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go, when this Gulf Coast resort lit-
rally was picking up the pieces after
king a direct hit from a hurricane,
n unprecedented freeze and an oil
pill that blackened its beaches, the
rrand opening of a renovated old
lotel served as the backdrop for a
mall civic celebration.
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heme in commemoration of a tradi-
onal but long dormant pre-Lenten
festival.
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hen the most prosperous in Texas
- staged the state’s first public
dardi Gras. It continued annually
intil World War II, after which the
:elebration dwindled to a low-key af-
air for a social club and private
chool.
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jeople,” Don Schattel, executive di-
ector of the Galveston Park Board
tf Trustees, said, recalling the 1985
vent renewal. “What surprised us
vas a crowd in excess of 150,000.
bid we saw what a great thing this
ould be for the island.”
In 1986, the crowds grew to
100,000 for the second Galveston
dardi Gras. And in every year since,
he throng has grown and the cele-
tration that started as a single day
las expanded. It now spans nearly
wo weeks for the island city about
10 miles southeast of Houston.
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The following are the top re
cord hits as they appear in next
week’s issue of Billboard mag
azine.
Copyright 1989, Billboard
Publications, Inc. Reprinted with
permission.
HOT SINGLES
1. “When I’m With You” Sher
iff (Capitol)
2. “Straight Up” Paula Abdul
(Virgin)
3. “When the Children Cry”
White Lion (Atlantic)
4. “Born to Be My Baby” Bon
Jovi (Mercury)
5. “Wild Thing” Tone Loc (De
licious Vinyl)
6. “Armageddon It” Def Lep
pard (Mercury)
7. “The Way You Love Me” Ka-
ryn White (Warner Bros.)
8. “Don’t Rush Me” Taylor
Dayne (Arista)
9. “All This Time” Tiffany
(MCA)
10. “Two Hearts” Phil Collins
(Atlantic)
TOP LP’S
1. “Don’t Be Cruel” Bobby-
Brown (MCA)—Platinum (More
than 1 million units sold.)
2. “Appetite for Destruction”
Guns N’ Roses (Geffen)—Plati
num
3. “Traveling Wilburys” Travel
ing Wilburys (Wilbury)—Platinum
4. “Open Up and Say Ahh” Poi
son (Enigma)—Platinum
5. “G N’ R Lies” Guns N’ Roses
(Geffen)
6. “New Jersey” Bon Jovi (Mer-
ury)-Platinum
7. “Hysteria” Def Leppard
(Mercury)—Platinu m
8. “Giving You the Best That I
Got” Anita Baker (Elektra)—Plati-
tum
9. “Shooting Rubberbands at
the Stars” Edie Brickell & The
ew Bohemians (Geffen)—Gold
(More than 500,000 units sold.)
10. “Rattle and Hum” U2 (Is-
land)-Platinum
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COUNTRY SINGLES
1. “What I’d Say” Earl Thomas
Conley (MCA)
2. “Song of the South” Alabama
(RCA)
3. “Burnin’ a Hole in My
Heart” Skip Ewing (MCA)
4. “Big Wheels in the Moon
light” Dan Seals (Capitol)
5. “I Sang Dixie” Dwight Yoa-
kam (Reprise)
6. “Life As We Knew It” Kathy
Mattea (Mercury)
7. “Deeper Than the Holler”
i Randy Travis (Warner Bros.)
8. “I Still Believe In You” The
[Desert Rose Band (MCA-Curb)
9. “Don’t Waste It On the
Blues” Gene Watson (Warner
Bros.)
10. “Highway Robbery” Tanya
Tucker (Capitol)
BLACK SINGLES
1. “Can You Stand the Rain”
New Edition (MCA)
2. “Can You Read My Lips”
really Z’Looke (Orpheus)
3. “Superwoman” Karyn White
(Warner Bros.)
4. “So Good” A1 Tarreau (Re
prise)
j, 5.“She Won’t Talk to Me” Lu-
'( ther Vandross (Epic)
°, ! 6“Baby Doll” Tony! Toni!
1 [Tone! (Wing)
7“Wild Thing” Tone Loc (De
licious Vinyl)
8. “This Time” Kiara (Arista)
9. “Roni” Bobby Brown (MCA)
10. “Take Me Where You Want
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When this year’s celebration cli
maxes Feb. 4 with the Grand Night
Parade, some 350,000 people are ex
pected to jam the island along the 4-
mile parade route.
And Galveston merchants, in
what normally would be a slow win
ter period, will be tallying receipts
estimated at $45 million from whgt
organizers say has become the na
tion’s third-largest Mardi Gras, trail
ing only the long-established parties
in New' Orleans and Mobile, Ala.
