The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 23

I The Commercial Appeal MEMPHIS SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 30 1995 SECTION TOM WALTER TeievtsionRadlo One of CA EYE's more subversive spies suggested that i Jladys Knight who's performing Sunday at the should stroll over to the roller coaster so we can say we saw Gladys Knight and the Pippin -As puns go that one could Sylvie (Whoopi Goldberg) helps her friend poetry teacher Rebecca (Elizabeth Perkins) through an agonizing loas In Moonlight end Valentino In dialog that ringa genuine the movie tells a story leavened with humor of people who hurt shines with L- feeling S' situations Moonlight and Valentino Rated for nudity and sexual By Brian Mclkvish Kansas CRy Star Lucy who dresses onl in black still Hanks in Big Here she shows her full range from first disoriented moments after learning her husband has died to a culminating big cry that is transfixing for its believability Goldberg plays the usual best-friend character that audiences have come to expect from her breezy flmny and wise in an offbeat way Turner is convincing as the high-powered businesswoman who wants more from life but quite know how to grieves for her mother who died long ago And Alberta spends more time taking on Wa ll charge as a i died long i financial whiz on Street than 1 Director tells through funny-sad i frilly constructed by screenwriter Ellen Simon who has a good ear for dialog and writes from experience Simon the daughter of Dlaywrieht Neil Simon lost her husband when he was hit by a car while jogging She made it real-life tr through her i care of herself i trauma with help get it The seasoned actress suggests just enough carefully concealed vulnerability character a subtle depth Paltrow is perfect as Reb Everyone hurts Well maybe not grinning rock star Jon Bon Jovi who has a small role as a sexy house painter in Moonlight and Valentina But just about everyone else in this classy character-driven melodrama about lopeliness and survival has to deal with some serious pain Leading the pack is Rebecca (Elizabeth Perkins) a college poetry teacher whose husband is struck by a car and killed while jogging Suddenly Rebecca is a confused and afraid young woman Rushing to side is her eccentric best friend Sylvie (Whoopi Goldberg) clear the room pretty quickly yes? we But you can do worse yes? We asked before but what we got didn't even register on the groan-(Hneter Send us your puns (keep clean) and send you a number below and include your name and phone number THE RESULTS OF PROBABLY THE LASTOJ CALL-IN WE'LL EVER DO WEHOPE All right we know asking people to call us about the OJ verdict is i about as scientific as those telephone call-ins the TV stations run during their newscasts We admit it Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Which is wnat the callers to The Commercial Appeal said about OJ Simpson Of those who called in a 24-hour period from midnight Wednesday to midnight Thursday 666 said Simpson is guilty of murdering his ex-wife and her friend and 71 said innocent But showing a touching lack of faith in the legal system at least as practiced in Los Angeles murder trials featuring famous ex-football players 258 callers said Simpson would be acquitted 405 said the jury will be deadlocked and only 73 said he will be convicted Now those are the totals we recorded We can't wait to hear what the fringe elements say Sfi npson about the total of 666 people say- ing Simpson was WELL-DONE Bumper sticker probably nor on a car love animals They are OUR CULTURE OF VIOLINS Our esteemed colleagues at The New York Times may have peered over their pince-nez and icily blasted violinist Gil Weather Channel video from Four Seasons as rank commercialism But that stop folks from wanning to the video or the recording And it stop CBS Sunday Morning from following the latest Mid-South adventure Crews will tape Shaham at his Memphis Symphony concert tonight with his sister pianist Orii Shaham at the Germantown Performing Arts Centre The program will air next year PUBLIC INTEREST A survey conducted for the distinguisned program Hard Copy has determined that 35 percent of married respondents wish their partners would try lovemaking in a public place Edited by Jon Sparks Contributions from John Beifuss Tom Walter Kathy Brooks Whit ney Smith and our press services Leave messages for CA EYE on 529-2810 or E-mail caeyememphisscrippscom from fier best friend stepmother Marsha while not not that smart-aleck neurotic kid exorcizes her inner demon in cleansing ending that in truth too pat for its own good have to see Moonlight and to figure out the title Some it a I call it time ratings: No stars stay home only if desperate Two mild entertainment Three stars Four stars miss it much actually happens in Moonlight and Valentino it is frequently compelling in its telling of the insecure younger sister Lucy Paltrow) and bossy ex-stepmother (Gwyneth uphill climb of family members struggling to avoid self-pity in favor of self ta (Kathleen Turner) Trouble is got troubles too: marriage is apparently failing srAlber- understanding acting career exactly exploded since she co-starred with Tom switch to news Five Memphis TV stations will be airing newscasts by late this fall as WLMT-TV Channel 30 will offer a 30-minute newscast at 9pm weeknights Three TV stations now have news operations WPTY-TV Channel 24 controls the programming of Channel 30 under a local marketing agreement The Channel 30 newscast will be an update of newscasts that will appear on Channel 24 once that station switches its affiliation to the ABC network That switch and WHBQ-TV "i from ABC Channel switch to Fbx is set to take place Dec 1 As for Channel 13 the station will increase die amount of time it offers local news but station officials decided yet whether Channel 13 will air a one-hour newscast 9-10 pm The Fbx prime time gramming ends at 9 pm iC Fox statioi ions offer an hour of news immediately following Fbx primetime As for Channel 30 general manager Jack Peck saidthe station needs to forge a local