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87918324 -I Movie Taylor (Tim Allen) on ABC's Home Improvement. "I empathize with Al on a lot of things his shyness in social situations and his seriousness about doing the work right," says Karn, a bearded, amiable Seattle native, in a telephone interview. "There's my dad right there. My dad was a builder, my grandpa too. They took doing the job right very seriously." So does Karn although, as an actor, he's shaping emotions rather than wood and stone.

He's disappointed that Home Improvement didn't win an Emmy for best comedy this year. (NBC's Frasler grabbed that honor.) "A family show like ours says a lot about the human condition," Karn says. "Instead of being single and witty, with no strings attached, In an urban apartment" can you say Friends? "we're dealing with relationships, kids and parenting. I find it sad that a show like ours is not well-respected in the industry." But respect can be spelled another way: r-a-t-i-n-g-s. Now in its fifth season, Home Improvement, at 9 p.m.

Tuesdays on WRTV (Channel 6). was the third-highest-rated prime time show (behind Seinfeld and ER) In Indianapolis last week. WTTV (Channel 4) also re-runs an hour of Home Improvement daily (6:30 p.m.) But how long will star Allen remain with the show? Allen starred in The Santa Clause, the fourth-highest-grossing movie of 1994, and has two more films coming up. His book Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man hit No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

"I definitely see the show running two more years after this," Karn says. "After that, it will really be up to everybody Involved. If we can still put on something we can respect instead of something we Just churn out Before Home Improvement, Karn struggled for years in regional theater, off-Broadway and commercials before meeting Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean at the New Harmony (Ind.) Project. Plays and movie scripts are staged at the writers' retreat to see how they work. Ticket to success Years later in Hollywood, Karn got a traffic ticket.

At traffic school, he sat next to an agent, who reintroduced him to Evans-ville native Williams, his University of Evansville colleague McFadzean and Finestra. They were casting Home Improvement. These days, the trio is concentrating more on Buddies, a new sitcom waiting to be called as an ABC midseason replacement. Last season, ABC canceled Its Thunder Alley, the Ed Asner family comedy once set in Indianapolis. Lightning, it seems, Is hard to catch in a bottle twice.

"People forget that Matt created Roseanne," Karn says. "Even if he did nothing more in his life than Roseanne and Home Improvement, you'd have to consider him really successful." Karn, meanwhile, is keeping busy. Last week, he filmed an episode of ABC's Boy Meets World, and his new family movie Picture Perfect airs at 9 p.m. Saturday on Channel 6. The film's a trifle, but a pleasant one.

Karn and Mary Page Keller play financially struggling single par- ents who pretend to be married so they can win a soft-drink company contest. Dave Thomas Grace Under Fire plays the company head who moves in to check out this "perfect family." It's all goofy Innocent fun. "After four years of playing Al, I didn't realize how much I needed to play someone else until I did it," Karn says. "It's nice to know those (acting) muscles still work." Right out the window Channel 27 has dropped conservative National Empowerment Television for failing to generate "any measurable ratings," says Manager Ken Ladage. And this on a station that considers a 1 rating for Donahue reruns a success.

Ladage finds most puzzling the apathy for Progress Report, an NET call-in show with House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 9 p.m. Tuesdays: "You'd think in a state so supposedly conservative as this one, people would Jump at a chance to talk to Gingrich live." Symbols: (S), In stereo: (CC), close-captioned; (R), repeat. Shading Indicates movies. Movies are rated by the Chicago Tribune. Star ratings: 4 excellent, 3 good, 2 fair, 1 poor.

Foster began career as a toddler Give me some information about Jodie Foster. Where did she grow up and go to school? What movies has she made? R.W. Jodie, who will be 33 on Nov. 19, is a native of Los Angeles who began performing when she was 3. Shull's Mailbag R.krshuii fictitious.

I seem to recall that Robert Kincaid was a photographer for National Geographic and that the adult children of France-sca appeared on talk shows. W.N. Don't feel badly. Some people see Elvis. Occasionally Has The Commish been canceled? N.S.

Nope. Instead of a weekly series, this season the show will have three two-hour episodes. When shot Settle a bet between my husband and myself. When was J.R. shot on the TV show, Dallas? I say the spring of 1980.

He says not until 1987. T.R. Your husband is in a time warp. J.R. was shot in a cliff-hanger episode in the spring of 1980.

The shootlst wasn't revealed until Nov. 21, 1980. Send your questions to R.K. Shull, The Star and The News, Box 145, Indianapolis, Ind. 46206-0145.

Sorry, no personal replies. 1IM I all r11 i i $. 'I I i i i I If i tiJt She wasn't yet 13 when she played the junkie prostitute in Taxi Driver and before she was 14 she had done The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, released in 1977. In education, she was class valedictorian at the Lycee Fran-cals in Los Angeles and a graduate of Yale University. She has won "best actress" Oscars for The Accused in 1988 and The Silence of the Lambs in 1991.

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