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Entertainment The Indiana Gazette Thursday, May 31, 1990 Page 12 Fox takes aim at NBC with new fall lineup three straight third-place seasons in prime time. Two are hourlong action dramas, "The Flash," about the superfast crimefighter from the comic pages, and network TV's first environmental action show, "The Green Machine' in which the he By SCOTT WILLIAMS AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP Fox Broad-casting Co. takes dead aim this fall at NBC's Thursday night dominance, pitting America's most alienated TV family, "The Simpsons," against the blithe timetables of 'The Cosby Show." "We believe you have to take risks," Peter Chernin, Fox's entertainment chief, told advertisers Tuesday in previewing the fall line up. "We don't think you can play it safe any longer in the current network environment." CBS unveiled nine new series after Hogan Family." It also has a movie package of such hits as 'Born on the Fourth of July" and "Do The Right Thing." Low-rated "Saturday Night With Connie Chung" moves to Mondays as "Face to Face With Connie Chung," but CBS dropped the Vietnam War series "Tour of Duty," "Falcon Crest," "The Famous Teddy "City" and "Sydney." Sagansky said the Western "Paradise" may be renewed. "Wiseguy" is in backup status, he added.

Ken Wahl would return in the first few episodes, then be succeeded by Stephen Bauer as a new undercover agent. CBS' new sitcoms are the movie spinoff "Uncle Buck," the blue-collar "Lenny," "Four Alarm Family," about a widowed firefighter with four kids, and "Evening Shade," starring Burt Reynolds as an ex-football star who moves his family back to the small Arkansas town of his boyhood. Edward Woodward of CBS' late "The Equalizer" will return in the hourlong "Over My Dead Body" as a crime novelist paired with a young obituary writer. CBS' other new hourlong entries are "WIOU," a drama about the cutthroat world of local TV starring John Shea, and "The Hammersmiths," a drama with Lucie Amaz about three generations of a family. Fox offers "American Chronicles," a half-hour documentary series by Mark Frost and David Lynch, creators of "Twin Peaks," and an hour series of various video projects, "Fox Video Hour." Fox's other new hour show is "D.E.A.," which mixes documentary and drama about the exploits of the Drug Enforcement Administra- 'Dick Tracy' expected to do better than 'Batman' lion.

On Monday's "'Fox Night at the Movies" the fouth network will combine theatrical and made-for-TV movies aimed at younger viewers. "We think we're in a real real dogfight out there," Chernin said. "We think we're In competition not only with the other netwroks, but also with cable, VCRs, Nintendos and every other leisure time activity. We've got to go out there and kick and scream to get viewers." Fox will anchor its Sunday schedule with "True Colors," a sitcom about interracial marriage that Chernin called "Fox's answer to "The Brady It stars Nancy Walker as an acerbic mother-in-law. It will be followed by "Parker Lewis Can't Lose," high school adventures with Dobie Gillis and Ferris Bueller overtones; the sketch comedy of "In Living Color;" comedian Chris Elliott in "Get a Life" as a 30-year-old newsboy; the miserable Bundy family of "Married with Children," and "Good Grief," about two brothers-in-law who operate the family mortuary.

Fox will close Sunday night with "Against the Law," a courtroom drama starring Michael O'Keefe as "television's first gonzo, rock 'n' roll lawyer," Chernin said. Fox has 129 affiliates, compared with more than 200 each for CBS, NBC and ABC, but isn't considered a network by the Federal Communications Commission. It is expanding this fall under a one-year FCC waiver that lets it broadcast lBtt hours a week of prime-time programming without being subject to restrictions that bar CBS, NBC and ABC from the lucrative syndication business. Hope honored at graduation SAN DIEGO (AP) Bob Hope had them tittering at the University of San Diego commencement with greetings to parents finishing up the "last payment" on their children. Hope, 86, and his wife, Dolores, collected honorary degrees from the school Sunday before a crowd of about 9,000.

