F2 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1993 LOS ANGELES TIMES MORNING REPORT Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press. TELEVISION Winfrey Airs Jordan: -show host Oprah Winfrey has scored the first interview with basketball superstar Michael Jordan since the announcement Wednesday of his retirement. The hourlong chat, Jordan's first in-depth interview since the slaying of his father in July, airs Oct. 29 on "'The Oprah Winfrey Show." Buckskin Gladiators: "Wild West Showdown," a new Western-themed action series from the creators of "American Gladiators," is set to premiere next fall. The syndicated show features male and female competitors challenging its "Rough Riders," professional cowboys, in events including high-speed races, shootouts, livestock challenges, Indian wrestling and perilous obstacle courses.
Public Broadcasting Funds: House and Senate conferees have agreed on an appropriation of $312 million for fiscal 1996 for the Corp. for Public Broadcasting, $7 million of which is earmarked for the upcoming "Ready to Learn" preschool program. Passage by Congress is expected shortly. The amount is higher than the CPB's respective 1994 and 1995 budgets of $275 million and $292.6 million, but less than the $360 million the CPB had requested. MOVIES Garland's Oscar to be Auctioned: The 1939 special Academy Award that Judy Garland won for best juvenile actress in "The Wizard of Oz" will be auctioned off in New York on Dec.
18 by Christie's auction house. The miniature Oscar is the star lot of an auction of memorabilia from Garland's personal collection, including her official Oscar nomination for the 1954 "A Star Is Born," a framed blowup of the "Wizard of Oz" stamp, scrapbooks, film contracts and telegrams. Christie's expects the statuette to fetch beGarland tween $70,000 and $90,000. THE ARTS Arts Center Planned: A consortium of Los Angeles arts groups has embarked on a yearlong community outreach and funddrive for what is being billed as "the world's first and only gay-identified arts center." The group plans to open the Community Arts Center at a complex in Hollywood, featuring an art gallery, a live theater, performance space and office space for up to 14 nonprofit arts organizations. It would also house the Natalie Barney Edward Carpenter Library, a large repository of gay and lesbian literature.
Participating groups include the African -A can Gay Lesbian Cultural Alliance, Artists Confronting AIDS, the Gay Lesbian Media Coalition, Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles, International Gay Lesbian Archives, Viva! and Words Across Cultures. The center's first benefit, "The Artists Ball," is slated for Dec. 10 at the downtown Glam Slam club. Festival Scaled Back: The Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in S.C., will cut back its schedule next year.
"Because of the economic slump that is everywhere, everybody is cutting down on things. I don't think it is time for us to celebrate in an extravagant way," said the festival's founder and artistic director, Gian Carlo Menotti. "We can do a beautiful festival within two weeks. That way we can save an awful lot of expense. I'm just following the general trend to be very careful for one year." The 1994 festival will run 12 days, from May 25 through June 5, instead of the 17 originally announced.
Only one opera will be performed instead of the usual three. LEGAL FILE Jackson's Attorney Sues: Entertainment attorney Bertram Fields has filed a $10-million lawsuit against the Globe tabloid, claiming he was defamed by a Sept. 8 story that said he drafted a document offering to pay "hush money" to families that have accused pop star Michael Jackson of child molestation. Fields represented Jackson in negotiating the singer's multimillion -dollar deal with Sony. The tabloid story was one of many to appear publications around the world after the father of a 13-year-old accused Jackson of molesting his son.
QUICK TAKES Three Stooges fans will want to set their VCRs tonight for Weird: All World's a Stooge," a marathon of six Stooge films including "Have Rocket, Will Travel" (1959), "'The Three Stooges in Orbit" (1962) and "The Outlaws Is Coming" (1965). The all -night marathon, airing on cable's TNT, begins at 5 p.m. Ice-T, along with Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Jazzy Jeff, Dinosaur Jr. and Del the Funky hom*osapien appear on tonight's "Arsenio Hall Show" for "Rap Night." Red Hot Chili Pepper bassist Flea turns journalist when he interviews members of veteran Los Angeles punk band on tonight's "ABC in Concert." The program, hosted by singer Juliana Hatfield, also features a tribute to Patrick Lippert, the late founder of "Rock the Vote." A memorial for respected character actor Richard Jordan, who died Aug. 30 of a brain tumor, will be held at 11 a.m.
today at the Mark Taper Forum. -SHAUNA SNOW LIZ SMITH Bette's a Scalper's Sure Thing YORK- -Bette Midler is not just making box-office history Radio City Music Hall, where she is wowing 'em until Oct. 23. She's also making scalpers' history. Choice--even semi-choice-Midler seats are going for as high as $600-each! Bette is very, very pleased with the success of "Experience the Divine," but insiders say she's a bit surprised at how restrained many of her Manhattan audiences have been.
Bette is used to total hysteria from beginning to end. In New York, sometimes the audience doesn't "let go" until the midway point. Midler 0 Candice Bergen is set as mistress of ceremonies for Barbara Walters' Friar's Club tribute May 7 at the Waldorf Astoria. This should be fun, and perhaps it might even lead to Barbara's appearing on "Murphy Walters, after all, is the prototype for Candice's fictional high- -powered TV superstar. 0 Leeza Gibbons, the "Entertainment Tonight" anchor who co "John Leeza" with her ET partner John Tesh, experienced a taste of the exotic recently.
