The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 20

fj TimeOut 2C THE WICHITA EAGLE-BEACON Friday February 17 1989 9 44-time loser should give up is sharp week If any repairs are needed at my home he is always there to do them He is constantly sitting near me holding my hand or showing some other sign of affection He seems to care a lot for me but he's never told me so Abby how can you tell if a man loves you? Please tell me to discuss It with him I Just have the nerve WARY WIDOW IV TFYAC DEAR WARY: Actions speak louder than words Of course he loves you Your question seems to be I wasting my time or is this man going to ask me to marry a perfectly legitimate question and If considering backing off because made no commitment take my advice and get that message to him if you have to mail him this column By Abigail Van Buren DEAR ABBY: In case you haven't been raked over the coals for telling the fellow who flunked the California bar exam 44 times to "keep here comes the rake Abby no one should practice law who has had to take the bar exam 44 times assuming he or she passes on the 45th try Eventually some people who are marginally qualified will pass the bar If such a person required 45 tries to do so I would avoid having him or her as my legal counsel How would you like to be operated on by a surgeon who has had to take his state medical boards 40 times? Please encourage this tup key to keep trying He might make it and we already have enough Incompetent bunglers out there CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY DEAR ATTORNEY: You are right of course Muck as I ad- Dear Abby mire determination for the reasons yon mention I should not have encouraged a 44-tlme loser to keep trying And speaking of how difficult it Is to pass the bar exams Judging from the number of candidates who flunk on the first try bar is the toughest to pass and California's is the second toughest DEAR ABBY: I have been a widow for three years and have been dating a divorced man for two We have agreed to see no one else but each other He calls me two or three times a day and we are together every weekend and at least once or twice during the Richard Thomas left and Ellen Greene star with James Whitmore in Glory!" The miniseries will begin Sunday rciusic February 22 CB5TV MUHDTflftCT HfCOflOWG Bette Midler ecutive producer as well as writer And Thomas who accompanied Dore to a preview of the miniseries Joked Just life imitating art" is an exploration of faith from different viewpoints Bobby Joe is the son of a charismatic minister (shades of Oral and heir-epparent Richard Roberts) who is serious about doing good work but who is too bland to keep his congregation after the old man is felled by a stroke During some soul-searching in a sleazy nightclub (he believes he was sent there as a sign) he watches the soul-stirring effect that rock singer Ruth has on the crowd She may be a doper a boozer and a self-proclaimed foul-mouthed bitch who take off nobody but she commands every eye and ear Bobby Joe offers her a national spotlight if help bring in people so he can preach to them Cynical Ruth knows a good gig when she sees it But she count on Bobby Joe felling under her spell What's worse she count on getting religion herself when she suddenly discovers she has the power to heal Now whafs she going to do? And whafs Bobby Joe whose feith is shaken because his own good intentions are all for naught going to do? Dore and director Anderson do not tie everything in a neat philosophical package rather they leave it open to interpretation It's the very sort of stuff that makes for great debates afterward Is decidedly irreverent and sharp but it is not blasphemous It may make some viewers cringe at the apparent truthfulness of what happens when religion becomes big business But it Is not a diatribe against religion or anyone's beliefs That said Thomas who will never outgrow his nicey-nice Image as John Boy on "The Waltons" was crucial to his participation "My roots in eastern Kentucky are strictly Southern Baptist so I grew up with a real appreciation of good preaching I felt very dose to the material certainly dose to Bobby own sense of Thomas said I had felt for a minute that the script was an attack on particular feith in God I would not have come anywhere near it But a good healthy thing It'S very important to sort of clear the Thomas said the miniseries would have been more controversial before all the televangelist scandals broke because it would have looked like an attack Now with all the revelations it has enough basis in fed to be dismissed out of hand about the dilemma of people whose feith you deny and whose sense of mission you question but who And themselves embroiled in a set of circumstances in an organization that gets bigger than they are and goes out of control" Thomas said "How did one little compromise lead to another? How did one concession lead to the next? You end up swallowing bigger and bigger fish Thomas mused look at Jimmy Swaggart