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SSlorld jHcrald show to Omaha Page 60 4 Saturday May 28 1994 Page 57 Religion Notes 58 Weather 64 INSIDE Spider Saloff will bring her cabaret A qin? 1 LJl ff 1L 11 11 '( mkhw I A' A XtAVX 4An 'r'JX A A INDEX Calendar 58 People 60 Comics 62 TV Listings 63 Movies 60 61 The Soaps 64 Broadcasts News 6'u By Jeff Bahr Wjlfc NTV to Carry ox ootball The Kearney based NTV Network would carry National ootball Conference package this fall and Grand Island independent station KTVG 'would become a full fledged ox affil iate under an agreement expected to be soon George Singleton general manager of the NTV Network said negotiations with ox are not complete but he said he feels confident that things will work The NTV stations K1IG1 in Kear ney and satellites KWNB in Hayes Center and KSNB in Superior are affiliates of ABC and will continue toremain so Under the agreement ox the stations will become secondary ox affiliates which will allow them to carry the Sunday NC games that ox will begin televising in the fall The NTV Network which is owned by iant Broadcasting operates KTVG under a management arrangement with owner Hill Broadcasting As part of ant's negotiations for secondaryaffiliation with the NTV Network the company also hopes to land a full affil lation for KTVG Singleton said Asked about the affiliation with ox bKTVG General Manager Lee McAliley said expect it to Close to the Action Talk about diamond vision or the first time a camera will be positioned inside second base as part of coverage of this College World 'Series Dave Miller coordinating producer 1 for College World Series cover age said the NCAA has approved use of the Basecam The camera points back toward first Miller said gives you perspec tive of close plays at second players sliding in things like Another ESPN innovation will be the addition of Super Lens a 1500 mm lensto the network's center field camera That camera will allow extreme close ups of batters The network also will use a Super Slo Mo camera from its low vantage position behind home plate That camera will give viewers a better look at the rotation of pitcTs pitch location and close plays at the plate "So much of baseball and especially the College World Series is emotion and pitcher batter Miller 'said one of these little things helps us to capture more of that emo 1 BILL BATSONTHE WORLD HERALD Mi yj i tSKl h' I jvv wisi gMMMMEM Jj MMB Uyf I La REPORT COORDINATOR: Sister Rita Parks head of the Archdiocese of pastoral development office compiled the responses of some 6000 priests nuns and brothers to be used in discussion in Rome in the fall uture Looks Bright To Peers Nun Says BY JULIA MCCORD WORLD HERALD STA WRITER When a select group of Roman Catho lic bishops and cardinals from through out the world meet in Rome in the fall to discuss the life and role of the religious orders a report compiled by an Omaha nun will be among the informa tion at hand Sister Rita Parks head of the Archdiocese of Omaha's pastoral devel opment office compiled the report from the responses of more than 6000 US priests nuns and brothers who met with their bishops last year to discuss religious life The results were surprising she said In spite of dwindling numbers Sister Parks said men and women in religious orders are about the future of their communities and their ability to carry out their missions encouraged by the tremendous life and vitality in religious communi she said Sister Parks conducted the study for the Tri Conference Commission the liaison between the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the 200 religious orders Views were remarkably similar in five key areas she said even though respon dents came from a wide variety of geographical locations The five main areas and some of the findings: Ch arism and mission Charism (de fined as the particular God given gift on which the order was founded) deter mines the character and personality of an order and influences how its members relate to clergy and laity the respondents said Jesuits for example have been strong in teaching and Colombans are strong in missionary work Sister Parks said Priests nuns and brothers she said see themselves as full partners with bishops and laity Tension may arise Please turn to Page 58 Col 1 religion! our Denominations Plan State Meetings BY JULIA MCCORD WORLD HERALD STA WRITER Annual statewide denominational meetings are a rite of spring in Nebraska our are next week for instance That means denominational officials are under the gun as hundreds of delegates to the United Methodist annual conference the Evangelical Lutheran synod assembly the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod district meeting and the annual meeting of the United Church of Christ prepare to descend upon Kearney Lincoln Seward and Crete respectively Dan Gangler United Methodist communications director this