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6D The News Observer Raleigh NC Friday Aug 2 1991 Inspiring cast creates a dazzling rendition of 'Cinderella' I flowing from inside the palace to the privacy of the castle grounds as the clock ticks on to midnight Although Norman Coates' light- ing is much too dark for the vivacious show Eduardo Cicangco's beautiful and functional set manages to dominate the production that is marked by stunning special effects especially when the pumpkin becomes a royal coach And the cast is inspiring Tim Caudle is funny as the tubby King But Ruth Martinez Tutterow is re gal and maternal as the Queen Her big bright voice makes "Boys and Girls Like You and Me" dance Bob Wrenn makes the Stepmother a caricature of the pushy mother Hal Hudson's Portia the intellectual sister is amusing But Lauren Kennedy gets far more humor out of Joy the near-sighted sister The real scene-stealer though is Patti Allison as the gluttonous Fairy Godmother who is rather unsure of her powers It's easy to turn Cinderella's slippers to glass but when it comes to mice and a pumpkin well it takes Cinderella's deep desire to turn the "Impossible" to "It's Possible" a zesty duet between the two AJ Vincent is a charming Prince Tall thin graceful with a fine deep voice he sings "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful" with the elan to win a real princess But better yet he does get the gentle wistfully agile Dana Lyn Caruso whose Cinderella is sweetly fragile and completely de: lightful Ms Caruso's rendition of "My Own Little Corner" is haunt-: ing and her "A Lovely Night" is exuberant She gives a lovely performance in a role that could easily be mere stereotype NC Theater's "Cinderella" is a treat for all fresh and winning "Cinderella" runs tonight at 8 pm and Saturday and Sunday at 2 pm and 8 pm at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium 831-6060 By HARRY HARGRAVE Correspondent Theater review orth Carolina Theater's production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical version of "Cinderella" is pure magic With dazzling special effects gorgeous scenery and a talented young cast of players the classic story of the chargirl who becomes a princess comes again vibrantly to life Terrence Mann directs the story with a light touch that emphasizes the humor rather than the menace of the stepmother and the ugly stepsisters And Allison Sherve's choreography makes the ball scene a visual delight gracefully PTF owners betray the viewers Sonny shares bares all 1 I it I I '-'4'" I 7 siy: 4s i 11NN has seen the news die before only to return but this time it was different Last time no one lost a job Last time there was talk of documentaries and retooling "This time they pulled the plug completely" he said "There are new owners and there's nothing left At least before there was some kind of future" Mitchell Lewis technically still has one He'll read five minutes of news from 11:30 to 11:35 in NBC's new extended local time Some commitment to the community huh? If FSF wanted to make a worse impression on its first day I don't know how it could have So what could the new owners be thinking? We'll never know At 9 pm Wednesday new general manager Vickie Street not only kicked her own reporters out of the building she booted everyone with a note pad and a pen "No one is allowed in here without my permission" she said looking for all the world like a "60 Minutes" cliche What are they hiding over there in the broadcasting bunker? Maybe they're too embarrassed to show their faces One more thing has to happen at WPTF By law the call letters have to change I have a suggestion: WHIP Rest in Peace PTF Continued from page 1 week-old baby He knows he has to do something Fast Employees will get six weeks' severance pay but the new owners have up to 60 days to pay it another sign they scraped together every last nickel to buy the station As he walked in for one last look Mr Thompson saw an engineer "Up or down?" he asked wondering if the man still had a job "Congratulations" Mr Thompson said "I hope" said the engineer Ms Conlin was busy tidying up her head cocked to the side "I've got a crick in my neck" she said She didn't want to talk about the mess She just wanted to end what had to be one of the worst days of her life Reporter Bob Phillips has worked at Durham Life since he got out of college 10 years ago He Sc''wA' 440ty 1 fr 11' 0 I i iA-- i r- J51101 'gi'k 4 1- ''''---ir 7 7--1- Li -4 1i 4 1 1 )1 l'i 1--'I 1k 'e 4 4IA i''''' 1 1 I I I ti f'040t 1 1 i Sonny's book details the together years (above) even though he and his former wife Cher have not been an item for years Alice welcome to Freddy's 'Nightmare' Bono (the guy always had a way with titles) so that he could concentrate on his political career which may include a bid for the US Senate on the Republican ticket That is if he can figure out how he can campaign with his 29- year-old fourth wife Mary and the couple's two small children As he mulls over his political future any guy who's ridden in the back of Dan Quayle's limousine has got a political future right? Mary pops out of the oth Pee-wee Herman scandal spurs media circus all behind him "I've never talked about Sonny and Cher for 15 years or never had the chance" he said "I really wanted to lay out Sonny and Cher There it is Read the book Move on Life goes on "For about