Show I Page 16 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday August 13 1999 SHERMANS LAGOON Melissa Etheridge gives Lifetime TV gig a shot LOS ANGELES (AP) — A twist of fate in a smoky Southern California bar changed Melissa Etheridge's life The rocker was performing one night a decade ago when Chris Blackwell then head of Island CATHY THE HOTEL HEALTH MACHINES AVAILABLE CLUB N HOURS THERE ARE LOttfFRT FOR HAS TOUR AND TRAINERS AU ROOM SEMITE A ROOM KIT DAY IS EQUIPPED BATHROOM A ITEMS NOTES TO WITH StMHNfr A A STACK AN IRON TOR STATIONERY OPTIONS SCALE AU Of f XT'S OUR LITHE WRY Of MR WNG SURE OUR GUESTS FEEL RIGHT HT HOME ! 7 YOUR IN ROOM IWICE MAIL AlREAW HAS THREE WVC BEEN MEANING WRITE AND FRIGERATOR TENING A FULL LITHE Of MES- SAGES WAITIN6 THOSE I YOUR REFAT- snacks! BEETLE BAILEY MOTHER Records was in the audience He liked what he heard and plucked Etheridge from bar circuit obscurity to a major-lab- el record deal So far she has sold more than 23 million recordings “The entertainment business is filled with those kind of stories” Etheridge said So is real life Etheridge will narrate stories of people who have encountered twists of fate in “Beyond series debuting Monday Chance" an hour-lon- g Aug 16 on Lifetime It's the first TV gig for the Grammy-winnin- g singer known for the hits “Come to My Window" and ‘Tm the Only One” "It fit so well I am a storyteller" she said “I get up on stage and I tell stories with music" Lifetime with programming that taigets women approached Etheridge to be host “I felt it had to be very organic and very natural and it had to be a storytelling emphasis" she said “It was not to be sensational or strange” narration is woven with Etheridge's husky-voicinterviews of the people whose lives have changed She tapes her segments separately often doing a couple a day That allows her to spend time with her son 2 12-- y car-ol- d daughter and an One of the stories that moved Etheridge was that of a young girl and boy at a German concentration camp The girl secretly brings food to the boy until the day he tells her he's being transferred to another camp Years later in the United States they meet again — on a blind date The couple has been married ever since “I get all choked up every time 1 talk about it" Etheridge said “That was really special'' Another story involves a black woman who gets in touch with a white sociology professor 2000 miles away to help trace her ancestry back to the days of slavery The two women eventually discover that the black woman's ancestors were once owned by the professor's forebears “What's fabulous is each story is so different There are stories that border on the impossible” Etheridge said “They’re like little documentaries I love the information I'll watch any biography on ed anything" Etheridge doesn't sing or write music for the show but she said she might base a future song on one of the stories “That's something that I had thought about” she said “They are such cool stories and they're so compelling that I find that inspiring” The show’s researchers check each story for authenticity They predict future segments will be prompted by viewers pitching their own ideal PEANUTS AP Photo Singer Melissa Etheridge speaks during a panel discussion at the Television Press Tour in Pasadena Calif July 17 1999 Etheridge who has sold more than 25 million records will narrate stories of people who have encountered series debuttwists of fate in "Beyond Chance an hour-lon- g ing Aug 16 on Lifetime “They said once these start airing then people start calling in and writing and Etheridge said The scries is her first foray into the working vacation from recording world after a three-yeand touring Her new album “Breakdown” is due in October “I needed a break People needed a break from me” she said “At the end of the last tour there were 20000 people in the arena It wasn't special anymore and 1 didn't want it to get like that I'm happy to be back” ar Elsewhere in television ‘FAT LADY’ REMEMBERED: Food Network will broadcast a tribute Sunday honoring Jennifer Paterson of “Two Fat Ladies” who died this week at age 71 The two-hoprogram beginning at 8 MT feature will favorite episodes of the funny pm and informative cooking show that teamed Paterson with Clarissa Dickson Wright So take this special ride with Jennifer in the saddle of her Triumph and Clarissa stulTcd into its sidecar as they chuff through the placid British countryside looking to create tasty fare as well as a little mischief Italways