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INDEX Calendar 46 People 48 Comics 50 TV Listings 51 Movies 48 49 The Soaps 46 Religion Notes 45 Weather 52 7 jpi 1 1 1 i rh i cclorld Hcrald yftng Saturday December 26 1992 Page 43 Af'" 1 Musical allusions are part of Shaffer says Page 45 I SSMLh HI lgs3 Broadcast News By Jeff Bahr KPTM Expands Nightly News KPTM will expand its half hour nightly newscast to an hour beginning March 22 said Brad Gonzalez program director The station also is changing the seg name from Nine Nightly to 42 KPTM executives have considered expanding the newscast to an hour for several years Gonzalez said time to The move will give KPTM one of the few hourlong prime time newscasts in the Midwest he said Ratings Race KETV Channel 7 in Omaha has com manded the 10 pm local news ratings for more than three years but that race became more competitive in November according to one television ratings sur vey KETV still has a 4 point lead at 10 pm over KMTV and WOWT in the Arbitron television survey for No vember KETV registered a 17 rating and 31 share compared to a 13 rating and 24 share for KMTV and a 13 rating and 23 share for WOWT In the Nielsen survey however the other measurement of local television ratings WOWT averaged a 1 7 rating and 28 share over the course of the normal five day week KETV averaged a 16 rating and 27 share over a four day week shortened by weekly tele casts of Night KETV Vice President and General Manager David Summers said WOWTs edge covers only one survey in one ratings period KETV continues to domi nate most demographic categories at 10 pm Summers said KMTV won the 5 pm and 6 pm news races in both the Arbitron and Nielsen surveys KMTV News Director Loren Tobia said now a horse race at 1 0 much more of a race than i has been in a long A rating is the percentage of all sets in the market that are tuned to a given station A share is the percentage of those sets that are actually in use Man Behind Makeup The man who helped transform come dian Dana Carvey into George Bush Ross Perot Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart was in Omaha this week to assist in an ad campaign for American Tool Companies Michael Thom as is a makeup artist and special effects creator whose cred its include day Night Thomas who lives in Bergenfield NJ has worked on the NBC program off and on since its first season He handled Car makeup for the last six seasons In the early years Thomas made up Dan Aykroyd as Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter During the first five years he said he worked on every cast member except Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner Thomas was in Omaha to work on an international print campaign for a Vise Grip bar clamp and locking pliers He painted a map of the world on a hand which will be shown gripping the tools in the print ads Thomas ootnotes A performance by the Omaha Sym phony will be included on edition of Morning With Charles on CBS The segment included in Roger rom will feature the Sym performance of with Mitchell Rough Riders a group of Omaha Indian drum mers and singers The performance was taped during the Omaha Symphony SuperPops Country con certs in late September Omaha na tive Gail Levin is director and co pro ducer of and Dolls Off the which will be shown as part of at 7 pm Sunday on Nebraska ETV Trek: Deep Space a spinoff from Trek: Tne Next will premiere with a two hour movie on KPTM at pm Jan 5 The series will assume its regular weekly 6 pm position Jan 16 Big Band New Eve Dance will be heard from 9 pm to midnight Thursday on KIWR 897 Koehn Radio Inc has purchased KKPR AM and of Kear ney from Radio Ingstad Rape Reports rom Bosnia Galvanize Religious Groups in Bosnia be brought to trial and that the arms embargo be lifted Copies of the letter cosigned by officials of the American Jewish Congress and the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles were to be sent to Hillary Clinton Barbara Bush and two incoming senators Dianne einstein and Barbara Boxer The three Catholic bishops Cardi nal Joseph Bemardin of Chicago Arch bishop John Roach of Minneapolis and Bishop John Snyder of St Augus tine la denounced systematic and organized rape and killing of thou sands of in Bosnia They urged and regional Jewish organizations staged a rally outside the Holocaust Museum in Washington Lighting Hanukkah can dles they read a statement declaring that because the United States supported an arms embargo that weakened the Mus ability to defend themselves against Serbian forces it now is morally obligat ed to come to the defense The group urged efforts for a political settlement to the conflict but said it rejected the idea that more forceful action is we the survivors of the Holo caust see through the sham of the statesmen that nothing can be done to that the perpetrators be tried as war criminals A more detailed report was offered at the headquarters of the World Council of Churches in Geneva by a team of women who had returned from interviewing refugees and human rights groups in Croatia which borders Bosnia They said that although all sides in the conflict had committed human rights violations they found ample evidence that Serbian forces were using rape as a of designed to undermine the morale of Bosnian fight ers intimidate civilians and impregnate women with slow down or stop the said Henry Seigman executive vice president of the American Jewish Congress of the central lessons of the Holocaust and World War II is the evil that can happen when good people stand by silently and in the face of suffering and said Rabbi David Saper stein director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism in Washing ton Jewish community is commit ted not to let that happen Earlier this month the Muslim Wo League in Los Angeles issued a public plea that rape be classified as an international war crime that