Show ‘ BLOOM COUNTY BY BERKE BREATHED The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday November 14 1B88 — Page J1 ‘The Twist’ hits big 30th By John UPI Pop Swenson ' Writer - CALVIN AND HOBBES OK BY BILL WATTERSON BUT DQH'T BREAK IT GSZWM W AND POlfr FEEL THE PAPER DON'T Cff ' HO TAKE OUT COLOR MOW AIL SIDES OP IT 90 IT STMS POINTY JUST DON'T 9M¥K M INSURANCE crnMm ARE NEW ORLEANS (UPI) Thirty yean ago sieger Hank Ballard hit on an idea teat would become one of the biggest dance cruel of the 20th century Ballard and his croup the Midnightera were already one of the country's most popular rhythm and bines acta when they went Into the studio on Nov 11 1158 to record “The Twist" “1 was watching the Midnightera doing a routine” recalled Ballard during n break in between shows at The Bine Room in New Orleans' Fairmont Hotel where he’s been playing an extended engagement “And suddenly the idea of the song just came to me because of the way they were moving around “It seemed like a very commercial idea" Ballard’s nnderstated observation YOU POLICY ON IT? notwithstanding the singer was unable to sell the song “King records put it out as the flip side to 'Teardrops On Your Letter' which went to No 4 on the BAB charts ’’ he said “I kept saying that it would be a hit but Henry Glover who wit the vice president of the company wrote 'Teardrops so that’s the one they went with “They never did like ‘The Twist' I even took it to VJ records and they put it in the vault I begged King to turn the record over after they From the very beginning I it out as a Eut the gut feeling that it was going to ne one of the biggest danee records of all time” Finally a Philadelphia disc jockey named Humble fiarv began playing “The Twist” in 1859 and the long became a minor BAB sensation Blaek kida in the Philadelphia area picked up the dance which came to the attention of record 0 ui Chubby Checker twistin' in a 1985 photo B-si- de OUT OF BOUNDS BY RECHIN & WILDER made it because I was so hot at that time I had three hit singles at once that year — 'Thrill On the Hill' ‘The Twist’ and 'Finger Poppin'" In fact Ballard ia chummy with Checker “We've always been good friends" he nid "Ill a story about how Chubby started doing tell mogul Dick Clark whose "American the you Twist We were doing n gig in Canada ana Bandstand" show had become the proving came oy and said 'Do you brother Chubby'a ground for any new pop hit know how Chubby learned that dance? We were Clark arranged for one of his copy artists the driving down Broad Street in Philadelphia plucker Chubby Checker pedestrian and we passed the Uptown theater and to record a cover version of “The Twist” together were you guys playing there We went in and virtually identical to Ballard's version When we came out of there shows four caught “He auditioned about 15 or 20 guys to find hewaitwistin”’ someone close to me" Ballard recalled "He Ballard doesn’t talk like a man who's had the wanted to find a clone When I first heard his record of a lifetime taken away from him After version I thought it was me I was taking a swim all he wrote the song and even though in a Florida pool and one of the pop stations in Checker's version was a bigger hit “a lot of Miami played it 'Wow' I thought ‘I’m getting people know it was my song and ai time goes on I get more and more credit for it" pop play now!' “Dick Clark made a deal with King to hold “I’ve never been bitter about it" said Ballard back my version of 'The Twist’ until Chubby’s "A lot of people think I’m crazy It juat doesn’t became a hit and they’d make my record of make sense to have all that hostility “We're celebrating it now 'The Twist’ is 30 ‘Finger Poppin’ Time’ a hit It was politics After version hit the top they Chubby's my years old and I'll be 52 yean old on Nov 18 and it made it to No 28 We’re gonna have a big Twist party at the Lone "It didn't bother me that Chubby'a version Star Cafe in New York City" en EEK & MEEK BY ou WHEN HOUTHWKOF PRraOEKJlS ARE ELECTED THESE DPK5 HOWIE SCHNEIDER WE HAMt A GOVKUMEOT OF THE RX15WTHE RXI5 AU IOR THE R3U5 - ed Director delivers social message By Vernon Scott UPI Hollywood Reporter HOLLYWOOD GARFIELD BY JIM DAVIS GOING TO 0£ ONE OF THOSE MONRWS ITS J (UPI) -Wr- John Carpenter iter-director is one of those anti-establishme- nt rebels tempts to make moviea that do more than entertain Carpenter would rather deliver a message in a picture than have his film become a nova with