The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 43

SECTION I Thursday August 16 2001 THE KAN8A8 CITY STAR wwwkan8ascitycom Ml'KilW 19 GOING ON 40 KCPT celebrates anniversaiy 1 (i KCPT AT 40 with new digs and new mission JL Kansas Crtvs Dubltc TV station is to promote local programming I i KCPT AT 40 Kansas public TV station is celebrating its "40th anniversary" S) Sesame Street LU this weekend but actually had those call letters only since 1972 I96L KCSD-TV signs on as a low-power station at Channel 19 1969: Street" premiere 1971: premiere 1972: Community Service Broadcasting buys KCSD changes call letters to KCPT boosts power and begins color broadcasts 1973: First KCPT miction 1974: premiere 1980: premiere 1983: "Kansas City weekly newsmagazine anchored by John Masterman premiere 1983: premiere 1988: American Experience" premiere 1989: Public outcry over KCPT interview with serial killer Robert Berdella telecast is the highest-rated in station history 1990: Begins broadcasting in stereo 1997: premiere Kansas City Star LU By AARON BARNHART The Kaneet City Star ill Reed is showing a guest around newly renovated 31st Street studios and offices think he was trying to sell the place is so neat" says Reed looking around his spacious and sunny new lobby The president of Kansas public television station is eagerly pointing out one architectural detail after another and generally bragging on the $6 million makeover that has transformed this stretch of aging brick buildings into a paragon of urban redesign love everything about Reed declares What better way to mark the 40th anniversary of Channel 1 With four decades of solid community-service broadcasting under its belt KCPT is embracing a future in which Reed believes local programming including news will become more important than ever The new lobby which is several times the size of the old one features a room" that can be reserved by nonprofit groups The lobby expresses what Reed beUeves KCPT should be doing expanding its outreach to the community finding new ways to serve it both on and off the air Though it is always fund-raising season at large noncommercial television stations the current KCPT campaign is unprecedented for the station both in size and significance The goal is $145 million and it would pay not only for the renovation but also for an equally costly equipment upgrade to meet the mandate fordigital television it also would create a new $2 million fund to pay for local programming on KCPT The fund is named for the late John Masterman the veteran Kansas City journalist who directjpublic affairs programming during his 19 See KCPT E-S Make the money and ran Hollywood is grading itself now by the big opening weekend and nothing else Going back to go forward Allison Anden confronted personal nightaarcs in making movie about eflech ol childhood rape By ROBERT BUTLER The Kansas City Star COMMENT has changed in a fundamental way and that for mainstream releases the opening weekend's business isn't everything the ony thing The figures speak for themselves Harbor" opened to neariy $90 million in business In its sec ond week the box-office take was $30 million a dropoff of mote than 60 percent Croft Tbmb Raider" took in $47 million on its opening weekend The next week? Just $14 mil-lioa Part III" went from $81 million its first weekend to $22 million the next Movie 2" ax-office records have been falling like Japanese bombs over Pearl Harbor this summer Every weekend seems to bring a new blockbuster that lands in die theaters to the triumphant buzz of ticket-printing machines But for most of this releases drat buzz is short-lived Those big openings are being followed by a precipitous drop in business in subsequent weeks A film that actually improves its numbers in the second week always has been a rarity But this experience suggests that the movie business Universal The big opening weekend trend meant $45 million-plus for Pie with JoeUe Carter and Jason Biggs By BERNARD WEINRAUB New York Timet News Service HOLLYWOOD Allison Anders was 12 when she was raped in Cape Canaveral Fla by three boys The prize-winning independent filmmaker said the event proved catastrophic for the next 30 years of her life dominated everything I did everything i wore everything I ate and drank every relationship I had" said Anders 46 a high school dropout a former welfare mother and in 1995 the winner of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship often called a Anders has built a reputation in the last decade with films like Food Vida Town" and of My Heart" movies that often deal with strong sometimes tormented working-class women (Some were written with her former boyfriend and longtime collaborator Kurt Voss) For her newest movie Behind the Sun" she opted to examine the long-term impact of a rape on a young girt What gives this autobiographical film an unusual dimension is that Anders not only decided to return to Cape Canaveral to make it but also shot the rape See FILMS E-8 Hi NEIL LIFE WEIRD NEWS STARGAZING reetL re cAAte home faofi Tt srme th aw of th ose QOTA4Y roots AND A AOtrTtTA AND Hfs eeeN Burr cf See ANDERS E-4 next for Jackie Chan (besides counting the money from Hour I look at my schedule not one day to Clian told zap2tLcom I know right now 'Shanghai Knights' 'Bellboy (Roberto) Benig ni" rattling off his American productions Asia 'Highbinders' Rider' See I have so many scripts going on".