Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 23

Showcase TV 4D Comics 8D Friday March 15 1991 Abilene Reporter-News name new Hard rockers open hner I JAKLEW1CZ i Editor Cowabunga Abilene dudes! WHO: PolaonSlaughter WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Tiykx County Coliseum WHAT: Slaughter has told 2000000 copies of Ha datut album "Stick It To Potaon Roes Haa Ita Thom" ratuma to Abilene TICKETS: S1750 on aaid today at the Expo Cantor general office Box office opene at 6 pm doors open at 6:30 pm ive Slaughter they may be all cracked up to be Projecting an image that ia drug-free down to earth hard-working but fun-loving the four-man band from Las Vegaa ia the new name in hard rock Their debut album It to has sold more than two million copies and their three videos have gone to No 1 on MTV Slaughter is the opening band for rock show at the Taylor County Coliseum starring Poison (see related story Page 2D) Bias Elias the drummer from Texas summed up the rock roll -strategy try to stay in touch with the fans put us he said over the phone Tuesday from Baton Rouge La And gone to great lengths to lo that the story about the fan who called the Slaughter hotline and suggested the guys stay at his house when they came to town They did parking the buses out front and turning the front yard into total chaos Elias for one took the opportunity to Please see NAME SD Slaughter is (from left) lead singer Mark Slaughter bassist Dana Strum guitarist Tim Kelly and drummer Bias Elias Don BlaMeyReporter-News Amber Pickett 4 Qeft) Sterling Beard 21 months and Leslie Pickett 9 are enchanted by a mobile model train at the Civic Center Raphael Qeft) considers using some nipja on the dreaded Shredder The acclaimed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 'concert comes to the Taylor County Coliseum for a 7 pm Bhow Saturday Good seats still are available for the "Coining Out of LTheir tour starring Raphael Michaelangelo Donatello and Leonardo with appearances by April and Shredder All sorts of radical stuff is planned including the Turtles coining down from the -stage to have ftin with their fans Tickets range from (5Qcent surcharge) and are on iale today at the Expo Center general office 1 and Saturday from 10 am through showtime at the -box office1 i)e Niro back busiest leading man these days is Robot De Niro He is back in town starting today with By a historical drama Ibased on the late 1940s-early 1950s House (and later Senate through infamous Joe McCarthy probes) witch --hunts which centered on Hollywood personalities and filmmakers If they were even suspected of having ever been a member of the US Communist Party as was De character David Merrill they were dragged before the House Committed on UnAmerican Activities and given a come cleaq and name iiames or be blacklisted and find your career over Annette Bening George Wendt Patricia Wettig and Martin Scorsese (acting only this time) co-star Irwin Winkler makes his directorial debut at the PC4L Opening at the UA-10 is Paramount Pictures' answer to Claude Van Damme Fourth degree kenpo karate black belt-holder Jeff Speakman is introduced -in Perfect the prqjected first in a series of martial arts action-adventures if it is successful Speakman actually was discovered in an yearly Van Damme supporting role See Page 3D for complete movie listings plus our Iquali tyr a tings as well as the MPA ratings alive! VV Live music visits Abilene this weekend Tonight PoisonSlaughter at the Taylor County Coliseum The rock roll show begins at 7:30 pm tickets are $17 (plus 50-cent surcharge) Saturday night Gene Watson at the Ponderota Ballroom 3881 Vine $10 per person Railroad Festival entertainment on Saturday features country singer Clinton Gregory (free in the afternoon) and the Grey Ghost and Janet Lynn as part of Horse lineup that night at the Paramount Theatre downtown Tickets $10 at the door 1 1 Live Saturday night at the Good Times Club 157 Burger is San Daa Havyoc $2 1 cover Also Tomme Gunn rocks Magic Waters 2902 1st $2 cover Jum to Page 2D for details and more entertainment "news Museum gallery exhibits The Center for Contemporary Arts continues lsn exhibition featuring varied works by artist of the -month Barbara Wilson including watercolors and Please see 1st Abilene Railroad Festival running throughout weekend St! Festival schedule Page 5D An early-1950s TAP freight train chugs through the Penwell Flats near Odessa by former Odessan Brown Jarrett now of Gallery and Paintings in Odessa one of several train-related works of art on display Saturday at the Center for Contemporary Arts first-ever Abilene 'Railroad Festival today through Sunday will have lots of features The prqjected annual event has lured largest mobile model train to the Civic Center as part of the Aboard exhibit And lots more Friday evening Lionel Trains Inc president Richard Kughn will be keynote speaker at a dinner at the Civic Center During the festival will be Iron Horse at the Paramount kids activities and food and entertainment at along closed-off portions of i Street country singer Clinton Gregory performing on the lawn of the Civic Center including the Step One Records artist doing his own composition From Abilene and two free showings of the movie starring Barbara Stanwyck and -Joel McCrea Also in this celebration will be a transfer of ownership of the old Texas Pacific Railroad passenger terminal building at North First and Cypress streets from present owner Union Pacific to the city of Abilene Mayor Gary McCaleb presiding And the railroad festivities will join with area Hibernians and their annual St Day Parade which will start at the Civic Center at 11 am Saturday jog on North Sixth to Pine travel down Pine to North First then over to Cedar Street and back to the Civic Center Art work centering on railroads some of it done especially for this celebration and some of it in circulation for a while will be on display at the Center for Contemporary Arts 1140V4 Second (upstairs) There will be a fun run at 8 am Saturday traversing downtown Abilene streets with a start and finish at the Civic Center A drawing will be held Sunday for a Lionel model train city decided what to do with the train said Julie Caddel a member of the Railroad Festival committee 1 'All Aboard exhibition will include the largest mobile exhibit of) model trains and will have railroad There will be a swap meet for model train builders and cpllectors she said The best news about this first Abilene Railroad Festival is most of it is free Except for food and souvenirs the only events charging anything are admissions for dinner and -Aboard preview and original Horse by Traveling Follies of Austin 1 Festival sponsors include the- -Abilene Reporter-Newt Bank One Abilene Harold and Pat Crawford First National Bank of Abilene Dodge Jones Foundation Frizzell Development Company Hendrick Medical Development Corporation Dian Graves Owen Pride Refining Inc and West Texv Utilities Company BOB LAPHAM Entertainment Editor St melodrama i The eight-performer troupe will be one of the highlights for this first Abilene Railroad Festival Bad Bill from Buffalo Gap is our said Nancy Reed a stand-up comic who runs the Velveeta Room in Austin She wrote the from historical notes supplied by former Abilenian Beverly Robinson who now lives in Austin mad because they move the county seat from Buffalo Gap to Reed -said of Big Bad Bill wants to go down there (to Abilene) and get it back hero ia Clabe Merchant be a gunfight duel between warring Please see FOLLIES SD he good days of our heritage -cometo life Saturday at the Paramount Theater Reliving those days of yesteryear for us will be a troupe from Austin called Follies Their story will harken back to when the Texas Pacific Railroad extended its westward-bound tracks into the desolate open range land of Taylor County a few miles north of a place called Buffalo Gap and declared a townsite called Abilene open for business The story will be plus or minus various degrees of historical accuracy since the Austin-based Follies will tell tls Iron Horse Revue" through their original Barbara Wilson with her-' "Prolific Image" pastels painting at CCA kf.