"I really appreciate this Hope said. "Between the Oscars, the Enunys and taxes, it's nice to have something coming in." He added; "I'm now a doctor. At last I can get on the golf course on Wednesdays." Hope congratulated the more than 700 graduates. "The parents also look so happy," he said. "This is the last payment that they'll have to make on their children." The Ryman Auditorium, home of the Grand Ole Opry in downtown Nashville from 1943 to 1974, has recently been spruced up with a $1 million face lift.

(AP Laserphoto) Country music shrine gets $1 million face lift roes right polluters. Chernin announced nine new series in Fox's move from three to five nights of prime-time programming. To make room, Fox cut its original series, "21 Jump Street," as well as "Alien Nation," "Booker" and "The Outsiders." "The Simpsons" will take on rat- ings giant "Cosby" on Thursday night, followed by "Babes," a sit "That window is almost a symbol of the whole project," says Tom Adkinson, a spokesman for Opry-land USA, which owns the downtown building. A new roof was put down, and gutters and downspouts were replaced. Ornamental metal around the building was stripped, primed and repainted.

"It's more than just an auditorium." Pearl said. "It's a part of the Opry. We were there so long. It has a quaint sort of shrine-likc atmosphere to all of us." The building, across the street from the Nashville Convention Center, remained open to tourists during the renovation. There are no plans to restore the interior of the building.

"It has the wear of more than 90 years in it, but it also has the character of those years, too," Adkinson said about the inside. "The interior is the way it was the day the Opry left 1974." The building opened in 1892 as the Union Gospel Tabernacle, it was renamed the Ryman Auditorium in 1904 to honor Capt. Tom Ryman, a colorful riverboat captain who led the effort to build the structure for $100,000. The Grand Ole Opry country music show moved into the Ryman in 1943 and remained there until 1974 when the Grand Ole Opry House was built and surrounded with a theme park in suburban Nashville. The auditorium was not air-conditioned, and resourceful vendors did swift business selling cardboard hand fans the kind that used to advertise funeral parlors for 50 cents to the crowds queued up outside.

During the summer. Opry officials kept a nurse on duty to take care of anyone who fainted. Even those who didn't faint had to endure hard PRESERVE THE WILD THE GINGERBREAD THURSDAY Starting At 5 I.C. UCKT DRAFT MIGHT and brash with the kind of lines I'm looking for is a driver, preferably one with some that Lauren Bacall used to murmur to Humphrey Bogart. As the orphaned Kid, the only sympathetic character, Charlie Kor-so almost steals the film.

Glenne Headly registers nicely in the thankless role of Tracy's patient girlfriend, Teas Trueheart. Also notable: Mandy Patinkin as 88 Keys, Paul Sorvino as Lips Manlis, Charles Durning as Chief Brandon, and Dick van Dyke, also unrecognizable, as District Attorney. Richard Sylbert's design for "Dick Tracy" is self-conscious but eye-filling. The same reds, greens, blues, are everywhere as in the Sunday comics. Director Beatty maintains a staccato pace punctuated by Danny Elfman's overpowering score.

In keeping with the 1930s atmosphere, Beatty uses three extended montages to advance the plot. The few quiet moments with Tess and Kid are welcome relief. Disney's Touchtone Pictures is releasing the film, originally designed for the Walt Disney Pictures banner. The switch seems logical, since the PG-rated film contains Madonna's sexual innuendo and much gunfire (although no blood). Beatty also produced "Dick Tracy." The writing passed through several hands but the credit goes lo Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr.

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CBS' roster includes five new hourlong series; four new sitcoms and a comedy once on NBC, "The wooden pews, which were the only seats in the building. Opry land USA Inc. has owned the Ryman since 1963 and has operated it as a museum since the Opry moved out. More than 100,000 people a year pay $2 apiece to tour the Ryman. Visitors can step on the stage and walk through the backstage corn-dors.

They can see the dressing rooms, the stage sets, microphones and props that were used by country music stars such as Loretla Lynn. Roy Acuff and Hank Williams. In the 1920s, touring theatrical and musical companies used the Ryman so often that Variety called it "the most popular one-night stand on the road." Those who have performed in the auditorium include Helen Hayes, Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles, Mac West, Isadora Duncan. Nelson Eddy and the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans' Western Revue. The facility is occsionally used these days for movie or television taping.

