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This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Casco Bay Weekly at Portland Public Library Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Casco Bay Weekly (1990) by an authorized administrator of Portland Public Library Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Greater Portland's news and arts weekly OCT. 4, 1990 FREE As goes the economy, so goes the ad business. As goes the ad business, so goes the 'Express The death of the Evening Express noon paper's demise to "changing lifestyles." The Guy By Wayne Curtis down. Way down. Gannett Co. ruefully admitted that, in the age of televi As New England's economic malaise deepens, ad In the first issue of the Portland Express, founder A sion and video, the Evening Express no longer plays vertising in the Maine Sunday Telegram, the Portland W. Laughlin wrote that his new endeavor would "steer much of a role in daily life. Press Herald and the Evening Express is drying up. clear of such things as have in the past been unprofitable Gannett evoked remembrances of the Ward Cleaver With three papers in a sinking raft, the weakest simply to us." The year was 1882. era, one in which the breadwinner enjoyed the evening got thrown overboard. Buta century and several owners later, unprofitability paper each night, wreathed in pipe smoke and sitting in The death of the Evening Express is a clear public finally caught up with the 'Express. On Sept. 25, the Guy his favorite armchair. And Gannett is right: that era is indicator of economic hard times. Gannett Publishing Company announced that the final over. But it is onl y the highly visible tip of the advertising Portland Evening Express would roll off the presses But the 'Express has been losing ground for years. iceberg. Lower ad budgets are contributing to tougher next February, marking the end for a paper that has been Ward Cleaver has been gone for years. times, not just for the media, but for the people who losing circulation for a decade. Another, much more bottom-line reason why Gannett produce the ads as well. Publisher Jean Gannett Hawley attributed the after- might be closing the 'Express: advertising sales are Continued on page 6
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Big story for a small audience INSIDE By W.D. Cutlip was held Sept. 28 through 30 in Scarborough. It was a memorable occasion, a glorious opportunity for NEWSBRIEFS pages 2-4 TALK pageS H the Twelve Apostles ever stage a reunion in people hereabouts to put down their knitting and AD BIZ page 6-9 Scarborough, the odds are fair to good that the city their TV Guides and do Something worth doing. will tum out a decent-sized crowd to welcome them - 'TULERS pages 10-11 Perhaps 500 people eventually came - mostly from VIEWS page 13 maybe even 300 people, if the weather is good. H the out-of-town and out-of-state. It was historical. It was 10-DAY CALENDAR page 14 event were scheduled to coincide with the Second magical. It was anything but a series of dull repeti SCRlEN page 16 Coming of Christ, then so much the better. The photo tions of dusty bits of folklore. It was first-class FUNNY FOLK page 17 opportunites alone would lure the selectmen. entertainment, a good place to be on a damp week DOGSPORTS page 22 But it seems nothing short of the above will draw end. It was the place to be, man. PUZZLE page 22 the locals out, to say nothing of the hothouse flowers The question is: where in the hell were you? CLASSIFIEDS page 24 who apparently occupy the rest of southern Maine. POOKpage27 The first-ever New England Storytelling Festival Continued on page 10 • 2 0.= Bay -Wukly members of the Miss Reba ° "We're extremely disap: had been arrested previously pointed," said Jane Ann when federal agents boarded McNeish of the Maine Lung it during a refueling stop in Association, who added that TOPPINGS Atlantic City, N.J. The captain federal health officials may DROP ME ALINE... ON ANY was secretly assisting the soon upgrade cigarette , PIZZA smoke to a Class A carcino Montlon coupon DEA. PROGRESSNE CARDS, GIFTS + WRAP when calling. gen, similar to asbestos and Not to be combined According to Morris, the with other offers. MMP routinely assisted the benzene. DEA in coastal smuggling cases in the 1970s and early Maine hospitals 1980s, but there haven't been any recently. '1t's an eXciting pained by $9.4 A review of the top news stories affecting Greater thing to be involved in and it million loss Portl.nd: September 25 through October 2, 1990. certainly is an interesting Maine hospitals suffered a change from what we combined $9.4 million loss in AN OLD FRIEND normally do," said Morris. 1989, four times the $2.5 At Less Crossing guard found guilty of million loss of 1988. 'This is Than attempted murder Portlanders the fourth consecutive year of The school crossing guard who drew a small caliber, semi caught in Brennan a downward trend and it One automatic handgun from his pocket and fired at a 14-year-old doesn't bode well for the future," said James Hamar, Year ... Portland student was found guilty of attempted murder on pardon flap Director of Communications Sept. 27 by a jury in Cumberland County Superior Court. Charges by the McKernan at the Maine Hospital Defense attorney James Bushell argued that his client, James re-election campaign that Association. "I'm concerned F. Murphy, was innocent by reason of insanity when he shot at former Governor Joseph Melba wa .. a beautiful killen. that access to heal th care is at The firs! one chosen from Ihe liner. Clifton Drake III on March 30. Police reports and testimony Brennan played politics in She was playful and her fuzzy black. coat was risk, particularly in the indicate that the day before the shooting, on March 29, Murphy doling out pardons near the thick and soft. Her tiny round baby face W3!1 smaller, rural hospitals that endearing. Her people loved to watch her frolic watched Drake, who is black, and his white girlfriend shoving end of his second term have aoout. But al 7 months she became pregnant and each other jokingly at the bottom of Munjoy Hill near the 7- caught some Portlanders in experienced $5.8 million of Revlon hcr people. who didn't want kittens. turned her out. the overall loss." Now al less than a year of age. she is up for adoption, Eleven. "Leave her alone, nigger," Murphy reportedly said, the glare of unwanted not as a kinen but ao; a cal. angering Drake, At the same intersection the next day, Murphy publicity. Hamar said the hospital Lipstick revenue losses stem from She has come a long way. Her adult features are fine and Drake shouted at one another until Drake crossed the street Among those receiving and sculpted. 10e clumsy cute prancing of the kitten pardons were associates of "rigid" revenue caps im has been replaced by the graceful saunter of a cat. and came toward Murphy. The crossing guard then shot at 50 She is litter trained and housebroken. The events Drake and missed, hitting the side of the 7-Eleven. When Drake Bruce Taliento, one of posed by the Maine Health of thc 1a... 1 few months have left her a little cautious Portland's youngest mayors, Care Finance Commission, and confused. She had given her devotion 10 people tried to fire again, the bullet jammed. Bushell argued that who had for some reason deserted her. BUI she can who became a special inadequate Medicare reim lOOoFF ·· . Murphy was insane at the time of the shooting and therefore easily be won over. And she has acquired many assistant to Finance Commis bursement and loss of valuable social graces. incapable of forming the intent to kill the teenager. "He didn't think he was shooting at an orange. He didn't sioner Rodney Scribner in the population in the rural areas. -----.