a feast ur H ‘Bowfinger’ is an inspired farce Bob Thomas Associated Press Writer MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM WHERtHAUe f SOfTOjTOW5my6RIMMMaW(lT WUBOWBKWfJ fgpOEf COME 0MIMAP6 ACWFIR jp I co-sta- rs or — 'isn ni4f5iumLyw FOX TROT e) REAL LIFE ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME Win Today is the only Friday the 13th this year making 1999 good for the superstitious Well I suspect that West in this deal which occurred during a team-of-fomatch played many years ago in Finland felt that he should have stayed in bed West would have done better to but he was open one lured by his five-car- d major weak though it was After two two hearts passes South cue-bi- d to show game in his own hand ur no-tru- Maybe North with that void should have settled for three diamonds but after his actual choic- es of two and three it was clear to South that his partner held of hearts So into the teeth of the no-tru- no-tru- jack-four- H E th known 0 split South jumped to seven hearts! After ruffing the diamond king declarer immediately led out win 3-- so insecure that he requires the domineering of a New Age guru (Terence Stamp) who counsels celebrities while picking their pockets By chance Bowfinger encounters Ramsey's dim-bubrother Jiff who hears enough resemblance to double for Kit (Murphy plays this role too) The real merriment comes with the surreptitious crew’s efforts to film Kit Ramsey without his lb knowledge Frank Oz — who started with the Muppcts and graduated to “Little Shop of Horrors'' and “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” — stages these chases with the skill of a Mack Scnnctt Martin delivers a flawless performance as the ultimate con man: He could sell 76 trombones to Harold Hill Murphy is at his antic best alternating between fury at being pestered and terror that Bowfingcr’s actor-aliearc really out to destroy him The two stars arc surrounded hy a brilliant array of oddballs: Heather Graham as a country girl determined to achieve stardom hy sleeping with the right people Christine Baranski as a vastly untalcntcd actor grande dame Kohl Suddulh as a Oz delivers this nonstop foolishness ul a compact 93 minutes a perfect length for farce “Bowfinger" a Universal Pictures release of an Imagine Entertainment production was produced by Brian Glazcr Rated PG-1- 3 for some adult ns self-inflat- at bridge By Phillip Alder f: review mmm mmmmmmm MOViG What a marvel Steve Martin is The onetime wild and crazy guy has already contributed mightily to screen comedy In recent years he has also written an acclaimed play “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” and put together a book of his magazine pieces “Pure Drivel” Now he has written a demented comedy with Eddie Mur“Bowfinger” in which he phy There hasn't been so much inspired madness on the screen since the Man Brothers You would expect Martin to provide a fabulous role for himself and he has Bobby Bowfinger is a producer-directtm the lowest rung of the Hollywood ladder He is so phony that he wean a detachable pony tail He will do anything legal or otherwise to put together a movie deal You think “The Blair Witch Project” had a tiny budget? Bowfinger could shoot a feature for one day’s cost of that movie Bowfinger finds inspiration in a script written by about an Iranian accountant (Adam Alexi-Mallaliens who fall to earth in raindrops He gathers a cast of hangers-o- n who are willing to work for nothing plus an assistant (Jamie Kennedy) a studio gofer who knows how to sneak out film equipment Still Bowfinger needs a gimmick His brainstorm: film a top star in his daily comings and goings and work them into the movie He chooses Kit Ramsey (Murphy) an action star I ii ning spades (Drawing one round of trumps would have been fatal) West ruffed the third spade and dummy ovemiffed South played a trump to his queen At this point dummy had the J-- hearts left declarer held the of 9 A-- K and West clutched the Unconcerned South continued North V At the other table South jumped straight to seven spades Again West doubled 9 8 6 Q 10 S S 4 Q J 7 3 West J East 12 7 V 7 5 4 3 2 V A K J A K 9 -4 with winning spades If West ever ruffed dummy would overruff allowing declarer to draw trumps and finish the spades If West never ruffed South would cross-ru- ff the last four tricks J G — 9 7 5 1 2 10 I S 5 4 2 South AKQ 3 10 9654 AKQ10 — — Vulnerable: Both Dealer West and he found the lethal heart lead How? 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