The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 47

C4 Akron Beacon Journal Monday, April 9, 1 984 TELEVISION Win Man's son hopes to make Oscar Night a gee-whiz Mark Dawidziak graduates) are going to present it to him. And the clips alone are going to be worth the price of admission." Another special moment should be when director Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's A Wonderful Life) steps out to announce the Best Picture selection. This year's marks the 50th anniversary of the Oscar ceremony that saw Capra's It Happened One Night sweep all five major awards (a feat only duplicated by One Flew Over the Cu-koo's Nest). After last year's disastrous attempt to use four hosts, Haley is glad that the emceeing duties again will fall to one person Johnny Carson.

"He's the best since Bob Hope," the producer said. "It's a very difficult thing to host the Academy Awards. Only a handful of people have pulled it off. I've used both multiple-hosts and the single host. There's no question that one works better." Does Haley have any predictions? "I'm the worst handicapper in the world," he said.

"I've never won an mat show. There are several things you have to do. If you opened with the Best Picture award, you'd be run out of Hollywood. Then you have to spread out the five songs. But, to me, it's not a thankless job; it's a great deal of fun." Haley thinks the highlight of the 56th Annual Academy Awards Presentation (which airs at 9 on WEWS-Ch.

5, WAKR-Ch. 23 and WYTV-Ch. 33) will be the Flashdance number, performed by Irene Cara and 45 dancers from New York's National Dance Company will knock your eyeballs and the special Oscar that will be presented to 92-year-old filmmaker Hal Roach. For those unfamiliar with Roach's name, the veteran producerdirector's legendary studio was responsible for most of the shorts and features starring such comic greats as Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang and Charlie Chase. Mack Sen-nett once called him "my only rival." "I can't tell you how thrilled I am that the honorary award is going to Hal Roach," Haley said.

"Jackie Cooper and Spanky McFarland (both Our Gang It's the same old problem every year. How do you improve an annual telecast that strives to be glamorous, exciting and suspenseful, yet ends up roundly criticized for being dull, interminable and tinselly? The Oscar presentations, which were started in the late '20s as a publicity stunt, remain the most-watched, most-hyped and most-disappointing of the televised awards shows. They are not the classiest. That distinction belongs to Broadway's Tony Awards. Nor can they be called the best-produced.

That honor must be accorded the American Film Institute's tasteful and intelligently packaged Life Achievement Award ceremonies. So just what does one do with these wearisome Academy Awards marathons? Producer Jack Haley Jr. has some definite ideas, and tonight all America will see if he can deliver. "First off, I'm trying to hold down the chit-chat between the presenters to a minimum by cutting out all those lame Oscar pool in my life. It's no secret that Shirley MacLaine Terms of Endearment) is an odds-on favorite for Best Actress.

So, I've got two good friends of hers presenting the award Jack Lem-mon and Liza Minnelli. "It's a calculated risk. She has a lot of friends in this town, and, if she wins, it's going to be an emotional moment." Haley says he likes to take some chances with the Oscar telecast. "I always look for that little added danger," he said. "Like this year there's going to be a special effects award for Return of The Jedi and Cheech and Chong will be presenting it.

I'll probably be cowering in a corner. When tonight's Oscars become history, Haley will continue working on Believe it or Not! and a new theater film called That's Dancing! "It will be in the tradition of That's Entertainment!" he said, "but it will be all dancing from all different studios. As for Believe it or I'm finally getting adjusted to being in 50th place every week and still being on the air." little jokes," said the son of The Wizard of Oz's beloved Tin Man. "If they say anything, it will be substantial. "We've also eliminated any major musical numbers except for the five nominated songs.

