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Tin: News iVOiisEiivKR Friday August 1 8 1 995 Friday 3d voted tsesi in Order your custom Christmas cards now ine muutjie Save 20 through October 1st By Spectator Magazine 1994 1995 on all special orders from our Holiday Collection Chatham Square Cory 469-1849 Ridgewood Shop Or Raleigh 833-5070 Celebration at Six Forks Raleigh 848-2453 Quail Corners Shop Ctr Raleigh 876-09876 Ohe Paper £oft Quail Corners Shopping Center 876-7690 Planet A Hopeful Planet CURRENT EVENTS HOTLINERTttI on Cityline 0 The NtwHtavKR Call 549-5100 and Enter 5463 lllff I dlfeun I Back-To-School Season (of equal value or less) 0 OFF Any Second Pair 0 Thru Sunday Aug' 20th 20 Ellie London of Clayton left whispers to Amanda Currier of Raleigh before going on stage STAFF PHOTOS BY MEL NATHANSON INCLUDES SHOES BOOTS ATHLETIC STYLES BY: Stride Rite Keds Nike Reebok LA Gear Bass Sperry Carpentel Peaks Oshkosh Weebok Jumping Jack Little Capezio North Hills Mall (upper level near Dillards) 781-5727 Mon-Sat 10-9 Sun 1-6 CHILDREN'S SHOES Expert Fitting of Fine Brands Since 1950 i i Janet get rid of their wet clothes and strip down to their underwear Audience and cast follow suit The ones who have seen the movie before wear expensive Fredrick's of Hollywood gear Others make do with the bargain table look Up and down the aisles the unclothed run yelling "Underwear run! Underwear run!" This is definitely an obsession "Rocky is more than a movie'r says Tarrant "It is a place where you can be yourself Whatever that may be" "The movie is a bonding agent" says Spurgeon "It's a party every Friday night" says Just imagine what bright new paint could do for your home Prli Knftf min Mplon nr minr Come in soon take advantage of our These are just a few of the dazzling new colors decorating center and let our color experts help your home could wear yw cw y1 a Or paint the walls white and trim with Because if your home doesn sparkle navy or jade for true sparkle how's your family supposed to? WaRe Taint decorating 787-1221 North Hills Shopping Plaza Six Forks Road behind Blockbuster Video Maria Hamilton waits outside the Rialto for the start of the 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' GO BACK TO SCHOOL WITH GREAT SAVINGS ST2 Ml I arJ Rocky Continued from page ID transvestite scientist Dr Frank Furter in his fishnet stockings laced-up bustier satin briefs and string of pearls hugging his neck During the week they are students and store clerks On Fridays they give their time freely All agree they want to sustain "Rocky" but beyond that their reasons vary Spurgeon a 19-year-old NC State University sophomore: "My mother used to do it and I'm just following in her shoes" Mumford another 19-year-old NCSU student: acting experience Amanda Currier a Meredith freshman who plays French maid Magenta and struts around in a $30 corset: "Rocky helped me overcome my shyness" This night the crew plays to a crowd of 80 Most in the audience are regulars who have seen the show 75 135 200 times "Too many to recall" says Travis Tarrant 27 Others are curious onlookers such as Maria Hicks "This is going to be a blast" says Hicks 29 a plastic bag of loaded water guns hanging from her arm Then there are the Gothics "Goths" for short People who could easily pass as the Grim Reaper at a costume party They lurk outside the theater not saying much At the stroke of midnight the Rialto lights dim Virgins are de-virginized Cast members take their positions in the spotlight On the movie screen behind the stage big pouty red lips appear out of nowhere and the story of "Rocky" starts: Brad and Janet two wholesome Americans get a flat tire one stormy night "Didn't we pass a castle on the way back" says Brad to Janet "Maybe they have a telephone" "No!" yells the audience But Brad and Janet do not hear The couple walk toward the castle home of a transvestite mad scientist in the pelting rain Audience members squirt water guns Brad and Janet see a light coming from the castle The audience holds up cigarette lighters Flames flicker "There's a light" everyone sings "There's a light in the darkness of everybody's life" The local cast has the scenes down pat Spurgeon bites her nails at the same time Susan Sarandon does in the movie Mumford prances during the LLILCILLl RCA 33Ss MOTOROLA MOTOROLA PAGERS GE 35" TV Digital Satellite System CELLULAROME Authortttii Agent 'J Styles may vary Light weight 1 1 year limited warranty 35GT581 Features Stores 25 phora Jessie London a student at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh