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Concert will help save e.a.r.t.h.
By COLEEN BROOKS
Entertainment Writer
Grab a swimsuit and a blanket
and head to Hartwell, Ga. for the
Aqua-Rock-A-Rama, a day-long
marathon of music and fun to ben
efit the e.a.r.t.h. fund.
Thirteen bands, including local
artists Greenhouse, Debt of Na
ture, Liquor Cabinet, Sump, Tat
tooed Dogs and headliners The
Jody Grind, will be donating their
time to put on a show for a good
cause.
Educated americans reforesting
their homelands (e.a.r.t.h.) is an
organization founded by Ken
Norman in 1988. Norman said he
started e.a.r.t.h. to chaperone refo
restation efforts in North, Central
and Sout America.
'The deforestation of the Amer
icas is unbelievable. Huge amounts
of land in the Amazon rain forests
are being destroyed in South
America. Our organization is
working to assure the safety and
success of campaigns to fight this
destruction," Norman said.
Norman said that the e.a.r.t.h.
fund specifically targets the issue
of deforestation.
“We’re very proud of our narrow
focus. By concentrating our efforts,
we hope to make a real difference.
We don’t want to duplicate the
message and focus of any other
groups," Norman said.
Norman said the e.a.r.t.h. fund
relies heavily on fundraisers and
donations. He said he hopes the
A(^ua Rock-A-Raina benefit will
raise enough money to replenish
the group’s operating budget for
the next calendar year.
Put on your summer gear and
trek on down to Hartwell State
Park for an all-day musical extrav
aganza that will help the fate of the
planet. The Aqua-Rock-A-Rama is
set to start at noon Saturday and
the music will continue until late
into the night. Admission is $10
and tickets and maps are available
at Wuxtry and Downtown Records.
Music news around Athens
Professor receives Ful*
bright
Edward Sandor, associate pro
fessor of music at the University,
has been named the 1990-91 Dis
tinguished Visiting Artist by the
Fulbright Fellowship Program of
the Council for International Ex
change of Scholars.
Sandor, will leave for a two
month stint in Taiwan in No
vember. The second of his Ful
bright fellowships, this trip will
be a shorter version of one he re
ceived in 1985 for a year-long tea
ching position also in Taiwan.
Sandor will perform trumpet
concertos with the Taipei City
Symphony Orchestra and lecture
and play as guest soloe with or
chestras in Taichung, Tainan
and Kaoschiung.
The Fulbright Fellowship Pro
gram advertises what is avail
able in certain areas around the
world. Artists submit applica
tions and documentation of their
work. This Fulbright was the
only one of its type offered in the
world.
Rockers are RADD
RADD is the anacronym for Re
cording Artists against Drunk
Driving, a campaign supported
by well-known artists such as
Phil Collins, Ringo Starr, Elton
John, Linda Ronstadt and The
Kinks. The campaign’s purpose is
to reach people through music
and tell them how uncool drunk
driving is.
Mary’s Danish, whose song
“Don’t Crash the Car Tonight”
was in the top five alternative
hits last year, have made a Public
Service Announcement video
that shows the horrible results of
drunk driving with actual footage
of accidents. The popular college
band appears in the spot, which
will appear on MTV and other
networks.
NewSouth Calling
The NewSouth Music Showcase
will take place October 3-7 in At
lanta. The five day event features
bands from the Southeast per
forming around Atlanta. Music
industry experts will form a
panel daily at The Colony Square
Hotel.
Mary’s Danish have
made a Public Service
Announcement video
that shows the
horrible results of
drunk driving
NewSouth was formed to ex
pose new talent and boost the
new music of Atlanta. The music
presented ranges from rock, al
ternative and pop to rhythm and
blues and folk.
Entries are being accepted and
must include the following non-
returnable materials: three orig
inal songs on cassette, a band
photo and bio with performance
dates and locations. Mail to:
NewSouth Music Showcase, P.O.
Box 17624, Atlanta, Ga., 30316.
All entries must be received Au
gust 31,1990.
—Margaret Weston
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CNN to debut its newsreels
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — The old meets the
new Friday when Cable News Net
work debuts its movie theater
newsreels. But some film experts
doubt the cinema CNN will be a hit
among audiences who already have
expressed disdain for advertising
on the silver screen.
CNN is hoping that reviving the
newsreel, a relic from cinema’s pre
television golden age, will help pro
mote the round-the-clock cable TV
network that is available to 54.4
million subscribers.
The two-minute film segments,
called “CNN Reel News,” make
their debut in a New York theater
chain Friday night. If successful
during a 90-day trial period, CNN
officials say they will expand the
program nationwide.
'This is a way to inform and to,
most importantly, entertain. And
it’s another way of getting CNN’s
image out,” said Rick Salcedo, vice
president of news promotion at
Turner Broadcasting System Inc.,
of which CNN is a part.
Ironically, it was television that
spelled the doom of movie theater
newsreels. The most famous of
them, Fox-Movietone News, ended
production in 1963, when TV’s
comprehensive news coverage had
made the novelty of seeing faraway
events on the big screen obsolete.
‘Television was probably the
mtyor factor” in the demise of
newsreels, said Glenn Smith, who
maintains the Fox-Movietone ar
chives at the University of South
Carolina.
Smith said he is skeptical about
whether today’s audiences want or
need to see news stories at the
movies.
“My personal opinion is. you
better have a very novel approach
to it," he said.
CNN’s newsreels, which will be
shown before feature films and ro
tated biweekly, will tend to the
lighter side of the news. Salcedo
said he figures audiences have
plenty of opportunity to see the big
stories before they get to the the
ater.
“It’s got to be something that
doesn’t have such a short shelf
life," Salcedo said. “It’s more of the
lighter stuff, more of the enter
taining, informative type of infor
mation as opposed to the hard
news.”
The newsreels include items
plucked from CNN’s regular pro
gramming as well as stories that
never made it to TV. A sample
newsreel shown to a reporter in
cluded 30-second segments on el
ephant seals, frozen smoke
experiments, an electronic movie
ticket seller and oatmeal wrestling
The opening and closing credits
include vintage black and white
images, similar to Movietone,
which turn into a color picture of a
space shuttle. Those segments,
which were still in production
Thursday, will prominently fea
ture the CNN logo, according to
Salcedo.
It borders on advertising, and
that could mean trouble. Because
moviegoers have said they don’t
like commercials, Walt Disney Stu
dios and Warner Bros, have
banned on-screen ads at theaters
showing their films.
Salcedo said the newsreels
would not be shown before Disney
films, but he was unsure about
Warner Bros.
CNN’s news'C^is.
which will be shown
before feature films and
rotated biweekly, will
tend to the lighter side
of the news.
Jack Boozer, an assistant pro
fessor of communications at
Georgia State University who spe
cializes in movies, said it’s difficult
to predict how audiences will react
to the CNN newsreels.
“I don’t think it will be resented
as much as the advertising, which
is just blatant,” Boozer said. “I
don’t think it’s a viable idea unless
it is large picture type of stories.
Straight news, talking heads won't
work.”
TBS has sunk about $100,000
into producing “Reel News” but is
not paying the 11 theater City Cin
emas chain in New York to show it
during the trial period, Salcedo
said.
He added that TBS will seek a
corporate sponsor before going na
tional with the project.
Though Turner owns a six-
screen movie theater in Atlanta,
Salcedo said it was thought that a
more objective appraisal of the
newsreels could be obtained in
New York
“You get a much more critical
audience up there,” he said. “If
they start throwing things at the
screen, it might tell us something."
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