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D4 Daily Record, Morris County, Tuesday, March 21, 2000 Entertainment Hollywood fashion designer goes retail KEVIN MCDONOUGH Julie Andrews to be in 'On Golden Pond' I I i i I m. i.i in -J I i. umu-ui IB '1 L' i Hi wrm-ifffni -if ttt i Jim Cooper associated press Fashion designer Debra McGuire, standing among some of her creations In New York City, does the costumes for shows such as somewhat. "I have the final say and approval on every single thing, but I let them bring to the plate a lot of who they are." Does she have a favorite TV character or celebrity she likes to dress? "I like all the characters. I love Tyne Daly's character in 'Judging I love my 'Freaks and It's period, it's 1980 high school, and I'm mad for all those kids; they kiss me every day on the set.

So that's cool." Close to home Her Pacific Palisades shop, Debra McGuire Couture, is located just down the street from her home, where she lives with her husband and children, Gavin, 11, and Lily, 5. Besides her one-of-a-kind designs, her Swarthmore Avenue shop carries her 162-piece retail collection, which she pulled together during last summer's two-month network hiatus. The collection is filled with colorful separates including sari skirts with border or fringe, a furry eyelash tank with matching eyelash shawl and a hot-pink faux fur jacket. Prices range from $150 to $1,500. "I'm very motivated by fabric.

Fabric, texture, color. I love vintage stuff," McGuire said. "So occasionally, I'll pull something out and do a piece, a dress, a skirt, and I can do that in my shop, it's great." What inspires McGuire in her many artistic pursuits? "My inspiration comes from life. It doesn't come from fashion. It comes from the art world, from my spiritual practice, from my children.

I have a tremendous amount of energy, I don't know where it comes from, but God has given me an incredible gift and I feel like I need to give back. So this is the way that I do it, and I will probably continue to explore new things and new mediums until I die." 'My inspiration comes from life. It doesn't come from Fashion designer Debra McGuire By Carol deegan Associated Press NEW YORK Debra McGuire sits in the tearoom at the Henri Bendel store on Fifth Avenue and ticks off the names of a handful of TV shows. "Friends," "Jesse," "Freaks and Geeks," "Judging Amy, "Jack Jill." She is the costume designer for all of them. But that's just the beginning: She has a shop in Pacific Palisades, where she began selling her one-of-a-kind women's wear designs in 1995.

Her new line of retail clothing was recently launched at Ben-del's, an event that was marked by a window installation that McGuire created especially for the store. "I've had a very organic career. It all revolved around people I loved, people who loved me, and it had like a really wonderful progression," said McGuire, dressed in one of her designs. From jewelry to clothing Her life reads like a made-for-TV movie. It is the story of a talented artist who moved from the world of fine art to jewelry design, then on to costume design and her own line of "I was a painter, I was a fine artist.

And I had a gallery in San Francisco that was doing a group show of their artists and they wanted us to work in materials in a medium that we'd never worked in before," the 47-year-old McGuire said. "So I decided to do Plexiglas and painted necklaces. And the then-president of I. Magnin saw the pieces at the gallery and said, 'Why don't you do some pieces for and that was kind of the beginning of my jewelry career and it just kind of went from there." Did she mention the necklace she designed for pop singer Barbra Streisand? Parsippany Nicole Papas "Barbra's piece I did in graduate school in 1978, and it was when the King Tut exhibit was here, and when I asked her what she wanted, she said 'like Queen So that was my motivation for that piece, and it was cloisonne enamel in silver, and I kind of designed it to match her deco house. I took the design off of her etched fireplace and used wallpaper patterns and kind of went from there.

That was pretty spectacular." After 10 years as a successful jewelry designer based in New York City, McGuire moved to Los Angeles, where she began working in film and television, landing a job on comic in 'Gilda's Club TUNE IN TONIGHT 'Homicide' team presents 'The Beat' Style often overwhelms substance on "The Beat" (9 p.m., UPN, TV-14), the new cop drama from Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson, the award-winning team behind "Homicide" and "Oz." "The Beat" follows the daily routine of NYPD officers Zane Marinelli (Mark Ruffalo) and Mike Dorigan (Derek Cecil). They're cute and quirky in a contemporary way. Together they look like two-fifths of a boy band. Call them the Beat Street Boys. The show opens at Mike's uncle's bar, as Mike announces his engagement to his doctor girlfriend, Liz (Poppy Montgomery).

