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Rodriguez, Hargrove share xCity Limits' spotlight
Johnny Rodriguez and Linda Hargrove, two name?
high on the list of today's most entertaining performers,
appear on Austin City Limits over PBS Friday, March 31
at 9 p.m. on the NETV network.
Twenty-five-year-old Johnny Rodriguez's climb to star
dom has been an almost classic American folk tale. It a
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Photo courtesy of PBS
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THE MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY performs
three of Miss Graham's most controversial and
innovative modern dance ballets when 'In Performance
at Wolf Trap' airs Tuesday, April 4, on PBS.
Works that will be performed in the special, made
possible by a grant from the Atlantic Richfield Company,
include Miss Graham's acclaimed 'Seraphic Dialogue,' '0
Thou Desire Who Art About to Sing,' a new work which
Miss Graham dedicated to the late Alexander Catder.
and a revival of Miss Graham's controversial
'Phaedra.'
The special was taped last summer at Wolf Trap
Farm Park for the Performing Arts during the dance
company's debut performance there.
'Seraphic Dialogue' is based on the drama of Joan
of Arc at the moment of her exaltation. In a dialogue
with Sts. Michael. Catherine and Margaret, whose voices
had guided her toward her destiny, she looks back on
herself as a maiden, a warrior and a martyr and.
transfigured, is taken up to her place of honor.
Well-known fashion designer Haltton designed the
costumes for this dance.
0 Thou Desire Who Art About to Sing.' whose title
is taken from a poem by John Pert, was first performed
m New York last May. It has been described as "a love
duet which strives to show the complexities of human
relationships as a series of external and internal
struggles
Phaedra.' a 1962 recreation of the Greek myth, in
which Miss Graham alway? danced the leading role until
the revival, is one of her most controversial dance
pieces The myth is the story of the goddess Aphrodite,
who falls in love with the mortal man Hippolytus. But
he is not responsive to the goddess and in revenge.
Aphrodite causes Hippolytus' stepmother Phaedra to fall
n love with him. The scene pictured above shows
Aphrodite (Diane Gray, left) invoking her terrible curse
on Phaedra (Bonnie Oda Homtey) and Hippolytus (Mark)
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began several years ago when the Sabirtal, Tex. lad was
arrested for goat rustling (for a barbecue). While in jail, he
played his guitar for a local texas Ranger, who told a
friend, who in turn hired Rodriguez to work at Alamo
Village, a Texas tourist attraction.
At the Village, Rodriguez met Tom T. Hall, who
offered him a job in his band, an offer Rodriguez later
accepted. Then followed a recording contract in 1972 and
his hit single, "Pass Me By."
Since that time, Rodriguez has enjoyed extraordinary
recording success-his first eight albums made the top ten,
with several reaching Number One. His new album, Prac
tice Makes Perfect, promises to add to his impressive list
of hits.
Some of Rodriguez's singles are practically country
classics, including "Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico," which
he sings on Austin City Limits, 'That's the Way Love
Goes," "Just Get Up and Close the Door" and "Hill
billy Heart."
Linda Hargrove, one of the brightest new musical
talents around Nashville, shares something besides talent
with Johnny Rodriguez. He recorded a song written by
her)"Just Get Up and Close the Door"-and it zoomed to
Number One on the charts. Hargrove was established as a
songwriter to watch.
Another Hargrove song, "I've Never Loved Anyone
More," was recorded by Lynn Anderson, and it climbed
to the Top Ten as did "Let It Shine," recorded by Olivia
Newton-John.
Hargrove also has spent a lot of time working as a
session musician, often with artists who have recorded her
songs.
Linda Hargrove has a career as a performer too,
however. She has four albums to her credit and has done
extensive touring.
Originally from North Florida, she studied piano as a
child and taught herself to play guitar when she was 14.
In 1970 she moved to Nashville and the rest is histroy.