“It’s been very successful,” said
Schattel, whose board oversees the
12-day affair. “It’s a smashing suc
cess.”
It’s so successful it’s the only event
at any time of the year when opera
tors of the island’s 4,000 hotel and
motel rooms can insist that guests
who want one night’s lodging must
remain for two.
“We’ve accomplished our goal of
filling up our hotels,” Schattel said.
“Now we’re trying to spread it out
over a longer period of time.
“Every year we learn from it,”
Schattel said. “And while we learn,
we improve. We improve logistics^
The first year, we had one parade.
Now we have six.”
One of the lessons learned from
the earlier festivals was that you can’t
have several hundred thousand
party-inclined people line the streets
for a parade and not want to join in.
The parades got so bogged down in
the mass of humanity that the parks
board erected fences to keep specta
tors back and allow parades to get
through.
“Personally, I don’t like the fenc
ing,” says Mardi Gras spokesman
Deborah Hartman. “But so far it’s
the best thing we’ve been able to
come up with.”
Restaurant and hotel operators
stand to gain the most from the af
fair, while gift shop owners say they
do better during a pre-Christmas
festival called “Dickens On The
Strand.”
“It’s probably something you just
have to come to once and decide
whether you like this kind of thing,”
said Beth Martin, manager of Crab
tree & Evelyn Ltd., a gift shop. “It’s
just a mess of people. If you sell T-
shirts or food and beer, you’ll do
OK.”
She says the young crowd is more
intent on partying than buying gifts.
“I’m looking forward to making
money,” adds Lida Zavalla, manager
of Bubbacito’s Tex-Mex Open Air-
Cafe. “People get really wild and I
like it. I’m hoping for a big day.”
“People must like it or they
wouldn’t come back,” said Patsy
Murray, who runs the Curiosity
Shoppe, another gift shop. “It sure
brings in the crowds. But it just isn’t
my kind of day.”
In the dozen days of Mardi Gras,
there are probably 70 events, from
masked balls to giant street paintings
to concerts and the parades.
“It does not get stale,” Schattel
said. “It has a new theme every year.
We do additional events. We do
more artistic things.”
This year’s theme is the cele
bration of the bicentennial of the
French Revolution. For Texas,
France was important because it was
the first country to recognize the Re
public of Texas, which gained its in
dependence in 1836.
Besides making money for local
business, the Galveston Mardi Gras
so far has made money for itself, en
suring that the following year’s festi
val can continue to grow.
Twenty percent of the ticket reve
nue from the balls and from seats
sold along the parade routes, along
with $5 from each occuppied hotel
room each night, are combined with
private and public donations to
come up with the $500,000 that will
be raised to put on this year’s Mardi
Gras.
Galveston City Manager Douglas
Matthews estimated it would cost
$400,000.
After all the bills were paid, the
Mardi Gras Galveston Fund started
this year $200,000 in the black.
Fan’s boyhood dream fulfilled
with chance to join rock band
ASSOCIATED PRESS
When synthesizer player Paul
Haslinger was 12 or 13, and living in
Austria, he liked the band Tan
gerine Dream. Now, at 26, he’s a
member.
Haslinger says, “At that time, I
started to play around with electro
nic keyboards.
“I wasn’t a particular fan, in the
sense I had idols. That made it easier
for us to start working right away
when I joined them.”
He got the job with the German
leaders in electronic rock “by the
usual mixture of accident and luck,”
Haslinger says. “A friend got in con
tact with the band in the autumn of
1985. They asked me to play on
their United Kingdom tour. I was
happy. We just started to work to
gether. So far, it has turned out to be
good teamwork.
“Three years ago, I was doing two
parts in Austria — classical studies
and studio jobs as a session player.”
The group’s latest album is Opti
cal Race on Private Music. Peter
Baumann, who founded the record
company, was a member of Tan
gerine Dream from 1971 to 1977.
Tangerine Dream began as an in
strumental trio in 1968, with roots in
psychedelia. Haslinger and 44-year-
old founder Edgar Froese, whose
guitar playing was influenced by
Jimi Hendrix, were interviewed be
fore the group began a 24-city U.S.
tour.
Froese says, “There was the ques
tion at that time; was a dream or day
life more real? We figured out what
color would describe a certain state
of consciousness — the color tan
gerine and the dream.
