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D2 THE NEWS JOURNAL TUESDAY, OCT. 24, 1989 Television today 1 Daytime today 7:00 ggi me TOP CHOICES NHL Hockey (on Prism at 7:30 p.m., live; repeated at 1:35 a.m.). St. Louis at Philadelphia. Boxing (on ESPN at 8 p.m.).

Light Heavyweight Championship dou-' bleheader: Virgil Hill vs. James Kinchen for the WBA title (live); Jeff Harding vs. Tom Collins for I the WBC title (taped). Jamaica Inn (on 57 at 8). Conclusion of the two-part miniseries starring Jane Seymour as a young woman living in a sinister British hostelry.

Nova (on 1264 2867 at 8). "Echoes of War" looks at the development of radar in World War II. The Wonder Years (on 6 13 47 at Wayne gets his driver's license, then learns he'll be stuck Tony lies to his new professor. Wolf (on 10 11 6 at 9) gets involved in a neighborhood war on crack. Chicken Soup (on 6 13 47 at Writing a will, Maddie must choose her children's guardian.

Island Son (on 10 11 16 at 10). Richard Masur guest stars as a paroled rapist. LATE NIGHT The Arsenio Hall Show (on 29 45 at 11 p.m., on WWOR at 11:30 p.m., on 45 at midnight). Scheduled: Glenn Close; Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine. The Tonight Show (on 2 3 at 11:30 p.m.).

Scheduled: guest host Jay Leno welcomes Ellen DeGeneres; Fred Roggin; Dennis Weaver; the Funny Boys; Regina Belle. anne Barr's real-life fiance Tom Arnold, one of the series' writers, plays Dan's buddy Arnie. He causes a stir when he plants a too-affectionate kiss on Roseanne during a poker game at the house. thirtysomething (on 6 13 47 at 10). Gary's girlfriend Susannah goes into labor.

The American Experience (on 1264 at 10) airs a timely repeat of "Great San Francisco Earthquake," about the 1906 disaster. Host David McCullough has taped a new introduction. TONIGHT'S SERIES Matlock (on 2 3 at 8). Ben tries to clear a clown of murdering his partner. Who's the Boss? (on 6 13 47 at 8).

with the responsibility of driving Kevin around. Girlfriends (on Arts at 9 p.m. and 1 a.m.). Melanie Mayron gives an excellent performance in this 1978 film as a chubby photographer living on her own in Manhattan after her roommate (Anita Skinner) has gotten married and moved out. 3 Must-see TV! "In the Heat of the Night" Season Premiere! In the Heat of the Night (on 2 3 at 9 p.m.) begins a new season with a startling development: Virgil Tibbs' wife Althea is raped by a fellow teacher.

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presidential candidate, knock off a few judges, kill a businessman or two, and threaten the entire government, the business establishment and everything else that holds a civilized country together. And, they use some of their billions to bribe members of the government, the police, the military and anyone else who can be useful. At the rate they're going, anyone who isn't murdered will be working for them. Al Capone would be filled with awe. As big as he was, he ended up in prison for cheating on his taxes.

In Colombia, they don't dare ask the drug lords to file returns. That's how the drug war is going. Our leaders talk tough. Colombia's leaders wonder if there are bombs under their beds. And so far, the Colombian drug kings are winning.

Obviously. The whole idea of the drug war was to capture the top guys and extradite them to this country for trial. That's what set off the murders and bombings. Actually, it might be better if they aren't caught and extradited. They play by a different set of rules than our gangsters do.

Let's say one or two of the top Colombian drug billionaires are shipped here. How will they and their underlings react? If they think nothing of killing their own presidential candidates, their own judges, editors and businessmen, will they hesitate to send a message to us? What can be done to stop their gunmen from taking out some of our judges, senators, Cabinet members, or their family? Not a thing. If they decide to do it, there is no way it can be prevented. And they've shown that they're capable of doing it. And what have we done in Colombia's war? We've sent them a few military doodads, a few advisers, and wished them lots of luck.

Maybe a simple greeting card from President Bush would be a better idea. Just something that says: "Nice try. But why don't we forget the whole thing?" Bruce Weitz guest stars as a father who decides to take his comatose and brain-dead son off life support in Midnight Caller, on 2 and 3 at 10. MIKE ROYKO in front of the newspaper building. When the debris settled, four of the newspaper's employees were dead, several more were injured, the roof of the building had collapsed, the printing presses, computers and other equipment were damaged, and the building was a shambles.

Now the newspaper isn't sure it can stay in business. Even if it does, I'm sure that many of its employees are considering another line of work. Earlier, four newsmen working for other publications were gunned down. So, over only a few days, eight newsmen have been killed. Shocking? Not in Colombia.

In the past dozen years, about 40 others were murdered by the hired guns of the drug bosses. The U.S. difference Now, a short quiz: How many newsmen were killed by the Chicago crime syndicate during and after Prohibition? Five, 10, 15? If you guessed more than one, you failed. And that single reporter who was knocked off wasn't punished for being critical of the mob. He was on the mob's payroll and was gunned down for pulling a double-cross.

But in Colombia, they blow up the entire newspaper building. They kill editors, reporters, circulation drivers, anybody who is handy, Of course, that means they are merely upset. When they get really mad, they murder a leading Voice-over king heard and seen Colombia's drug lords make gangsters look like weenies can't do our expressions right," says Sirola. "They have to come from the gut, they can't be cerebral." The real Joe Sirola habitually passes out red roses to almost everyone he meets, and Sal Lupo does a bit of that, too. But Sirola's life today is starkly different from the threadbare existence lived by the far more elderly Sal, who lodges in a boarding-house whenever he's not running away to escape its regimentation.

