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4-D THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Friday. March 29, 1985 'Half-Nelson' moves to regular Friday slot REAL ESTATE REVIEW Walt Belcher Television St A FREE home or apartment-finding information center call 875-2722 HOMES APARTMENTS CONDOS Free mops, guides, brochures, floorplans, price lists If you missed Sunday's premiere of "Half-Nelson," NBC's new comedy-drama-detective series, tonight's your chance to catch this amusing tale. "Half-Nelson," the adventures of a pint-sized tough guy, debuts in its regular slot at 9 tonight on WXFL, Channel 8, replacing the ill-fated In case you missed Sunday's two-hour movie introducing "Half-Nelson" and a lot of viewers apparently did it's the story of a short, former New York detective who takes a job with a security patrol in Beverly Hills while awaiting his break in the movies. I liked it because the hero was short and about as ugly as the pit bull dog he keeps for a pet. The series stars Joe Pesci, last seen as Rodney Dangerfield's pal in "Easy Money." For its debut, "Half-Nelson" averaged a 13.6 rating and a 21 percent audience share in A.C.

Nielsen's nine major markets. NBC has more changes for Fridays. A week from today, "Knight Rider" moves into the 8 p.m. time slot for three weeks. "Code Name: Foxfire" had its final outing on the network March 22 and departed for "hiatus." "Knight Rider" will air on Fridays through April 12.

It was to have been absent from its regular 8 p.m. Sunday slot for three weeks anyway, since the network has scheduled the first part of "A.D.," "Florence Nightingale" and a Gary Coleman movie called "Playing With Fire" over the next three Sun- of America, confirmed that his fellow reporters are nervous. Capital Cities has a reputation as being a well-managed but tightfisted company. ABC News Is known to spend big bucks to get stories. Thomas S.

Murphy, head of Cap Cities, and Leonard Goldenson, head of ABC, reportedly have been huddling to put an end to these worries. But the high-priced talent at ABC News reportedly is still nervous. Meanwhile, a feud has broken out between ABC Sports and News President Roone Arledge and ABC President Fred Pierce who is due to become vice chairman of the board of the merged companies, as well as chairman and chief executive officer of ABC Inc. They've been sniping at each other in the New York press. Vid-bits ABC has finally rescheduled "Lace II" originally set to debut on Palm Sunday for the nights of May 5 and 6.

Barbara Walters took Bern-hard Goetz a Chinese dinner when she interviewed the so-called Subway Vigilante in his apartment recently for Thursday night's "2020" on ABC. Good thing she didn't ask him for a tip. NBC Entertainment President Brandon Tartikoff explained at a recent International Radio and Television Society dinner his successful "five-year plan" to get the network back on its feet: "I played dead for four years and then put Bill Cosby on Thursday nights." Joe Pesci WTOG changes Based on ratings results from the February sweeps, WTOG, Channel 44, is making several changes. Lost a pet? Check Lost ft Found in the Classified Section. THE SUBTLE STRENGTH OF WOMEN COPS day evenings.

April 19, a new "light-hearted, realistic drama" called "The Best Times" will move into the 8 p.m. time slot, sending "Knight Rider" back to its regular slot on April 21. Both "Half-Nelson" and "The Best Times" are getting six-week runs and should be considered candidates for next fall's network schedule, according to Brandon Tartikoff, NBC Entertainment president. Tartikoff also said that "Code Name: Foxfire" will be back later this season. "The Best Times" supposedly will trace the "struggles and triumphs of high school students and teachers in a Southern California beach community." Successive episodes, NBC assures, will deal with such subjects as drugs, premarital sex, unrequited love and "simply learning how to get along." ABC News blues Sources at ABC News say there is much worry about the pending merger between ABC and Capital Cities Communications Inc.

