The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • Page 89

2003:12:02:15:02:28 E12 CALENDAR LOSANGELESTIMES TELEVISION RADIO Santa Monica Civic Auditorium 1855 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90401 Admission $6.00 16 under FREE with adult FRI: 12pm 7pm SAT: 10am 6pm SUN: 11am 5pm 2003 Annual Winter California Regional Show December 5, 6, 7 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FOR 3 DAYS ONLY Click on www.intergem.net FREE JEWELRY CLEANING The SHOWPLACE-MARKETPLACE World of SM Largest Jewelry Bazaar Beads Watches Opals Rings Settings Diamonds Necklaces Gold Pearls Earrings Silver Crystals the lowest possible prices! CLIP THIS AD TO RECEIVE A FREE PEARL JEWELRY GIFT! (One gift package with each $6.00 paid admission and this ad. This ad MUST be redeemed at the time of ticket purchase.) SPECIAL COLLECTION: Jewelry of the Marilyn Monroe, Cher, Ingrid Bergman, Elvis, Nicholas Cage and more! www.fabjewelryofthestars.com SM UCLA Central Ticketing office (310) 825-2101 www.uclalive.org TicketMaster ticket orders (213) 365-3500 www.ticketmaster.com Infor mation and tickets and Special director Anthony Minghella, writer Charles Frazier and Members of the Cast of Monday, December 8, 2003 7:00 pm Royce Hall at UCLA Featuring performances by STING ALISON KRAUSS JACK WHITE to appear Music produced by Bone Burnett In Cooperation with UCLA Performing Arts on Campus COLD MOUNTAIN COLD MOUNTAIN COLD MOUNTAIN The Words and Music of tors. In part, because the error originated with one of the principals, Santa Barbara County Dist. Atty. Tom Sneddon.

In a nationally televised news conference Nov. 19, he recalled the 1993 situation in which the alleged victim declined to cooperate with prosecutors after Jackson paid him a settlement that amounted to tens of mil- lionsof dollars. law in California at that time provided that a child victim could not be forced to testify in a child molest proceeding without their permission and consent and Sneddon said. result of Michael Jackson case, the Legislature changed that law, and that is no longer the law in Within hours, cable news producers from coast to coast were beating the telephonic bushes for to explain this new law, which oh, delicious causality had been passed because of earlier conduct in a similar case. Here, somebody might have paused to apply what could be called the old how-would-that- really-work test.

Imagine for one second the fate of an elected district attorney who compelled a child victim to recount the details of his sexual abuse by threatening to have the tyke jailed for contempt of The operative words here are and Any prosecutor who did such a thing would be out of office quicker than you can say Gray Davis. In fact, probably be lucky to fend off involuntary commitment to a home for the criminally thick-witted. But common sense notwithstanding, it is a now wearisomely unremarkable fact that there was no shortage of talking heads with law schools in their pasts willing to appear on camera that night to dance evasively around the nonexistent law. What was remarkable is that they did so in the face of an Associated Press story filed later that very day, setting the record straight. In that piece, AP special correspondent Linda Deutsch and her colleague Tim Molloy noted that description of the law had legal In an follow-up interview shortly after his press conference, Sneddon told Deutsch and Molloy he was referring to another law.

That statute regulates only civil settlements, forbidding payments to an alleged victim more than one year after the settlement is reached. In other words, no long-term hush money. said he was aware that children cannot be forced to according to the AP story, that reporters and other attorneys had misinterpreted his remarks at the news The next morning, however, there was show host, Katie Couric, interviewing attorney Johnnie L. Cochran who represented Jackson in the negotiations that lead to the 1993 settlement: Couric: now a new law states that a minor can be called as a witness by the D.A. without consent.

So, slightly ironic that this change in law that resulted from this previous case may be the thing that actually gets, possibly, gets Michael Jackson in the Cochran: think the law was changed after now they can call witnesses and compel their Oh no they a slightly exasperated Jeffery Toobin, legal affairs analyst, told colleague Miles later that same day, as they covered surrender to authorities. a parent, I imagine anybody trying to compel an 11-year-old testify in court. sure a lot of people would have problems with Toobin: it be done under California law. In fact, the law is broader than that. You even compel an adult victim of a sexual assault to testify.

That statement by the district attorney is simply wrong. There can be no Less than a week later, attorney Daniel Petrocelli was on Fox highly rated vainly trying to set the record straight. Sneddon, Petrocelli said, to a change of law which would permit him to compel the boy to testify, but that is not the law. In California, the victim of a sexual assault, including this young boy, cannot be compelled to testify against his All this expert opinion to the contrary, the paraphrased assertion that Santa Barbara authorities can force the alleged victim to testify, should that become necessary, continues to ricochet undeterred though various parts of the American, British and Canadian press. As late as Monday, a New York Times story on the posture of the Jackson case by Dean E.

