The Roanoke Times from Roanoke, Virginia • 33

Religion: Roanoke Area Ministries reports decreased giving lowers '87 budget C4 1 And maybe invent a spray keep Nancy quiet BY the time you read this the president will have arrived in Iceland for the summit meet ing and presumably will have read the vate love that Nancy reportedly put in his suitcase It may be necessary for free men and women everywhere to know that Nancy writes love notes but matters of more import are afoot today boys All of you sweetie sweet romantics who are just dying to know what Nancy wrote in her note can stop right here Get out Go back to reading one of those novels in which women with names like Elaine inherit haunted castles and fall in love with EXTRA Roanoke rimes Vvbrld News MOVIE REVIEWS CROSSWORD EATURES RELIGION SECTION cl BEN BEAGLE peculiar acting men with names like Ravenel We have time for that kind of stuff We care if Nancy calls the president in her notes or not We care where she put the note although a pajama pocket would seem appro priate Neither the president nor Nancy nor Elaine nor Ravenel are pudgy people What we are talking about today is the possible birth of a new era for pudgy persons and pudgy persons who are getting pudgier every day I believe that good for pudgy persons is good for the country And now several estimable scientists have de veloped a mouth spray that is supposed to satisfy cravings for food This is more important than a summit meeting for all you people out there who have stopped smok ing and are currently involved in self destruction with candy bars and getting calloused fingers from pressing vending machine buttons These mouth sprays are designed to taste like apple cinnamon Danish chocolate pizza peanuts blueberry cheesecake and other good stuff You just spray a little chocolate on your tongue and you eat that third Mr Goodbar of the day No kidding If you can still waddle out to do your shopping this stuff is going to be available lat er this year You can get a can with 150 sprays in it for $249 Pudgy persons may fit into their World War II uni forms again and who cares about note or why Raisa Gorbachev went to the summit while Nancy stayed home? If this all works out however pudgy persons are going to have to exercise some restraint I mean guys not all rush out and buy colored Jockey shorts in anticipation of getting paid to pose in them for underwear ads Just remember the stretch marks And ladies hang onto those simple shirtwaists that can conceal a lot of the evidence of having punched the Mr Goodbar button too often I think these sprays hold much promise for ro tund persons although I would feel better if I were sure they had one that would kill the desire for five pieces of bacon two eggs a sliced tomato and two brutally buttered English muffins pay 10 bucks for 150 sprays of that The new Channel 27 station is on Colonial Avenue Southwest in Roanoke iii i i More TV for Western Va WVT hopes to sign on Wednesday on Ch 27 By MELINDA PAYNE Staff writer INDING something off the net work path to watch on televi sion is becoming less of a chal lenge these days for people in Southwestern and Central Virginia Next week WVT TV Channel 27 will become the second indepen dent station to sign on in the Roanoke Lychburg market this year Independent stations are not affiliated with one of the three com mercial networks The station is located on Colo nial Avenue Southwest just a few doors down from The Roanoker res taurant and only a few blocks from WDBJ TV the CBS affiliate in the market Until this week when the station erected its sign and satellite dish there was no indication that the sta tion existed Although equipment is still be ing installed and renovations to the building are still underway officials say the station will sign on Wednes day and provide what they call re sponsible family entertainment have not missed a sign on' date yet at any of the other three stations we said rank DeTil lio president of amily Group Broadcasting Inc owner some unforeseen problem such as a blizzard or hurricane we will meet our targeted sign on amily Group Broadcasting op erates stations in Green Bay Wis Cape Coral la and Rockford Ill Recently the company acquired stations in Norfolk and Dallas This fall amily Group also will inaugurate stations in La Crosse Wis and Lexington Ky philosophy behind our company is to provide programs for family entertainment for all times of the DeTillio said Joe Heckel one of two men amily Broadcasting sent to Roanoke to establish the station said independent stations allow for cre ativity in programming can service the needs of very definite groups that have been overlooked in the The creative approach means offering alternatives Heckel said than the evening news try our light entertainment option sky and or Rather than game shows go adven turous with Sheep Rather than afternoon dramas re discover two of best co mediennes in Love and Tyler the weekends the non sports fan will find our dazzling ar ray of movies Meanwhile the avid sports fan will find we will fill the gaps with special events that no one else such as the National Invitational basketball Big