Steve Fox, a field reporter for "Good Morning America" who was in Tampa last week to promote his morning reports on the back roads pWW In daytime on weekdays, "The Big Valley" (9 a.m.) will be replaced by "CHiPs "The Waltons" (10 a.m.) will be replaced by "Eight Is and the soap opera "Rituals" (11 a.m.) is being canceled to make room for "Newhart." In the late afternoon on weekdays, "WKRP in Cincinnati" moves from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.; "Star Trek" returns at "Too Close for Comfort" moves in at 6 p.m.; and "Barney Miller" returns at 7. In late night, the new "Name That Tune" (11 p.m.) will be replaced by "Maude" on week nights. The changes, according to WTOG spokesman Dick Dailey, go into effect the second week in April. y- I--5 7 f)w Plitt Theatres chain will show 'art' films Greg Tozian Film --P, Ik rf1 70mm house in the new, six-screen movie theater currently under construction ir the Northdale Court Shopping Center, North Dale Mabry Highway and Northdale Boulevard.

GCC spokesman Victor Gattuso said the theater should be open by May 24. For those unfamiliar with 70mm film presentation, the print projected is twice the size of the regular-format (35mm) film and generally yields a much bigger and sharper image, with greatly improved sound quality. Hollywood produces a number of 70mm films each year, with most of them being of the large-scale science fiction, action or epic-historical variety. Adding to our hopes for much TheQ Westenberger kjfe as a female cop is no easy beat. The work is grueling; the risks are staggering; the physical and emotional demands are relentless.

Yet women are more than cutting it in the rough and tumble world of crime, and have shown that it's possible to be gentle and compassion ate and still be a good cop. But the idea of women cops is stil unsettling to many including other women. Find out why in Sunday's improved sound quality at GCC's North Court Cinema, as the forthcoming theater will be called, is the inclusion of THX sound enhance PARADE. for convenient home delivery call 272-7422 THE TAMPA TRIBUNE independent movies in coming weeks. On April 12, the University theater has booked "Blood Simple," the hard-boiled and violent melodrama that has been described as a cross between James M.

Cain and Alfred Hitchcock. The film was made by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen and already has become a cult item. Also scheduled for the University, on April 26, is the "hot" American independent movie, "Stranger Than Paradise," according to GCC film buyer Jim Smith. "Stranger Than Paradise," directed by Hungarian immigrant Jim Jarmusch, is about three Hungarian immigrants in New York who take an off-beat journey to Florida in a beat-up car. The black-and-white oddity, filled with fade-outs and sardonic humor, has caused a small sensation in New York, Los Angeles and other cities.

GCC's Smith says that the management at the University Square has had requests for "Blood Simple" and "Stranger." "And if there's anywhere (in Tampa) where these films are gonna play, I think it's out by the University (of South Florida)," Smith says. More screens for Tampa The Tampa Bay area, which has long suffered from its lack of superior 70mm movie theaters, seems to have the larger-format, better-image-and-sound theaters growing up everywhere these days. We announced several weeks ago that the local, multi-screen-building plans of the American Multi-Cinema and United Artists theater chains include 70mm theaters for the Brandon and Pinellas Park areas, respectively. Now, the General Cinema Corp. has announced plans to include a ment.

"THX" is a process, invented Things are looking up for Tampa filmgoers who've lamented the lack of local, first-run foreign and American-independent movies. The Plitt Theatres chain starts on April 5 an eight-week experiment in reserving one of the screens in its Carrollwood-based Main Street 6 cinema for "art" movies. The chain is working with freelance movie programmer Dick Morris, who has had some success in booking 16mm and 35mm alternative films in (his hometown of) Sara-sota and other Florida cities in the last year. It was Morris who brought "Liquid Sky" and "The Fourth Man" to Tampa in recent months, as well as importing the currently held-over Talking Heads concert film, "Stop Making Sense," at the Main Street. On April 5, as part of this new effort, Main Street will start a two-week run of its first foreign film in the planned two-month wave of alternative titles, Morris says.

