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2004 FASHION PREVIEW
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Wednesday, September 8, 2004
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ARTS&LIFE
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Don’t have
a cow, man.
It’s just my
300th show.
PREVIEW
What: The 300th episode of the
animated series that premiered
in 1990.
When: 8 p.m. tomorrow.
Where: Fox (WJW Channel 8).
Excellent! After 13 years,
Fox’s animated series
is still wickedly funny
Mark Dawidziak
PlainDealerTelevisionCritic
A Greek poet isn’t the only Homer you’ll find
represented in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Among the 700,000 words listed by this venerable
authority on the English language is Homer Simp-
son’s one-syllable catchphrase, “D’oh!”
Oxford accepted “D’oh!” as “an official word of
the English language” in June 2001. Here’s how it
is defined in that 20-volume publication: “Expres-
sing frustration at the realization that things have
turned out badly or not as planned, or that one has
just said or done something foolish.”
The definition is apt, but since Fox will air the
300th episode of “The Simpsons” at 8 tomorrow
night on WJW Channel 8, the network hardly is
looking for words to express frustration or the
realization that things have turned out
badly. The animated series, after all,
has turned into one of the greatest
success stories in television history.
In the middle of its 14th season,
“The Simpsons” is the longest-running prime-time
entertainment program on the air. It has collected
18 Emmys. And it continues to anchor Fox’s Sun-
day lineup, so network executives have no reason
to shout Homer’s famous expression, unless, of
course, they’re spelling it “dough” and thinking of
the merchandising dollars the show has generated.
see BART E6
FOX
TELEVISION BLACK HISTORY MONTH
MTV helps
Trumbull teen
get a shot
at basketball
Shaker hosts
well remember
visit to home
by Malcolm X
Fran Henry
PlainDealerReporter
T
here he was, a rural teenager
passing time, browsing the MTV
Web site. And there it was, a
chance to pursue a dream. Michael
Whitehouse, 16, decided to go for it.
“I want to be made into a varsity bas-
ketball player,” the slender, 5-foot-10
teenager wrote in his application to ap-
pear on “Made,” a series about high
school students who try to achieve a
distant goal.
MTV would supply the necessary in-
struction, and the student would sup-
ply the effort.
For a kid whose heart is in high
school musicals, the idea of being a
jock was a stretch, and he knew it.
But he didn’t see much choice. “To
get the respect I want, I need to be on
the basketball team,” he said.
Basketball is the ticket at Bloomfield
High School in Trumbull County,
where he is a junior, because the
159-student school has no football
team, the customary pinnacle. He
vowed that if he made the team, he
wouldn’t be “a meathead, the stereoty-
pical jock that makes fun of other peo-
ple.”
see MADE E4
Margaret Bernstein
PlainDealerReporter
B
lack history happened in Dr.
Morris and Adrienne Lash Jones’
living room. Their biggest regret
is they don’t have a tape or picture to
remember it by.
A photo clipped from the Call and
Post is the only memento they have of
April 3, 1964, when Malcolm X visited
their Shaker Heights home after giving
a well-attended speech at Cory United
Methodist Church in Cleveland.
The Joneses invited about 25 of their
friends to meet him. The local NAACP
president, Clarence Holmes, was there.
So was Dr. Kenneth Clements, then
president of the National Medical Asso-
ciation. And Zelma Watson George, al-
ready a Broadway star and presidential
adviser.
The party happened at a pivotal
point in Malcolm X’s life. He was in the
process of reinventing himself.
Malcolm X, who rose to fame as a
Black Muslim leader who espoused ha-
tred of whites, had announced a month
earlier that he was leaving the Nation
of Islam and exploring a new philoso-
phy that would embrace blacks of all
faiths.
see VISIT E3
EUSTACIOHUMPHREY THEPLAINDEALER
All they are saying is give peace a dance — and a song and a scene and a poem. Performers include,
from left, modern dancer Tracy Pattison, poet Mary Weems, actor Scott Plate and musician
Lawrence Daniel Caswell.
The art of peace
Cleveland actors, dancers, musicians, poets plan anti-war show
Carolyn Jack
PlainDealerArtsReporter
W
ar plans have occupied
center stage for weeks
now in America’s news
and politics. Local artists think
it’s time to put the spotlight
on peace.
Calling themselves Artists
Against War, they will present a
series of performances tomorrow
in “A Show of Peace” at the
Church of the Covenant on Cleve-
land’s Euclid Avenue.
“It was very moving to me how
many people wanted to do it,”
said playwright Sarah Morton,
who is one of the organizers.
