:15 9:15 DESPERATE HOURS ta) 1 2:50 5:25 7:40 10:00 1 MR DESTINY(pc-13) 2:05 4:35 7:05 9:20 SPECIAL SENIOR $300 EVENING PRICE GIFT GOOKS ffl Sat NOW 101 44 74 WRAL-TV has stopped carrying CBS's overnight news I talk show 'Nightwatch" The decision to drop it for CNN Headline News had nothing to do with the show itself but with the that run during it tBS was airing ads for 900 numbers during the breaks You know the kind: "Single? Lonely? Have a MasterCard? Call me" Like WTVD RAL won't air them (WPTF and WLFL will) At first RAL tried to cover the ads but the logistics couldn't be worked out and the process required a staffer RAL also told CBS that that running Headline News a straight newscast every 30 minutes from 2 to 6 served viewers better than the softer "Nightwatch" RAL carried CNN on weekends anyway "Nightwatch" gets about a 1 rating nationwide meaning a little less than I million homes a night are tuned in About 70 percent of the network's affiliates carry the program RAL has a history of being conservative (some would say prudish) when it comes to airing controversial material It canceled "Geraldo" because management disapproved of the show's lurid topics and has been known to call the network when it objects to a scene in a movie How would the station answer those who ask why take off a quality program like "Nightwatch" because of dating-service numbers that run in the wee hours? "The 900-number issue is not about the time of day" says station manager Paul Quinn "We could have run 'Creraldo' at 2 am We just don't run program-length commercials and we just don't run ads for 900 numbers" The station may alienate some viewers because of its stand but the move shouldn't put RAL on the outs with CBS "I wish our stations carried everything we fed" says Scott Michels CBS's vice president of affiliate relations "But that's not realistic They have a different agenda than we do and they feel like this way their marketplace is better served I can't get too upset over that" Then again RAL holds the cards in its relationship with the network NBC would do anything STRIPER with guest TRIXTER appearing at the SWITCH Oct 14 9:30 PM Tickets: $15 2408 Paula St 832-5411 Triple Bill Coming Nov 10 to the Switch LONDON OUIREBOYS LITTLE CAESAR JETBOYS d) 147) --t A 411 44 pl 4 El ME ati 8 1430009 1 7 MymOINIMAL COMMA 17 PLEASANT VALLEY 1ge pd 788778 us lo a PLJAMP0 VALLIT 14 7830074 4 Np t3 Ward!" 011 0 11:1 4 a-4A 0 TOD! (Recent films are rated by staff reviewers up to four stars in ascending order of quality) AKIRA KUROSAWA'S DREAMS (PG) Famed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa Presents eight of his own dreams visualized on film Stars American director Martin Scorsese Akira Terao ond Hisoshi lgowa Rialto Varsilv Chapel Hill ANOTHER 4g HRS I 12 sear Eddie Murphy Nick Nolte and director Walter Hill ore together again for this sequel which picks up when Reggie Hammond (Mr Murphy) iss re leased from prison and comes looking for the money owed him by Jack Cates (Mr Nolte) Tryon Yorktowne Durham DEATH WARRANT (R) Von Demme stars as an undercover Officer who's wrongly imprisoned With Robert Guillaume and Cynthia Gibb Tower Merchants Willowdolle Durham DESPERATE HOURS (R) Michael Cimino directs Mickey Rourke in this remake of the 1955 Humphrey Bogart film about a treacherous escaped con who terrorizes a suburban family With Anthony HopkinS Lindsay Crouse Kelly Lynch and David Morse Cormike 7 Pleasant Valley Waverly Place Center Durham DIE HARD 2 (R Bruce Willis is bock as New York cop John McClane in a sequel centering on on elite special-forces unit that has seized a major US airport With Bonnie Bedelia William Atherton and Franco Nero Directed by Renny Harlin Starlite Drive-In Durham EXORCIST ill (RI George Scott heads the effort to resurrect the hugely Popular first "Exorcist" from its super-flop sequel The setting