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The Island Packet, Sunday, September 2, 1990 9-D Highlights P.M. IS WCBD (CC) Clips include: practical jokes in the (22 WJCL) AMERICA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS doomed bicyclists; "dueling earlobes." (R) In Stereo) Vome; (11 WTOC) MURDER, SHE WROTE (CC) wCsC) Francisco, Jessica becomes involved heard 1 While a in San investigation when attends Id her opening with Dennis Stanton. (1 it opera sserole dr. (R) (In 3-2-1 Stereo) CONTACT EXTRA: YOU CAN'T just and HOME AGAIN of (CC) Costa Host Rican Stephanie rain forest. Yu that.

A boks at destruction a in hr.) (In (28 WTGS IN LIVING COLOR Stereo) five at WTAT parody of "I Love a sitcom (CC) featell Sketches: a Charles in charge of children. (In Stereo) to it had be luring MOVIE; SUNSHINE BOYS' Two veteran are reunited after many years for 1 I prom vaudeville stars performance. George Burns, Walter Matildn't gi hau, Richard Benjamin. 1975. DAYS' A 'COVERED outsmarted WAGON by the Three Mesqui- foreign fiver smuggler Livingston, Raymond Hatton.

1940. ind for deers. Bob 8:30 P.M. about (28 WIGS) TRUE COLORS Series Preinterracial couple (Frankie Faieally lit, niere Stephanie Comedy. Faracy) creates a blended family out I'm son, they decide to marry.

Tonight: Lester beU a turkey that is scheduled for the family dinoW how, riends at of her. 9:00 P.M. my WCBD (22 WJCL MOVIE: 'LOVE AMONG (CC) A concert pianist is forced into trio of priceless Faberge eggs to barter THIEVES' worry the life of her kidnapped fiance. Audrey Hepalstealing urself." burn, Robert Wagner, Jerry Orbach. 1987.

(In 'fen Stereo) (5 WCSC) MDA JERRY LEWIS LABOR DAY ust ve her TELETHON The Muscular Dystrophy Association's annual fund-raiser is hosted and by Leeza Jerry Gibbons Lewis, in Los Ed as you McMahon, Norm Crosby she heapAngeles, Vereen in New York. (3 hrs.) MOVIE: 'MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERtas pomE (CC) A rugged nomad challenges the queen ood evil shantytown in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the future. Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Angelo to kRossitto. 1985. WAN 3-2-1 CONTACT EXTRA: YOU CAN'T get GROW HOME AGAIN (CC) Host and Stephanie Yu parent looks at the destruction of a Costa Rican rain forest.

expand hr.) WTOC (In Stereo) MOVIE: 'WHO GETS THE 'een Sho(CC) A woman has a most unusual reaction to her husband's announcement that, after 17 years of long, marriage, he wants a divorce. Jill Clayburgh, James envel, Farentino, MASTERPIECE Arnaz. 1988. (In THEATRE: Stereo) NORTHANer for GER ABBEY (CC) A young woman's fondness for (16 WOW. oklet, Gothic novels leads her to suspect foul deeds are being committed at an estate.

(1 30 (R) Ill. 617 (24 WTAT) (28 WTGS WITH CHILDREN (CC) While Al plans a Labor Day barbecue, Marcy treasures her late aunt's ashes. (R) (In Stereo) (MAX MOVIE: 'ABOUT LAST (CC) relation- A young couple initial struggles to form a stand. lasting Rob Lowe, ship Demi after Moore, an James one-night Belushi. 1986 (In Stereo) Rated DIS JACKIE GLEASON: THE GREAT ONE A tribute to the life and career of legendary comedian Jackie Gleason, featuring film clips and memories by friends and colleagues including Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Randolph, Jane Curtin and Teri Garr.

