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go on get out KEN HIVELY Los Angeles Times, published Thursday, August 27, 1998. mpre te. All REGENCY ACADEMY CINEMAS 1003 E. Colorado LILA SAYS (NR) 5, 7 LADIES IN LAVENDER 2:45, 7:15 MY SUMMER OF LOVE (R) 6:45, 8:45 CRASH (R) 3:30, 6, 8:15 MADAGASCAR (PG) 2:15, 4:15 THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS (PG) 3:45 LORDS OF DOGTOWN 6:15, 8:45 ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM (NR) 5:10, 7:40 THE ADVENTURES OF SHARKBOY AND LAVAGIRL IN 3D (PG) 3:15 VOUS (R) 2:30, 9 SAVING FACE (R) 5:15, 9:30 REGENCY FOOTHILL CINEMA 10 854 E. Alosta Ave.

of Alosta Azuza (626)334-6007 CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (PG) 11:15, 12:15, 2, 3, 4:45, 5:45, 7:30, 8:30, 10 WEDDING CRASHERS (R) 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10 FANTASTIC FOUR 11:30, 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05 DARK WATER 12:15, 3, 6, 8:30 WAR OF THE WORLDS 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 HERBIE: FULLY LOADED (G) 12, 2:15, 4:30, 7:30, 9:45 BEWITCHED 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7, 9:15 BATMAN BEGINS 1, 4, 7, 10 MR. MRS. SMITH 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS (G) 10 A.M. REGENCY VALLEY PLAZA CINEMAS All Movies $2 Before 6P.M., $3 After 6P.M. Victory at Laurel-N Hollywood1-818-760-1966 MADAGASCAR (PG) 12, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9:55 BEWITCHED 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 9:50 RIZE 3, 7:30, 9:40 CRASH (R) 12:15, 5 GEORGE A.

ROMERO'S LAND OF THE DEAD (R) 2:30, 7:15, 9:45 THE LONGEST YARD 11:45, 2:15, 4:40, 7, 9:30 MONSTER-IN-LAW 12:30, 5:15 THE ADVENTURES OF SHARKBOY AND LAVAGIRL IN 3D (PG) 12:45, 3, 5:30, 8 JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS (G) 10 A.M. REGENCY TEMPLE CITY CINEMAS Rosemead at Las Tunas(626) 309-1333 CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (PG) 11, 1:45, 4:20, 7, 9:40 WEDDING CRASHERS (R) 11:15, 2, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 FANTASTIC FOUR 12, 2:30, 5, 7:45, 10:05 WAR OF THE WORLDS 11, 1:30, 4, 7:15, 9:45 JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS (G) 10 EGYPTIAN THEATRE 6712 Hollywood Call Theatre for show information. AERO THEATRE 1328 Montana 466-FILM Call Theatre for show information. FLAGSHIP UNIVERSITY VILLAGE 3 3323 S. Hoover(213)748-6321 CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (PG) 11, 1:45, 4:30) 7:15, 10 FANTASTIC FOUR 11:15, 1:45, 4:15) 7, 9:30 WAR OF THE WORLDS 11:30, 2:15) 5, 7:45, 10:30 Starts Friday, July 22 THE ISLAND HIGHLAND 3 THEATRES 5604 N.

