Manitowoc Herald-Times from Manitowoc, Wisconsin • 30

TVT-6-Herald-Times-Reporter, Plaza jocks shun Derby By Adam Beckerman New York City horse and buggy hacks take their passengers on a one-anda-quarter mile loop that normally lasts 15 to 25 minutes. Tourists hop in at Grand Army Plaza, across the street from the Plaza Hotel, and are leisurely clipclopped about the southeastern tip of Central Park before being deposited off Fifth Avenue. The cost? $17. The horses doing the pulling are not the most promising 3-year-olds in America. But the carriage drivers won't stop work on the first Saturday in May to watch the one-and-onequarter mile horse race normally called "the most exciting two minutes in sports." The prize money? A guaranteed $250,000.

Paul Albert won't be tuning in. He wears black tie and tails to work. A few buttons are missing from his sleeves. He kicks a lamppost to scatter the pigeons who might dirty his maroon and black 100- year-old carriage. Rocky, a 12-year-old black horse, has pulled Paul's carriage for two years.

"If you knew much about. racing," says Paul, "you wouldn't watch either." Rocky was bought by Paul's boss at Chateau Stables, on 48th Street, when he offered the auctioner $20 more than the butcher. Other horses working around Central Park were bought in Pennsylvania. Stevie is a gray horse with white feet who used to pull a plough in New Holland. Mike Fels drives him.

Mike tugs his long red beard as he talks about his great uncle, a hack long before World War I. Mike's longest ride lasted almost five hours. "I drove this couple all over the park. It was spring. Night.

They had baskets of food. Pate. Crackers. Champagne. The whole 9 yards.

For five hours they discussed nothing but their impending divorce. Never opened the champagne. Gave it to me as a tip." A blond rider with crooked teeth fills a bucket of water underneath a statue of General Sherman on horseback. She is the only hack dressed in black hitop Converse all-stars. She's never been to the races in her life.

"Never even stepped inside an OTB office." Slurping his water, her brown horse lifts up his rear right foot, often a sign of a -extended ankle. "I ride six days a week," the blond hack says. "'Why would I want to go watch horses on my day off?" Manitowoc-Two Rivers, (Wis.) April 28, 1985 -Movie Week- SUNDAY (NBC) SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC) SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE "THE WINDS IN THE WILLOWS" This animated adaptation of the classic book by Kenneth Graham evolves around the spirited and adventurous pursuit of four intelligent animals who live in the wild, each with very humanized homes and lifestyles. (ABC) SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE "REDS" (1981) Part I. Starring Warren Beatty.

Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson and Maureen Stapleton. A drama about idealist journalist John Reed's involvement with communism, the Russian Revolution and a willful, free-thinking woman named Louise Bryant. MONDAY (ABC) MONDAY NIGHT MOVIE "REDS" (1981) Part II. Starring Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson and Maureen Stapleton. (NBC) MONDAY NIGHT MOVIE "ADAM" (1983) Starring Daniel J.

Travanti and JoBeth Williams. Travanti and Miss Williams star as the parents of a murdered sixyear-old boy, who, in his memory to help other anguished parents find their missing youngsters, lobby Congress for the Missing Children's Bill so the FBI's resources can be used to help locate them. TUESDAY (CBS) TUESDAY NIGHT MOVIE "LOVING COUPLES" (1980) Starring Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn, Susan Sarandon, Stephen Collins and Sally Kellerman. Two couples struggle with the issues of fidelity, trust and commitment, and gain new maturity in the process. Sports Calendar SUNDAY (CBS) NBA BASKETBALL DOUBLEHEADER (ABC) USFL FOOTBALL SATURDAY (NBC) BASEBALL San Diego Padres at Chicago Cubs or New York Mets at Cincinnati Reds.

(NBC) GOLF Coverage of third-round play of the Mony Tournament of Champions from La Costa Country Club in Carlsbad, Calif. (CBS) NCAA GYMNASTICS Men's competition will be broadcast from the Bob Devaney Sports Center at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, the women's competition from the Special Events Center at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. (CBS) NBA BASKETBALL PLAYOFF (ABC) WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC) THE KENTUCKY DERBY Live from Churchill Downs, Louisville, Ky. BRRR! The major -league baseball season opened with snow threatening two opening games and a third being interrupted twice by falling white stuff. Now it looks as though the big-league baseball players will close the season the same way looking askance at the sky, fearing snowflakes.