week was readying cameras video recorders computer and extra power cords for the trip to Kearney I lis Evangelical Lutheran counterpart Linda Janssen Gjere was confirming last minute details at the ELCA meeting site in Lincoln Paul Pettit Missouri Synod Lutheran district treasurer finalized meal and lodging preparations at Concordia College in Seward for more than 700 delegates And Phyllis Anderson manager of the United Church of conference fielded multiple telephone calls at the Lincoln headquarters All expect 15 to 20 hour workdays once the gavels fall you finally come down to the crunch you have to get at it all Ms Gjere said Worship singing and special speakers are common to all four agendas Three denominations will welcome foreign visitors The heads of two denominations Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Richard Jessen and Missouri Synod Lutheran President Eugene Gierke are running for re election The Rev Clarence Higgins Jr United Church of Christ regional minister for eight years is retiring Missouri Synod Lutherans United Methodists and United Church of Christ officials expect fairly quiet legislative sessions But Evangelical Lutherans will be grappling with a hot issue a Pleaie turn to Page 58 Col 1 rA jL LWv Wi A THE REV JOEL MARTINEZ: State leader United Methodists THE REV EUGENE GIERKE: Dis trict leader Missouri Synod Lutherans Methodists Meeting: Tuesday through ri day University of Nebraska at Kearney Issues: $55 million budget part nership with Bolivian church Missouri Synod Lutherans Meeting: Next riday through Sunday Concordia College Seward Issues: Reaction to ELCA sexu ality statement mission work elections BISHOP RICHARD JESSEN: State leader Evangelical Lutheran Church fg THE REV CLARENCE HIGGINS: State leader United Church of Christ ELCA Meeting: Next riday and Sat urday Pershing Auditorium Lin coln Issues: Elections resolutions dealing with human sexuality statement gays and lesbians United Church of Christ Meeting: Next riday through Sunday Doane College Crete Issues: Elections resolutions calling on conference to be mul tiracial and multicultural This College World Series will be the last event Greg Gumbcl covers for CBS The sportscaster who again will handle play by play during the CBS telecasts is moving to NBC ootnotes ive young residents of Elba Neb will appear riday on Tonight The youths make up the 1994 graduating class of Elba High School Astory about the all male graduating class was distributed by The Associated Press after which host Jay Leno told a joke about the class on his show He then invited the boys to appear bn the program Which Omaha 'television station had the most accurate forecasts for two weeks during the monthjof May? KETV according to a ninth grade earth science class at Council Thomas Jefferson High School i The class judged the accuracy of the predicted high and low temperature and precipitation forecasts on three Omaha I stations during the two week period KETV chief meteorologist Bill Randby picked up a gold medal and a certificate from the school at a ceremony Thursday Phil Rooney KAB acting news director and assignment editor is leaving the station riday to become communi cations director for the Omaha Housing Authority fX the new ox Inc basic cable network will be added Wednesday to many cable systems around the country including TCI Cable of the Midlands and American Heritage Cable vision of Council Bluffs The new chan lineup will include such television series as to Af Green and and the Cox Cable Omaha will add the channel at a later date Next i edition of the Nebraska ETV program will look at the rapidly expanding logging industry in ponderosa pine country The i show will air riday at 8 pm and be repeated June 4 at 7 pm and June 5 at 1 30 pm Creighton University ethi cist Dr Charles Dougherty will be fea tured in a one hour television special titled Soul: Health Care in America" at 8 pm June 7 on WOWT Channel 6 Conservatives Rally Against Religious Discrimination Proposal you abuse people if you engage in conduct that is hostile and if that conduct is severely denigrating or hos you could be guilty of religious harassmenL she said wear ing a cross or a yarmulke is not hostile or denigrating to somebody religion just not conceivable to us that there could be any valid claim of religious On this much all sides agree: The proposed rules do not specifically pro Please turn to Page 58 Col 1 guideline allows for the crimina lization of religious he said 1 have a Bible on my desk or wear a Star of David I can be prosecuted under the same penalties as sexual harassment or racial ederal officials say nothing could be further from the truth do no such Dianna Johnston assistant legal counsel to the Equal Employment Opportunity Com mission said of the rules her agency has proposed and one bullet to the federal officials who wrote the regulations the guise of protecting religious