Figueroa WEDDING CRASHERS (R) 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:20 CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (PG) 1:35, 4:05, 6:35, 9 WAR OF THE WORLDS 1:30, 4, 6:35, 9 All Shows $1.50, on Tuesday $1.00 LA MIRADA DOLLAR MOVIES 7 15296 Rosecrans KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (R) 12:55, 4:20, 7:45 SAHARA 1, 7:05 SIN CITY (R) 4:15, 9:25 MONSTER-IN-LAW 12:35, 2:45, 5:05, 7:20, 9:25 THE PERFECT MAN (PG) 12:40, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:40 KICKING SCREAMING (PG) 12:25, 2:35, 4:35, 7:05, 9:10 THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (PG) 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:25, 9:50 LORDS OF DOGTOWN 12:15, 2:30, 4:55, 7:10, 9:30 BIANCHI PARAMOUNT STADIUM 11 7770 E. Rosecrans CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (PG) 10:15, 11:15, 1:05, 2:05, 3:55, 4:55) 6:45, 7:45, 9:35, 10:35 WEDDING CRASHERS (R) 10:45, 1:40, 4:35) 7:30, 10:25 FANTASTIC FOUR 11, 12, 1:40, 2:40, 4:20) 5:20, 7, 8, 9:40, 10:40 DARK WATER 11:30, 2:10, 4:50) 7:30, 10:10 REBOUND (PG) 10:15, 12:35, 2:55) 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 WAR OF THE WORLDS 10:30, 1:20, 4:10) 7, 9:50 GEORGE A. ROMERO'S LAND OF THE DEAD (R) 10:20, 12:50, 3:20) 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 HERBIE: FULLY LOADED (G) 11, 1:40, 4:20) 7, 9:40 BATMAN BEGINS 10, 1:10, 4:20) 7:30, 10:40 WHITTER VILLAGE STADIUM 8 7038 Greenleaf CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (PG) 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 WEDDING CRASHERS (R) 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 FANTASTIC FOUR 11:50, 2, 4:10, 6:20, 8:30, 10:40 WAR OF THE WORLDS 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10 DARK WATER 1:50, 4, 6:10, 8:20, 10:30 HERBIE: FULLY LOADED (G) 11:45, 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 BATMAN BEGINS 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 MR. MRS. SMITH 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 MADAGASCAR (PG) 11:45 A.M.

GEORGE A. ROMERO'S LAND OF THE DEAD (R) 9:45 SILVER CINEMAS NORWALK 8 13917 Pioneer 804-5615 HOUSE OF WAX (R) 3:25, 9:35 THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (PG) 1:20, 5:35, 7:35 SIN CITY (R) 3:10, 5:25, 9:35 ROBOTS (PG) 1:15, 7:40 UNLEASHED (R) 1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25, 9:30 XXX: STATE OF THE UNION 2:55, 7 KICKING SCREAMING (PG) 1, 5, 9:05 MONSTER-IN-LAW 12:55, 3:05, 5:10, 7:15, 9:20 LORDS OF DOGTOWN 12:50, 3, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (R) 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 THE PERFECT MAN (PG) 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 THE MAJESTIC CREST 1262 Westwood CRONICAS (R) 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 All Shows $1.50, on Tuesday $1.00 BROOKHURST DOLLAR MOVIES 4 2299 West Ball 778-8804 KICKING SCREAMING (PG) 1, 3, 5, 7:05, 9:10 SIN CITY (R) 1:10, 4, 7, 9:30 MONSTER-IN-LAW 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:15 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (R) 7:10 ROBOTS (PG) 1:05, 3:05, 5:05 CINEMA CITY THEATRES 5635 La Palma La Palma and Imperial Hwy, Anaheim Hills CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (PG) 11:45, 1, 2:15, 3:30, 4:45, 5:55, 7:15, 8:30, 9:45 FANTASTIC FOUR 11:50, 12:45, 2, 3, 4:10, 5:15, 6:20, 7:30, 8:30, 9:45, 10:40 WEDDING CRASHERS (R) 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 DARK WATER 1:50, 4, 6:10, 8:20, 10:30 BATMAN BEGINS 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 HERBIE: FULLY LOADED (G) 11:45, 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 MR. MRS. SMITH 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 MADAGASCAR (PG) 11:50 A.M. WAR OF THE WORLDS 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10 LAGUNA HILLS MALL CINEMAS El Toro Road at 5 WEDDING CRASHERS (R) 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10 CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (PG) 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50 WAR OF THE WORLDS 1, 3:30, 5:55, 8:30 WOODBRIDGE MOVIES 5 All shows $2.00 before 6pm and $3.00 after 6pm 4626 Barranca Parkway1-949-733-0980 THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (PG) 12:15, 2:20, 4:30 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (R) 7:30 KICKING SCREAMING (PG) 12:25, 2:45, 5, 7:35, 9:30 MONSTER-IN-LAW 12:20, 2:30, 5:10, 7:15, 9:40 LORDS OF DOGTOWN 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:25, 9:50 THE PERFECT MAN (PG) 12:35, 2:35, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35 Times for 2005 Prime-Time TV Rankings Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (July 11-17) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research.

