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The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 24

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Memphis, Tennessee
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THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL MEMPHIS THURSDAY NOVEMBER 16 1995 ppDiana to tell all on TV palace miffed JUMBLE V' LONDON (Reuters) Buckingham fury at a television interview in which Princess Diana is expected to disclose secrets of her breakup with Prince Charles grabbed front-page headlines Wednesday with one newspaper accusing her of verging on treason in Britain still punishable by death The hourlong interview filmed in secret and due to be screened by the BBC Monday was widely seen as an act or revenge on her estranged husband the heir to the British throne who admitted 18 months ago he had been un faithful to her Tabloids such as the Daily Mirror asked whether Diana had gone mad and more serious-minded newspapers such as the Guardian ana the Independent which traditionally shun stories on the royals gave it front-page treatment the Back" was the headline of the Daily editorial which blasted Diana for breaking protocol for arranging the interview without consulting Buckingham Palace The Sun reported on Buckingham rage as the princess ignited under the highly flammable House of Windsor with her no-holds-barred interview family at Today announced on its front page The Mirror even accused Diana of verging on treason which is still punishable by death in Britain and asked the Daily Mail friends hit back bitterly after the princess stages her extraordinary secret TV interview In short Britain could talk of nothing else but the secrets Diana was likely to reveal in the program taped at apart ments in Kensington Palace News of interview' -conducted in highly controver-sial fashion without Buckingham Palace consent was released with calculated timing Tuesday as Prince Charles celebrated his 47tfc birthday The BBC said the interview with Panorama a respected current affairs show- would delve into all the murky corners of her life her family her separation and her future It is expected to draw millions of viewers The queen for one will not be watching said the palace By Henri Arnold and Bob Lee i Unscnvnblo ihsss tour Jumblss on toUsr to aach squsis to tomt I C2 WHAT THE COMPETING SANDWICH 5HOP5 ENGAGED IN NowanangottieclidadMisnto torn Its mrprtss answsr as aug-gsstod by tho Obovs cartoon From Page Cl Fire r'i 'i mm Jumble Answers 3UVdUVM jns pdtofiuo fldout U9IMDUM BUinHlM guyMNI SSI1VA N003B AUiyj sanusir BRIDGE By Troy Glasgow Poet and singer Simone Travis 26 solos at a recent of Fire" night coming here to she says of the creative who can cultivate their talents here NORTH 4AQII V8 7 5 3 A 6 2 WEST EAST AS J7 VAQ 10 VJ4 2 8 5 4A7I4I 8 7 4 2 10 IS I SOUTH 10 8 5 4 2 8 6 10 2 Vulnerable: East-West Dealer: West South West North Puss 1 1 Pass 2 4 Puss Pass Opening lead: hearts and one diamond Chua switched to the heart jack Now declarer avoid losing three heart tricks and was one down before he had started Watch for the first-hand-high lead when you have no chance to play the suit through the declarer time By Phillip Alder Newspaper Enterprise Association All the major industrialized and many unindustrialized countries nave international bridge 1 teams But when you factor-in country population few have been as successful as Australia Its teams have won several Far East Championships and have been strong in World Championships If you would like to learn about bridge in Oz from 1930 to 1990 buy Cathy Chua's interesting book History of Australian Bridge" ($2295 postpaid 800-525-4718) Chua has represented Australia at both bridge and chess She found the key defensive play in deal Against four spades West led the diamond queen After winning with the ace how did Chua continue the defense? At another table South was Tim Seres best-ever player There the defender sitting East switched to the heart two Seres played low from hand and be defeated After drawing trumps and unblocking the club king Seres ruffed his diamond 10 to get into the dummy and discarded his second low heart on dub ace Seres had only three losers: two Before the performances Lindsey meets another Navy 1 Veteran 56-year-old Bill Taylor (who is not related to Christie Taylor) As they swap stories tales or the difficulties encountered by an