Then you just pray that the acceptors get on and off in a normal amount of time and don't ramble." This is Haley's fourth Oscar telecast, but it has been five years since his last fling with the Academy Awards. "It's not intimidating for me, but it is a challenge," said the ABC's Ripley's Believe it Or Not! and That's Entertainment! theater film producer. "It's a for Sports Time has Indians, no area link The new Sports Time Cable Network has purchased the rights to broadcast 25 Cleveland Indians home games, but no cable system in the Akron or Cleveland area has added the cable service. Carried on more than 100 cable systems, Sports Time has purchased the rights to broadcast 25 Indians games this season and 30 for the 1985 season. A co-venture of the Anheuser-Bush Mutli-media and cable giant Telecommunications, Sports Time is packaged for the Midwest.

Headquartered in St. Louis, Sports Time, which' started operations on April 3, offers a schedule that includes baseball games featuring the Kansas City Royals, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals and the Indians. Other Sports Time broadcasts include MISL soccer, boxing, track and field, high school and college basketball, tennis, bowling and horse racing. "Apparently, our schedule still isn't attractive enough for cable systems in Northeast Ohio," said Sports Time manager of communications Jerry Lovelace.

"Many of them expressed interest in Big 10 events, which I can understand. We're a regional service, but we're aiming for more of a mid-America region by expanding what we carry." TONIGHT 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 1 8:30 9:00 I 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 1:00 1:30 News NBC News P. Court Feud TV's Bloopers Movie: "Damnation Alley" News Best Of Carson David Letterman TicTac News ABC News Fortune Joker Barbara Walters Academy Awards News Nightline Big Valley News CBS News Entertain. PMMag. Scarecrows Mrs.

King Movie: "Still The Beaver" News Maude Hawaii Five-0 i "Die Screaming" CO Plus Or Minus 60 Spirit Humbard Camp Meeting U.S.A. Jim Bakker Plus Or Minus 60 INN News L. Tripp Praise The Lord V- Min. Hits. INN News ED News NBC News TicTac P.

Court TV's Bloopers Movie: "Damnation Alley" News BestOfCarson David Letterman News ABC News Jeannie Music Mag. Barbara Walters Academy Awards News 700 Club flB Aerobics MacNeilLehrer Business Frontline Great Performances: Queen Of Spades Latenight America CD News CBS News Jeffersons M'A'S'H Scarecrowi Mrs. King Movie: "Still The Beaver" News HartToHart Columbo CB News ABC News Fortune Sanford Barbara Walters Academy Awards News Nightline Swaggart QD Alice All Family M'A'S'H NBA Basketball: Cleveland Cavaliers at NY Knicks Successful In America 3'sComp. Benny Hill Twilight Zone Thicke Of The Night CD Cliffhang. Market MacNeilLehrer Frontline Great Performances: Queen Of Spades Business ED BJLobo Movie: "The Crowd Roars" INN News H'mooners BJLobo HartToHart Columbo CB Mayberry Van Dyke Family Movie: "My Sweet Charlie" CNN News Workout The Saint mCH One Day Alice B.

Miller Jeffersons Solid Gold Greatest American Hero News Baseball: Chicago Cubs at Los Angeles Dodgers TwiLZone WOR Sat. Night Benny Hill News 9 Movie: "The Fortune Cookie" Laugh-In 40 Videos Hawaii Five-0 Return Of The Saint WTBS A. Griffith C.Burnett Sanford B.Newhart Portrait Of America National Cancer Quiz News All Family The Catlins High Chapparal National Cancer Quiz HEM ANight At Asti's Onedin Line Nanny World War II Onedin Line Paperback Design Nanny World War II CBN Hunt Rifleman Here Come The Brides Curtain Of Tears 700 Club Boones Anotr. Life Groucho BumsAllen Jack Benny Joan That Bob CIHt Movie Ctd. Movie: "Rataplan" Movie: "Enchantment" Movie: "Bad Boys" Movie: "The World According To Garp" CII (5:00) Newswatch Moneyline Crossfire Primenews Freeman Reports Sports Crossfire NewsNight Gumby EpcotMag.

"Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" Theater Movie: "Smoky" Pecos Bill Disney Oscar Winners Anka! SPH Basketball SportsLook SpoCtr. In Baseball Auto Racing USFL Football: Los Angeles Express at Denver Gold SpoCtr. SportsLook Auto Racing JIM Paddington Fraggle Not News Hollywood Movie: "Black Sunday" Movie: "The Personals" "Some Kind Of Hero" JTO "Tender Is The Night" "Pony Soldier" McBain Movie: "Tender Is The Night" D. West Ansara TheCay Zeman jlfft Counselor It Figures Day Woman A New You Health Regis Philbin Nature Sexuality Mother Health Regis Philbin Nature Sexuality MOf Movie Ctd. Movie: "Bonnie Scotland" Movie: "Man Who Saw Tomorrow" Movie: "Deathtrap" Movie: "Cujo" Movie: "Frightmare" Offstage Country Dancin' Be A Star Paradise Fandango Nashville Now After Hours Be A Star Offstage Nashville Now Opryland IIICII People Mr.

Wizard Do That Third Eye BET-Body Kitchen Black Showcase Video Soul Body Kitchen Black Showcase Video Soul PBOY Previews Birds In Paradise Movie: "Melody In Love" Movie: "Exposed" Previews Birds PR Circle Sq. Good News Jim Bakker John Camp Meeting U.S.A. Jim Bakker Digest J.Savelle LSumrall To Life Jim Bakker Shop News SHO (5:00) "I Hear" Robin Hood Movie: "Pennies From Heaven" Movie: "Hussy" Movie: "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" "Tough" Telephone Auction MusicCh. Scuba Wld. Photo.

Eye Post Time Golf Newsfront Holland On Satellite Medicine Am. Baby Microwave Training Fishing "Princess" IM Cartoons Radio 1990 Dragnet Tennis: Suntory Cup. Men's Finals The Year In Tennis Track 7:00 p.m. Entertainment Tonight Ted Dan- i son (Cheers), Academy Award pre- view. IS Saturday Night Buck Henry; Bette Midler.

7:30 p.m. i PM Magazine A torch bearer for the Summer Olympics. 8:00 P.M. (23) BARBARA WALTERS i Special! ioai Collins lane Fonda and i Christie Brinkley Adv. 8:00 p.m.

Q) HI TV's Bloopers and Prac-, tlcal Jokes Shirley Jones and Missy Gold are victims of practical jokes; classic foreign commercials; takeoffs i of motion pictures. ffl Q) Barbara Walters The pub-i lie and private lives of celebrities Joan Collins, Jane Fonda and Christie Brinkley are discussed in interviews i with each of the women. HBO Scarecrow Mrs. King A vindictive doctor programs Lee to kill Billy Melrose. Repeat.

Q3 CD CD Frontline An update on the i story of disabled persons caught be- tween Reagan administration budget i cuts and Social Security Administra- tion policy, qj- I CD Movie "The Crowd Roars" (1938) Robert Taylor. Frank Morgan. A prizefighter falls in love with the daughter of a bookie to whom he is heavily in debt. G9 Movie "My Sweet Charlie" (1970) Patty Duke, Al Freeman Jr. A bigoted Southern girl is forced by circumstances to hide out with a Northern black man.

HO Solid Gold Marilyn McCoo; Weird Al Yankovic, Johnny Mathis and Den-, iece Williams, Christine McVie, the Gap Band, Johnny Lee and Lane Brody, Matthew Wilder, the Hollies; i also, a video by Rockwell. HI Movie "Enchantment" (1949) David Niven, Teresa Wright. "An elderly man is reminded of his past ISpmance when his grandson confronts with his love story. ESQ Auto Racing NASCAR Darlington Dash from North Wilkesboro, N. C.

EH Movie "Pony Soldier" (1952) Tyrone Power, Cameron Mitchell. A mountie attempts to quell the hot tempers of a tribe of Indians. EE A Whole New You Hollywood make-up expert Joe Blasco teaches make-up tricks; women in sports. HBl Movie "The Man Who Saw (1981) Documentary. Narrated by Orson Welles.

