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< attalion A GGIELIFE ^age^Sj^uesda^jOctobe^QjlQQ^ o bragging rights Denver television stations relive actions luring coverage of Columbine incident CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — 'hen the three executives re- wnsible for what most Ameri- ms saw on TV in the horrifying hours after the Columbine High :hool massacre share their sto les, what is most striking is what they leave out. There is little boasting, no talk iout who had the best camera igles, whose news helicopter first on the scene or who was luickest to divulge the names of he two boys who killed 13 peo- le and themselves this spring in [ittleton, Colo. Instead, they are more apt to ilk about what didn’t make the r. Or why a psychologist was se- [retly sent to speak to reporters, ir why three people who live to Jeat each other on stories actual ly met to plan coverage together 'hen Columbine reopened. The lessons that news direc- |ors of KCNC-TV, KMGH-TV and ;USA-TV in Denver offer today lave more to do with sensitivity |han speed in telling the story. “For the most part, we sort of lut the competitive situation be hind because we all wanted to see this come out the right way,” Angie Kucharski of KCNC at a re cent panel run by the Radio and Television News Directors Associ ation in Charlotte, N.C. said. Each of the stations covered the developing story live on April 20, and their reports were fed to the world via cable news stations and broadcast networks. Two experts who went back and reviewed ' the coverage praised how the local stations handled it. “I think they did a remarkably good job, considering the situa tion, considering the stress and the kind of pressure they were un der with live television,” said Ali cia Shepard of American Journal ism Review, who is devoting a chapter to Columbine in a jour nalism textbook she is writing. “They were tremendously sen sitive to the culture and the audi ence,” she said. Kucharski said it was impor tant not to fill air time with speculation for fear of terrifying parents. Lynch’s latest effort explores new realm in filmmaking: G ratings (AP) — The camera pans over the fields of a seemingly sleepy rur al American Midwest populated only — or so it first appears — by scampering dogs. Zooming in one particular house, it proceeds to introduce us to Dorothy (Jane Gallway Heitz), a rather lumpen woman with an eye patch who is waddling in sand out side with food. The woman sug gests a true eccentricity at best — or more than that — at worst. So far Blue Velvet has been the defining David Lynch film, the 1986 story that located the hell that lies beneath America. The real shock of Lynch’s lovely new film. The Straight Story, is how direct it is. Virtually every other Lynch tale, from Eraserhead and The Elephant Man through to the overripe Wild at Heart, occupies a vaguely halluci natory world where nothing is what it seems and human behavior is more often than not, well, horrific. This time, he has entered the realm of the G-rated, where G could stand for gentle, in addition to the notable absence of two Lynch mainstays — sex and vio lence. Has the new movie been offered up in atonement? Whatever Lynch’s reasons for making it, one fact is clear: This portrait of a 73-year-old man who has embarked upon a long journey is inspiring. Not that Alvin is in any condition to drive a used John Deere mower 300 miles across state lines in order to visit his estranged elder brother, Lyle, who is suffering from a stroke. Troubled with emphysema, his hips so bad he can barely stand, Alvin won’t submit to medical tests, an operation or the use of a walker. TWo canes mark his only concession to age. “I’m not dead yet,” he tells daughter Rose (Sissy Spacek), with whom he lives, before setting off on the five-week trek from Laurens, Iowa, to Mt. Zion, Wis. Is Alvin’s decision mad or gal lant? A mixture, clearly, of both, though John Roach and Mary Sweeney’s screenplay is too grace ful to pass judgment on a character who exerts his own unexplained fascination. letired military pilot >ses suit to Jimmy Page I WINDSOR, England (AP) — A decorated firmer military pilot met his match when he feced off in court against a neighbor, rock |uitarist Jimmy Page. I Dudley Burnside, who is retired and lives ona$26,500 military pension, said he may liaveto sell his home to pay Page more than $40,000 in legal expenses as ordered by a judge last week. Page, 54, a founding member of Led Zep- jpelin, had refused to remove some trees thatBurnside claimed blocked out the light [andcaused cracks in cement on his prop- jettyThe Independent reported yesterday. The trees have grown 33 feet high. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS A court dismissed the former World War II and Korean War pilot’s claim against Page and ordered him to pay Page’s legal fees. “I served in bomber command, whose 55,000 casualties are a reminder to the postwar generation, of which Page belongs, of the cost of the liberties they now enjoy,” Burnside told The Independent. “I would have hoped he would have thought of that for a moment before he refused our le gitimate request to remove his trees.” Former SNL cast member lectures on finding success NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Garrett Morris, one of the founding cast members of “Sat urday Night Live,” says he found success in show business by imagining where he want ed to be in life. Morris told Dillard University students Saturday they should spend 20 minutes each day picturing themselves with perfect, 4.0 grade-point averages. He said they will also need a passionate drive to succeed. "Imagery is no excuse for not working,” Morris, a New Orleans native and 1958 Dil lard graduate, said. Morris accepted one of the school’s “Ex cellence and Heritage” awards. Morris joined “Saturday Night Live” dur ing the first season in 1975 and stayed un til 1980. Since then, he has acted on and off Broadway and appeared on television. “Saturday Night Live” is currently cele brating its 25th season on NBC. :rt hynecek/TiihBatmI r’s (McCoy).State] stige than local cel s much pompan(i| ie should mi i state court, one The Supreme Cot or’s, since, instet klers determine ie is innocent, for “the golf coins of etiquette for ill rt. For instance: ow the judged out the courtrooit'l ith his head!” ad i ng the verdiP mance novel, id lock” for the tit 1 uestered” foras£ term "penal code hich judgmentis and among a cot] lion among thecJ Jer gravely hisoti erve his orherai HANK YOU FOR 9 GREAT YEARS! WE SPECIALIZE IN THE EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVER 216 N. 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