identity and best done with a fipwgrogt a world of hundreds of channels if you have a local connection going to be lost in a flood of different Peck said doing news anyway got the people" Channels 24 and 30 will be housed in the same building and will share a news operation Channel 24 plans to air 30 minutes of news at 5 6 and 10 pm The station hopes to have its newscasts ready Dec 1 and is hiring a news staff Peck said Channel sports and weather Please see TV Page C2 Henry Rollins whose career Includes stints as a musician writer and social critic addresses himself to what he sees as the loneliness and Isolation Imposed by modem Ilfs and the effects they have in shaping individual behavior By Michael McMuNan TOP VIDEOS 1 angsta's Paradise (from the motion picture Dangerous Minds) Coolio featuring LV 2 Only Yfanna Be With You Hootie The Blowfish 3 Tomorrow Sitverchair 4 Fantasy Mariah Carey 5 Warped Red Hot Chili Peppers SOUND BITE just seemed like the pop culture climate was more accepting now Having a few artists come out and be successful like Melissa Etheridge and kd lane has been important I may be the first record label executive with the word gay in my title" Galvin Atlantic first vice president of product development for gay markets Passion of punk is motive power as Rollins analyzes human condition flowing personality Ice-T is the star while Rollins leans back in By Jody Callahan All underscore svith an open vein of loneliness and isolation to lend her a younger sister ana Mason his chair smiling Eventually he speaks And as expected it's controversial me subversive Let me on the Jay Leno show How millions of people (watch Rollins said is a nice guy He lets me do it ougn guy i like no here we the artist have some responsibility to the public to render soi some kind of conscience? I think so I just think there are artists who care to make a political or social statement in their music think tiie literary (world) is the biggest collection of snobs ever encountered They want to (publish) Stephen King so he can write the same book eve ry year you gonna do? Rock Please see HENRY Page C5 And chain-smoking sister who the is probably Valentino might call worth your Star One star a good stuff All of which is fascinating And a little frightening Standing in a lobby at The Peabody recently Rollins is clad in a black T-shirt black jeans and a black Gap sweater draped around his waist His fearsome collection of tattoos lurks beneath the clothing coloring his bulging arms and trunklike neck He is widely known as a musician writer sharp cultural observer and frequent television guest in town on a well-publicized visit to participate in the National Civil Rights fall conference But surprisingly standing alone as ne slurps from his omnipresent coffee mug During the first conference panel Rollins and rapper Ice-T field questions from the audience mostly kids With his over- Tha Commercial Appeal the alonity my word It's with yoi alonity hurts alive and living Sometimes the ifsreaLIt hurts scars and strengthens I spend lots of time in the aloni- Rollins in Get In the Van: On the Road With Blade Flag Glimpse the eyes of Henry Rollins and you Bee two chunks of sharp dirty ice hiding a world he hints at in his writing Open his book and it tells stories stories ofpain and fear and rage Tales of fights and riots and senses-numbing travel Snippets of music and mayhem and the unending search for the next meal BILLBOARD CHARTS Randy Newman Faust Various pop stars Reprise ay God and Kandy Newman is Satan as Newman plays fast and Lucifer with tale James Taylor is energy level dissi- pates when Henley sings things get even worse when Elton John shows up inexplicably as a British angel who sings the bland forgettable Little Island Like the rest of music is at its best when at its wickedest and wickedness abounds Relax Enjoy Yourself finds Satan sneaking into heaven for a bit of subversion telling an of lust temptation and deliverance He 3 "Cracked Rear View" Hootie the Blowfish 4 "All I Tim McGraw 5 "Greatest Hits 1985-1995" Michael Bolton 6 "One Hot Minute" Red Hot Chili 7Snuysexycool" 8 1999 Eternal TLC Bone Thugs- N-Harmony on Woman In Shania 9 Sitverchair 10 "Tne Worn Twain Billboard Magazl Leaders ne Chart (CompRed from national ratal play rental charts) HOT SINGLE: Fantasy Mariah Carey TOP ALBUM: Soundtrack to The Shawl HOT COUNTRY SINGLETRACK: Like It I Love It Tim McGraw TOP COUNTRY ALBUM: "All I Tim McGraw TOP VIDEO RENTAL: Pulp Fiction TOP VIDEO SALE: Playboy: The Best of Pamela Anderson TOP MUSIC VIDEO: Pulse Pink Floyd Tbp Singles (Compiled from a national sample of reports collected compiled and i radio provided by SoundScan and monitored radio by Data Systems) 1 Fantasy Mariah Carey 2 Gsngsta's Paradise (from Dangerous Minds) Cool to featuring LV 3 You An Not Alone Michael Jack- 4 Kiss From A Rose (from Batman Former) Seal 5 Runaway Janet Jackson 6 Waterfalls TLC 7 Only Wanna Be With You The Blowfish Hootie 8 1 Can love You Like That AIM-One 9 As I Lay Me Down Sophie Hawkins 1 0 Got On It Luniz Tbp Albums (Complied from a national tampia of alee reports collected compiled and provided by SoundScan) 1-J setts 2 Soundtrack to Dangerous Minds Little PHI" Alania Morls- rives it a Southern California spin with a darkly comic edge As usual the devil gets the best lines as Newman wryly tries to get back into heaven betting God he can corrupt Faust (weakly Stayed by few few Don Henley in one of the missteps) Linda Ronstadt missteps) Linda Ronstadt sings the part of file saintly Margaret but Bonnie Raitt steals the show as the UUk UUlUUe 1UUU BIVMIP mm wvn And thanks to repentance the murderer who went on to become richest man in Inyo even winds up in heaven At which point weakly responds "My ways are considerably-less-than-saintly Martha qrhn falls for Ijicifer in Feels Like Home (in a far better version than the one Ronstadt recently recorded) and then breaks his heart so he can sing fiie blues Bleeding All Over the Place While the mysterious' sometimes even to Nager More disc reviews Page C3 ifcM tAAMMMMhWIWMkarflMMkaiSMM.