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B6 Akron Beacon Journal Wednesday, June 5. 1985 TELEVISION oan Rivers to salute 'tramp of the century' on cable Mark Dawidziak "That's all. Am I wrong? "Now we know that you have no long-range plans for me, which is great, because every other network has come to me with long-range plans." Both ABC and CBS have arranged secret meetings, she said, to discuss the possibility of her launching a talk show to compete with Carson. But Ms. Rivers holds no animosity for the king of late-night television.

"Johnny Carson has been my supporter and my mentor for 20 years," she said. He gave her a break when everyone else was saying that her boisterous, sometimes vulgar, style wouldn't work. There also was the inevitable question about her numerous jokes about the once-overweight Elizabeth Taylor. Before telling the story of how Ms. Taylor called when Rosenberg was in the hospital, Ms.

Rivers couldn't resist a few shots at the now-slim Liz. "One more year as a pig and I would have a house," she complained. "And they took her to Three Mile Island that's how they melted her down." out Murphy bed in her high school locker. And what became of Heidi? Ms. Rivers and her husband, Edgar Rosenberg, went back to New York for a high school reunion.

There was a gray and stocky middle-aged woman who was the mother of two children. Rosenberg had no idea why his wife kept poking him in the ribs with her elbow. He had just met Heidi. Times have changed, Ms. Rivers noted.

In the '50s, Heidi was the girl with the notorious reputation. Three decades later, other high school chums are claiming to be Heidi. Yet she thinks that the promiscuity of the '70s is giving way to a renewed emphasis on substantial relationships. "Maybe 10 years ago," the comedian said, "everybody was just "Hello, let's go to bed and then we'll talk and have a Now, they're a little more careful. They get a meal first." It was inevitable, though, that the topic change to the controversy involving the infamous NBC list.

Ms. Rivers, PHOENIX Just who is Heidi Abromowitz, and why is Joan Rivers saying all those nasty things about her? Heidi Abromowitz, Ms. Rivers tells us during the course of her upcoming Showtime special, is her "best, best girlfriend" and "the tramp of the century." "At 6, she knew more about reproduction than Xerox. "She's served more men than McDonald's. "She's the biggest tramp since Charlie Chaplin." Actually, the predictably unpredictable comedian told a group of television critics during a free-for-all news conference, Heidi Abromowitz is a fictitious name for a real person.

"The real Heidi Abromowitz?" she asked, rephrasing a reporter's inquiry. "Was she really a slut, right? OK, well, it was the '50s. So, the term slut meant a different thing. She was the school tramp. "I don't know if she went all the way, because in those days, even your parents didn't go all the way.

who recently signed a new contract to remain as the sole guest host of The Tonight Show, claims that someone at the Peacock Network anonymously sent her a memo naming 10 people being considered to replace Johnny Carson when he retires from the late-night routine. Despite her usual high ratings when she sits in for the absent Carson, Ms. Rivers was not on the list. David Brenner and David Letterman were. "It hurt me very much," she said, "but you learn to live with it I've been getting very good ratings on The Tonight Show, and I was put on as the dark horse I was the one they looked in the garbage can for and came up with last.

"And that's fine. You get what you earn and then someone sent me a list And that's fine. Now we all know where we stand. "Don't come knocking on my door and don't come ask me to go to the affiliates' meeting. Get one of those 10 to go.

"But she certainly was the one the boys said, 'We had Following on the heels of her best-selling book, The Life and Times of Heidi Abromowitz, Ms. Rivers' one-hour pay-cable special, Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz Almost Live from Caesars Palace, is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the girl most likely to. Showtime premieres the distinguished ceremony at 9 p.m. Friday, June 14. Making a pilgrimage to Heidi's hometown of Larchmont, N.Y., the salute treats us to such sights as the turnstile outside her bedroom and the fold- 1 TONIGHT 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 1:00 1:30 jO News NBC News Fmly.Feud Highway to Heaven FactsLife Trouble St.

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That's 16 below CBS' audience the previous week, with a Simon Simon repeat. Since ABC's Desire movie also was down from the previous week's ABC movie, NBC's Cheers repeat picked up CBS' and ABC's lost viewers, and rose 20 over its previous week's ratings. Only ABC's Deceptions (part 2), No. 2 for the week, broke into NBC's Thursday night domination No. 1 Cosby, No.

