Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1995 — Page 9
PEOPLE &TRENDS‘B’ SECTION
Arts <& ENTERTAINMENT
Saturday, October 7,1995 Buck just Wilde about Indy, WTLC
By DAMANI DICKERSON Recorder Intern WTLC radio’s newest disc jockey, Buck Wilde, is bringing excitement to the Indianapolis airwaves. “I was ready to come here and they were ready for me,” the dynamic radio talent said about his arrival in Indianapolis. He is more than an air personality. “Buck Wilde was added to the TLC family because of his technical expertise as well as his youthful enthusiasm and crazy personality,” said Garth Adams, WTLC afternoon producer. Wilde gives most of the aedit for his presence in this market to WTLC General Manager Paul Major, who has many years of radio experience. Wilde feels Major relates to his style and thus incorporated him and Guy Black into the daily format to help make WTLC a radio powerhouse. Wilde has self-confidence and believes he makes it easier for people to feel it’s OK to be themselves, no matter what. “I’m being myself and it’s OK,” Wilde said. “So you can be yourself and it’s OK. I say things some people want to say, but are too afraid to say it.” The unpredictable, spontaneous Wilde likes to tell it like it is. “I don’t believe in holding back,” he said. Although Wilde doesn’t believe in holding back, he knows where to draw the line. He wants Indianapolis listeners to know all his jokes and put-downs are all in fun and no harm is meant. “If it’s not funny, I won’t say it,” Wilde said, promising to be as edifying as he is adverse. “I give just as many compliments as 1 do putdowns.” Some insist he is changing the face of WTLC. “I’m not sure,” Wilde said “But, if I am, I hope the people see it as a good (change). TLC is still doing what they’ve been doing. They’re
just trying to make it better.” As a youngster, the energetic Wilde always loved music. His music collection, which includes an abundance of 45s and cassettes of singles heard today, never became outdated. He even tried his hand at becoming a musician. Wilde said he knew, while in his early teens, that he wanted to become a disc jockey. “1 can remember calling all the DJs around tovfa and talking to them for hours,” Wilde said, reminiscing. “I know I got on their nerves.” The single, San Francisco Bay area native attended the University of California Santa Barbara. His career began at the university’s radio station. Followinggraduation, he landed
his first job at KDIA, an AM oldies station in San Francisco. He went to WKYS-FM, a Washington urban station, in 1990. Things didn’t flow exactly as Wilde wanted in Washington, so he made a move toward bigger and better things in 1991. After spending a short time unemployed, a talent scout for legendary urban station WBLS in New York got a hold of one of his broadcast tapes. The scout called Wilde, made him an offer, and gave him a brief description of the job, but didn’t tell the name of the station or where the station was located. He remembers, like it was yesterday, asking “For who?” and “Where?” When the scout told him, Wilde dropped the phone. “That was the happiest moment
in my life, but it wasn’t the best for me because my ego flew,” a more serious Wilde said. “At that point, I fell out of my relationship with God, and began thinking I was somewhat invincible.” Wilde said it seemed as though the same problems he had in Washington followed him to New York. Eventually, he was asked to leave the station. He knew something was missing. But, what? “It took me a while to realize,” Wilde said, “I’d fallen and I still didn’t realize my lost relationship with God was the problem. “You have to get right with God and I did. It’s been smooth sailing ever since.” Wilde is happy about his move See BUCK, Page B2
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Larenz Tate (left) plays heist ringleader Anthony, who enlists the help of Skip, played by Chris Tucker, In the film “Dead Presidents.”
‘Dead Presidents’ highly entertaining yet depressing
MOVIE REVIEW
Overall rating ★★★ By STEVE THOMAS Staff Writer What a grim chronoloev of atrocities the African-American family has suffered. For starters, there were about 260 years of slavery. Then came
another roughly 100 years of Jim Crow segregation. Next, as Blacks were mercifully galvanized behind a civil rights agenda, along came the Vietnam War, which ripped young, Black males out of their households. Many of them went into battle before they even fully understood the meaning of manhood. When they returned, with nuSee‘PRESIDENTS,’ Page B2
MUSICAL FIX
Put a little Love in your heart By STEVE THOMAS Staff Writer Laura Love is not aligned with a major record label. Bat she is making a major splash with her unique “Afro/Celtic” style. Love, who has received excellent reviews from music critics in the New York and national media, has been scheduled to perform 7:30 p.m., Thunday, Oct 12 at The Vogue Nightclub. Cathy Morris and Monika Herzig will be special guests of The Laura Love Band in a Domestic Violence Awareness Month concert developed in cooperation with the Julian Center and Marigold’s. K Love’s label. Octoroon Biography, has released the band’s third album, “Helvetica Bold.” •wPK.NgtBB * 4, ‘ .♦ ’ v 'A-
Kenya K. Watkins, a pregnant teen-ager In Little Rock, Ark., turns to her school’s clinic for help. Here is one of several stories about teen-age pregnancy explored in the PBS documentary “Sex, Teens and Public Schools," which will premiere Oct. 23 on WFYl-TV, Channel 20.
On the Air PBS to tackle teen pregnancy By STEVE THOMAS Staff Writer Every year, more than a million teen-age girls become pregnant and more than half a million become mothers. The PBS one-hourdocumentary “Sex, Teens and Public Schools,” which will air at 10 p.m., Oct. 23 (WFYI-TV, Channel 20), brings out that disturbing fact and goes on an even more dismal path of revelation. The program will examine the causes, societal costs and consequences of teen pregnancy. NBC’s Jane Pauley will host. At the twofold center of debate on this issue is where parents stand and the degree to which they get involved in discussing sex with their children, according to Pauley, who says: “... We leave kids swimming in a breach while we argue whether we need to preach abstinence or instruct about contraception ... If grown-ups don’t know what to think, neither will the kids.” Peripheral to the raging discussion over what to do about this problem — and it is a problem Sm AIR, Page B2
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Actress Ruby Dee reads from her work* end shares the Importance of storytelling ki a forum at The Children’s Museum, presented Wednesday by the museum and Young Audiencos of Indiana.
Members of tha Aeante Children’s Theatre, founded by Deborah Asanta, perform In the eighth annual Hoosler Storytelling Festival, created by Stories Inc. Moat of tha four-day event was held through Sunday at tha Indianapolis Art Center.
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Marl Evana’ play “Eyes,” a story about the “search tor love and personal fulfillment,” will be performed Thursday, OcL 5 through Sunday, Oct. 8 and Oct 12-1Sat the American Cabaret Theatre. Tha production It sponsored by Indiana UniversltyPurdua University Indianapolis. For more Information, caR 831-0334. SPCOMINSs
by Falrath Hines In a retrospective exhibition named . after the IndtanapoRe horn artfot The works wW be displayed Saturday, Oct. 7 through Dec. 31. (Photo of Nines on 1947 Brooklyn, N.Y. oubwsy courtesy of N. day Jeffee.)