(2 hrs.) (HBO) MOVIE: 'LETHAL WEAPON (CC) Two Los Angeles police detectives must hurdle bureaucratic red tape when pitted against drug smugglers with diplomatic immunity. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci. 1989 (In Stereo) Rated (NOST) MOVIE: 'FOLLOW THAT CAMEL' A crafty sergeant in the Foreign Legion gets a chance to become a hero and help a friend in need. Phil Silvers, Kenneth Williams, Anita Harris. 1967.

(SHOW) MOVIE: 'CASUALTIES OF WAR' A young recruit agonizes over reporting the murder of a ennui. Vietnamese woman, a crime initiated by his unall the tin balanced superior. Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, BIRTHD Thuy Thu Le. 1989 Rated (WON) MDA JERRY LEWIS LABOR DAY TELETHON ensitive, The Muscular Dystrophy Association's annual individ.

fund-raiser is hosted by Jerry Lewis, Ed McMahon, ahlights Norm Crosby and Leeza Gibbons in Los Angeles, gain we and Ben Vereen in New York. (1 hr.) (Live) body ima (WIBS) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ExEXPLORER joy, Co amines problems brought on by population control of the kangaroo. (2 hrs.) gourmet 9:30 P.M. rishes as (24 WTAT) (28 WTOS) PARKER LEWIS CAN'T LOSE jor dome Series Premiere (CC) Comedy. Corin Nemec stars as an ingenious young man who revels.

WCIV (11 WTOC) SHOWCASE Singer Melba Moore: writer Maya Angelou; the Winres ans; Grover Washington Jr. (R) (24 WTAT) SISKEL EBERT The careers of Humphrey Bogart and Jack Nicholson. DIS MOVIE: 'BRIGHT EYES' (CC) Three people vie for the right to adopt an adorable orphan. Colorized version. Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Jane Withers.

1934 (NOST MOVIE: 'THE MARK OF THE HAWK' An eduAfrican, elected to the legislative council, cated seeks equality for his people by peaceful means. Sidney Poitier, John Mcintire, Eartha Kitt. 1958. 12:00 P.M. WCBD COACH'S SHOW: SPARKY WOODS 2 South Carolina football (16 WJWJ NOVA report.

(CC) Why technology failed to contain and clean up the Exxon Valdez oil prevent, spill Sound. on March 24, 1989, in Alaska's Prince William (1 hr.) (R) SUNDAY EVENING your Beaufort Isl. Fripp Isl. Harbor-Huntng C- Hilton Head Bluffton Lady's, Dataw Isl. Laurel A Bay MCAS WEBD STATION ABC AB CDEF 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 2 2 2 America the Beautiful 9 Home Videos Tim Conway Movie: "Love Among Thieves" News Pump It Up Power Charleston 03 WSAV NBC Savannah 3 15 3 3 13 3 Movie: "'The Goonies" MDA Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon Jerry Lewis Telethon 4 WCIV NBC Charleston 7 4 4 4 Movie: "'The Goonies" Movie: "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" News 9 Coach's Show Byron Allen 5 WESC CBS Charleston 6 5 4 10 5 9 60 Minutes 0 Murder, She Wrote 9 MDA Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon Jerry Lewis Telethon Continues (11) WTOC CBS Savannah 11 11 11 7 11 60 Minutes 0 Murder, She Wrote 9 Movie: "Who Gets the Friends?" News CBS News 9 Byron Allen (22) WICL ABC Savannah 12 7 5 America the Beautiful 9 Home Videos Tim Conway Movie: "Love Among Thieves" Ga Sthrn Ftbll Arsenio Hall Ent.

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The dumping of Sellecca finally is getting acknowledged by all the media only because the actress is filing a $1.5 million lawsuit against Columbia Pictures and producer Ed Weinberger. She claims that her dismissal was unjustified and illegal and that comedy veteran Weinberger was unnecessarily authoritarian and emotionally cruel. She also accuses Weinberger of threatening to blackball her in the TV industry. With the scheduled premiere of "Baby Talk" now pushed back till December, Weinberger and ABC are seeking a replacement-star. The leading contenders are Julia Duffy, who just wound up more than seven years on "Newhart," and Allison LaPlaca, the star of the recently canceled "Open House" on the Fox network.