A wide range of artists will
perform over the course of the
six-hour show, starting at 2 p.m.
see WAR E5
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THE PLAIN DEALER
THEATER
GUSCHAN THEPLAINDEALER
Danielle Moore belts out a song as Evilleen, the bad witch of the sewers, during a rehearsal of the All-City Musical production of “The Wiz.” Danielle, who attends East Technical High School, and the
rest of the cast will perform at the Ohio Theatre this weekend.
Cleveland schools students grab spotlight in musical
‘Wiz’
kids
Julie E. Washington
PlainDealerReporter
I
n the middle of a rousing re-
hearsal of the lyrics “Can you
feel a brand-new day?” from
“The Wiz,” a stage manager whis-
pered bad news to director Sarah
May. A handful of kids from
John F. Kennedy High School
would miss rehearsal because
they had to perform at a school
event.
May was unfazed. “It’s always
something,” she shrugged. Her
64-person cast of the All-City
Musical is filled with bright, in-
volved kids from middle schools
and high schools in the Cleve-
land Municipal School District.
Their schedules are brimming
with extracurricular activities —
cheerleading, Math Olympics,
Physics Day at Cedar Point. The
seniors have crucial school pa-
pers that must be finished, grad-
uations and proms.
May is smart enough — and
above all, patient enough — to re-
alize that if the All-City Musical
is going to work, the term “man-
datory rehearsals” must be soft-
ened.
“Everyone who shows up ac-
complishes something,” May
said, noting that her voice mail is
always full of calls from cast
members explaining their ab-
sences. “I’ve seen their dedicat-
ion. They came as much as they
could.”
John Hay High School student
Steven Weems, 18, who plays the
Lion, found it tough to finish all
his work towards graduation this
spring when rehearsals left him
feeling drained. But being in
“The Wiz” was a dream fulfilled
for a guy who sings in five church
choirs but attends a school that
rarely mounts a full-scale pro-
duction.
“I thank God every day that
I’m in this play,” Steven said.
Many “Wiz” cast members will
have their first real theater expe-
rience when they perform at the
Ohio Theatre in Playhouse
Square Friday, Saturday and
Sunday. Four student matinees
were held earlier this week.
The production is a partner-
ship between the district and the
Great Lakes Theater Festival.
“The Wiz” is the third production
for the All-City Musical.
see MUSICAL E8
PREVIEW
The Wiz
What: The All-City Musi-
cal, a joint partnership be-
tween the Cleveland Mu-
nicipal School District and
the Great Lakes Theater
Festival, presents “The
Wiz.”
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday
and Saturday and 3 p.m.
Sunday.
Where: Ohio Theatre,
Playhouse Square in down-
town Cleveland.
Tickets: $10 general ad-
mission. Call 216-241-
6000.
PLAIN DEALING MOVIES CLASSICAL MUSIC
Watch out
for scams
on the Internet
Danish tenor
loves challenge
of ‘Siegfried’
W h a t ’ s
worse than
catching an
Internet vi-
rus?
B e i n g
caught by a
cyberscam.
C l a s s i c
scams that
used to come
to you via phone and mailbox are
now lurking on the Internet. The
best defense is to know what to
watch out for.
The National Consumers
League, which runs the Internet
Fraud Watch, last week released
its list of Top 10 cyberscams.
Reports of the “Nigerian letter”
scam are up 900 percent over the
last year. The letter comes from
an African nation that has just
experienced some type of up-
heaval. The letter usually pur-
ports to be from a former mili-
tary or government official or
member of a royal family who is
hoping to shelter millions of dol-
lars from bad guys in his or her
own country. If you’ll just pro-
vide your bank account number,
the person promises, he’ll wire
the cash to that account, and
you’ll get to keep a hefty cut.
Money does get transferred,
but it goes out of your account,
not into it.
see DEALING E8
Donald Rosenberg
PlainDealerMusicCritic
Siegfried knows no fear, which
is probably a good thing: The
tenor who portrays him is on-
stage the better part of five
hours, singing music that taxes
brain and brawn.
The hero does experience a few
moments of sheer panic 30 min-
utes before the opera’s end, when
he encounters a woman, Bruenn-
hilde, for the first time in his life.
And, to top it off, the soprano
sounds completely rested, while
the tenor must try to maintain
vocal freshness after what may
seem like eons.