3 Family Ties, No. 4 Cheers and No. 5 Night Court. NBC also took eight of the top 10 and five of the next 10 and won every, night but Sunday, but the official 1984-85 season is over (and won again by CBS) and repeats are rampant, so NBC's victories are more moral than lucrative. It is both lucrative and significant that NBC regained No.

2 in the ratings among evening news shows with 9.5 of TV sets to ABC's 9.4. CBS, No. 1 as usual, had 10.5. Pamela Sue Martin who over-negotiated herself out of a return to ABC's Dynasty, the No. 1-rated series last season, as Fallon (General Hospital's Emma Samms got the role) will host a new syndicated series, Star Games, which will premiere in September.

Ms. Martin's co-host is Olympic champ Bruce Jenner. Teams of stars will vie for nearly $2 million in such activities as water polo, kayaking and relay races. Charles Bronson (Death Wish III theater movie) will star in Act of Vengeance, a made-for-HBO movie about the 1969 assassination of Jock Yablonski and his family arranged by United Mine Workers of America leaders. Production will begin in September.

Michael Wilding, son of Elizabeth Taylor and the late Michael Wilding, will join CBS' The Guiding Light June 20 in his first recurring TV role. Wilding, 30, will create the role of record producer Jackson Fremont. Bill Cosby, the man behind the No. 1 new series of last season, NBC's The Cosby Show, lived too much off the fat of the land. He gained 26 pounds.

Cosby and family are vacationing in France. Jameson Parker of Simon Simon is the son of a writermother and a State Department employeefather whose work took him all over the world. Jameson was educated in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. Both parents are dead. Adrian Zmed of T.J.

Hooker, which CBS picked up for 17 new late-night episodes after ABC canceled the police series this season, is replacing Deney Terrio as syndicated Dance Fever's host because Merv Griffin Productions, Dance Fever's producers, consider Terrio too difficult to work with. Una Yothers of NBC's Family Ties and Corey Yothers of ABC's short-lived Ed AsnerEileen Brennan Off the Rack comedy, are siblings. Corey, 13, and Tina, 12, made their TV debuts together, at 5 and 6, in a commercial. 6:00 p.m. fHfl National Press Club Peter Sellers, director of the American National Theater.

Mi Tonight's Playllst Kim Carries. Crazy in the Night, Don Henley, Not Enough Love in the World. David Bowie, Lovin' the Alien, Eurythmics, Would I Lie to You, Phil Collins, Sussu-dia. Simple Minds. Don't You (Forget About Me); Tears for Fears, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Everything She Wants.

6:30 p.m. BSD Play It Again, Nashville Country top-10 countdown for the week of Oct. 23, 1971. 7:00 p.m. Entertainment Tonight Philip Michael Thomas Miami Vice TV series) ESI Tax Reform Internal Revenue Service commissioner Roscoe Egger Jr.

testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee. BID ED 133 SI9 Exercise With Judy Calnl Repeat. 7:30 p.m. OPM Magazine Child-development specialist Dr. John Kennell; Billy Crystal (Saturday Night Live late-night TV Series) kids talk; Magic Birthday Weekend.

OH Montreux International Rock Festival Swiss event. Performances by Adam Ant, Roger Daltrey, Thomas Dolby, Cyndi Lauper, The Pretenders, Queen, Bonnie Tyler, Tracey Ullman, UB40. 8:00 p.m. Highway to Heaven The family and friends of a Vietnam veteran James Whitmore Jr.) refuse to accept the Vietnamese daughter he fathered 15 years earlier. Repeat, cp QQ The Fall Guy Colt, Howie and Jody chase a bail-jumper pursued by criminals (Jimmy Walker, Larry Storch) after $3 million in stolen cash.

Don Adams, Kay Lenz. Repeat, ip ED Charles In Charge Charles visits Douglas' teacher to find out why the bright student received a failing mark. Repeat. CD Movie "Dr. Strange-love" (1964) Peter Sellers, George C.

Scott, Slim Pickens. An overzealous Air Force general decides to rile Russia by dropping an atomic bomb on the USSR. ED The Billy Graham Crusade Living on Death Row. The Rev. Billy Graham, singers George Hamilton IV (' Fly Away), Larnelle Harris (His Grace Is Greater) rp CD The Billy Graham Crusade Loneliness.