-~------li£i. ·'Utl· ,'ij(·);J·t':JM4 Before you decide on a kitten or a puppy, remember in Ihree months Brennan administration On the expense side, he -Artist's Proofs -Quick Business Copies you will have a cal ordog. Take a look at the older animals at [he shelter. think he was holding a pencil," said Deputy District Attorney Revlon Nail Enamel They have a 101 to offer. Laurence Gardner, who prosecuted the case. Gardner argued before being indicted in 1980 explained that smaller -Student's Reports -Family Photos that while Murphy was clearly "a racist, an anti-semite and in a $280,000 insurance scam. hospi tals are stretched &Nail Care misogynist," he was sane enough to intend to shoot and kill Robert Franciose, one of financially to train and keep w~ health-care providers and to g£figJJl!!IgP'JM~ggLM-1!r:i€ Drake. those convicted with u4rurna1 Refuge League Taliento, won a pardon in provide 24-hour emergency Baxter Shelter Along with attempted murder Murphy was found guilty of 774-4455 ) 449 Stroudwater. Westbrook. Maine 04092 (207) 854-9771 threatening with the use of a dangerous weapon, reckless 1986 after advancing to the care and other expensive conduct with the use of a dangerous weapon and canying a position of placement services. Market Street (next to the Oyster Club) director for the handicapped "Some smaller hospi tals 75C OFF Old Port, Portland concealed firearm without,. permit. He faces up to 4Q years in are going to have to take a prison and will1>e sentenaki at the end of November. at Maine Medical Center. Also receiving a pardon - hard look at the services they the last of Brennan's tenure provide. Existing services UNUM buys Two other factors, Eleazer was Taliento's sister, Janice may need to be cut back or Canal Plaza wouldn't venture to guess Bancroft, for a 1981 aggra introduction of new services S~y more when UNUM employees vated assault conviction. delayed," said Hamar. On Sept. 28, UNUM Life would move there. Brennan has denied using a Donald McDowell, Interim Insurance Corp. purchased UNUM now occupies political litmus test for his President of Maine Medical Two Canal Plaza, a five-story, for $7.00 several locations in the pardons, noting that he Center, cites demands for 44,ooo-square-foot building Portland area. Early next issued fewer pardons per new technologies and in downtown Portland, for an 3 lines: year, the company plans to year than his predecessors, uncompensated health care Hse 4 rent. 4 bdrooms, WiO, FIP, undisclosed amount. UNUM move its corporate headquar James Longley and Kenneth as additional factors leading Ig kit, WIW, OK, 0" St. Pk. Avail. expects as many as 150 1189. near sch. o shop. en' and ters from One City Center to Curtis. to hospital losses. "Society employees to move to the Two Portland Square, a has a strong appetite for more location, which is good news 30 words: building in the final stages of Restaurant health care and our demand for city officials, who have construction. far exceeds our ability to House for rent, four bedroom, washer, wished for more office smoking hoopla dryer, fireplaces, large kitchen, wall to pay." He thinks health-care wall carpet, deck, 0" street parf
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"But then the sun came out." today for a lifetime of to release revenues. And because ad agencies have a Ion? trouble free beautiful "We're at a crossroads here in Portland in the advertising and honored tradition of inflating billings to boost prestIge, community," says Richard McDonald, president of For an appointment skin. You'll be glad a survey of agency billings provides little more than a gauge you did! McDonald/O'Meara Communications. He says "serious or initial consultation of wishful thinking. changes" are afoot in the local ad business. The firms that Estimates of the decline vary widely. Bob Gold, owner ?f at no charge, Professional will survive must be able to "hit a 9O-mph fastball." radio station WPOR, guesses that the Portland ad market IS The death of the 'Express The Electrology Center of Maine Permanent Positioning for a tighter market means cutting expenses. call 772.6411 off by around 15 percent overall. Peter Lawler of Portland 775-5060 726 Forest Avenue, Portland 04103 Hair Removal And for ad agencies, that J1\eans reducing employees, who Photographics, who works with a number of advertJ~rs, . constitute the largest single cost of doing business. The Guy Gannett Publishing Co. stood in that sunshine suspects the market is down about 20 perce~t. Gary 0 !'l"~Il, That process is well underway. late last month and announced that the Express and the who serves as regional director of the Amencan ASSOCla~on The August J1\erger of Portland's two largest ad firms, Press-Herald would be "J1\erged." of Advertising Agencies, says business both at the agenCIes London Swardlick Mackey and The New England Group, But Guy Gannett - which is based here in Portland and ~ and in the media is probably down by about 30 percent. resulted in five lay-offs, according to one former employee. should not be confused with the Washington D.C.-based When You Give Whatever the actual figure, optimists are scarce. "The O'Neil Griffin Body, which employed 18 in 1988, now publisher of USA TODAY - already merged once before, in At Work You environment out there is bleak," says Richard McDo~ald of maintains a staff of four. 1925, when Guy Gannett bought the more popular Express McDonald/O'Meara Communications. "People's attitudes Unda Lee Advertising's payroll has dropped from 13 to from Frederick Dow. (Gannett immediately required that Have A are very bleak." six. ads for both papers be sold as a package, creating the "We're heading toward the low point," says Jeff Drake, Arnold & Co. is down to eight from a peak of 11, and strategy that has been used in recent years to keep the CHOICE. eneral manager of the Portland office of ~old & Co.,. a Creative Design and Marketing says that it now employs 17, 'Express afloat.) Lston-based ad firm. "It's tough, and it's gomg to continue down from 21 in 1987. Rather than being merged again, the Express is being shut MaineShare funds t be tough." "A lot of growth in the mid-1980s was fueled by real down, plain and simple. statewide non o That sentiment is echoed in a recent issue of "Uneage estate," says Tom Morse, creative director at McDonald/ It's hardly the first U.S. afternoon daily to go. According profits working Report," published by the New England ~~wspaper Asso O'Meara. And some now see the local shakeout as the to the American Newspaper Publisher's Association, more for peace, a safe ciation in Salem, Mass.: "No one seems WillIng or know-" inevitable hangover following a reeling real-estate debauch. than 200 daily newspapers have disappeared during the last environment, civil ledgeable enough to predict a rebound for the economy, the A report published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 10 years. Cities with competing dailies are down to 21, from rights, and social report says. "We appear to be in for another year of hard documents that the New England boom in the 19805 was more than 200. change. Tree of Life Rings and Pendants . tiJ1\es." fueled by "a dramatic but unsustainable surge in the con Nor is it the only Northeast publication to go recently. An andent symbol of prOductiveness, Wisdom and hfe. american crafts Pendant. Rings in 14K Gold struction industry." Uke contractors, many ad agencies New England Monthly magazine ceased publication in early Ask Your Sterling silver with chain $60 Narrow: S~ze 71/land smaller $190 benefited directly from construction-related spending by September, citing the dismal ad market. The magazine's Employer For 14K gold without chain $280 S,ze 8 and larger $225 developers, banks, lumber companies and others. owner, TeleJ1\edia Corp., said flagging ad sales led to a $1 44 Exchange Street Rings in Sterling Silver Wide: Size 71/l and smaller $240 A MaineShare Dept. 14 Narrow $39 Wiae $49 Size 8 and larger $290 Agencies also benefited indirectly from the boom, thanks million shortfall in fiscal year 1990, making it impossible to Pledge Card. Portland, ME 04101 Add $3 for shipping; Maine residents also pie... add 5'lf. ..Ies tax. to a binge of consumer spending linked to the profits service its $5 million debt. VISAIMel Amex 772-4880 stemming from the rise in real estate sales. Ad agency Newspapers from Madawaska to New York are selling ~------. "It was like a big snowball executives say many busirIesses that had never advertised in fewer ads. Even the venerable Boston Globe is down by o I'd like to the past approached them regularly in the late 1980s to more than 20 percent. And the three papers owned by the know more launch ad campaigns. And many businesses that were Portland-based Guy Gannett Co. have suffered steady about BUSINESS CARDS " already advertising expanded their ad budgets wildly advertising losses over the last year. According to the New that kept growIng,. says without a strategy. England Newspaper Association, local and classified adver MaineShare. :t,:S':f.X;;:fi,:.