is Georgetown 17 years after the Original and Mr Scott ploys a police detective investigat- ing a string of grisly ritual murders of priests With Ed Flanders Bred Davit and Scott Wilson South Hills Terrace Riverview Durham FANTASIA (G) 12 Newly restored re-release of Walt Disney's classic blending ani motion and classical music Mission Volley Willowdoile Durham FLAILINERS RI cc Five medical students risk a life-after-death experiment in this thriller directed by Joel Schulmoker Lost featuring Kiefer Sutherland Julio Rob erts and Kevin Bacon Six Forks Tower Mei Chants Center Durham THE FRESHMAN (PG) 12 Marion and Matthew Broderick star in this offbeat comedy with Mr Broderick as a freshman film student whose college days ore drosti colly altered when he's befriended by The Godla ther who also happens to have an eligible daughter Written and directed by Andrew Bergman Falls GHOST (PG-13) I2 Patrick Swayze is a ghost who calls a psychic (Whoopi Goldberg) for help in contacting the love of his farmer life Demi Moore co-stars Directed by Jerry Zucker Imperial Pleasant Valley Six Forks Tower Merchants South Square Durham GOODFELLAS (RI Martin Scarsese's saga of a Brooklyn kid "adopted" by neighborhood gangsters and raised as a member of their crime family Based on Nicholas Pileg gi's non-fiction best seller "Wiseguy" Starring Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta Imperial Six Forks Tower Merchants Plaza Chapel Hill South Square Durham HARDWARE R) A robot soldier runs amok in nuclear-ravaged Great Britain in this rock-Influenced import featuring Dylan McDer mitt Lemmy (Motorhead) and John Lydon (for merly Johnny Rotten) Tower Merchants Waverly Place Ram Chapel Hill Willowdolle Durham HENRY AND JUNE (NC17) Writer-direc tor Philip Kaufman explores the relationship of author Henry Miller and his wife in Paris be tvieen the two world wars in this erotic tole token from the journals of Anais NM Starring Fred Ward lima Thurman and Maria de Medeiros Cormike 7 MARKED FOR DEATH IR Steven Seagal takes his lumps again in this actioner about a retired DEA agent who finds himself Waging a war against drugs in his hometown With Joanna Pacula and Keith David Pleasant Valley Six Forks Tower Merchants Waverly Place Center Willowdoile Durham MEMPHIS BELLE (PG 13) Drama about young American airmen who fly a 8-17 bomber called the Memphis Belle during World War II featuring Matthew Modine Eric Stoltz and John Lithgow Directed by Michael Caton-Jones Car mike 7 Pleasant Valley Waverly Place Ram Chapel Hill South Square Durham MO' BETTER BLUES (RI 12 Denzel Washington lain with writer-director Spike Lee in this Saga of horn player Sleek Gilliam who finds himself caught between two women on aspiring jazz singer Played by Cyndo Williams and a Harlem schoolteacher played by Mr Lee's sister Joie Center Durham MONSIEUR HIRE (PG-13) A lonely man who spies on his young neighbor finally meets the object of his surveillance and Is chagrined to learn that she holds a dark secret With Michel Blanc and Sondrine Elonnoire Patrice Leconte Today al 40 alSitell w4I 1 gig to 010 1A1M61ilol1 IMOD i 0414- "Malitoi 71 ((iliti))1 ttj Tird ei11611' who spies on his young neighbor finally meets the object of his surveillance and Is chagrined to learn that she holds a dark secret With Michel Blanc and Sondrine Bonnaire Patrice Leconte Today 1 1 Er py A 1 At4 tglaks it110 fito i 41 1 kti I) ft it Tsq fi I 7n :7 Ott 'ATATIT VALLTY 1113-0014 $300 US 70 AT PLEASANT VALLEY MD 1113-00141 Bernstein's celebrated controversial career 1 DANI4' 1 1 1 1 Stott photo by Laura Dorton CBS Sports President Neal Pi at Durham Chamber On why Roger Clemens the Boston pitcher who was thrown out of a playoff game for cursing at the ump would make a bad role model: "One of my children is deaf and our lip-reading ability exceeds the average American's" On whether TV rights