Movie shows On TV GARY DEEB After four years of a three-way battle among movie-review programs, the Gene Siskel-Roger Ebert series is the only one still standing because the two competing film-critic shows, "At the Movies" and "Sneak Previews," officially have been canceled. "At the Movies," the syndicated package hosted by the grotesquely wrongheaded Rex Reed and Boston entertainment reporter Dixie 'True Colors' says nothing about interracial marriage Review By ROBERT BIANCO Scripps Howard News Service What's wrong with this sentence: "Fox's 'True Colors' is TV's first sitcom about an interracial BZZZZZZ! Time's up. All right, let's walk this through. "True Colors" is the first show to center on an interracial married couple the interracial pair in "'The Jeffersons'' were supporting characters, and the racially mixed couple in last year's "The Robert Guillaume were not married. And the "True Colors" couple is unquestionably racially mixed a black dentist married to a white kindergarten teacher.

The problem, quiz kids, is with that word "about." "True Colors" puss*foots SO tenderly around its racial divisions that it can't be said to be anything, other than about 23 minutes. It isn't bad it's harmless, reasonably wellacted, standard family sitcom fare but it's hardly groundbreaking. The show, which has a preview today at 7 p.m. before moving to its regular Sunday at 8:30 time slot next week, stars Frankie Faison and Stephanie Faracy as Ron and Ellen Freeman, two previously wed people whose new marriage has created an unwilling new family. Leading the naysayers are Ellen's mother Sara (Nancy Walker), who is so distressed by the marriage her main conversational topic is suicide.

That's just one Freeman fracas. Ellen's trendoid daughter Katie (Brigid Conley Walsh) fights with Ron's football star son Terry (Claude Brooks), perhaps Whatley, just got dumped in the wake of mass cancellations by stations across the country and significant dropouts by longtime advertisers. Even the program's home station -WGN-TV in Chicago had relegated "At the Movies" to an ignominious time slot within the Saturday morning kiddie lineup. Meanwhile, "Sneak Previews," hosted by the intellectually worthless Jeffrey Lyons and Hollywood movie buff Michael Medved, also is biting the dust. Produced by public, noncommercial TV, "Sneak Previews" suffered continually sliding audience ratings and a resultant lack of corporate funding.

The producing station, Chicago's WTTW-TV, is putting out a face story that the show might be revived next year, but inside sources agree that the program, in truth, is a dead mackerel. As for the "Siskel Ebert" series, that syndicated project continues rolling along, despite a 40 percent viewership dropoff in recent seasons. The program is fully bankrolled by Walt Disney Studios and remains marginally profitable. Dick Clark following Monday through Friday. music impresario, game show Nelson book Pop host and TV production mogul Dick A new biography of the late singer Clark is launching his newest deal and actor Rick Nelson characterizes a syndicated game show called "'The its subject as a man who never got Challengers," which most observers taken seriously as an artist because are tabbing as the best bet for sucof his childhood association with the cess among all rookie syndicated "Ozzie Harriet" TV series.

Author Joel Selvin credits Rick's music with programs. "I hope nobody gets scared off, but ranking "easily with the best of it's an intelligent game show," Clark Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers and Elvis. declared. "'When 'Jeopardy' made its comeback a few years ago, a lot of Networking people thought it was too difficult a Jack Cafferty, a news anchor on quiz to become successful. Well, it WNYW-TV in New York, is the front certainly is the hardest game show runner to succeed Maury Povich as on the air, but it's a roaring success.

the host of "A Current Affair," the Here's hoping the same fate awaits syndicated sleaze-magazine. Povich our show, although I must say 'The will quit the program in January in Challengers' is not as tough as 'Jeop- to do his own talk show. ardy' with its subject -Kyle MacLachlan, the star of Because "The Challengers" is "Twin Peaks," will host the seasonbased on current events both hard premiere of "'Saturday Night Live" news and pop-culture the program on Sept. 29. Also at "SNL," comic will do what no other game show Chris Rock a protege of Eddie does: It'll run 52 weeks a year, with Murphy is reportedly set to join no reruns.