~~~r~~::;~1I SERVICE DIRECTORY "When things are good, advertisers may do more adver tising in all three Guy Gannett papers fell an average of 15 Name ______tising than they need to," says Bob Gold of WPOR. percent in the first eight months of this year, when com Tom Morse of the With business booming, many agencies were quick to add pared to the same period last year. National advertising, Address ______, Hidden Image less-than-vital employees to boost their size and prestige. which accounts for a relatively small amount of ad volume, BLACK COFFEE DESIGN Mythical, Imaginati •• , Fanciful David Body says "there's no question" that agencies took on dropped by 23.6 percent. Handcr'1!; Ma.slcs advertising boom. too much overhead, particularly in hiring copy writers and Nonetheless, advertising by local firms has been off by Phone ______GRAPHICS • PUBLICATIONS • STAINED GLASS Ann r....,;"" art directors, rather than chaneling work to freelancers. And about 10 percent in all three Guy Gannett papers this year, these new staffers often required backup personnel in the with the trend accelerating in August, the most recent month MaineS hare MARTHA CLARY "But then the sun way of secretaries and production assistants, further swell for which figures are available. Local advertisers reduced P.O. Box 2095 ing payrolls. purchases in the Maine Sw,day Telegram by 23.9 percent in Augusta, ME 04338 But the boom couldn't be sustained. The Federal Reserve August of this year when compared to last. For the Portland 622-0105 came ou t . " report notes that the surge in construction "masked a serious Press Herald, local ads in August fell by 12.4 percent. Computerized Accounting Systems Give For Change! Consulting. Training, Support decline in the region's economic base, particularly its du The hardest hit section has been the Maine Sunday rable--goods manufacturing industries." When the real estate boom inevitably stopped, so did MaineShare# advertising. ''We had a real heyday," says Linda Lee of UNTERHALTER & CO. Continued on page 8 I' October 4, 1990 9 ••• SO GOES THE 'EXPRESS Ccntinued from page 7 Telegram's classsifieds, which grew to unwieldy proportions during the real estate boom of the late 1980s. Despite an increasingly active trade in foreclosure auction announce ments this year, classified advertising plummeted by nearly one-third in the first eight months of 1990. Ironically, the Evening Express has done better than the two other papers in holding onto local ads, showing the I Gourmet-To-Go I smallest decline in ad volume of the three in 1990. This is I somewhat misleading, however, since overall ad volume is Gourmet -To-Stay I lower and Guy Gannett offers advertisers a chance to buy (we now have seating!) : ads in both papers for just 20 percent more than if they placed it in only one. According to Gannett General Man • GERALDINE I ager Steven Braver, 95 percent of their advertisers take ads in 1100/0 OFF ANT10UEWOLF ANY LUNCH OR both papers. &ESTA T E JEWELRY GROCERY ITEM Tuco. - sal IMO-S A typical quarter-page ad in the Portland Press Herald 1 2 6 MI L K STREET sells for $696. The same ad placed in both the 'Express and I ("""ludlng Beer & Wine) PORTLAND, MAINE 04101 I expi res L ______10131190_____ , 207·774·~1J94 the 'Press Herald would sell for $870. According to the Portland ad executive who provided these figures, "advertis- ers never buy just the Evening Express." In effect, ads in the 'Express are sold at a steep discount_ Is Gannett making money now? The privately held company doesn't provide information on revenues or ***ENVIRONMENTAL MAINE *** DYE TRANSFER profits. "We don't release figures, but let me say that the PRODUCTS PHOTOGRAPHS Portland Papers have been profitable for a long, long time," OISIDl8UtOQS. NC()I'IP()QAJED BY says Braver. SPECIAL INTRODUcrORY JOHN WAWRZONEK Trimming expenses and building revenues at Gannett OFFER: appear essential, particularly with debt to service on the new -100% Recycled Unbleached Copy NEW ENGLAND 81/2X II, $3.60 ream, $35 ca .. $43 million printing plant inaugurated earlier this year. David Body now runs a one-man operation. LA NDSCAPES CB W (Tonee Harbert -50%-70% Recycled White Copy Exhibit: Raising the cover price of the Press Herald and ceasing 81/2.11 , $3.20 rcam, $31 c:a.. 25 September - 27 October publication of the Express suggest that the company is has a tradition of nurturing small shops. "Portland has Feeding time -50% Recycled Fax JlBper always been a frontier advertising town," she says. 'There 81/2X 98ft.-hi-sensitiyity, preparing well for the future. $24 for 6 roll, Nonetheless, Braver denies that the advertising environ have always been a lot of cowboys riding around." "It's feeding time at the shark compound known to the -Also ayailable: Computer Paper, ment played a role in the decision to cease publication of the "A lot of the people who were laid off are on their own Lega! Pads, Enyelopes &. Bond 'Express. "It has more to do with readership, not advertis and are doing all right," says David Body. ~utside world ~s Madison Avenue, one of the most competi tive, and sometimes predatory, industries in American Beautiful soy based inks in all ing," he says. Body should know. He's now a one-man operation colors business." So begins a recent report on New York advertis- himself, having ridden the boom to create one of Portland's FREE DELIVERY IN 7 Pleasant Street, ing in AdWeek, an advertising trade journal. Portland, ME 04101 la~gest an~ mo~t ~uccessful ad firms in the 1980s. A merger PORrLAND AREA 207-879-0042 WIth O'NeIl Gnffm of Manchester, N.H., in March, 1989 But the shark image may be inappropriate in Portland. P.o. BOX 3322 didn't work out, and he subsequently launched his own Here, .the smal~er fish .may end up eating the sharks. Big PORTLAND. ME 04104 ~ ~.'.~ '. : :: . ! ': :. * 772-4408 small firm, much as he had with his late wife, Janet, when he agencIes and bIg medIa are having problems, but the leaner 'I' Survival of the smallest first arrived in Portland from Chicago 19 years ago. companies are doing just fine. "There's more flexibility in a small agency," BOdy says. . The state's two alternative newspapers, Maine Times and But while the "merger" of the 'Express is more visible, the 'There isn't the concern about filling a gap if you lose a large Casco Bay Weekly, report a steady growth in ad sales many "mergers" between local ad agencies will leave some account. You can do a lateral arabesque. Where in a big through August of this year. "Papers like the Maine Times WEATHER REPORT! Portlanders without jobs. agency, you can't get 15 to do a lateral jump as easily." He and Casco Bay Weekly tend not to be as hurt by a downturn In fact, Guy Gannett appears to be working hard to find adds, "I can certainly take a smaller account and be profit or helped by an upturn," says Anna Ginn, publisher of the A NATURAL Partly sunny, windy and cold ... places for some Evening Express employees elsewhere able." Maine Times. "1 think we benefit more when advertisers time to bundle up in sensible, within the company, while offering early retirement pack Advertisers like the cost savings. With reduced overhead, hone in on the customers they want to reach." seasonal clothing from Amaryllis. ages to others. Ad agencies, on the other hand, are famous freelancers often come in with lower hourly rates and better The same holds true for small agencies. Beautiful styles for indoors and for Friday afternoon pink slips. deals. "When times get bad, the agencies get slow and the '!his is a very normal business cycle," Gary O'Neil says, out in cozy fabrics and New But the ad biz is unique in many ways. When metalwork freelancers get super busy," says Susan Garry, a freelance notmg that he's been through similarly sharp downturns in HI GH England colors to warm the body ers are laid off at Bath Iron Works, for example, they don't designer for the past 15 years. "Portland is small and clients 1972,1976 and in the early 19805. "It's the rebirth of the and soul! go out and compete with their former employer. No one tend to know which freelancers do the work. It's cheaper to advertiSing business." builds Aegis cruisers in the backyard. go directly to the freelancer than through the agency." 