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8E Sun-Sentinel, Tuesday, May 24, 1988 i -thirtvsomethine' star faces same choices as in series ated from the University of By MONIKA GUTTMAN Tribune Madia Services life for his generation as opposed to the sitcom version of family life. "Some shows really infuriate me," he says seriously. "They give such profoundly Ken Olin is thirtysomething something like 33. His wife, Patricia Wettig, spouses on the show) sometimes leads to confusion in their relationship. "First of all, the show is very intimate it's hard to see her do those kinds of scenes with someone else.

Also, sometimes Patty and I are competitive with each other, and that can be difficult." But for the most part, he adds, "It's good to be working together. I tend to be very obsessive about my work, and I'm very dependent on Patty for her input. "She had a very good career in New York. And when we moved to Los Angeles in 1983 because of my work, and then had kids, her career was put on the back burner for a while. That's very difficult." Olin and Wettig met in a stage production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Olin had gone to Manhattan to pursue acting at the urging of his best friend when they gradu coming to an age where we're making choices as adults that limit our freedom," he says with the same introspection his character, Michael, usually displays. "The show is about the confusion and anxiety that surrounds those choices." The handsome, hazel-eyed actor knows all about these choices. He has two children, Clifford.5, and Both he and his wife work. He experiences, as he puts it, "all the joys and problems that these commitments bring. "Personally, I do feel the show is true," he adds.

"I happen to be friends with (series creator) Marshall Herskowitz we met because our children go to preschool together and the show's definitely true for him. I also meet a lot of people who think it's on target." Olin is happy the series does portray some of the not-so-wonderful realities of dishonest depictions of parenting. That must be very confusing to people. Because I think people associate television with some sort of image in their mind of what life should be like. With almost 50 percent of marriages ending in divorce, there's a lot of trouble and confusion in the American family.

And or so long it never occurrea to me mas acting was a profession," says the Chicago) native, whose family was very active in the; Windy City's business and political scenes; "Yet, truthfully, I never wanted to do anyi thing else. Nothing else feels like it." "Unfortunately, my tolerance level tot unemployment is very low. I'm a bit of a workaholic," he confesses with a smile. "I also tend to be very dependent on my work for my identity. So when I was out of workj, it was really difficult.

"I remember once, when my little boy. was 2 months old, Patty and I didn't have" any work and we were living above a Laun; dromat in New York City. It was very dismal his nursery window was covered with lint. And I remember going into his room, and, in all sincerity, apologizing to him for our situation." lso is "tnirtysometh-tog." (Well, OK, she's 31.) Both star in the critically acclaimed series thirtysomething (10 tonight, So, as Olin puts it, both know something about what their characters are experiencing. "The main theme of Wettig Olin maybe if we address it on the air.

Olin admits that working on the same series as his wife of six years (they don't play show, I think, is that our generation has been given an incredible amount of freedom. Now we're DAYTIME WTVJ president resigns to return to 'first love' i JThe following is a complete list of broadcast station programming, plus selected cable networks, to 7:30 p.m. For Complete details, please refer to Sunday TV Book. ent company, the General Electric announced plans to purchase WTVJ, a CBS affiliate on Jan. 1987.

NBC also has another South, Florida affiliate, inj West Palm Beach. Lobo is a native of Tampa and is a graduate of the University of Mi- ami. His first job was as a reporter- i photographer with WTVJ in He will assume his duties as presi- dent and general manager Perris will continue at WTVJ dur- 5 ing a transition period. "I've sort of been lulled by the area into doing something that I don't really enjoy. I love this area, but now it's time for me to do what I really like to do," Perris said.

Perris came to WTVJ in 1984' from an ABC affiliate, where he was general managf er. By JOEL WELIN Assistant Entertainent Editor Alan Perris, president and general manager of in Miami for the past four years, day announced his resignation on Monday. Perris was replaced by Richard Lobo, who most recently served in a similar capacity at WMAQ-TV in Chicago. Lobo also worked at WKYC-TV in Cleveland. Perris, explaining that he would return "to my first love, programming and programming development," said in a statement: "Oper-ating a leveraged buy-out television station, administering the sale of the station and beginning the rebuilding process with NBC have been monumental tasks.

