CLARK'S STILL ROCKIN' AFTER 25 YEARS : DICK CLARK'S NEW YEAR'S ROCKIN' EVE '97.Byline: Jay Bobbin bobbin, implement on which thread is wound, used in sewing, spinning, weaving, and lace making. Sometimes the wooden spools of sewing thread are called bobbins. Tribune Media Services Tribune Media Services ("TMS") is a syndication company owned by the Tribune Company. The company is divided into two divisions, "News and Features" and "Entertainment Products". New Year's Eve has always been a special night for Dick Clark
Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (born November 30, 1929) is an Emmy Award-winning American television, radio personality, game show host and businessman, he served as . The veteran TV host is back in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's Times Square on Dec. 31 for the symbolic descent of the lighted globe that marks the arrival of 1997. Meanwhile, Stacey Dash and Donald Adeosun Faison - now reprising their roles from the movie ``Clueless'' in the ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. series spinoff - will be stationed in Hollywood to introduce musical acts KISS, Jann Arden Jann Arden (born Jann Arden Richards on March 27, 1962) is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter with a fan base primarily in Canada. She was born near Calgary, Alberta. , Tony Rich, song parodist ``Weird Al'' Yankovic and the Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America may refer to:
This year the show celebrates a 25-year milestone. Clips from past editions will be sprinkled throughout the 90 minutes. ``It's a little hard to believe,'' Clark said of reaching the quarter-century mark with his holiday bash. ``In all honesty, we suddenly realized it was the 25th (year). You just keep chugging along, doing your job, and we suddenly looked at the dates. ``We do have extraordinary stuff to pull from, so we're just going to integrate that into the normal show. Everything is computerized, and as you look at the list, you can pretty much play (what should be used) in your head. ``The trick on a New Year's show is not to do a retrospective entirely,'' Clark continued, ``because it's a time for looking forward. A clip show In television, a clip show is an episode of a series that consists primarily of excerpts from previous episodes, generally depicted as a sequence of flashbacks given plausibility by a frame tale. isn't what people want to see then. They want a lively party that brings the year that's ending to its conclusion.'' That's why Clark abandoned showing another couple being married in Times Square, something he's presented on three past New Year's Eves. ``We toyed with it,'' he said, ``but because we had the 25th-anniversary salute, we decided to put it off. We'll do it again, and the appropriate time probably would be the millennium, but we'll also have so much on THAT show, I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. .'' In much the same way the Clark-produced American Music Awards ceremony (airing on Jan. 27) was born when ABC asked for a show to rival the record industry's Grammys, ``Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve'' arose from the desire to provide a viewing alternative to CBS' then standard special featuring band leader Guy Lombardo Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo (June 19, 1902 – November 5, 1977) was a Canadian bandleader and violinist famous in the United States. With his three brothers Carmen, Lebert, and Victor and other musicians from his hometown of London, Ontario, he formed the big band The and his Royal Canadians group. ``(Veteran broadcaster) Ben Grauer had always done the New Year's Eve report from Times Square, and I sort of took over his mantle,'' Clark recalled. ``At this point, I think I've done it longer than Ben did.'' Actually, that first stint was for NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. , since Clark remembers New Year's Eve 1972 falling on a weekend. ``When (the holiday) then hit on a Monday, NBC couldn't clear our special because of Johnny Carson
The popular early-'70s act Three Dog Night was among the musical entertainment on Clark's initial New Year's Eve venture, and ever since, he's wanted to keep the artists on the show as contemporary as possible. ``It's always been a matter of who's current,'' Clark explained. ``We always have one act with a little bit of history involved, and this year that happens to be KISS. I spent a lot of time with Gene (Simmons) and Paul (Stanley), talking about this latest tour they'd had planned, and they're very good and astute entertainment-business people. They know what makes audiences happy, and they put on a great show. I attended one of their concerts, and it was a deafening experience, but also a memorable thing.'' Acknowledging that it keeps ABC happy to have a couple of its series stars handling the ``New Year's Rockin' Eve'' hosting duties for the musical segments, Clark added, ``Years and years ago, music people also were the hosts. Somewhere along the line, we drifted away and had people like Suzanne Somers and Erik Estrada. It's interesting to think about who we've had in those roles over the years.'' The same applies to the performers who have been on the show, and among those cited by Clark are the Beach Boys, Chicago, Village People, Blondie, Gloria Estefan and Hootie & the Blowfish A secret key cryptography method that uses a variable length key from 32 to 448 bits long. It uses the block cipher method, which breaks the text into 64-bit blocks before encrypting them. . (Of the latter group, Clark said, ``This is the show that broke open their career on television two years ago.'') Clark remains comfortable with the holiday niche he's established for himself. ``People have sort of wrapped their arms around this event,'' he concluded. ``We still get the lion's share of the audience, and I think it's become a built-in habit: `What are you going to do on New Year's Eve?' `Well, let's see what Dick is up to.' '' When: 11:30 p.m. Dec. 31 Network: ABC Hosts: Dick Clark, New York; Stacey Dash and Donald Adeosun Faison, Hollywood Performers: KISS, Jann Arden, Tony Rich, ``Weird Al'' Yankovic, the Presidents of the United States of America CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--Cover--Color) Dick Clark's celebrating 25 years of rockin' New Year's Eve (2) Co-hosts Stacey Dash and Donald Adeosun Faison introduce old and new musical acts. |
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