The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 53

Friday September 23 1994 The Kansas City Star E-f? HOT STUFF mSEH RATINGS Here are the rankings compiled by AC Nielsen Co for the week that ended Sunday The number is the percentage of the 954 million TV homes: 1 Home Improvement: ABC 191 2 Frasier NBC 172 3 Seinfeld: NBC 17 4 NFL Monday Night Football: ABC 169 5 All American Giri: ABC 168 Ekm (left) went on to Robin Wright went on to 6 Chicago Hope Sunday: CBS 16 7 60 Minutes: CBS 153 8 A Perfect Stranger NBC 152 9 PrimeTime Uve: ABC 15 Caiy and Bride" It be shown at 8 and midnight tonight on the Sci-R Channel after they made their leading role debuts in Princess will 10 Roseanne: ABC 148 INIGazing Rehab or else Reputed Hollywood madam Heidi Reiss has been ordered to enter a drug treatment program Fleiss reportedly tested positive for drugs four times since Aug 9 violating the terms of her release from jail on charges of income tax evasion and money laundering Fleiss wearing a baggy jail-issue denim shirt and blue pants was silent during most of the hearings this week Near the end she told the judge: want to go The judge instead sent her back to jail M-O-M-M-Y Thus far professional letter turner Vanna White has had no trouble combining motherhood and career been really she says baby started sleeping through the night at 4 weeks so I been getting a lack of Nicholas now 3 months old has been accompanying his mother to of tapings 63rd annual fair opens tonight By ALICE THORSON Art Critic a two-fisted art attack? Find out at the 63rd Plaza Art Fair beginning this evening and running through the weekend on the Country Club Plaza For the second straight year artist Denny Dent will give performances of his painting demonstrations to rock music He calls these frenzied creative surges his art because he paints with both hands and holds three brushes in each See Dent at the stage on 48th Street between Jefferson and Pennsylvania in three performances tonight and performances every hour and 45 minutes beginning at 1 1:30 am Saturday and 12:15 pm Sunday Of course the main attraction of the fair will be the booths stretching from the 200 through the 500 blocks of Nichols Road where paintings watercolors ceramics glassworks jewelry photographs and other artistic expressions will be displayed for sale This show drew 1200 applicants Judges Susan Hill Robert Brawley Janet Simpson Nancy Corwin and Leigh Brown selected 200 artists from 32 states At a Sunday Artists Awards Breakfast at they'll learn who among them will receive $10000 in prize money If you go hungry you can sample theselections offered at the food court where more than 18 Plaza eateries will be serving specialties such as Thai chicken pizza and burnt-end sandwiches There will be all kinds of live music in the air from jazz and blues to country and rock reggae and classical The Plaza Art Fair includes doings for children too For $2 kids ages 4 to 12 can participate in 30-minute jewelry-making workshops run by the Museum of Kansas City Workshop hours are 5 to 8 pm today 10 am to 8 pm Saturday and noon to 5 pm Sunday on the second level of Seville on the Plaza Art Fair T-shirts priced at $13 and hats costing $12 will be available in limited quantities at two information booths at the fair Plaza Art Fair hours are 5 to 10 pm today 10 am to 10 pm Saturday and 1 1 am to 5 pm Sunday Phew! Actress DeLane Matthews is all excited: been on four TV shows but is the only one to make it into a second season Excited and relieved She says that when she started work recently on new episodes she was in what she describes as an stage As in phew! I remember where my dressing room phew! I still have a parking really nice never gone through an stage 1991 Plaza Ait Fair file photo This Plaza Art Fair will feature the work of 200 artists from 32 states including ceramics by Kansas Citian Steven Hill (top inset) and metalworks by Richard McGehee of Belden Miss (bottom inset) Matthews TAKE Note Hals off to Buster The second annual tribute to Kansas native Buster Keaton (well he was bom in Kansas thanks to his nomadic vaudeville parents) will be held Saturday in Iola Kan and the Machine of is a free daylong event beginning at 9 am at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center Three Keaton films and Cameraman" will be screened scholarly lectures will be delivered and appearances will be made by widow Eleanor Keaton and film actors Kenneth Mars and Janies Karen For information call the Bowlus Fine Arts Center at (316) 365-4765 Butler Warrior