The Rev. Billy Graham discusses isolation from society. David Meece sings Comin' Back, tp CD Spaceflight Plans for the space shuttle program and orbiting labs are contrasted with international fears of Star Wars (conclusion) rp CS CQ Symphonic Fantastlque: A Conductor's View Maestro Riccardo Muti conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra in a collaboration with TV director Kirk Browning. Movie "The Best of Enemies" (1962) David Niven, Michael Wilding. Two men satirize the futility of war from opposing sides, yet similar viewpoints.

SD Destination D-Day War hero Sir Huw Wheldon narrates a look at the planning of the June 6, 1944, Normandy invasion. BH Movie "Savannah Smiles" (1982) Mark Miller, Bridgette Anderr sen. Two bumbling crooks find themselves in charge of a precocious young runaway. BEl Movie "Melanie" (1982) Glynnis O'Connor, Burton Cummings. An illiterate woman travels from Arkansas to California to battle her military-officer husband for custody of their young son.

OffiH You Can Be a Star Judges: Skeeter Davis, Dickey Lee. 8:05 p.m. fwrjfl Movie "Bend of the River" (1952) James Stewart, Rock Hudson. A wagon-train guide tries to prevent his crooked partner from stealing settlers' supplies. 8:30 p.m.

CD ER Shemfeld auctions off his private practice; the emergency room staff experiences a crisis. Repeat. EH Movie "Miracle in Harlem" (1948) Stepin Fetchit, Sheila Guyse. A Harlem tycoon plays dead to im-' prove his business. HD Fandango Leona Williams.

9:00 p.m. OEOdHThe Facts of Life Garrett tries to run a business and attend classes. Repeat, rp OCS CD Dynasty Blake and Dominique visit dying Tom Carrington (Harry Andrews); after arguing, Steven and Claudia turn to others for comfort; Tom Carrington's will shocks Alexis. Repeat, CD CD CD The Compleat Gilbert Sullivan The Sorcerer. A Victorian wedding is upset when a purveyor of magic (Clive Revill) provides the bridegroom with a magic love potion that goes astray (in stereo) Wi Chicago WGN Wi New York WOR ffTR Atlanta WTBS (MlSteubenvilleWTOV Wheeling WTRF Arts Entertain fey I i J.

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JOT Still the Beaver Since Disney Channel cable service has canceled this series, watch new episodes while you can or cleave to Beav only in well-worn syndicated reruns. 10:00 p.m. Qrg The Young Ones Interrupting the most successful string of music videos in America, Music Television cable service will premiere the first of 12 episodes of a British situation comedy about four off-the-wall university students. Episode two will be shown at 9 p.m. Friday.

If reactions are favorable, MTV will show the other 12 episodes. ED ICTTP, no ment Network Black Entertainment Television CBN Cable Network Cinemax Cable News Network C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public Slim Pickens ED ED CBS Morning News Actor John Travolta; summer jobs for teens; vacation accessories; women and heart disease. 8:00 a.m. Morning Exchange Lana Wood discusses her book about her late sister, actress Natalie Wood; author Dr. Arnold Fox (DLPA to End Chronic Pain and Depression) author Sandra Scarr (Mother CareOther Care); travel guide Arthur Frommer; cooking with Gerri Basso.

BED Swiss Family Robinson Instead of cartoons. 9:00 a.m. QHour Magazine Sally Struthers (The Odd Couple) sexual pressures on teens; model Carmen; an acting program for prison inmates; facial paralysis; Father's Day waffles. 10:00 a.m. Donahue Star Wars defense controversy.

Heartllght City Videos of Kenny Loggins, Sheena Easton, Waylon Jennings, Santana. Noon BSD Take Two Singercomposer Frank Stallone (Rambo: First Blood Part II theater movie) authors David Morrell (First Blood) and Mildred Wit-kin (Forty-Five and Single Again); Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood): health hazards of video display terminals. 2:00 p.m. E0 QD One Life to Live Tony Award-winning (Broadway) actress Uta Hagen guests. 2:30 p.m.

ffl INN: Midday Edition Headache clinics; actor Cleavon Little. 5:00 p.m. fj Live on Five Author Lana Wood Natalie, about her late sister, actress Natalie Wood); Dr. Arnold Fox (DLPA to End Chronic Pain and Depression) bards, Jonathan Pryce. The bizarre owner of a traveling carnival troupe targets two youngsters as potential candidates to join his show.