Now, I want a career change NBC and another unit of its par Controversial series to air as movie CD Oprah Winfrey Real Ghostbusters t)C0 Divorce Court 09 Shalom Sesame BD Valeria (1:00) CQDiffrent Strokes QD Woody Woodpecker CD $100,000 Pyramid CO Beverly Hills Teens CB Another Life rose) An Illustrated Guide to Caricature (1:00) rlMarketWrap (1:00) (SHOJ Movie "Goldy II: Saga of the Golden Bear" (1:30) Itmc Movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy" (2:00) (wbfllBarnaby Jonea (1:00) 4:30 p.m. OThe Jeteons People's Court CQNewlywed Game CO Painting Ceramics Silver Spoons CD Duck Tales CO The Judge 0 Double Dare CB Today With Marilyn Hickey (mk) Movie "Gentleman's Agreement" -kit it (2:30) (wo) Movie "A Challenge for Robin Hood" (2:00) (max) Movie "Ishtar" (2:00) Nosj Movie "Mine Own Executioner" (2:00) ItssJ (4:55) Three Stooges 5 p.m. 0 Wonderful World of Disney OThe Judge I Family Ties 0 Gimme a Break OLive at Five (1:00) QDGFJNews CODial-a-Teecher (1:00) GDTopacio (1:00) Facts of Life 69 Happy Days CO Superior Court CD Silver Spoons CB Reading Rainbow CB Praise the Lord (2:00) Q) Dia a Dia (1:00) fbiclEyee of Israel (1:00) FNN Evening News (1:00) ml (5HK) The Munsters TJ, Hooker (1:00) 5:30 p.m. QQ CO CD CD News O03 Gimme a Break Q) What's Happening!) COPunky Brewster CB 3-2-1 Contact ci sho Scorn of Women (1:00) 5:30 p.m. OQCD (BCD News OQ3 Gimme a Break CD What's Happening!) COPunky Brewster CB 3-2-1 Contact sho) Scorn of Women 1 tbs) (5:35) Laverne A Shirley woNlGood Times When it went into production at-the beginning of the year, Juarez was proudly touted by ABC as network television's first dramatic," Hispanic-themed series featuring a principally Hispanic cast, and it was to have been simulcast in Spanish, another first.

ABC, howey-; er, pulled the plug on the series shortly after shooting beganr-claiming it "just wasn't what we expected." Entertainment News Service Juarez, a proposed dramatic series about a Mexican-American border community that was canceled by ABC earlier this year, sparking protests from the Hispanic community, will air as a special at 8 p.m. Saturday (WPLG-Ch. 10, The hour-long show, the single episode shot for the ill-fated series, stars Benjamin Brett Banda as a Los Angeles cop. BEST BET Turn on tube for nightmarish evening It's a nightmarish evening of television tonight as we're offered a double dose of oppression and helplessness. Nightmare at Bitter Creek (9 p.m., WTVJ- Pli A WTVY- tioning women and their trail guide; who run into Aryan supremacists on the run.

But the real nightmare is on at 8 p.m. when; Deborah Raffin stars in Night mare, a stupid drama about semi-innocents locked up in a women's prison. Better entertainment of different genre, although no less hackneyed, is offered in Part 3 of Elmore Leonard's horse opera, Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge (9 p.m., WSVN Ch.7). i JOEL WELIN' PRIME TIME AT A GLANCE 1 7:30 1 8:00 8:30 1 9:00 1 9:30 1 10:00 1 10:30 BROADCAST STATIONS Shaded areas indicate movies WrtoVSurvival Beyond 2000 Nova: Magic of Special Effects Frontline); Defense of Europe Newlywed Bug Bunny ChriBon Jeopardyl Matlock (R) Otsyertfte AraianctM Dsirifs Ridge (88) AJsi McArthuf Family Ties HiiW1(j( SkMilPrrM jNews Carson's Entertainment Mattock (R) Despsrado: Atalandw at Devi's Bidgs (M) Ata McArttiur CD Jeopardyl Boss7(R) Facte of Life Moonlighting (R) thirtysomething (R) CD Win, lose. Moonlighting (R) thirtysomething (R) CD Collector Something on 17 Education Get.

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