Murphy was forced to note that though suggested differently at a news conference legal scholars say California law does not allow prosecutors to compel a victim of sexual abuse to testify about Santa Clara University law professor Gerald F. Uelmen is the go-to scholar on issues of California law. law I keep hearing about in the media he said. Santa Barbara D.A. misspoke and completely blew it.

Whatever he claims now, he said there was such a law and he was dead wrong. He was right that, since 1993, there have been a lot of changes in the California statutes that make it easier to prosecute child abuse cases. But there is no statute that allows anybody to compel any victim of abuse to testify. a lot more interesting is how the media picks up these things and then feeds off each misinformation so that it becomes impossible to put one of these pseudo-facts to An error compounded daily Rutten, from Page E1 SERIES fear the waiter: Kelso and Eric apply for the same waiter job on (8 p.m. Fox).

Cow girls: On their second day in Altus, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie get a job at a dairy farm on Simple (8:30 p.m. Fox). Unintended consequences: After an anti-smoking song-and-dance group performs, Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Kenny take up the nasty habit on (10 p.m. Comedy Central). SPECIALS Adopted by fairies: Taken from a story by of author L.

Frank Baum, the 1985 holiday treat Life and Adventures of Santa (7 p.m. Family) done in stop-motion puppet animation offers an unusual portrayal of Santa Claus asan orphan raised by fairies. Bad luck streak: of a Scene: The (10:30 a.m. and 10:30 p.m. Sundance) examines decisions made by filmmaker Wayne Kramer, co-writer Frank Hannah and othersin making the 2003 movie starring William H.

Macy, Maria Bello and Alec Baldwin. It came from the Filmmakers John Carpenter, Roger CormanandLee Grant and critic Molly Haskell examine films from the and decade in Values: Movies of the (4 p.m. TCM). New York Christmas: The 71st annual tree-lighting ceremony, in Rockefeller (8 p.m. NBC), includes performances by Harry Connick Ashanti, Enrique Iglesias, Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard and the Brian Setzer Orchestra.

Al Roker and Ann Curry host the broadcast. MOVIES Thanks: Acouple receive a visit from a mysterious young woman in the 2000 import Pour le (7 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Sundance). for victory: An all-star cast drives Longest Day (8 p.m.

AMC), the 1962 epic war movie film about D-day. Some pig: James Cromwell stars as an Australian farmer who adopts a piglet that becomes a champion herder of sheep in (8 p.m. Family). Stella! Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh in the 1951 adaptation of Tennessee Streetcar Named (9:30 p.m. TCM).

Master and commander: Horatio (Ioan Gruffudd) sailsin search of a missing ship in the 2003 TV movie Hornblower: (10 p.m. based on C.S. sea tales set during the Napoleonic Wars. SPORTS NBA basketball: The Lakers visit the San Antonio Spurs (5:30 p.m. KCAL) and the Clippers play host to the Cleveland Cavaliers (7:30 p.m.

FSN2) College basketball: Nevada Las Vegas visits USC (7:30 p.m. FSN). Highlights J. Lubin HOLIDAY ROMANCE: Mischa Barton and Benjamin McKenzie in a scene from O.C.” (9 p.m. Fox).

Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (Nov. 24-30) 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 Survivor: Pearl IslandsCBS20.06 2 CSI: MiamiCBS19.72 3 Everybody Loves Raymond CBS19.14 4 60 MinutesCBS19.13 5 Two and a Half MenCBS17.14 --------------------------------------------6 CSICBS16.60 7 Cold CaseCBS16.46 8 John CBS16.19 9 Monday Night FootballABC15.90 10 Fear FactorNBC14.99 --------------------------------------------King of QueensCBS14.99 12 Law OrderNBC14.74 13 CSI (10 p.m.)CBS14.56 14 Without a TraceCBS13.40 15 Law Order: SVUNBC13.13 --------------------------------------------16 Still StandingCBS12.87 17 Navy NCISCBS12.71 18 Law Order (9 p.m.)`NBC12.34 19 Cold Case (8 p.m.)CBS12.32 20 NFL Monday ShowcaseABC12.13 --------------------------------------------21 Trista and Wedding ABC12.12 22 According to JimABC11.86 23 BeckerCBS11.82 24 Law Order: Criminal Intent NBC11.74 25 The SimpsonsFOX11.70 --------------------------------------------26 8 Simple Rules 27 Judging AmyCBS11.62 28 Yes, DearCBS11.58 29 30 Extreme MakeoverABC11.17 --------------------------------------------31 The GuardianCBS10.87 32 American Idol, ChristmasFOX10.86 33 The PracticeABC10.82 34 35 Friends (9 p.m.)NBC10.41 --------------------------------------------36 Bernie Mac ShowFOX10.37 37 Less Than PerfectABC10.24 38 NYPD BlueABC10.17 39 the 40 Average JoeNBC10.01 --------------------------------------------41 42 24FOX9.75 43 Dateline NBC 44 FriendsNBC9.58 45 American DreamsNBC9.55 --------------------------------------------46 With HerABC9.30 47 My Wife and KidsABC 9.24 48 Malcolm in the MiddleFOX9.18 49 AliasABC9.16 50 Twain: Up --------------------------------------------51 Funniest Home VideosABC8.68 52 George Lopez ShowABC8.58 53 All RelativeABC8.53 54 Joan of ArcadiaCBS8.27 55 48 Hours InvestigatesCBS8.05 --------------------------------------------Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Tue.) NBC8.05 57 58 Joe MillionaireFOX7.60 59 7th HeavenWB7.54 60 Married to the KellysABC7.38 --------------------------------------------61 Hope and FaithABC7.36 62 The O.C.FOX7.02 63 Lyons DenNBC7.00 64 King of the HillFOX6.97 65 Third WatchNBC6.92 --------------------------------------------66 Wars 67 Primetime MondayABC6.85 68 Connick Jr. NBC6.82 69 That ShowFOX6.78 70 Arrested DevelopmentFOX6.76 --------------------------------------------71 Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Wed.) NBC6.60 72 Dolittle 73 King of the Hill FOX6.43 74 Dateline NBC 75 Life With BonnieABC6.03 --------------------------------------------76 77 The HandlerCBS5.93 78 Primetime ThursdayABC5.89 79 EverwoodWB5.87 80 Football: Notre Dame at Stanford ABC5.73 --------------------------------------------81 Powers: Spy Who Shagged FOX5.54 82 WWE 83 My Wife and Kids 84 Minute With Stan HooperFOX4.73 85 EveUPN4.68 --------------------------------------------86 According to Jim 87 GirlfriendsUPN4.63 88 George Lopez Show (Thu.) ABC4.58 89 Half and HalfUPN 4.53 90 Hope Faith --------------------------------------------91 King of the Hill (7 p.m.)FOX4.20 92 The ParkersUPN4.02 93 Been 94 CharmedWB3.74 95 Timberlake: NBC3.73 --------------------------------------------96 All of UsUPN3.72 97 EnterpriseUPN3.71 98 RebaWB3.58 99 One on OneUPN3.42 100 Rock Me BabyUPN3.02 --------------------------------------------101 Stone Cold TruthUPN2.94 102 and the WB2.92 103 Half and Half 104 105 What I Like About YouWB2.68 --------------------------------------------106 Smallville: The BeginningWB2.55 107 Grounded for LifeWB2.45 108 Steve Harvey ShowWB2.35 109 What I Like About You (9:30 p.m.) WB2.26 110 --------------------------------------------111 Jamie Kennedy (9 p.m.)WB1.83 112 Jamie Kennedy (9:30 p.m.) WB1.76 113 Jamie Kennedy (8:30 p.m.) WB1.63 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 CBS13.2713.49 NBC9.8411.04 ABC8.999.76 FOX7.3010.26 UPN3.673.64 WB3.504.17 Prime-Time TV Rankings CBS had more than a November sweeps victory to be thankful for during the long Thanksgiving weekend. The network last week scored nine of the top 10 highest- rated shows, according to Nielsen Media Research data released Tuesday.

The near-sweep by CBS was highlighted by the showing of a special Wednesday installment of Pearl which topped the ratings for the first time in total viewers with more than 20 million. The episode was moved from its usual Thursday time slot to avoid airing on Thanksgiving evening. In fact, part of dominance can be attributed to the fact that See lineup Thursday was significantly weakened by Thanksgiving. A Harry Connick Jr. Christmas special that replaced the reliable drew lackluster ratings, attracting about 6.8 million viewers, a fraction of what usually attracts.