They are based on the average number or people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates there are 277.93 million potential viewers in the U.S. age 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions. Program Network View- ersProgram Network Viewers 1 CSICBS12.86 2 All-Star 3 Without a TraceCBS11.71 4 Brat CampABC10.40 5 NCISCBS9.33 --------------------------------------------6 Law Order: SVUNBC9.14 7 "All-Star 8 Law OrderNBC8.85 9 60 MinutesCBS8.71 10 Big Brother 6 --------------------------------------------11 Law Order: Criminal Intent NBC8.14 12 Law Order (9 p.m.)NBC8.13 13 Cold CaseCBS7.93 Everybody Loves Raymond CBS7.93 15 CSI: MiamiCBS7.90 --------------------------------------------16 Big Brother 6 17 CSI: NYCBS7.70 18 Crossing JordanNBC7.69 19 Two and a Half MenCBS7.62 20 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (8 p.m.) ABC7.32 --------------------------------------------21 22 Most Outrageous Moments on Live TV NBC6.97 23 Dateline: NBC 24 Dateline: NBC 25 Kitchen (9 p.m.)FOX6.65 --------------------------------------------26 Wonderful World of Disney ABC6.56 27 Primetime LiveABC6.45 28 According to JimABC6.43 29 the 30 --------------------------------------------Las VegasNBC6.25 32 MediumNBC6.24 33 Dateline: NBC 34 Rock Star: INXS 10 p.m.) CBS6.14 35 RodneyABC6.04 --------------------------------------------36 Desperate HousewivesABC5.91 37 The SimpsonsFOX5.86 38 Most WantedFOX5.74 39 Kitchen (8 p.m.)FOX5.66 40 Family Guy (9 p.m.)FOX5.65 --------------------------------------------41 Law Order: Trial By Jury NBC5.63 42 Family Guy (9:30 p.m.)FOX5.57 43 George LopezABC5.51 44 Rock Star: INXS 45 King Of Queens --------------------------------------------46 My Wife and KidsABC5.44 47 Numb3rsCBS5.37 48 Will Grace (9:30 p.m.)NBC5.24 49 AnatomyABC5.17 50 Cops (8:30 p.m.)FOX5.12 --------------------------------------------Extreme MakeoverABC5.12 52 Hooking UpABC5.09 53 Big Brother 6 54 WWE 55 Will Grace (10:30 p.m.)NBC4.89 --------------------------------------------56 60 Minutes IICBS4.87 57 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (7 p.m.) ABC4.82 58 Average Joe 4NBC4.81 59 LostABC4.77 60 EmpireABC4.67 --------------------------------------------Rock Star: INXS 62 Joey (9 p.m.)NBC4.66 63 That Show 8:30 p.m.) FOX4.65 64 That Show 65 Fear FactorNBC4.52 --------------------------------------------66 I Want to Be a HiltonNBC4.51 67 That Show 8 p.m.) FOX4.38 68 Joey (8:30 p.m.)NBC4.31 69 Joey (8 p.m.)NBC4.28 70 The InsideFOX4.26 --------------------------------------------71 CopsFOX4.23 72 73 JAGCBS3.98 74 Princes of MalibuFOX3.96 75 The CutCBS3.88 --------------------------------------------76 King of the HillFOX3.85 77 8 Simple RulesABC3.80 78 Hope and Faith (8:30 p.m.) ABC3.56 StackedFOX3.56 Hope (9 p.m.)ABC3.56 --------------------------------------------81 Less Than PerfectABC3.52 82 83 The ScholarABC3.48 84 Malcolm in the MiddleFOX3.43 85 Rock Star: INXS 10 p.m.) CBS3.35 --------------------------------------------86 Beauty and the Geek (Wed.) WB3.20 87 Rock Star: INXS 9 p.m..) CBS3.00 88 King Of Queens 89 Girlfriends 90 SummerlandWB2.48 --------------------------------------------91 92 The O.C.FOX2.38 93 All of Us 94 Girlfriends 95 7th HeavenWB2.21 --------------------------------------------96 Half and Half 97 One on One Half and Half 99 Gilmore GirlsWB2.12 100 All of Us --------------------------------------------101 RebaWB2.01 102 One on One 103 Living with FranWB1.75 104 Smallville 105 Eve (8:30 p.m.)UPN1.70 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 CBS6.7411.97 NBC6.189.15 ABC6.009.40 FOX5.959.18 UPN2.483.22 WB1.923.13 From City News Service ABC, which already has the biggest hit in With the may well have another with according to figures released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. Last two-hour premiere of the unscripted series chronicling the experiences of nine out-of-control teens at an Oregon wilderness school was seen by nearly 10.4 million people, making it the fourth-most watched show in prime time last week. It was the second-highest debut of a series during summer season. Only With the had more, drawing more than 13.5 million viewers for its June 1 debut. The CBS unscripted series Star: struggled to find an audience in its first three episodes.

