Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 27

rrrryTTP'p rrrtvy ryyrffry 'vwvwv Galaxy of stars come out for Marengo Races Clothing collection at the Valentine runs gamut A to Ch35 will add 10 pm newscast BY KATHERINE PHILLIPS Tmes-Dispatch Staff Writer A 10 pjn newscast will come to Richmond television next fell courtesy of an agreement signed Friday between Fox Broadcasting affiliate WRLH-Channel 35 and NBC affiliate WWBT-Channel 12 Under the contract between WWBT owner Jefferson-Pilot and WRLH owner ACT III Broadcasting Channel 12 will staff and produce the program Channel 35 will build a news set in a vacant studio at Channel Midlothian Turnpike headquarters Channel 35 program operations manager Bill Finch will be overall news director and Channel 12 news director Harvey Powers will oversee news gathering "This is a programming agreement where Channel 35 is iav effect purchasing a program just as we would from any syndicator But we have more involvement in the final product here a true partnership" WRLH general manager Donald Richards said yesterday Washington-based national Fax News Service will supplement local coverage by reporters working from Channel newsroom Anchors will be hired giving the newscast a distinct identity than the occasional familiar face from Channel 12i reporting crew which already collects information for five daily newscasts this will be a Fox 35 Richards said The collaboration which will be (me of nine among 152 affiliates is similar to one between Jefferson-Pilot and ACT III stations WCSC-TV and WTAT-TV in Charleston SC That news partnership not quite 2 years old is great marriage and ratings according to Joe Saitta vice president of affiliate news for Fox Broadcasting Research indicates high demand for a 10 pm newscast Saitta said Channel Powers agrees already proved to our satisfaction in building the 5:30 and 5 pm newscasts that people tune in to see news when they want to see news Right now at 10 pm limited to cable believe plenty of room for both 10 and 11 pjn newscasts in this IW-ers said The partnership will allow WRLH to avoid the millioo-dollar-plus start-up costs involved in creating studio space hiring a newi staff and buying equipment WWBT will be able to spread out the cost of its extensive news -V-r rrV FQR IDEOLOGY A Kn Mux Nan ji rrr tMNCUMBVTMKS-nSMTCH af ago In the UOa aiw uat as popular today BY JESSICA BONKY Tmes-Dispatch Staff Writer olleen Callahan curator of costumes and textiles at the Valentine is grateful for the Malcolm clothing fed earlier this decade The popularity of clothing bearing the symbol allowed her to fill a particularly challenging gap in the new exhibit "From A to Previewing the Costume and Textile which will be on display at Valentine Court End through January The exhibit uses the letters at the alphabet from apron to zoological motife to high- light what Callahan says is the largest textile collection in the South and one of the most important in the nation With some letters Callahan took a familiar angle using ornamental aprons to represent embroidered sampler and accessories for and both fancy and utilitarian handkerchiefs for With other letters she chose more unusual or unexpected representations A Ku Klux Khn jmod and I Martin Luth Valentne T-shirt are contrast- court End 1015 ed under I for idedo- Clay St represents "col- whe Through lection and January Museum gives visitors a peek at hours 10 am to the challenges of preserv- 5 pm Party ing a mjor textile collec- SSST SbaMe cdocUon $275 students $150 children "The exhibit was am- jgg 7 ceived as a way to show (804) 649-off the Calls- 0711 han said could prob- ably do another whole exhibit from to with everything different except for Valentine has been collecting samplers and quilts since it opened In 1905 the first clothing came into the collection and ever since then been known as a place people could bring their old clothing From the 1770s on we have something to represent every And nearly every decade is represented in the exhibition from a neckerchief worn by George mother to a pair of psychedelic Peter Max-designed Wrangler bell-bottoms from the early 1970s A to represents a new era for the collection of approximately 35000 items as well Gallery renovations planned for early 1995 will facilitate future costume and textile exhibitions which will be a constant presence in the museum Amattarafflt clothing is (me at the most difficult things to Callahan said essentially a three-dimensional sculpture but you have to make the sculpture to put it Mannequins especially present a challenge Callahan said modem mannequins can be used to display clothing from the 1930s on but for later items headless body forms work better lot of 19th-century and earlier garments do not fit on a contemporary she mid smaller around but not necessarily She attributes the size difference to the fact that many items in the collection (such as wedding dresses) belonged to young people and to the corsets and other undergarments that were worn at the time Although the museum owns many wedding dresses and other special-occasion garments PLEASE SEE FASHION PAGE D3 a I ft PON FAD Patched feans which i Drinks catered picnic sprawls white tents hats the idling hillside oh and horses The second running of the Bacas at Manage Plantation in New Kent County the newest steeplechase and see-and-be-seen event central proved a more-than-worthyiea-son for a break from weekend McGuire Woods Battle Boothe lawyer Vaiehe and his wife HUBBARD Is brought