arts oward Jones' appeal shines in concert By RON SWEGMAN Collegian Arts Writer Two weeks ago on May 28th, the city of Pittsburgh recieved a breath of fresh pop air when the quintessential English solo artist Howard Jones performed in his first concert appearance at the Syria Mosque. While he didn't attract quite the crowd that pop rock dinosaurs Genesis drew three days later at Three Rivers Stadium, he proved that his successful formula of natu ral sounding synthesizers layered under smart melodic hooks and upbeat lyrics can be just as appeal ing to the concert crowd. This formula has also made him one of the most important new recording artists in recent years. Jones, a 31 year-old vegetarian from High Wycombe, England, broke into the music world in early 1984 with his critically acclaimed debut LP Human's Lib. Along with the record's singles "New Song" and "What is Love," Jones also gained a lot of attention from his unique one man shows where he would play behind a stack of syn thesizers, accompanied only by the movements of his colleague, mime Jed Hoile. The tour proved Jones to be an innovative keyboard player, songwriter and performer of rare talent. His abilities were noticed by jazz great Herbie Hancock, who invited him to play a part in an all keyboard performance on the Grammy Awards telecast that year along with Stevie Wonder and another English keyboardist, Thomas Dolby. Human's Lib was quickly fol lowed up by Dream Into Action, the album which firmly estab lished Jones in America. With sub stantial airplay from both radio and MTV, the record's first two singles, "Things Can Only Get Bet ter" and "Life In One Day" reached Billboard's top ten. Jones' message of positive thinking and "don't always look at the rain" set the tone for this singer whose elfish good looks and sprouting hair re minds you of someone who really does look like fun, or at least Snap, Crackle or Pop. The one man band format changed on Dream Into Action tour when Jones added his brother Mar tin on Bass, Trevor Morais on Drums and three back up vocalists collectively known as Aphrodisiac. Jones' reasons for the change were simple: he just wanted to try some thing different. The new line-up also gave him more freedom to run about the stage during concerts with his portable keyboard on which he plays "guitar" a la Jim my Hendrix. The Pittsburgh show was just one stop on his tour in support of the his latest album One To One. Released less than a year (Jones likes to keep busy) after the EP Action Replay which sported the single "No One is To Blame," the record scored an instant hit with Local artist's lithographs depict city parkscapes By KERRY FORD Collegian Arts Writer A local artist with world-renowned talent is now displaying his latest work at a downtown gallery. Lemont native Harold Altman, best known for his intricate lithographs, presented his newest collection to the Douglas Albert Gallery last night. These springtime releases, which culminate 50 years of Altman's pro fessional career, will provide 22 addi tions to the already extensive Altman collection that the gallery previously displayed. Like his older works, Altman's 1987 presentation details city parks and the people who inhabit them. His most recent parkscapes focus on scenes from New York City, Wash ington, D.C. and Paris, France. "Within Altman's scenes, internal dramas are played out that are very appealing," said gallery owner Doug las Albert. "Most people find them relaxing and evocative." Perhaps one reason for Altman's popularity is his careful attention to details. Instead of broad, all-encom passing landscapes, Altman chooses instead to concentrate on minute par ticulars. For example, although Cen tral Park is extremely large and famous, when Altman examines that park, it becomes an intimate field of trees and lively characters. One of the most popular pieces from Altman's latest collection is an impressionistic piece titled Shaded Path. That lithograph has gained "You Know I Love You . Don't You?" Jones went back to his early days to begin the Pittsburgh show with an upbeat musical hello. "New Song" with its fitting lyrics: "I've been waiting for so 10ng...T0 come on out and sing this song" started the night off on an upbeat, danceable note that wouldn't settle The parkscapes of Harold Altman detail city parks and the people who visit them overwhelming recognition from both the art world and private buyers. The piece has been so highly admired that prints are now essentially unavail able for