| Show DESERET NEWSTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE TUES The Songs the Same the Politics Have Changed By Larry McShane ASSOCIATED - PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — The topics for today are censorship presidential politics and the right to vote Our guests: Steven Tyler And Joe Perry of Aerosmith No this is not "Wayne's World" (First clue: This is a newspaper not a television) And yes these two know what they're talking about Aerosmith — better known f or its attitude than its aptitude — has brought its rock :'n' roll viewpoint out of the studio And into the open in recent years There's the : Cts'' d awe At e ' - giant condom encouraging voter registration There are the shows the benefit for battered women their unlikely 1990 hit single about child abuse "Janie's Got a food-ban- k Now there's a new album "Get Grip" the band's first since 1989's multiplatinum "Pump" The first single "Livin' on the Edge" deals in part with the Los Angeles riots So what about its guys? Aerosmith party band of he "70s new role models for musicians in the '90s? had enough of rock 'n' roll" Tyler joked in an interview from Boston "We did enough damage in the "70s and now it's time to get socially relevant" To quote Wayne and Garth 'Not!" Which explains some of the other tracks on the new album: "Flesh" "Shut Up and - a- ol Dance" "Fever" "Eat the Rich" at's more of what you'd expect of the band whose success gave way to excess before a late '80s come-:bac- k "You don't want to do too much We try to stay out of poligics stay out of that stuff" ex-Pta- h - ' 1 I ! - 4: I 2 f:' Z f e : ' trt it of r 1'' ' i1 : f : " t::4"t: '111-- : '' 4''''j 1 :' k:4"" 1 - ' - x4 ! i' "WI° - i 01i t' 1 -- r lk 'll t 16--- - ' r ) - ' ''- 01 0- 19p -'1 ' - i i 16r4A711 '74F" 4"4"410"1"711641?: - "r'itkR 1 t4-1- I I $ - Itps4 : ' Aerosmith the party band of the 70's have cleaned up thier lives and decided its time to become socially relevant plained lead guitarist Perry "But you bring elements of what you know into your art You bring in your feelings" Those feelings include putting their money where their mouths are when it comes to censorship The band put up $10000 for a 1992 art show at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after the National Endowment for the Arts withdrew its funding over the inclusion of some nudity "That was just 'Wake up neighborhood They're not letting you see this art thing because George Bush is trying to get reelected" said Perry "It wasn't about art it wasn't about whether this was art" In their decadent past Tyler acknowledged such issues were not high on the band's priority list "There were times in the past we weren't conscious of what was going on we weren't around enough" said Tyler "We'd sit around and not get into politics But you've got to speak up once in a while We all live here" Tyler and Perry were living in Los Angeles at the time of last year's rioting in the wake of the Rodney King verdict "Livin' on the Edge" it turns out was released just before deliberations started this year in the second trial of four officers accused of s violations for beating civil-right- King "We were thinking when we wrote this 'The worst has happened This won't be relevant" Tyler recalled "But it always will be" This band's relevance was in doubt during the late 1970s and early 1980s when it splintered both he and Tyler struggled to overcome their addictions A reunion produced the mildly received "Done With Mirrors" By 1987 Aerosmith was back big and bad as ever with the smash album "Permanent Vacation" and three hit singles "Pump" did even better with 4 million in sales and four hit singles The result: a massive new record deal and the No 18 spot on the Forbes magazine 1991 listing of wealthiest entertainers The Boston bad boys ranked ahead of 01' Blue Eyes himself Frank Sin- atra Throw in the band's first Grammy and some MTV awards and it's obvious there's a lot riding on the new record Pressure anyone? "No We've been through this so many times that's one of the first things out the window" said Perry "It felt great winning a Grammy and you look at the amount of records sold and you know you did something "But when it's time to write another record you can't wonder 'Are they going to like it? Are they going to buy it?' You can't write from that place" The next place for the band is the road with a world tour planned to run through next summer Rest assured that while raising the roof Aerosinith will continue raising its voice "There's a certain amount of people out there remaining silent" said Tyler "And the more there are the more control they (politicians) have You've just got to show you're there" I Red Wine and Truffles? Controversial Diet Getting Lots of Press But Does it Work ti Sega to Deliver Video Games Via Cable TV d 4 414 : I By Genevieve Buck CHICAGO TRIBUNE PARIS — If Bill Clinton his would simply : —pancreas and switch from downing Cokes and hamburgers to chowing down champagne and foie gras he could allegedly lose 25 pounds within three months "And he could save 20 minutes every morning as well because he wouldn't have to jog to lose weight" That's the advice of Michel Montignac (pronounced montin-yak) the French diet guru who lost 28 pounds in three months by paying attention to his pancreas and