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Movie will sort of9 premiere at beach By KAREN CARNES Entirtoinmtnt Writ Burnett is a very mercurial element We aim our film at the kids and try to keep it somewhat sexy and somewhat Hers said like that better than tooting people and chopping off their Hm saidthe buttaet -1700000 -was small but he doesn't ueeMg stars the money Is spent an the movie and goes up on the semen We can compete successfully with he said Hers said as a parent he would have no bjection to his kids seel OrL matter what" Hers and hispartner Lloyd Kaufman are the owners of Troma Inc a nail company which produces two to three films a year and distributes six to ten for other I producers "Troma was founded in 1871 and been producing films since then We've been distributing since 1974" Hers said do our own marketing financing writing scripting distribution and Other films produced by TToma are Squeeze Play Waitress! and Stuck on You also coproduced The Final Countdown with Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen Hen said Troma also provided production services for Louis Dinner With Andre and far Rocky and Saturday Night Fever of sorts" i First Turn On today at the Ocean opening in 85 to 70 theaters all over the CeroUnu end this le the flret major aidlna from hie New York Ctty office Tbe movie filmed In New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania la probably hii company'e most rlaque so far Hen said dose to Borin and I think It is our funniest It's rated he said some test dates some critics likened it to Risky director of 77ie comedy opening "It has nudity pretty he said the characters are afi nice people and there's no violence nothing sick no deviant behavior Kids go to see raundqr stuff no Teen-age campers in Turn On9 enter ttaMmmt 1-C Friday November 4 1983 The Sun News 2nd Beach Music Awards show will bring stars and recognition to Grand Strand Producer of the show will be Robert 8 Levinson of Los Angeles Levinson produced the last two Suzanne Somers -television specials Director is British-born Stanley Dorfman Dorfman did a video and album for Yoko Ono and recently finished an all-star show in England for cable television which featured The Who Jeff Beck The Rolling Stones Eric Clapton Faces Elton John and Elvis Costello Although most of the production crew is from the West Coast several local business will be involved Including Encore Video Productions Patriot and Stallings Photography and Bass Studio Aragona sakfthe inclusion of the stars in the show will help sell the it in television markets outside the Charles Haid brunch Nov- 20 at Houlihan's a formal dinner at the Landmark and floor-level seating at the show that night VIP tickets are 8350 for two people ($500 for two if hotel rooms are needed) VIP tickets will be sold through Thursday only at the BMAA office 514 Alder St General admission tickets are 860 and are for the show only They are available at the BMAA office and at the convention center until they are sold out General admission tickets to the shag contest Nov 18 will be 85 per person Entertainers appearing on the show are Janice Barnett The Impressions JD Cash Shagtime The Band of Os Delbert McClinton The Entertainers Fat Ammons Band Sonny Turner The Embers The Poor Souls The Clovers Billy Scott and the Georgia Prophets Steve Bassett Mary Wells and Steve Jarrell and Our House A live album will be recorded that night Winners of the novice and pro shag contests will also perform Award to be presented are Single of the ngleFe presen Year Album of the Year Single By KAREN CARNES Entertainment Writer The television and movie stan participating in the 2nd Annual Beach Music Awards Show in Myrtle Beach Nov 20 wUl give this year's mow more class and glitter said John Aragona president of the Beach Music Awards Association and executive producer of the show Among the stars who will present the awards are Charles Haid and Michael Warren of HiU Street Blues Ken Norton fighter and star of Mandingo Batman's Adam West Dennis Cole of The Young and The Restless Brian Mitchell of Trapper John MD RussTsmMynof the musicals West Side Story and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Kim Miyori and Ed Begley Jr of St Elsewhere Richard Hera of TJ Hooker and Dana HiU of Shoot The Moon The show win be at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center at 8 pm Nov 20 It will be video taped and marketed nationally as a two-hour television program largest market in the country confirmed this week it will run the show Nine other stations in Virginia North Carolina and Georgia have already committed magic number relative to this type of program clearing markets is 70 Seventy markets would be good and there's a strong possibility we could clear twice that" Aragona said gonna elevate beach music to a status people dream about Groups like the Embers and the Chairmen of the Board are topnotch entertainment and they wUl end up going he predicted On the local angle Myrtle Beach will be the site of BMAA activities from Nov 18 through the show on Sunday night VIP card holders will be able to attend "Nobody in Los Angeles ever heard of the Embers the Catallnas or the Poor Souls" Aragona said dear the markets we had to have names people were familiar with It adds The bottom line in any business Aragona said is to make money this stage of the game we haven't made he said ultimate bottom line is how many (television) markets we can clear with this show I was skeptical about the West Coast especially LA" KABC in Los Angeles the second Vocalist Single Male Vocalist Group Vocalist of the Year