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Thursday, Febreary 28, 198S Newi Joaraal, Maaafleld, O. Focus: weekend s-c Wheel Channel 5 fortunes (rfrfl CLEVELAND There hasn't been They tried to get Cleveland's own 1 Bill -a- Barrett hand, looked better before she got the haircut. So do I. Rose, who has had a hand in restructuring "P.M. Magazine" nationally for Group (Westinghouse) spends much of his time in Pittsburgh these days, fine-tuning an afternoon talk show, "Pittsburgh Today," on the Westinghouse station there.

such an effective parlay of two non-; network TV programs in years and years if ever "Wheel of Fortune" at 7 and "Jeopardy" at 7:30 week nights on Channel S. On the list of the Cleveland area's Top 25 shows in January, the ARB I ratings service places "Wheel" in a tie with "Night Court" for the No. 8 I spot right behind "Dynasty" (No. I 6) and "Dallas" (No. 7).

And the companion of "Wheel" I (they're both owned by Merv Griffin), "Jeopardy," is No. 11, tied with "Fal-; con Crest," "Hotel," "The A Team" 1 and "2020." That's heavy company. So solidly set is this tandem in i Cleveland's early evening that one wag questions the judgment of NBC-i owned Channel which is thinking of scheduling Tom Brokaw and the net-1 work news at 7. Tim Conway and his frequent comedy side-kick, Harvey Korman, but the agents of the pair say the lads are working that night. Conway and Korman haven't had many paydays lately- Channel 5 has landed Sophia Loren for exclusive appearances on the station's "Morning Exchange" and "Live on 5." As charming and witty as she is lovely, Ms.

Loren will be pitching her new book and a resort community in Florida. Sure, it's a commercial gig, but she'll take telephone calls on the air. TV consultant Joel Rose, who is also the programmer and talk-show host at WJW Radio, thinks Connie Schopmeyer, Channel 3's new news "That makes no sense at all," she argued. "Brokaw can't even beat Peter Jennings at 6:30. At 7, Vana White will murder him!" (Vana is the hostess, chief smiler and wearer of gorgeous gowns on The ARB list, by the way, shows Channel with 14 of the Top 25 shows, although its network, ABC, is last in the national Nielsen numbers.

The committee arranging the local Emmy awards ceremony at Cleveland's Playhouse in June is still looking for a big-name national star or two to give the event extra pizzaz. ITake 'Mrs. Soffel' with tea and cookies One of the more intriguing projects under way at NBC is production of the made-for-TV film, "Peyton Place: The Next Generation" with nine of the cast members from the original series picking up where they left off when the series ended in 1969. Air date has not yet been set. TV's first prime-time soap opera, "Peyton Place" aired twice a week and then three times a week before it was canceled by ABC.

Two of its stars, Mia Farrow and Ryan O'Neal, got a big career boost from the show. Mia and Ryan won't be back, but here are the stars with their roles in parentheses who will: Dorothy Malone (Constance MacK-enzie), Barbara Parkins (Betty Cord Harrington), Tim O'Connor (Elliot Carson), Ed Nelson (Michael Rossi), Pat Morrow (Rita Jacks Harrington), Evelyn Scott (Ada Jacks), Ruth Warrick (Hannah Cord), James Douglas (Steven Cord) and Chris Connelly (Norman Harrington). "Peyton Place: The Next Generation" will deal with the fate of Allison MacKenzie and the surprise appearance of her daughter, Megan. The show will feature flashbacks of the original series. TV columnist Bill Barrett writes for the Horvitz chain of newspapers.

By Sandra Earley Knight-Ridder Newspapers Movie review industrialized and smoky Pittsburgh, not the final chase scene. In front of Russell Boyd's camera, the Allegheny County Jail and its seven-story atrium turn into a fairy-tale palace or a medieval cathedral. The chase scene, conducted in horse-drawn sleighs, often looks like a Christmas card come to life. And so time spent with "Mrs. Soffel" passes pleasantly enough, if slowly before the jail break.

It is a movie to take with tea and cookies. "Mrs. Soffel" is rated PG-13. It contains adult situations and violence. Now showing at Mansfield Square Cinemette Theatre.

News Journal Classified Ads Get Results Diane Keaton: The pleasant-to-watch, fluttering and pure-hearted female of "Reds" and "Annie Hall," whose stated motivations never seem quite believable. It is that "Mrs. Soffel," a true story, is romanticized to just this side of gooiness to create the perfect setting for Keaton. The movie is so beautiful that all evil seems purged from it. Nothing is ominous here not the prison, not gldp icons rawi uiinijignaaeL.

It is the kind of love story that belongs amid the high-necked sion of the Victorian era and with Diane Keaton in the title role. The year is 1901, the city Pittsburgh, and two handsome brothers, perhaps wrongly accused, are sentenced to hang for murder. Their plight has captured the imagination of the city's shop girls and factory workers who keep a daily vigil outside the grim fortress-prison where the brothers Ed and Jack Biddle are held. Inside the prison and its staff apartments is another impressionable female: the warden's wife and the title character of the film, "Mrs. Soffel." Mrs.

Soffel, played by Keaton, has just arisen from a mysterious illness that kept her bedridden for three months. As she resumes her rounds of the cellblocks, distributing Testaments, she, too, is mesmerized by the Biddies, particularly Ed. Soon Mrs. Soffel is reading to him, arguing theology with him and smuggling hacksaw blades to him under her skirts. One cold, snowy night when the Biddies escape, Ed comes for her, and she abandons her conservative husband and four children.

Mel Gibson the handsomest man in the world, according to a recent People magazine cover plays Ed in this film directed by Gillian Armstrong, best known for the low-budget and much-praised Australian film, "My Brilliant Career." Matthew Modine is Jack; Edward Hermann is Warden Soffel. But "Mrs. Soffel" belongs to Diane Keaton. It is not that she dominates from the strength of a tell-your-friends performance, or that Gibson is awful and she overwhelms him (he isn't; she doesn't). Her work is standard-issue i We're saying let's get acquainted! And here's a Dollar video cassettes and accessories Need a VCR? We have those tor Oft Coupon to start We are something else.

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