“It was a big wake-up call, that pe
riod of time,” Froese says. “Many
people fell asleep again after it. The
thing was to touch the shoulder of
people bound to a limited way of us
ing their brain and say, ‘Have you
thought about your life?’ ”
Tangerine Dream still attempts to
raise consciousness, Froese says. “If
you follow up what was explored as
truth, you will be on that energy
level for all time.”
Froese is accompanied on tour by
his wife of 20 years and their son.
Ralph Wadephul has Replaced long
time member Christoph Franke.
“We had just two records which
did contain lyrics,” Froese says.
“Both, unfortunately, were received
very badly. The people didn’t like it.
The last one was ‘Tyger,’ one year
ago. It contained some lyrics by Wil
liam Blake, a poet we love.
“We’re well-known as an instru
mental band, and people want to
keep it that way. Even if you are in
the business for awhile , you still
learn.
“We use electronic instruments,”
Froese says, “to expand the sound
1 here was the
question at that time: was a
dream or day life more
real? We figured out what
color would describe a
certain state of
consciousness — the color
tangerine and the dream.”
-Edgar Froese,
Tangerine Dream’s
guitarist
which can reflect our emotional side,
our experience in life, our little phi
losophies. We started experimenting
and that is now 20 years back.”
Froese has made nine solo al
bums. Tangerine Dream has made
another 25, and more than a dozen
sound tracks, the most recent being
“Miracle Mile.”
Writing for films began, Froese
says, when Bill Friedkin visited Mu
nich in 1976, heard the group’s re
cords and invited them to compose
for “The Sorcerer.” They declined.
“The first thing we thought about
was ‘The Exorcist,’ which we didn’t
like,” Froese says. “The record com
pany said, ‘You shouldn’t say no.’
We met him in Paris, wrote the mu
sic. He liked it, and that’s where the
thing started.
“We had to learn how to compose
short pieces. At that period, we per
formed one piece for three hours or
more. On record, we had just two
sides of music.
“From there on, there was a huge
interest in Hollywood to sign us for
sound tracks,” Froese says. “We had
to refuse a few because of very tight
schedules. We’ve turned down a few
offers where the money was incredi
ble; we just didn’t like them. We did
‘Risky Business.’ That gave us an
other push.”
Tangerine Dream has studios in
Berlin and Vienna, and sometimes
works in Los Angeles.
“When we do a sound track, we
edit so people get a real album,”
Froese says. “We are musicians. I
don’t like those sound track records
of 30 seconds of blips, one minute of
screaming and a bass note, which
makes no sense.”
Haslinger says, “We have themes
for the film. We take out certain
parts for certain scenes. For the
sound track, we take the themes and
create three- and four-minute pieces
of music.”
Faith inspires paralyzed man to lead
largest congregation for handicapped
MOUNT OLIVE, N.J. (AP) —
Kenneth Young found his peace at
50 mph on a blind curve 12 years
ago. He crashed through the wind
shield, his body left frozen from the
neck down.
It was during nearly 1.5 years in
and out of hospitals that Young be
came devoutly religious. He later
gave up his paintingjob and took to
the pulpit. Now he is head of the
largest Assemblies of God ministry
for the handicapped in the world.
Young’s flock are the blind, the
crippled, the immobile. Each year
his Hope for the Handicapped Inc.
reaches tens of thousands of people
in the United States, Canada, South
America and Europe, through taped
sermons and newsletters.
Young also crisscrosses North
America preaching to the hand
icapped and encouraging them to
worship.
Come spring, his followers hope
to have a home. Construction began
in October on the Bethesda Chris
tian Center though the building
fund is only half way to its $350,000
goal.
“We’re building by faith as we go
along,” says Young. “We’ll just have
to trust the Lord to provide it.”
The word “Bethesda,” Young
notes, is Hebrew for “God’s place of
hope.” The building is to include a
chapel for 400 worshipers, support
services and a training center for
marketable skills.
Saturday services are planned so
volunteers can come from other con
gregations.
“Our real effort,” says Young, “is
taking the gospel message and intro
ducing disabled people to the hope
that Jesus alone can give.”
“I know of no one (in the church)
who’s doing what he’s doing,” says
the Rev. Joseph Beretta, director of
missions for the New Jersey District
Council of the Assemblies of God.
“He’s the first.”
Young, 34, operates his ministry
from the home he shares with his
parents, Arthur and Ida Young. It is
filled with gadgets, sophisticated re
cording devices, computers and
copying machines, all geared to
reach some of the 18 million shut-ins
in the United States.
“We want to bring in people who
don’t normally get out to worship,”
he says. “What we need to do is cre
ate in the people a desire to get out
there.”