their i guests Hammond Suddards solicitors David WK Annitage from England and Konstantinos Adamantopoulos from die Brussels office to the races Saturday In the United States on business the pair were headed after the races to the house oo the Rappahannock for windsurfing and a good old Virginia crib feast Fresh from victory at the Virginia Gold Cup in Warrenton earlier this month Mr aad Mrs Hsanr Man have as much luck with their horses at Marengo was at Hilton Head when they ran the Gold said Mrs Stern they flashed the news about the Gold Cup on Jack FMar trainer for the entries on Saturday rode their Salat-ar to victory at the Gold Cup giving him back-to-back victories after having won the Maryland Hunt Cup on one of his father's horses Appearing at the Historic Richmond FoundationFinlandia tent was Lynda Rabbi At a party for her husband IU Ssa Chari Robb at Mb Khs's house Morven on Friday night Mrs Robb found that some friends Mr aad Mrs Mbar drandsl would be at Marengo Robb joined the Arundela and friend Maqr Maa Maatlaa at the races She said she would be in Arlington for the funeral yesterday of a son but probably would not attend the private burial of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis "I remember her when she was the wife and we used to share the step seats in the readied Robb she invited my sister lad and me to the White House for lunch once The last time I saw her was last summer when Chuck and I went to lunch at her house on i Good wine Actor sa Ways of Last Boy and formerly of Living Color" turned up at Tba frog and tha Rod- neck restaurant in Shockoe Bottom last week 1 Wayans who is slated to star in an updated version of Private War of Major Ben filming here and in Charlottesville during the summer ate dinner with Charier Baxtar a film location manager here whose proj ects have included Mommy Woman Named and About Wayans wearing the de rigueur dark glasses was noticeably involved in the wine presentation meticulously moving through the smell swirl and taste procedures according to an observer A Clothes and music The Hcbnwnd Ipapbaay and Masks Brsfesrs teamed to celebrate the opening of the upscale Richmond branch in Regency Square mall Thursday At the request of the New York-based Brooks Brothers the symphony agreed to send invites to its 'subscribers in exchange for 10 percent of the take oo opening night Champagne shrimp turkey strawberries aid cream puffs joined displays of signature cotton shirts No final word on the profit but about twice as many 400 showed up as had been expected "People were talking eating and drinking and then the cash registers started said a symphony spokeswoman For the in actress a weekend in Richmond 1 -v -A 1 been dating actor Matthew Broderick for several years The other movie Parker has recently completed is by director Tim Burton who made and Ed Wood played by Johnny Depp was a director of several bizarre and rather terrible movies in the 1950s that have come to have a cult following or Glenda" I Changed My a movie about transvestism and transsexuality and the notorious sci-fi unthriiyy 9 From Outer are -among his more popular efforts In the biography Parker plays one of his favorite actresses 'j tend to respond more posi-tively to the die explaining her taste in movies seem to have made more of an im'-pact in the feature world in comedy so foe scripts I mainly seem to read really love comedy I love as an audience great comedy think a great talent to be able PLEASE SEE ACTRESS PAGE D3 3 BY DANIEL NEMAN Tmes-Dispatch Staff writer Far from the glamour of Hollywood and foe clamor of New York City movie star Sarah Jessica Parker spent the weekend on Richmond's North Side playing with her dog Parker was in town to visit dose family friend Phyllis Katz and to participate in a symposium Kate organized on breast cancer "Linkages: Community Partnerships Advocating for Women With Bid on a sunny Saturday afternoon after obligations to tiie symposium were over she turned her attention to her little pet schipperfce Booty Or perhaps Bootie Or maybe even Boodie Parker know And it even mat mn staying home in her Manhattan apartment a die said explaining that she would rather eiyoy all New York has to offer than go away on a trip to be in my own house is a But she been able to be a complete homebody Parker has been looping dialogue (recording in a studio some of what she said in front of the camera to get the best sound) and reshooting scenes for foe two movies she has recently completed filming is a romantic comedy about a young woman (Parker) who is engaged to be married when she discovers that every member of her family is having an affair Naturally this discovery gives her second thoughts Her parents are played by Mia Farrow and Paul Ma- ter because the given name is DashielL But she answers to either As Booty or whatever frolics on foe grass Parker explains that dogs are everywhere in Manhattan because without them can be lonely INTERVIEW Everyone goes into 11 their little box their building "Your dog is your constant companion because of the very limited space you have When you have a dog it's a reason to go outside I think why a lot of people get dogs they have to go outside and meet other Parker 29 has starred in such movies as in and At the moment taking a breather which for foe most part IMCANV 0NMWnMES4MMICH SQUARE PEG aiea Parker visited fanrity zursky her brother by Kevin Pollack having an affair with Antonio Banderas but so is my she said In real life the actress has PM 'i iiiu 1 JI.