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ENTERTAINMENTTHE ARTS TV LISTINGS SECTION CALENDAR ORANGE COUNTY 000 Angeles Sfime MONDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 1990 HIGHLIGHTS Emmy Winners Orange County CLICHED CLOSING: The Pacific Symphony ended its summer season Saturday night at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre With some tired Tchaikovsky and fireworks. Reviewed by Timothy Mangan. P2 HIATT DELIGHTS: With wit and passion, John Hiatt demonstrated again in a Coach House performance that there's rock after 30. Reviewed by Randy Lewis. F2 I ALSEIB Lo-s Angeles Times James Earl Jones, Sharon Gless look on as Michael Tucker hugs "LA.

Law" producer Michael Robin. Jill Eikenberry watches. Cheers From Backstage ANACLETO RAPPING Los Angeles Times Patricia Wetting has something to smile about with Emmy for "thirtysomething." PROGRAMS COMEDY SERIES "Murphy Brown" DRAMA SERIES "L.A. Law" MINISERIES "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" VARIETY, MUSIC, COMEDY SERIES "In Living Color" VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SPECIAL "Sammy Davis 60th Anniversary Celebration" DRAMACOMEDY SPECIAL (Tie) "Caroline?" and "The Incident" PERFORMERS ACTOR, COMEDY SERIES Ted Danson, "Cheers" ACTOR, DRAMA SERIES Peter Falk, "Columbo" ACTOR, MINISERIES OR SPECIAL Hume Cronyri, "Age-Old Friends" ACTRESS, COMEDY SERIES Candice Bergen, "Murphy Brown" ACTRESS, DRAMA SERIES Patricia Wettlg, "thirtysomething" ACTRESS, MINISERIES OR SPECIAL Barbara Hershey, Killing In a Small Town" SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY SERIES Alex Rocco, "The Famous Teddy SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA SERIES Jimmy Smlts, "LA. Law" SUPPORTING ACTOR, MINISERIES OR SPECIAL Vincent Gardenia, "Age-Old Friends" SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY SERIES Bebe Neuwlrth, "Cheers" SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA SERIES Marg Helgenberger, "China Beach" SUPPORTING ACTRESS, MINISERIES OR SPECIAL Eva Marie Saint, "People Like Us" INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE, VARIETY OR MUSICAL PROGRAM Tracey Ullman, "The Best of the Tracey Ullman Show" DIRECTING COMEDY SERIES Michael Dinner, "The Wonder Years" DRAMA SERIES (Tie) Thomas Carter, "Equal Justice" Scott Wlnant, "thirtysomething" MINISERIES OR SPECIAL Joseph Sargent, "Caroline?" VARIETY OR MUSIC PROGRAM Dwlght Hemlon, "The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts" WRITING COMEDY SERIES Bob Brush, "The Wonder Years" DRAMA SERIES David E.

Kelley, "L.A. Law" MINISERIES OR SPECIAL Terrenes McNally, "Andre's Mother" VARIETY OR MUSIC PROGRAM (Tie) Billy Crystal, "Billy Crystal: Midnight Train to Moscow," and James L. Brooks, Helda Periman, Sam Simon, Jerry Belson, Marc Flanagan, Dinah Klrgo, Jay Kogen, Wallace Wolodarsky, Ian Preiser, Marilyn Suianne Miller, Tracey Ullman, "The Tracey Ullman Show" CHOREOGRAPHY Paula Abdul, Michael Darrln, Dean Barlow, American Music Awards" ART DIRECTION SERIES Richard D. James, James J. Mees, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" GOVERNORS AWARD Leonard Goldenson 'INTO THE WOODS': Kelly Ellenwood, above, as the witch threatens a curse in Stephen's Sondheim's flawed "Into the Woods" at Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton.

Reviewed by T.H. McCulloh. F2 ART Pour artists whose works are displayed at the Guggenheim Gallery put familiar objects in different contexts for fresh perspective. Reviewed by Cathy Curtis. F3 More Orange County Calendar coverage, F2-F3 Elsewhere MELISSA'S MANIFESTOES: Many of the Melissa Etheridge souvenirs at the Wiltern were emblazoned with the title of her album "Brave, and Crazy." Some other fitting manifestoes: "Co-Dependent and Bluesy," "Obsessive and Raspy." Reviewed by Chris Will-man.