African-American in the service in the are met with quiet respect One of the goals of open mike 'Inight Nelson says is for the younger performers to draw on the wisdom and experience of voider performers far as our elders are concerned not a generation Travis says trying to understand one another coming here to Bill Taylor grew up in William Foote Homes public -housing in downtown Memphis and graduated from Booker Washington High School After serving in the Navy he eventually settled in San Francisco where he liked the liberal attitudes He moved back to Memphis in January after retiring from teaching school Taylor has written poetry since 1957 recording when struck with an awareness of something trying -to take an emotion and make a picture of Wearing a knit cap the bearded Taylor looks like a throwback to the Beat Generation He is a regular performer at Voices of Fire try to go every week to support the young people who are just staking and also to support some of the older people like me who set the world on fire like we thought -we would when we first started Taylor says of the things I try to do is encourage the young people their presentation ana their meter how to slow down and reach the audience so people 'can hear what saying 1 Taylor starts the performances off by reading several of his poems Some are short riffs others are longer with more expanded narrative Some are about current events such asthe Million Man March -Others are personal like My Cat: music success but vocal group and Lindsey say it is for new artists to make in Memphis But they at the city as a place they can learn from a history and prepare for careers in the arts far as really making it Memphis is not the cater talent like older league a a ah a gives you courage It strengthens your performance It really strips you down to where forced to just be yourself Everything is left up to you The message is left up to Christie Taylor says the inti- mate setting at the FireHouse helps her figure out what works and what about her performance In addition to singing she also writes poetry ana prose and has read some of her work at open mike nights in coffeehouses tend to be an audience-spectator Taylor says the FireHouse more back and forth like a classroom setting I think that their goal is cultivation while the coffeehouse is nity'wi Taylor works for an aviation Voices says strips the raw you Art dent at will commercial with a Taylor difficult it big look where rich here They coming the Avi uic (liawc to young up-i they do to Lindsey place to Memphis would be a school you down and brings out and helps It really Jrin talent in you The granite-faced woman stood with the cat kitten in her arms Drown lines etched in her parenthetic lips as she puckered and spat call him Pete" After Taylor Lindsey steps to the stage something I want to sing is a poem" he says Eschewing the microphone attached to the karaoke machine Lindsey sings an a cap-pella version of Home which Diana Ross sang in the movie version of The Wiz just pulled it off the top of my head and decided to perform Lindsey says love the song because having been in the Navy and college and seen other -countries that song gave hope to me as far as being away from Lindsey says he finds it helpful to sing without accompaniment your voice can stand alone by itself then going to sound much better once you do add accompaniment to he says Voices of Fire just you and your audience It ance board vice presi- shape alliance For the name and the location of a bridge club or a certified bridge teacher near you call (800) 264-2743 -Murder to take hiatus Reginald Martin a professor the University or Memphis says he hopes disco of Fire I can make an analog coming to the FireHouse right now to see these performing artists and writers would be similar to seeing what Elvis and BB King were doing on Beale Street Martin says really is going to have an influence just got to get noticed sales company as a word processor What she really wants is a record deal that will turn her into a top-40 success like Whitney Houston or Toni Braxton Lindsey works as a security guard and attends the University of Memphis part-time to earn a degree in African-American studies He also yearns for LOS ANGELES After getting killed for four weeks by mega-hit ER ABC has put the Steven Bochco trial drama series Murder One on hiatus until January Murder One will have its last shot at ER tonight