Princeton Daily Clarion from Princeton, Indiana (2024)

January 4, 1985

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Princeton Daily Clarioni

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Princeton, Indiana

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Friday, January 4, 1985

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11

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Entertainment 8 gen riday January 4 1985 special gives a uniquelook Steve Binder Emmy winning producerdirector of the 1968 special and a host of other television entertainment programs explains the genesis of the': jam session recorded in Elvis: One Night With You of tvhich he is co producer and director used'' to unwind after we finished rehearsing the show file dressing room with the guys" he says said it be fantastic if I had a camera on which ishow the evolution came of putting it op tape It was a real test to him of whether there wasthe'ti magic Elvis started out with did he still have RT i Binder continues was real nervous and hi4? adrenaline was really flowing even to the point that right before we did it he caned me into the makeup room and said think we should even do this' What happens if I Have anything to aayRj Taped June 27 1968 at studios in BurbankCalif Elvis: One Night With You features Presley in the round accompanied by: two mefnbers of his original band guitarist Scotty Moore and drummer DJ ontana and his musician friends Charles Hodge and Alan ortas Elvis performs classic hits from the beginnings of his career 'including and He also reminisces about the days when television networks had to perform in concert without touching his body hair is mussed up? Should we stop because with his hands In a spontaneous style of performing 1 never seen in his many films the leather clad legendy But the taping stop and tomorrow night sings blues classics while seated casually undaunted television viewers will have a unique look at a nhiq even when his electric guitar comes unplugged performer ssrar The legendary Elvis Presley is having a birthday and across the airwaves in newsprint ana with everyday people tributes are being given In June of 1968 Presley taped a groundbreaking solo television show Part of that taping consisted of Elvis performing his vintage hits ana Ms early career with two members of his Original band and two musician friends in a relaxed jam session before a live audience Only a tiny fraction of that performance showing an intimate humorous side of Elvis few fans had ever 'yseen was included in the special The rest remained in a vault for 16 years never seen by the public until now rNow in commemoration of what would have been 50th birthday on Jan 8 1985 HBO will present hiak but I had to reaHy'co Saturday Jan 5 (7 to 8 pm in Princeton) out th on the HBO service Asked why more of the jam session included iffi 71 in the original network TV anooial Rirwlar rnmlain was amazing to me how much we got in because you have to recognize especially when it aired in 1968 almost this was prime time television and there was tremendous objection by the network at the time and by other forces ever showed people sweating under this' armpits it was the first time improvisation was done' where in essence it was not a kind of plastkf: environment It was just so different that what normal for television at that time And romemhm refused to show him from the waist down and he once 1 being questioned about we stop beeause his X1 A A jgr I Ww A X' The Top Ten Best selling records of the week based on Cashbox nationwide survey: 1 A Madonna 2 Wild Duran Duran 3 It New Edition 4 Of The Honeydrippers 5 eel or Chaka Khan 6 Pat Benatar 7 To Bryan Adams 8 I Jack Wagner 9 Julian Lennon 10 In The Bruce Springsteen Country Western Best selling country western records of the week bised on Cashbox survey: 1 Not The Judds 2 ort Worth Ever Cross Your George Strait 3 Love Only The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 4 Best Year Of My Eddie Rabbitt 5 Rebe McEntire 6 Wayion Jennings 7 After John Conlee 8 Barbara Mandrell 9 Against The Crystal Gayle 1 0 My George Jones back on top LOS ANGELES (AP) regained possession of first place and the network won the Nielsen ratings last week as archrival took time off for Christmas In all CBS took seven places in the Top 10 as it won decisively over second place NBC and third place ABC for the week ended Dec 30 NBC had the other three shows in the Top 10 best entry was all in 20th The premiere of Like a new tongue in cheek detective drama starring Jack Warden and John Rubinstein tied for third place with Cosby The low key television scene over Christmas saw mostly reruns or regular series Viewership was down 45 million homes last week compared to the ratings in the week that ended Dec 9 Stars promoting Boston BOSTON (AP) Middleweight boxing champion