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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.
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