The real Joe Sirola lives in an 11th floor penthouse near New York's Central Park with a large balcony garden. He keeps a house in Hollywood, too, complete with a mint-condition 1956 Mercedes 300SC coupe originally built for billionaire J. Paul Getty. Voice-overs are the key to a "I see my role as a little like the 'Golden JOSEPH SIROLA lifestyle that lets him grow figs, apricots, grapes, blueberries, peaches, pears and most delightful of all many varieties of roses in that unlikeliest of agricultural centers, Manhattan. "Back in 1966, I made $3,200 from unemployment benefits," he recalls.

"In 1967, I get $5,200 for the whole year. Then somebody mentioned voice-overs." The key to Sirola's success, he says, was that he didn't merely try to boom out the advertiser's message in a deep voice, which he's fully capable of doing. Instead, he says, "I started talking to the microphone like a person. You have to think of who that person is, the kind of person you want to convey the message to. "A natural sense of timing also helped.

If they tell me to make it in 58.2 seconds, that's exactly what it'll be, the first time. That's By THOMAS D.ELI AS Scripps Howard News Service HOLLYWOOD Turn on your TV and leave it on all day and you'll probably hear the voice of Joseph Sirola at least 30 or 40 times. But you'll never see his face. Tune the tube to CBS at 9 p.m. on Tuesdays, and you'll finally get a look at Sirola.

Sirola, dubbed the "king of voice-overs" by the Wall Street Journal, at last is getting to do something other than pitch products and portray Mafia dons. In "Wolf," the 58-year-old plays Salvatore Lupo, an aging Italian-American in seemingly perpetual conflict with his 35-ish son (Jack Scalia), Tony Wolf. "I see my role as a little like the 'Golden except I'm a Golden Boy," Sirola said, sipping a trademark glass of champagne over lunch here the other day. An unapologetic lover of the good life, Sirola said "I'm a real rQgue in this one, but a charming old devil. They're going to give me ladies, but I can't get too serious with them.

I'm true to my dead wife." In real life, there is no wife and never was. But there are plenty of touches oj the real Joe Sirola in "Wolf," places where audiences can finally learn something about the fljan who tells the world that "GE brings good things to life" and "Mobil 1 is the oil that saves you gas." 'I Sirola is also the guy who says a Club Med vacation is "the antidote for civilization" and that Hertz is "The No. 1 way to rent a car." But there's nothing so crassly commercial in "Wolf," taped on location in San Francisco. You get Sirola playing boccie an Italian form of lawn bowling), just like he did while growing up as the son of Italian immigrants in New Jersey. And you get outbursts of Italian expletives that would, also be hard tp fake.

"Someone who's not Italian Part of Chicago's legacy is the crime syndicate. Al Capone.was our biggest name, but others achieved national reputations: Frank Nitti, Jake Guzik, Dion O'Banion, Tony Accardo, to name only a few of the many mugs. Even before the TV show "The Untouchables," which spread our gangster folklore nationwide, people in much of the world identified Chicago with Capone, the Tommy gun and the bloody booze wars of Prohibition days. After Prohibition, it didn't end. The Outfit, as it also was called, turned to gambling, unions, strip joints, drugs and other money makers.

Disputes were still settled with a bullet in the head and the wake held in a car trunk. In reality, New York was always a bigger mob town and still is. New York had more so-called "families," more Mafia killings, and still does. But because of Capone, "The Untouchables" and movies, Chicago kept the top-gun reputation. Now, however, it is time we gave it up.

And not to New York, either. Or any other U.S. city. Our gangsters, the toughest and meanest of them, are a bunch of weenies compared to the drug mob in Colombia. Nothing that went on during Prohibition or since comes close to the war that is going on between the Colombian drug gangs and the Colombian government and those who side with the government.

The latest development, at least as this was being written: A newspaper, one of Colombia's largest, has been critical of the drug merchants. It has editorially supported the government's position of extraditing the top drug bosses to the United States. This displeased the drug lords. But they didn't send an angry letter to the newspaper's Voice of the People section. They didn't cancel their subscriptions or threaten an advertising boycott.

They took a more direct approach. A car, with about 120 pounds of explosives, was parked Joseph Sirola why I can do many commercials in one day. The most I ever made was 102. Anyway, I made $81,000 in 1968 and $310,000 the next year and now I make well into seven figures from voice-overs." Sirola has to be careful which clients he chooses. "There are some outfits which the president of GE wouldn't want me to be representing," he says.

"And you have to watch for conflicts. If I do a beer commercial, I can't do a different beer for a year and a half. So my agent has to investigate carefully how big the buy will be." Once he takes a gig, Sirola gets double or triple the usual scale of $275 per national commercial, plus residuals every time one airs. Heard, but never seen. For this famous voice doesn't want to have a face that's associated with a particular product.

"If you're constantly on TV commercials where you're seen, you are limited in the parts you can get," he said. Sirola has been somewhat limited in that department, anyway, usually being typecast as a crook in everything from "The Untouchables" to "Super Cops," with a stint on the daytime soap opera "The Brighter Day" in between. He sees "Wolf as a way out, a shift of gears for his career. "I'm hoping other roles will come from this," he said. "This is my first opportunity in years to play a real human being.

I don't want to play charming villains all the time.".