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A star reluctantly agrees to do a Broadway show that becomes a hit. 1:00Q3 ★★★★ “The Homecom ing” (1973) Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm. Based on the play by Harold Pinter. A man rekindles old family feuds when he brings his new wife home to meet the clan. 1:35© ★★Vi “The Outer Space Connection” (1975) Documentary. Narrated by Rod Serling. New evi dence appears to suggest that human life on this planet began with the arrival of “ancient astro nauts” who settled in the Peruvian Andes and the Bermuda Triangle. 2:00© ★★★ “Ryan’s Daughter” (1970) Sarah Miles, Robert Mitchum, After having an affair with a British officer, the wife of an Irishman is suspected of being an informer. 3:30© ★★ “Dick Tracy” (1945) Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys. Based on the Chester Gould comic strip. A crime-fighting detective sets out to trap a deranged killer known only as “Spitface.” thursday specials AFTERNOON 4:00© AFTERSCHOOL SPECIAL "Have You Ever Been Ashamed Of Your Parents?” A young girl learns about family pride and envy when her mother is forced to take a summer job cooking for a wealthy family, g by Rebeca Zimmermann Battalion Staff Being a college student or working full time is exhausting enough, but the four members of Fusion, a local rock 'n' roll band, somehow manage to find time to practice and perform. Fusion members—a lead singer, a lead and rhythm guitarist, a bass guitarist and a drummer — have been playing together since November 1981. Adam Gaither, the lead singer, is a sophomore electrical en gineering major from College Station. Len Carlton, 20, plays lead and rhythm guitar for the band when he isn't working full time. Bryan Foster, 21, plays bass guitar when he's not working full-time. Both are from College Station. Mike Maloney, the drummer, is a junior agricultural econo mics major from El Paso. "We're a basic rock band with a touch of new wave," Gaither says. "It's almost a heavy metal sound like the Police." Maloney says the name Fusion is signi ficant of the many styles of rock-n-roll the group "fuses" together in its playing. But he says the name was a last-minute deci sion. The group had been together about four months, had a performance soon and needed a name. Fusion was the choice. The band plays music by the Police, RUSH, Joe Jackson, Van Halen and the Vapors, to name a few. "We all like RUSH," Carlton says. "It's complicated music, with a feeling in it. Most music today doesn't have that." The band also plays some original songs. "Right now our emphasis is writing original stuff," Foster says. "We're sear ching for our sound." The group members' search for their own sound includes writing original songs. They have written five original songs and are working on a single record, to be finished in April. Songs on the re cord are "Crusader" and "Open Your Eyes." "Crusader" was written by Carlton and Foster while they were in high school. Carlton says "Open Your Eyes" is more dance-oriented and it's brand new — only two months old. Foster writes lyrics and then he and Carlton work on the music. The whole group then ties up loose ends in the piece. "The main ideas come from Bryan (Fos ter)," Maloney says. "We don't want to copy (music) all the time," he says. "Our goal is to play all original music." Fusion's first appeared as a group at the Alamo (now Sebastian's Tavern), but its big debut was at the Battle of the Bands last April in the Grove. "They (the other groups) looked like musicians and we didn't," Maloney says. "We're definitely unorthodox in our appearance," he says. "People don't al ways take us seriously. We're clean-cut." But Fusion won the Battle of the Bands despite its clean-cut appearance. The group is unorthodox in another way in that it practices in one of the band members' small bam. There's not much space, but the music flows anyway. Pas- sersby often stop to listen to the group. Maloney says one time a College Sta tion policeman stopped by because some one had complained about the noise. But rock band the policeman stayed and listened to the music for awhile because he enjoyed it so much. The band usually practices about 10 hours a week. "We haven't gotten to practice enough now with work, school and the band," Carlton says. "It's hard to keep your mind on one thing." Band members also work on original pieces at practices. "Sometimes ideas really flow and sometimes it's like beating your head against the wall," Gaither says. "Every- time we practice and play, we grow a little more." But practicing and working on new songs aren't all the band does. Maloney says the band members also "get together for grins and play and party." "The band really is our social life," he says. "We look at it as fun — that's the only reason for doing it." Gaither says performing for an audi ence also is fun. "If they're (the audience) having fun, we know for damn sure we're having fun," Gaither says. "Being on stage is the best high," he says., He says the band has a professional attitude toward performing; no one goes on stage stoned or drunk. All the band members are basically self- taught musicians. Carlton has been play ing guitar five or six years and Foster has been playing guitar for about four years. Maloney has been playing the drums since he was nine and Gaither began sing ing in a church choir while he was in kin dergarten. EVENING 7:00 0 © THE MAGIC PLANET Olympic skating star Toller Cran ston appears as an astronaut who becomes involved in a romantic love triangle on a mysterious plan et.