The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 32

rD-6 The Kansas City Star Monday August 22 1994 DONTMss HOT STUFF TOP POP ALBUMS Here are the top pop albums for the week ending Saturday as projected by Billboard magazine: 1 Ihe Uon King: soundtrack (Disney) 2 Fomat Gump: soundtrack (Epic) 3 Hie Sign: Ace of Base (Arista) 4 Purple: Stone Temple Pilots (Atlantic) 5 Regulate! Funk Era: Warren (Violator-RAL) 6 August Everything After: Counting Crows (Geffen) 7 Candlebox: Candlebox (Maverick-Sire) 8 Dookle: Green Day (Reprise) 9 Voodoo Lounge: The Rolling Stones (Virgin) 10 Supeninknown: Soundgarden Nickelodeon wfl take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile with its Monday mini-marathon of Mary Tyler Moore Show" from 7 to 10:30 pm today The littlest LEADING LADY By LUAINE LEE Knight-RldderTribune Newspapers Meg Ryan says the most difficult scene she ever had to act was the moment when her character slaps her little daughter in a Man Loves a That little girl who took the slap with heart-rending pain was Tina Majorino If you listen to her adult co- Tina Majorino star of workers tne y-year-oia iina may oe the best child actress to jump off the Good Ship Lollipop since Shirley Temple This summer starring in the true story about a child (left) the new movie is winning raves STARGoig A lonely only no joke these days for funny guy Bob Saget Saget lost his sister Gay 47 in April after a two-year battle with scleroderma an autoimmune disease His sister Andi died from a brain aneurysm at age 34 in 1985 an only child says Saget 38 very hard to deal Saget Saget working when he got word of death death came while Saget was at a stand-up gig Saget 's parents who broke the news over the phone said the show must go on told me Andi would have wanted me he says were the worst shows I ever Speaking out Rebekka Armstrong Playboy Playmate of the Month in September 1986 has revealed she is a lesbian and has AIDS want to go out there and say can happen to you protect she says Armstrong 27 lives with a woman but was infected during a heterosexual encounter as a teen-ager Shhhhh! Billy doctor has told him to put a lid on it Vocal cord inflammation has forced the country singer to cancel 10 concerts he is under orders not to sing or speak for three weeks But never fear: Dean should be able to resume his concert tour after that and the canceled performances will be rescheduled later in the year Expecting Highly paid model citizen Linda Evangelista is with child according to those who fuss around her Logical father would be current beau Kyle MacLachlan of No seal he an impostor! To be more specific the Atlantic harbor seal that was adopted by a family from "Maine is being portrayed in the movie by a California sea lion like doing with a sniffs Patti Fiorelli a former trainer who worked with the real Andre at the New England Aquarium Producer Annette Handley says Paramount agreed to back the movie in December if it could be produced for summer release That left and her pet seal which opened last week also co-starring in with Whoopi Goldberg and Ray Liotta so brilliantly says Ryan of tiny Tina can drop a tear on the head of a pin And so precise 9 years old going on says Liotta who has some wonderful scenes as father in opening Friday in acting class every Saturday She had her acting coach on the set he there have her 3 by 5 cards in terms of what her motivations were that day arid what she needed to do do a scene and she feel right with it so she would stop and call the director over be whispering on the sidelines It reminded me of Scorsese and Jessie Norman director of describes Tina as very spiritual remember it was Don first day on the set (this was last film and he was very Norman recalls pulled me aside and said angels all over Don Of course we see them but she could access her imagination or this realm that she tapped Tina was only 2 or 3 when she derided she wanted to be an actress used to watch of every day at the same time and loved movies so I asked my mom if I could start I started out singing and dancing then I went into commercials Then I got my first TV series she says Part of her role in called for her to work with five different sea lions They were sea lions and not seals says trainer Suzanne Fortier See related item in Stargazing column Tina handles them masterfully using a bucket of smelt as incentive and hand signals She can coax the sea lion to wave shake hands hang his head in shame and bend backward Tina is now on the big island of Hawaii filming with Kevin Costner for her acting skills and only 9 TflKEVoft REVIEW Funk Greek to Clarke Live at the Greek Stanley Clarke A Friends (Epic) Stanley Clarke is one of the best jazz bassists around and on this disc he lives up to his reputation Accompanied by guitarist Larry Carlton drummer Billy Cobham keyboardist Deron Johnson and saxophonist Najee Clarke makes music that reflects die times but respects jazz basics Electric instruments are used for imaginative improvisation not aimless noodling Clarke and company mostly deliver crowd-pleasing funk but they do stretch out Their renditions of Miles and Charles Pork Pie are expansive and challenging Calvin Wilson So long Julie When KSHB Channel 41 joins NBC on Sept 12 be no room on the schedule for which Julie Lux has hosted for more than seven of her 15 years at the station The last will be broadcast Sept 9 last day at Channel 41 have had wonderful opportunities Lux said think most broadcasters have had as many opportunities or get to do as many things as I have been able to do Plans include free-lance work showing her three champion Dalmatians and writing Her latest work a takeoff on the Stevenson classic Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is to open late next month at the Martin City Melodrama Vaudeville Co Barry Garron BartJe blowout About 85 percent of the tables have been sold already for the Bartle Hall Grand Opening Gala Sept 23 at the new conference center ballroom Dubbed of the the evening will feature an elaborate reception a banquet dance and a concert by Lou Rawls (left) all to mark the expansion of the Downtown convention center Of course not inexpensive Each table or 10 seats costs $1500 Call 345-1990 The rest of the world can see the new Bartle for free Sept 24 City will be held inside and outside the complex with a noontime parade leading up to a street fair to stick around five more years By RICHARD HUFF New York Dally News no tune to train a harbor seal she says So a 10-year-old sea lion named Tory was cast as Andre get a movie made in Hollywood faced with a lot of challenges and a lot of Handley says concessions have to be birthdays Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is 90 Gen Norman Schwarzkopf is 60 Actress Cindy WflHams is 46 Compiled from The press services by Dru Sefton MOVES: Tina Majorino is the latest child star but can you name the child star featured in the following films? A) Goodbye b) of Eddie's c) vs d) e) Tom Sawyer MUSIC: it took Reba McEntire years in the recording business to score No 1 song in 1983 What was it? seven first Sure the Fox network is I showed up in the fall of 1987 with nine ignored Can you name the four that I what current television superstars started their careers as recurring special on one of them? (Answers on Page D-7) syndication deal with Rivera will keep the show on the air slightly longer than the host's self-imposed 10-years-and-out plan Rivera has said in the past that he thought 10 years would be enough year I promised I would have a five-year Rivera said recently Along with the renewal Rivera has also committed to doing the show live at least three days a week That is a direct result of recent live installments which have scored 50 percent higher in the ratings said Rivera Rivera said the move to live telecasts his will be the only daytime talker to air live is 6 Tribune Entertainment has renewed Geraldo daytime talk show for five more seasons meaning the show could continue through the 1998-99 season The gabfest (1 1 am weekdays on Channel 4) is entering its eighth season this fall During the week ending July 24 was the third-ranked syndicated talk show The five-year renewal follows a pattern set by syndicator King World Productions which has renewed the top-rated into the next century deal allows her to back out after each season.