Wednesday, April 11, 1934
Daily Nebraskan
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On the air he's Paul W. Morgan - fun
but not offensive a morning person
ality but not a morning person. He's
serious about what he does, but he has
fun doing it. lie could be crazier, but he
doesn't think Lincoln is quite ready for
that yet.
JoAnne
Young
The KFRX morning announcer came
to Lincoln eight months ago via Joplin,
Mo., because he saw a chance to im
prove his skills and take a step up in
his career. At the ripe old age of 22,
Morgan already had spent six years in
radio, mostly at the country music end
of it. He said he looks at the KFRX job
as a challenge.
"I was used to relating to farmers,"
Morgan said. "Now I'm communicating
with people who have a better educa
tion than I do, and who have been
doing what they do longer than I have.
I'm a farm boy. To me, this is the city
life."
Morgan also was used to a more lib
eral atmosphere than he has found
here. In Joplin he was known as Play
boy PauL
"It was incredible what we did (on
the air)," he said. "We delivered in the
old 'GOs style, with as much insinuation
of sex as possible. In country radio you
can go wild and crazy and no one
thinks that's out of the ordinary. It was
a fun format."
But Morgan said he got sick of coun
try and was ready for new music and a
new approach and that's what he
got at KFRX.
The Lincoln market is very compet
itive, he said, "and the qurlity is getting
CBS mini-series on Washington
oners nothing new for viewer
By Mike Frost
CBS, the same folks who are bringing
us the Richard Nixon memoirs, also
are' bringing us George Washington, a
three part mini-series on the cherry
tree kid himself. In fact, It's hard to
determine which program is filled with
more distortions and less historical
content.
Television
Review
Probably Washington , although the
occasional factual faux pas is not
what mars this' ill-conceived effort.
Rather, it is the sum total of the cast,
writing and directing.
George Washington, portrayed by
Barry Bostwick, the affable Brad in The
Rocky Horror Picture Show, is shown
as sort of the Wally Cleaver of the revo
lutionary period. He gives his uaw shucks"
look when his entire platoon is wiped
out by the French, just like Wally did
the time he put a dent in his dad's
roadster.
As bad as Bostwick's performance is,
it is dwarfed by the abysmal acting of
Jaclyn Smith. She plays Sally Fairfax,
who George constantly moons over,
despite the fact that she is married to
George's half brother's whole brother.
(History is supposed to be confusing
like that.)
Two veteran actors, Lloyd Bridges
and James Mason, also put in two
mediocre performances. Perhaps the
most damning criticism is that Patty
Duke, as the benevolent Martha, pro
vides the most capable performance.
George Washington was conceived
out of the same mold as Roots, and
other such history-as-drama efforts.
Unfortunately, there is little of the
same ambition to make history come
alive. Rather, the producers are con
tent with taking time worn tales and
figures (the cherry tree scene is, thank
fully, absent) and mixing them with
modern lingo and little suspense.
In fact, that's the whole problem
with the scripting of George Washing
ton. In Roots, we knew what the ulti
mate outcome would be, yet the fate of
the characters still provided room for
speculation.
Not so in George Washington. Part
one ended with what I assume was
supposed to be a cliff-hanger ending.
Patrick Henry gets up and gives a stir
ring oratory. Washington is thrown
into a quandary: he has pledged to
Martha not to become involved again
with military and politics, yet Henry's
speech moves him. What will "he do? I
haven't seen part two yet, but I bet he
gets involved with the revolution. It's
just a hunch.
Not all is bad however. The scenery
in George Washington is nice, espe
cially the shots of various colonial edi
fices. Unfortunately, the buildings re
present the only real structure here.
The final episode airs tonight on
channels 6 and 10. I'm betting our side
wins.
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Television
Good news for cable television viewers
who are tired of watching baseball: KSHB
(Cablevision Channel 2) will broadcast Alfred
Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho tonight at 8.
This is the film with Anthony Perkins and
Janet Leigh that features the suspensful mur
der in the shower sequence.
Rsdio
KZUM's weekly Aural Delights will air a
radio documentary on the Mortal Micronotz, a
band from Lawrence, Kan. The program was
produced at progressive music station KJHK
out of Lawrence. The program includes an
interview with Jello Biafra of the Dead Ken
nedys on his impression of the band. Also fea
tured, music by Sacred Cows, a band out of
Kearney, and R. E. M.The program airs at 10:30
p.m. on KZUM, 89.5 and 99.3 FM.
At the Sheldon
Robert Altman's California Split will be
screened at 1, 7 and 9 p.m. in the Film Theatre.
The 1974 film stars Elliot Gould and George
Segal Admission is by donation. Altman's latest
film, Streamers, will show at Sheldon later this
month.
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much better."
He credits the. influence of larger
market radio people who have bought
local stations within the past year. It
makes the other stations work harder
at a professional sound, he said, and
makes them cater more to the audi
ence. Morgan's love of the entertainment
industry carries over into his personal
life. He claims to be a struggling song
writer, who can't read music but can
create it on the piano and with lyrics.
He also is an actor with the com
munity theater and has had roles this
season in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
and Terra Nova. "I got to die in Terra
Nova, he said, "that was fun." He likes
going to movies, too, and said his favor
ite recent movie is Footloose. Footloose
has a special message to young people
if it's perceived in the fight way," he
said. "It was nothing like blastutance,
which was mostly sex. There is a
strong message that could help them
cope. Thing are changing so much today.'
One way it is changing from the way
things were when he was a teen is the
acceptance by young people of the
androgynous appearance of singers
like Boy George, and to a certain extent,
Michael Jackson, he said.
Enumerating his short-and long
range goals, Morgan said the first thing
he wants to do is make it throught the
Arbitron rating period with good
numbers. He also is concentrating his
energy on establishing his credibility
as a mature radio personality in Lincoln.
His long range goal, he said, i3 to find
a wife and start a family.
"Maybe you can help me, "he said.
"She has to be 5-8, blonde, blue eyes, of
Irish or Welsh descent and have a
pleasant personality with a motherly
attitude. Send applications to KFRX."
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