Whenever he's on a break he tries to come down and join the cast He plays the criminologist His sister Ellie plays the maid Columbia "Where else can you scream and run around in your underwear?" says Ben Spicher a 23-year-old graphic artist who plays Riff Raff the butler "It's a great stress reliever" Toward the end of the movie the castle is invaded by space aliens from Transylvania Dr Frank Furter overdoses on pleasure and the enlightened Janet and Brad are left to crawl the Earth The castle which has somehow become a spaceship takes off into the clouds "The movie has no meaning" says London "I think the movie is saying that sometimes you can go overboard just like Frank Furter" says Currier The credit rolls and the cast and Rialto crew clean up the rice toast and toilet paper from the floor Everyone piles into their cars Some headed to Mr B's Cafeteria for a late-night snack Others go home They exit the time warp Back to the routine until next Friday night when they do the Time Warp again song "I'm a Sweet Transvestite" just like Tim Curry Some of the "actors" have been performing for as long as five years Others just a few months All 10 rehearse every other week "The movie itself is not going to bring in people" says John Munson manager of the Rialto "We just show the movie and the cast takes care of the rest They run with it" Costumes are detailed Spur-geon's pink dress (made by a friend) knitted white sweater (from Sears) and purse (a flea market find) are just like the ones Sarandon wears McLean's jacket is torn at the sleeves just like biker Eddie's "My mother helped me put the fake leopard fur on the inside" says McLean a grad student at NC State Props are also elaborate Some are homemade others bought from cast money or funds collected from the audience during a performance Sometimes though props have to be improvised The Rialto doesn't allow any motorcycles in the building so McLean as biker Eddie holds his hands out in the air as if he were grasping handle bars and pretends to rev On the movie screen Brad and Control numbers Universal Remote Commercial Skip Auto Input Selector 10 Message Slot Silent Vibration Backlit display Limited Time Offer Some restrictions apply Laser disc quality picture capability CD quality sound Great programming choices for the whole family Limited Time Offer Some restrictions apply Ask for details Ask Tor details Fnr i REFRIGERATOR Hi WASHER 4 temperatures 4 water level selections GE 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Meat drawer 4025K High efficiency Easy mount window installation time and has some of the hottest shows on TV like "Friends" "Frasier" and "ER" It also has the World Series the Super Bowl and the Summer Olympics next year And the network-owned stations will have a presence at the Games Rohrbeck promises Think about it Next summer there will be someone from WNCN going live from the Olympics getting special treatment from the network covering it How far has the station that began life seven years ago as WYED in a little building in Clayton showing The Home Shopping Network come? Production director Allan Horowitz was there when WNCN was little more than a lean-to with an antenna and put things in perspective "I remember" Horowitz says "when the big thing was getting on cable" Langford Continued from page ID So NBC paid for a station in the country's 32nd largest market and it now owns one in the top 30 "We're going to raise the price" Jim Babb of Outlet Communications WNCN's owner until the FCC approves the sale said with a laugh NBC's impending purchase of Outlet Communications gives the market two network-owned-and-operated stations (WTVD is owned by Capital CitiesABC) There are some advantages to being owned by a network Stations get their share of a network's deep pockets for things like training promotion and sales "The deep pockets" Rohrbeck says "that it sometimes takes to get an operation up and running We're here to put all the resources to make it successful 499 ESU12HW $399 158 WRT17DRBW "With size comes a lot of things that otherwise an operation doesn't necessarily have" NBC has always done miserably in the Triangle WRDC pulled in fewer viewers than Fox affiliate WLFL over the past five years Some viewers watch NBC stations in Greenville and in Florence SC thereby hurting WNCN's ratings There's a fair amount of history to overcome "None of this happens in five seconds" says Polacek But NBC does have a lot going for it It came in second in prime I ill 11 I Hill 1 1 I 1 1 ill.