The only non-CBS series to break into the top 10 in total viewers were Night match between the New York Giants and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (No. 9), and which tied with of for the No. 10 spot. and a Half continues to be a major player on Monday comedy slate, and the network also has a clear new dramatic hit with Two episodes of the series ranked in the top 20. In other network news, Bernie Mac made a solid return to the Fox lineup in its new Sunday time slot following the still-formidable And while ratings for the first part of unscripted and were unimpressive, they are likely to build leading up to the actual ceremony.

Braxton CBS had a full plate of high ratings TIPS FOR TODAY 8-9 p.m.— The Twilight Zone: Monsters Are Due on Maple the residents of a quiet street suspect an alien invasion is imminent and that one of their own is a monster leading the attack, KSUR (1260). 8-10 p.m.—Chicago Symphony Retrospective: Prokofiev Symphony No. 1); Berg (Violin Concerto), Corigliano di Tchaikovsky (5th Symphony), KMZT-FM (105.1). DRAMA, COMEDY, FAMILY 6-9 a.m.—Don Crabtree, KDIS (1110). 9-11 a.m.—Playhouse Disney, KDIS (1110).

11 a.m.-1 p.m.—B.B. Good, live from Walt Disney World Resort, KDIS (1110). 1-5 p.m.—Squeege, KDIS (1110). 5-10 p.m.—David Jordan, KDIS (1110). 10 p.m.-3 a.m.—Sheryl Brooks, KDIS (1110).

CLASSICAL 6-10 a.m.—Mornings With Rich Capparela, KMZT-FM (105.1). 10-11 a.m.—Morning Symphony: Beethoven (4th Symphony, Christof von Doh- nanyi conducts the Cleveland Orchestra), KCSN-FM (88.5). 2-3 p.m.—Cost-Conscious Classix: Giordano highlights; Beniamino Gigli, Maria Caniglia, Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milano), KCSN-FM (88.5). 7-8 p.m.—Music From CS Northridge, KCSN-FM (88.5). 7-8 p.m.—Symphony at 7, KMZT-FM (105.1).

7 p.m.-midnight—Jim Svejda, KUSC- FM (91.5). 8-10 p.m.—Evening Concert, KMZT- FM (105.1). 8 p.m.-midnight—Opera House, KCSN-FM (88.5). POP, COUNTRY, FOLK, JAZZ 9 a.m.-noon—Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW-FM (89.9). 10 a.m.-noon—Global Village FM (90.7).

1-4 p.m.—Gary Owens, KLAC (570). Radio friend; a woman gets involved with her brother. 10 a.m. KTLA The View Martin Sheen; Diane Keaton. 10 a.m.

KABC The Wayne Brady Show Robert Downey Linda Blair; Peter Frampton. 10 a.m. KCAL Maury Outrageous guests: A woman desperately seeks the father of her baby; a man learns his children may not be his; a woman marries a 14-year-old boy. Noon KTLA Montel Williams Lovers are reunited after their families forbade it. 1 p.m.

KCOP Ellen DeGeneres Courtney Thorne-Smith; Mark Feuerstein; Bethany Hamilton, the 13-year-old surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack. 3 p.m. KNBC Oprah Medical mistakes. 3 p.m. KABC Dr.

Phil Parents-to-be. 4 p.m. KNBC The Early Show Tom Cruise; long-term care insurance. 7 a.m. KCBS Today Diane Keaton; Harry Connick Jr.7 a.m.

KNBC KTLA Morning News Flu season; Tori Amos. 7 a.m. KTLA Good Morning America Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter; the Rockettes. 7 a.m. KABC Living It Up! With Ali Jack William H.

Macy; Kenny Loggins. 9 a.m. KCBS Live With Regis and Kelly NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon; Don Johnson; LeAnn Rimes. 9 a.m. KABC John Walsh Parents discuss headline- making behavior.

(N) 10 a.m. KNBC Jerry Springer Awoman invites another woman to join her and her husband, then regrets it; a man starts sleeping with his Larry King Scott Peterson case. 6 p.m. CNN Charlie Rose Former New York Times managing editor Arthur Gelb; philosopher Bernard-Henri 11:30 p.m. KCET Late Show With David Letterman Keanu Reeves.

11:35 p.m. KCBS The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Elijah Wood; Jennifer Tilly; Counting Crows. 11:35 p.m. KNBC Jimmy Kimmel Live Lenny Clarke; Mekhi Phifer; Moby. 12:05 a.m.

KABC The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn Kiefer Sutherland; Eve; LeAnn Rimes. 12:35 a.m. KCBS Late Night With Conan Jon Lovitz; Wilmer Valderrama; Jet. 12:35 a.m. KNBC Listings include talk shows that provide a guest list.

Talk Shows.