The Opry bills itself as the world's longest running radio show, having never missed a broadcast since 1925. Portions of the Saturday night performance are broadcast live by The Nashville Network on cable TV. The renovation was the first step in an urban redevelopment project that will involve the surrounding blocks. "This is really an historical building," said Hank Snow, a country music legend who performed at the Ryman for 24 years. "It has so many great memories for so many people.

I guess you can almost say it's the fountain of country music it goes back so far." Pearl, who like Snow continues to perform on the Opry at its current location, said she still enjoys visiting the auditorium. LIFE AT HARM HOUR: 5 P.M. to 7 P.M. THE GINGERBREAD MAN OPEN 11 A.M.-2 A.M. BURBANK, Calif.

(AP) You've seen "Dick Tracy: The Hype." Now it's time for "Dick Tracy: The Movie." The Disney Co. screened the Warren Beatty-Madonna film for reviewers Wednesday, climaxing months of buildup aimed at acquainting potential patrons with the half-forgotten comic strip and Beat-ty's efforts to convert it into a megahit. Scheduled for wide release on June 15, "Dick Tracy" bears Disney's hopes for another smash like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" The production cost was high estimates range from $23 million to $30 million for a film with little apparent built-in appeal for the younger crowd that is the backbone of today's film audience. The competition for summer tickets is Fierce: "Total Recall," "Days of Thunder" and rehashes of "Die Hard," "Robocop," "4fl Hrs" and "Back To The Future." Against such predictable fare "Dick Tracy" is distinguished by its originality. The plot is basic comic strip: good cop vs.

the bad guys. Chief bad guy Big Boy Caprice schemes to rule the metropolis with his band of grotesques ranging from Flattop to Pruneface. Big Boy mows down his opposition, but his efforts to destroy Dick Tracy repeatedly fail. Even his luscious moll, Breathless Mahoney, can't seduce the dedicated cop. Forget the plot.

The essence of "Dick Tracy" lies in characters and style, and there it exceeds last summer's clunky, over-produced Batman. The characters are outrageous and for the most part entertaining. Dusiin Hoffman does a delightful bit as the unintelligible Mumbles. Al Pacino. in the best coverup since Albert Finney's Hcrcule Poirot in "Murder on the Orient Express," is properly obnoxious as Big Boy Caprice.

James Caan is wasted as the gangster Spaldoni. Beatty plays Tracy straight and true blue. There's no wit to the character and little sagacity; on a scale of 1 to 10 with Sherlock Holmes ranked 10, Tracy ranks 3 among fictional detectives. But Tracy's very straightness provides a solid core for the film. After a couple of flops.

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AP) The Ryman Auditorium, a country music shrine for almost half a century as (he home of the Grand Olc Opry, has been spruced up with a $1 million face lift. The rustic, renovated red brick building, where the Opry was performed from 1943 lo 1974. stands amid high-rise office buildings and downtown hotels. "I'm so glad it's been saved and restored." says humorist Minnie Pearl, who performed in the auditorium for the 31 years it housed the Opry shows. "It means a great deal (o all of us who worked there so long." During the past year, the entire brick exterior was cleaned sometimes up to 10 times using high pressure washers and a variety of chemicals approved by the National Historic Commission in Washington.

The Ryman. which seals 3.000. was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. All 144 windows were restored to glass. Some had been replaced by Plexiglas and others had been boarded or taped up.

Workers also replaced a large, arched pediment window high on the front of the building. It had been boarded up with plywood for about 20 years since falling out. Extravaganza to highlight old studio NEW YORK AP) David L. Wolper. Jack Haley Jr.

and Steven Spielberg will produce "A Celebration of Tradition." a lavish extravaganza that will highlight the rededication of the historic Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank. Calif. The June 2 spectacle will be filled with hundreds of singers and dancers, atmospheric sets. lavish musical numbers, comedy bits and a stars who have been associated with Warner Bros, motion pictures.

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