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7E AtmifitOtt Sunday, Sept. 25. 1983 TA IT ition predicted in prime-time TV iviore compel ftv ftPDDV BfTw LOS ANGELES For the first time in yean, It looks Uke network television'! prime-time competition will be a three-way race. looks like a horse race to me," said Lee leisure market analyst for Paine Webber Inc. In New York.

"You have to say NBC is horse and CBS is the favorite. But it's still anybody's race." Brandon Tartikof president of NBC Enter tainment, said, "It's going to be a highly competitive season. Everyone agrees there-are a lot of opportunities, but if you slip and somebody else gets a foothold ahead of you it could be five years before you get the same opportunity again." MANY INDUSTRY OBSERVERS think the fall season Is marked by better new series. "I think there's more quality to the shows this year and part of that reason is that the three networks have concluded they are no longer just competing among themselves," said Hoffman. "They're competing, with cable and other delivery systems.

If you're going to compete against a first-run movie without commercials you'd better have something worth watching. Part of this is because more of the available positions were sold to advertisers." IN A BREAK from the past, the emphasis for the new season has shifted from comedy to drama. The networks have 22 new shows, with 10 of those drama and only eight comedy. The rest are action-adventure. This season also will be marked by a deluge of miniseries.

The message was not lost on the networks after ABC nearly beat CBS last season on the strength of two miniseries, "The Winds of War" and "The Thorn Birds." Isgur said, "What people lose sight of is that the race isn't entirely up to the programmers at the three networks. The public has a lot to do with it and they will surprise you by suddenly embracing a programming concept nobody thought would make it." show, and the lack of disruptions or strikes up production means more shows to promote. "I think everyone feels a sense of excitement and is looking forward to the new season. Part of that is the promotion," said Phil Burrell, an analyst with the Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency. "I think," said Burrell, "people have been talking about it, particularly NBC's use of comedy and naming the competition.

And ABC answering them a little bit in that same humorous vein." While it might seem that the hype is greater this year than in the past, that isn't the case, said Steve Sohmer, NBC. president for advertising and creative services, "We've had fewer promos this year, as has everyone else. "There is. also more candor In the subject matter," said Hoffman. Street Blues' and 'St.

Elsewhere' have brought a maturity to the treatment of sexual matters that's been missing since the family viewing hour came to television. The emphasis switched to situation comedies with double entendres but sex was not treated in a mature fashion. This is also in recognition of the movies on the pay channels." Another unusual aspect of the 1983-84 season is Its start. For the first time in years, it will be a normal fall premiere with no strikes by actors, writers or football players to hamper operations. ALL OF THIS is reflected in the networks' on-air promotion of the upcoming season.

The higher quality makes it easier to promote a Anthony Hoffman, a New York financial analyst, agrees. "It certainly looks Uke the season in which the market shares could shift between the networks more dramatically than any year in the recent past," he said. "I think the opportunity is clearly for NBC to make some very big inroads into the strength that has traditionally been CBS' and ABC's." HAVE A HAPPY BIRTHDAY PARTY SUNSHINE SKATE CENTER SKATE COUNTRY 1 30 Elm Street 33 Old Gadsden Hwy. Oxford, AL 36203 Annlston, AL 36201 831-8750 237-0001 Our Party Program Includes Four different theme parties wBirthday Cake Printed invitations Personalized place Mats, forks Napkins Admission Special Birthday gift Reserved party room Soft drink for each child Balloon for each child Free return skating Pass for each child This Program Available During Session Hours: SATURDAY P.M SUNDAY P.M. i rim, surprise 1 for Mom, Too! jL ONLY $35 For 10 Skaters Make Reservations i if Sally Kellerman, who once abandoned her film career to sing with her own band, will get the chance to vocalize again when she stars as Maxine Cates, first wife of heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey in the CBS movie "Dempsey.

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She breaks into a throaty rendition of "Peg O' My Heart." She also sings "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows." Most of her scenes were filmed in smoky rooms because "Maxine never let the sun touch her skin. "It's a wonderful, juicy role," she says. "I loved working with Treat. In fact, he was the only one in the picture I worked with. We had love scenes in beds; we fought." When she was called about the part and told she'd work with Williams aridalso get to sing.

Mis Kellerman said: "'Come Music is a major part of my life and you seldom get a good part that lets you sing at the same time." MISS KELLERMAN, 47, grew up in Los Angeles, where she got her first taste of show business in a Hollywood High School production of "Meet Me in St. Louis." At 18, she signed her first record contract and began taking acting lessons, first from Jeff Corey and then from the late Lee Strasberg at the Actor's Studio. She made her film debut in "Reform School Girl" in 1959. It was another singing role, a co-starring part with Sissy Spacek in the PBS special, "Verna: The USO Girl," that led to her joining "Women Behind Bars." The director, Ron Link, saw her in the PBS project, and when Adrienne Barbeau decided to leave the play at the Roxy Theater he asked Miss Kellerman to step in. "I had to jump right into this fast-paced comedy," she said.