little or no social comment or impact on the body politic He makes films he would like who box-offi- ce to believe combine a dear social statement while earning 8100 million at the box office So far ALLEY OOP DAVE GRAUE BY that hasn't happened But Carpenter keeps at it His most recent effort is "They Live” a political satire masked as a science-fictio- n thriller It involves a galaxywide exploitation of Third World planets Aliens visit Earth where a tiny minority holds 50 percent of America’s wealth "It's a social revolution con trolled by aliens who hypnotize human beings subliminally through television” Carpenter TUMBLEWEEDS BY 0WMTMR Carpenter's strong suit “Anyone who makes polticial satire is taking big chances'' he Jiid “In this case I lean toward cartoons but the film allows you to laugh at it and maybe come out of the theater saymg 'Hey that's me' Satire like Jonathan Swift “I'd like audiences to ask a0HMr BY FRANK AND ERNEST ftARMACY TOM K RYAN said “The story involves the rich getting richer the poor getting poorer and the middle clan being dismantled It’s free enterprise from another galaxy exploiting humans like what is happening in the Third World” Obviously subtlety is not VYHAff!? Nice Is BOB THAVES a?out THEE $ you TAKE A ' fr plU IN THE MoPNINff and the side effects don't Kicc in ARout HAPPY until H°U? HHHIUO TVaAVIJ Ctacmm 3 MW DOR 7IMM0 THE LIVE (I) find terrifying "I got the best cast I could within the limited budget The studio gave me freedom and I slipped the picture in as science-fictio- n after which I added the politics “We don’t get too preaclnr and audiences between of 6 may come out of theaters without knowing what the picture is about “I’m not even sure I’ll reach the audience I have in mind Who knows? Bruce Willis is not in the picture so it probably won't be very big at the box tne-sge- office” s f NORTH ' J tfs Ys hearts to show strong controls in that suit Since North waa p afraid of spidei in he simply bid four diamonds and South carried cm to game Making 11 tricks u easy provided declarer loses no more than one diamond trick But South played carelessly He won the ace of spades and led the jack of diamondi West played low and declarer played low from dummy East won the singleton king Later the defenders made another diamond trick and a club Whatever declarer does in diamonds is immaterial if the suit splits 2 but when East has a singleton declarer must make the right play If East has the singleton 5 nothing matters If East holds the nine alone today's declarer's play is right But if East holds either the king or the queen alone it is right to play a low diamond to the ace Since playing low to the ace wins twice (King or queen alone with East) and playing the jack wins only once (singleton nine) obviously the correct play is a low diamond from the South hand The only exception to this would be if the bidding showed absolutely that no-trum- VAIS Oasis AUI74 EAST WEST 1017152 OKQJI VU7SI VS 1 4 OK QSI OJI2 Ql SOUTH A4 VKQJ J IS 7 1 4 K 5 1 Vulnerable: Neither Dealer South 2-- By James Jacoby This week we will look at some card combinations with a view to understanding why certain plays are correct In today’s auction South was comfortable rebidding two with the spade ace and a double stopper iq hearts When North then supported diamonds South bid three West held the of K-- 0 diamonds then you might as well lead the jack ana hope that either the suit is splitting or East has the lone nine-spot 1SS Newspaper Enterprise Assn IRON EAGLE II (78) 0 warned 7i00-9t0- 0 BUGS BUNNY BARGAIN TODAY ®BY WARNER BROS - ?WJW1 9:10-9:1- 0 FC3KJK1Y7 752-SO- wm 7i1t-f-r f LAY (I) CACHE WILEY MALL-12- N 2NU SI Feitf UeSy AMMON Th Accuawd (I) JeUI (4i4S) TiMMS Ernest Sevas Christmas MAIN hiMdiMi ALL SEATS 100 7:00-8:1- Y ry Without A Cluo ini (1:15) 7:18 :1I Dedmadi mNMM CHILD s 12-2- ' no-tru- 7i10-9tl- H-- UAd otbridge7 who I to me as Republicans what this picture means The studio asked if I couldn’t make the hero middle class Yuppies won’t be offended because it’s cartoonish” Carpenter's previous films include "Prince of Darkness" “Big Trouble in Little China" "Starman” and such horror shows is “Halloween” and “The Thing” “I don't make pictures for a specific market” he laid “I direct because I want to make good films I want audiences to see them This picture has plenty of action and violence but it's not a horror film “The aliens are not as scary 0 (76) (8:00) 7: IS 9:00 E |