the rapists THE WASHINGTON POST Washington An outcry is building among a spectrum of religious groups Roman Catholic Jewish Protestant and Muslim over evidence of war atroci ties in Bosnia Herzegovina especially reports that mass rape is being used as a of against Muslim women In separate statements this week three prominent Roman Catholic bishops and representatives of the World Council of Churches have said and rapes are being committed against women of all ages in Bosnia Tuesday a coalition of 18 national religioIn THAT Christmas Midlanders Recall avorite Dec 25 BY JULIA MCCORD WORLD HERALD STA WRITER Someday somewhere somebody who celebrated Christmas riday will look back and say Christmas 1992 was their most memorable Some of them like Roy A Smith an Omaha businessman will have been touched by the act of a single person In his case it was a 3 year old niece who five years ago unselfishly saw to it that everyone opened presents before she started on hers Others like the Rev Michael Morrison president of Creighton University will remember the first Christmas they no longer believed in Santa Claus Morrison recalls being tom between feelings of superiority he knew the secret but his younger sister and feelings of awe at her excitement over the presents Santa had left Still others like Bill Barrett a Republican congressman from Lexington Neb will remember that perfect gift In his case it was a dog named Patty his faithful companion until she died of old age in a favorite resting place under bushes by the Barrett house And for others a religious experience will be the most memorable Archbishop Daniel Sheehan 75 remembers his first Christmas as a young priest at St Cathedral in Omaha It was 1 942 and he recalls how moved he was by the decorations the liturgy and the responsiveness of the worshipers was just an impressive thing I guess because 1 was a part of he said Adults recall a particular Christmas for any number of reasons Here are the memories of a variety of Midlands figures: A Wonder or Dolores Goodlett of Omaha no Christmas can match the one when she was 6 years old for sheer excitementjoy and wonder Mrs Goodlett now the director of Holy amily Catholic Door Ministry to the poor was living on a Missouri farm in the 1 930s with her parents her brother and four sisters Her father child at she said was a master of suspense He would drop hints for weeks beforehand about Was Santa watching to see if the children were naughty? Would Santa be too busy to stop? And on and on until excitement was at fever pitch On Christmas morning Mrs Goodlett said she heard her father get up made a lot of noise making the fire in the stove He was talking out loud saying 1 wonder if Old Santa has When the children rushed to the living room could see tons of she said remember particularly the smell of The enchantment lasts I look around and see what a great gift that was I forgotten that the joy is in the creation of the magic for the Best Laid Plans The Rev David Ruhe 43 senior pastor of irst Central Congregational United Church of Christ Omaha remembers the Christmas of 1974 He Please turn to Page 44 Col 1 RUDY SMITHTHE WORLD HERLAD MEMORIES: Dolores Goodlett of Omaha leafs through a photo album Her father's gift for suspense made Christmas special haven't forgotten that the joy is in the creation of the magic for the i wk 1 BBhhh I I i fZ JMmM KB evangelical ministries in a national conservative Christian movement To some the groups represent common sense advocacy of traditional family values To others they smack of reli gious and social intolerance The political influence of one of the groups Colorado for amily Values was signaled on Election Day when Colorado voters approved a ballot initia tive the group championed Amendment 2 It prohibits civil rights laws intended to protect homosexuals or bisexuals The measure has led tn a mtinnai VllVll IV boycott Colorado and an advocacy group the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Colorado says reports of violence against homosexuals rose sharply in November Springs is a conservative place to begin with The parachurch groups that have come in have simply added to the conservative said the Rev James White pastor of the irst Congregational Church and a Please turn to Page 44 Col 1 Colorado Attracts Evangelicals Colorado Springs Colo (AP) evangelical ministries in a national measure has led to a national effort nen rresiaent uusn spoke to a group of conservative state legislators from around the country in Colorado Springs this fall he made one side trip He went to a refurbished bank build ing to talk on a radio program that was relayed to thousands of stations nation wide part of a network established by ocus on the amily an organization founded by Dr James Dobson visit underscored the role of Colorado Springs home to at least 40 Jeeves and Wooster Return THE WASHINGTON POST High Clere Castle England One is wayward one is winsome Laid end to end they would be 12 feet 6'i inches of comedic versatility Stephen ry the wayward one and Hugh Laurie the winsome one are the odd couple in and a wacky series making a four episode re turn to public Masterpiece Theater beginning Sunday (9 pm CST on Iowa and Nebraska PBS stations) The Granada Television production is based on the books by British author PG Wodehouse what ry refers to as sacred Laurie plays the perpetually addled upper crust hero Bertie Wooster ry is his unflappable manservant Jeeves and also will be making his debut Sunday as host of Masterpiece Theater taking over the chair from which Alistair Cooke is retiring ry a baby faced giant paused with his co star to talk recently sitting in a trailer on the grounds of High Clere Cas tle a grand old country home being used as a set for the 1 920s and comedy was a difficult Laurie says considering his colleague gent precocious Mmmmm an excellent ry rumbles nodding his head