'The players who were the dominant players five years But that's what many laid-off ad executives do: hang out "Freelancing is somewhat recession-proof," says Tom ago are not the dominant players today," says O'Neil. The their own shingles and compete for the dwindling business. Morse, who recently left freelance copywriting to tackle same may be true five years from now, as the freelancers and Jim Haputman, a freelance copywriter since he found bigger accounts at an agency. "When times are good, small shops of today position themselves for strong growth himself out of a job after the LSM/New England Group everbody's got work. And when times aren't so good, a lot during the next upswing. merger, says that he knows a lot of people sticking around of people start to cut comers and can't afford the full-service When advertising agency Chellis, Conwell, & Gale closed Amaryllis Clothing Co. and starting their own businesses. agency experience. So they go to freelancers." five years ago, the lay-offs set in motion the positioning for 41 Exchange Street, Portland, ME 04101 Katherine Buxton, a freelance copywriter, says Portland today. Many of today's successful firms trace their lineage in 772-4439 Advertisers cut corners in other ways as well. parking stamps available Stretch Tuemmler, a commercial photographer in Port whole or in part to that closure, including Creative Design, for free parking land, says business from ad agencies accounted for about 85 Unda Lee Advertising and S. T. Vreeland. percent of his revenues three or four years ago. Today, it's "It's a wonderful time for Maine agencies to regroup and concentrate on absolutely great creative," says O'Neil. around 45 percent. Agency business "is still coming in," he \YEDAAromatherapy says, "but it's not the volume it used to be." He's making up With all its boom and bust cycles, perhaps one of the most * the lost business in other endeavors, he says, but other appropriate bits of copy ever penned by an ink-stained Scalp Massage photographers aren't. writer was Portland's motto: "Resurgam," Latin for "We will Hair Clarifying, come rise again." * Typographers and freelance designers have also reported Deep Conditioning a drop in business. Portland's ad firms, media and freelancers are looking for motor "Portland has always been "It's been very strange," says Mary Bowler, owner of evidence that this remains true. Treatment with Styling B&W Typography, which depends on advertising for about *Manicure and "99.9 percent" of its business. "Over the last six months it's Makeup touch-up a frontier advertising been very different. A lot of (businesses) have come in Wayne Curtis is a freelllnce writer who swam with the big directly, cutting out the ad agencies or the designers. They fish to re5ellrch this story. ask for something to be reset to look like an earlier ad. And $39.99 pi zza town. There have always when they come in to pick it up, they ask, 'Now what do we (offer expires 10/31/90) . do with it?' We have to explain to them what paste-up is." IS (Ad agency people sensibly assert that circumventing the been a lot of cowboys agencies is a doomed, shortSighted strategy. "Oients take a Picture Yourself: lot of things in-house because they think it's more efficient," Image & Relaxation Center good says Gary O'Neil. "But their staffs are already pared way 854-1365 THE GOOD EGG riding around. /I down, and new advertising goes downhill. Only good Call [or a free brochure f u e I advertiSing works.") 12 Westbrook Coornon - Katherine Buxton Westbrook. ME 04092 Gilt Certificates amays available. PIZZERIA visa/me/amex welcome. 705 Congress Street Portland, Maine 773-0801 1 0 Oisl:o Bay Weekly Oftdllh/4; 1.990 • • 1 ' r ...... BIG STORY, SMALL AUDIENCE Throughout all this frivolou5 physicality, Kif's face reflects ------.UNIQUE ~ "TASTY I . THE MOVIES· his progress with mock-epic profundity: moronic concern over . Continued from front page lAKEoUT FOOD . WE DELIVER having missed the ball, stupid joy when he gets a hit. Content to OCT 3-9 WED-TUES 7, 9 "It's completely irresponsible 1"11 CUMBERlIND Aut. (ONE WEEJ() 1, 3 HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI work without an audience, Kif is mugging with all his goofy SAT-SUN MAT EGGPLANT PARMESAN might. h.t .... ""!I.IILA'4{1 'h, 1,,911(AO("", Storyteller Judith Black sits talking excitedly on the stairs ",,',AIIO """ ..... 11 Inl I ... ~""".d VlOO'I' to terrorize an audience Ultimately, this performance becomes too much for me to RAVIOLI somewhere in the rear of Scarborough High School. From time bear alone. "Kif," I say. "You're mugging." LASAGNA to time a wicked grin splits her face and she pokes me on the and walk away. This sets him back a bit. The wino ballplayer is suddenly PIZZA kneecap to punctuate what she's saying. gone and a yer-basic-teenager momentarily takes his place. STEAK GRINDERS "I don't tell a single story that begins 'Once Upon A Time: OCT 10-14 WED- SAT 7, 9:15 That's terrible. ''Mugging?'' he asks. "What does that mean?" SAT-SUN MAT 1 HOT & COLD even for children." Mugging: to make faces, especially to attract the attention of ITALIAN SUBS Grin, poke, poke. Life does that to you. an audience. He may not know the word, but he could have ""COOK, TilL THIEF. (..,...... trictione apply) "But that's not a bad thing, 'Once Upon A Time.' Because liI'WlFE&"IIlLOVER invented the practice. most stories happen within a frame. You don't need that kind of For this and other good reasons, Kif was chosen to be the "Frames enable you to enter and exit the world of the story Master of Ceremonies for Saturday's Student Stage. Eat In or Take Out and feel that it's safe inside there, that you can safely catharse OCT 13-16 SAT-SUN MAT 3:15 Open EVERY Day entertainment. " Kifs story, "The Screaming Lucies," consists of equal parts (purge) yourself and safely leave. Most good stories have SUN EVE 7 mime and straight storytelling. It is a very good, very original I MON-TUES 7, 9 frames." • Judith Black story - and far from being the high point of the Student Stage, I WILLOWS Do her stories have frames? Pizza & Restaurant for all of that. I niL 114 Jt)§toS -'400.. 1 694 Main st. • Westbrook "Not the adult ones." Grin, poke, poke. "But the adult stories Oi.«t~ by R." .... h! ... ~ .. "''", 1'1 .. 11 The stories that followed Kif s were good stories; all of the I S.~rrin, Ciuin,,,,, ~ .... are similar to any story in that they do have imagery that moves AI« "oIl,h younger 'tellers who told them are now and ever shall be pure, 854-8142 you through them that repeats, that has something to do with I 10 Exchan St., Pordand 772·9600 undiluted, irredeemable hams, who will no doubt learn to mask the theme of the story." --- this fact as handily as the older, high school-aged 'tellers. The New England Storytelling (NEST) Festival has drawn One student in particular stands out in my memory: 12-year Judith Black and about a dozen other big-name, nationally old Karin Payne. Karin's story, ''The Legend of Bluebonnet," is known storytellers to the Winslow Homer Center for the Arts in a retelling of a Comanche folk tale. Karin's delivery - strong, Scarborough for the weekend. deliberate, gracefully choreographed and effectively enunciated ,eANNUAL Expecting to meet a group of quaintly garbed, folksy people - is solid gold. In theater parlance, she killed. As a performer, spouting "tall tales," I am continually confronted by the most one might say that she was born to kill. One Sky-One World un-folksy persons, whose stories and performances echo every B.Y.O.V.