or Tammy Faye and Mr Bakker and I think they must be wondering the hell did I arrive here? How did I get into this situation? WOER1WNWOMU MOKKtfHMVIMGS I EMM ft HU GLo Laaig 1299699 1199 one LPFCASS compact disc Universal Press Syndicate 1299 699 COMPACT DtSC LPFCASS SHEENA EASTON THE LOVES ME LGiolor 699 LPFCASS 1199 699 Wh wile I Jane fondas CIMPLEII VIIIICI I 699 life LPFCASS 1299 999 699 LPFCASS 1199 699 COMPACT DWC LPFCASS TANYA TUCKER Enouflfi lb Bmd LLTIILH VANDHOSS uns tecMbw 9M1 send-up No it wasn't Jim and Tammy Faye Bakkert fall from grace that inspired emthlngly funny send-up of televangellsm "Glory! Glory!" And It Jimmy Swaggart's tearful confession of unnamed Bob Curtright "sin" in a motel room with a prostitute Instead the 3-hour miniseries directed by acclaimed British director Lindsay Anderson Lucky Man" Whales of actually came from an aboveboard incident eight years ago when Tulsa evangelist Oral Roberts wanted to punch up his television image Bonny Dore who was working on Barbara Mandrell Show" was approached by Roberts for some professional advice about improving his already popular broadcasts "After I spent a few weeks Dore said during a conversation In Los Angeles "I was thinking a lot about die similarities between entertainment and religion so I wrote the story about Sister Ruth a rock singer who became a television evangelist "It Oral Roberts but sort of a 'what about a television ministry And having watched Oral who is a very good charismatic evangelist I wondered what kind of evangelist Janis Joplin would have been That's where this came Glory!" with Ellen Greene Shop of as the dynamic street-smart Sister Ruth and Richard Thomas as the nice but hopelessly dull the Rev Bobby Joe Stuckey debuts in two parts: 8 to 9:30 pm Sunday and 8 to 10 pm Monday on Channel 15 with repeats through March "This was all done long before Bakker Swaggart or any of the insisted Dore who Is ex KWCH has Wichita television station KWCH Ch 12 has a new general manager following completion late last week of the sale of the Kansas Broadcasting System to the Michigan-based Smith Broadcast Group He's Sandy DiPasquale who will be president of KBS Inc and general manager of Channel 12 Naming DiPasquale to the dual position was new owner Robert Smith of Birmingham Mich Smith also is chairman of KBS Inc which in-Excludes Channel 12's sister sta- DiPasquale tions in Hays Goodland and Dodge City DiPasquale who also is part owner of KBS joined Channel 12 this week He was formerly president general manager and partner in KGRZ-TV in BuffelO NY which was sold to Tak Communications in what is considered one of the largest broadcast deals of 1988 The sale of the four Kansas sta LONG COLD WINTER WMhNO WWKM' MOW UOMT KM OOt TU Ml OONT 1 Ml 1AM AM 1299 699 COMPACT DISC LPfCASS 1199 699 COMPACT DISC LPFCASS VANfSSA WILIAMS THE RIGHT STUFF MCuan -UK MM MM" -Ml COK 100 "MMT -niHiMiM "wruMfr 1299 699 COMPACT DISC LPFCASS RODNEY CROWELL DIAMONDS A DEBT KhlikSH Mj 1U 1299 699 COMPACT DISC LPFCASS 1299 699 COMPACT PMC LPFCASS SALE ENDS FEBRUARY 2STH QUANTITIES LIMITED OflKMflAL COMPACT Slrang 1099 COMPACT 2799 COMPACT Vi 699 1299 DISC LPFCASS COMPACT DISC ShowBoot RREATHErr I Mat an mmmMM NHM HMe NtfMMHh UM-m'- new general manager 1399 1299 DISC LPFCASS COMPACT DISC fOUflD WAREHOUSE events The grant this time was for $7785 which brings the total since WSU 13 was established to $75650 according to WSU 13 manager Tom Brock Bob Curtright STOREWIDE SALE ALL MERCHANDISE 20-75 OFF Computer Games Chess Puzzles Miniatures Sports Games Dice Fantasy Games Darts Backgammon GAME SHOP 550 NRocfcRd Mon-Sat 1M 682-1291 music -movis block west of Amidon on 21st 838-0131 4100 Harry In the Mini Mall 680-1235 Radio TV Briefly tions by Hays partners Ross Beach and Bob Schmidt to Smith Broadcast Group was months In negotiations The purchase price was not disclosed after the Feb 9 sale Channel three sister stations will be changing call letters soon to Incorporate the KBS name Hays' KAYS will become KBSH Goodland's KLOE will become KBSL and Dodge KTVC will become KBSD Wichita's Channel 12 will remain KWCH Former general manager Ron Bergamo who spearheaded the drive to take Channel 12 from last place to first In ratings in the past four years left at the end of 1988 to join a television station in his hometown (and larger market) of Phoenix Another grant AirCapital Cablevision recently presented another grant to WSU 13 the cable channel at Wichita State University for production of local programming spotlighting university movie rentals MOST TITLES 4100 Many in the Mini Man 6M-1235 DUNKIN' DONUTS IT'S WORTH JHEiTRIP Buy 6 Donuts GetoFREE si die Regular Half Doha Price Buy 6 6 FREE a si the Regular Half Dozen Price One coupon per customer per visit Available at partfcpaKrg shops Offers annul be combined Shop must retain coupon femes not included UneiOfto zSwodKi 6509 Central Ava Duritmr I 3233EJHany St DOlJUTS OPEN 24 HOURS wort hritrip AYS AWEEK DUNKIN' DONUTS IT'S WORTH THEiTRIP.