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Show SUNDAY, APRIL EDITOR I Etyssa Andrus 344-255- 3 62008 eandrusheraldextra.com 1 1 liSTOifY IX 1 J t) RICK FOWLERUniversal !"r Vf Tf ITT lTX Studios Rorida Barney the Purple Dinosaur circa 1998. : Barney is far from extinct Lynne Heffley LOS ANGELES TIMES ': ''.". HOLLYWOOD - Barney the Purple Dinosaur is routinely held up as the epitome of sappy children's entertainment. Thousands Web sites haunt of the Internet, But the children's TV and music icon must be doing something right. This year , the giggly T. rex is celebrating 20 years in the biz with a "Big Purple Bus Tour" rolling into multiple cities for (and hug) events. Still a highly ranked PBS preschool staple, "Barney & Friends" is one of the most downloaded shows on the network's PBS Kids Sprout service. And he's still charming legions of little fans with his signature, "I Love You, You Love Me" song, and other ; ' Barheyisms that trigger winces in (and worse) grown-up"My two rules are 'No Barney,' No Britney,' " Amy Trulock told The Wall Street Journal, describing the children's music she streams on her Web site, anti-Barn- meet-and-gre- et . 24-ho- ur video-on-dema- much-malign- Herald Ruth Sachs author and founder of the Center for White Rose Studies, ' German resistance group that spoke out against the Nazis. has been preserving memory of the White Rose, a s. Slams don't ruffle Karen Barnes, the executive producer of "Barney & Friends." She's heard them alL "Children get it," she says, "and a lot of adults get it, too. He s very popular in the DVD market. Obviously parents buy those, so they . approve. I think it would be a mistake to change the essence of who he is, because for 20 years children have loved that." Indeed, the rights to Barney's home videos, which have sold in ' the tens of millions, were snapped owner HIT up from London-baseEntertainment last week by film distributor Lions-gatalong with other HIT children's shows for distribution in the U.S. and Canada. " It's, been a long time, though, since Barney, who transforms in each episode from a stuffed toy into his big, pillowy self, was the hot thing in children's entertainment. ; ' He's now one preschool heavyweight among many, competing with "Sesame StreeC"Blue's Clues " "Dora the Explorer," "Bob the Builder" and d e; high-profi- le II diilHI wall lhuiiii!ii.iliiiiiiii Ihiojpirfe version of events that, said researcher Ruth Hanna Sachs, hasn't been sani-- , DAILY HERALD tized by people with personal and hisQ he story of the White Rose torical agendas. Sachs, 53 and a former freelance .lis a story of courage and accountant and translator, got the writer, convictioa It's story involved in the history of the White of students at the UniverRose in 1994, when she was planning sity of Munich who, at the n novel for young height of World War II, de to write a herod fied the Nazi regime by printing and dis- adult readers about the to tributing leaflets calling for active oppo- ism of the Munich students. Hoping sition to the policies and government of ' get answers to some basic questions, Sachs traveled to Germany intending Adolf Hitler. The nonviolent resistance interview Inge Scholl, the sister of to months several for flourished group White Rose activists Hans and executed 1943 before being brutally in 1942 and silenced by Hitler's Gestapo the Nazis Sophie Scholl, who has been considered . arrested, tried, convicted and beheaded for many years to be a leading White Rose authority. the ringleaders. Inge Scholl refused to be interviewed. The fledgling Center for White Rose Surprisingly, however, the next two Studies in Lehi wants to keep the story people Sachs contacted were eager to alive, but there's a catch. The tale that tell their stories especially after learnjtiost people know is a good one, but it Center The true. not be ing that Inge Scholl hadn't told hers. entirely may for White Rose Studies wants to tell the The first man told me 'If Inge won't Cody Clark non-fictio- real-worl- fk n r uit t k" talk to you, then I will. I wont talk to " anybody who talks to Inge.' There are reasons for the animosity, Sachs said. Inge Scholl, she said, was actually a "hardcore Nazi," who lionized her siblings to hide her own past. The Inge Scholl version of events plays up . the heroism and leadership of Hans and Sophie, said Sachs, while minimizing the roles played by others who were more , vital to the success of the White Rose before its bloody demise. The skewed story is the basis of the 2005 movie "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days." Sachs's sister, publisher Denise Heap, said that, despite being "a terrible movie," "The Finals Days" has helped revive interest in the White Rose. After people have seen the movie, Heap said, "even if what they know is faulty, at least we've got a basis for talking to 4 i those who exhibit interest." See WHITE ROSE, , ' C2 "Tel-etubbie- - See BARNEY, C6 f YouTube Giving gjft of life and putting journey on Michael Moore, ofWestfield, Ind, fright! chats with his friend Stephen Gottschalk, of , Hillsboro, Mo., inGottschalk's room at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, on Wednesday. Moore lost 50 pounds so he could donate his kidney to Gottschalk and documented his weight loss onYouTube. SARAH C0NARD Associated Press pounds from 250, and said he conquered to be tested to see if he could donate a ' both the "turkey waddle under his kidney. "On Nov. 19, they said we have some neck" and his former "man boobs." "If you came to me on Nov. 19, and We like to think there ST. LOUIS good news and some bad news. You're so we said, 'Mike, you've got to stop eating but a a for do match, you're isn't anything we wouldn't or youll die,' I'd have said, chocolate recalled. Moore can't take you," friend, but Michael A. Moore has the a chocolate cake and plan order 'Let's was decided He his donated being he proof: On Thursday, I would not have lost this funeral.' a and could he set change, something kidney to his best f riend, and to do so weight for myself." ; out to lose weight so he could become he lost 50 pounds in five months while But for Gottschalk, he could. The two on went He candidate. donor a good chronicling his experience in video clips cemented their friendship when they Atkins diet, lost about the low-car- b on YouTube. played on the same football team at 25 pounds, and when his weight loss Stephen Gottschalk, 50, of Hillsboro, includHillsboro High School, participated in Mo., says it's clear his friend Moore, 51, slowed, began intense workouts, rodeos and hung out with the weekend rides. bike in life. is saving his Moore, return, says ing same and videos postgroup of friends. "He was the acaHe started recording Gottschalk has given him a new lease demic. I wasnt. He had a car: I didnt " numerYouTube. to them They're ing on his own. said Moore, clearly the extrovert in the In 2006, Gottschalk was weak, started ous, low4tey and were just intended for his spirits up, but to friendship. and couldn't Gottschalk, keep sensations getting itchy They started their careers together in hospital officials say they also help to sleep at night. He has Alport's disease, the 1970s, working first for a construcshed light on his organ donation a genetic condition that caused his attion company and then at an kidneys to fail. He started dialysis that truck a drive to together. Dressed in activewear and running tempt year, but knew it wasnt a permanent "Oh, it was bad. His feet stunk, and I sneakers at BarnesJewish Hospital, . VAVvV solutioa- ... ,. in St. Louis the day before the trans-- 1 Moore, his friend since junior high, See KIDNEY, C6 wanted and he said last called him plant surgery, Moore was down to 200 year . ' Betsy Taylor THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . J) ic , 1 |