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6E Reno Gazette-Journal Thursday, July 26, 1990 Canada's top miniseries No. 1 in U.S., too sa "Quantum Leap," NBC, 9 2. Footbags From page 1E others are generally under $10. Hackey Sacks cost about $11, and their competitors, crocheted footbags called Sipa Sipas, are about $10. (Tournament bags run higher.) Hula Hoops rubber tubing stapled at the ends to form a circle are usually under $5.

Jump ropes generally range from $6 to $16, depending if you want plastic covered, nylon or leather ropes. "Jump roping, without a doubt, is an excellent form of cardiovascular exercise," says Farrell. "Frisbee can be a good fitness activity provided you're chasing it." As for Hula Hooping and footbag kicking: "Your skill level will have to be high enough to perform the exercise continuously," to get your heart rate up, he says. But as long as you are sweating and breathing hard you're getting a good workout, says Farrell. And these exercises don't require any fancy equipment or preparation.

Just somewhere to do them. Says Stimson of his footbag assortment: "I carry it in my pocket. I can play indoors and outdoors, day or night, sun or rain." At the moment, a bag is flying faster and faster between him and Bellemore. Pit. Put.

Pet. Stimson catches the round bag Part 2 "NBC Monday 16 3, 15 0 million homes. 2. (1) "Cheers," NBC, 15.5. 14 3 million homes.

3. (2) "Roseanne," ABC, 13 8, 12 7 million homes. 4. (41) "2020." ABC. 13 4, 123 million homes.

5. (10) "Empty Nest." NBC, 13 3. 12 2 million homes 5 (38) "Real Life With Jane Pauley," 13 3. 12 2 million homes 7. (6) "Golden Girls," NBC.

13 0, 12 0 million homes. 7. (28) "Simpsons," FOX, 13 0, 12 0 million homes. 7. (41) "Married With Children," Fox, 13.0, 12.0 million homes.

10. (X) "Miss Teen A 12 8, 118 million homes. 1 1 (9) "60 Minutes," CBS, 12 7, 1 1 .7 million homes 12. (3) "The Cosby Show," NBC, 12 4. 114 million homes 13 (4) "A Different World," NBC, 12 3.

11.3 million homes. 14. (12) "Unsolved Mysteries." NBC, 11.7. 10 8 million homes. 15.

(12) "Grand," NBC, 115. 10 6 million homes. 16. (19) "Coach." ABC, 11.4, 10 5 million homes. 17.

(15) "Who's the ABC, 11 3, 10 4 million homes. 17. (87) "In Living Color," Fox. 113, 10.4 million homes. 19 (24) "Full House," ABC, 112, 10 3 million homes.

19. (23) "Designing Women," CBS, 11.2, 10 3 million homes. 21. (5) "America Funniest Home Videos," ABC, 111. 21.

(17) "Murder, She Wrote." CBS, 111. 23 (20) "Matlock," NBC, 10 8 23. (11) "Wonder Years" ABC, 10 8. 25 (30) "A Gathering of Old Men," "CBS Sunday Movie," CBS. 10 6.

25 (18) "In The Heat of the Night," NBC, 106 27. (30) "Hunter." NBC, 10.5. 27. (58) "Just The Ten Of Us," ABC, 10 5. 29.

(41) "Family Matters," ABC, 10.4. 29. (47) "Perfect Strangers," ABC, 10 4. 29 (57) "Rescue: 911." CBS. 10 4.

32 (34) "Kill Or Be Killed," "NBC Sunday Movie." 100. 33. (16) A. Law." NBC, 9 8. 34.

(30) "Growing Pains." ABC. 9.7. 34 (47) "Major Dad," CBS. 9.7. 34.

(70) "The Gambler III." Part 2 "CBS Tuesday Movie." CBS. 9.7 34. (33) "Night Court." NBC, 9.7 38. (93) "Northern Exposure," CBS, 9 6 LOS ANGELES (AP) The Canadian Broadcasting Company's "Love Hate: A Marriage Made in Hell," proved a happy union for America's NBC network. The second Installment of Canada's top-rated mini-series was the No.

1 show on U.S. television in ratings released Tuesday by the A C. Nielsen Co. The four-hour docu-drama about one of Canada's most sensational murder cases stars Kenneth Welsh and Kate Nelligan. It was pitched to NBC programming guru Brandon Tartikoff by producer Ivan Fe-can, a former NBC employee who now is Tartikoff's counterpart at CBC.

Part one of "Love Hate" was shown on NBC a week ago and ranked sixth in the Nielsens for that period. The peacock network also scored high with the debut of "Real Life with Jane Pauley," on Tuesday at 10 p.m. The magazine-style show starring the former "Today" co-host tied for fifth place with a repeat of NBC's "Empty Nest." NBC won the overall ratings war with a 10.2 average, followed by CBS with 8.7 and ABC with 8.4. Each ratings point represents 921,000 households. The network news battle was won again by ABC with an 8.9 average.