Hargrove's selections on Austin City Limits include
"Blue Jean Country Queen," "Music is Your Mistress"
and "All Alone in Austin."
Austin City Limits is a production of KLRN-TV,
San AntonioAustin and is distributed nationally by the
Public Broadcasting Service.
Linda Hargrove
Photo courtesy of PBS
WEDNESDAY APR. 5, 1978
EVENING
1:00 OOQOGD NEW8
O EMERGENCY ONE
Q DICK VAN DYKE SHOW
09 INTRODUCTION TO WORLD
FOOD PROBLEMS
30 O BETWEEN THE WAR8
Versailles-The Lost Peace"
O MARY TYLER MOORE
0 TO TELL THE TRUTH
0 CONCENTRATION
0 MUPPET SHOW Guest
Teresa Brewer.
0 ODD COUPLE
(Q MUPPET 8HOW Guest: Petula
Clark.
m MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT
7:00 0 NEWLYWED GAME
0 0 THE LIFE AND TIMES OF
GRIZZLY ADAMS Grizzly and Mad
Jack befriend the young Capt.
Ulysses Grant and help him con
duct an official survey, but they
soon realize that the project could
cost the lives of thousands of
animals. (60 min.)
O Q EIGHT 18 ENOUGH Joanie
wins the lead in a modern
Shakespearean production, but
doesn't want her father to know
she must play a daring scene, (fl;
60 min.)
O GD THE AMAZING SPIDER
MAN Peter Parker, a student and
part-time news photographer,
finds that not only he is a suspect
in a plutomum theft but also his
secret superhero alter ego.
Spider-Man. Stars: Nicholas Ham
mond, Robert F. Simon.
(Premiere, 60 min )
0 ADAM 12
03 LIVE FfeOM THE MET
"Cavalleria Rusticana And
Pagliacci" James Levine con
ducts this double bill telecast
from the Metropolitan Opera in
New York. Mascagm's "Cavalleria
Rusticana" is a one-act opera of
love and revenge, Leoncavallo's
"Pagliacci" is the tragic story of a
band of wandering clowns. (3
hrs )
7:30 0 HOLLYWOOD CONNECTION
0 MOVIE "The Enforcer" 1950
Humphrey Bogart. Zero Mostel. A
racket-buster hits his targets with
an impact as sensational as the
headlines that created the story.
(2 hrs )
1:00 0 MOVIE "V4 "The Ceremony"
1964 Laurence Harvey. Sarah
Miles A man Is sentenced to die
for murder committed during a
bank hold-up His brother plans to
edsoy
INDOOR COUNTRY
MUSIC SHOW
Leading country music performers,
including stars of Nashville's Grand
Ole Opry, will be among 100 enter
tainers headlining 'The World's Lar
gest Indoor Country Music Show,' a
special hosted by Kenny Rogers and
Dottie West to be presented on
NBC-TV Wednesday, April 5.
Performers will include Roy Acuff
(dean of country music), Minnie Pearl
(star of the Grand Ole Opry and
queen of the country comediennes).
Grandpa Jones of 'Hee Haw' (pic
tured with Miss Pearl) and his wife
Ramona, Bill Monroe (blue grass
music headliner) and The Osborne
Brothers (top blue grass group).
Also performing are Porter
Wagoner (composer-performer-record
producer), Little Jimmy Dick
ens of the Grand Ole Opry, Don
Williams, the Oak Ridge Boys, the
comedy team of Lonzo and Oscar,
14-year-old Wendy Holcombe,
singer-songwriter Jeanne Pruett,
blind singer-guitarist Benny Dean and
harmonica virtuoso Charlie McCoy.
President Carter's brother Billy is
scheduled to make an appearance.
escape with condition that man's
girl "yield" to him. (2 hrs.)
0 0 WORLD'S LARGEST IN
DOOR COUNTRY MUSIC 8 HOW
Kenny Rogers and Dottie West
are the co-hosts of this concert
held before an audience of 65,000
at the Silverdome in Michigan.