Its July 11 premiere was 44th for the week and fourth in its 9-10 p.m. time slot with nearly 5.5 million viewers. Viewership for its second episode a day later increased to about 6.1 million, third in its time slot. Then the Wednesday episode dropped to about 4.6 million viewers, also third in its time slot. coverage of All-Star game drew about 12.3 million viewers, the smallest audience in the 38 years the game been televised in prime time.

However, it was the second-most-watched show. CBS was the most-watched network for the seventh consecutive week, averaging more than 6.7 million viewers. The network also led among viewers 25 to 54, its core audience, for the third consecutive week. ABC kicks up its heels over working at all costar and director Peter Bonerz calls him. As a stand-up comedian headlining a sitcom, he was not taken for an actor, which is to say, it was assumed he was merely (That he was indeed an actor is asserted many times here, though it is also asserted that the person on-screenwas an honest reflection of the person off.) Lacking the overt neediness of many comics and possessing no shtick wilder than his trademark stammer or crazier than a prop telephone, he was the still center around which everyone else revolved.

He got laughs by playing the straight man would make a line funny by not spinning observes David Hyde Pierce though, as this documentary demonstrates, he could also deliver a punch line, play drunkor walk into a door with the best of them. That there is more to Newhart than has met the eye is shown through clips of the comic in both stand-up and sitcom mode, shaped by the commentary of friends, family and associates, including Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Marcia Wallace, Tom Poston and Julia Duffy from his two hit sitcoms (the two that were not hits are quickly glossed over), along with Buck Henry, Tommy Smothers, Larry Gelbart, Tim Conway, Don Rickles and Garry Shandling. Shandling, who displays his copy of Button-Down Mind of Bob the bestselling 1960 album that made the former accountant (who lived with his parents until age 30) a star almost overnight, sums up the Newhart effect: secret is they found Bob Newhart, who is an edgy guy underneath it they put him in a softer His sitcoms were not formally ambitious, politically hot-button or expressive of current national obsessions or trends. They were character comedies, a little surreal around the edges as psychologist Robert Hartley, Newhart was surrounded by neurotics, and as innkeeper Dick Loudon, he dealt with the pixilated inhabitants of a rural small town whose roots go back to Capra and Sturges but in the Norman Lear-driven context of their time they were conservative. At the same time, says Shandling, Newhart was in some quiet, small His series were adamantly adult, for one thing there were, on his insistence, no children around.