seven of those 15 years I had a hard time letting go of Sonny and Cher You let go of total success affluence power family" adds the restaurateur turned mayor of Palm Springs Calif "It takes a certain perspective to let go of that" Especially when your former wife becomes infinitely more successful than you and bad-mouths you as often as possible But is Sonny bitter? Oh perish the thought "I wish her fair roads and good weather" he said "The only thing I would ask for is 'Be successful but don't make me a victim of it' He has yet to hear from Cher about the book and doesn't expect to Still he doesn't think she's going to be real keyed up about it He's heard that she's got a book of her own in the works with the same publishing house that put out his Well fine Sonny has bigger fish to fry He only recently sold his well-known Palm Springs eatery NORTH 8-2-A 4 9 6 VJ102 AK85 8 5 3 WEST EAST 4KQ1084 47532 83 A 7 6 4 Q962 4106 4972 SOUTH 4 A 9 5 10 7 3 4AKJ4 Vulnerable: Both Dealer: South The bidding: South West North East 1 NT Pass 3 NT All pass Opening lead: Spade king 8-2-A BID WITh THE ACES 8-2-B South holds: 4 7532 IF A 764 4 4 972 North South 1 46 2 3 46 ANSWER: Four spades Only six HCP but the four-card trump support the singleton and the excellent side-suit make the jump to game the best choice Send bridge questions to The Aces PO Box 12363 Dallas Texas 75225 with self-addressed stamped envelope for reply Copyright 1991 United Feature Syndicate Continued from page 1D out to be She always had the victim complex "Yeah I'm a doof and a Svengali at the same time" said Sonny "You see certain statements and you just want your chance to give the other side of it" All this and more was turgidly detailed by Sonny on tape and then put down on paper by a guy named Todd Gold "I edited the book to where it was pretty mild" said the 56- year-old Sonny sitting in his swank suite at the Four Seasons Clift Hotel "I didn't want to whitewash it I didn't want to whitewash me or whitewash her I don't know how the public will take it The publisher wants it as juicy as you can get it" Well if they wanted it that way they sure got their money's worth But this afternoon Sonny seems somewhat bored by it all Dressed in gray slacks red shirt and blue double-breasted blazer he fidgets for a comfortable spot in his chair and chews on the ice from his glass then uses a cube of it to wash off a stain on his pants Only occasionally does his familiar nasal twang rise from its ho-hum tone or his graying walrus mustache spread in a grin to reveal his great big horsey teeth After all this is only his what? jillionth? interview since the book hit the stands almost a month ago If you haven't seen Sonny Bono lately you just haven't been looking He'll be the first to admit he needs to get this The Aces "The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages" Horace Greeley By BOBBY WOLFF "My play guards against losing to a singleton queen with East" argued an unrepentant South "True" countered North "But that's only an illusion Your play wins when the queen is singleton but it loses when East has any one of three small singletons" South took the first spade and led a diamond to dummy's ace guarding against a possible singleton queen He then ran off four club winners and led the diamond jack intending to finesse West covered as did dummy but that was the end of all illusions The aunsalety play" had struck again and South could win only eight tricks South's attempt at bagging a singleton queen was a misguided maneuver While it would have succeeded had East's singleton been the queen it would lose whenever East had a singleton other than the quegn or the nine (When the nine is singleton it's a break-even proposition) The best chance (three times better) to pick up the diamond suit is to take the first-round finesse in diamonds Although it might lose to a singleton queen it wins against any other singleton and is clearly the odds-on favorite to win nine tricks NEWS 6600 6700 6701 6702 6705 6710 6715 6720 6725 LOCAL NEWS World Update Lighter Side Headline News National Update Business Update Business News Comment Opinion ProCon Person of the Week LOCAL SPORTS SCORES LOCAL PREP SCORES Sports Update Major League Baseball NFL NHL NBA Baseball Scoreboard NCAA Pro Tennis Pro Golf Pro Wrestling NFL Football Scoreboard NI R11ockey Scoreboard NBA Basketball Scoreboard NCAA Top 25 Scoreboard Speedway Report SPORTS 6650 LOCAL SPORTS SCORES 6651 LOCAL PREP SCORES 6765 Sports Update 6766 Major League Baseball 6767 NFL 6768 NHL 6769 NBA 6770 Baseball Scoreboard 6771 NCAA 6772 Pro Tennis 6773 Pro Golf 6774 Pro Wrestling 6775 NFL Football Scoreboard 6780 NI R11ockey Scoreboard 6785 NBA Basketball Scoreboar4 6790 NCAA Top 25 Scoreboard 6795 -r Speedway Report Knight-Ridder News Service DETROIT It's hardly farfetched to imagine Alice Cooper as Freddy Krueger's evil stepfather That's the role the rock star plays in "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" due out Sept 13 and reportedly the final installment in the "Nightmare on Elm delivered an impassioned commentary on-air Tuesday night in which he called himself a "disappointed Pee-wee Herman fan" "If anybody else would have done that not too much would have been thought about it But Peewee Herman?" David Nue II executive producer of "Entertainment Tonight" offered to explain the curiosity