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They suffer from a social disease more revolting than ring-around-the-collar, more terrible than static cling, more horrible than dishwasher spots on glasses — soap-opera stigma. = A preliminary study by two communications! professors shows most soap-opera lovers make excuses for watching daytime drama. Some even deny it, just to! escape questions from disapproving family and friends. “Television viewing is a stigma . . . and soap operas are probably the most stigmatized type of television watching today,” said Alison Alexander, an associate: professor of communications at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. “Game shows are the only genre that are viewed lower than soap operas,” she said in a telephone’ interview. More than 30 millionin the United States alone are estimated to tune in daily to the tales of human foibles, miraculous returns from the grave and amazing recoveries from paralysis, amnesia and rare tropic diseases. Alexander began her study about seven months ago with Virginia Fry, a communications professor at Babson ‘College in Wellesley, Mass. In a random telephone poll of more than 100 women and men in Massachusetts, the researchers spoke to 70 people who said they watch soap operas. Ninety per cent ‘of them recounted instances when they were teased or questioned about watching the soaps, Alexander said. The study “says something about the image that people would like to portray,” Alexander said. 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Open 7 Days a Week FOR CHRISTMAS PARTIES & BANQUETS TEA TIME . Students of Selkirk Public to their C exhibit entitled “The Photo Mood” in the Bonnington Basement Gallery at the Castlegor Campus. The displayed work is the culmination of the past three months etfort for the 20 students enrolled in the photography option of the graphic communications pro gram. Under the guidance of Jeremy Addington, the students have assembled a “titillating variety of * according to exhibit is open Dec. $0, 11 and 12. Proto by Lynde Guymer COUNTRY MUSIC McEntire top performer NASHVILLE, TENN (AP) — Reba McEntire, who gave.up rodeo work to sing. can Hardly believe she's been voted the top entertainer in country music “In my mind, I still haven't achieved the award,” she said. “Until I'm selling a cer tain amount of tickets and records, “I'm still aiming at it. Sellouts are nice. Platinum records (one million sellers) are nice.” Nevertheless, it's been a year of celebration for Miss McEntire, who in 1986 was the most highly honored sin ger in country music. The 31-year-old performer won the Country Music Associa tion's entertainer of the year award in October on a nat ionally televised show awards She won an accolade that superstars such as Kenny Rogers and the Oak Ridge Boys never won. She also was voted country music's female vocalist of the year for the third straight time, a feat equalled only by Tammy Wynette about 20 years ago McEntire became a regular performer on the Grand Ole Opry, the 61-year old pro gram that has showcased all the country greats REACHES GOLD Soon, two of her albums will be certified gold for selling 500,000 copies: Who ever's in New England and her most recent, What Am I Gonna Do About You All that isn't enough for this third-generation rodeo performer who quit barrel racing seven years ago after a decade on the rodeo cir cuit. She initially wanted to be an elementary education teacher, but was sidetracked by the rodeo and music I want to make it a year in country music history that stands out. I'm working to improve my show and my records,” she said [SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSS SSS SSS Baga nw curistmal BINGO NIGHTS Monday, Dec. 8 Tuesday, Dec. 9 Wednesday, Dec. 10 With *200 on Tree Thursday, Dec. 11 Friday, Dec. 12 GUARANTEED *1000 LOCAL 480 XMAS BINGO Sat. Dec. 13 +200 on tree +100 LOCAL 480 GUARANTEED Friday, Dec. 12 Early Bird 6:30. Regular 7:00 p.m. Christmas Bingo For Free Bus Transportation CALL 365-6086 For Reservations and Information Call 364-0933 Champion Be Upstairs in Trail’s Towne Square I met with my producer yesterday, looking for better song, a better blend. I'm trying to be myself so the people can say, ‘That's more like you than the last one.’ ” For the first time in her career, McEntire has hired a lighting expert and a stage consultant to improve her concerts. She'll videotape her show, then review it “We'll take out what's not good and add what's better,” she said, though she doesn’t want to be too slick Perfection is not enter tainment. I like goofups. The blooper shows are my fav orite shows on TV.” The bullet-shaped trophy she won as top entertainer sits in her office in String. town, Okla., where she lives with husband Charlie Bat tles, a former world cham. pion steer wrestler HEADS TO BARN When she goes home, she puts on her boots and heads to the barn. There she sad dles up Leggs, a quarter horse she bought from her husband. “He asked $3,000, but we bartered and bar gained. He said he got cheat ed.” McEnu. four children w.. Chockie, Okla the third of crew up in while mixing ranching, rodeoing and sing- ing. In 1976, she married Bat, tles, and instead of going on a honeymoon they spent the next day visiting dise joc keys promoting her first single, I Don't Want to Be a One-Night Stand. They travelled so much that they lived in a camper pickup truck for the first three months of their mar riage Her compelling country voice has been heard on hits such as Whoever's in New England, There Ain't No Future in This, How Blue, Little Rock, Somebody Should Leave and the cur rent What Am I Gonna Do Alout You? Her current album is mostly songs about heart. break. The Whoever's in New England album also used sad themes. “My songs are usually about true, everyday life.” They are aimed at women because they buy her records and go to her shows. In selecting songs to re cord. she uses her instincts. “I know it when I hear it; it's like a dress: You know you like it when you put it on.” Fourth wise man in SHSS play The drama and music de partments at Stanley Hum phries secondary school are busy putting the finishing touches on the Christmas production of The Other Wise Man This is the story of Arta ban, the fourth wise man, who travelled the earth, helping others, and seeking the Holy Child of Christmas. The play, based on legend and the story by Henry van MAPLE LEAF TRAVEL AUSTRALIA ARS a 5317 5158 BRISBANE 2 dove SyOnEy APPOINTIANTS APPRECIATED Dyke, was written by Jeff Kenyon, music teacher at Len Wood School in Arm strong. The production features more than 130 students through band, choir, drama and dance. It also features something new to Stanley Humphries secondary school this year a staff choir which performs with the stu dents. Director/producer Maur een Fisher-Fleming and musical director Loreen Cul ley have been working with their students since October The production will be staged Dec. 15 and 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the SHSS activity room. Donations of canned goods and non-perishable food items will be accepted at the door for the Hamper fund Legion ROSE'S RESTAURANT HOME COOKED MEALS RUSSIAN SPECIALITIES Coll 359-7855 200 Hon en the Mec en veney Hey ot tee Junction of My DABS By BOB THOMAS Ai Press LOS ANGELES - Followers of the standup comedian were surprised when she became a movie star in the dramatic “The Color Purple.” Woopi Goldberg is surprised she became known for comedy. “I planned to be known as Whoopi Goldberg, character actor,” she said. “I never thought there was anything in me to do comedy. I started out as a straight actress. People kept telling me, ‘You're a standup!’ I kept looking around and saying (whisper), ‘I'm not really. 'm not, I'm not.” “People are always surprised, and I have to remind them that I had always planned to be a dramatic actress. This other stuff is just a fluke.” It was Goldberg's one-woman show, performed in the Amblin film headquarters ‘before Steven Spielberg and his staff, that won her the role of the Samntrodiden Celie in “The Color Purple.” She has returned to comedy in the news 20th Century Fox release, “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.” She plays a bank computer operator who keys in to a British intelli- gence agent trying to escape from Eastern Europe. Her life is thrown into danger. “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” had a stormy history. Four Goldberg prefers drama writers are credited for the script. Howard Zieff began as director, then was réplaced by Penny Marshall. “What happened?” Goldberg said. “I don't know what happened. I had nothing to do with it, though they made it seem that I did. The producer just called me one day and said, ‘We're changing directors.’ 