* The last Student Stage performer, Allison Hagy, has been the conceivable type of entertainment. There is, in fact, far more What a lovely Kite Fly for Peace Maine State Storytelling Champion for two years running. Her Vaudeville here than Hicksville. way to recycle! performance is just about what you'd expect: stunning, precise, SUDday, Oct. 14 Judith Black's demeanor is definitely that of the trouper, a ) good theater. I. Uam-4pm veteran of the legitimate theater. Uke many storytellers, she *Bring Your Own Vase ''My ultimate goal is to tell stories for a living," she says •": f ~Fl Wtlliams Park I began telling stories as a teacher in the classroom, as part of an and Let us fill it with sweaters afterward. "It's given me a lot of hope, seeing the number of ~ Cape Elizabeth ,~ attempt to hold the attention of students whose attention spans 1950 - 1990 successful storytellers here, that it can be done." Fresh or Silk Flowers. "Bring your picnic & kite t ~, were stunted by electronic entertainments. a retrospective H her Student Stage work is any measure of her abilities, her \ '1 and ny with us or jUst\ r ~ Uke most storyte1lers, Judith is acutely aware of the crucial enjoy the shoW!':::;"'. success is practically in the bag. In fact, considering the talent differences between storytelling and cinematic entertainments and enthusiasm of the rest of the Student Stage, it would appear ~• C.lI for infonn.tion on howr ..~• J like movies and television. that the future of storytelling is assured. Cf:\ftTfRlftl 10 send • kite 10 • G.L in ~...... "The huge difference between story and cinema is that you Opcnotion Desert Shield " Alas: the future of the NEST Festival is not. have to use your imagination when you listen to a storyteller HARMON'S BARTON'S tell a story. In the cinema, you just sit there" - her face goes ~~ O~JfCTS 584 Congress Street ~ 117 Brown Street 484 Congress Street %O£~ fOf$ UP!,smm slack - "and you watch, because all the images are completed Sad, strDlige-but-true story Portland Westbrook Portland, Maine 04101 for you. That's not going to happen during a storytelling session 774·5946 854·2518 774-1241 0 Fall hours: 3 Wharf St •• Old Port It'§.late Sunday afternoon and festival organizer David Monda -Saturday 10:30-5:00 871·0035 because your mind is working. I'm creating the bones of the ~eld sits numbly at the cafeteria table. The good humor that Free parking at both locations. scenes, but you're filling in the details with your imagination. All major credit cards on phone orders. normally graces his comic visage is conspicuously absent. He is, Aowersfor "So your investment in a story and your work is much in fact, blank, rendered a tabula rtlSR by the singularly draining greater than any movie you'll ever see." experience of haVing meticulously put together the finest • Judith, like all good storytellers, lives consciously from day storytelling festival in the region - only to be overlooked by his Squire to day with a basic knowledge of what fiction is and what it intended audience. does for people. The orthodox position of Western tradition is Consider: the assembled talent of this first-ever NEST ~orgalJ' ~.§' that stories are a psychological vehicle for solving problems Festival easily dwarfs that of the rest of the storytelling festivals cr. ORestaurant ~ vicariously, without ever having actually changed anything in in New England put together. ''Three-quarters of us have your own life. Judith accepts this point of view - with reserva 46 Market Street r headlined those festivals," says David. "There were more big Portland I tions. Think 774-5246 . names here than at any of the others." "They're not solved, but you have models for them. That's fully included a laugh track to help you respond intelligently to What happened? the difference between Stephen King and a storyteller. I feel that of it as RAVE MONDAY the dialogue. David shrugs. "I keep reminding myself that this is one of you're not obliged to end stories 'happily ever after: but you're Or, forsaking those other shows, perhaps you've tuned in to the major challenges of putting a festival together. We set it up NIGHT definitely obliged to offer options or alternatives. one of those violent, effects-laden, lust-greed-drugs..power in a proper facility so the acoustics wouldn't present a major Radio REVIEW~ FOOTBALL "I think it's completely irresponSible to terrorize an audience death tales, the ones that remind you so forcefully of how sick challenge to the storytellers. We set reasonable ticket prices, 1/2 GALLON PITCHERS OF - to throw them into a pit of despair - and walk away. That's the world is; how short life can be. brought in the best available talent. The range of tellers and that MOOSEHEAD ...4.50 terrible. Ufe does that to you. You don't need that kind of Pause: In which story did you escape the threatening, styles was as broad as I could possibly collect. be Maine Sundliy MILLER LITE entertainment." overbuilt Western world? Which of the above stories gave you ''The advance publicity was excellent. The posters looked listens Telegram is SOI1LES ... t.35 the sense of having solved the knotty problems of your prob good. Ten radio stations covered it. Almost every major news "impressed with Liza's VOLCANO lematic existence? None of the above. to you. WINGS ... t5(ea Little stories paper in Maine had an article in their arts section. unusua/oJreringsal Where can you best find such an escape, see such solutions? "A mailing went out to all the people who had previously BEST ~. reasonable prices". The terroristic, "realistic" entertainment Ms. Black refers to At the source: storytellers, stories, books and people. been involved in storytelling events at USM. I made personal to fOOT is the modem storytelling tradition of B-movies and television, "When you go to see some of that great old Greek theater," SCRlIN contact with schools that had storytelling programs. Everything The New York TImes a crock of idiocy and pure crap that is usually served up this says Judith, "when you read a great novel, when you hear a IN TOWN! pointed to selling 200 tickets per day, which would have mm:::[l::::m:::~~;;:t::mmm No other radio says we're Portland's way: great story, you are living out the issues of the hero or heroine. covered the barest expenses. c.: "hlp cboice". r I~:o.. Pretend for the nonce that you are Joe or Josephine Average You go through their misery, their pain, their excitement, and ''There were hardly any people from Scarborough here. I station in Portland offers you American. It has been a difficult day at the workplace. The you leave with a human catharsis (purging of painful emotions) have to think about that one." the variety of talk programs available Sisyphean Rock known as the gross national product has been that you wouldn't have otherwise. You can allow yourself to This last item seems to bother David the most. Looking on WGAN. From 9:05am to 4pm and pushed only a little further up the hill, and is likely to slip back identify with a character and understand him or her better, and painfully around the nearly deserted cafeteria, he seems to grab 7:05pm to 5:30am weekdays and down at least as far during the night. Tomorrow may be even maybe understand yourself a little better too. It's true theater." himself by the throat metaphOrically - no mean feat, that. around the clock on the weekends, worse. Mr. and Ms. America, take a break. "All the people who made it were warm, were coming back, God knows you need one. H the storm and stress of the we explore everything from where to Student stage were telling people about it. There were a significant number of plant an herb garden to where to in Only at Liza's workplace don't get to you, the 6 0' clock news will. The world persons who had never been to a storytelling event before. But is sick; life is short. Small wonder so many people feel the need During a break in the action on Saturday afternoon, I try to vest for retirement. And throughout there wasn't the quantity needed to support us. This was an the day, the