surrounding Pee-wee "Celebrities by definition are not real They're bigger than life unreal fantasy figures So when they do something real unfortunately for them something that reflects some human frailty they become much more fascinating because their vulnerability is out there for the world to see" Fox Children's Network president Margaret Loesch who said she has never seen such an outcry or reaction in 20 years called the incident with Mr Reubens the "worst nightmare" of a children's programmer "He's become a children's television and movie celebrity" she said "and traditionally such celebrities want the image of being squeaky clean so they're acceptable to parents and advertisers and an appropriate role model for kids "This is clearly the American rigid puritanical taboo at work here The whole issue of deviant sexual behavior is a taboo And then you link that to children you really start to scare people" Amid the media attention there have been some voices coming to 9c151t0 By DANIEL CERONE and ALAN CITRON The Washington Post LOS ANGELES On "Late Night With Da- vid Letterman" Tues- day night comedian Robert Klein walked on stage shouting "Free Pee-wee!" He then turned to the camera and offered some friendly advice: "Pee-wee get a VCR" Everybody is talking about Peewee Herman In a chain reaction with all the explosiveness of a nuclear meltdown news of actor Paul Reubens' arrest last week in an adult movie theater on charges of indecent exposure has swirled across the nation in a blaze of tasteless humor controversy criticism and ill-informed manon-the-street opinions The 38-year-old actor who was arrested in his hometown of Sarasota Fla has denied the charges According to his publicist Mr Reubens is in seclusion with friends and will not discuss the case with the media But that has not stopped the media's pundits and commentators from raking the undoubtedly embarrassed Mr Reubens through the celebrity-smashing muck The TV shows radio programs tabloids and newspapers that helped to build Mr Reubens' dweeby Pee-wee Herman character into a 1980s pop icon are now turning er room to remind him of his interview schedule Is it hard for her to deal with her husband's past life and past wife so often? "When I married him I knew the history of him" she said with a smile adding that Cher has always been nice to her "We get along fine" she offered Then Sonny chimed in: "She gets along better with her than I do" him into the butt of a 1990s sick joke "A Current Affair" aired a live story that night from Sarasota with Mr Reubens' 6th-grade teacher Tuesday morning the New York tabloids and USA Today featured front-page photos of Mr Tuesday night Mr Reubens' booking photo was intercut with live shots of bare-breasted women on the video screen at a Guns N' Roses concert in Inglewood 1- Calif 64 7 And all i '0 throughout the I 1 7' week radio talk show switch- boards lit up and 1 office fax ma- 14 ----4: 7 chines worked lc double-time transmitting Herman new Pee-wee Herman new Pee-wee jokes So the question is why all the attention? Why are so many people paying attention to the Peewee Herman story in a week that has seen the presidents of the United States and the Soviet Union embrace like old friends? As police in Milwaukee and Ohio uncover the grisly evidence of a long sickening string of murders? As Yugoslavia disintegrates? "I think it's the incongruity of the situation It's almost like Donald Duck flashing in a public park" said Los Angeles station KCBS anchor Michael Tuck who Please check is a free local BUSINESSFINANCIAL 6730 Stock Market Update 6731 Wall Street Headlines 6732 WS Money Report 6733 WS Gold and Silver 6734 Stock Index 6735 NYSE Stock Update 6736 Mutual Funds 6737 Most Active Stocks 6738 Top 10 Dollar Volume 6739 10 Most I leld Stocks 6740 AMEX Stock Update 6745 OTC Stock Update 6750 Key Rates and Prices Update 6755 Bond Market Update 6760 Precious Metals Update 6761 Commodity Update 54 Street" series Mr Cooper says his appearance is brief along with cameos from Roseanne Barr Arnold and Johnny Depp "It's a flashback to see when Freddy) was a kid" Mr Cooper says "I'm a nasty guy really ragged with a belt in one hand I teach him to take his medicine I don't quite get out of the scene in one piece as if you need to imagine what happens" Mr Reubens' defense The actor's publicist Richard Grant says he has received hundreds of calls from supportive fans Tuesday afternoon after CBS and Disney cut off their ties with Mr Reubens' adolescent Pee-wee character a celebrity force of Bill Cosby Joan Rivers and Cyndi Lauper issued statements in Mr Reubens' defense "I think they are judging the man on what he's done without the right of due process" Mr Cosby said Mike Watkiss West Coast correspondent for "A Current Affair" said "I think this case is of particular interest because here you have a guy who made his career as a performer for youngsters He won an Emmy He caters to children He's a nice guy we've allowed our children to spend Saturday morning with for years Now he's arrested in Sarasota Fla in a sleazy sex palace? Where were the signals crossed? Why have we allowed this? "You wonder what goes on behind the public persona with these people who represent themselves one way and make a lot of money that way and then reveal something so completely different?" 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