The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 25

MEMPHIS THURSDAY JUNE 15 1995 The Commercial Appeal SECTION fcf EYE CA EYE was fully prepared to be transported by the heavily hyped new MichaaUanet Jackson video Scream that debuted Tuesday night on a gushy MTV The increasingly pale one still has the moves (albeit the same old moves) and the too-brief moment when brother and sister danced together was hot And one of CA youthful spies rollicked in the guitar-as-smashing-racquet device But that monochrome techno-mall-rocket morph set kept reminding us of 2001: A Space Odyssey only without the wit YOUNG LETTER MAN National spelling champ Justin Carroll hasT roughed up prett infotainment mec Wynne Ark 14-year-old was bumped from CNN invited then rejected by Conan snubbed by the Tonight Show and most recently was the butt of some raunchy alleged humor on Dennis Miller Live But the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee a trouper and wul try again this time tonight on Late Show with David Letterman If rehearsals go all right and the uests yammer on too young Justin just might make it THAT OLD GANG Ringo Starr has just finished working with Paul McCartney and George Harrison on two nnon songs Free as a Bird and Real Love from late-70s post-Beatles period and feature the remaining Beatles weaving music around Lennon's vocals What was it like working with the other Beatles again Rins was great to get back wit) Paul and George though we needed a couple of days to ease into it But all the BS goes i System bends to give kids two parents after divorce right out the window when working together LISTING TO STARBOARD If your vision of heaven is seven days with William Buckley Jr the founder of the conservative journal National Review you can now join Buckley National Review executives editors subscribers and such special guests as Judge Robert Boric for a i I :3 Liib Cadron and his dad go for ice cream at The Peabody The pair like to spend their Thursday evenings together riding the Main Street Ttolley tells the trolley driver when to stop and when to Pickett said of his son a real a ii iiifiViii A (T- i I Jus i' Vfca By Michael Kelley The Commercial Appeal now people if you look to the right see the mighty mighty mighty Bucke Pickett loves the way Cadron plays tour guide for passengers on the tram to Mud Island He loves the way Cadron takes little presents to the firefighters at the station near his apartment an acorn or a potato or some other little token He loves the way Cadron falls asleep with a smile on his face when he reads to him at bedtime Call it parenting time Pickett says Visitation quite describe the hours he spends with his 3-year-old son Dads celebrating Day with their kids this weekend dads like Pickett who has joint custody of Cadron noncustodial fathers who have what the courts still call call it time well- spent i When divorce mars the domestic picture like shattered glass on a fam- i '-'l 1 weeklong Celebration Cruise to mark the 40th anniversary of the magazine The Caribbean cruise departs Oct 28 on Celebrity Zenith Activities include a mock with Buckley and Bork Cruise-only fares start at $1975 per person double occupancy Call 800-707-1634 OUR DAILY WEB We put on our shades and trenchcoat pulled out this decryption book and logged on to wwwodcigov the CIA and donTt ask CA EYE how we found out Hoped to uncover the number of Iranian Elvis impersonators but mostly we discovered the web site is a catalog of stuff gladly sell to you like a 1980s vintage wall chart of Romanian Communist Party officials ($14) And a page dealing with Central Intelligence Agency FAQs (frequently asked questions) that was most disappointing We found out want that kind of relationship with my son Parents can have a very positive influence on their kids and what trying to Continuing involvement in a pros tend to be particularly for sons in that it provides a male role said Dr Robert Cohen a University of Memphis psychologist course to the extent that the custodial parent and the noncustodi-al parent support each other then Please see DAD Page C3 ily photo life goes on Except in cases of abuse children still need both parents in their lives Fathers if good fathers have a role to play that goes far beyond the monthly child support payments grew up with one of those dads that spend much time with said Pickett 36 a librarian life by both parents after divorce is seen by many experts as a positive influence on the development too Fox buy triggers local news blitz Jackson says charges of molestation false TOM WALTER TeleviskxiRadio Channel 13 currently airs a half-hour of local news at 6 pm and 10:30 pm Fbr Channel 24 its news commitment will