WGAN news team breaks to escape. pick up some serious copy from the assembled talent in the ambitious festival." the stories that become the next day's And so, having put the kids to bed (after the obligatory Scarborough High School cafeteria, but Kif Fitzgerald, And next year? headlines. Want the best news and 538 Congress street bedtime story, a nuisance and a necessity), you tum on the storytelling wunderkind and boy genius, makes this impossible. ''This is going to happen again. We've laid a financial basis infonnation? There'sonlyonechoice. Rare and Used Books television - faithful electronic bard and constant helpmate - and Kif stands behind David Neufeld and one of his helpers for a continuing festival. My hope is that the people of Maps and Prints But you probably know that already. escape. while I talk to Michael Parent about the storytelling biz. No one Scarborough will eventually claim this festival as theirs." Bought & Sold Perhaps tonight you will watch the serious show about the notices that Kif has joined the party, which appears to disturb Highest Prices Paid Sure they will. And if they don't, somebody else will. Search Service working couple with the children, the ones who struggle in the him. Because the New England Storytelling Festival is a big, big deal. workplace, come home and watch TV. You will no doubt Kif picks up an imaginary baseball bat and starts swinging at Supper Club and Lounge Tax & Insurance Appraisals Even if people don't know it yet. Late Night Menu Siagle ilem. or la,ge collection' wanted marvel over the ingeniousness of the story editors who come up imaginary baseballs that seem to originate from David's hips. Tue·Thu+Sun 5-!am Fri+Sat 5-3am BROWSERS AlWAYS WElCOME with such unlikely and otherworldly scenarios. When he misses a ball, he fans like a wino edition of Wade In lhe Performing An. Center lOam 10 5 :30 pm Mon.-Sal. Or perhaps you will watch the funny show about the Boggs, left arm following wildly through as he spins drunkenly 27 Porest Aveooe Next to Zootz 828-0005 "'""*>0, working family that comes home after a hard day and watches on his toes. When he connects, the shock of hitting the ball - an Antlquaia"18ooUeitft AIIoc:bfion of Amftco W.D. Cutlip tells stories to himself, then TV. The funny things those people do! You would often be 1-800-228-1398 imaginary ball, remember - rides viSibly up his arms until it writes them fOT Casco Bay Weekly. Portland's News/Talk Station 761-2150 1146-8785 overcome with laughter, had not the shows producers thought- rattles his spine. 538 Congress st. Raul. 1, w.ns 12 Ozsco &y Ykekly
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For more information, debate between the First the sponsoring organizations than just stand up and be • Musical masters, take of Slimer and the New Canada, Czechoslovakia, call 774-5246. District's two congressional at 7 p.m. Child care is counted. The Maine AIDS three: Cool, sweet, hot jazz in Ghostbusters. That'd be Estonia, France, Japan, the candidates, Donkey Tom available. For information or Alliance, AIDS Project, PWA Netherlands, the U.S.A., the • Who cares about the score: your town tonight! Get down l~tr:a:n:sce:n~d~e~n:t,___ -:~:-:~~-l Andrews and Elephant David to reserve child care, call Coalition and the Names to the Cafe No for some soul- _ Emery. (Note the tusks and U.S.S.R, West Germany and Project host Mike Quinn's readers have no doubt been pondering the satisfying jazz with Mar- Date' free ~\r the cloven hooves.) This Yugoslavia. For more al0K guerite (The Voice) c.heap· h a information, see the Silver Walkathon wisdom of his ''Monday II nOw In sUC spectacle can be witnessed at Jeunemann and guitar wizard Ro" your lowe~t ~essed labIal 8 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium, Screen Ii stings or call 772- in the Back Night Pigskin Blues" sports brief. a piece about our Gary Wittner. Marguerite way as to ford ~hyathe letter F. ":ow in the large intestine and 9600. B'deh, n' b'deh, n' Cove to tlfle nation's most widely wit • Musical masters, take one: and Gary perform two sets, op Iden forWard an bowels of the Visual Arts b'deh, n' that's all, folks! generate one at 9 p.m. and the other at st ur tongue to cant /10 followed by a Lawrence Golan, newly yo h ut a glorIoUS r III have saId a Center. This debate will be • Pater, Paul and merry: community nessed non-event. Few appointed concertmaster of 10:30 p.m. - either of which pUs 0 aile E and yoU w broadcast live on WCBB TV, Noel Paul Stooky, he of the support, writers have said so much the Portland Symphony could cure you or kill you, ,:~~~:riUI thIng: F~~~ee. In some MPBN TV and MPBN radio, American folk tradition increase about so little so well. "It's a Orchestra, makes his debut depending on your state of "Ir, they say; true' In most but you'll have the jump on called "Peter, Paul and AIDS gloriOUS feeling," wrote Mr. tonight as Toshiuki Shimada mind. Marguerite "scats like piaceSrt,t~~~~:S°that a~comkC:;~re alsO them all. Like many things in Mary," a man with great soul awareness Quinn, "to wake up ex o and the PSO perform Ella and ballads like Billy," conce tobaCCO sm and adynamic mustache, will and hausted on Tuesday and be ap dates, I ces one America, this event is free - Uch h 0 h able to recount the play-by Mozart's Violin Concerto No. says P auI ter, w c e d In such p a , for the appear this evening at the increase the oughta know. 20 Danforth perm1tte . ys a prIce even but you still need to get 3, Stravinsky's Le Sacre du necessarily pa , tickets. Isn't that just like the Root Cellar, 22 Cumberland level of play of a game that makes no difference to the Free World Printemps and Beethoven's St., Portland. 772-8114. merest breath. er true at Raoul s government? Get tickets in A ve., Portland, with the support 'ThIs Is no long It like the best or to the comer market." If Symphony No.7. 7:45 p.m. in advance by calling 725-3151. Bodyworks band. Tickets are received by RoadsIde "ttra::o~~n 'to attend the Portland City Hall Audito $14; the show is at 8 p.m. individuals with AIDS. The you have never known this cheap dates, y Blues Society's S Jennifer at 871-0618 or rium, 30 Myrtle St., Portland. S uthern MaIne d ,am on oct. Bring your hammer, bell and walk will begin at 1 p.m. at joy, make your way down to o hI MeetIng an t course), Kathryn at 879-0077. A free concert preview, song - and maybe a little the St. Pius Church, Ocean Moose Alley, 46 Market St., e • We have all eaten pizza. con ucted by Maestro ~o~~rl~uslY frhe fr~~~~bed free :! popcorn. (This concert is a Ave., with registration at Portland, tonight at about 8 wI" find tea moke by a n We have alrbeen washed in Shimada and Golan, will yOU taInt of tobaccO sfiltratl system. benefit for the Root Cellar 12:30 p.m. at the church. For p.m. Take in this spectacle the On cascading tomato sauce and precede the concert at 6:30 any dltlonlng and d free Ice Ministries on Munjoy HilL) more information, call 774- way it was meant to be taken melting cheese, have tasted p.m. in the auditorium, as • Musical masters: Midori alr-c~~ee aIr, free b~e~\~nsay please For more information, call 6877, ext. 78. in: amidst a roomful of ust remem the bittersweet iniquity of the raucous football fans, well as a reception to meet stands about 4' 4" and weighs water. l I • John Ruskin said that the 774-3197. extra-large with mushrooms, and thank yOU preferably with a pitcher of Shimada, Golan and mem about what a vegetarian best art was that which pepperoni and pineapple. It Mooschead in front of you bers of the orchestra follow cheeseburger weighs and, all suggests to its audience the is a heavy burden to have ($4.50) and a pile of Volcano ing the performance. All things considered, does not greatest number of the eaten such a sin. Peaks Island Wings at your elbow (15 ticket holders are welcome to appear to be a very scary greatest ideas. As all blue- resident C.W. Marshall has