Guest performers: Minnie Pearl,
Porter Wagoner, Larry Gatlin and
many others. (2 hrs.)
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Nicholas Hammond plays the title role in THE
AMAZING SPIDER -MAN series of adventure
dramas based on the comic book superhero pre
miering Wednesday, April 5, on CBS-TV.
O Q CHARLIE'S ANGELS Kelly
and Kris go undercover as beauty
contestants while Sabrina and
Bosley pose as documentary film
producers. The caper: someone
is playing dirty tricks to pave the
way to the winner's circle for the
daughter of a Texas tycoon. (R, 60
min.)
O WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE
"Race With The Devil" Stars:
Peter Fonda, Warren Oates. A
vacation trip for two-couples
traveling cross-country becomes
terror-filled race to escape a
murdering band of modern day
witches. (2 hrs.)
63 LAWRENCE WELK SHOW
1:00 O O 8TAR8KY AND HUTCH
The investigation of a loanshark
ing operation becomes a deadly
game when Hutch's girlfriend is
used as bait to trap a ruthless col
lector. (R, 60 min )
63 GUN8MOKE
30 O NEWS
10:00 O STAR TREK The Ultimate
Computer" (60 min.)
flOOQOG) NEWS
O 000 COUPLE
DICK CAVETT SHOW
10 30 0 O THE TONIGHT SHOW
Host: Johnny Carson Guest:
Fred Astaire (90 min )
O O POUCE STORY-MYSTERY
OF THE WEEK Police Story-"The
Cutting Edge" A police sergeant
has a difficult time adjusting when
his longtime partner retires (R)
Mystery of the Week-'Demon.
Demon" A married couple are
caught up in a vorte of
demor.ology that threatens to
destroy their lives (R. 2 hrs . 30
mm.)
O FOREVER FERNWOOO
O MOVIE " Tun.s Is Top
Secret' 1966 Eisa Martineih.
Georgia Moll On a mission to
photograph an international
potentate, a reporter uncovers a
conspiracy to assassinate him (2
hn )
63 CB8 LATE MOVIE "Hawaii
Five-O" When a doctor's wife is
murdered and a man confesses to
the crime, McGarrett finds too
man holes in the story and he
suspects the doctor of the crime.
(R) "Kojak: A Killing In The Se
cond House" Stars: Telly Savalas,
Kevin Dobson. (R)
03 LEGISLATIVE REVIEW
11:00 0 POLICE STORY-MYSTERY OF
THE WEEK Police Story-"Eamon
Kinsella Royce" Jackie Cooper
stars as a detective who
moonlights as a claims in
vestigator for an insurance com
pany. (R) Mystery of the Week
"Alien Lover" A lonely teenaged
girl finds a friend in a television
image from another dimension.
(R; 2 hrs , 30 min.)
O CBS LATE MOVIE "Hawaii
Five-O" Five upstanding citizens
seek revenge in the form of an
elaborate 16 million heist that
McGarrett finds difficult to solve
(R) "Kojak: Close Cover Before
Killing Stars: Telly Savalas.
Kevin Dobson. (R)
69 FIRING LINE Host William F
Buckley. Jr "James Schlesmger
The Energy Crisis" Guest James
Schlesmger (60 min )
12:00 0 0 TOMORROW Most Tom
Snyder Guest: Jack Vaienti. head
of the Motion Picture Association
of America. (60 min )
12:90 O 63 NEWS
1:00 ONEWS
1:20 O DRAGNET
1:30 0 MOVIE The Ceremony
1964 Laurence Harvey. Sarah
Miles (90 mm )
1:48 0 FOCUS
3:00 0 DICK VAN DYKE SHOW
1:90 NtQHT GALLERY
4:00 0 THRILLER
0:00 0 UNTAMED WORLD
1:90 0 WILDLIFE THEATRE
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