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2002:10:29:14:58:10 TELEVISION RADIO CALENDAR E13 LOSANGELESTIMES ing to keep the peace. The novice actress even showed off a bit of the improvisation skill that she developed as a tennis player. As she delivered her line, not looking for a Williams did something that in the script: She started to remove her earrings and high heels. Of course. What sane woman is going to enter a battle wearing earrings? was something she threw in Campbell-Martin said, threw a little realism into it.

I liked it. I liked working with Williams will need all the breaks and all the support she can get. Athletes who try to break into show business nearly always find excelling at a sport is one thing, making it in Hollywood is something else altogether. Sure, some make the transition, such as Los Angeles Rams defensive end Fred Dryer who went on to star in the TV series and movies. But for the most part the entertainment industry is littered with the dashed hopes of aspiring actors tried to transfer success on the playing field to the movie or TV screen.

Think basketball stars Shaquille and Michael Jordan think swimmer Mark Spitz (as a TV announcer in the 1985 TV movie of a think football players like Jim Brown Dirty or Fred Williamson Better yet, think of them. Still, Williams insists her interest in acting is more than a passing whim. She says been acting since she and her equally acclaimed sister were young girls, making noise in the tennis world, and starring in mini plays that Venus wrote. never considered tennis as my only she said. always liked doing different things when I was younger.

I just never really liked focusing on tennis. I do see myself as a She has been working with a couple of acting coaches, signed with agent Jill Smoller at the William Morris Agency, which also represents Wayans, had a meeting with a network president Les Moonves) and found a place to live part-time in Southern California, since the Williams family pulled up stakes from Compton more than a decade ago and moved to Florida. And her attraction to the limelight. Consider the media frenzy she generated at the U.S. Open in September, when she showed up in a body-hugging black cat suit.At least for a moment, cameras shifted off of cover girls like Anna Kourniko- va.

This to say tennis is being pushed away. Williams is still trying to win a final title of 2002, the season-ending WTA Championships, which starts next week at Staples Center. After that, comes the pursuit of the Grand Slam, which would be winning all four major tournaments the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the same calendar year. had lots of opportunities.

just that other career that I have, that other small career putting a hindrance on my she said, smiling. typical of trademark sense of humor. Call it ego with a wink. She once came to a tournament and joked that her new home was going to have plenty of mirrors so she could look at herself. trying to get my daily dose of she said.

Then shot at tennis star and failed game-show host John McEnroe who has not always had the kindest words for the Williams sisters. She was once at a lounge in Staples Center and told the story of how she and Venus had years earlier played the warmup for a Jimmy Connors- McEnroe match at the Forum. It was mentioned that it was somehow poetic that McEnroe-Boris Becker was the preliminary for her final against Venus at the U.S. Open in September. Williams said.

She help herself and started laughing. After all, who is McEnroe, anyway, when been hanging out on the set with Damon Wayans all day? The cast and crew were supportive of the newcomer and the on-set acting coach Richard Lyons said Serena was so natural in rehearsals that she was given more lines. happen a lot. If anything, you get your lines taken away from Lyons said. had never done it before and as the takes went by and the days went by, she got looser and started to have a lot more fun with executive producer Don Reo said.

guess like everything, acting and performing is like tennis. You have to practice it. The more you do it, the better you get at it. what have to do, like everybody else. like to bring her back and have her play tennis, but lose.

She thought it was funny but said have to play left- Wayans, meanwhile, was able to help by drawing on athletic experience, telling her how to respond to Campbell- character. told me that acting is like you can relate it to tennis. You react to what she Williams said. kind of act and react. He said, when on the court, reacting to how it has to be.

You just have to keep reacting. did the last take after he told me that advice and I think that was my best take Besides, at least one of her lines on the show harkened back to her experiences on the tour, noted for its off- court jealousies, cliques, ever- shifting alliances and meddling mothers and fathers. she reassures Wayans and Campbell-Martin, used to dealing with TIPS FOR TODAY p.m.—Masterpiece of the Day: Strauss and Erich Leinsdorf conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra), KMZT-FM (105.1). p.m.—Talk of the City With Kitty Felde: (11:30 p.m.); Report Card on California p.m.); novelist Joyce Carol Oates Take You p.m.); KPCC-FM (89.3). p.m.—The Treatment: Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair, authors of Bad and the Beautiful: Hollywood in the KCRW-FM (89.9).

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The annual award was originated in 1998 to honor those who create humor from their uniquely American experiences. Newhart, the former bookkeeper who scored a hit in 1960 with his debut comedy album, Button-Down Mind of Bob later starred in several TV series and is still going strong as a stand-up. The Kennedy tribute will air Nov. 13 on PBS, but the cable network TV Land offers its own Newhart salute tonight: A marathon from 8 p.m. to midnight featuring eight of the best episodes.

As episodes remind us, character, aChicago psychologist, never quite made any breakthroughs with his therapy group, including the smug Elliot Carlin (Jack Riley), the henpecked Mr. Peterson (John Fiedler) and the lonely Mrs. Bakerman (Florida Friebus). But for six years, it was group therapy for America. TUNED IN TV Land marathon takes a trip back to Bob couch KNBC AMERICAN HUMOR: Bob Newhart, who starred with Suzanne Pleshette in Bob Newhart was awarded the 2002 Mark Twain Prize.