F5 COUNTERFUNCH: Marketplace factors have debased popular culture, and the collapse of the American family is.no laughing matter, claims multi-faceted entertainer Steve Allen. F5 BROWN'S BLUES: Johnny Winter's and Bo Diddley's drawing power probably accounted for the large turnout at the Long Beach Blues Festival, but the high point was queen Ruth Brown. Reviewed by Don Snowden. F6 FESTIVAL '90 The Bread and Puppet Theater's "Uprising of the Beast" was its most technically and philosophically complex piece. Reviewed by Sylvie Drake.

Fli Marie Gignac in "Trilogy The six-hour version of Theatre Repere's "The Dragon's Trilogy" at UCLA was by turns admirable and engrossing, much like an epic novel but shorter need not necessarily be less edifying. Reviewed by Sylvie Drake. F12 ALSBIB Los Angeles Times "LA. Law's" Jimmy Smits with award for supporting actor, drama series. ANACLETO RAPPING Los Angeles Times Tracey Ullman gets last laugh after "Tra-cey Ullman Show" won most awards.

HOWARD ROSENBERG Emmys: First-time winner Ted Danson of 'Cheers' says it 'feels funny' to finally win the award while Keenen Ivory Wayans of 'In Living Color' says, it's nice to be By IRV LETOFSKY and SUSAN KING TIMES STAFF WRITERS On a night when there was no dominant winner, the talk backstage at the Emmy Awards in Pasadena Sunday was narrowly focused on the individuals bestowed with the statuettes. Those who trekked back to meet the press not everyone did were happy but not always expansive. One of the happiest was Ted Danson. Veteran loser Danson, finally a winner after eight previous Emmy nominations, said that it felt good to be recognized finally for his work on "Cheers." But he also noted that, "It's new to my body: it feels funny." Danson is committed through this season to the NBC comedy, the No. 1-rated show over the course of the past year.

Beyond that: "It's tough to say goodby to it." He attributed his success and that of the series to great writing. "Jt's the writing, come on. Funny things are'eoming out of our mouths," he said. In addition, he said, some of the success is due to the fact that "we don't rehearse until the very last second and we play a lot of football." He said that he had no plans to donate his Emmy to the "Cheers" bar: "I'll carry it everywhere." Marg Helgenberger had definite plans for where to put the golden statuette that, she picked up at the 42nd annual ceremonies celebrating TV's best nighttime programs and personnel. "I think I am going to put the Emmy in my baby's room," she said, after winning as best supporting actress in a drama series.

Helgenberger, who is expecting a baby boy in seven weeks, plays the cynical prostitute K.C. on "China Beach." Her pregnancy is being written into the Please see EMMYS F1S ANACLETO RAPPING Los Angeles Times Co-host Jay Leno: a shot of energy, Leno: Tough Act to Precede ALSBIB Los Angeles Times Keenen Ivory Wayans takes a firm grip of the award for Fox's "In Living Color." A dramatic exception to the early malaise was the Simpsons, each member of this stunningly bizarre family making an appearance in living animation as presenters of the Emmy for best lead actor in a comedy. Uh oh. Bart destroyed the envelope. Homer: "Pick somebody! Does anybody remember a name?" What a kick! In effect, it provided a welcome tribute to an animated Fox series that, despite roaring across Sunday nights like a tornado in its first half season, was shut out of the main Emmy telecast only because its best-animated awards was handed out as part of the craft Emmys.

That event was taped Saturday for airing on Fox Tuesday night. Thus, arguably the funniest series on TV, was not given the wide recognition it deserves, despite executive producer James Brooks lobbying to have the Emmy for best animated show switched to Sunday night. In contrast with past years, in fact, none of the craft awards was even, mentioned Sunday night, That was a slight. Meanwhile, Leno injected himself into the second hour like a human hypodermic filled with adrenaline, showing anew that there's no topping a funny comic when it Please see SHOW, F1S Telecast: Emmy co-hosts Jay Leno, Candice Bergen and Jane Pauley prove once again that comics make the best awards-show hosts. It was infinitely more fun than last year's program.

It was also the worst of times, the best of times and then, finally, the worst of times again. It's striking just how much a host sets the tone for an awards telecast, and Sunday's Emmy program on Fox was no exception. It was uneven the way the Hollywood. Hills are uneven. At least in part that was because of the odd triad that Fox used as Candice Bergen, followed by Jay Leno, followed by Jane Pauley, It was a relay team with its fastest runner between two slow ones, Neither Bergen nor Pauley was very good, or seemed even comfortable, The first and third hours had a perfunctory quality that invaded even a 4V-min-ute tribute to that late-great puppetmaster, Jim Henson.

It was nice, but almost souless and dispassionate to a fault. INDEX What Goes On F2 Movie Guide F3 Morning Report F4 Radio: AMFM Highlights F13 Tonight on TV and cable F14..