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Hie Orlando Sentinel SUNDAY, September 12, 1993 The books of Edith Wharton, old and new Books, D-8 entertainmeni 1 rp SSL 1121 Inside -yy Music iS0 D-4 A D-5 A A A A A I To see Jay or Dave: Send letter, be patient also may be available the day of the show. By Jennifer Raison PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER you will be told that you're on a waiting list. You'll be notified a week or two in advance of your show; date requests cannot be honored. Audience members must be at least 16. The program will tape weekdays at 5:30 p.m.; arrive by 4:30.

Standby tickets are available starting at 8:15 a.m. the day of the show at the guest relations department. They don't guarantee admission if there are no-shows that night, standbys will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno: Send a SASE at least three weeks before you plan to be in California to: NBC Tickets, 3000 W. Alameda Burbank, Calif.

91523. Tell the Leno folks when you'll be in the neighborhood, and, especially if it's a nontraditional vacation period, they'll probably be able to accommodate your request. You can ask for up to four tickets. Audience members must be at least 16. The program is taped in real time starting at 5:30 p.m.

Arrive by 4:30 earlier to get the best seats and see Jay chat up the audience. Some tickets Many of these programs tape in New York. Be sure to arrive early; some shows give away more tickets than they have seats. While there's no guarantee that you'll get the exact tickets you want, following some instructions will help you get yourself seen or at least get your applause and laughter heard by the viewers at home. Late Show With David Letterman: Send a postcard to: Tickets, the Ed Sullivan Theater, 1697 Broadway, New York, N.Y.

10019. Requests will be honored on a first-come, first-served basis. You can request two tickets, and requests for particular dates cannot be honored. If you don't get a response in three months, try again. Audience members must be at least 16.

The program tapes weekdays at 5:30 p.m.; plan to arrive by 4:30 p.m. Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Send a postcard to: NBC Tickets, 30 Rockefeller Center, New York, N.Y. 10112. When your postcard is received (again, you can request a maximum of two tickets), The Arsenio Hall Show: You can't get tickets to this show by phone or mail, and you can't get them at all if you're not at least 18 years old (and have the ID to prove it). Tickets don't become available until early the same day.

Pick them up between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. at Paramount Visitor Center, 860 North Gower Hollywood, Calif. Call (213) 956-5575 for a recorded explanation of what's available. The Chevy Chase Show: Send a SASE at least, two weeks before you plan to be in California to: The.

Chevy Chase Show, 6230 Sunset Hollywood, Calif. 90028. Specify the date you want, or ask for the first available show. You can request up to six tickets. Audience members must be at least 16.

Showtime is 5 p.m., but you should arrive by 3:30. No seats are guaranteed, so the earlier you get to the Chevy Chase Theater the better your odds of getting in. Horry Wessel of the Sentinel staff contributed to this report. David Letterman's new show has an audience full of just plain folks. How did they get there? Late Night With Conan O'Brien debuts Monday, and you would like to see Letterman's replacement in person sometime.

Whom do you have to know? Relax. You don't have to "know anybody. For the most part, you only have to be 16 or older and willing to wait for the system to work. There isn't even a dress code. The system at most of the big late-night talk shows involves sending a postcard or self-addressed, stamped envelope with your name, address and phone number, and waiting for a response.

Some shows will let you request a particular date, while others use a lottery system. The world takes note of abstract sculptor fwfo if PHOTOABC Teri Hatcher, Dean Cain play Lois Lane, Clark Kent. 'Lois Clark: The New Adventures of Superman' 8 tonight WFTV-Channel 9 Parents' guide: Some mild action (a victimless explosion); very indirect references to sex. i i Jf f' if JhfJ r27c Greg Dawson TELEVISION TV tries for family viewing I don't know if Norman Rockwell ever did a painting with a TV set in it, but if he did it probably featured a nuclear family gathered around the black-and-white Zenith on Sunday night watching The Ed Sullivan Show. That Rockwellian scene doesn't happen much in America these days.

We're short on both nuclear families and Ed Sullivans. Sunday night finds Mom in one room tuned to Murder, She Wrote, the kids in another surfing between Funniest Home Videos and reruns on Nick, and Dad in the den glued to baseball on ESPN. We're never going to rip out all the cable and go back to Rockwell's America, but that doesn't mean we can't wax nostalgic for it. This fall two networks (NBC and ABC) are putting enormous bucks into action-adventure series aimed at restoring Sunday night as a time for, yes, "family viewing." Going head-to-head at 8 p.m. are ABC's Lois Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and NBC's seaQuest DSV.