purchase. In addition, Altman's Four Seasons suite has caught the attention of art critics because it represents a unique departure from his typical form. Usually Altman details one season in each of his parkscape scenes. Howev er in Four Seasons, the artist exam ines each season individually in four separate lithographs to develop a broad perspective of the changing lanscapes. ,~~ ..) Howard Jones (center) awaits backstage at a concert with Paul McCartney and the Princess of Wales down until the lights were raised at the the end of the two hour plus set. Seeing the man's live performance for the first time, I was dually impressed with his ability to play flashy yet understated lines ("New Song") and his gift for drawing the audience together in quiet reflec tion (th e e anti-drug ballad "A Little Bit of Snow"). -Altman is the recipient of numer ous awards, including: two Guggen heim Fellowships, a Fulbright-Hayes Senior Research fellowship for work in France and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. In addition, Alt man was a professor of art at Penn State for 14 years. His works can be found at galleries and museums both in the United States and abroad, including the Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. 4 , 40 , i:YerNt, ~,,:„...I. : :s* af . .,:i . . 7 .4,...A.A1 % . 44411ii0 . . ... . -.... . " :‘,. oi.l, • ;,% 46Z 44,,. Y:1 ki , ' 4 ,.!! • , 4 • On record, Jones is cool, aesthet ic and fun, in concert he was posi tively hot. He would gyrate around on stage with his keyboard, "gui tar," dance around freely with his headset microphone, then run back up to his stack of synthesizers just in time to swing into an extended instrumental. For his first time appearance in Actor happy with 'Uncle Tom' By ROBERT BARR Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) "Uncle Tom" has come to be a bitter insult to black men, but Avery Brooks didn't blink when he was offered the role."' Brooks, who plays Hawk, the angry, enigmatic hired gun on ABC's "Spenser: For Hire," has the lead role in the Showtime presentation of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," premiering Sunday with additional play dates June 20, 24 and 29. "Here is a man who just made choices, hard choices, and lived by them. And was extremely devoted and faithful," Brooks said in an interview. "He's quite a simple man, an honest man. "The reason we get this pejorative term 'Uncle Tom' is because we say an Uncle Tom is one who apparently would do anything in order to survive," Brooks said. "Well, who does not?" Phylicia Rashad, the mom on "The Cosby Show," stars as Eliza, Edward ("The Equalizer") Woodward plays the evil Simon Legree, and Bruce Dern, playing against type, is the kindly slave owner, Augustine St. Clare. Brooks said the film was a labor of love to tell the story of a real man, Josiah Henson, a slave who fled to Canada, wrote his reminiscences and toured the United States and Britain calling himself the real Uncle Tom. Harriet Beecher Stowe never confirmed his claim, but pointed to Henson's story and other slave narratives to defend the authenticity of her explosive best-seller. Henson, born in Maryland in 1789, was a faithful slave trusted by his master to take several other slaves to Kentucky. As they floated on the Ohio River, people on the north shore called to them to come over and be free. Henson, however, delivered the slaves to their new home where he later saw them sold. From that moment, Henson wrote, he thought only of freedom: "For it I stood ready to pray, toil, dissemble, plot like a fox and fight like a tiger." When Henson escaped, he walked all the way to Canada like the angry and defiant George Harris, whose role is greatly diminished in the film of "Uncle Tom." "Josiah Henson starts out as a man whose world is .`I • , • 4 j ' ,4 , 4„ • :*; Pittsburgh, Jones put is all into the show. His backup band played tight and competently and Hoile's colorful costumes and acting com plemented the themes of the songs perfectly. Three years of commer cial success appears to have been very good to Howard Jones and his audience got a big thank you from him . very, very small. He doesn't even have an abstract notion of freedom," Brooks said. , "He was standing on the Ohio River, and people are saying, 'Wait a minute, don't do this. Don't you know where you're taking these people to?' He says, 'No. I promised. I gave my word.' "It haunted him, I'm sure, to his dying day," Brooks said. "But. what a man, who will before your very eyes