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MEMPHIS SATURDAY MAY IQ fiOUTHBROOK CINEMA 1W Sr I MPUnMOHIul WOOIMMM MIHSMSill I MWWWWH Alan fired as news director at WPTY-TV SMCIfSI MM SCMAMNI MMM 1 1 1 manager but he declined to comment on the reasons that he took the action took me totally by surprise" Alan said ratings are up 500 percent from the day I took over ana revenues are up as well" Alan came to Memphis in November 1996 to take over a news operation that had a rocky beginning in December 1995 after the station switched from a Fox network affiliation to the ABC network Alan also was news director WLMT-TV Channel 30 which airs a newscast at 9 pm WPTY controls the programming on WLMT through a local marketing agreement Alan has been the prime mover in A 1 Night Against Crime on June 23 On that night the network affiliates simultaneously will air a special about crime and crime prevention All the 1 stations are contributing stories to the special A two-hour town meeting about crime on WKNO-TV Channel 10 will follow very much like to stay in Memphis Memphis has become my home and we are doing the biggest public service project in the history of the city which I intend to see Alan said BIGHIThmq 'll By Tom Walter The Commercial Appeal me COMMERCIAL ArrhAL WPTY-TV Channel 24 fired news director Jeff Alan Friday effective immediately Alan 45 said the firing came as a otal shock to him unfortunate it had to 'baid Jack Peck the general To reach re 529-2581 or E-mail waltergomemphiscom Tom Walter call 11 gljriwSMOVit JNFO vf From Page Cl Act IS to Lausanne win HOHill HEOIOHU HORSE WHISPERER TCITY OF ANGELS 7:30 (PG13) ililfi TUlllhi DI6IIAI SCUM worked with students on an adaptation of a story about finding the perfect birthday gift for mother Kozik said his students wanted to include a spirit dance that he considers a cheer the idea a spirit dance kind of works because the story is about the spirit of He said students in his group not been exposed to any theater whatsoever Some exercises used are intended to teach them to concentrate and Kemper agreed although a couple of her students at University Christian have done some theater work in school one point not too long ago I turned a rehearsal over to one of these girls who had experience With her help the students have done what I was hoping which was to write the script and direct it SCVKKS 1:30 3:30 5:00 I I 740 ivn SCIENCE FAIR five scholarship offers including a $2500 annually renew-1 able partial scholarship from UT-Arlington and a frill-tuition scholarship to Drexel University in Philadelphia valued at $73650 probably visit a few schools we planned to said Dr Charles Handorf who traveled with his son Texas going to stop by the University of Texas at Arlington on the way home right on our way make a trip to Philadelphia Other Mid-South students who won awards Friday were: Robert William Sindelar 16 of Oxford Miss who received a $1500 second-place award in the chemistry category and Patrick Harvey Black 16 of Weir Miss who won a $1000 third-place award in the environmental sciences category Other students representing the Memphis-Shelby County Science Fair here Surekha Murti 18 a senior at St Episcopal School Chetan Patil 16 a junior at Houston High School and Jason Hackl 17 a junior at Lausanne Collegiate School The 1125 ISEF finalists who came from 50 states and 34 countries won more than $2 million in prize money book and equipment grants internships college scholarships and scientific field trips To reach Mary Lou Brown call 529-2508 or E-mail her at brownmarylgomemphiscom LAYER'S CLUB fiOOIffUllUKTI 123M4HJ5D51IH outer of Afficnoi ODD COUPLE 21 M5-9i5IW1131 4 COMF1 TITANIC 5:30 2:45 9:30 PRIMARY COLORS 7:00 IQrreJiFiMlwIfrr'iS-ioal Oil) SUMMtfl SUMMtAi VOVIEPAGf COM rADIUMSENG deep IMPACT WHISPERER Mi MS MS NICTAMUMM PAUUE mnMHian ing something about acting music and stage movement The pilot year of ASAP culminates today as the original pieces that the troupes have -created will be performed at a of Plays" from 10 am to noon and 1 to 3 pm at Playhouse 51 Cooper The morning session features shows by ASAP programs at Douglass Community Center in conjunction with Girls Inc and by Evergreen Presbyterian Holy Community United Methodist Highland Heights Presbyterian St Episcopal Shady Grove Presbyterian St Michael Catholic and University Christian churches The afternoon program includes troupes from Asbury United Methodist Everett Memorial United Methodist First Presbyterian Mullins United Methodist