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39nusttm dßailg SATURDAY, • SEPTEMBER 2, 2006 Local theatre.., Warner Robins Little Theatre opens Exorcism on Eletson Friday at 8 p.m. with seven evening performances. In addition to the shows on Friday and Saturday, there will be performances on Sept. 14-16, Sept. 21-23, and two Sunday matinees (Sept. 10 and 17) at 2:30 p.m. This play was written by local playwright Peggy Vesely and is directed by vet eran Warner Robins direc tor, Jerry Reppert. For reservations, call 929- 4579, beginning Monday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are sl2 for adults, $8 for seniors (Sundays only), and $8 for students. Auditions for Romantic Comedy are Sept. 11 and 12 at 7:30 at the theatre on Pleasant Run Drive. Emily Carver will be making her directing debut, and she needs four women and two men to fill the roles, so ya’ll come, ya hear. Perry Players opens On Golden Pond Sept. 8. Performances are at 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday with further performances Sept. 13-16. The one matinee perfor- mance is Sept. 10 at 2:30 p.m. Todd Wilson, an acclaimed local actor, the announc er for the Macon Knights □ Jane Winston The Left Rail and an accomplished direc tor, is at the helm of On Golden Pond. Movie and book I recently went to see the movie The Night Listener, reminiscent of a Hitchcochian thriller. The movie was good but a bit difficult for me to follow. The draw for me was Robin Williams as I am a Williams fan. He was good in the role of Gabriele Noone - the late night radio storyteller who has risen to national fame in San Francisco - but, to me, he was in some ways merely an extension of Sean Maguire from Good Will Hunting. The movie is a psycho logical thriller based on the internationally best selling novel by Armistead Maupin, and I have now added the novel to my virtual stack of books to read. Perry High School golf tournament Perry High School is host ing a two-person scramble golf tournament to benefit the Perry High School var sity girls’ basketball team at Waterford golf course on Highway 96 Sept. 23. The SSO per person tournament includes lunch at noon, range balls, 18-holes of golf and two mulligans. For further information contact Coach Bradley at 900-6298. Totally Tubular The first telethon was a cancer fund in 1949. The first toy ad was Mr. Potato Head in 1946. The first network soap opera was in 1946. The first wrestling was seen on TV in 1945. The first color ad was Jello pudding and pie filling in 1951. The first show in reruns was “The Lone Ranger” in 1953. Until next week “Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don’t count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it” - Edwin C. Bliss facLie Cooper lo sign IdooLs at P erry Li or ary Wednesday Afternoon Book Club will host events and serve refreshments By CHARLOTTE PERKINS Journal Lifestyle Editor There’s good news for Jackie Cooper fans. The Perry author’s newest book, “The Bookbinder” is hot off the press and readers will have a chance to meet the author, buy a book and have it auto graphed on Sept. 9 at the Perry Library. The event, hosted by the Wednesday Afternoon Book Club, will be from 2 to 4. “We would like to invite everyone to support our own Houston County author,” said Dawne Watson of the Book Club. Refreshments will be served. Cooper, is well-known in this area as an enter tainment writer and radio personality. His three ear lier memoirs, “Journey of a Gentle Southern Man,” “Chances and Choices,” and “Halfway Home, “ 2)ot Pouykton; Perry leyerJ, leader cmd frieJ K& ;j r 1 i I fflp I I Dot Roughton One person’s Monet, is another person’s Manet I have come to the con clusion that you can tell a lot about a person by how they paint a room. My husband and I have been hard at work on the project of fixing up a school room for our new home schooling venture with our sons. Part of that project included painting some dark wood-paneled walls. The fun began with the primer. Oh, the joy of it all. Is there anything more dif ficult and frustrating to do than apply a coat of primer to paneling? I wonder. Our 6-year-old son begged to help paint his “school house” so we put him to work on a small section hidden away under a shelf and we tackled the rest of the room. Or I should say I tackled the tedious trim and my husband tackled Lifestyle Sr s' COOPER have been a hit with read ers as well being critically acclaimed by other writers. “The Bookbinder: More Stories from the Road,” is published by Mercer University Press, and is a collection of memories of both small town life and journeys to big cities for preview showings and cast the rolling. My son tackled his job with gusto, and made some won der f u 1 designsof dripped primer on the floor and shelves as he painted away. The floor would □ Sherri Martin The Front Porch eventually be covered with carpet; the spotted shelves will remain a reminder of his hard work. I also attacked my job with gusto, and soon found myself leaving matching drippings to my son’s. I cringed, for I knew my hus band would roll his eyes at the mess. interviews. Cooper’s radio show is aired on Georgia Public Broadcasting radio stations at 6:35 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., and can be heard online at www.gpb.org/public/radio/. St. John Flynn of GPB has said of the new book, “There is a wise man in Georgia by the name of Jackie K Cooper. His wis dom stems from his fervent humanity which is embla zoned across every page of ‘The Bookbinder.’ Set forth in these pages are the simple things that make us human and bind us together as we weep or as we laugh, as we regret or as we rejoice. Jackie K Cooper is indeed the book binder, and he has learned his trade well.” Bestselling author Jeffrey Deaver has also praised Cooper’s new book as “a truly moving look at life in the South," and compared Cooper’s writing with that of Walker Percy and Shelby Foote. By Billy Powell Journal Contributing Writer I am proud to call Dot Roughton my friend. HJ is importance to this commu nity is difficult to quantify in words, but Mayor Jim Worrall came dose when he said: “It is difficult to think of Perry without Dot Roughton.” The Lord called Dot home Aug. 24, at the age of 86. I could speak long about Dot’s big heart and his generosity. Dot would give you the shirt off his back. I could go on and on about what he has meant to people like me and others whom he took under his wing when we were youngsters grow ing up in Perry. I could tell you about his being a caring city councilman who always put the citizens first. But what can I tell you about Dot that you don’t already know? I will start last February when the old Perry school was named after Coach Eric Staples. Dot wanted so badly to sit on the stage with the other Perry bas ketball greats, but was too ill. The first thing I told Sen. Sam Nunn when he sat down beside me was that Dot was ill and unable to attend. I instinctively knew the senator would be taking inventory of the players being honored and would wonder why Dot wasn’t among them. You see Dot was the senator’s hero, too. Dot was a great basketball player and start ing guard on one of the greatest quintets in Perry basketball history - the highly acclaimed 1940 team. Many of Dot’s teammates had gone on before him. They were awaiting his arrival at the old gym. Why the old gym? You see, the old gym burned down in 1969 and now resides at 101 Pearly Gates Boulevard. As Dot stepped inside the portals of heaven to I admit, I let him think more of them were courtesy of the 6-year-old, than of the 35-year-old. Hey, what good are children if you can’t blame some of the mess on them? Before long, I had paint all over my hands, on my T-shirt, on my shorts, in between my toes and on my heel. My son had paint on his shirt, his shorts, his hands and his legs. My husband had paint on the walls. After a while, my son’s and my attention spans had about had it. He left to go play with his little brother and Ma and I begged my husband to swap and let me do the rolling. Happily, I painted away, humming and rolling, rolling and humming. Then I heard my hus- The Bookbinder -J “ r Submitted Jackie Cooper, Perry author, will sign copies of his new est book, “The Bookbinder.” begin his first 10,000 years with the Lord, he was met at center court by teammates HdSclaw; Bill Himjfc^ph^or^nd mentor, Eric Staples. The big fight on the county line in 1937 has always stirred everyone’s imagi- Fort Valley girl. As a result, Webb and the other suitor had a fight on the streets of Fort Valley. Webb soundly whipped the Fort Valley boy. That made the Fort Valley folks as mad as wet hens. They sought revenge, so a few days later a Fort Valley gang assembled near Bay Creek and issued a challenge for a showdown. Dot was minding his business, watching a movie in the old Roxy Theater, when the Perry boys came to get him. When the Perry group arrived at Bay Creek, so many boys were assembled that both sides feared someone would be seriously hurt. The decision was made to select a fighter from each town. The Peny crowd selected Dot. The Fort Valley contingent sent an emissary to town and brought back the state golden gloves champion, Rudolph Cannon, to represent them. It was mutu ally decided that a boxing match would be held; not a nasty brawl, but one embrac ing all the rules. A referee was chosen who happened to be the Fort Valley police chiefs son. The two boys fought for 32 minutes with neither boy giving any quarter. Rudolph Cannon sustained a deep cut and was bleeding so profusely See ROUGHTON, page 4B band’s sigh of exasperation. I glanced up in time to see him looking at the walls I had rolled, then comparing them to the walls he had rolled. “I thought this was what you majored in in col lege,” he joked, referring to the nickname for the early childhood education degree I earned at Georgia. “Hey, that was Cut and Paste, not Roll and Paint,” I protested. We finally had to quit for the evening, as the paint fumes had us both feel ing lightheaded and dizzy, and slightly nauseous. No chance of either of us becoming drug addicts, I thought. Also no chance of either of us painting again with out being sure we have ade quate ventilation. The next day we finished SECTION B up and made quick work of the lovely shade of blue we painted over the primer. Paint is so much more coop erative than primer. Throughout the project, my husband never got a drop of paint anywhere on him. I still have primer in my cuticles. As I said, I think you can tell a lot about a person by how they paint a room. I learned I don’t like the tediousness of it, while my husband does well with the methodical approach. And I learned I am very, very good at making a royal mess. Beyond that, I’m not sure what else I learned. Except that its handy to have a 6-year-old and some heavy paint fumes around on which to blame the mess.