(When writers prepared apregnancy script, response to them was that he liked it, but are you going to get to play And ended with one of truly astonishing moments, in which the entire series is suddenly transformed into a dream by the main character of his previous show. On the one hand, this is just a funny idea, delightful and disturbing; but the sort of thing many credentialed toilers in the field of postmodern fiction would have given their tenure to have done. an engrossing and increasingly funny 90 minutes, though I must confess I am a particular sucker for hearing talented people discuss their work reminder that although tal- ent is inborn, accomplishment is not accidental. And this pleasure is further magnified by that of hearing other people who know something about the subject express their own informed views. It creates a kind of contagious excitement.

specializes in artistic biographies personal details come into play, as necessary, but the work is refreshingly paramount no prejudice as to popular versus high art. Obviously a need to focus on performers who have been around long enough to be called no John Mayer here, not yet which means that many of its subjects are old or dead. Newhart is in his mid-70sbut hardly retired. He plays concerts, makes moviesand has a recurring role on But something good in this too: It encourages the young, if they can be torn away from their crazy rock videos and nutty computer games, to respect experience. No mention is made of the drinking game.

A real genius at being a regular guy Newhart, from Page E1 The Top 25 stations and their average share of audience as measured by Arbitron for the spring months compared with the previous three-month period. Current Last Quarter 1 2 3 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 20 22 23 24 The ratings survey covers people 12 and older listening between 6 a.m. and midnight, from March 31 to June 22. Radio Ratings rap artists such as Eminem, 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg mirroring both the top of the album sales charts and rival playlist. been striving to get this station back to No.

1 and obviously really John Ivey, programming director at KIIS, said Tuesday. He acknowledged that shifting toward a more lineup helped, but heaped praise upon the relatively new morning DJ, Ryan Seacrest. off to Ryan and his Ivey said. beat Big Boy, Stern and Kevin Bean a big KPWR officials took the decline philosophically. the pleasure-opportunity-privilege to be No.

1 for three full years, that just said Jimmy Steal, the program director and programming vice president for its parent company, Emmis. all knew that was going to be interrupted, we just know The battle between the top Spanish-language stations tightened during the spring, with KLVE-FM (107.5), KSCA-FM (101.9) and KLAX-FM (97.9) finishing in a three-way tie for third, each averaging of the audience. KLAX made the biggest jump, after tying for ninth at in the winter.KSCA rose from a sixth-place tie at 3.6% whileKLVE increased from 3.8% and fifth place in the winter. William B. Tanner, executive vice president for programming at Spanish Broadcasting System, which owns KLAX-FM, attributed the impressive to programming changes that included an afternoon oldies hour, anew afternoon disc jockey and arevamped news operation.

thrilled to said Tanner. exceeded our The trio muscled past talk station KFI-AM (640), which fell from a second-place tie at 4.6% in the winter to sixth place with 3.9% in the spring. drop mirrored a rough time for news and talk radio in general. never fun to go said Robin Bertolucci, program director. are to some degree a victim of a slow news cycle, but still confident about our long-term plan and I change a KCBS leapt from 24th place in the winter with 1.7% of the audience to 11th place and in the spring, its first survey as the moniker the station assumed March 17 when it shed its 12-year-old classic-rock format.

The new format, which management compared to a Apple iPod on shuffle, features a dizzyingly varied playlist that runs from Chaka Kahn to Charlie Daniels, and no discjockeys. Jeff Federman, KCBS general manager, said the company was expecting to see improved ratings based on the Jack performance in other cities said the L.A. numbers were more than they had hoped for. He predicted that the breadth of the song playlist three or four times the size of most other stations will help keep Jack from fading as a novelty act. Before Jack launched in Los Angeles, program director Kevin Weatherly said the station, which plays songs from the through today, would serve as a bridge between its sister stations, oldies outlet KRTH-FM (101.1) and alternative rocker KROQ-FM (106.7).

But it may have ended up stealing listeners from those two: KROQ fell from fourth place with a 4.2% audience share in the winter to 3.7% and an eighth-place tie with adult contemporary station KOST-FM (103.5). KRTH dropped from ninth place with in the winter to 2.5% and a tie for 13th. Rap lifts KIIS-FM Arbitron, from Page E1 Where: KCET When: 8tonight Ratings: TV-PG-L (may be unsuitable for young children, with an advisory for coarse language) Bob Newhart Executive producer of Susan Lacy. Writer, director and producerKyra Thompson. Masters Bob Newhart:.