Meanwhile, Townsend Television is Fox's attempt to revive the variety show format that hasn't thrived since Sullivan. "With a couple of exceptions, I can't watch television with my children," Robert Ballard, science consultant to NBC's seaQuest DSV, complained to TV critics in Hollywood this summer. "I'm desperate to do something at 8 o'clock that I can watch with my kids that will keep all of us entertained. We hope to bring that back." That lofty goal may not be achieved, but not for lack of effort (or budget). Overall, Sunday night TV is a better, more family-friendly place with the addition of these three series.

'Lois Clark: The New Adventures of Superman' The producers have done the Seemingly impossible and pumped new life into the most venerable and dusty of our comic book icons. Through humor, charm, imagination and a blessed bit of casting, the producers have boldly transformed Superman into Su-permensch, a man of steel for the '90s. He's played by relative unknown Dean Cain, who has a killer smile, self-deprecating manner and the body of the Ail-American football player he was at Princeton University. In this updating of the myth, Clark Kent (Cain) is a shy kid from Kansas who just wants to UCF's Johann Eyfells, who turns molten metal into art, is showing his work at a prestigious exhibition in Venice. By Mark Vosburgh OF THE SENTINEL STAFF Long ago, in a faraway land of icy peaks and a lava desert, a boy wondered why his father was content to paint landscapes and sell his art for modest sums.

"Is it wrong," the artist asked his son, "to want to make the world more beautiful?" Years later, in a place warm and lush, the son left a profitable profession for the love of molding molten metal into abstractions as cold and coarse as his homeland. To his dying day, the painter wondered why. resented in certain wajs my so-called abstract tendencies," the sculptor said of his father. "He was never quite sure I had embarked on the right road as an artist." This summer the world took note of Johann Eyfells, avant-garde sculptor, University of Central Florida art professor, onetime architect and the son of an Icelandic painter. Invited by the government of Iceland to represent his island birthplace, Eyfells is exhibiting samples of his work at the 1993 Biennale art show in Venice, Italy.

Running from June 13 to Oct. 10, the show features artists from 49 nations, including the United States. Marcia Vetrocq, a University of New Orleans fine arts professor and Biennale patron, likens the show to Olympic events. "For a given artist to be invited to represent his country is a great honor and a considerable opportunity," said Vetrocq, who critiqued this year's show for Art in America magazine. Though unfamiliar with Eyfells' work, Vetrocq said artists representing small nations may deserve more consideration than they get at the Biennale.

"It's like the Olympics in the sense that Guam may have a luge team, but it's not likely to get the attention," she said. "Iceland may fall into that category." For Eyfells, the international recognition is perhaps his crowning achievement as an artist, which he contends he has been for all of his 70 years. "It never occurred to me I would become an artist," Eyfells said during an interview last week at his home near Oviedo after returning from the Biennale. "I always imagined that I was an artist." At UCF, Eyfells' reputation as both sculptor and teacher was established long ago. Maude Wahlman, a UCF art professor and former chairwoman of the art department, described her colleague as one of the people she admires most in the world.

"He is an internationally recognized artist and has been for many years," Wahlman said. "I think the awareness of how great his reputation is is just slow in coming to Central Florida." Rob Reedy, current chairman of the art department, said Eyfells' 24 years in UCF classrooms also have left a lasting impression on the art world. "His students continually come back or call and ask how Johann is doing," Reedy said. "And they always mention that their experience with him in the classroom affected them in a very positive way ever since." When the artist in Johann Eyfells first Please see EYFELLS, D-6 v. I- rt vvw--'- PHOTOFOX Robert Townsend makes 'variety' a part of TV again.

'Townsend Television' 7 tonight WOFL-Channel 35 WOGX-Channel 51 Parents' guide: Skits with a few comical but inoffensive references to sex. ROBERTO GONZALEZSENTINEL szr 1 i 1 1 PHOTONBC Johann Eyfells, avant-garde sculptor and UCF art professor, poses within 'Circular Linguisticity a variation of a work that is on display in Venice. It's composed of discs of aluminum. Also being shown in Venice at the Iceland pavilion is Eyfells' work of 3 aluminum panels, 'Flat as Flat as Triarchy Roy Scheider is at the helm in 'seaQuest 'seaQuest DSV 8 tonight WESH-Channel 2 Parents' guide: Routine action sequences but no gratuitious violence. wont ai me uauy runusi aim ijlu- etly use his powers for good.

Reviewing key: excellent, good, average, poor, awful PHOTOKRISTIN EYFELLS Heck, when tne snow opens, ne doesn't even own a super outfit. So he flies home for a fitting ses- Please see DAWSON, D-2.