Not to be outdone, Zane announces that he's getting serious with his new girlfriend, Beatrice (Heather Burns). When Mike and Liz tell him that they think Beatrice has major problems, Zane assures him that she's on some new medication. This is the second new show in two straight nights (counting yesterday's "Titus" debut) to turn serious mental illness into a punch line. This is not an encouraging trend. Unlike "Homicide and "Oz," which relied on strong ensemble casts, the emphasis in "The Beat is very much on the two officers as they make their way through the mean, if stylized, streets of Manhattan.

Director Barry Levinson uses every cinematic trick in the book in this first episode, changing film and video stock and camera angles at an eye-straining pace. After a while you can't help but feel he is trying to distract you from the drama's superficial plot. An ancillary story about a black suspect dying in a holding cell seems almost thrown away as we follow Mike and Zane to an underwear models' studio. But just as you begin to fear that "The Beat" will sink into MTV fluff, it manages to surprise you with some luminous and striking images. A flashback to Zane's childhood trauma of witnessing his father kill his mother may remind some viewers of Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil." The murder of Zane's mom sets the tone for the show's brutal view of male-female relationships.

Mike can't deal with the nagging of his fiance. Beatrice becomes the least subtle screen psycho since "Carrie." A loner spends his days looking at models in lingerie; a teenage girl hangs herself after mean teen boys tease and taunt her. For all of its surface sheen, this first episode of "The Beat" has a creepy, deeply disturbing undercurrent of misogyny. You can't help feeling that maybe Tom Fontana has spent a little too much time in the maximum security world of "Oz." Tonight's highlights The race to restore Hollywood's classic costumes is explored in the documentary "Faded Sequins, Tattered Dreams" (8 p.m., AMC). The voices of Calista Flock-hart and Tom Arnold are featured in the animated update of the Rip Van Winkle story "Happily Ever After" (8 p.m., HBO, TV-Y).

Scheduled on "60 Minutes IT (9 p.m., CBS): the slaughter of endangered wolves. On the documentary "Investigative Reports: Every Parent's Nightmare" (9 p.m., the crisis in daycare. A boy's stepfather and biological father fight for custody on "Judging Amy" (10 p.m., CBS, TV-PG). Scheduled on "Dateline" (10 p.m., NBC): conjoined twins. Irvin's intuition proves valuable investigating a homicide on "NYPD Blue" (10 p.m., ABC, TV-14).

Everything you ever wanted to know about Mayberry is in the documentary "Inside TV Land: The Andy Griffith Show" (10 p.m., TV Land). Cult choice A drifter handyman (Sidney Poitier) helps an order of German nuns build a chapel in the desert in the low-budget 1963 black-and-white drama "Lilies of the Field" (8 p.m., Turner Classic Movies). An Oscar for Best Actor for Poitier. KEVIN MCDONOUGH is a syndicated TV columnist. He can be reached in care of the Daily Record.

800 Jefferson Road, Parsippan NJ. 07054. By Peter Johnson Gannett News Service CBS President Leslie Moonves stood before several hundred advertisers last week and wheeled out a whole bunch of development projects that he said are "terrific." For starters, Julie Andrews will star in a live broadcast of "On Golden Pond," the Broad- Inside Television way love story made famous by Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn in the 1981 movie. Andrews co-starred last year with James Garner in the CBS movie "One Special Night." This is the second big live broadcast CBS will do in 2000, the first being the April 9 broadcast of "Fail-Safe," starring George Clooney. Edward James Olmos will make his TV series debut in "American Family," playing a Los Angeles family patriarch.

In his remarks, Moonves touted the eight-night run of "Falcone," a mob drama that begins April 4. "I love (HBO's) 'The Sopranos," he said. "This show is right up there with that. (Incidentally, "Sopranos creator David Chase has agreed to sign on for a fourth season of the hit drama, which is in only its second season.) Other CBS projects in development include comedies starring Tony Danza as a private investigator; Ellen DeGeneres playing a variety show host; comedian Rocky Laporte as a blue-collar dad trying to make ends meet; and Jim Gaffigan as a weatherman from Indiana who does stand-up in New York. (Calling David Letterman?) Among dramas being considered, writer Lynda LaPlante has a project in the works starring Kelly McGillis as a cop whose life hits rock bottom and the friends who bring her back; William Petersen Live and Die in L.A.") and Marg Helgenberger star in a show about Las Vegas homicide investigators; and Timothy Daly is in a remake of the '60s series "The Fugitive." Mary Stuart Masterson Green and Rhea Perlman star in a family drama from Danny De-Vito; and "Law Order" producer Rene Balcer has a series called "Hopewell" about a lawyer who leaves New York for the heartland and rural law work.