Footage of vents he predicted and dramatic recreations of his life comprise this look the 17th-century French physician, astrologer and mystic, Michel de Nos-a'tra-Dame, known as Nostradamus. (PG) Movie "Pennies from (1981) Steve Martin, Ber-. nadette Peters. In the Midwest during the Depression, a sheet music salesman destroys the lives of those around him because of his unbridled and his belief that life can be as it is in songs and movie musical 'production numbers. (R) ,.8:05 p.m.

IWTK Portrait of America Connecticut. ..8:30 p.m. JS3 Movie "The Fortune Cookie" (1966) Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau. A swindling lawyer advises his brother-in-law to play up an accident injury and collect the insurance. QUO Hollywood Frenzy: Racing for the Biggest Award How Oscar win- ners are chosen and how the award can affect a winner's career, including interviews with past Oscar recipients.

BSD Fandango Chet Atkins. PM Birds In Paradise Episode I The Inheritance. PJt (23) OSCAR KICNT! Mil Acadtrj Awards! Mmt CartN Host! TUESDAY AWIDZI AK'S BEST BETS SYMBOLS GUIDE HU Playboy Channel ED People That Love HEHI Satellite Program OH ming Network Showtime USA Network EED Warner Akron cable 8 p.m. GD The Crowd Roars Robert Taylor stars in this vintage 1938 boxing flick about a choirboy who becomes a prizefighter and falls in love with the daughter of a bookie. Hokey stuff but very entertaining.

WCLQ. 9 p.m. QD EB Academy Awards You can rant and rave all you want about endless acceptance speeches, lame jokes and bad production numbers, it's still fun. The highlight of this 56th annual Oscar telecast (hosted by Johnny Carson) should be 92-year-old filmmaker Hal Roach's special award. ABC.

10 p.m. CD CD CD Great Performances A new production of Tchaikovsky's opera, The Queen of Spades, based on the Pushkin text. PBS. Chicago WGN Iffi New York WOR EOS Atlanta WTBS EHSteubenvilleWTOV EU Wheeling WTRF EH ARTS Entertainment Network EB Black Entertainment Television EED CBN Cable Network HD Cinemax EH Cable News Network EH C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network) Disney Channel DUG ESPN (Entertainment Sports Programming Network) Home Box Office E3 Home Theater Network EBB Learning Channel ID Lifetime ED Movie Channel B5l Music Television EH Nashville Network EU Nickelodeon position 8-P1 Warner Springfield position 6 Warner Wadsworth position 6 BID Marks position 1 1 9 Closed captioned for hearing-impaired Carson 9:00 a.m. GD 700 Club A computer genius discusses robotics; a marriage that survived a spouse's alternative lifestyle.

EH Woman to Woman Child pornography. HE Donahue See 10 a.m. Tuesday GOD Exercise With Judy Calnl 9:30 p.m. ED Passport to Adventure Alex takes the children to Geauga Lake. 10:00 a.m.

Donahue Producer-director-choreographer Michael Bennett with the national touring company of Dream-girls; students from the Academy, Chicago's high school for the performing arts. EH Where the Jobs The value of an MBA. 10:30 a.m. HQ Frugal Gourmet Chef Jeff Smith prepares black eyed peas with rice and red beans and rice. 10:45 a.m.

EH No Sew Decorating Ways to decorate windows without sewing are demonstrated. 11:30 a.m. CD CD Excellence in Our Schools Concrete steps that can be initiated to improve administration and acedemic exellence. IDfl Plantline Jerry Baker shows how basic preparations in the fall will lead to a bountiful garden in the spring. Noon Bsifl MSN Special Lisa Rynes travels across the country for unique recipe ideas.

12:30 p.m. IIHHI Sewing Power Classic coordinates: The simple jacket. (Part 3) WPil Consumer Inquiry Terremoto. A display of international help after an earthquake. 1:00 p.m.

023 Auto Racing Brazilian Grand Prix from Rio de Janiero. Repeat. 1:30 p.m. fUD Applied Sketching Techniques Designing vehicles. 2:30 p.m.