to broadcast games will keep going through the roof: "No There are plateaus and cycles of growth We've seen a rights increase and I think it will be quite some time before we see another one" On what happens next: "The issue will be are we going to have major sports events on free TV or pay TV" Things have slowed down on the sale of WYED-TV Channel 17 to Krypton Corp because of a delay in Krypton's purchase of a station in Palm Beach Fla company president Elvin Feltner says Krypton owns 4000 movie titles and plans to air them on YED instead of the current home shopping Mr Feltner expects to file with the Federal Communications Commission within the next two or three weeks and hopes to get approval three months after that YED general manager Bob Peretic says that the delay is "hurting morale It doesn't put us in a good situation" QUICK TAKE: WTVD devotes 90 minutes to education this weekend Tonight at 7:30 comes the 30-minute version of "Question of Change" then Sunday morning at 9:30 comes the hourlong dance mix version The topic of the town meeting is state Superintendent of Public Instruction Bobby Etheridge's 20-point plan for the state's schools ed performance was any composer be it Stravinsky Beethoven Dvorak Sibelius or Copland multiplied by If a persistent criticism of his compositions was that he approached writing music like a conductor it could also be said that he approached conducting like a composer with a composer's ego He did not hesitate to alter a score to satisfy his personal vision of the music He substituted a boy soprano for a mezzo-soprano in a recording of Mahler's Fourth Symphony claiming he knew better Mahler's secret intentions He was roundly criticized In a live concert of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Berlin Wall on New Year's Day a made-for-Bernstein media orgy he changed the sung text from Schiller's "Freude" (Joy) in the famous last movement to "Freiheit" (Freedom) But many of Mr Bernstein's excesses occurred in the past 15 years His tempos inflated in equal proportion to his ego in many later recordings it seemed But as one of the most recorded conductors of the 20th century Mr Bernstein leaves an immense body of work that while perhaps uneven in spots contains many performances of the standard repertory that are remarkable for their all-out emotional conviction and uncanny evocation of the inner spirit of a piece of music A star in his own country Mr Bernstein was greatly respected as a serious musician in Europe In Vienna they loved him dearly despite his visibility as a Jew a fact that caused Mr Bernstein no small consternation But despite his ambivalence the Bernstein Vienna roots are deep BARGAIN MATINEES ALL SHOWS STARTING BEFORE 6 PM EVERY DAY DOLBY STEREO STUDINTS Evim PRICE WAD (111) It Nve il 41'''-''1 I it ---1 iek AfellNANI 1774T1so li II' li' 14 154 ip''': tit 4r4) 44- il )1( le 17:14 4 i te II a 7 i Pitl i ti 1 i r-1 I 1 7 im WINONA RYDER JFF DA EEcomE HOME CARMICHAEL Its good to want things PG-13 Jto A PARAMOUNT PICTURE 0 ---70susZgpAR odi A PARAMOUNT COMMUMCA WAeo40) WINONA RYDER JEFF WELCOME HOME CARMICHAEL It's good to want things IPG-13 Jto A PARAMOUNT PICTURE tvpniriVono itiCeSVFNIO APARAiOUNICOMMUNiCATIOUSCOMPAN't 1 Leonard Bernstein: retired Tuesday because of poor health NOW PLAYING I CHECK INDIVIDUAL THEATRES FOR TIMES I falm ralTIV: I WMMAL CONMA eitZ111 PLEASANT VALLEY kuvgra oce 111701K PtLIJANI Min ILL 7a 7s3-oom NOW PLAYING I CHECK INDIVIDUAL THEATRES FOR TIMES ral'AF I MavnErdi 111 78 PLEASANT VALLEY dMI 18 PtLIJAN1 MILAY ALL 783-0074 'I 62V 'V eif) 1 71IillAgto XiI 401E By SCOTT DUNCAN Orange County Register LOS ANGELES The news on Tuesday that Leonard Bernstein Will retire from the concert stage due to failing health signals the probable end to the most celebrated and controversial conducting career of any American conductor To