At the age of 22, Young never had
much of that desire himself. Raised
as a Presbyterian, Young says his
faith dwindled.
While hospitalized — he suffered
a broken neck, broken jaw and se
rious internal injuries — Young was
visited by a layman from a nearby
mission who spoke to him about God
and religion. Young later became a
born-again Christian. His devout
ness grew, and he soon felt the call to
preach.
“I was 95 percent paralyzed, yet
the Lord gave me perfect peace,”
says Young. “That’s not something
that comes normally.” |
He took courses at Northeastern
Bible School in Essex Fells, N.J., via
telephone and graduated from Be-
rean Bible College, a correspon
dence school in Springfield, Mo.
Young was licensed by the Assem
blies of God in April 1981 to preach,
and by June had started planning his
ministry for the disabled.
Young tapes two 30-minute ser
mons a week and, with a mouthstick
and personal computer, writes a
quartexly newsletter. He estimates
his sermons and newsletters reach
about 3,000 people each week.
His ministry costs more than
$60,000 a year and is funded mostly
through contributions.
Ima Jean Kidd of the Division of
Education and Ministry in the Na
tional Council of Churches says
there has been a growth in recent
years in the number of denomina
tions ministering to the hand
icapped. The council, the largest ec
umenical organization in the
country, does not represent the As
semblies of God churches.
“The church is not complete un
less all the people are there,” she
says, “including those with disabili
ties.”
Director believes play
‘Raisin in the Sun ’ deals
with topics still relevant
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor
Bill Duke, the director of a new
version of “A Raisin in the Sun,”
says Lorraine Hansberry’s land
mark play about a black family’s
struggle to escape life in a big city
ghetto is still relevant today.
The play, to be televised
Wednesday on public television’s
“American Playhouse,” reached
Broadway in 1959. It won the
New York Drama Critics Circle
Award that year and the film ver
sion in 1961 won the Cannes Film
Festival award. The musical “Rai
sin” took the Tony in 1974.
“It’s the story of the American
dxeam,” says Duke. “I think Lor
raine Hansberry used a particular
family in Southside Chicago in
the 1950s to tell the story. But it’s
more than just about this one
family.
“This play is as relevant today
as it was then,” he says. “It can
still be an issue when blacks move
into white neighborhoods. We’re
talking more about levels of con
sciousness than the passage of
time. I think we’re afraid of
change. As a result, we do things
that aren’t complimentary to our
humanity.”
Danny Glover plays Walter Lee
Younger, whose dream starts to
turn to dust. Esther Rolle por
trays his stoic and sometimes ty
rannical mother.
Kim Yancey plays the daughter
yearning for a better life and He
len Martin is the nosy neighbor
who enjoys healing about the
family’s misery more than their
good fortune.
The TV version goes back to
Hansberry’s original script and
restores some sequences cut from
the stage version. Her play was so
far ahead of its time that some of
her themes didn’t become wide
spread until after the civil lights
movement — such as the rise of
black identity and feminism.
“This was one of the first se
rious plays about blacks,” says
Duke, who’s also a noted film and
television actor. “The show was a
landmark for the kind of atten
tion it got. Lorraine Hansberry
was really a scholar as much as a
writer. She was interested in a
theater movement that went be
yond the plays. She was ahead of
her time.”
Hansberry, who wrote “A Rai
sin in the Sun” when she was only
26, died of cancer in 1965 during
the run of her second play, “The
Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Win
dow.” A portrait of her in her
own words, “To Be Young,
Gifted and Black,” was the long
est-running off-Broadway drama
in 1969.
In early January, Duke flew to
Washington to direct an episode
of the new ABC series “Hawk,” a
spinoff from “Spenser for Hire,”
starring Avery Brooks. He also
stars with Keith Carradine in
“Street of No Return.”
Duke’s first directorial assign
ment for “American Playhouse"
was “The Killing Floor.” He’ll
soon start work on his third, “The
Meeting,” based on the play by
Jeff Stetson about a fictional
meeting between Martin Luther
King jr. and Malcolm X.
Duke made his film debut as
Abdullah in “Car Wash." Other
film roles have included “Ameri
can Gigolo,” “Predator,” “Com
mando,” “No Man’s Land” and
“Action Jackson.” He starred for
two years in “Palmerstown,
USA,” the series created by Alex
Haley.
He frequently plays villains, al
though in “Street of No Return"
he plays a police detective.
“When you’re a character actor
you have a much dif ferent way of
looking at things than a leading
man,” he says. “My criteria is
making the character I’m playing
an interesting person.”