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AMC). SPORTS Basketball: Lakers at Portland Trail Blazers (6:30 p.m. KCAL, ESPN). Highlights Scott Garfield NEW LINE OF WORK: Serena Williams, right, plays a kindergarten teacher in episode of Wife and Serena Williams, actress Williams, from Page E1 Even with ratings down sharply compared with last year, five World Series games clearly put Fox in last circle, based on viewing estimates issued Tuesdayby Nielsen Media Research. Not surprisingly, viewing surged for the deciding seventh game but still fell short of last record Arizona-New York finale, which played against the Sept.

11-delayed Emmy Awards telecast. Despite heightened tune-in for baseball, two nights of entertainment programming struggled. The new David E. Kelley drama premiered fifth in its time slot, and was down last Monday compared with 2001, while the network drew its lowest Friday rating this season for the new dramas and Part of that had to do with stronger ratings for ABC, which aired the perennial special the Great Pumpkin, Charlie and Funniest Home Order: Special Victims also delivered its highest rating this fall, while the red-hot Crime Scene drew a staggering 25 million viewers with a rerun Thursday, easily beating the World Series. Although the World Series drew its biggest audiences on the West Coast including Super Bowl-sized ratings in L.A.

and San Francisco competing networks aired repeats of many established series rather than waste original episodes opposite baseball in other time zones. Lowry Baseball is one big hit National Nielsen Viewership Here are the rankings for national prime- time network television last week (Oct. 21-27) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates there are 272.04 million potential viewers in the U.S.

age 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions. Program Network View- ersProgram Network Viewers 1 World Series 2 CSICBS24.97 3 Everybody Loves RaymondCBS21.53 4 Survivor: ThailandCBS20.94 5 World Series 6 CSI: MiamiCBS18.54 7 World Series 8 FriendsNBC17.11 9 World Series 10 Still StandingCBS16.60 11 Law Order: SVUNBC16.54 12 Law OrderNBC15.96 13 Monday Night FootballABC15.85 14 World Series 15 Without a TraceCBS15.74 16 The BachelorABC14.92 17 Judging AmyCBS14.71 18 JAGCBS14.56 19 Yes, DearCBS14.44 20 NYPD BlueABC14.17 21 8Simples RulesABC14.16 22 Law Order: Criminal IntentNBC14.14 23 ScrubsNBC14.11 24 King of QueensCBS13.96 25 My Wife and KidsABC13.89 26 Will GraceNBC13.88 27 60 MinutesCBS13.83 28 According to JimABC13.58 29 The GuardianCBS13.53 30 World Series Pregame Show (Sun.) FOX13.35 31 The West WingNBC12.55 32 Third WatchNBC12.42 33 Law Order: Criminal Intent (Thu.) NBC12.35 34 George LopezABC12.24 35 Good Morning MiamiNBC12.07 36 Monday Night ShowcaseABC11.63 37 Dateline NBC 38 FrasierNBC11.59 39 Crossing JordanNBC11.56 40 Fear FactorNBC11.39 41 World Series Pregame Show (Wed.) FOX11.22 42 The DistrictCBS11.21 43 American DreamsNBC11.02 44 Dateline NBC 45 Life With BonnieABC10.25 46 ProvidenceNBC10.17 47 Pumpkin, Charlie ABC10.14 48 Funniest Home VideosABC10.13 49 HackCBS9.98 50 Boston PublicFOX9.83 51 Dateline NBC 52 53 Hidden HillsNBC9.54 54 BeckerCBS9.51 55 56 The AgencyCBS9.41 57 60 Minutes IICBS9.34 58 Less Than PerfectABC9.32 59 to You, Winnie the ABC9.15 60 48 Hours InvestigatesCBS9.13 61 World Series Pregame Show (Tue.) FOX8.78 62 BoomtownNBC8.65 63 7th HeavenWB8.45 64 65 SmallvilleWB8.29 66 The PracticeABC8.19 67 Primetime Special Edition (8:11 p.m.) ABC8.16 68 Amazing Race: 3CBS8.05 69 70 71 Primetime Thursday (10 p.m.)ABC7.64 72 Touched by an AngelCBS7.59 73 Bram and AliceCBS7.31 74 AliasABC7.28 75 Just Shoot MeNBC7.17 76 Presidio MedCBS7.14 77 The SimpsonsFOX6.90 78 Gilmore GirlsWB6.58 79 Robbery Homicide DivisionCBS6.56 80 World Series Pregame Show (Thu.) FOX6.54 81 MDSABC6.16 82 83 John DoeFOX6.03 84 EverwoodWB5.84 85 World Series Pregame Show (Sat.) FOX5.80 86 Girls ClubFOX5.78 87 WWE 88 Buffy the Vampire SlayerUPN5.02 89 The Drew Carey ShowABC4.82 90 GirlfriendsUPN4.62 91 Birds of PreyWB4.54 92 One on OneUPN4.43 93 FireflyFOX4.38 94 Whose Line Is It 96 The ParkersUPN4.22 97 EnterpriseUPN4.18 Network Averages Here is the number of viewers (in millions) that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. Network Last week Season To date FOX16.3210.72 CBS12.6013.16 NBC10.9712.35 ABC9.409.62 WB4.574.84 UPN3.914.12 Holiday Book Drive Giveone book tolocal schools and make it two. For drop-off locations, call Goodwill at 1-888-4GOODWILL, Salvation Army at 1-800-95-TRUCK, Society of St.

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