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E-10 The Kansas City Star Saturday August 24 1996 Answering the big questions will address spirituality the future relationships and more the Unity book shop on the Couv try Qub Plaza and at all Ticket master outlets Reservations also can be made by calling 561-162? The other speakers and the dates they are scheduled to appear: Oct 10: Carolyn Myss a sen described author of Anatomy of the Spit it She will talk about the human capacity for self-healing Oct 17: Barbara Marciniak author of Bringers of the Dawn and a channeler of the She will share her3 strategies for the dfcM mands of the approaching mitten Nor 8: Bemie Siegel a physician He will share techniques tor both physical and psychic self- healing Nor 14: Redfield author The Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight will help listeners find spiritual meaning in their lives Nor 21: Huston Smith whin appeared on a recent television special with Bill Moyers will speak on the universal truths insights to be gained from the major religions artwi By KAREN UHLENHUTH Staff Writer In need of a little development of the personal professional or spiritual sort? The seventh National Speakers Series put together by the Cornerstone Foundation may be just the ticket This collection of six authors theologians and healers will address the most fundamental human experiences and questions Perhaps best-known of the speakers is James Redfield author of The Celestine Prophecy who will appear Nov 14 The series will begin Sept 19 with the appearance of Rabbi Harold Rusher who wrote When Bad Things Happen to Good People and the more recent How Good Do We Have to Be? Rusher will discuss how acceptance and forgiveness can transform relationships and help people to face their greatest challenges His presentation will begin at 7:30 pm Rusher and the other guests will speak at Unity Temple on the Plaza 707 47th St The series is aimed at managing director of tire Cornerstone Foundation not people who say have all the The events are not exactly more like with lots of dialogue Rich almost like an extemporaneous talk as opposed to a canned Tickets to individual events are typically about $20 for general admission and $25 for a reserved seat There is some variability A season ticket for all six presentations costs $80 Tickets will go on sale Monday at smolders but ignite a melodrama Is rated for teen nudity drug use strong language and some violent situations Running time is 1 hour 41 minutes Loretta husband dies The Associated Press in the award-winning 1980 movie based on his 1976 autobiography The couple married in the late when she was just 13 He bought his wife a $17 guitar for her 18th birthday in 1953 and she always credited him with persuading her to sing in public for the ni time seven years later it for Doolittle (her nickname for bin1 there would be no she wrote in the book inirtr NASHVILLE Term OV Lynn who persuaded his wife Loretta to give her fW public performance and watched as she went on to become one of country biggest stars has died a spokeswoman said Friday Lynn died at 10:30 jam Thursday at his home 70 miles west of Nashville said the spokeswoman in the office who would not give her name He hadbeen hospitalized frequently in recent years for heart failure and diabetes He was believed to be in his late 60s Mooney Lynn was portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones Trouble is the screenplay really never decides what its about or where going Suspect as sociology and devolving into rank melodrama in its final scenes is more about teen mythology than the real world Legs so much a real person as a symbol a too-cool enigma The movie treats her as if she were Clint East-wood in a serape a sort of feminist fantasy of independence and rebellion Significantly she appears to have nothing but contempt for men Moreover the film is crammed with homoerotic overtones it never has the courage to openly address At one point the narrator Maddy (Hedy Burress) is tempted to kiss Legs but overcome her inhibitions Much to the relief one suspects of the teens in the audience That works at all is due to screen presence hard to say if she can really act she spends most of her time here striking poses and being manipulated oy her director But with her flawless skin liquid eyes and full lips she dominates every frame of film in which she appears When on the screen audiences even think about looking at anything else something she can take to the bank Teen angst has long been a staple of the movies but usually guy angst and the girls are mostly window dressing So we probably should cut some slack for even trying to approach the feminine side of the story If is remembered for anything however will be as one of the earliest i appearances of Angelina jlie the daughter of Oscar-win-: Ion Voight who has a face he camera loves and seems a candidate for full-fledged om Elizabeth screenplay is on Joyce Carol vel but shifts the setting from working class neighbor-1 to suburb Our heroines are four high tchool girls who barely know another but are galvanized hto a gang by the arrival of the fiysterious Legs (Jolie) a charismatic drifter in motorcycle boots and black jacket who simply strolls into the school one day By late afternoon Legs has organized a raid on the classroom of a teacher and athletic coach notorious for sexual harassment one well-placed kick and Coach be fondling frightened females anymore Suspended for three weeks the girls spend their days in an abandoned house in the woods soaking up feminine solidarity and blowing off responsibility Legs talk a lot but she radiates smoldering sensuality and a risk-taking hedonism and gets her new buds to go along The soon-to-be-notori-ous highlight has the young women giddy after a successful midnight burglary of their school shucking their shirts and allowing Legs to tattoo their breasts In scenes like this director Annette Haywood-Carter does a pretty good job of evoking the romantic anarchy of youth unit KCWB Continued from E-1 At first at least KCWB have an i news staff But Dinovitz said that in the case of breaking news and emergencies especially thread ening weather channels 29 and 9 can simulcast0 yvmt Making room on cable Because federal regulations require cable carry local stations the arrival of Channel 