The professional baseball players have agreed to permit both leagues' playoff series to be stretched to a best-of-seven instead of the best-of-five series we have known since 1969. The reason is financial. The players agree that the owners need the two extra games to help pay the enormous salaries paid to even fringe players. The two games will mean something like another $80 million dollars in television money. With the new setup, there's a chance the World Series won't end until the very end of October.

The boys of summer will be the boys of Halloween. And if this year's World Series is played in any of the colder Northern cities Detroit, Toronto, Boston or New York the poor fans will be busier trying to keep warm than doing the wave. The National Football League's schedule will be half finished by the time the series is over. Maybe this is baseball's revenge for the United States Football League's spring football reaching into half of the baseball season. Now that the players, owners and the TV people don't ever forget the TV people have been satisfied with the longer playoff series, the fans are left with frostbite, just like professional football fans.

But professional football tans are supposed to freeze, it goes with the franchise! C) 1985 Compulog He's Richard Libertini The funny guy with the accent By Dick Kleiner HOLLYWOOD (NEA) You wonder, when you see Richard Libertini doing his wild and wonderful roles in films and on TV, if he is an Italian actor, or perhaps Russian, maybe even a Spaniard or an East Indian or a Malagasy. What he is, actually, is a Bostonian. It's just that he has this incredibly funny knack with an accent. He was the balmy swami in Steve Martin's "All of Me." Before that, he was the banana republic dictator in "The In-Laws," with Alan Arkin and Peter Falk. And many more of the same.

Maybe too many more, and too much the same. Like any actor who does something brilliantly, Richard Libertini runs the risk of being typecast. And he recognizes that it is a serious risk. He wants to do a greater variety of roles, he says. Not just zany, crazy foreigners.

And not even just funny parts. To that end, Libertini recently played the role of Tigranes in "The Fourth Wise Man," which aired on ABC in March. It was a character part, but there wasn't anything funny about it. And, in Chevy Chase's new film "Fletch," he plays a newspaper editor. The role has some funny aspects but no accent, so he's again breaking out of his rather rich rut.

After that, Libertini will do another film with Arkin and Falk. He doesn't know much about that part yet. But he knows that with Arkin and Falk involved, it isn't going to be heavy drama and it should be a winner. Libertini's faculty for comedy and for accents is just something that comes naturally. The Boston-born actor, after graduating from Emerson College, went to New York.

had seen it 20 years ago in New York, and he loved it." Ritchie directed "Fletch" and seeing Libertini again may have been one reason he was cast in that film. Stewed Prunes played all over; but when their travels took them to Chicago, the act broke up. Libertini had been asked to join the famous Second City company. Alan Arkin was in Second City at the time. So was Melinda Dillon.

"Melinda and I got married," Libertini says. "We were married for 13 years. We're divorced now. Our son, Richard, is a serious musician, and he's right now studying the bass at a music school in New York." Eventually, like so many actors, Libertini moved to California, which is where the work is. But it's not where the heart is, at least not in Libertini's case.

"I keep waiting for the time when I will get to like California," he says. "I came here to work and I've been working, which is fine. But I really prefer Eastern living. Maybe if I got to be a bigger name, I could live in Connecticut and just come out here to do a With that goal in mind, Libertini is now willing (and certainly able) to do a TV series, if the right one comes along. Even one that asked him to use one of his mad accents.

(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) HOLLY WOOD Dick Kleiner Richard Libertini "I met an actor there named McIntyre Dixon," he says. "And he and I began working together. We had an act we called Stewed Prunes." It was reasonably successful. So successful, in fact, that many people still remember it, 20 years after it flourished. Whenever Dixon, who is still acting in New York, comes to California, he and Libertini do the old act for friends.

"We did it at the Improv here not long ago," Libertini says, referring to a popular comedy nightclub. "and Michael Ritchie came in. He said he There's money hidden in your home! you're lite most ng in the them into cash feet a CALL 684-4433 -703-1317.