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4th Si 3rd W. 2r.J ED.tHt A 7sfi- 63 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Friday. October 13. 1978 Professor Set For U.S. Post Entertainment TV Previews ABC Movie Stars Cybill Shepherd Dreyfuss Private Eye In Kagan's 'Big Fix' eral hours before it was announced by the White House.

The 11-member board meets for two-day sessions four times a year. Board members are paid $180 per day for each meeting they attend. The Legal Services Corp. supervises federal funding for local and neighborhood legal services programs throughout the nation. VOICE PATTERN Each of the world's 900 bat species has its own ultrasonic voice pattern: The Conrant Bureau WASHINGTON President Carter Wednesday nominated Howard Sacks, former dean of the University of Connecticut Law School, to be one of six new directors of the Legal Services Corp.

Sacks, a law professor at the university, will serve a three-year term in the part-time post Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, who sponsored Sacks' appointment, was notified of the nomination sev the Sun," "Oh, Darling," "With a Little Help From My Friends" and "Got to Get You into My Life." Then there's a spoof of "Gone with the Wind" called "Disco with the Wind," in which Robert Young and Paul Lynde participate. 1 a.m. Midnight Special Steve Martin not only sings but plays the banjo when he appears as the guest of the members of the Dirt Band, who double as hosts and performers on the show tonight. On their own, the Dirt Band sings "Who Babe," "In for the Night" and "For a Little While." With Steve Martin they do "King Tut" and "White Russia." Other guests include John McEuen, Michael Johnson and Louisiana's Le Roux.

9 p.m. ABC Friday Night Movie (S "A Guide for the Married Woman" Cybill Shepherd stars in this romantic comedy. She plays a typical American housewife who dreams about finding new romantic adventures in her life when she discovers that, after 10 years of marriage, she's being taken far granted by her husband. Barbara Feldon and Charles Frank co-star. Eve Arden, John Beradino, John Byner, Bonnie Franklin, Peter Marshall and Bernie Kopell are featured.

8 p.m. Donny and Marie (D Tne presence of Kris Kristofferson brightens up this hour. He solos with "The Bigger the Fool, the Harder the Fall." Then he i. "ill This weekend on WPOP-1410 WIN OPERA TICKETS Listen every hour for contest details. CYBILL SHEPHERD (9p.m.Ch.Q(S)) joins in with Donny and Marie for a medley of tunes which includes "Here Comes Flease see Sunday's TV Week Magazine for regular programs during day to 6:00 p.m.

Indicates Paid Advertisement. 9:00 Masterpiece Theater (R) The Incredible Hulk 0 a World TV Premiere! A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED WOMAN 8 ABC Friday Night Movie Hark! Thy brunch hath music. Easy listfiiinj: the California Four), a mysterious brunette who seems to be a double agent in the gubernatorial campaign and a whacko advertising copy writer all are added into the plot. Simon has invested most of them with considerable interest, but aside from Wine, his best character is Moses' oldtime, unrevised Marxist auntie, warmly and feistily played by Rita Karin. As handled by Jeremy Paul Kagan, however, all of the cast works well in presenting us with a persuasive cross-section of modern day Los Angeles.

Especially good are Bonnie Bedelia, who is both absurd and likeable as Moses' ever-searching ex-wife, Susan Anspach as the alluring but assertive, Lila, and John Lithgow as the campaign's organization man who may or may not be trustworthy. With the help of photography by Frank Stanley that conveys a solid feeling of the rundown and elegant reaches of sprawling L.A., Kagan deliberately unreels a film that is at once strong in its projection of reality and stylish. And his sense of pacing makes "The Big Fix" absorbing from beginning to end. Kagan is not yet an elegant or really vivid director, but his touch with people and places, along with his narrative drive, mark him as a more than competent young filmmaker. And with Richard Dreyfuss as his star, he can't miss.

The only real regret that one might have about this film is that Dreyfuss is to eclectic and ambitious and anctor to repeat himself, and for once a sequel would be welcome. Rated PG, this Film is suitable for older children, although smaller ones are certain to be confused (even their parents might be). There is some dope-smoking on the part of our hero, but no heavy sexual encounters and little horrible gore. "The Big Fix" is playing at Showcase Cinemas, East Hartford. By MALCOLM L.

JOHNSON "The Big Fix" skillfully blends the most tangled detective story since "The Big Sleep" with a bitter yet affecting vision of the loss of hope and idealism over the last decade. It is also a very funny film, whose tortuous yet ultimately rational plot is enlivened by its witty, cynical yet still somehow optimistic view of life at the burnt-out end of the '70s. Much, of the humors in this contemporary counterpart to a Raymond Chandler mystery with political overtones comes from the script that Roger L. Simon adapted from his 1973 novel. But his screenplay is immeasurably enhanced by the self-deprecating and droll charm projected by Richard Dreyfuss in his playing of the mystery's central fig-are, the private eye Moses Wine.