Good Samaritan United Methodist and Warren United Methodist Churches as well as St Michael Catholic Church ASAP coordinator Bryan-Wilson said each group has been meeting for 90 minutes twice a week Each group has its own teaching artist ana volunteer from the host site goal was really to take performing arts into the she said for those who would not have gotten access to theater otherwise been a terrific outreach program for the Playhouse on the Square executive producer Jackie Nichols said the program operates on about $50000 a year About half the funding has come from foundation grants the remainder from host sites and student fees Plans call for starting the program up again in September and Bryan-Wilson hopes that eventually it will offer classes for Spanish speakers and sign language readers and include sites in west Memphis and Tipton County Students wrote or adapted most of the scripts for the festival and created songs and choreography Topics were generally left up to the kids Ruby Marvel a 7-year-old Campus School student in the University Christian Church troupe said the Spotlights began with chalkboard and we talked about different things and we ended up with She said each student put a different part in the script of us are going to be litterers and some will be cleaners and flowers and trees and birds" Ruby said she hopes people will learn from the theme of the i play think if everybody helped with recycling the Earth would be really Some teaching artists have stressed one discipline over another depending on their background Kemper has strong training in music and coached her students in their song At Shady Grove Presbyterian Louise Casini who recently Was in the British comedy Noises Oft at Theatre Memphis is an actress who has been helping students prepare a piece set in a Russian village At St Cathedral Sandy Kozik a former professional clown and Memphis Arts Council teaching artist has TODAY IEOW magical A family event with enchanting characters and Pat Collihi WWOl-TV i By Mary Lou Brown -i Th Commercial Appeal i FORT WORTH Texas Russell Handorf 18 a junior at Lausanne Collegiate School fag'de the right move He id his science fair proj-year although he con-tUtded to work on program-: lifting intricacies or called fuzzy logic that is a programming tftlempt to ipimic the way t'he human brain works -The new improved project won Handorf a sppt in the International and KWH SS3 hefce for the Manaorf year in a row Last year he built a robot that played tic-taertoe With every game the hjhot played it learned from the mistakes of the humans it played Handorf learned from his Kites too although he says A bored with the idea and was tired of working with Stepper motors (in the Hi0 current project of Fuzzy Logic Personal Assistance was gppd enough to win a $1500 second place award in the computer science category as the 1998 ISEF came to a close here Friday Last year Handorf returned home with no awards In addition to the second-place award Handorf received iiiiH FTOm Page Cl routines on being married and eing single children family and growing old Foxworthy finds a way to about things without talking about as he puts it the last five min-utSS in it are about sex but not a dirty word in he said i And the special is all new material is the first time I just scrapped everything and said Tm writing a new hour and a Ijalf which was scary I think you need to do that he said it was real ftard to go out and not do things those in 4 eftmedy on two different networks in two successive years Neither one survived For one thfiig it seemed both ABC in Qigfirst one and NBC in the econd one let Foxworthy be Foxworthy 5 happens for a BI the least bit he said doing standup I never got into standup because I wanted to be a sitcom star I like making people laugh With Aandup you know within three Seconds whether good or 1-9 General Cinema BAIOAIN MMflNIIS ALL SHOWS STARTINQ BESOMS PM MILT SHOWING ONLY AT MALL OF MEMPHIS AND RALEIGH 6 RALEIGH 6 ui tom MHIUUMMI MnUWUIIHH)l im nr mm ms(M1 IMIMMSMSKfl M4MBt HICKORY RIDGS MALL MK IM IB SM MS MM mm IN SB MS MS HHHMIMIIHM MM MM Ml MM MM MALL 1 MEMPHIS AilHtlaUHUIUIIlJ MH Ui Ui a (SMI I Mf MMI1M 4M Ml EM UMM SB MS I SMB Ml (MS KS MMMWMI CHECK DAILY to Last place 1 Memphis is distinctive for many reasons Now we have another one Of the 39 metered markets measured by Nielsen Media Research Memphis came in 39th make that last for the Seinfeld finale Thurs-daynight The program 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