who now maintains his svelte physique by eating cheese and chocolate truffles whenever he wishes and drinking red wine with every meal but breakfast to He claims lose weight is "a myth" calls sugar "poison" and potatoes s exer"just as bad" cise and believes his regimen will be lambasted in the States because doctors are jealous of him and "the diet industry is so big in America and they don't want to go out of business" Indeed Montignac's radical theories have already come under fire: In France nutrition professionals have called his method dangerous some have dismissed him as a quack and —his method as just another diet gimmick As his method becomes known in the United States dietitians are stressing that his ideas about diet have no scientific foundation According to Montignac he went searching for a way to lose weight for two very specific reasons: (I) His father and grandfalher each tipped the scale at 300 pounds and he definitely didn't want to end up weighing what they did (2) He had to find a way to avoid getting fat while constantly entertaining clients "at fine restaurants all in the : line of duty as the former Euro: pean personnel director for Abbott Laboratories suburban : of Chicago north !just - What Montignac did was to 7 dig up all sorts of scientific data : (some of it thanks to Abbott's he claims) that led him to -'' files create his own rules for losing : weight He did indeed lose his ' excess pounds and went on to : parlay his food theories into a self-style- d calorie-countin- g pooh-pooh- food-combini- I ' ‘ i I: 5 : 1 ' 1 :' I i I r i 14 t t1 ! t I I ' r - mini-empir- e: Ile's sold 18 million copies of his books including "Dine Out ' and Lose Weight" a in France since '87 he's opened best-sell- 4 - er two food boutiques in Paris — and intends to open 10 more in Europe — that sell only his own private label wines breads jams and chocolates he plans to open a restaurant in Paris this fall (his first is located near Charles de Gaulle airport and a spa just outside Paris by early '95 49 Millionaire Montignac 6 feet tall 165 pounds — is a businessman with no medical background and no formal training in nutrition He admits that even his wife did not believe in his weight-losmethods until he started appearing on TV and on the covers of magazines such as the London Times and L'Express It's no wonder that she might have a doubt or two Montignac's beliefs contradict many theories that have become gospel in the realm of weight loss When he couldn't find a publisher who would risk printing his first book he started his own publishing company He certainly has his followers however among them French fashion designer Christian Lacroix In the plan food is categorized by its "glycemic index" the amount of glucose they release into the blood According to Montignac white bread white rice potatoes carrots corn cornflakes beets bananas refined flour are "bad carbohydrates" because they contain starch which is converted into glucose That leads the pancreas to pump out large amounts of insulin which in turn drives blood sugar into the body's cells When glucose is excessive the body stores fat s high-profi- le "Good carbohyrates" are brown rice whole wheat bread beans lentils whole wheat pasta wild rice green vegetables and dark chocolate (with a cacao content of 65 percent) The theory is that though these foods also contain starch their high fiber content slows its conversion into glucose He advocates fresh and cooked vegetables meat poultry and fish The second part of the program involves combinations of foods Mixing This and proteins is OK but neither should be combined with carbohydrates since certain combinations hinder digestion according to Montignac's book For example butter's fine and whole wheat bread is great but together Ditto they're definitely a for pastacheese combos and no-n- o ham sandwiches "This food combining idea is totally unscientific" says Felicia Busch a registered dietitian from St Paul Minn and spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association "And somebody resurrects it every few years as a trend" Montignac has other commandments that must be remembered and followed religiously: Fruit should be eaten alone for example fruit juice should precede breakfast by at least 20 minutes and don't dare eat a piece of fruit as dessert because fruit should follow a meal by three hours (That breakfast by the way might very well include bacon and eggs — both on Montignac's OK list but heaven forbid that it should include a banana or cornflakes) Not so incidentally there are no limitations on the quantities of food eaten Montignac emphasizes that one the method is a h During the initial two- - to segment there are greater restrictions (no sugar no spirits) since weight loss is the goal The maintenance period — a lifetime — also has some restrictions (go easy on desserts but pate and wine are just fine) Some dietitians point out that weight loss is not surprising on Montignac's diet especially in the early phases when sugar and some carbohydrates are tatwo-phas- e three-mont- boo What concerns dietitian Busch is that Montignac "focuses only on weight loss not on health maintenance He violates sound scientific principles of low-fdiets moderation variety and balance that we know are essential to good health" There are no good