Apple Classic in November and the Blue Gray football Bowl on Christmas Day There also will be some before seen in this pro grams such as the Please see WVT Page C3 Jk'' iBMr gKSBEsi If I eras xx a a i WAYNE Mike Aleshire WVT's commercial artist works on the station's logo Ricky Skaggs: raditional? Yes but ByTIMORWIG Staff writer RICKY Skaggs hopes the new found love of old style country music be the choking kind Heralded as the prophet of the current Old Wave revival sweeping Nashville Skaggs gags on the handle People try to put a traditional noose around my Skaggs said in a tele phone interview noose puts a lot of pressure on me Old time music bluegrass I do that But I also do rockabil ly gospel Skaggs will bring his clean strong tenor voice and flawless fretboard work to the Roanoke Civic Center tonight at 8 pm Also appearing is Randy Travis Skaggs has performed in Roanoke twice in the past two years and was in town this past summer on a sadder note: to visit his 7 year old son An drew who was shot in the face while riding in a car on Inter state 81 near Troutville Aug 17 Skaggs WT I I is doing Skaggs reported riday just had more surgery and had another tooth pulled That makes six teeth lost from the gunshot He has an exposed nerve but he is feeling He said although is great his atti tude is the boy will continue to have problems for years has a lot to look ahead to a lot of reconstructive sur gery to rebuild his mouth He will have to have operations until he is about At 32 Skaggs is already a grand old man of country mu sic But contrary to Kentucky legend Skaggs was not born with a flat pick and fiddle bow in his hands It until he was 5 that he mastered the mando lin It was a few more years after that before his hands and arms were big enough to hold a guitar and banjo Heck he an expert fiddler until the age of 10 He established himself as I rjgMmT BrnT ctR III a genuine bluegrass picker Travis while he was still cutting teeth He only moved out of the woods and into the big time country music scene in recent years Now his sound is the rage of the age and younger artists from the old school are pushing to the head of the charts While delighted that country music is moving away from the hybrid strains of pop crossover and back to its thoroughbred lineage Skaggs be tied to any style or format have to do what I love with no boundaries Bound aries make music stale cause it not to grow and pros per which it has to he said Last top Country Music Association awards went to what he called more traditionalist singers Reba McEntire the Judds George Strait and Please see Skaggs Page C3 goes back to the future but with a lot more warmth Kathleen Turner stars in rancis Coppola's 'Peggy Sue Got Married' OK Sflr sit a a flMi By CHRIS GLADDEN Staff writer COMPARISONS of Sue Got Mar to to the are inevita ble since both movies deal with people of the time traveling back about a quar ter century It has been reported that both of ideas had been kicked around for a long time but that director rancis Coppola moved on his idea last While the similarities are obvious so are the differences has more of the senti mental humanism of rank A Won derful than the flashy energy and humor of to the a fantasy for the parents of to the teen hero Kathleen Turner plays Peggy Sue Bodell a woman who married her high school sweetheart nearly 25 years before and is in the process of a not so amicable divorce The movie begins on the night of Peggy 25th high school reunion and not looking forward to the event because of her unsettled personal life At the reunion Peggy Sue further MOVIE REVIEW INSIDE i More reviews on C8 questions the way her own life has gone The high school brain that everyone bullied made a major success of his life The alternatives to the life she was forced into by a pregnancy at 18 seem intriguing As Peggy Sue is about to be crowned reunion queen she collapses When she wakes up a senior in high school However the knowledge attitudes and experiences of the intervening years stay with her Armed with these Peggy Sue has a chance to alter her life to escape the unhappy situation she found herself in with the philandering Charlie (Nicholas Cage) Coppola who directed Jerry and Arlene screenplay has come up with more of a wistful and nostalgic movie than a comedy There are self conscious jokes about the Beatles and pantyhose but most of the movie deals with a troubled evaluation of her life There are moving moments such as the scene in which Peggy Sue hears her voice on the phone and funny ones like the bawdy scene in which the sexually experienced Peggy Sue takes the initiative with the outraged Charlie Coppola seems in firm grasp of his material giving the movie the kind of old fashioned roman ticism he tried to achieve in Turner brightens the screen with an intelligent and fully realized performance Cage is good as well gradually letting us see that Charlie the sweet natured simpleton he at first seems Sue Got is perhaps Coppo warmest movie VIEWERGUIDE: "PEGGY SUE GOT A Tri Star picture at Tanglewood Mall Cinema An hour and 43 minutes long Rated PG for language $250 for matinees and $4 evenings INSIDE I.