after which the freshman drama will move to the 9 pm Monday slot starting Jan 8 ABC Entertainment president Ted Harbert said To fill the Thursday-night vacancy the network will shunt the ABC Thursday Night Movie from 7-9 pm to 8-10 pm and air one-hour specials and reruns from 7-8 pm When Murder One returns it will be seen along with all ABC network programming on WPTY-TV Channel 24 beginning Dec 1 The Hollywood Reporter wssm From Page Cl TV Top 10 tv shows For Be weak tt Nowmtxr S-1 2 Nttf COMPLIMENTARY FACIAL TREATMENT Announcing efiecAac an exclusive new makeup line based on Seaweed 1st time ever to protect from the suns UV rays ffc NBC 27845 267 21 A NBC 22234 CwoSntlnttMCity NSC 20031 102 20 Off all products introducing new services Call for appts COMPLIMENTARY FACIAL'S! TREATMENTS Kathy Podtaatla SaL Nov 18 TLSaLrAB Day flk Roth wins Stella Payne will be the co- anchor with Rob Sawyer of hflflk JlWaffl the 9 pm weekend atVaU U- newscasts She is a native of trn Memphis who returns to town NEW YORK (AP) Philip from a TV station in I turning Roth won the 1995 National Mich Book Award for fiction for Sab- Tom Dees will be Channel Theater on Wednesday feature reporter a 35 years after winning with Goodbye Columbus -Tina The Haunted Land: Facing Ghosts After Communism was the nonfiction winner Stanley Kunitz won the poetry award for his Passing Through: The Later Poems New and Selected Historian David McCullough received the National Book annual Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters McCullough won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of President Truman and is known to TV viewers as the narrator of The American Experience and The Civil War producer photographer and reporter in Tupelo Miss Other new reporters for the station include Lauzi Davison who will report on health and medicine and who comes from a station in Montgomery Ala John Gadson a former St Louis teacher who will be the education reporter and who comes to Memphis from Evansville Ind and Ross Palombo who has been a general assignment and investigative reporter in Fort Wayne Ind- The station also has hired an executive producer the No 2 man in the newsroom Sean Hillier been a writer and producer at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles NBC 10131 116 MB miBIIBIf MpRfVnM ABC 18730 JOO Singh Buy NBC 10321 175 A Touch of Health 4726 Poplar 767-8484 are coming from Kansas City but from different stations Harleston has been a morning show anchor and reporter as has Houston Both also will serve as reporters for the stations Don Carson Channel primary weatherman and Damon Andrews its main sports anchor also will do the weather and sports on Chimm newscast Channel 24 also has hired Bill Lunn as its weekend anchor been an anchor-re-porter in Duluth Minn Over at WHBQ-TV Channel 13 which is revving up for an increase in news programming itself Dec 1 the station Me hired a number of on-air people with Mid-South ties One co-anchor of its new 6-8 am weekday morning pro- 8 ram and noon newscast- is lonn Meroney who once worked at WHBQ television and radio He spent 12 years in Baltimore and comes to Channel 13 from an Orlando station The other morning co-anchor is Valerie Calhoun who has been noon and 5 pm anchor at a station in Bristol Term ABC 10024 1SL3 oisnuiM C801SS2S 101 Monte Strand of Lmtfo 1 CBS 14022 14J BlRElTHANKSGIVINGISAlEfi Memphis largest SehcHatl 140 10 ABC14J23 NTObJu ABC 14025 140 Overall rating 103 117 02 MlakKUMTVtBBt jiOTVaa 5 Drawer Chest (unfinishscl) $199 Oak Wall Unit $CQQ (Uoritsd Qooolltlosl SmMJr Oak Book Cases 49 BRITT bySattty buck navy or taupe toother rag $75 NOW 52 AP Mid I Season I Sale Two of our moat popular patterns have bean radix for a apodal Pra-Thanfcsgiving I FELICIA by Amaffl" Hack navy or naarl taupa loattN $110 NOW it THIS WEEKEND ONLY! 12 MONTHS SAME AS CASH Nostalgic Bow Front Curio pyjiR i imhoeis PRESENTS FABULOUS ESTATE ANTIQUE SAILE FRI 17 SAT 18 670 PERKINS (901) 494-5144 Behind Memphis Little Theetre Flair 1 Ints has teamed with Clements Fine Antiques for a two day Sale Onlyl Fine Antiques English French Furniture Garden Antiques Decorative Objects and Much Morel Oak Table 71 A A lNflB44dMh9CVy I HI WOMEN'S FINE SHOES "Mars Ms Stoss 44 PwWM I On Sw Troftay Un SMI 53 1010 797-6636 Thiu ft IjyawayJinjrKing Avjilable-90 Dey 266 Mall 1M-M Sun 100 Sun 1:000 i.

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