Duke experienced an upbring
ing totally different from Walter
Lee Younger in his hometown of
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Duke attended junior college
in Poughkeepsie, did his under
graduate work in theater arts at
Boston University and got his
master’s degree at the New York
University School of the Arts.
Modern version of Bible
written for easier reading
CLEBURNE (AP) — The names
have been changed for easier read
ing, and the locations made more fa
miliar, but the messages and teach
ings remain the same in “The Word
Made Fresh,” a version of the Bible
written by Dr. Andrew Edington of
Kerrville.
Biblical characters like Mahlon,
Jehoshabetha and Maacha have
been renamed Charles, Florence
and Marjorie.
The Mediterranean resort village
of Haran is called Palm Springs to
help the reader more closely identify
with the Biblical setting.
“If readers don’t understand
what’s going on in the Bible, they
quickly get bored and lose interest,
depriving them of the joy of the
scriptures,” said Edington, president
emeritus of Schreiner College, in a
recent interview.
There are no hard words in the
book; hard words are in the notes,
Edington added.
“My version was never intended
to take the place of more traditional
versions, Edington said. “My version
is meant to be a vehicle that runs
along side and leads people to the
Bible.”
Edington is a lifelong educator
and Bible scholar.
His grandfather was a minister
and his father was a judge who
taught Bible studies.
“I came up in a church family,”
Edington said.
He took two years of Bible studies
in a college in Memphis, Tenn.
He was one of 25 students in a
one-week Bible class taught by the
Rev. Billy Graham in the early
1950s.
He received his doctorate from
Austin College in Sherman, and was
president of Schreiner from 1950 to
1971.
Edington began his career in edu
cation as a high school and college
coach. He developed the first year-
round sports program at a federal
correctional institution at Alabama
State Penitentiary in the 1930s.
Edington is known to sports histo
rians as the first high school coach to
allow women to play varsity football
when he trained a female student to
kick field goals in the late 1930s.
He served as a captain in the U.S.
Navy in both the Pacific and Atlantic
theaters of World War II.
In the early 1950s, Edington testi-
. fied before the U.S. Supreme Court
on the teaching of Bible lessons and
prayer in public schools, based on
his research of constitutional laws in
the 48 states.
While serving as president of Sch
reiner College, Edington taught
classes in Bible studies, English and
psychology.
“I always thought the president of
a college should teach a class,” Edi
ngton said.
He used the modern names and
more familiar locations while teach
ing Bible classes at Schreiner.
“My students encouraged me to
write the account of the Bible as I
had taught it,” Edington said.
“The Word Made Fresh” was not
written as a scholarly, word-for-
word study of the Holy Scriptures,
but rather as a means to get people
reading the Bible and understand
ing the word of God, Edington said.
Rather, it is meant to provoke its
readers into reading more tradi
tional texts, such as the King James
version, by shedding new light and
understanding on the age-old les
sons, Edington said.
Edington said, as an educator in
the 1930s, he discovered the archaic
language found in older Bible trans
lations often clouded the meaning of
the lessons for his students.
“My Bible classes were often deco
rated with colorful narratives, and
students quickly grasped more of an
understanding of what the ancient
authors were saying,” Edington said.
“Students would tell me, ‘If you
find a Bible that reads like you teach,
I’ll read it.’ That was the beginning
of “The Word Made Fresh,” Eding
ton said.
The first volume of “The Word
Made Fresh,” spanning Genesis
through both books of Kings, was
published in 1972. Volume 2, con
taining the remaining books of the
Old Testament version was pub
lished in 1976.
The New Testament version fol
lowed in 1976.
A recent set of “The Word Made
Fresh,” containing both the Old Tes
tament and New Testament, has
been published. It contains all 66
books of the Bible in two volumes.
“The books have been accepted
very well by many denominations,”
Edington said. “I’m not saying it is
the Bible. It is a vehicle to lead peo
ple to read the Bible.”
The book is described by James L.
McCord, former president fo
Princeton Theological Seminary, as
“lively and provocative — a happy
combination of wit and wisdom.”
Newbold College Scholars of Ox
ford University in England were suf
ficiently impressed with Edington’s
manuscript to request permission to
excerpt 2,500 words.
They call the text a“Down to
Earth Version of the Bible,” Eding
ton said.
The latest printing came after
seven-and-a-half years of work.
“To prepare myself, I copied the
King James version of the Bible in
longhand. It was a task and it really
prepared me,” Edington said.
Edington frequently presents Bi
ble lectures to church and youth
groups, and he also does motivatio
nal lectures for companies.