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....ctw_ is a science fiction thriller set in The a..,.,... Buster Keaton plays an en the nol-loo.. distant future staring a host Catch All The Action gineer during the Civil War who is de 01 unknowns. You got it; no one here has at termined to retrieve a stolen locomotive. lhe vaguest notion what this one's about. Ic.-In"--Thewarondrugsmoves The Gold Ruah Charlie Chap~n eats his boot in his classic 1925 comedy. 10 outer space. A Houston cop and his HOME PLATE partner chase an intergalactic drug run Experiment.. Film Matthias o.m..n ner. Dolph Lundgren Is the primary at Muller of the Aile Kinder Film Group is Daily showilgGerrnan Experimental FimsOct traction of this one. 8 at 8 pm at Zootz. The films include Intemlltlonel Tournee of AnImation Playoff Carttittwd 1O-d4y CALENDAR from Mulle(s most recent film 'AIls der Feme The annual celebration 01 international Specials (The Memobook)'; "The Flamethrowers,' animation comes to Porttand for one a collaborative effort by filmmakers in week. Short animated features from ... e Germany and the U.S.; and "Stadt In U.S., Canada, France, Japan and some Ftammen,' a film by the Bonn group _ more exotic places will be featured. Sdlmelzdahin. L'Age D'Or Luis Bunuel and Salvador Slide on SILVER Ooodfell.. Martin Scorsese's gangsler Dalijoinedtalentsin this 1930 movie that RaUl".,. is a scary movie about a group film has been generally acclaimed for its offended some people's moral sensi~li into ties when it was first screened, and rnght of medcaI students who kill themselves realistic depiction of the mob and its Home and bring themselves back to study lire graphic violence. The killing and the Instigate another leller-writing ca~ign by Rev. Wildemon and his crew if they Plate beyond death. The movie isn't scary bone cracking are certainly graphic, but because ft dives into the unknown, but hardly gratuitous. As far as being realis had the cultural acumen to know it ex SCREEN isled. Bunuel's early classic loosely 101- because the unknown comes after tic, who knows? Most people's impres lows the frustration of a pair of young Portland ARegency people, threalening to bash in laces. In sion of the mob has been entirely fash Monday-Friday Sam-2pm • Saturday & Sunday Sam-lpm The Cook, The Thief, HI. WIfe, Her short, 'Aatliners' doesn't transcend the ioned by Hollywood anyway. The blatant lovers who are tom apart - quite literally Lover Peter Greenaway's unral9d flick usual thriller. Kiefer Sutherland plays the racism and sexism along with the Sl9reo - by society. Jain the TWILIGHT LEAGUE for Breakfast! HEALTH CLUB is about a sadistic thug Albert, who likes instigator of this bizarre experiment and typing of Italian Americans is distUrbing, Marked for Deeth Steven Seagal plays Thursday, Friday & Saturday NIghts [[pm-Sam to eat with his fingers, knock his wife the one who eventually suffers the most. but there seems to be rhyme to a retired drug enforcement offICer who 5 DANA STREET • THE OLD PORT • 761.9567 20 MILK ST. • OLD PORT 871-7054 around and demoralize his friends in Julia Robertsand Kevin Bacon look great Scorsese's reason. What is surprizing retums home to lind his old neighborhood public. Albert's not a pretty sight, but the and act wei enough, but can't save a and riveting about the movie is the hu destroyed by drugs. Wanttowagerabet movie Is. VISually, "The Cook ... ' is over poor slOry. mor and warmth that permeateastory of that he won't retum to work? whelming. Abert thinks he owns the Funny About Love Gene Wilder, Chris violence and betrayal. restaurant where most of the movie's tine Lahti, Mary Stuart Masterson star in action takes place. is immense. Enter n this movie about yuppies who want to ing through large doors from a back breed but can't. It's too bad these people . Il :.:: .... . alley, the action opens onto a kitchen the '@ " have never heard of adoption. If they size of a warehouse where enough food had, we might have been spared an ~ is laid out lor a medieval feast and a ';~' Robyn Hitchcock appearing Oct. 6 at Bowdoin College and ...... other lame movie. young dishwasher sings haunting mad Oct.. 12 at Raoul's. rigals. The lush red velvet dining room belongs in another, more prosperous VERSATILITY time. Each set has a different hue and as AT ITS characl9rs move Irom one room to an other their costumes change colors, too. Funny folk The center of the visual spectacle Is Nickelodeon BEST Helen Mirrem, who shines in a movie Temple and Middle, Portland. In the process of researching and writing an article about folk which otherwise borders on stilted gro music a few months back, I was often amazed at the relentless tesqueness. Mirrem plays Albert's wife. 772-9751 The movie cenlers around her aflairwith WHAT'S First matinee gravity with which the average folk purist pursued his or he~ Oct. 10 Tlx $12 BILL MONROE a restaurant patron and Albert's rage Friday and Saturday only Nerrow M.rgln Ann Archer witnesses- a avocation. Folk purists often sing comic tunes, but usually With the RESTAURANT & TAVERN Bluegrass King when he discovers the affair. The much gangland rrurder;Gene Hackman keeps precision, joy and predictability of an elevator operator. De.th W.rrant (R) her alive. Lots of action, great scenery ... Homemade Soups, Chowder, Desserts, Burgers, publicized grossness of the movie Is Sometimes the tendency of folk purists to take themselves too subtle, brltiant and overpowering. 1 :25, 3:55, 7:25, 9:50 most of the movie was filmed on a train Sandwiches and Much More! ---- Oct. 12 ROBYN HITCHCOCK Tlx $s· __ _ traveling through British Columbia. seriously lends itself to what I woul~, call high humor. Fo~ .instance, Nu Folk Master Av"on Director Barry Levinson retums to (through Oct. 4) Baltimore, where he filmed 'Diner' and WHERE .-.cInc Heights Matthew Modine and I playa version of a folk tune called St. Jamt;s ~nfirmary' ~n the OUTSIDE DECK Flatlln.r (R) . "Tin Men: alter making the geographi Melanie Griffith playa young couple who key of E, because it suits my voice - such as It IS. I played It that 1 :05, 3 :55, 7:05, 9:40 buy an old house and, alter lots of hard The October Sun is still warm __ .. _--- UPCOMING cally diverse 'Good Morning , Vietnam' way at a song swap and was told by the man sitting next to me that • and 'Rain Man.' Levinson's latest movie (through Oct. 4) work, rent an apartment in their nowly "St. James Infirmary" is generally played in the key of B- -- and our Deck is is still Open! ·1 O/S'''Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters ($7) is an aulObiographical acoount of three The Movies 7:05. 9:30 (from Oct. 5) renovated home to a psychopath (Michael Keaton). The ptot synopsis and After the song swap, another person called ~e ?ver to look at a 10/6 & 10/7 .,. Mr. Thing ($4) generations of an immigrant Jewish 10 Exchange Street, Portland I Come In family living in Baltimore. Pe.c. the cast might lead you to believe this is book of sheet music opened to the page on which 'St. J~es --- 10/14,. New Unplugged Accoustic Musjc (FREE!. 772-9600 1 :25,3:55, 7:20, 9:20 going to be funny. Don't be fooled. The Infirmary" was printed. He carefully directed my atte~,tlon to the Th. XX1llnt.rNltIon.1 coming attractions indicate that this fTlOV18 • (through Oct. 4) key signature in the upper left hand comer: "Key of.B. . Thank you Serving lunch and Dinner Every Darn Dayl :. Tournee of Animation takes itself seriously (Modine in o_alls 9:35 only (from Oct 5) and all). very much, I said. I shall certainly endeavor to play It In that key . Oct 3-9 Th. F ....hm.n (R) So much for the oral tradition. Wed-Sat 7, 9:15 1:25 , 3:55, 7:25, 9:35 In the process of extracting a definition of "folk," I was fre Sat-Sun Mat 1, 3 (form Oct 5) quently told by the deadly serious folk purist that "it's the music of Th. Cook, Th. Thl.f, His Desperat. Hou ... (R) the people, the common song of the common people." Whereupon Wlf., & Her Lover 1:10, 3:45, 7:20, 9:30 I would ask this person where he or she went to school, and almost On the Waterfront Oct 10-14 (from Oct 5) invariably received the reply "Princeton" or Harvard." . Wed-Sat 7,9:15 Narrow M.rgln (R) When I finally received the reply "USM," I was greatly relieved. In the Old Port 1 :05, 3:35, 7:10, 9:35 Like many of the more common "common" people, I ,too, could 84 Commercial St. Specl.1 ..rles: An Postcards fonn only afford a land-grant university. Portland, Maine Ticket Info, 773,6886' Entertainment Hotline 775-2494 Introduction to Film the Edge (R) Robyn Hitchcock, formerly the leader of Robyn and the Egyp The Movies 1:10,3:45, 7:20, 9:40 tians, will be appearing on Oct_ ~ in Bowdoin College:s Kresge 774-3550 Dar","en is a fantasy about a disfigured Pump Up the Volume (R) Auditorium (tickets: $12), and at Raoul's on Oct. 12 (tickets: $8). 