"I was scared. But everybody was so nice to me and brought me presents." Miss Kellerman plays Gloria, the tough prison inmate who bosses the other women around. Linda Blair also joined the cast at the same time, replacing Jennifer Holmes of "Newhart." Miss Blair plays the young innocent who becomes corrupted and has a lesbian affair with Gloria. "The play is so vulgar, it's such a scream," Miss Kellerman says. "I say I'm the romantic lead in the play because I get the girl." IN "SEPTEMBER GUN," which CBS will telecast in October, she plays Mama Queen, who runs the dance hall.

Robert Preston stars as an over-the-hill gunfighter and Patty Duke Astin is a nun. "There's a thing going on between Robert Preston and me," Miss Kellerman says. "He kind of fancies me and I kind of fancy him." At this point in her career, Miss Kellerman would like to do a TV comedy. Her husband, Jonathan Krane, is president and executive producer for Blake Edwards Productions. They are developing a show for her.

Jack Dempsey, she plays the fighter's first wife, Maxine Cates. In another upcoming CBS movie, "September Gun," she's the proprietress of a shoot-'em-up Western cowtown dance hall. And she recently assumed a role in a stage production of Tom Eyen's R-rated spoof of 1940s women's prison movies, "Women Behind Bars." But the part everyone seems to remember Miss Kellerman in was as the original "Hot Lips" Houlihan, the shrewish nurse in the movie, "M-A-S-H." "Maxine was an independent woman who wanted lots of dough," Miss Kellerman says of her role in the Dempsey movie. "She fell for Dempsey the moment she thought he would be successful and take care of her. And the moment it looked like he wouldn't make It, she dumped him.

She loved him when he was poor and after he made it, she tried to extort money from him. "SHE WAS A TOUGH prostitute he found in the red light district of Salt Lake City and she still turned tricks when she was married to Jack." Treat Williams stars in the title role of "Dempsey," which CBS will telecast on Wednesday. Sam Waterson also stars as Doc DELICIOUS CAFETERIA DINING Quintard Mall 831-7470 'America's Tender Bite Size Entertainment 1950s hit 'Old Cape Cod' strikes sour note in feud Shrimp Dinner Dream" IN CONCERT! An extra large serving of delicious bite sized fried shrimp, natural cut trench fries, cole I 1 1 slaw, hush puppies, cocktail sauce and lemon wedge. 20 Piece Boiled Oft0" Shrimp Plate 20 boiled shrimp, 5 chilled and ready for dipping. Just peel 'em and eat 'eml Served Vary Special Guests tomsi assftc with creamy cole slaw, crispy crackers, cocktail clusion.

The parties agreed to let an expert decide whether Milton actually signed the payment agreement in 1971 when the studio closed. Martha Yakus' lawyer, George Himmel of Brockton, said Milton might have signed the document under duress or maybe not signed at all. So he wants a handwriting expert to examine the signature and an analysis done to determine the paper's age. Herbert's attorney, Americo L. Ferullo, said he was not sure when the analysis would take place.

Ferullo also said he didn't think money was the motive for the suit. "SINCE 1971, 1 think $14,000 is involved and that's an estimate," he said. "I think it's a family situation." The brothers' collaboration on the song began in 1956, when Claire Rothrock walked into their studio with a poem about her favorite vacation spot. After Mrs. Rothrock gave the brothers the poem, according to Bernie Yakus, his father and an associate, Allan Jeffrey, rewrote it and composed the music.

"My uncle worked for my father" and was "just an engineer," Bernie said. But in a court document, Herbert said he was a full business partner, hired the arranger and the original singers and directed the recording of a demonstration record that ultimately led to Patti Page's hit. If the court can compose a harmonious solution, perhaps the Yakus family can "take a taste of lobster stew, served by a window with an ocean view" and "fall in love with old Cape Cod" again. By TODD W. HEATH Associated Press Writer BOSTON Patti Page swept the pop charts in 1957 crooning about "sand dunes and salty air, quaint little villages here and there." "Old Cape Cod" rose to No.

3 in the nation, according to Billboard magazine, and over the years it has sold 3ft million copies. But now it has hit a sour note in a bitter family feud. The song originated in the Ace Recording Studios of Boston, run by two brothers. Herbert Yakus of Weymouth claims his brother Milton, who died in 1980, agreed to give him half of Milton's share of the royalties. By one estimate, the brothers would have divided about 81,200 annually in recent years.

But Herbert says Milton's widow, Martha Yakus of Quincy, hasn't paid him. So in 1981, Herbert sued in Norfolk Superior Court. NEITHER SIDE wants to talk about it much less to each other. Martha Yakus declined comment, referring questions to her son, Bernie Yakus. "I really can't give you any information on the suit," said Bernie.

"The way It is, it's between family members. It's a sad thing." Bernie Yakus said he didn't know how to contact his uncle Herbert, who has an unlisted telephone number. don't want to blow this thing up right now," said Herbert Yakus, referring inquiries to his lawyer. fye case may be moving to a con sauce and lemon wedge. STATLER BROTHERS, ROY CLARK, COUSIN MINNIE PEARL October 8, 1983 -8 P.M.

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