Based on the novel by science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury. IBWl The Young Ones Series premiere of first situation comedy on Music Television cable service. Four ty students share a north London apartment in this award-winning British comedy series. 10:05 p.m. IWTBSI The Billy Graham Crusade See 8:00 p.m.

EB 10:30 p.m. CB Real Estate: The Investment of the '80s How to secure government loans for buying property at low interest rates. PUSH New Country The Riders in the Sky, Riders in the SkyLive. 11:00 p.m. KQ Escape "Hijack to Mogadishu" A dramatic re-creation of the 1976 Palestinian guerrilla attack on a West German passenger jet.

GSOBe a Star See 8:00 p.m. SB Movie "Laura" (1980) James Mitchell, Maud Adams. 11:05 p.m. ER Movie "Law and Order" (1976) Darren McGavin, Keir Dullea. Three generations of Irish-American police officers learn compromise while dealing with citizens on their beat.

11:30 p.m. fj ED Tonight Actor John Travolta; Stephen Barry, former valet to Prince Charles; actor Anthony Newley; host Joan Rivers. 11:45 p.m. Hg Movie "Sixteen Candles" (1984) Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall. On her 16th birthday, a girl's family forgets the event while she pines for a schoolmate and attracts an unwanted admirer.

Midnight ED The 700 Club See 9:00 p.m. GD Movie "The Desert Rats" (1953) Richard Burton, James Mason. A tough British captain and his Australian regiment secure a key desert outpost during the North African campaign of World War II. GEO The 700 Club Where your tax dollars are spent. ED Larry King Live! Dick Ebersol, co-creator of and former Saturday Night Live executive producer.

Viewers may phone questions. ESQ International Trade Viewers may phone questions to Congressman Don Bonker, D-Wash. flSRI Nashville Now Darlene Austin, Seldom Scene, Jonathan Edwards, David Frizzell. HD Movie "Rhinestone" (1984) Stallone, Dolly Parton. EOT.

ED Wallpaper 9:30 p.m. Q) Double Trouble Kate falls for a local disc jockey (Michael Young), unaware that he is attracted to Allison. 10:00 p.m. Q) St. Elsewhere Westphall's lack of sleep triggers anxiety attacks; staff members volunteer for a dream clinic; a Filipino dies from a rare native disease.

Repeat. OQ)Q) Hotel Mrs. Cabot's addiction to a prescription drug results in erratic behavior; songwriters renew their romance; a father seeks forgiveness. Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows. Repeat, tp ED Churchill: The Man Actress Sarah Churchill remembers her father in a documentary on the life of Winston Churchill.

Narrated by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. BED Movie "Reunion at Fair-borough" (1985) Robert Deborah Kerr. Four decades after they shared a passionate World War II love affair, a couple is reunited and finds their romantic feelings revived. B3B Movie "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (1983) Jason Ro- EDGD Night Heat Giambone must appear before the grand jury when an Internal Affairs investigation into the shooting death of a thug turns up no evidence of self-defense. Repeat.

EH Boxing U.S. Boxing Association lightweight championship. From Atlantic City. Tyrone Crawley (18-1, 6 KOs) vs. Charlie "Choo Choo" Brown (24-4-2, 17 KOs); John Meekins vs.

Rodney Moore, junior welterweights; Willie deWit vs. Sterling Benjamin, heavyweights. HYet Again Even More All-New Unexpurgated Benny Hill Ribald skits and songs from the British comedian. 12:30 a.m. QQ) David Letterman Terry Gilliam, baseball's Hank Aaron, comedian George Miller, songwriter Irving Caesar.

Another repeat of Letter-man's first four shows, in 1982. Movie "In the Cool of the Day" (1963) Jane Fonda, Peter Finch. A bored American housewife falls for married man. CD Real Estate: The Investment of the '80s Tony Hoffman and real estate experts reveal secrets of acquiring a fortune in real estate. 12:35 a.m.

HB Movie "Class" (1983) Rob Lowe, Jacqueline Bisset. Student has sex with roommate's mother. 1:05 a.m. Movie "Hardbodies" (1984) Grant Cramer, Teal Roberts. THURSDAY 7:00 a.m.

QQ) Today Singer Andy Williams; director Steven Spielberg; magician Harry Blackstone bumper stickers for drunk drivers in Sarasota, Fla. Q) Good Morning America David Hartman's visit to India; best and worst U.S. careers; actor Tom Hanks; children's videos; mercy killing,.