change, admit that this is no longer operable for me and I must change this." Brooks portrays the slave Tom as pious and gentle, but with flashes of anger. Hawk's anger is right up front. "There is a line in one of the episodes where Spenser said he was aching, he was sore, he had been riding in a trunk. And I said to him, 'Yeah, and I've been aching since 1619' if we assume that is the moment that African people first appeared on American shores," Brooks said. "One cannot help but have a bit of what you call rage when you understand the landscape. Again, it is the rage of the inhumanity to man, it is not black and white. If one has to constantly explain to people his or her humanity on a daily basis, it would seem to me that would give you cause for what you call the boiling rage. "It's not a pleasant thing to consider, or to look in childrens' eyes and know that they fear you out of some inexplicable reason." Hawk, in Brook's view, is a "blues hero" "the kind of man who is a legend in his own time, hmmmm? Who seems to be able to, no matter what the circumstance, survive it." A blues hero creates his own language, as Brooks does on "Spenser." It was Brooks' inspiration to call Spenser a "stone Cartesian" who doubted the supernatural, and certainly Hawk's defiant shout "I know who I am!" comes from the soul of the actor. Much of Brooks' work has been in tribute to extraordi nary black Americans: a one-man show as Paul Robeson, the lead role of Malcolm X in Anthony Davis' opera "X", and his portrayal of Charles Albert Tinley, a preacher who conducted a huge song ministry in Philadelphia. "What a wonderful way of looking at history, kind of a reconstructing of ourselves," Brooks said. "I'm going to spend the balance of my life telling those stories, if I can." The Daily Collegian Friday, June 12, 1987 TV actors turn into directors in new shows By JERRY BUCK AP Television Writer Linda Gray and Larry Hagman do it. William Daniels does it. Ted Lange does it. Alan Alda does it. Georg Stanford Brown does it a lot. Proba bly no other actor does it more than Michael Landon. They are among the growing num ber of actors who direct. Many direct only their own shows , . but some gain enough experience to seek other as signments. Many actors would like to direct. Frequently, it takes the clout of hav ing a television series to get the opportunity. "It wasn't in my contract," said Robert Hays, star of ABC's "Star man." "It wad something I told them I'd like to do, and both Columbia and the production company liked the idea that I was interested." Hays directed the final episode of "Starman" for the season, which turned out to be the last show of the series. ABC did not renew it. Ted Lange, who was Isaac Wash ington, the bartender on ABC's "The Love Boat," recently directed epi sodes of CBS' "The New Mike Ham mer" and the syndicated "Gidget." Michael Landon and Victor French star in NBC's "Highway to Heaven" and share directing duties. French directs every third show and Landon directs the other two. "It's very time consuming, but it's amazing how easy it becomes when you do some thing you love and with people you love," French said. Two of the most prolific directors are Georg Stanford Brown, who be gan as an actor on "The Rookies," and Thomas Carter, who was an actor on "The White Shadow." Brown has directed numerous television shows, including CBS' "Cagney & Lacey," which stars his wife, Tyne .Daly. Carter has directed episodes of CBS' "The White Shadow" and NBC's "St. Elsewhere," "Hill Street Blues" and "Fame." Last year he directed the NBC miniseries "A Year in the Life" and is currently scheduled to direct' a feature film for Zanuck- Brown Productions. Other stars who have directed epi sodes of their series include Don Johnson and Edward James Olmos of "Miami Vice," Larry Hagman and Linda Gray of "Dallas," Stacy Keach of "The New Mike Hammer," Wil liam Daniels and Eric Laneuville of "St. Elsewhere," and Al Waxman of "Cagney & Lacey." "It's good to start on your own show because everyone knows you, and you know the show and the characters," said Hays. "It's very hard, though. Your concentration becomes scat tered. I had to work harder at learn ing lines and focusing on my character." The efforts of the directing actors has not gone unrecognized. Actors from Noam Pitlik to Jackie Cooper to Alan Alda have won Emmys for di recting. Alda won for "M -A-S-H" and went on to direct motion pictures. Four wheelin'? 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