The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 70

NOAi -tar tf-f Knox To Get New Radio Station CNN Weatherman Joins Channel 26 mmc Better Tawny KRane warns her fiance Tom Hanks Shat he had better behave at the bachelor party Ms friends are throwing for him in the comedy "Bachelor now showing at Cinema Six and the Clinton Cinema Fairy Tale Fun but a Bit Overdone ever necessary When Denton and Shutt arrive they will join news co-anchor Bren- i da Burch and sports anchor David Sharp as the newn-weather-sporti team Shutt win replace Kathy Norton who has been named weekend assignment editor and general reporter Denton win replace Art Powell and Jim Hampton with Powell staying at the station as media liaison and Hampton becoming news director for a Chattanooga TV station POTPOURRI: Cbmic book and fantasy tons will be descending on Atlanta for the 10th annual nonprofit Atlanta Fantasy Fair Aug 3-5 with several fomed fantasy and horror writers and artists on hand at the Omni Hotel and World Congress Center (for info call Lamar Waldron at Marietta Ga 1-404-977-8864) The Nashville Net-worka game shew will feature a whale week ef country made radio atatlea deejays match-lag wits July 23-27 with one af the deejay being former Knoxville re card spinner Jessica James saw of WOKK to Meridian Mist But at the IS deejays set for the TV show for the week aeue are hum Kaax-vHle er East Tennessee Leaks like TNN mksed the beat by not getting asmesue Item this area a hotbed of country made the Alabama band win perform at the Columbia Temv Starfest 84 celebration on Labor Day weekend Sept 1 joining some 25 ether bands mostly rockers Hopefully the event wiH not have the same problem as last year when aotne 3500 counterfeit tickets were add fflcgdly (the ticket company supposed to be using ticket paper that cant be duplicated this year) Christopher Atkins scan la the reed shew version of "Grease" spewing Tuesday at tha Theater ef the Stars la Atlanta The theater else baa beaked Mai tha Kaye la Jdy 24-2L Joliet Ptwwse In July Sl-Ang 8 Lee Horsley la "Mack aad MakeT Ang742 and Barbara Eden la -Woman of the Aug 1441 Alan Tea Janes will dag ia concert at Ac Chastain Amphitheater ta Attanta at 239 pi Aug Finally: limes Whitman brings hk one mao Wlfl Begem shew te toe Fes Theater la Atlanta Aug Knoxville will be getting another radio station thk month when WBZW goes on the air at 1040 in the oenter of the AM dimL Nostalgia music tunes by such people os Flank Sinatra Bing Crosby Pony Oomo Nat King Cole etc will be the basic offering of the new station says owner IdCuBTu Vi HijCmNi "We will be operating out of a relatively new building next to the post office ta said Hudc-aba will have 2500 watts of power and will cover the entire Knoxville fnetrepdHtan area Wa are going to offer music from the 1940s to the present" The station will go on the air sometime during the next couple of weeks said Huckaba are now finalizing the operation of our aatel-Ete he said could go on the air as early as the next few days things are worked out" The station win be a subscriber to the Satellite Musk Network meaning most programming will be sent ta via satellite from the Chicago area But the station will maintain its own sales staff and present local news weather and sports reports at the top of each hour "Phil Rainey who eke works with the Channel 43 TV station wiH he doing our morning news We are yet to decide on who win be doing the afternoon said Huckaba "We will be operating with a Cassette deck system controlled by satellite said Huckaba Huckaba who has some 35 years in radio experience (including work for a Nashville radio station) said ha decided to move into the Knoxville market after some extensive checking was thinking about opening a Station here or ta Florida but I found I like the Knoxville area very much" he said "Mid there la a need for nostalgia type music a the AM dial hers so I decided to try to fill the void" The station's target audience will be those age 35 and up There has been an absence nostalgia format music here since the bankruptcy of WRJZ Rodi WEZK-TM now provides easy listening most-ly-instrumeutal music on the FM dial but the nostalgia format offers more middle of tho read eld pop songs has bees very sue- review Ken Mink cnransvnfTTOTii Topper Shutt eeesftd with its format but I think there a definite need for a' related format on the AM dial" said Huckaba win ofTer a different version or music than anyone eke ta Ml NEW WEATHERMAN: WTVK-IV Channel 29 wfil be getting a new weatherman forks 1pm and 11 pi nv weekday muncerti next month Charles Ibpper Shutt now with the Cable News Network (CNN) in Atlanta wiB join toe Knoxville station ta August along with toe new Channel 29 newt anchorman Alien Denton ef Evansville bid (announced ember Channel 29 News Director Hal Wsnur trying to line up a competitive on-the-air news team at Channel 29 and Shutt comes in with some good credentials He has been with CNN for three years and prior to tost studied meteorology with the Weather Service in Windsor Leeks Com where he prepared and decoded weather data At CNN he was a Barnes and NSck Gregory and substituted on the air for them when Dimay (SI MCA(Ci I-rem warn iq ttMwauiMnil With Ralph Macclo and Elizabeth nya State Now showing at Kings 13 ton Four Cinema and Halls OnemaFour A large part ef "The Karate the best part really seems te be taking place Inside a fortune cookie It is here in the serene realm of Oriental wisdom Holly wood-style that a teen-ager named Daniel (Ralph Macchio) is taught lesson after lesson about life His instructor is an elderly man named Miyagi played by NoriyuH (Pat) Moriu who is first seen try tag te catch flies with a pair of chopsticks Throughout the film Miyagi sustains a scene-stealing if hokey eccentricity Miyagi easily becomes a perfect father figure for Daniel thanka te the old mania patience understand ing and seemingly infinite Hit incredible command of karate is another plus as far as Dan id is concerned since the bey is newly transplanted front Newark te California and frequently finds himself being savaged by largo effluent blond bullies who dress like Michael iackaon Miyagi teaches him to defend HhnseV and along the way to become a man Karate Kid" has the male fogs of a genuinely heartwarming two-man drama with Mortta a charming cut-p and Macchio gently likable in the Robby Benson isle But neither the director John Avildsen nor the screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen is content to leave wel eneugh atone Their film full ef extras from the supporting characters who barely have anything ta do to the Bill Conti music that Masts annoyingly through the final climactic fight scene Even deleting the fua-fo-toe-gun teefi-ege montages that err- up periodically would improve the film greatly or at least cut down on its penchant for wasting tie Karate Kid is essentially a fairy tale AvildsenY broad directorial touches often shatter Its gentle mood Yet the bullies are shown to bo tmbebevabty rotten (their leader a drill oergeant-type karate instructor who makes hit students do pushups on their knuckles) The score pushy and loud And the extras like the modefly looking parents ef Darners rather -superfluous young sweetheart are made of wood The only sections of the film that really work ore those concerning Daniel and hk mentor and eves this relationship taken too far Long after we know of their affection for each other long after Daniel and Miyagi knew this too the film includes a dreadful drank scene in which the old man confesses several key facts about his past and then Shows hk Congressional Medal of Honor When karate not being treated as the latest excuse for an Dream" soccess story and whet the film able to find more in Daniel'S martial-arts career than pure competitiveness "The Karate exhibits warmth and ftioidly predictable humor its greatest assets Midway through the story an obvious but highly effective se- quence hat Mtyag saddta Daniel with One herculean home-repair chore after another tasks that have no apparent connection with hkka rate training if not surprising to watch this culminate in the boyT angry outtmrM the old quiet bemusement and the revelation that painting sanding and waxing have plenty to do with karate after aU ihe Karat Kid" ccetilx isnS ild violence WJmr Mma BMU hy videos Terms of Tops 1 Video Sales IT Star Irak Be The Wrelh el Kken -1 wmui AttantapMl-WMr(in TA lore Break: A Wowl GuMa la -WemwfA SB WtaBi MCA ft Video Cassells Rentals Per amount n- The following are the most pop-liar video cassettes for tha week ending July 14 as they appear in Billboard magazine Copyright 1984 Billboard Publications Inc Reprinted with pemasaion The figures at right ta the JoOowing charts denote the position of the tunes the xtoejm jttvjouswirek Maker Waft ASawtaae vmwmSv "fnJn 11 Trading Ptaeat Paramount (10V 1A tfcmtaO Gate IMm Carteae no UMaMMMCMnCk PMe owner pej Video Cassette Sate tTewUb a i A ta.