Group of the Year Best New Artists of the Year Record Producer of the Year Beach Music Show Club of the Year Beach Music Club of the Year and Song Writer of the Year the finals of the novice and pro i contests Nov 18 at 2001 VIP a pig pickin' Nov 19 at the Holidome at the Holiday Downtown and a celebrity party at the Landmark Hotel a champagne Ken Norton 6 Dead Zone9 is now a film of superior thrills reeling By Tim Hewitt 1983 will certainly be marked as a banner year for Stephen King Early this year was the release of Ms new novel Christine which fairly lept to the top of the bestseller lists This summer Cttjo a film baaed on one of Ms novels was released to moderate success Recently his new book Pet Semetary was released and will no doubt do weH And by jot's end John Carpenter's film of Christine will be hau theaters But for now all attention should be on King project The Dead Zone is a novel through several directors before finally landing at people to get what he wants As Smith is told he is craxy dangerous And Smith realises just how true the evaluation is when he shakes hands with Stillson at a rally and sees the future Greg ai the doorstep of David CTOnenbery the eccentrically talented Canadian who had ironically enough been one of the first directors approached for the project several years back Cronenberg is like Carpenter a director whose skills as a writer are far below Ms skills as a you could go back in Smith asks Ms doctor what you know about Hitler what would you do?" The answer of course is So Smith finds himself in a position of carrying the future of the world on Ms shoulders To save mankind he must assassinate a popular politician It Is easily most volatile and controversial i Jeffrey Boam has done a commendable job of tying die various dements of a lengthy novel tab a compact twohour film without losing anything Boam emphasises the inner turmoil istopher Walk Walken Ms best role since past made Ms films so interesting Now for the first time he finally has a solid story to which he can attach his arresting images a typical twist now that he has a shay Craenbetf also has restraint There are no exploding beam in The Dead Zone No creatures writhing tout under a skin No one stickbg Ms head Into a mouth on a TV screen What there is is real human drama realised by a director who finally seems to be combi to grins with-it afi For die first time along with a been blessed with a tofmotefa cast who i performance ta The Deer Hunter expecting to find the horror usually Hong will not find it here The Dead Zone is a contemporary tragedy an emotional story of a man trying to come to grips with an uncon-trolable part of really act They do what actors are supposed to da They the character rather than the character The Dead Zone is easily Stephen best novel alter Salem's Lot specifically because is a people-oriented story It tame story of a man so ordinary hw is named John Smith After an accident that leaves him to a coma for five years Smith wakes up to find that he has the ability to see into a person's past or future and tell if something important to that person is happening at the very moment of contact Smith sees his ability as a curse and i htatime trying to run away from but Mm out First toe (Tom drawing Mm om Skerritt) wants Mm to help find the Castle Lehwalder and Wincenc smile even as he crumbles a man who wants nothing more from life than normalcy When he erupts ta anger it is anger barn of passion and concern for those around him Greg Stillson is a rare opportunity far this gifted actor to play a truly evil character and he ooerWt with gusto Sheen puys the bad guy with the best of them and hta good looks and amiable nature lend an additional touch of menace to the character We believe thtaguy really could be elected president Sheen and Walken are complimented by Brooke Adams Skerritt Herbert Lorn and Zerbe all delivering mare than satisfying performances Cronenberg finally seems to be ta control Just as Brian De Palma finally fulfilled his potential With Clome Cronenberg has fulfilled Ms until The Dead Zone It is no surprise that The Dead Zone is the finest film adaptation of a King novel since De Palma's Carrie The Dead Zone is a superior thriller with many quiet moody moments to offret its scenes at high tension and suspense If you like horror stories you can handle The Dead Zone not a horror story If you do Hke horror stories the film's constant suspense and prevailing sense of the supernatural will keep you satisfied The Dead Zone is a fine film that transcends categories Just good real elements of a honor story the episode with the Castle Rock new town and Community Concerts presents duo assr with a Meal i Flutist Carol Wincenc and harpist Heide Lehwalder are the stars who will entertain members 2S asaduo to rapport in one will be seated after the performance until the pause ta the program sound and musical insight' The concert will be prew start of-the first Doom will open at 7:15 pm and admission is lunited to holders of-season tickets Out-of-towners with identification may buy stogie rformance tickets fin: 87-50 perform of the Coastal Community Concert Association Nov 8 The program will indude selections from Bach to modern composers such as Bernard Andres Both mnsk-ians are accomplished his psychic of Ms life when he has a death and decides to prevent it The crux of The Dead Zone rests ta a named Greg Stillson (Martin Sieea) He is a strorw-arm a man who doemt drink twice about hurtiity 8 pm ta the Bfyrtle Beach Convention Center 21st Avenue Ninth and Oak Streets The seats are on a first come first served basis No OCRed 1.