The first fiim is "Les Comperes," a freewheeling comedy starring Gerard Depardieu. The film, which Morris also has been sponsoring in a successful, 35mm run in Sarasota, will be replaced by a two-week run of "Choose Me," on April 19 and a double-week stay of "A Sunday in the Country." "Choose Me," a comic romance by talented American director Alan Rudolph to L.A."), stars Keith Carradine, Genevieve Bujold and Lesley-Ann Warren. "A Sunday in the Country" is French director Bertrand Tavernier's de warm, turn-of-the-century slice of an elderly, country painter's life. Morris says if any of the films do well they may be held over at Main Street. "Whatever the top foreign or independent movie is for the week, by George Lucas' company in Cali fornia, which heightens aural reality by computer-controlled, strategi cally located speakers.

GCC currently owns and oper we'll try to get it," Morris says. "Through Memorial Day (May 27), there will be an international movie on that screen." Plitt district manager Bob Jones says one reason his chain is trying "different" movies at Main Street is the proliferation of first-run screens in the Carrollwood area, along North Dale Mabry Highway. "General Cinema is opening a six-plex down the street (see related item below). That means (with the Main Street and United Artists' nearby eight-screen Movies at Mission Bell), there'll be 20 screens within a three-mile radius. There's just not enough first-run fare to fill 20 screens," Jones adds.

"So we're looking at some alternatives. "We're trying to keep all of our screens first-run; and if it means showing 'art' movies, so be it." Jones says the Carrollwood strip is "a good area to try this kind of product. It's a kind of affluent, Yuppie area. And I think those people will support these kinds of movies. Also," Jones adds, "we'll be able to draw from the University (of South Florida), since it's only five or six miles away.

"If this (experiment) is successful, I could see it being done on a continuing basis for three-quarters of the year, or even year-round," Jones says. "We're looking to capture the art market in the area." Meanwhile, General Cinema's University Square theater is planning to show two popular American ates the University Square, Tampa Bay Center, Britton and Eastlake Square cinemas. Also forthcoming is Plitt Thea tres' new six-plex in the University Collection shopping center, Fletcher Avenue and 30th Street, according to SiJi Sunday Buffet Plitt's Bob Jones. Jones said that the theater, which will have Dolby stereo in at least two theaters, "will be wide At Saddlebrook's Elegant Cypress Room screen by most standards" and be comparable to Plitt's Main Street cinemas. District manager Jones said it has not been decided by the movie company yet if a 70mm theater will be included in the University Collec tion location, scheduled for opening 10:30 A.M.

to 4:00 P.M. AprU 7, 1985. Bring your family to Saddlebrook's Quintessential the "Best in the Bay" for a buffet worthy of your Easter Sunday celebration. Fruit Mirror Assorted Cheese Tray Waldorf Salad Shrimp, Orange and Avocado Salad Florida Fruit Salad with Poppy Seed and Yogurt Dressing Marinated Tomatoes and Green Onions Deviled Eggs and Eggs in Aspic in October. To CARROLL- MARCH W6S Cold Pate of Flounder and Salmon Smoked Salmon Mousse with Mini Bagels TTZ PRE-EASTER i wo fmw SALE ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT 11 30-69 ON BLOUSES, Duck Soup From the Carving Table Steamship Round of Beef Baked Ham with Raisin Leg of Lamb with Mint Sauce Eggs Benedict Eggs Sardou Scrambled Eggs Bacon and Sausage Noodles with Fresh Herbs Lyonnaise Potatoes Mussels with Spinach and Gruyere ACT Tomorrow! THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA With Guest Conductor Charles Dutoit Saturday, March 30, 8 p.m.

HAYDN Symphony No. 83 LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1 in Flat DVORAK Symphony No. 9 "New World Symphony" $25.75, $23.75, $21.75 CHUCK MANCIONE And The Chuck Mangione Quartet Thursday, April 4, 8 p.m. $14.75, $13.75, $12.75 A Concert Series for "Adults-at-Leisure" THE BRASS BAND SHIRTS, SUMMER SWEATERS, PANTS, REGISTER FOR urn SKIRTS, DRESSES, THE JOFFREY BALLET With The Florida Orchestra Monday, April 29, 8 p.m.

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