increase from zero The station which began as an independent and then affiliated with Fbx do any news at all But now that becoming an ABC affiliate the network wants it to have a news operation to accompany lead- first interview they have done together since their marriage in 1994 It comes as Jackson is releasing his first album since 1991 and since a 1993 investigation into allegations Jackson molested a 13-year-old boy Ever I could never harm a Jackson said when Sawyer asked him if he ever had fondled or engaged in sexual conduct with that boy or any other child Jackson settled a civil lawsuit in the case He said he did they don't have an unlimited budget they don't spy on Americans and they don't assassinate foreign leaders How do you expect to get a spy novel out of that? SHOCK OF THE WEEK Men are more than twice as likely than women to leave remote control units in the refrigerator or throw them away in the garbage This according to a Magnavox survey that showed that 91 percent of households have a remote Now if we could only get them programmed to automatically bypass any OJ broadcasts YO ADRIAN GIMME A HANKY In polls of audience members leaving theaters after seeing The Bridges of Madison County Entertainment Weekly found that 66 percent of the men admitted that they had cried so said one man got to me even more than Rocky III" Edited by Jon VK Sparks Contributions from Mary Lou Brown and our press services Leave messages fbr CA EYE at 529-2810 or E-mail jonwsparksQt'aolcom By Ibm Walter The Commercial Appeal Fop star Michael Jackson told ABC Diane Sawyer Wednesday night that he never molested any child though children still hop into bed with him not anti-Semitic and the movie trailer for his new album Fhst Present and Future Book is not modeled on a Nazi-era film he said And Lisa Marie Presley is not pregnant she told Sawyer though she hopes to have children with Jackson She volunteered that they sleep in separate bedrooms though his bedroom can get crowded She also said her marriage to Jack-son is not part of a plot by the Church of Scientology to get its hands on his money The pair confirmed they have a pre-nuptial agreement The pair was interviewed on Primetime Live from a Hollywood soundstage It is the The switch in affiliations between WHBQ-TV Channel 13 and WPTY-TV Channel 24 on Dec: 1 should make TV-news junkies salivate Among the many things the switch means is an increase in the amount of local TV news Will the quality of TV news improve as well? hope so Fox is buying WHBQ-TV Channel 13 The switch to Fox means more than just a switch in prime-time programming Fbx provides much less network programming than does ABC Channel current affiliate Fox program between 9 pm and 10 pm It doesn't have a nightly network news program It have a morning news program It provide as much weekday programming as ABC and when it does programming Fbx affiliates in big cities especially stations Fox owns fill those saps with news not unusual for a Fbx station to do at least one hour in the morning two hours or more in the late afternoon and an hour at 9 pm so in order to move beyond the his lawy would find him innocent charges He said his awyers or arantee a judge jury would find him innoc competing newscasts to say a sensational if-it-bleeds-it-leads newscast a legitimate alternative? No talking about specifics at the moment But the folks at Channel 13 can hardly hide their glee that Fbx is going to own the station Fbx impresses on its stations the importance of local news George Tyll news director at Channel 13 said prepared proposals about news coverage for nis new owners They include doing the news differently from the way done now he said a daily basis there are very few stories tnat we all should cover After that what you want to cover If you want to make education your strength fine or if health or cops or he said is Please see TV Page C2 ership nationally as the highest-rated and best news organization of the big three networks Channel 24 has hired a news consultant in Los Angeles to help it get a news operation off the ground Channel 24 likely will do at least an hour of news each day With four local newscasts in town a reasonable bet that at least one of them will adopt a tabloid approach covering murders fires murders car wrecks the grief-stricken relatives of murder victims and for the lighter touch cute kids and even cuter animals You think what you get now? Just wait And with four and he didn't want to spend up to seven years fighting the charges Jackson is well-known for his love of children and children still visit his Neverland Ranch in California Sawyer said some people might wonder about children staying See JACKSON Page C2 I i 4.