Created to order by Simon for Rolling Stone's Straight Arrow books, Moses Wine is a onetime radical believer who now believes in nothing. His relationship with his ex-wife who is forever flying off into a new consciousness-raising fad consists of wrangling over his arrears in support payments and having Ms two children thrust suddenly upon him. The boys are more than a little skeptical about him, and why not? His professional life is nothing but a routine of divorce spying and counting turkeys in hopes of unravelling a hot industrial espionage case. Berkeley in the early '60s seems very long ago. Dreyfuss presents us with all this in a way that makes us believe in Moses Wine and sympathize with him, although we never pity him.

His bitterness is never sulky or whining; it is merely that times have changed for the worse and there is also the necessity of making a living even though his career choice inspires the beautiful ex-radical Lila Shea to comment "Moses Wine a private detective how tacky." muMr adds to ihr plrusurr of a -super Sunday limneli that includes a brimnrinp Blnody Man, and a Iwst uf regional am! traditional favorilvs. Dispelli in. Fm- parkiny. 728-5151. "A Guide for the Married Woman." Previewed Above Let's Make a Deal CD Congressional Outlook 9:30 ToTelltheTruth CD FourthEstate 10:00 News 0CD Flying High (3 Face the State Guests: Joelle Fishman (Communist Party 3rd Dist), Donny Mc-Donough (U.S.

Labor Party 1st Featuringthe heavenly music SHARON SOROKIN fr t-Vie him -n Richard Dreyfuss As Wine follows the convoluted plot of "The Big Fix," Dreyfuss also reveals his depth; a murder stirs his anger and his sense of commitment again, and he is moved to tears in watching old television clips from the old radical days at Berkeley. He is also undeterred by the intrusions into his pursuit of the case by both the CIA and some mobster's goons. Dreyfuss' neat and low-key balancing of the comic and more poignant aspects of Wine's personality provides an engaging center for "The Big Fix" even when it threatens to become too confusing to let us keep track of its plots and counterplots. To derail exactly what happens in the film would be impossible because of the complexity of the story line. But it can can be said that Wine becomes embroiled in a malevolent political conspiracy after he is hired to find an old '60s radical on the order of Abbie Hoffman or Jerry Rubin because the crazy old lefty is threatening to wreck the candidacy of a liberal California gubernatorial candidate by declaring his support for him.

A Japanese-American electronics expert, a Cesar Chavez-sort of farm labor organizer, an arrogant right-wing millionaire who is looking for his disinherited left-wing son, an-imprisoned husband-and-wife radical team (two of Dist), Francis uatcn ttunfimh Only 4.4 4 FinirStarHrtrt The Unknown War Sheraton-Hartford Hotel Untouchables Living Faith Economically Speaking To Be Announced 10:30 MacNeilLehrer Report Newark and Reality New York New York Turnabout CD Drugs 11:00 News 0 Evening 6:00 Sesame Street News Brady Bunch Joker's Wild Fish CD Bozo's Big Top MandoReal My Three Sons Bonanza Zoom 6:30 I Love Lucy 0 CBS News CD DatingGame NBC News SanfordandSon CD ABC News Jake Hess Gospel Time Over Easy Adaml2 The Course of Our Time 6:55 Newsbeat 7:00 CBS News NBC News ABC News Brady Bunch 0 Joker's Wild Candlepins for Cash Bowling for Dollars TicTacDough Odd Couple CD Newly wed Game Festival of Faith Soap Factory News DickCavett Over Easy 5 Odd Couple, 7:30 Watch Your Mouth Bonkers PJtf. Magazine Evening Magazine Please Stand By Carol Burnett and Friends 0 Newly wed Game Name that Tune FIFTIES FUN With The yC 8 SbaNaNa NewIywedGame SbaNaNa News CD Crosswits Porter Wagoner Name That Tune MacNeilLehrer Report Match Game PJVI. CbicoAndtbeMan TicTacDough 8-00 Washington Week in Review A C0WK5SHA1 Watch Congressional Outlook and get Should the Government place new controls on the distribution of new prescription drugs? GongShow 0 Love Experts Odd Couple SD Living Faith Dick Van Dyke Hogan's Heroes 63 DickCavett 11:30 Movie "The New Avengers: Faces," and "Stalk the Wild Child." Movie "It Started in Naples." Tonight Baretta 0 Movie 0 "The Lives of Jenny Dolan." mrv van Dvke Debbie Tonight at 9:00 p.m. on Channel 24 This series made possible by a grant from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Cities Service Company Show People Reynolds star in DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE 8 CD Raquel Mum About Romance Rumor CD CD Wonder Woman Movie "Divorce American Style." Take a Good Look Madhouse Brigade Voice of Faith Movie "Chinese Ring." Captioned ABC News 12:00 Movie "Conquest of Space." Juke Box 12:30 Soul Alive Juke Box 12:37 Movie "The Collector." 12:40 Movie "The Swinger." Bobby Vinton 1:00 News Midnight Special Previewed Above Movie "She Waits." 1:30 MacNeilLehrer Report Movie "I Am a Fugitive. Ironside Joe Franklin Good News no band in.

it: She doesn't cook at all. However, her hubby Roger Smith is a whiz in the kitchen. PUCA Gets U.S. Grant The state Public Utilities Control Authority has been awarded a $402,000 federal grant to conduct several studies. The grant, from the Department of Energy, will be used to study gas and electric price structures, electric distribution and implement utility-sponsored conservation programs.

