CABLE TV PRODUCER KEEPS EVOLVING AT 77.Byline: Joan Hart Jean Blackwood never lets age get in her way. At 77 years young, she isn't getting older, she's getting better. For the past 18 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Tujunga resident has produced her own weekly cable television show on KRCA (Channel 19). In the old days it was called "Daisy the Clown" - a kids show featuring Blackwood as a fun-loving clown - and more recently "The Daisy Show" - a program featuring the work of local artists. The show, which is broadcast every Thursday at 5:30 p.m., will evolve once again when Blackwood changes the format to demonstrate her arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. work. "I'm going to go solo," Blackwood said. "I can't see, I can't hear, I can't walk, but I'll stay there until the end of time," she promised, poking fun at her bifocals and hearing aids Hearing Aids Definition A hearing aid is a device that can amplify sound waves in order to help a deaf or hard-of-hearing person hear sounds more clearly. . Blackwood plans to demonstrate such things as how to put photographs on plates, dip bottles in colored water, and use clay to make plates with roses, clowns, you name it. Blackwood landed her show as "Daisy the Clown" in 1978 after working as a clown at children's birthday parties for several years. She did puppet acts, ventriloquism ventriloquism: see puppet. ventriloquism Art of “throwing” one's voice in such a way that the sound seems to come from a source other than the speaker. , sing-alongs and played games with the kids. Her clown days came to an end - and she shifted the focus of her show to artists - when she began having difficulty hearing the children. Even while she's been doing her show, Blackwood has been busy with other activities. When she was in her early 70s, she dressed up as Dolly Parton par·ton n. Any of the point particles believed to be a constituent of hadrons, now known as quarks. No longer in technical use. [part(icle) + -on1.] and did a comedy routine at area retirement homes. "I also did stand-up comedy  This article or section may deal primarily with the U.S. and may not present a worldwide view. at different comedy stores during those years," she said. "I felt I was a little too old for that when all of the other comedians were so young, so I moved on," she said. Until recently, Blackwood used to paint store windows for local merchants, doing as many as 90 windows on holidays, but she doesn't plan to keep up the same hectic pace. "I think this year I'll do only nine at Christmas time and five next Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. ," she said. Despite the fact that she's getting up in years, Blackwood says the show - both her cable television program and her very active lifestyle - must go on. "I love to make people happy, and I have a lot of fun," she said. |
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