Even so, Stig Andersen, who
sings the title role in sold-out
concert performances of Wag-
ner’s “Siegfried” tonight and Sat-
urday with the Cleveland Orches-
tra, betrays no hint of dread as
he talks about the part. The Dan-
ish tenor has portrayed Siegfried
often in this opera and in the
conclusion to the “Ring” cycle,
“Goetterdaemmerung,” and he
finds the character to be exhila-
rating. So much so that some-
thing is missing if the two works
aren’t done in close succession.
“When we stop after ‘Sieg-
fried,’ I feel it’s only the first act,”
he quipped after a recent re-
hearsal at Severance Hall.
see ORCHESTRA E8
Sheryl
Harris
DALE OMORI THE PLAIN DEALER
Lori Eiland, left, and Miranda Hannah don the appropriate wizard headgear as they prepare to sell and to rent
“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” at the Blockbuster Video on Lorain Avenue on Cleveland’s West Side.
Potter fans quick to snatch up video, DVD
Clint O’Connor
PlainDealerReporter
Spider-Man and Jedi Knights are
the current movie rage, but you just
can’t shake that little wizard kid.
“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s
Stone” was released on video and
DVD yesterday, and Warner Bros. is
hoping the 11-year-old wizard-in-
training will continue to bring in
large loads of cash, even in the
crowded summer season.
As with many things Potter, “Sor-
cerer’s Stone” already has set a record
— most DVD pre-orders ever on Ama-
zon.com (100,000 and counting at
the end of last week).
The film, based on the first book in
J.K. Rowling’s series, hit theaters last
November. The two-disc DVD prom-
ises “never before seen scenes,” inter-
views with the filmmakers and other
extras.
To kick things off, the Blockbuster
Video store on Lorain Avenue near
West 110th Street on Cleveland’s
West Side was the first store in the
Cleveland area to offer the DVD
($19.99) and video ($16.99) for sale
beginning at 12:01 yesterday morn-
ing (or just after Midnight Monday
Muggles time).
Kids came early for games, prizes
and a magician.
see LINE E3

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THE PLAIN DEALER
A grinder
smooths the welds
of what will become
a steel drum.
A
bang-up
jobAkron fans make it their business
to perfect the steel drum
Bill Lubinger
PlainDealerReporter
R
on Kerns grew up in suburban Dayton; Shelly Irvine on a
Steubenville horse farm.
So naturally — about as naturally as Akron sparks Carib-
bean images and sounds of calypso — they and their team of un-
derpaid but dedicated and skilled employees are doing for the
steel drum what Stradivari did for the violin.
Unlikely as it may seem, the steel drum or “pan,” a folk instru-
ment created by the black people of Trinidad, is being built and
perfected by six white
guys in a small former
tire-mold factory in
southwest Akron.
“In Trinidad they say
the pan jumbee bites
you,” Kerns said, doing
his best to explain the
oddball love affair he
and his mates have
with the instrument.
“It’s a spirit. And when
the pan jumbee bites
you, you’re in it for
life.”
Even if it means oc-
casionally missing pay-
roll, being unable to of-
fer employee benefits
and putting in 70-hour
weeks on handcrafted
perfection.
Except for occasional deafening blasts of an air-pressured,
hand-held jackhammer pounding metal into the pan’s familiar in-
verted tortoiseshell shape, the place is surprisingly quiet for a ma-
chine shop.
Delicate molding and tuning require precise, close-in handi-
work, not flailing away wildly with hammers. The steel bowls are
shaped, smoothed and tuned in a complex process that takes 70 to
100 hours per pan.
see DRUMS E6
Panyard co-owners Ron Kern, left, and
Shelly Irvine, center, and tuner-builder
Steve Lawrie enjoy a rare lunch-hour pan
jam: a tropical version of Charlie Parker’s
“My Little Suede Shoes.”
PHOTOGRAPHSBYBILLKENNEDY THEPLAINDEALER
Steve Lawrie carefully tunes a steel drum with a hammer and mallet at the Panyard Inc. shop in Akron. Masking tape is
used on the hammer head to prevent dust and other particles from ruining the drum’s surface.
RADIO
Opie and
Anthony fired
NewYork-basedafternoon“shock
jocks”OpieandAnthony,whose
showwasaratingsleaderin
ClevelandonWXTMFM/92.3,
arefiredsixdaysafterthey
broadcastaliveaccountofa
couplesupposedlyhavingsexin
Manhattan’sSt.Patrick’s
Cathedral. E5
INSIDE
THEATER
A fine cup of tea
Theone-womanplay“TeaatFive,”
starringKateMulgrew,reveals
whatenquiringmindswant
toknowaboutKatherine
Hepburn.E5
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