CBS was second with an 8 and NBC finished last with 7.4. Here are the prime-time ratings for the week of July 16-22. Top 20 listings include the week's ranking, with full season-to-date ranking in parentheses, rating for the week, and total homes. An in parentheses denotes one-time-only presentation. A rating measures the percentage of the nation's 92.1 million TV homes.

1. (34) "Love 4 Hate: A Marriage In Hell." 40. (22) "Dear NBC, 91. 41. (X) "ABC News Special: Perfect Baby," 9 0 42 (34) "Head of the Class," ABC, 8 9 43 (101) "Top Cops," CBS, 8 8.

44. (76) "48 Hours." CBS, 8 7. 45 (44) "Jake and the Fatman," CBS. 8 6 45 (37) "Doogie Howser. ABC, 8 6.

47. (61) "Macgyver," ABC, 8 4. 48. (85) "Young Riders." ABC, 8 3. 49.

(118) "Pnmetime Pets," CBS, 7 9. 50. (97) "Pnmetime Live," ABC, 7.8. 51. (79) "Father Dowling Mysteries," ABC, 52.

(X) "Candid Camera Special," CBS, 7 6. 53. (100) "ABC Mystery Movie," ABC. 7 3. 53.

(113) "Magical World of Disney," NBC, 73 53 (93) "Sister Kate," NBC, 7 3. 53. (101) "America Most Wanted," Fox, 73 57. (44) "Amen," NBC. 7 2.

58. (53) "Tonight's The Night," "ABC Sunday Movie." 71. 58 (61) "Anything But Love," ABC, 7.1. 60. (106) "Working Girl," NBC.

6 9. 60. (64) "thirtysomething," ABC, 6 9. 62. (126) "Yellow Rose." NBC, 6.7.

63. (132) "Super Jeopardy." ABC, 6 4. 63. (137) "Revenge of the Nerds," Part II "Fox Night At the Movies," 6 4. 65.

(53) "On Fire," "ABC Monday Movie," 6 3. 66. (69) "227," NBC, 6 2 67. (109) "Paradise." CBS, 5.8. 67.

(129) "Bret Maverick." NBC, 5 8. 67. (X) "The Bakery," CBS. 5.8. 70.

(44) "Midnight Caller." NBC. 5 6. 71. (47) "Newhart," CBS 5 5. 71.

(79) "Wiseguy." CBS. 5.5. 73. (131) "Cops." Fox, 5 4. 73 (135) "Monopoly." ABC.

5 4. 75 (X) "Marshall Chronicles Special," ABC, 52 76 (134) "Totally Hidden Video," Fox, 5.1. 76 (117) "Lite Goes On," ABC, 5.1. 76 (139) "Booker," Fox, 51. 79 (127) "Tour of Duty," CBS, 4 9.

79. (139) "21 Jump Street," Fox, 4 9. 79. (X) "Married With Children Special," Fox, 4.9. 82.

(123) "Beauty and The Beast," CBS, 48 83 (143) "Wish You Were Here." CBS, 4 6. 84 (X) "This Is America: Charlie Brown," CBS. 4 5. 85 (X) "Fall Preview." Fox, 4 4. 86 (137) "Normal Life," CBS, 4 1.

87. (141) "Alien Nation," Fox. 3.5. 88 (145) "Outsiders," Fox, 3.2. 89.

(129) "Open House," Fox, 3.1. Jot Journal SOME MOVE: Using your chest to move the ball is illegal in Hackey Sack, but Roger Stimpson finds it helps while exercising. laughing. Jane Fonda, eat your leg-warmers. Roger Stimson, an instructor certified by the World Footbag Association, is trying to start a footbag club and tournament in northern Nevada.

Those interested my contact Stimson at P.O. Box 1178, Carson City, Nev. 89702. on his toe and kicks it behind and over his head a "pendulum pass." Then he executes a "clippers" leaping and striking the bag backwards with his opposite foot. Stimson and Bellemore grow oblivious to the outside world as he instructs her in lateral movement.

Plop. The bag falls to the sod. "I get dizzy," Bellemore says, Record-seekers take fun toys super-serious Road to Broadway tougher during summer You get the biggest bang from the Tony if it's a musical. Gerald Schoenfeld By Michael SiOnGazette-Journal Basic toys not only offer good workouts they can mushroom into fanatical passions. You might be surprised to learn that Hackey Sack, Frisbee, Hula Hoop and jump rope are the objects of super-serious world record-seekers and professionals who train constantly.

But then, the human spirit is nothing if not a mystifying force. The Memphis, Tenn. -based Professional Disc Golfers Association with more than 5,000 members worldwide stages competitions in the golfdisc hybrid, including a $40,000 U.S. Open. The object is to complete an 18-hole course of chain-link disc catchers.