foods or bad foods adds Busch dismissing his goodbad carbohydrate theory but what "is really alarming" is the way he encourages drinking wine "It's a drug not a nutrient" she says Montignac has grown accustomed to criticism but he expects similar reactions to escalate as he becomes known in the United States which he constantly indicates is the obesity capital of the world During an interview in his headquarters near the Arc de Triomphe and a visit to his restaurant he says: "I know for a fact that traditional dieting makes you fat as you can see from the United States the country with the most people on a diet and the highest incidence of obesity" at ' By Jonathan Takiff KNIGHT-RIDDE- NEWSPAPERS Couch potatoes will have anoth- er excuse for never leaving home Sega Genesis video games will be zapping through the cable TV wire to your videogame system to like pay be rented cable and at a comparable charge Scheduled for test city marketing by year's end with nationwide availability possible next year The Sega Channel will deliver approximately 100 Genesis format games per month including classics from their 500 game library recent releases and previews of coming titles Only the hottest new titles will be reserved for retail sale or rental only following the pattern for videotapes today Sega expects its new "try before you buy" system will encourage extra game sales A special tunerdecoder cartridge will connect to the cable TV line and be plugged into your Genesis game's cartridge slot After tuning your TV to the Sega Channel you'll use a joy stick to steer a cursor around an onscreen menu and pick the game you want to play You'll also be able to access game play tips news contests and promotions While certain "technical tradeoffs" have yet to be finalized Doug Glen Sega group vice president of business development said it would take no more than five minutes to download a game like "Sonic The Hedgehog" to your home console Sega's partners in the project Time Warner Entertainment and TeleCommunications Inc will offer the Sega Channel first on their cable systems Those two tap into of the nation's 68 million cable subscribers Much ado has been made by both Time Warner and TC1 (among others) about interactive delivery systems that'll bring all kinds of video programming to the home "on demand" virtually customized to your needs In fact the Sega Channel will jump the gun because it uses today's standard analog cable explained Larry Romrell senior vice president of TCI "Virtually every cable operator will be able to offer this service now without waiting for the new digital cable technologies At the same time this development signals the beginning of an explosion of interactive programming for netour developing broad-banpre-record- one-thir- d high-tec- h works" Parents may find the service a a mixed blessing At month a subscription to the Sega Channel will be far less expensive than buying one game cartridge a month at $45470 $10-$1- 5 MAY 1 25-2- 6 - 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' 1' lik-!- 7 '' '1--- 111t629- '' ''' ' A eA - - - ' )14 - - ' 'n I : 1 i If 11 IT t rk 4 t A - - ' 041 ' 4t ' roamoins1Nut14Nk 440 :'-- - ter44-1- ii"- - 03 p iriliti 4 P 4 I : — 4 - po N41 4 : - 3 993 v F: A three-yea- r hiatus followed 1982's "Rock in a Hard Place" Perry started his own band and gan ' - - ‘ i t it ''''''144S114444441 t' 0 ' " t1--- i "Fr 4 : 1 P IN: "'''' e I a - - 444'3' i r" '''' 1 441': 4--- A A i'' 0: 'A j'71r:It ti- ' ' ik r 4' :1 t k-- ' 411'i' 4 :4 award the band received this year from attorney Alan Dershowitz for funding a controversial art There's the outrageous "Rock o I T '' 1:4:1 v Je" I' nogk anti-censorsh- ip 'the Vote" ad they did before the 1992 presidential election complete with whipped cream and a t' ' - " under the drug and alcohol problems of Perry and Tyler After the multimillion sales of "Toys in the Attic" and ''Rocks" they were hailed as the American version of the Rolling Stones Instead the band disintegrated After six straight platinum albums their next two records failed to break the 1 million mark - PMWED AM 7 While Americans say they hate violence in the movies 'Terminator 2' starring Arnold Schwartenegger was 1991's top grossing movie Hollywood Starting to Confront The Issue of Violence on Film same conference "They set a By Pat Widder NEW YORK — Listen closely That you hear is the sound of media moguls toting up the profits from such fare as "Beauty and the Beast" and "Groundhog Day" and calculating the ratings for "Dr Quinn Medicine Woman" It's also the sound of a clock ticking toward December when extime runs out on a three-yea- r ka-chu- ka-chu- emption from antitrust laws granted to the television networks to work together on the issue of violence And in the background are the barely perceptible sounds of a sea of change in how society views violence on television and in the movies Make no mistake: America still glorifies violence in ways that seem obscene in some parts of the world While Americans say they hate violence in the movies "Termina- tor 2" rolled through as the top grossing movie in 1991 More than 20000 Americans are murdered each year and there are an estimated 200 million guns in the US So it is unlikely that violence on TV and in movies is going to disappear But something does seem to