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Asbury Park Press A7 INSIDE PLUS 3 3 Bright Brief Relax tomorrow is Panic Day. Soap Operas Romance, intrigue and murder on the tube. page A9 Dear Abby Stop picking on smokers, reader asks. page A8 Television What's on, what's new, what's hot on the tube, page A6 Monday, March 8, 1993 i Vljy i tl ln ltl ia Allison Acquaviva 's fourth-graders at the Swimming River School in Tinton Falls have written the president with their suggestions. Some are included on this page and have been typed in EXACTLY as they wrote them.

cause we need them to live! We could stop cutting down trees and stop putting stuff up that we really don't need. I know that the ozone layer and Rain forest are still there but there fading away fast! I know that I don't want to live in a hot place, and pay Dear President Clinton I am writing to you From Tinton Falls NJ. I have listed the things I feel are the most important you can do as a president You could lower Taxes by lowering the price of some stuf like Super Nintendo games, Food, T.V., Cable. You could build factories that clean air, water, and land. You can help the whole envi- ask you how does it feel to be president.

TANYA RUIZ dent. I want you to help the sick people by You sould clean up the U.S.A. so we wont die. You can stop cutting down trees and stop the big factories from the smoke they make. takeing some IS' your money out of your pocket, 1J ft orment and whales.

the poor get 5 Lf! AAC TTUmU houes and some A fl $50.00 for a glass of water! (I don't think enybody else want to eigher!) 2. 1 will also like to see you change ALL POULU-TION. (Yuck! I know thats hard!) But (j) agian we stop putting up stuff we really don't need that might help Pleas Please give homeless people a home and a job. At least give them a hotle to live in and find a job that needs help. Please! because if you were homeless PAULSTARNES clothes.

UrtM. Jm5JJ' i I Dear Mr. Clinton, Your tan OMNI ANCRUM You could clean up the environment by taking out all the garbages that's laying around the street's corners. And I think you should clean up the environment because if there was too much it. We could start Dear President Clinton I am writing to you from Tinton Dear President Clinton, I am writing to you from Falls NJ.

I have listed things I feel are most important you can do as president. You should clean up the churches by telling the cutodions to clean them up, you should tell the how would you like it? Sincerly CATHLEEN JONES Dear President Cliton, I am writeing to you from Tinton Falls J. I have listed things I fell are most inportant you can do as Presi- Co-av walking to places I walk to schools to keep the schools, by telling the kids to keep them pollution there will be too much smog in the air all around the neighborhood. I also think you should be re-sponsable for school unless its raining. If you don't help, something might get hurt.

You are the president' (I would also like world peace, you know stop the wars and stuff because I think that someone else is doing that) I want to ask you 1 qes-tion (I would ask you more but you have things to do!) Is it hard to be president? (Why or why not) Thank you for reading this. Oh! I almost forgot! I would really be happy if we stop killing animals by putting up signs and passing protection laws in the United States everything you do, so half of the earth is clean the other part is not. I would like to Falls J. I have listed the things I feel are the most important you can do as president. clean.

You should change the schols by making schools bigger because more people are coming here and we have no more space to learn at. Sincerly, BRIAN VINT Dear President Clinton, I am wrting to you from Tinton falls NJ. I have listed the things I feel are the most impat you can do as President. I would like you to help the people who are poor. You could change the world by buling more shellrers for the poor, and if you have time can you come and vist.

Sincerly, JENNIFER MITROKA Dear president Clinton, I wanted to vote for you but my mom voted for Pero. Is ther any way you can help the homeless people If you were poor what would want? You should change the old buildings to new buildings. So when your four years pass you can rest in that hotel, so you don't half to travel long ways. I hear you play the saxaphone. Do you like it' I play the saxaphone.

What songs doo you know how to play. Your freind YOLANDA BIRCH Dear President Clinton, I am writting to you from Tinton Falls, NJ. I have listed the things I feel are the most important you can do as President. 1. I think you shoul care protect the ozone layer Rain forest be- From MARKLEANZA OUT Press illustrationTOM KERR If 'Sirens' is a hit, Adrienne-Joi Johnson will be house-hunting Television Robert STRAUSS Former Fair Haven resident has her eye on a little house In the Hollywood Hills so she Is hoping her new series, which Is premlerlng Wednesday, will be a hit.

drienne-Joi Johnson has her eye on a little house up a canyon near the famous Hollywood The major networks have not been too crazy about one-hour dramas of late. The claim is that people's attention spans and the access to remote controls don't provide a good environment for the longer dramas. "I'm not afraid of dramas. I just believe the hour dramas present more of a possibility for quality work than sitcoms do, and that's what I'm looking for," Johnson said. Johnson has started her own production company, AJ.

Productions, which currently concentrates on producing musical acts and managing the careers of musicians and actors. She would like to do a film during her summer down time from "Sirens," then "lie on the beach in Jamaica for two weeks and hope the show gets picked up for next year." "If it does," Johnson said, "then all my friends from Fair Haven should have a real nice place to stay in the Hollywood Hills." has appeared in several music videos, choreographed others (for stars LaVert and Jody Watley) and even wrote a song, "Instant Attitude," which Rhonda Clark sang on her first album. She's been in movies Act," "House Party," "Dying and had guest shots on TV series the Heat of the Night," "Fresh Prince of Bel Air," "A Different "But right now what is happening is Johnson said. "I still love the music and all that, but I really have grown to feel that you can be a jack of all trades and a master of none, and I want to master acting." The "Sirens" pilot was actually shot a year ago, but the series was held off the fall schedule by ABC. It finally went back into production in September, after Johnson and her co-stars had several weeks of firearms training and beat-cop orientation with the Pittsburgh and Los Angeles police departments.

"This was after the riots, so it was doubly exciting," Johnson said. "(The L.A.P.D.) had already started its new tactics and new processes, figuring out where it went wrong. To come in and be a part of that, if only for two weeks, riding around with the police, that was interesting. I had to wear a bullet-proof vest, which my father was not too crazy about." "This will be the first $me in a long time, if ever, that you're going to see a black female of my age in this position on TV," said Johnson, whose father, Walter, still lives in Fair Haven. "I think that any time you do something in this business, you are a role model.

But in this case, it's an honor and a responsibility to play a successful young black woman." Johnson's own young life has had a raft of successes. At Rumson-Fair Haven, she was senior class president, homecoming queen and appeared in class plays. She graduated from Spel-lman College in Atlanta magna cum laude with a degree in psychology use it each day to deal with Hollywood," she said, laughing. "The only way I stay out of psychologists' offices is to use my Meanwhile, she became Miss Collegiate Black America and got a small part in Spike Lee's "School Daze." In her five years in Los Angeles she I I fill IMMMI II I I sign. "If everyone in Fair Haven watches my show and writes lots of letters to the network, maybe I'll be able to buy it," she said.

The show the 1981 graduate of Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School wants you glued to for the next 13 weeks is "Sirens" (premiering at 10 p.m. Wednesday on Channels 6 and 7); in which she plays one of three rookie female cops doing their best to de-macho the Pittsburgh Police Department. Johnson's character, Lynn Stanton, has more than just a rough new job to worry about. She's an African-American divorced mother of two still in love with the husband who left her because he thought her desire to become a police officer was a bit loony. Robert Strauss is the Asbury Park Press television writer.

His column appears Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Adrienne-Joi Johnson (left), formerly of Fair Haven, stars with Liza Snyder (center) and Jayne Brook in "Sirens," a one-hour drama about three female police off icers premiering Wednesday on Channels 6 and 7. 4.