Tuesday, March 21 2000 MADISON CLEARVIEW'S MADISON CINEMA 4 Boiler Room (R) 7:45 The Cider House Rules (PG-13) 7:40 Enn Brockovich (R) 7:30 Mission to Mars (PG) 8 00 MONTCLAIR CLEARVIEW'S CLAIRIDGE CINEMA American Beauty (R) 5.20 7:40 The Cider House Rules (PG-13) 5:10 7:50 Drowning Mona (PG-13) 7:30 Judy Berlin (NR) 5:30 7:45 Kadosh (NR) 5:00 7:20 Topsy-Turvy (R) 6 00 6 05 NEWTON TWIN THEATRE Mission to Mars (PG) 7:15 Snow Day (PG) 7:30 MONTCLAIR CLEARVIEW'S SCREENING ZONE Not One Less The Sixth Sense (PG-13) 8 20 MORRISTOWN CLEARVIEW'S HEADQUARTERS 10 American Beauty 6:10 8:50 Drowning Mona (PG-13) 2:50 4:50 7:30 9:40 Erin Brockovich (R) 3:10 6:20 9:10 Final Destination (R) 3 00 5:20 7:50 10:00 Mission lo Mars (PG) 2:40 4:20 5:30 7:00 8:00 9 30 My Dog Skip (PG) 2:00 4:00 6 00 The Next Best Thing (PG-13) 6:50 9:20 The Ninth Gale (R) 2:20 5:50 8:40 The Whole Nine Yards (R) 8:30 Wonder Boys (R) 3:20 6 30 9 00 PARSIPPANY CLEARVIEW'S CINEMA 12 American Beauty (R) 6 00 8 30 The Cider House Rules (PG-13) 6:20 8:50 Erin Brockovich (R) 5:15 6 30 8 00 9:30 Final Destination (R) 5 25 7:35 9:45 Mission to Mars (PG) 5.00 6:30 7:45 9:15 My Dog Skip (PG) 6:00 The Next Best Thing (PG-13) 7:10 9:20 The Ninth Gate (R) 5 30 8:30 Reindeer Games (R) 8:00 The Tigger Movie (G) 5:00 The Whole Nine Yards (R) 7:00 9 05 Wonder 7 30 9 45 ROCKAWAY OUTER THEATRES Erin Brockovich (R) 5.30 8:20 Final Destination (R) 5:50 8:10 Mission to Mars (PG) 5:40 8:00 The Ninth Gate (R) 5 45 8:30 Snow Day (PG) 6 00 8 00 The Whole Nine Yards (R) 610 8:15 SPARTA The Cider House Rules (PG-13) 7:30 Enn Brockovich (R) 7:15 SUCCASUNN A CLEARVIEW'S CINEMA 10 American Beauty (R) 5 30 7:40 Drowning Mona (PG-13) 7:25 9:35 Erm Brockovich (R) 5 05 7:45 Final Destination (R)- 5 15 7:30 945 Mission to Mars (PG) 5 00 6 30 7:45 9:15 My Dog Skip (PG) 5:30 7:30 The Ninth Gate (R) 5.30 8:15 Snow Day (PG) 6:10 The Whole Nine Yards (R) 7:50 Wonder Boys (R) 5 10 7 20 9 30 SUMMIT CLEARVIEW'S BEACON HILL Amencan Beauty (fi)-5 05 7 45 The Cider House Rules (PG-13) 5:00 7:40 Mission to Mars (PG) 5 00 7:30 My Dog Skip (PG) 5 10 The Next Best Thing (PG-13) 5.05 7:25 Topsy-Turvy (R) -7 15 WASHINGTON THEATRE Final Destination (R) 7:00 9:10 Mission to Mars (PG) 7:00 9:10 My Dog Skip IPG) -7 15 The Next Best Thing (PG-13) 7 10 9 20 The Whole Nine Yards (R) 9 20 Roberts scores big as 'Erin By Debra scacciaferro Daily Record Parsippany comic Nicole Papas will ply her quirky wit and comic impressions at the "Gilda's Club Laugh Off" to help kick off the grand opening of a brand new complex for the Gilda's Club of Northern New Jersey cancer support center tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. It's the first of four Laugh Off evenings, free to the public, which continue March 29 and April 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the club at 575 Main Hackensack. Finalist from each evening will appear at the Gilda's Club grand opening party April 13 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

While admission is free, reservations are suggested. Papas (her real name is Nikki Protopapas) started her career at age 18 on her summer vacations in Weekend Box ice iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim 10. "The Tigger Movie," Disney, $1.77 million, 1,701 locations, $1,042 average, $41.6 million, six weeks. 11. "Drowning Mona," Destination, $1.73 million, 1,704 locations, $1,014 average, $13.6 million, three weeks.