be changing The people who run the studios make the movies and put shows on TV are recognizing that they play a role in the glorification of violence according to comments made at two recent industry conferences They may finally be getting it — "it" being that 80 percent of the American people are deeply troubled by violence in entertainment and think it harms society according to a Times Mirror poll released last week Consider that the biggest surprise of the current television season is the runaway success of a series about a frontier doctor in a skirt — the aforementioned Dr Quinn on CBS And "The Last Action Hero" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger among the world's most bankable stars will very deliberately be when it arrives from rated PG-1Columbia Pictures in June Five years ago say studio heads such a rating would have been the kiss of death It's about time says US Sen who has been Paul Simon this issue since 1985 pushing when he flipped on a television set and saw someone being sawed in half with a chainsaw "I'm old enough to know it isn't real but it bothered me" said Simon "I'm also a member of the American Civil Liberties Union" he added emphasizing that he doesn't favor government controls "But somehow in a free society we have to deal with this" Simon wrote and shepherded through Congress the Television Violence Act which gave the net works the antitrust exemption so they legally could get together to talk about the issue Last December the heads of the networks agreed to joint standards on entertainment violence And in August the networks the Motion Picture Association of America the National Cable Television Association the studios and independent producers will convene an industrywide conference in Los Angeles to discuss further steps to take "Congress is mad about (this) and they're right to be" said CBS 3 card-carryin- cul- tural tone" He cited the "Lethal CHICAGO TRIBUNE g President Howard Stringer speaking to a packed conference on the entertainment business sponsored by Variety magazine and Wertheim Schroder & Co last week "Movies are so powerful" Michael Fuchs chairman and chief executive of HBO said at the Weapon" movies and many of Clint Eastwood's films that "glorify violence That doesn't cause violence but it drifts down through society" He added "We are not the problem but we are part of the problem" "We are the 20th century's defining life form" said Peter Guber chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures Entertainment Pacing back and forth across the dais and gesturing to the crowd Guber asked "Do we reflect our culture or do we shape it?" He didn't specifically answer his own question but if entertainment shapes culture the violence in entertainment plays a role in the culture And if it merely reflects the culture as Brandon Tartikoff former head of NBC programming and Paramount Pictures once noted there should be as many depictions of churchgoing as of violence After all Tartikoff said millions of people go to church every Sunday "We need to admit more responsibility" Stringer said to applause from the audience "We're going to be much tougher this fall'' on programming choices he added "If you deglarnorize violence I think it will have an impact" said Simon "It's a little like arms control If everyone agrees not to produce nuclear weapons then no one is at an advantage by doing so" "I sense a societal change Movies are a reflection of society" said Columbia Chairman Mark Canton speaking at the same forum Canton noted that a movie was three times as likely to gross $100 million as an movie Further he said 40 percent of PG films grossed more than $20 million while only 20 movies broke percent of PG-rate- d that barrier "I am not one to suggest that movyou shouldn't make ies" added Canton "But the op- portunities for PG have to be looked at carefully" Going from is "often a simple R to PG-1- 3 thing" James Robinson chairman and chief executive of Morgan Creek Productions whose hits include -Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" movies are losirg says bad-gu- y out to relationship movies "Clearly love is back" he said Jack Valenti president and chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America noted at the conference that entertainment violence "is a problem and it's a political problem" Valenti like Simon emphasizes opposition to government-imposesanctions "I'm an implacable foe of censorship" said Valenti But both also cite the entertainment industry's conscious shift in recent years on the casual use of tobacco drugs and alcohol as a model for toning down violence The offhand use of such substances has been virtually "expunged" said Valenti "not by edict or regulation but by the combined efforts of creative d people" Fuchs said the movies HBO makes have a "low violence facfilms tor" recent include "Barbarians at the Gate" "Stalin" and "Hostages" But Fuchs admitted the theatrical movies licensed for showing on HBO are "quite high" in violence Ile said he had been troubled some years ago after HBO televised "The Deer Hunter" the Vietnam War film with a graphic sequence of US soldiers playing Russian roulette "We found out after the fact that people were trying Russian roulette and were killing themselves" said Fuchs made-for-HB- I I I 1 t I I 1 ' 1 "bnitia |