"This valuable project is designed to conserve our precious energy resources and reduce consumer costs over the long term," Gov. Grasso said Tuesday in announcing the grant. Major League Baseball World Series om Donny and Marie Previewed Above Cross Wits Movie "Blacula." TicTacDough CD Joker's Wild 8:30 Wall Street Week WHICH TV PROGRAM WILL YOU MISS TONIGHT? 8:15 PM NBC WORLD SERIES GAME three OR 9 PM ABC Movie: "Guide For Married Woman" 11:30 PM Channel 3 Movie: "It Started la Naples" with Sophia Loren Clark Gable OR 11:30 PM Channel 8 Movie: "Divorce American Style" with Debbie Rehnolds Dick Van Dyke YOU CAN WATCH ALL OF THEM WITH THIS IMAGNAV0X1 VIDEO TAPE RECORDER 03 0 CD 0 CD Merv Griffin You Don't Say Liar's Club i lUMt.ThA vmriN In program imornwiion is prmriuww Its listings. It cannot be responsible tor station or mtwork changes made without notlllcatlon. This is the second year the PUCA has received such a grant Based on May 1978 U.S.

Government Report: By AARON GOLD Raquel Welch has no comment on reports that she and 23-year-old French songwriter Andre Weinfeld are in love and plan to marry But Mariln Henner will give you an earful about the current People Magazine that quotes her as describing her love life with John Travolta with "He's so eager to please." "I never even spoke to them," said the fiery redhead of TVs "Taxi" who is visiting key cities promoting the series as well as the new film "Bloodbrothers." "What really aggravates me," she continued, "is that People took those comments out of context from an interview I gave in LA. last February when I said that John was so wonderful to his friends, and so eager to please them. I mean, we have known each other for six years (they appeared in "Grease" during the national tour in 1973) and we're very special friends. If I get linked with someone else, I don't want John's fans accusing me of breaking his heart or being unfaithful. Actually, when you come right down to it, it's nobody's business!" Robert Wagner isn't "at all" upset about Natalie Wood doing the famous beach scene in "From Here to Eternity" in the nude for the TV mini-series co-starring William DeVane.

"It's a good scene, it's great for the story, and it would be self-conscious to do it any other way," Wagner insists. (Natalie did a nude scene in "Splendor In the Grass," but it only was seen in the European version.) Wagner left bis wife on location in Hawaii to jet to New York earlier this week to present the Cutty Stark Trophy to the winner of the Small Ships yachting race held annually in Central Park. "Girl Friends," a low-budget film that took director Claudia Weill and ctress Melanie Mayron 6 and a half weeks to shoot over a period of two years, is cleaning up at the box office across the country. And it should. It's a sensitive and honest look at friendship, beautifully directed by Weill and brilliantly acted by Mayron.

At times it was like watching "Candid Camera." Weill, who wanted to be "tough, sexy, and low-key" like Lauren Bacall when she was growing up, is hoping that audiences will "walk away from the film feeling good about their own life." It must work because that's the way it made me feel. Anne Meara is accustomed to getting raves for her solo comedy portrayals and routines with husband-partner Jerry Stiller. But she's "almost overcome with happiness" by the raves she's getting for her dramatic cameo as a bereaved Boston widow in "The Boys from Brazil." Ten different motion pictures on youth gangs are now in work by Hollywood producers, and there are more readying on the runway. In New York, "West Side Story," which was the first of them all, will be revived with a whole new look. This time with Hal Prince's right hand, Ruth Mitchell producing.

And don't be surprised if the movie version isn't given a whole new reissue. or perhaps even an update. David Bowie decided he didn't want to get in a hole, but Mick Jagger is most anxious to "The Black Hole," that is, the forthcoming mul-timillion dollar science fiction flick. glamorous Ann-Margret who will be completely "de-glamorized" (no make-up, etc.) for her role as a put-upon housewife in her next film, "Magic," attributes her svelte shape and energy to a well-balanced diet But cheerfully admits that she herself has Box or menthol: 14 Carlton have less tar than 1 Vantage. Uarlton Box.

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The vote count from the Sept 12 primary ended up even last week after District Judge Mike Fondi threw out several ballots which were challenged by supporters of Howard who trailed Bouvier in the first count. Bouvier says he may appeal Fondi's decision to the Nevada Supreme Court. Howard now faces Jack Christensen, the GOP nominee who was unopposed in the primary election. Carlton is lowest. NAMC0 HAS VIDEO TAPE RECORDERS FROM $488 i Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health.

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