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The Des Moines 19907D Newcasts on KDSM? Fox Broadcasting affiliate KDSM-TV continues to tiptoe closer and closer to creating a local, prime-time newscast. KDSM general manager Tommy Thompson seems genuinely interested, especially since Dave Rhein Thompson did say Fox plans to give its affiliates plenty of news support. He said Fox is putting- together a staff to provide coverage of everything from world and national news, to entertainment and sports news. He said Fox plans to help its affiliates get into the news business by supplying some equipment and technical assistance and even designing a news set. He has no figures on how much money Fox is spending on its news service, or how much it would cost KDSM to get into the news business.

Plans call for Fox to begin offering parts of its news service Jan. 1. and to have the full service operational a year from now. Thompson said KDSM has no timetable for creating a news operation. "We are moving with abundant caution on this," he said.

Vince DeMentri moves to the weekend anchor desk on WOI-TV beginning Saturday, replacing Galen Svan-as. Svanas is taking a new assignment as WOI's investigative reporter. Also beginning Saturday, meteorologist Rick Mitchell takes over the weather segments on weekends. few- if Sff'-P i academician who pops in and out of Bill Cosby's life trying to unravel his after-life called "Nuke" and the bureaucrats in the police department who want him to be a kinder, gentler crime-fighter. Reviewed today.

Fleur Thurs 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45. Valley Thurs-Sun 1:30,4:15,7:15,9:40. Rocky Horror Picture Show (R, 95 minutes) This haunted-castle cult classic, a sexual parody of the Frankenstein legend, invites audience participation in the adventures of Dr. Frank N. Furter, two of the film world's most lovable patsies.

Brad and Janet (Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon), and a bunch of escapees from Transylvania. It's a camp ritual not to be missed. Billy Joe's Pitcher Show Fri-Sat midnight. Steel Magnolias (PG, 118 minutes) Herbert Ross directs a star-heavy cast in an Continued on next page returning recently from a meeting of Fox affiliates, where the network provided details on its new national news service. "Fox is developing a news service that local stations can use to create the best mix of national and local news in either a half-hour or hour format," said Thompson.

"We plan do a fair amount of research before taking the plunge but I didn't hear anything (from Fox) that would make me less interested." Thompson said any newscast created by KDSM would air either at 9 p.m. or 9:30 p.m., ahead of the nightly news on KCCI-TV, WHO-TV and WOI-TV. He points to other independent TV stations, such as WGN-TV in Chicago, that have had success with prime-time newscasts. KPTM-TV in Omaha, also a Fox station, recently began airing a 9 p.m. newscast.

"The only logical rationale for an additional local news service is if you can be distinctly different than the others," said Thompson. "There are content values for local news that have not been explored by the affiliate newscasts" in central Iowa, he added. Thompson declined to say specifically how a potential KDSM newscast would be different from its three competitors. wy Served from P.M. Every week-all year long.

Meals Include Choice of Baked Potato or Steak Fried Potatoes or Side of Spaghetti, Hot Mini Loaf of Bread and our Famous Salad Bar. Kxcrpt Tumday Ian Bannen is a charming British The Hunt for Red October (PG, 134 minutes) John McTiernan makes Tom Clancy's taut technothriller about a defecting Soviet nuclear-submarine com-. mander (Sean Connery) an exciting, though overlong, adventure of brains and bravado, splash and whoosh. Valley Thurs 1:45, 4:15, 7:20, 9:45. I Love You to Death (R, 97 minutes) Pizza parlor owner Kevin Mine romances many women.

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S. E. 14th Drive-ln Thurs 1 1:30. Joe Versus the Volcano (PG, 94 minutes) Tom Hanks in a Capraesque fantasy-comedy about a "squashed bug of a guy" who decides to live before his "terminal brain cloud" gets him. Value Cinema Thurs 1:20.

S. E. 14th Drive-in Fri-Sun 11:30. The Little Mermaid (G, 82 minutes) A funny, witty, magical Walt Disney retelling, in animated form, of the taie of the mermaid, the prince and the sea witch. With the delightful vocal talents of Buddy Hackett as Scuttle Ihe seagull and Pat Carroll as the viilainess.

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Madhouse (PG 13, 90 minutes) House-guests plague new homeowners John Larroquette and Kirstie Alley. Value Cinema Thurs Fri-Sun 1:25,4:25,7:20,9:45. Opportunity Knocks PG-13, 101 minutes. Out of his depth in a full-length movie, the bland and amiable Dana Carvey, from "Saturday Night Live," plays a young con man who dons Ivy league yuppie disguise to bilk Chicago toffs. Value Cinema Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:25,9:45.

Pretty Woman (R, 120 minutes) "The Wolf of Wall Street" (Richard Gere) en counters a businesswoman of the streets in Hollywood (Julia Roberts) and does a Pygmalion number on her. Slick, superficial, stylish. Capri Thurs 7, Fri 4:15, 7, Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:15, 7, 9:45. SouthRidge Thurs-Sun 1:30,4:15, 7:20, 9:45. A (R, 134 minutes) Sidney Lumet's gritty depiction of New York City and its police and justice systems focuses on racism while Detective Nick Nolle is being investigated in a "self-defense" shooting.

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