consider Mr Bernstein simply a conductor of course is to acknowledge only one component of his complex musical personality He has one of the most blinding musical talents of the 20th century one that refracted its brilliance for better or worse through a prism of careers that included conductor serious composer pianist educator Broadway innovator and one of his own invention cultural media star Word now that his deteriorating health blamed on emphysema has caused him to cancel all his 'conducting dates casts a shadow bver his multifaceted abilities But for the time being it's his loss as a conductor that will be felt most immediately on the international musical scene as well as in the mind of the general public Mr Bernstein was a conducting sensation since the evening of Nov 14 1943 when he stepped in to conduct the New York Philharinonic for an ailing Bruno Walter In a typical Bernstein confluence pf artistic and media hype the concert review made the front Page of The New York Times Fifteen years later after nurturing by Serge Koussevitzky a fitful number of conducting successes in Europe and a renowned stint as composer of Broadway musical theater Mr Bernstein was named music director of the Philharmonic It was this appointment the first native-born American to be named music director of a Big Five orchestra (Boston Philadelphia Cleveland and Chicago are the other sites) that launched his international career and cemented his reputation in this country as America's most prominent classical musician At 40 he was America's musical kid genius astride the two worlds of classical and popular music in a way that George Gershwin dreamed about but never achieved Mr Bernstein composer of the Broadway shows "West Side Story" and "On the Town" and hybrid stage works such as "Trouble in Tahiti" and "Candide" Was now conductor of the leading orchestra in the nation's cultural capital To several generations of Amer 4 M4 goVir4 MIRA M4 AGIT4 RER Disqounti 4Mi C1Z-0 Appreciation leans Mr Bernstein the conduc tor came to personify classical music Taking his lead from Leopold Stokowski he embraced the media age and became the first television maestro He turned the podium into an electronic pulpit through his path-breaking "Omnibus" television programs and his later "Young People's Concerts" where he displayed his gift for making complex musical concepts understandable to the general public His most lasting memory paradoxically will perhaps be the visual image Mr Bernstein on the podium urging on an orchestra his face an emotive kaleidoscope his body an exotic repertoire of gyrations and contortions and his matinee-idol looks even at 72 a seductive and potent presence that can mesmerize As a conductor Mr Bernstein moved delighted shocked and sometimes scandalized his audiences But it was always sincere And rarely boring Mr Bernstein's unabashed podium mannerisms his "Lenny Leaps" and histrionic gestures became his trademark with the public but a bane at times to critics Mr Bernstein's longtime nemesis former chief music critic of The New York Times Harold Schonberg wrote in one famous review that "Bernstein rose vertically a la Nijinsky and hovered there a good 15 seconds by the clock" He became a conductor who was one of the most romantic in temperament of our time Mr Bernstein once said Gustav Mahler was "Gervnan music multiplied by A Bernstein-conduct CEILING FAN MFG DISCOUNT DAN'S are DESCRIPTION LIST AMOUNT PRICE! 6 42" BRASS PARK AVFNUE 70 '40 '30 4 52' WHITE HUNTER COASTAL BREEZE '125 '25 '100 4 52" BRASS HUNTER COASTAL BREF7F '140 i25 '115 5 42" WHITE CEILING HUGGER '80 MO 140 6 42" BRASS BIMINI BREEZE '90 '45 '45 5 52" WHITE CEILING HUGGER '90 '45 '45 8 52 BRASS CEILING HUGGER '100 '50 '50 4 52" WHITE BIMINI BREEZE '90 '45 845 6 52" BRASS BIMINI BREEZE '100 '50 '50 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