Hffin Dealing With Social Problems in the Classroom Flight from home: Runaways in America. ESI Frugal Gourmet Chef Jeff Smith simmers a turkey and prepares a number of dishes from rt. 2:45 p.m. EU No Sew Decorating Janet Roda demonstrates different items to make from broken bamboo blinds. 3:00 p.m.

fUSD USFL Football Los Angeles Express at Denver Gold. Repeat. EUA Whole New You A Tiffany expert discusses a basic jewelry wardrobe. 3:30 p.m. ESS Human Relations and School Discipline Teacher effectiveness training.

Effl Movie "Exposed" (1979) John Leslie, Kitty Shane. (R) 11:45 p.m. El Movie "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" (1981) Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes. Paralyzed from the neck down, a sculptor argues for his right to die. (R) Midnight Hawaii Flve-0 A teen-age girl framed for murder runs away to a religious cult.

CD Latenight America Patrick Doh-erty. criminal lawyer who defends death row inmates, and Paul Kamen-ar, attorney from the Washington Legal Foundation, debate the death penalty; Thomas E. Cronin, political scientist from Colorado College, discusses the presidential nominating process. Q) Twilight Zone Jana rebels from tne monotonous life she and her parents are living. BH Hawaii Flve-0 Troubled women take up armed robbery aboard scenic tour buses.

EH Dottle West: Special Delivery Kenny Rogers and Dave Rowland Sugar join Dottie in her first major TV special. 12:10 a.m. EU Movie "The World According to Garp" (1982) Robin Williams. Mary Beth Hurt. The son of an unmarried prep school nurse enjoys a life full of adventures.

(R) 12:30 a.m. OQ rig Late Night With David Letterman Jack Paar, saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. Q) 700 Club See 9 p.m. CB Twilight Zone An unscrupulous traveling merchant claims he will save a condemned man. EH Jack Benny During a violin duet with Gisele MacKenzie, Jack's cheap Hong Kong suit starts to fall apart.

12:40 a.m. GD E3D Columbo Columbo suspects the police commissioner of and Vladimir Popov with Russian conductor Woldemar Nelsson leading the Opera Company of Philadelphia; English subtitles are provided. 700 Club A computer genius discusses robotics; a marriage that survived a spouse's alternative lifestyle. EM Movie "Smoky" (1946) Fred MacMurray, Anne Baxter. A man holds great affection for his horse.

(SI Movie "Black Sunday" (1977) Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern. A deranged Vietnam veteran joins an Arab terrorist in a plot to murder 80,000 Super Bowl fans. (R) 9:05 p.m. IHMJ National Cancer Quiz Viewers participate in determining their cancer risks. 9:30 p.m.

El Movie "Tender Is the Night" (1962) Jennifer Jones, Jason Ro-bards Jr. Bsed on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A psychiatrist is torn between his demanding wife and his even more demanding profession. IS Movie "Deathtrap" (1982) Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve.

A playwright suffering from writer's block plans to do away with a student and plagiarize his play. (PG) fUD Movie "Melody in Love" (1981) (R) IQin PJI. (43) S. MAKSHAU'S "In Ti It Stcctsfa America Today" It Uli Tor Mud 10:00 p.m. ESQ Movie "Bad Boys" (1982) Sean Penn, Reni Santont.

A hoodlum accidentally kills the younger brother of a teen-age dope dealer during a police chase and is sent to a tough reformatory. (R) El Movie "Hussy" (1980) Helen Mirren. John Shea. A cabaret hostess and a mysterious American gradually fall love until their pasts catch up with them. (R) 10:30 p.m.

The Honeymooners Ralph views an impending visrt of his mother-in-law with a growing sense of disaster. BED Human Sexuality How women can overcome difficulties in sexual arousal. EU Nashville After Hours Joe Sun. 11:00 p.m. Q) Three's Company Jack and Janet find a new roommate after Cindy moves into a college dorm.