12. "The Next Best Thing," Paramount, $1.65 million, 2,035 locations, $812 average, $13.4 million, three weeks. 13. "Fantasia 2000," Disney, $1.55 million, 54 locations, $28,760 average, $33.7 million, 12 weeks. 2 Off the NBC sitcom "Friends." "I found with 'Friends' the first two years, the writers used to write scripts that had seven to 10 changes (per character) a script.

OK? You figure that's 63 costumes at a minimum per show, per week, that's without guest stars. So we were doing 70 to 75 costumes a week, and I designed and made most of them, men's and women's. And so I was a complete control freak, I mean, I wouldn't let them wear a sock unless I approved it. Nothing," she said. Now McGuire oversees the wardrobes of five network TV shows and has 35 people who report to her.

And she's loosened up Greece. She broke into the New York and New Jersey comedy club scene in 1997, appearing at such clubs as Gotham, Stand-Up New York, Carolines and Catch a Rising Star. She's writing a comic screenplay and has been a warm-up comic for several television shows. The Gilda's Club of Northern New Jersey is one of a growing national network of cancer support centers that operate in the belief that "laughter is the best medicine." It's not a medical program, but a special gathering place for cancer patients, their families and friends that offers social and emotional support as an essential supplement to medical care. It's open to North Jersey residents.

The club, a complex, which began limited operations in November, features rooms Brockovich' 14. "Pitch Black," USA Films, $1.45 million, 1,384 locations, $1,045 average, $36.5 million, five weeks. 15. "Reindeer Games," Miramax, $1.30 million, 1,701 locations, $766 average, $21.8 million, four weeks. 16.

"The Sixth Sense," Disney, $1.28 million, 878 locations, $1,459 average, $288.5 million, 33 weeks. 17. "Wonder Boys," Paramount, $1.19 million, 1,458 locations, $814 average, $16.9 million, four weeks. 18. "3 Strikes," MGMUA, $989,630, 678 locations, $1,460 average, $8.7 million, three weeks.

19. "Beyond the Mat," Lions Gate, $966,016, 298 locations, $3,242 average, $1 million, one week. 20. "Scream 3," MiramaxDimension, $894,540, 1,316 locations, $680 average, $85.9 million, seven weeks. I WARREN 1 SOMERSET) C'NMA CLFJAWW CINEMAS CBftMNVIUf 12-ftIX 11 QMANSFIfLO 777 -tllM 0S44 FCl C'NFMAS PWlllPSUUttG 454-MOO GFFIA( CWFMA EElTGFS PUOA iOVt "SET 7 TWP.

NO CJfUnFMFT v7DD www.romeomustdie.net Awards' arch 26 Laugh Off for support and networking groups, art and exercise, a kitchen and "Noogieland," an interactive play area for children. The center is named for the late Gilda Radner, comedienne and cast member of the original "Saturday Night Live, who died of cancer in 1989. She and her husband, actor Gene Wilder, wrote about their experiences in facing and dealing with cancer. "Cancer is the most unfunny thing in the world," Radner once said. "Yet that didn't stop me from finding humor in what I was going through." "Gilda's Club helps people with cancer renew their interest in life," Wilder said.