Marvin Hagler TV star Ted Danson and rock singer Bruce Springsteen have teamed up to promote the home of the baked bean as a great place to live work and study They will appear in a $1 million advertising campaign with tKe theme Bright from the The ads are to begin airing on local television Tuesday and creators hope tfa broadcast the spots nationwide if they can raise enough money from local businesses Robert Cummings of the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau said Thursday Andy wants no Mayberry WINSTON SALEM NC (AP) Andy Griffith who drew on his North Carolina memories to help create the TV town of Mayberry says that a fan club is looking for a town to adopt its name The Andy Griffith Show Appreciation Society is seeking a town willing to change its name to Mayberry in tribute to television shows set in the bucolic but imaginary locale John Meroney 14 the president has said the 500 member group wants to create a real Mayberry NC to mark the 25th anniversary of the "Andy Griffith Griffith a Mount Airy native now living in Manteo learned about the idea and was so upset that he called The Winston Salem Sentinel "I just wanted you to know that I had nothing to do with Griffith said Thursday all came out of his s) head I have asked him riot to pursue it any Meroney said Thursday that he had talked with Griffith but abandoned his idea and shocked parents By SUE CROSS Associated Press Writer TOLEDO Ohio (AP) To a generation of Toledo children Beve Schwind and Sue Donner are just kids who never grew up silly slapstick television clowns who taught them table manners egg carton crafts and the Golden Rule The floppy wigs and painted faces have changed little in the 14 years they have played Patches and on Toledo television but their humor today might have shocked parents of preschoolers who tunedin a decade ago Now Patches and)Pockets turrt loose on topics like child kbiise and alcoholism topics that were taboo when Mrs Donner and Mrs Schwind began clowning nearly 20 years ago Now they say these are the most important aspect of their show not easy to write about child abuse but got to be said Mrs Donner a 50 year old mother of two grown children are now seeing this and are teaching their children different things like even talk to anyone I think a little frightening for them (the children) but rather have them that way than not have them at or Mrs Schwind it is far easier to put on the crazv quilt dress and yellow braids that transform her into Patches each week than it is to put a mask of cheerfulness on topics such as death and divorce a lot more boldness now than when we started on television or us to talk about sex abuse the way we did it was difficult at first We had to change our said Mrs Schwind a 48 year old nurse years ago there was a different kind of language you even talk about things like she said upsetting to think that we have to you would like to have kids go through their childhood thinking everyone is kind and good speaking on some Of th6Se issues because in a classfbofti aire from a one parent home so you really talk about mom and Mrs Donner who turns back her years to the childlike character of Pockets a comical little boy with orange yarn hair and pockets full of surprises said the two found ways to use comical words and actions to keep less funny lessons from disturbing the children Patches and Pockets are taking their more serious messages beyond northwest Ohio through videotapes to be distributed to schools by the American Legion The series of 16 tapes four each on child abuse drugs alcohol and using automobile seat belts was produced by Register Cable News Sandusky Ohio which sold distribution rights to the local American The Grinch steals success By LINDA DEUTSCH Associated Press Writer launched with millions of dollars great fanfare and toys galore lands with a thud as the nastiest disappointment of the Christmas New Year movie blitz as if a promise of sugarplums was switched to a dose of vinegar Some mean grinches must have misguided this space vehicle on its doomed vqyage The chief grinch is David Lynch who wrote the screenplay and directed it He delights in giving us repeated closeups of the repulsive Baron Vladimir Harkpnnen (Kenneth McMillan) his face covered with enormous boils and sores In many scenes the doctor (Leonard Cimino) is seen lancing these eruptions while cooing to the Baron that his skin is Yuk! Add to this the bloody scenes when various characters have their life pulled and you have the most stomach turning scenes of the season Lynch manages to get the most wooden performances possible from his stars the handsome Kyle MacLachlan as the hero and rancesca Annis as his mother Other fine actors are wasted The estimable Linda Hunt spends perhaps 10 minutes on screen before dead Names Like Jose errer Max Von Sydow and Dean Stockwell have