(Part 1 of 2) GD BJLobo Lobo is suspected of stealing a priceless diamond while traveling on the final ride of the Orly Express. EH Rowan Martin's Laugh-In Peter Falk joins regulars Judy Came and Henry Gibson. EH Now In Paperback Mystery and suspence. I0SHYI Disney Oscar Winners In anticipation of the Academy Awards ceremonies this month, the Disney Channel salutes the golden statuette with an extravaganza dedicated to the Oscar-winning Disney feature films and animated featurettes and shorts. 11:05 p.m.

E32 All in the Family Mike has an emergency appendectomy. 11:30 p.m. G) ED Best of Carson Johnny Carson; singer Julio Inglesias, comedi-' an Robert Klein. Maude Maude extends a less than sincere invitation to her trying Aunt Tinkie. CD GD GOD Hart to Hart The Harts pretend to have marital difficulties to' capture a blackmailer.

CD Benny Hill Benny returns with his own version of the nursery rhyme JacH and Jill. GD The Saint The Saint meets a famous television personality. 13 Interior Design Ward Bennett. Movie "The Personals" 1982) Bill Schoppert. Karen Landry.

A man deserted husband places a personal ad in a newspaper. (PG) B3Movie "Cuio" (1983) Dee Waiiace. Danny Pintauro. Rabid dog traps mother and son in their car. (r) ug Offstage Helen Cornelius and Dave Rowland.

12:45 a.m. CUD Auto Racing Brazilian Grand Prix, from Rio de Janiero. Repeat. US Movie "Frightmare" (1981) Serdy Mayne. Dead horror star loses his corpse.

(R) 1:00 a.m. QBIg Valley A Mexican aristocrat takes refuge on the Barkley ranch. Movie "Die Screaming, Marianne" (1973) Susan George, Leo Genn. Father has dark secrets, plans to kill daughter. CB Thicke of the Night Margaret Ladd (Falcon Crest).

Wally George, Soupy Sales, sex therapist Dr. Joy Browne, actress Barbara Stanwyck. ESI I Married Joan Circumstantial evidence. pi The Cay A West Indian seaman rescues a young boy and his mother after tragedy strikes the ship. James Earl Jones stars.

1:05 a.m. II Movie "Some Kind of Hero" (1982) Richard Pryor, Margot Kidder. A war veteran turns to crime after the government refuses to give him back pay. (R) 1:30 a.m. El Twilight Zone While horseback riding, a wealthy girl is nearly run down by another woman.

tnorl Birds in Paradise Episode I The inheritance. EH Movie "The Little Princess" (1939) Shirley Temple, Richard Greene. Rags to riches. 1:50 a.m. Mi Movie "Tough Enough" (1983) Dennis Quaid, Carlene Wat-kins.

An unsuccessful country singer turns to fighting for prize money. (PG) 2:00 a.m. lO Movie "Oh. You Beautiful Doll" (1949) June Haver. Mark Stevens.

Singer makes transition. 2:05 a.m. irg Movie "Coast of Skeletons" (1965) Richard Todd. Dale Robert-sort A big-time diamond dealer. 9:00 p.m.

OEM Movie -Damnation Alley" (1977) Jan-Michael Vincent, i George Peppard. The survivors of a nuclear war struggle against torna-J does and giant insects to make their way to the only safe city. Repeat. QQ)Q) Academy Awards Johnny i Carson hosts the award ceremonies live from the Dorothy Chandler Pavil- ion in Los Angeles, Calif. Best actor nominees include Robert Duvall (Ten- Jer Mercies) and Michael Caine (Ed- ucating Rita) Q3 EID Movie "Still the Bea- i ver" (1983) Jerry Mathers.

Tony Dow. An out-of-work Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver has his share of problems in Mayfield when his wife asks for a divorce and he is left to raise their two precocious sons by i himself. Fie peat I (D CD CD Great Performances Queen of Spades Tchaikovsky's story of obsession and intrigue features Cte-opatra Cmrca. Regme Crespin. Stefka Evstatieva.

Allan Monk, Lajos Miller.