"It helps them take the reigns of the horse they're riding called For more information, call the center at (201) 457-1670. Movie Time Clock for BERKELEY CINEMA Mission to Mars (PG) 7.30 BERNARDSVILLE CLEARVIEW'S BERNARDSVILLE CINEMA 3 The Cider House Rules (PG-13) 7:20 Erin Brockovich (R) 7:00 Mission lo Mars (PG) 710 BOONTON DARESS THEATRE Call theater lor schedule. BOUND BROOK Closed for renovations. BRIDGEWATER Drowning Mona (PG-13) 2:10 4:20 6:50 900 Erin Brockovich (R) noon 1:40 3:00 4:20 6:00 7:00 8:45 9:45 Mission to Mars noon 1:25 2:25 3:50 4 50 6:30 7:30 8:55 9:55 The Next Best Thing (PG-13) 1:15 3:40 6:20 8:40 The Whole Nine Yards (R) 11 :50 2:20 4:40 7:15 9 40 CHATHAM CHATHAM CINEMA American Beauty (R) 5:10 7:30 CHESTER CLEARVIEW'S CHESTER CINEMA 6 American Beauty (R) 7:20 Drowning Mona (PG-13) 7:10 Final Desnnalion (R) 7:50 Mission to Mars (PG) 7:30 My Dog Skip (PG) 7:00 The Ninth Gate (P.) 7 40 EAST HANOVER LOEWS THEATRES The Cider Mouse Rules (PG-13) 1:45 4:45 7:45 10:25 Drowning Mona (PG-13) 3:20 5:40 8:20 10:50 Erin Brockovich (R) 2:30 4:30 5:30 7:30 8 30 10 30 Final Destination (R) 1:10 3 30 5:45 8:10 10 40 Mission to Mars (PG) 2:40 4:15 5:15 7:00 8 00 9 30 10:35 My Dog Skip (PG) 1:25 345 6:00 The Next Best Thing (PG-13) 3:50 6:20 9:00 The Ninth Gate (R) 1:20 4:20 7:20 10:20 Reindeer Games (R) 8:15 10:45 The Whole Nine Yards (R) 1 :05 3:25 6:15 9:45 Wonder Boys (R)- 1 35 4 10 6 45 9 20 CLEARVIEW'S KINNELON 11 American Beauty (R) 5 30 6 00 Beyond the Mat (R) 5 30 7:40 10 00 The Cider House Rules (PG-13) -5 00 7:30 10:00 Drowning Mona (PG-13) 5 30 7:35 The End of the Affair (R) 8:15 7:45 Final Destination (R) 5 00 7:15 9 30 Mission to Mars (PG) 5:05 7:30 9 50 My Dog Skip (PGJ 6 00 The Ninth Gate (R) 5:30 8 30 The Tigqer Movie (G) 5 00 The Whole Nine Yards (Rl 7:25 9:50 Wonder Boys (R) 5:20 7:50 HACKETTSTOWN CLEARVIEW'S MANSFIELD IS American Beauty (R) 5 10 7 35 Beyond the Mat (R)- 4:15 7:25 The Cider House Rules (PG-13) 4:45 7:30 Drowning Mona (PG-13) 5 30 7:40 Enn Brockovich (R) 4 00 7:00 Final Destination (R) 5 00 7:45 Hanging Up (PG-13) -8 00 Mission to Mars (PG) 4 20 7:15 My Dog Skip (PG-6 00 The Next Best Thing (PG-13) 4:20 7:05 The Ninth Gate IR) 4 30 7.30 Reindeer Games (R) 5 00 7.40 Scream 3 (SI 7 50 Snow Day (PG) 6 00 The Whole Nine Yards (R) 4 40 7:10 Wonder Boys IR) 5 7 50 HACKETTSTOWN MALL TWIN Any Given Sunday (R 7 00 The Snh Sese (PG-13) 7 30 LIVINGSTON CLEARVIEW'S COLONY Amencan Beauty (R) 7 45 The doer House Rules (PG-13) 7:25 Enn Brockovich (R) 7.30 By Tom harrigan Associated Press LOS ANGELES Julia Roberts swept into theaters as tough-talking "Erin Brockovich" and captured a superstar share of weekend film receipts: $28.1 million. "Erin Brockovich" had the second-highest March opening ever just behind the $31.4 million of Jim Carrey's "Liar, Liar" in 1997.

It was also the second-best Roberts' film debut behind last July's $30 million for "Runaway Bride." Here are the top 20 movies at North American theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled by Exhibitor Relations Co. 1. "Erin Brockovich Universal, $28 1 million, 2,848 locations, $9,880 average, $28.1 million, one week. 2. "Mission to Mars," Disney, $11.4 million, 3,060 locations, $3,721 average, $40.6 million, two weeks.

3. "Final Destination," New Line, $10 million, 2,587 locations, $3,872 average, $10 million, one week. 4. "My Dog Skip," Warner $5.3 million, 2,331 locations, $2,260 average, $21.6 million, 10 weeks. 5.

"The Ninth Gate," Artisan, $3.5 million, 1,657 locations, $2,131 average, $12.5 million, two weeks. 6. "The Whole Nine Yards," Warner $3.3 million, 2,503 locations, $1,308 average, $51.1 million, five weeks. 7. "American Beauty," DreamWorks, $3.2 million, 1.661 locations, $1,902 average, $103 million, 27 weeks.

8. "The Cider House Rules," Miramax, $2.5 million, 1,738 locations, $1,425 average, $45.8 million, 15 weeks. 9. "Snow Day," Paramount, $2.2 million, 2,387 locations, $924 average, $56.4 million, six weeks. Things to do MADISON John Pizzarelli Trio, guitarist and vocalist, performs today and tomorrow at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.

at the Shanghai Jazz Restaurant Bar, 24 Main St. Call (973) 822-2899. MILLBURN Air Supply performs today at 8 p.m. at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Brook-side Drive. Cal(973) 376-4343.

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