29 wilT force a shakeup in Kansas cable households American Cablevision currently is expanding thC 1 legend Quincy Jones will operate at their KMBC general manager Dino Dinovitz said really know the extent of participation Although spoken to him this is pretty much deal constructing a new TV station taking on additional office space and promoted some people from the KMBC staff to the KCWB side In all hiring between 20 and 30 hki nennle IIVW pwJUlv KCWB will feature original programming from the Warner Bros network Now in its third year WB provides prime-time original shows Sunday Monday and No mere mortal no mere robot ft iivw IUMWI an action film is rated PQ-13 for violence language and mature themes Running time is 1 hour 33 minutes Director Nor-berto Barba a Bronx native and former New York City cabbie has a real flair for high adventure The Latin America settings The vision sportsfana has specialized in coverage of 1 teams Cubs and White Sox and particularly defending champions the Bulls As a result many area viewers are nearly as conversant with the fortunes of those franchises as they are with the Chiefs and the Royals really sorry about bumping said Stephanie Christensen American vips president for customer service had it ever- since we started up 17 years ago people here have been brought up watching sports on The deciding factor Christensen said was that both KCWB and WGN are WB affiliates core pro- gramming is basically the same on both stations so be duplicating she said Not all American Cablevision customers will lodg WGN Those whose neighborhoods already have received a cable mostly in Grandview Parkville and Gladstone will continue to receive the station But they represent only 10000 of American 200000 subscribers 5 As expanded service comes to different parts of city WGfN will once again become a viewing optiara for customers Cable service in some neighborhoods however be upgraded until 1998 a TCI of Overland Park will keep WGN but proposes dropping the Nostalgia Channel Jones IntercabfcWUl also retain WGN but will eliminate the VISNACES religious channel to make way for Channel 29 Wednesday WB shows this fall some new some old include Freno: Licensed Jamie Foxx and With Following the blueprint established by the Fox network Warner Bros officials plan eventually to expand their programming to seven nights a week Until that happens Channel 29 will rely heavily on syndicated programs At first Dinovitz said the programming resemble what a good independent like KSHB used to be before they became an NBC (KSHB was a longtime independent before it became a Fox affiliate and then became an NBC affiliate) Daytime programming will feature TV and and shows plus an hour of vintage Warner Bros cartoons in the late afternoon The Saturday morning lineup will feature new Warner Bros shows such as and the (featuring the voice of Bruce Willis) as well as the and KCWB also will schedule several movies each week Dinovitz said Channel 29 affords an opportunity to reach younger audiences Dinovitz said KMBC we reach kies teens and young adults as well as been able to reach the 25 to he said we have that opportunity When you can blend both those audiences I think a benefit to both stations and hopefully to the Mario Van Peebles vehicle is familiar byt capably done By MICHAEL PRICE Fort Worth Star-Telegram Cruel masters from prehistory to thtfThird Reich on down have sought to create an unthinking unfeeling warrior from the mind-control tricks that are called in technological society Sand in the Third World to the present experiments in robot science This is the tack overused but still sharp that Robert Mason pursued in his novel Weapon which comes now to the screen as a MdHo Van Peebles star picture called Too good a film for thelow-kev release it is being given might as well have teen one of the intended block-tflisters of early summer easily re Mil TODAY a cut above for example in energy if not originality Barry Corbin is commanding and subtly sympathetic as the Pentagon honcho who unwittingly launches a showdown between man and superman Van Peebles is the cybernetic creature in human form called Solo a polymer-skinned killing machine that has somehow developed thoughts of its own natural enemy is a military officer (William Sadler) who is as pitiless as Solo was meant to be lire situation is generic and predictable but ably told with capable players Maya ruins and all help to gh the film the feel of a Republic tures serial of the World War II years Anyone who has seen the current Sci-Fi Channel attraction will be up to speed on the basic concept But where Roger script merely talks things to death David screenplay lets ideas and thrills cany about equal weight Iti'K 113 KANSAS CITY 18th and Vine (474-1080) PLAZA UVEI: Outdoor music aeries featuring various artists at outdoor locations throughout the Country Club Plaza 2-5 pm Through Sept 28 (753-0100) MORE THAN MUSIC SHOWCASE: Featuring Decline Gutt Wrench Contagious and Hardgore 7 pm Dally Grind 3826 Main (753-1700 346- 7 pm Dally NSWPRING HILL FALL FESTIVAL: Parade JSraffy carnival food entertainment and oonstratlons games a street dance featuring sic by State Line and more 10 im Continues It am-4 pm Sunday afSprfng Nichols Boulevard Bridge (554-DUCK) FLIGHT 11: THE SKY IB THE LIMIT AUCTION: Benefit for Greater CniinrfeHnn Inr ssei I uiy rounoason tor tsiturens wnn Hon 5 pm slant auction 8:30 pm dinner 7:30 pm Hve auction Downtown 200 12th UnllmHed hors cToeuvres and champagne cocktails (931-4694) "VOTESCAM THE STEALING OF Jamas Collier author 6:30 pm Raytown City HaH 89th and Raytown Road (353 5239) REPTILES tarn 4880) MCLEANI I Ml City Park (897-2562) I KIM I I FUN FE8T Lego DEADLY DIAGNOSIS: Dinner theater presented by Mystery Capers Dinner Playhouse 7:30 pm Mike 68th and Broadway Through Sept 28 (454-3340) MARRY ME A UTTLE: Stephen Sondheim tale of two single and lonely New Yorkers 8 pm Qualify HHI Playhouse 303 10th Through 8spt 8 (235-2700) DIARY OF ANNE FRANK: Wyandotte Players presents story of young Jewish girl in Nazi-ruled Germany 8 pm Kansas City Kansas Community College Performing Aria Center Closes Sunday (596-9690) TRUE WEST) Comedy by Sam Shepard nreaentea by iMormianci Actors cnsernoie pm Oak Park High School arena theater 825 NE 79th Terrace 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