After participating in a belly -dancing segment on Leeza decided to go home dressed in her bare- -midriff "I Dream of Jeannie" get -up. Leeza was hailed, applauded and propositioned from the moment she left the Paramount lot. When she arrived home, all jangling bells and see-through chiffon, her 1-year-old son, Troy, ran screaming in terror. Her husband, the sexy actor Steven Meadows, did not. Best bet on TV this weekend: "Tracey Ullman Takes On New York." This HBO special, airing Saturday, is delightful.
Ullman is her usual multifaceted self, plunging so completely into her characters that she's virtually unrecognizable from one vignette to the next. She receives great support from the likes of Blythe Danner, Jill Eikenberry, Joe Franklin, Josh Mostel, Jerry Stiller, Michael Tucker, Michael Williams and Michael York. Comic Irate at CBS' Cutting His Spot on Letterman Show By RICK VANDERKNYFF Palm Beach, Fla. "Dave even gave SPECIAL TO THE TIMES me a Havana cigar during the break." 1 0, just what happened to co- But later that night, in his hotel median Bill Hicks last Friday room, Hicks says he got a call from on 1 CBS' "Late Show With "Late Show" executive producer David Robert Morton. CBS representaHicks himself isn't sure, and the tives had decided Hicks' Show" and CBS folks ute set touched "too many hot aren't saying much.
All that's for certain: spots" and had ordered it axed, Hicks performed during the after- Hicks said Morton told him. Acnoon taping, but by the time the cording to Morton said he show aired, the segment (and all Hicks, had fought "tooth and nail" to save mention of Hicks) had been edited it. out and replaced with a canned "Late Show" segment by comic Bill Scheft. meanwhile, for the representatives, It all happened on the very same are saying reHicks was quick to point out cord that the decision was a joint which Elvis one, between the stage, this week, on was network and the edited from the waist down on show's producers. "It was just that "The Ed Sullivan Show." it didn't fit into the show's set of Hicks had appeared 11 times on standards," said "Late Show" Letterman's old NBC "Late Night" spokeswoman Rosemary Keenan.
program. He came away from the But Hicks said the show's proOct. 1 taping -his first since Let- ducers had reviewed and OKd his terman changed networks and time set the week before, when he was slots -thinking it had been his best bumped (for time constraints) spot yet. "The show went great," from an earlier program. He Hicks said by phone from West Please see COMIC, F32 "DYNAMITE! A full- blast of action and fireworks, a savagely funny thrill ride.
Slater and Arquette make a wildly comic and sexy pair. christian slater patricia arquette Arquette and Slater are dynamite." Susan Wlosscayna, USA TODAY "FUNNY AND VIBRANT." Janet Maslin, THE NEW YORK TIMES "VIVID AND SEDUCTIVE." Richard Corliss, TIME MAGAZINE "THRILLS AND COMEDY shaken up into one provocative co*cktail." Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE MAGAZINE SOT aN TRUE dennis hopper val kilmer gary oldman brad pitt christopher walken ANIS I ONE MAILABLE ON MORGAN Abes. WEST HOLLYWOOD BURBANK PUENTE HILLS SANTA MARIA VALENCIA Cineplex Beverly Center AMC Burbank AMC Park Aire Mann 10 Plaza 10 Drive-In Dally 2:00 4:30 7:15 9:45 PM PALMDALE Movies 8 CHECK THEATRE Fri-Sat Late Show 12:15 AM in DOLEY DIRECTORIES OR CALL DO STEREO FOR SHOWTIMES "TWO TH THUMBS UP." -SISKEL EBERT 'A very special and a very impressive directing debut for Robert De Niro." -Roger Ebert, SISKEL EBERT "AN EX EXCELLENT Rich in characters, sprinkled with teeming with Robert De Niro's directorial debut is a big success" -Gene Shalit, TODAY, NBC-TV "A LEADING "ROBERT DE NIRO DIRECTS A GEM." -David Ansen, NEWSWEEK One of the outstanding MAGNETIC pictures of '93." -Marilyn Beck, MARILYN BECK SYNDICATE showcase for Chazz -Janet Maslin, THE NEW YORK TIMES A REAL WINNER. "BRILLIANT" De Niro and Palminteri "Robert De Niro brings can take a bow." his enormous cinematic -Bruce Williamson, PLAYBOY talent to the screen in a brilliant, moving "EXPLOSIVELY and provocative -Paul directorial debut." Wunder, Chazz Palminteri gives a WBAI RADIO knockout -Peter Travers, "A POWERHOUSE. ROLLING STONE Easily one of the best -Neil movies Rosen, of the year." -Jack Garner, WNCN-RADIO NY1 NEWS GANNETT NEWS SERVICE ROBERT DE NIRO A BRONX TALE PRICE ENTERTAINMENT IN ASSOCIATION WITH PENTA ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS A TRIBECA PRODUCTION ROBERT DENIRO "A BRONX TALE" CHAZZ PALMINTERI PETER GATIEN SCREENPLAY CHAZZ PALMINTERI HIS BASED PLAY PRODUCER JANE ROSENTHAL, JON KILIK AND ROBERT DE NIRO DIRECTED ROBERT DENIRO TRIBECAI UNDER PARENT 17 RESTRICTED OR REQUIRES ADULT GUARDIAN ACCOMPANYING DO IN DOLEY SELECTED STEREO THEATRES TRIBECA SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE SOUNDTRAX ON A SAVOY PICTURES RELEASE Motion Picture 1993 BT Filma, Inc.
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