Clark and his production the full-time cast of that program. team will do just five shows each Fri- (Gary Deeb is a syndicated columday afternoon to be telecast the nist.) Family feud really starts Oct. 11 By PAUL LOMARTIRE Cox News Service Forget about the first head-to-head competition between "'The Simpsons'' and Cosby's family last Thursday. In that battle of rerun episodes, Cos won by five ratings points, about 4.5 million viewers. The real battle takes place Oct.

11 when "'The Simpsons" second season premiere runs. (Cosby's seventh season opener is Sept. 20) Any "Cosby" victories until then mean nothing because "'The Simpsons" 13 original episodes are each being repeated for a third time. What's "'The Simpsons" delay? It's because of the animation. If you added up all the hours involved producing one 30-minute episode, you'd total six months and involve dozens of workers in Los Angeles and in the animation mills of South Korea.

And even when Cliff Huxtable and Homer Simpson square off with fresh episodes Oct. 11, "Cosby" undoubtedly will win simply because NBC's 200-plus affiliated stations cover 100 percent of the country. The 129 Fox Network stations collectively reach about 90 percent of the country. "The Simpsons," that delightfully normal abnormal family, already has beaten "Cosby" in the hearts and minds of TV viewers. When's the last time the Cos was on the cover of "Newsweek?" When's the last time THE ISLAND THEATRE COLIGNY PLAZA 785-4468 785-4468 GHOST A PARAMOUNT PICTURE PG-13 you saw a kid on a skateboard wear- Matt Groening during a July press ing a Huxtable T-shirt? conference in Los Angeles.

because he makes fun of her involvement in SOPOWL Save Our Planet Or We're Leaving. Caught in the middle is Ron's street rapping younger son Lester (Adam Jeffries), whose main job is to keep Grandma Sara confused. Not a bad sitcom basis, but it could serve equally well for any sitcom about stepfamilies. And Sunday's plot is straight out of "Leave It to Beaver." Lester tries to save a live turkey from the dinner death bell. If you can look past a few abominable jokes (how can anyone mistake "barter" for a sexual you'll find quite a few that work.

The entire cast is fine, with Walker and Jeffries the standouts. In time, they could form a very funny comic patter relationship. And yet, for a show being so energetically promoted as a racial breakthrough, "True Colors" seems awfully anxious to look like a white middle-class sitcom. We're never told why Sara is SO antagonistic toward her son-inlaw. If it's race, as one assumes it is, why do the black men take her insults with such cheerful equanimity? I've heard about "rising above it," but these people are taking it to an unbelievable extreme.

Having a show in which racial differences are accepted without question is a worthy goal and would be fine if there were plenty of other shows dealing with racial divisions, or if this were truly a color-blind society. But there aren't and it isn't. As long as "True Colors" is the only show raising the issue, one wishes the producers actually would probe into it with a bit more depth, instead of churning out a '90s version of "Julia." I liked "Julia," too, but aren't we beyond that? As long as "The Simpsons" comes in second reasonably close to "Cosby," Fox is the winner. Based on demographics, "Cosby" can't touch "'The Simpsons." During the week of Aug. 6 to Aug.

12, "'The Simpsons" show was first with men 18-49 and second behind "Cheers" with women 18-49. "'Cosby" didn't make the top 20 men's list and was 10th with women in those age groups. That's the list from which ad dollars are derived. Marge will lead a protest against the ultra-violent "Itchy and Scratchy" cartoon show. Bald Homer will try a Minoxidillike product that immediately produces a flowing mane.

Next morning at work he's pegged as executive material and assigned a male secretary (played by Harvey Fierstein). Flashbacks will show us Marge and Homer's courtship. Bart will struggle to pass a crucial history test. Failure means repeating fourth grade. Coming up this season are 22 new A Halloween special will feature "Simpsons" episodes.

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