1 don't know what happened. I just know it was awful. I don't think they should do such things.” She added that “Jum; Jack Flash” was originally planned for Shelley Long. Some rewriting was done and after 17 writers, they had a script — “but not much of it ended up on the screen.” SEEMS SERENE Goldberg was interviewed on the set of “Burglar,” a Warner Bros. comedy that had also been written for another actress. Despite the rigors of publicizing one movie while making another,’“she seemed serene. The reason, she reported happily, was her Labor Day wedding in Las Vegas to Dutch filmmaker David Claessen. “We set off our own atom bomb,” she said glowingly, “and we've been enjoying the mushroom cloud ever since.” She had known Claessen only a few days, she admitted, “but I've learned that a lot of marriages have been like that; Joan Rivers married Edgar (Rosenberg) four on after they met.” Goldberg, whose real name is Karen saan was born 36 years ago in Manhattan's Chelsea istrict. She began appearing in children's plays when she was 8 years old. As an adult she worked in clubs and small theatres between periods in which she received public assistance. She was married briefly and had a daughter, Alexandrea, 11. Moving to San Diego in 1974, Goldberg helped found a repertory theatre where she played dramas, but she drfited into improvisational troupes where her comedy skills emerged. Producer Mike Nichols saw her one-woman performance and volunteered to direct her on Broadway, where she became an overnight hit. That's where Spielberg first saw her. “Steven made it very easy for me to make the transition (to films),” she said. “He would say, ‘There are 8 million mute people in this box here. They're all in one room looking through a one-way mirror; you can't see them, but they see you. They're mute, so you can't hear them but they hear you, and they enjoy what you're doing.’ And that's how the camera became my friend.” Goldberg is still amazed at her sudden fame, which imeluded an Academy Award nomination for “The Color Purple.” FREE DELIVERY 7 DAYS A WEEK 4:30 P.M. Qi ABRIEL’S 365-6028 TALK-SHOW WARS Competi NEW YORK (AP) — thinning out. The Dick Cavett Show and Jimmy Breslin's People have been cancelled, leaving stand-up comics David Brenner, Robert Klein and Joan Rivers as the remaining late-night challengers to Johnny Carson and David Letterman. While Cavett maintained that he and Breslin weren't victims of the talk-show glut, the two programs clearly were done in by scheduling problems complicated by the amount of syndicated material available, including talk shows. ABC had offered Cavett’s show to its affiliates for airing Tuesdays and Wednesdays at midnight EST. On Thursdays and Fridays, the stations were offered Jimmy Breslin's People in the same one-hour period. In cancelling the shows, ABC eliminated midnight-to-1 a.m. programming until it comes up with something new next year “This must be how Gimbels’ clerks felt. They didn't feel specifically singled out,” Cavett said in a telephone interview, referring to the venerable Herald Square department store that shut recently. COPIES CARSON The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers is pretty much a copy of Carson's Tonight Show, of which Rivers was frequently a guest host Klein and Brenner, both of whom have served as occasional guest hosts on Tonight, say they are trying to break the mould The late-night talk-show crowd is "I don't need the celebrities as much as good tight shows,” said Klein Brenner, with 18 minutes of actual talk time in his half-hour nightly show, said his job was “serving an appetizer so good people don't want the main course.” He described NightLife, produced by former Saturday Night Live Tischler, as “in the David Letterman neighborhood but going down a different street.” Brenner sits at a desk on a hip, busy set and has Motown keyboardist Billy Preston as his bandleader Klein who makes a continuous joke of being on “basic cable,” one of the stations subscribers get automatically without paying extra, sits in a chair in spartan surroundings producer Bob Brenner's show is syndicated by King World, the people Qiat ta Ce, forthe abide FABRIC SALE BROADCLOTH Reg. $3.49/m. 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Klein said, “It seems there probably was a dearth of talk shows, so the coming on line of all of these seems like a tremendous bombardment.” The talk show overkill “w feature for us.” as not a particularly helpful Rivers, whose show is the flagship for the Fox found herself opposite Carson in some markets, in prime time in others, and on radio in Boston, where the local FBC affiliate didn’t pick up the show. Broadcasting Co., You have a stipulation that they (the local stations) will 4 show some of it when they want to, syndication deal Klein's advantage is that his show is not subject to the whims of local affiliate stations, but it does air opposite Dallas and Miami Vice on Fridays Brenner said of his Keyboardist injured MONCTON, N.B. 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