Another tournament, the annual U.S. Open Championships in Los Angeles, brings together the world's top disc athletes for such competitions as "throw, run and catch," "maximum time aloft," "distance" and "freestyle." And "Ultimate" (sometimes called "Frisbee now numbers more than 1,000 teams competing at the college and club level, according to Frisbee manufacturer Wham-0 San Gabriel, Calif. The World Footbag Association, based in Golden. sponsors an annual $20,000 tournament. It estimates 20 million play footbag worldwide.

Footbag also has several games with official rules, including footbag net (like volleyball), footbag golf and freestyle (which is performed to music, like Olympic ice skating). Wham-0 reports "several people around the country are making a living as Hula Hoop performers." Then, there are the world records duly chronicled by the authoritative Guinness Book of World Records. The record for multiple Hula Hooping is 81 gyrating hoops sustained between shoulders and hips, set by William K. Chico Johnson in London, Sept. 19, 1983.

Meanwhile, the record for single hooping is 88 hours without dropping a hoop, set in 1986 by Tonya Lynn Mistal of Cottonwood, at age 15. (Roxann Rose of Pullman, claimed to have bettered that by two hours in 1987 but she used her arm to keep the hoop going when tired. That was a no-no.) The longest authenticated throw of an inert object heavier than air is 1,257 feet with an Aero-bie flying ring, by Scott Zimmerman in 1986 in Fort Funston, Calif. But the maximum time aloft for a flying disc is 16.72 seconds, set by Don Cain of East Brunswick, N.J., in 1986. Then there's the record distance for throwing, running and catching a flying disc: 303.9 feet by Sam Ferrans at La Habra, in 1988.

The mark for rope-jumping is 31 hours, 46 minutes and 48 seconds, set in 1989 by Frank P. Oli-veri of Rochester, N.Y. He got a five-minute break at the end of each hour. For perfect jumps in one hour, the honors go to Robert R. Com-mers of Connellsville, who executed 13,783 revolutions with no faults last year.

Where there's a vision, there's a way. Savvy marketing is often the only answer. A show such as "The! Grapes of Wrath" is impossible to capture in a 30-second TV spot Schoenfeld says, so he has tried a "testimonial" ad: People coming out of the theater moved and impressed. With August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Piano Lesson" a three-hour drama about black life in Pittsburgh serious theatergoers were snagged by having the play on the off-Broadway Manhattan Theater Club's subscription season, which sold 13,000 tickets to the Broadway run. Black ministers and other leaders were bused to "Piano Lesson's" pre-Broadway engagement in Washington, D.C., to get the word out to the black community.

Gould believes the only hope for serious drama in New York is off-Broadway, where most of the prime theaters are booked with long-running successes. By David Patrick Stearns Gannett News Service Broadway's long, hot summer often is a bonanza for musicals, but producers must do fancy footwork to make even the most prestigious straight play survive. Even winning a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize sometimes isn't enough to make shows lacking huge stars, steamy sex or lots of belly laughs attract enough theatergoers to justify the high costs of running a show on Broadway. "It's insane to move plays (from off-Broadway) to Broadway," says producer Kip Gould, whose "Prelude to a Kiss" starring Timothy Hutton will make back its investment by the grace of a movie sale. "When you've got 17 theater unions on Broadway as opposed to two off-Broadway, it's crazy unless you win a Tony." "The Grapes of Wrath," the Steppenwolf Theater's adaptation of the John Steinbeck classic, did just that, but because its large cast dictates running costs of 175,000 a week $70,000 more than most straight plays it has paid back only 25 percent of its $1.73 million investment, says Gerald Schoenfeld of the Shubert Organization.

"You get the biggest bang from the Tony if it's a musical," Schoenfeld says. "You get a lesser bang for a play." Sales for "Tru," about author Truman Capote, jumped only 10 percent to 15 percent after Robert Morse won a best-actor Tony, says producer Lewis Allen. AIDS SUPPORT Body Positive, a group for those who have tested positive for HIV, meets 7 to 9 m. Thursdays in Reno The aim is to develop coping skills. Details: LIPPS INC.

CLUB The group meets from 1 1 30 a to 12 30 m. every Thursday at the Bureau of Land Management, Conference Room B. 850 Harvard Way. Details: 785-6432 (John E. Chappell).

CANCER SUPPORT A group meets at 1 m. Thursdays at Washoe Medical Center, Station 36 for patients and families. Details: 328-5626. Victoria Corderi new CBS morning news anchor NEW YORK (AP) Victoria Corderi was named Wednesday as the permanent co-anchor with Charles Osgood of the "CBS Morning News" and the news segments of "CBS This Morning." Corderi, who in January was transferred to New York from CBS' Miami bureau, joined CBS News in 1985. She succeeds Faith Daniels, who left CBS in March to join NBC as anchor of "NBC News at Sunrise" and the news segments of the revamped "Today" show.

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