little more to do than glower and mutter in ominous tones One exception is the rock star Sting who stands out as a handsome Satanic villain with hom*osexual undertones The story which is difficult to follow if you read the book centers on the young effort to save his planet by obtaining a life giving mineral mined on an enemy planet Gigantic worms block his mission as do a series of bad guys whose identities become muddled along the way The only real heroes in this lumbering over inflated epic are the army of special effects coordinators and technicians who create a fantastic otherworldly environment peopled by creatures more weird and threatening than Jabba The Hut reddie photography is constantly impressive But technical wizardry alone cannot save Dune from a crash landing Dune is rated PG 13 cautioning parents to keep children under 13 away from this movie TV is blamed for fear of crime RADNOR Pa (AP) Television newscasts concentrate excessively on violent crime creating unwarranted fear among viewers according to a criminologist and host of a syndicated radio show Dr Georgette Bennett writing in the Jan 5 issue of TV Guide said television newscasts devote 10 20 percent of their time to crime most of it violent The emphasis has led viewers to believe a crime wave is sweeping the nation although statistics compiled by the National Crime Survey show the crime rate has dropped in the last two years she said Concentration on the sensational also 1 has given viewers the impression that most crimes are violent but statistics show only 10 percent of all crimes are violent Ms Bennett said As an example of misplaced fear Ms Bennett cited the recent rash of stories on child abuse in day car centers and state resulting efforts to regulate the industry day care center media blitz would lead you to believe that schools and child care facilities are where kids are in greatest danger of sexual she wrote so According to estimates by the American Humane Association and the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect a high proportion of children are molested at the hands of their own She said television coverage also unfairly robs classes of society of their sense of safety those least at risk who fear crime she wrote little old lady next door is not the one most likely to be beaten or mugged the young black on the other side of Ms Bennett host of the radio show Crime Line said fear is not the only effect of the news emphasis only are they (viewers) assaulted by images of blood spattered pavement also panicked into supporting public policies that often make the problems she wrote She said stories about the wealthy being victimized have prompted suburban areas to spend massively for security while vulnerable poor neighborhoods go unprotected crime coverage is a public she said I Legion chapter The tapes feature in real 11' Ottawa County Sheriffs Deputy Judy Grosser asua friend for children to turn to if they are touched in ways they like by adults if a friend is being' abused or if they see drugs used at school The tapes are a new beginning for the women who started Derforminc as volunteers in loral nhnrnhoc use to receive for payment for a while jars i jelly and Mrs Donner recalled of their first performances 17 years ago offered us a job one time to pay us and we believe first few paid performances grew into frequent 1 invitations to appear at shopping malls Three years after they started Patches and Pockets ieat out 39 other acts for a four days a week spot on iocaf television i' two housewives and we decided we like tpu make children said Mrs Donner mahy mothers can put on a costume and have children run up and say love Mrs Schwind said children today might be less innocent but otherwise were no different from their counterparts of a decade ago feel they are still the same They still love to be loved and want you to like them and want you to hug she said still yell the same things they still laugh at the same is 3' I David Keith stars as ah American sportcaster vyhp while orfe assignment in Moscow! is arrested by the KBG in the HBO Premiere ilms presentation debuting ounday Jan i Prince gives late Christinas ST PAUL Minn (AP) Rock sensation Prince helped put together a late Christmas present of food for 1700 needy families Canned food donations at five holiday concerts the Minneapolis born singing star totaled 50000 pounds according to Richard Goebel executive director of the St Paul oodbank enough tof 1 1 provide an emergency box of groceries to 1780' families People attending the concerts were asked deposit canned food in boxes at the St Paul Ciira! Center tjl never had that kind of response by young people said Goebel He attributed the drivq'H success to the spirit of the Christmas season and strong personality (Prince) who endorsed.

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