He offers a couple of reasons for his waywardness: If ry becomes permanent replacement the choice will seem apt to many Like his predecessor the Cam bridge educated ry is a man of many parts especially for one of his relatively Owl A dli ry Laurie tender years (late 30s) As an actor he has played generations of bombastic bumbling Melchetts in the series a PBS offering that takes a cockeyed view of British history He also has played roles in drama such as Simon Pur shown last month on PBS and a film produced by Kenneth Branagh that opened in the United States this month As a novelist his first book published last year was a British best seller As a playwright his first effort or Tobacco and won the ringe Award at Edinburgh and his revision of the book for the musical and My was a West End and Broadway success And as a fledgling screenwriter he has a two picture deal at Paramount Laurie 6 feet 2 fresh faced and all kitted out in tweeds as Wooster is almost as much Renaissance man as his com panion just less talkative He too is writing a novel but under an assumed name When the two were first offered the parts of Jeeves and Wooster Laurie says we nearly turned it He thought for a moment sort of did turn it down because we thought it was an impossible thing to achieve Among a certain class of British life a a a sacred iy finishes Laurie says if you muck it up you really are in such trouble then I read the scripts straight through at one sitting which I don't normally do since scripts are generally such dull things to read and I just laughed There was some really great stuff and so I rang up Stephen and said say no yet' ry picks up the narrative: of the reason we thought we could say no is that the books are written by Bertie as it were in the first person And he describes Jeeves for instance as you know his feet touch the floor he shimmers into rooms he oozes out of rooms He seems to flicker and then he there He coughs and like a sheep clearing its throat of a blade of grass on a distant hillside or ry laughs got real feet very Yet well into a fourth round of the series ry has managed to flicker and shimmer with skill And Wooster is no less an accomplishment as anyone knows who has watched his peeled eyeball look of appalled concentration as he listens to a plan his Mensa caliber manservant has hatched to keep him out of way Pastor Prefers to See Smile on ace THE NEW YORK TIMES New York The Gospel of St Matthew holds that some two thousand years ago three wise men cast their eyes to the sky and with a star as their guide made their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus On Christmas Eve some parishioners of St Episcopal Church also looked heavenward for guidance as they filed into the landmark South Bronx church for Mass Instead of spotting a shining star they looked no farther than the steeple and beheld a drawing of Christ the long hair and beard were familiar but the hearty laugh and smile that creased His face were not ever see Christ asked the Rev Luis Barrios the pastor of the church in Mott Haven We thought it was about time people Most Christians Barrios explained envision Christ as a somber figure who died for their sins and some see their own travails as one route to salvation If suffering were salvation Mott Haven a neighborhood where drugs crime and death have snared countless souls would be sacred Not content to preach a heavenly reward for enduring earthly misery Bar rios wants his church to look at its human face and tend to the area's social prob lems Heaven can wait while St runs a soup kitchen self help meetings youth sports and arts groups and a needle exchange for heroin addicts In a season when Christians celebrate God becoming man Barrios wants to tell parishioners that while Christ cried and died He also lived and laughed going to destroy'the medieval myth that suffering is what helps you get into he said need to get in touch with that part of Christ that was human We need to humanize the theology We also have to destroy the myth that allows things to remain as they The way things are in Mott Haven dictated that what for other congrega tions is a midnight Mass was being held at 7 pm The narrow streets around the church are often abuzz with heroin and crack dealers who zestfully hawk their illicit goods to out of town drivers and ever see Christ laughing? We We thought it was about time people The Rev Luis Barrios St Ann's Episcopal Church gaunt pedestrians The competition over the frenzied trade has turned nearby Beekman Avenue into a block long kill ing ground that is among the bloodiest AIDS has claimed other lives while a less tangible but persistent decay silently eats away at the vitality of people trying to survive amid poverty hunger and joblessness More akin to Calvary than Bethlehem this was the world encoun tered by Ralph Burkhardt a new parish ioner who dreamed up the idea of showing the lighter side Burkhardt was searching for a parish that embraced the world rather than endured it He came to St as a volunteer During the summer when he and his brother in law were painting the steeple Burkhardt remembered that he had a drawing of Jesus stashed in his basement He had done the drawing in 1983 taking inspiration from a drawing in Playboy magazine in the early 1970s that was part of a feature on popular images from the history Weeks later the drawing was hanging in the steeple thinks of Jesus Burkhardt said sorrow and pain But here He is laughing He laughed at the wedding at Cana Turning water into wine made everybody cheer ful" look up and see Him looking up with a lot of Barrios said of the laughing Jesus transforms hope into action We were losing the real sense of why Jesus came into the Barrios acknowledged that some other priests have questioned him suspiciously about the drawing but locally it has been accepted even if the meaning is as enigmatic as the Mona smile.