freedom tabng religious free dom from said Rep Howard McKeon Calif who is lead ing the charge on Capitol Hill The Rev John Hagee pastor of the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio characterized the proposed rules as wholesale attack on religious freedom in America against both Christian and Jewish ing But they hasten to add it is not A government attempt to prevent religious discrimination in offices and factories across the nation has touched off a protest among conservatives who contend the new rules essentially would evict God from the workplace Conservative leaders have spread the word on Christian television stations in religious newspapers and church news letters They have collected tens of thou sands of signatures and have prompted people to mail more than 11000 letters THE KNIGHT RIDDER WASHINGTON BUREAU Washington What they say sounds scary indeed: You couldn't wear a cruci fix around your neck or a yarmulke on your head you place a Bible on your desk or utter a single Under proposed federal rules on reli gious harassment conservative Chris tians and lawmakers say you go to work unless you left your religion at home That would be scary federal officials agree if it were what they were propos Review The lintstones Quality: 'a (out of four stars) Stars: John Goodwin Rick Moranis Elizabeth Perkins Rosie O'Donnell Director Brian Levant Rating: PG Theaters: Cinema Center Westroads 8 OCinema 9 Orchard 4 Southroads 4 Mall of the Bluffs Plot Lost in Rubble UNIVERSAL PICTURES i 1 1 1 1 IN BEDROCK rom left Rosie Rick Moranis John Goodman and Elizabeth Perkins star in BY JE BAHR WORLD HERALD STA WRITER Some of the developments in are almost unimaginable Picture red lintstone (John Goodwin) coming home from work for example to find his mother in law (Elizabeth Taylor) and Dino each bound and gagged on the floor and choosing to assist the pet dinosaur first The plot also includes a Hatfield McCoy squabble between those two old friends and lodge brothers red and Barney lintstonian scholars can probably cite examples of past friction between Barney and red This is the first discord though to result from red taking the fast track to upper management at Slate Co after which he is called upon to fire Barney But the most amazing thing about is the sheer magnitude of the production One must marvel at the effort and expense that went into bringing all the gags from the TV series to reality in this live action movie Many other movies have tried to overpower audiences with magnificent sets yet have been empty at their core That is not the case thankfully with Unlike many modem films actually has a well constructed plot And while filmgoers necessarily leave the theater yelling Dabba the humor is effective enough to make seeing the film worthwhile The idea of Liz character trading cheap shots with her son in law is certainly novel Many of the other bits are also amusing When red and his co workers from the quarry take an executive placement exam the executive vice president reminds them to make sure using well shar Please tarn to Page 58 CoL 3 at Playhouse Proves Most Engaging BY JIM DELMONT WORLD HERALD STA WRITER Charles Jones Omaha Community Playhouse artistic director has made a brilliant choice for the jubilee show the rousing Broadway musical Most Happy starring Met ropolitan Opera baritone Charles Karel The show is a smash with Karel the solid center of an impressively talented cast of singers that includes Becky Jones a voice instructor and group teacher at the Playhouse Karel seems bom to the role Relaxed warm and sincere with a rich friendly powerful voice he more than filled out the character of Tony Esposito a Napa Valley winemaker who falls in love with a much younger woman he is too shy to confront with his feelings Ms Jones a strong soprano brought a lot of charm and personality to Rosabel la the younger woman and she was not eclipsed by her powerful singing partner The musical book lyrics and music by Broadway legend rank Loesser is quite operatic putting into song much of what normally would be spoken dia logue At times this approach is playful with mock opera passages that were delightful especially the wonderful Review The Most Happy ella What Musical When: 8 pm Tuesdays through Saturdays 2 pm and 6:30 pm Sundays through July 3 Where: Omaha Community Playhouse Mainstage 69th and Cass Streets 3 Information: 553 0800 numbers In these the sly and comically talented Joseph Miloni who has a fine singing voice led a trio that included Gary Bosanek and Michael Schneider in broad and hilarious satirical numbers This is not light opera expect Sigmund Romberg Rather the music is a clever combination of styles running from Broadway show tunes to Mozart like constructions including hoedowns and appealingly romantic numbers The score is quite sophisticated and gave the 14 person orchestra under the gifted Please him to Page 58 CoL 5 I.