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J.D. and Kiel Both Cleaned Up Their Acts Kiel Martin: "There's I I I tn-in '''-J-'- lift iwm 1 1 an iiln Wri li irifr JJ tri libidinous. I've gotten to cry, to laugh, to hate." Thcre've been joys and sorrows outside of the "Hill Street" story line, too. On the steadily joyful side, he says with his quick smile, "I am already a statistical amazement. I'm a working actor." BUT AT THE beginning of this season the pleasure of the job was tinged with sorrow when Bochco was fired.

"Transition, adjustment and acceptance," Martin says, who is given to such phrases. "Bochco, a man I love ith all my heart, a dear friend, and extremely talented but show business is a business; life goes on. On the last day he was there, when I was pretty weepy. Steven said, 'My friend, you and I haven't seen the last of each other by any Life on the "Hill" set did go on, of course although, Martin acknowledges, not ithout some fear and jockeying to secure personal territory. But quick as he is to praise Bochco, he is equally quick to credit the new faces with continued efforts to maintain quality.

"When something doesn't work, we reshoot it. Not much television does that. If a show is crafted to a lesser degree than the producers find acceptable, they shut down for a few days. Considering the constant pres fishing as Martin can work in. He spends time traveling for charities, and he's moving his residence from Hollywood to the desert.

There's a woman with whom he spends time, whose name he prefers not to mention they wouldn't know his favorite companion is his dog Yoda (an Akita); and his 16-year-old daughter, Jesse, lives in Reno with her mother (the first of Martin's two wives), To say nothing of his vineyard, Mt. Jackson Cellars. this down," he says, pointing at the notebook. "Our first vintage is now available at the Wine Merchant in Beverly He anticipates the next question, the irony of a recovering alcoholic in the wine business. "THERE'S NO harm in alcohol in and of itself.

Good wine is good; biblically, it's a blessing. The only difference is that alcohol in the body of an atcoholic. such as me, causes problems. I'm allergic to alcohol; I can't drink it. Other people can.

God bless 'em." A near twinkle appears in his eyes and he laughs. "I will say my initial investment in this venture was while I was still drinking." And what's next, when "Hill Street" comes to an end? It's a question Martin doesn't care to address. He prefers to deal with the present, he says. "I have what I need. I find the quality of calm and serenity occasionally enters my life.

I'm enjoying. I don't know what I'm going to be." Whatever it is, Kiel Martin will take it one sober day at a time. ytn fry no harm in alcohol in and of itself. Good wine is good; biblically, it's a blessing. The only difference is that alcohol in the body of an alcoholic, such as me, causes problems.

I'm allergic to alcohol; I cant drink it. Other people can. God bless em. he arrests as a human being can possibly be." Martin isn't complaining. His raunchy cop character, he says, has given him a chance to do many different things as an actor: "I've gotten to be a tank commander.

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So do what you'd love to do. Eat out at the Village this week! Call 949-4321 for information HILTON' HAWAIIAN VILLAGE By Pat Hilton Tribune Media Services matter how good my life looked on the outside, on the inside I lived in hell," says sober "Hill Street Blues" actor Kiel Martin. "Today 1 no longer live in hell; my life is good." His smile disappears as quickly as it appears. "1 always wanted to be a happy man; today I am." Tne actor stopped drinking three years ago. J.D.

LaRue, his "Hill Street" counterpart, stopped earlier. "J.D. GOT SOBER at the end of the first season." Martin, snappy and casual with a wiry energy and youthful look that belies his 41 years, has good reason to remember on-air reformation. "Those four episodes were written as a message of love to me." he says. "Steven Bochco (' Hill Street" creator) loved me and cared for me.

It was a message I failed to heed." Martin, who was a Peck's bad boy from his earliest days and found acting a constructive outlet for his rebellious energies, says, "I have no amusing anecdotes about alcoholism. Alcoholism is not amusing. People die of it. 1 Page" 18, TV Week, March 301388 hrr 1 1 i 3 .4 I I 1 rn 1, i "A few of us are fortunate to be freed of that obsession. I'm one of those few." MARTIN LAUGHS aloud when he says that stopping drinking is the only way J.D.

has cleaned up his act. "He's just as crooked and sleazy as ever, J.D. is as much like those rJ m11 'I tn I VI sure of television, this show has been delightful in its compromise." He cocks his head. "The pressure side has been right up there with the rest of them." He says, grinning. "I wouldn't want to work this hard for a bad show." NON-PKESSURED life off the "Hill" includes as much golf and Man Wrongly Rape Subject ELIZABETHTON, Tenn.

(AP) A television movie will recreate the wrongful conviction of an East Tennessee postman who served five years of 60-year sentence for rape before another man confessed to the crime, the movie's co-producer said. The two-hour movie will chronicle the saga of Douglas Forbes of Elizabethton, who was stabbed in the neck while serv ing his prison term, said Harriet Brown of Larry Thompson Organization, a Hollywood, production company. The movie, to be broadcast May 12 by ABC-TV, wUl be told from the perspective of Forbes' wife, Martha, to be portrayed by actress Lindsay Wagner, Brown said. "I felt she (Mrs. Forbes) was a -heroic, saintly character," Brown said.

"His story is tragic enough, but she really stood oy him." FILMING, which began last week, primarily will be In California, but Brown said some outside scenes will be shot In East Tennessee. Convicted of of TV Movie "The only way to portray Tennessee is to be in Tennessee," she said. "We'll probably come out for a few days to get some exterior scenes. I wanted to shoot it all in Elizabethton, but ABC didn't give us much production time." Brown said she decided to visit Elizabethton and develop the story after she saw a CBS News feature on Forbes by Charles Kuralt. Forbes, 43, was charged with several rapes in Washington and Carter counties in the mid-1970s, said Lt.

Tom Harrald of the Carter County Sheriff's Department. He was tried and convicted of two rapes and sentenced to 60 years in prison. After Forbes served five years, David J. Williams confessed to the rapes, said Harrald. An Investigation by the county's attorney general determined Forbes was innocent, and the state Board of Pardons and Paroles in 1980 recommended that he be freed.

THROUGHOUT the ordeal, Forbes' family protested his imprisonment and championed his innocence..