ways Way of the Warrior 3DO $55 (17 and up) Set in a Citadel high atop the Himalayas a tournament determines who will fill the final page in the ancient of The winner adds his or her name in blood to complete the book and tip the scales in favor of good or evil The nine characters have 60 to 80 moves and unlike Kombat or exploits the superior graphics and animation of 3DO The game incorporates 60 megabytes of sound effects as well as five minutes of full-motion video and a CD-quality soundtrack from White Zombie Parents beware this game does show blood and fatal moves But once you do see of the never go back to 16-bit game systems Roy Bassave Knight-Ridder Newspapers Deeper thoughts Emmy winner Jack Handey a Night writer for seven seasons has authored Deepest Thoughts: So Deep They Squeak a compendium of bizarre subversive quips accompanied by photos usually associated with cloying sentimental meditations Examples: can picture in my mind a world without war without hate And 1 can picture us attacking that world because never expect thing vampire children have to be taught early on is run with a wooden bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks yes you can talk but listen to yourself" George Gurley Notour Rap star Snoop Doggy Dogg has canceled his tour citing production problems and forcing thousands of fans to seek refunds for tickets The tour was scheduled i to start Wednesday night and hit 25 cities Could it have something to do with those pesky murder charges against him? The Dogg is free on $1 million bail pending trial in connection with a 1993 shooting Hello out there If there is intelligent life on other planets it been smart enough to find us yet Stephen Hawking says Speaking last week in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia the physicist discounted suggestions that UFOs contain beings from outer space think any visit by aliens would be much more obvious and probably also much more Hawking says prefer (another) possibility: There are other forms of intelligent life out there but we have been birthdays Actor Mickey Rooney is 74 Rock star Bruce Springsteen is 45 Jason Alexander who plays George on is 35 Compiled from The press services by Dru Sefton By BRIAN McTAVISH Arts Entertainment Writer all grown up with a radio tower of his own Hawking 1 station But 1 know there was a pretty loyal audience for WHB and they all gone to (Oldies 95) Schartel plans to juggle his hours to keep his regular computer job stimulating work he said which has him linking Independence public school buildings to a computer network based on radio technology putting up radio towers on top of buildings" he said that a a new Christian rap music show is being broadcast from 10 pm to midnight Fridays on contemporary Christian KCNW-AM (1380) The show with Kansas City area minister Kelly Lohrke as host includes guest shots by local and national rap artists Give Brian McTavish your radio news by calling 234-4766 or faxing 234-4787 The other day Pete Schartel was fondly looking at a childhood photo of himself posing with a miniature radio tower The happy 9-year-old in the snapshot is now 39 and his toy is gone But the loss distract Schartel much these days He has a real radio tower to replace it After 2 12 years off the air former urban contemporary station KCXL-AM (1140) returns today as a golden oldies station Schartel bought the 500-watt daytime-only station from the Small Business Administration which took control of KCXL after its owners had financial problems had a burning dream to own a radio station said Schartel who since 1985 has been district computer technologist for the Independence public schools took me 30 years to get a bigger radio tower and a bigger clubhouse but 1 got Schartel grew up in Alpine NJ in the shadow of a radio tower built by radio development pioneer Edwin Armstrong it had quite an Schartel said So much so that when Schartel noticed a sign on the 10-acre property in southwestern Liberty he made an offer in April 1993 Two months later he acquired the property and its brick build ing transmitter and tower The site has required new equipment and renovation which Schartel said has been largely paid for with his own equity" People in the metropolitan area who miss hearing rock 'n' roll hits from the and on WHB-AM which became a country station last year will want to check out the oldies on KCXL Schartel said The programming is being provided by the Jones Satellite Network in Englewood Colo not making delusion" Schartel said don't think going to be the No i I I.