10 Exchange St, Portland Robyn Hitchcock is not a folk purist and does not have a degree. scientist who uses synthetic skin to 1 :15,3:40, 7:15,9:45 trarlSform his race into that of his enemies. 772-9600 Moreover, Robyn Hitchcock is funny. His lyrics are often absurd, Unfortunately the disguise doesn't last Witches (PG) Th. Gold Rush stream-<>f-consciousness, non sequitur slices of peculiar life. forever, exposing his true and hideous 1:20,3:50 Postcards from the Edge Mike Nichols' visage. Oct 6-7 at 3 pm ("The Graduate' and "Silkwood') directs Sometimes he plays a (gasp!) electric guitar with a delivery t~at is SUND~ Death WerrMt Muscl&-bound detective Th. General Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine in a both energetic and inspired. He's here to have fun. Could thiS be comedy about the relationship between (Jean-Claude Van Damme) gets a look Oct 6-7 at 4:30 pm General Cinemas folk? at prison rrom the other side of the bars. a celebrity mom and her drug-addicted Maine Mall Yes, indeed. Despite these obvious defects, ~byn Hitchcock i~ a BLOODY Desperate Hours Mickey Rourke is cast daughter, based on the novel by Carrie Fisher. It's a movie about nothing, al good folk artist, and, in a sense, a pure folk artist. If you doubt thiS, as an escaped convict who terrorizes a Portland Museum Maine Mall Road though lots or people seem to think iI's suburban ramily. Funny, we can't quite 774-1022 go to one of his shows and see for yourself. about drug addiction and recovery, ram NFL picture him in the role. of Art Dartc:man (R) ily strife and reconciliation . Streep can 't W.D. Cutlip DIe Herd II Bruce Willis returns with more Congress Square 1,3:15, 5:20, 7:30,9:45 save it although she does the best she stunt men. I couldn 't help remembering 775-6148 (through Oct. 4) can with the lack 01 material. MacLaine SUNDAY what movies used to be like throughout does an admirable job as Debbie this one. That's how bad ~ is. An intriguing Stonn Ov.r Asia H.rdware (R) Reynolds (not Doris Day. I stand cor Every Sunday watch Friday & Saturday espionage plot orchestrated by right Oct4at7pm 1,3:05, 5:10,7:15, 9:20 rected; I can't seem to keep all these NFL FOOTBALL wing fanatics is complelely ignored for Hollywood moms straight), but a song Presumed Innocent Harrison Ford is the Oct. 5&6 the sake of gun fights, explosions and L'Ag. D'Or (through Oct. 4) WitdMe Based on a story by Roald Dahl, does not make a movie anymore. The attraction in the screen adaptation of the on our wide screen lV! Willis' taiture to deUver onlHiners. Oct11at7pm M.rtc:ed For D ••th (R) "Witches' is a contemporary fairy tale moviedoesn'teven reach the saccharine best-selting novel by Scott Turow. Ford about witches who tum children into Fentale wan Disney'sanimaledmaster 1,3:05,5:10,7:15, 9:20 :> Ievet of most of Holywoocfs blather about plays a prosecuting attomey assigned to mice. The story has a perverse appeal. BLOODY MARYS piece, digitally remasterd lor benersound (from Oct. 5) mothers and daughters. investigate the murder 01 a colleague he The sultry and cold Angelica Huston Is only and enhanced color. One of the finest Bowdoin College was having an affair with. This court cast in the role of a witch. Nicolas Roeg examples of animated film to have e_ F.ntast. (G) Brunswick room drama is a welcome relief from promises to uncover childhood fears in been produced. Highly reconmended. 1 :15, 4, 7, 9:30 (from Oct 5) summer fluff, and not knowing whodunh 725-3151 the same unrelenting way he looked at $1.99 Pacific Heights (R) added 10 ... e movie's Intrigue. In hind loneliness, doubt and other grown-up My Beautiful Laundrett. sight, I suspect that several clues were 1,3:15,5:30, 7:45,10 fears in movies like 'Insignificance,' Oct 8 at 7 pm butchered from the novel, because the Steamed Hot Dogs 50¢ GoodFell_s (R) 'Pertormance' and "Track 29." Playing Th. Name of the Rose movie's clues seenned a bit off. The against these expectations, unfortu Also- Monday Night FDDtball at Salutes 1.4, 7, 10 movie also stars Grella Scacchi, Bonnie Oct 8, 7 pm nately, is the aaator 01 those adorable Miller Ute just $1,50 ..,. ,.. .-.. ,.: Funny About Love (PG) Bedelia, Brian Dennehy and Raul Julia. muppets, Jim Henson. If "The Witches' Smith Auditorium, Sills H.II Pump Up The Volume tackles too much: ... 1:45, 4:15, 7:15,9:30 were just about the witches it would be Don't Forget Happy Hour Shoah (Part 2) highschool, love, rnJSicoensorshlp, FCC better. Roeg takes a perverse pleasure 'ot Ghost (PG) Weeknights 5 to 7pm :,' Oct 10 at 7:30 pm regulations and rebellion. The tenuous In walching the witchas torment chil . ' 1 :30, 4:15, 7, 9:50 plot and bland direction of this movie dren. Huston plays the ro!eolthe Grand Free Buffet & Drink Specials -;.' Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall about a teenager who broadcasts Irom 0.-:.... _ ·· Presumed Innocent (R) Wftch superbly. She's ruthless and hid ' .. an underground radio station in his sub 1 :30, 4:15, °7, 9:45 eous, the ultimate tormentor. The special urban home take away from what really effects that show her wearing her true , " ZOOTZ ONate : Oct 6 sneak preview of works: Christian Slater's performance colors are marwlous. !:, • , •• German Experimental Film Memphis Belle and the way he interacts with the fabu ~ 't ) ...:.' J.~. '.;;.:':::, lous soundtrack.Slater plays the shy, "Aus Der Feme," "The preempts 7 o'clock screening frighlened and confused teenager as FI.methrow.... " of Presumed Innocent. W4!It as he plays the loquacious Harry S\LUTffi and "Stadt In Flamm.n" Hard-On. Listening 10 Harry describe II" IS .,•• Oct 8 at 8 pm what ails the world and watching him AT THE PORTLAND REGENCY thrash around to banned songs is a Zootz, 31 Forest Ave, Portland movie in itsell. Omtill""d 011 pragt18 Comer of Milk & Market Streets • No Cover Cl.arge • Appropriate Dress Only "NIght8hetle," Pl1l9llnted by USM's !h& ater dept. is a feminist drama exploring OPENING SOON •.. \he subjugation 01 women by tnldtional Community REALLY!!! MONDAY 10.8 FRIDAY 10.5 IIIligions. Written by USM alurma Kate LarIee.7:30pm.OctI2. 13. 18.20;5pm Cable Network Oct 14, 21 . $7 public, $5 faadty/staff, $4 So.Me.B.•• MeetIng and BI.,.. Jam wllk IIf 10/4/10 Portland Multl-Cunwal Celebration: students. USM's Lab Theatre. Russen (Irue blues) Raoul's, 865 Forest Ave, Crupo FortIIleu (Andean folk), Chi Hall. Gomam. 760-5463. CIUln Portland: Portland. 77:Hi886. Potter (Vietnamese dance), AI Gardner "Unhand Me, SIrI" Embassy Players Guests: Police Chief Chitwood and MondII)I' Nlllht Footbell (entertainment) and his Armenian Ensemble (Annenian prMents the IllYival 01 Hank Beebe's Fire Chief Winslow discuss gun MOOge Alley, 46 Mari<.et 51, Portland. folk) and Ric Palieri (Polish folk), begin rnJSicaI melodrama al the Schoolhouse control &other issues (1 hour) 774-5246. ning at 8 pm. Portland Performing Arts Arts Canter at Sebago Lake. In this lively Canter, 25A Forest Ave, Portland. Tick Pineland Center Today; Chertle end Dew (comic rock) Old Port rnJSicaI, Beebe uses all the essential Tavern, 11 Mouhon St. Portland. 774- ets: $12. 774~65 . Pineland 's 80th Celebration (1/2 elements of tradllional melodrama - the hour) 0444. Ronnie EerI end the Broedc_t.... Imptacable viDain. \he worthy heroine, (blues) 9 pm, Raoul·s. 865 Forest Ave, and the good-hearled hero - and places USM Closeups: Portland. 773-8668. them in a com~ry setting. Show Craig Dietrich; Convocation Scholar CLUBS opens Oct 4 and plays Thu, Fri & Sal (112 hour) eves at 8 pm and Suns at 2 pm through TUESDAY 10.9 Gourmet Cookina Mlde Healthy: Oct 1. Mvarca tid
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