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only to picked up by ailing N11C in the hope that it might find a new audience on a new network. So far. it has not. and Kane, who won an Kmmy in a guest appearance last year and has just come aboard as a regular cast member, worries right along with everyone else about the ratings. Hut she said NBC is not about to tailor the show to the lowest common denominator Nielsens or no Nielsens.

If someone can pull the plug on your life, you lake notice of them." she said. "In this case it's the Nielsens But our writers feel they have to be true to the plot line of and they won't compromise. They're not going to change according to what the ratings dictate." "Taxi" sits, with "St. Elsewhere" and "Cheers." in the middle of a Thursday night lineup critics have called the brightest on the tube. That audiences have yet to agree, Kane attributes to the times.

"If it doesn't work, then I guess people are in just loo much pain in the country and only want to see escapist television," she said. "Taxi' is escape, but with intelligence. I wish the respect that the writers of 'Taxi' have for the public would feed back in." Kane's role is that of Simca Gravas. Andy Kaufman's zany, blond firecracker of an immigrant wife, and whatever language you think you may have heard when they collide, you're probably wrong. "It's a made-up language," she said.

"Andy made it up and it's got a very specific sound to il. The script is in English, so you just open your mouth and dive in." Which is exactly what Carol Kane has been doing for most of her career. Though she speaks only English and Prcnch, she has made a number of foreign language feature films with little linguistic difficulty. "You'd be amazed at the things you can learn in a role that you never learn from real life. I learned to work in a post office for Dog Day I worked with an orangutan.

One of the great treats in our business is you get to perform many different functions in many jobs. "I just did a little thing in which I played a gourmet chef, which I'm not at all, and I deboned a giant sea bass. 1 learned to do it in 10 minutes. The woman from the cooking school was stunned." If she could just land the role of a Nielsen family "two people with one-point-fivc children" "Taxi" would be in clover. ISValu 2SValu SOValu OMIT ONLY.

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"There arc no changes with regard to the cast being planned." a spokesman for the studio said. And Sloan said there have been no discussions between the studio and his clients aimed at resolving the legal dispute. If tlat were to be done, he said, they would be open tnc of returning to the series. But for now, the maUerVcrriains jwjhc courts. "If nothing else," laughed William Bchanna.

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