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4 Columbus If you're worried there are no more Renaissance men about, consider Eric Mad-dox. Hope floats. At least part of each year you'll find Eric sailing his cruis retired, to buwlffl biggest boat I could afford uwo could crew and to live on it." Sailing friends4warned him to buy small and trade up, the same way you might advise a beginner band student to rent an instrument before tr nine wi incut iMiMMinr 1' MO wjumt It's the town "Fugitive" producers chose for the revival's first episode, expected to air in October, following a pilot that starts the saga in Chicago. As in the classic '60s series, Daly's Kimble is wrongly convicted of murdering his wife, then is chased from city to city by Gerard, in turn pursuing the real killer, a mysterious one-armed man. The series will be shot on location in places around the country.

"I'm choosing cities that are very identifiable," said R.W. Griffin, an executive producer. From Savannah, Kimble scurries to Charleston, S.C., Philadelphia, Atlantic City, N.J., New Orleans and San Francisco. And Atlanta? "Atlanta's not PLEASE SEE F4 By Jill Young Miller jymillerajc.com Savannah Dr. Richard Kimble resumed his harried flight from police Lt.

Philip Gerard here this week. "Yesterday I spent 10 hours sprinting, in the heat, on the cobblestone streets, up and down the stairs," said Kimble, aka Tim Daly, who plays the doc-on-the-lam in the upcoming CBS revival of "The Fugitive." Despite the grinding workout, Savannah's allure wasn't lost on the actor. "I love all these little parks," Daly said Wednesday, cooling down as an SUV ferried him from a shoot at the riverfront to another location, near Chippewa Square. "The Spanish moss. It's a really nice little town." ing yacht, Angelique, in an extended voyage around the world, a trip begun in 1995 that has landed him in exotic ports from Bimini to Bangkok.

Whenever and wherever it feels right, he drops anchor and stays long enough to learn something about the land, the people. Under sail, this accomplished musi committing. But Eric had other notions. The Angelique was a 44-foot, cutter-rigged charter boat, one designed for seaworthiness instead of speed. Just before retirement, in 1988, he found her.

Love at first sight. "If I had it to do over, I'd do exactly the same thing," he says. Rheta Grimsley Johnson rhetagrimsleyaol.com SUNNY SUNG Staff Out of the can Tim Daly (left), playing Dr. Richard Kimble, is dropped off by Mike Pniewski of Atlanta, playing a Savannah police officer, during filming of an episode of the revival of "The Fugitive." Years before MTV, an Atlanta TV show created its own music videos. It was psychedelic.

It was far out. It was the 9 losion ow By Miriam Longino mlonginoajc.com usic video channel VH1 says Aug. 1,1981, is a landmark date in rock history. Air 3 -i- rr- vn- 1 Every sailor knows that even the perfect boat can stand some revision. The mast came straight up through the dining table, making dinner conversations awkward.

He redesigned the interior, so that now his piano doubles as a table. And then there was the matter of permanent crew. For several years, Eric lived on the boat in the Caribbean. Then he met Mona Kirby a Columbus native, a former South Georgia peanut farmer's wife, by now in St. Thomas working as a chef for charter boats.

Lovi at first sight. The 1993 night that sealed the deal sounds like a Julia Roberts movie with a Jimmy Buffett soundtrack. Eric was playing in the band at Barnacle Bill's. Mona took the open mike and sang the blues. The rest is nautical history.

True love I understand. Art I don't know much about. Just that Eric certainly has the colors right, of fishing boats at anchor on Christmas Day, of thunderheads and Hon fish, a fisherman's son in his yellow hat resting on the bow of his fishing boat. The watercolors are a cross between Walter Anderson and Andrew Wyeth. I consider that a high compliment.

The sailors plan their itinerary around storm seasons. But they lingered too long in St. Thomas in 1995 and Hurricane Marilyn blew through. They saved their boat, but lost several friends in that one. They prefer perfect storms on canvas.

Next leg of the syncopated journey: Cross the Indian Ocean in January, looking for colorful places and faces along the way. cian has his piano, saxophone and clarinet on board to fill the dead hours. At anchor, he paints watercolors of the fantastic sights he's seen. (It was just too problematic while sailing to work in stained glass, yet another of his hobbies.) I I find Eric in a lakeside house near Columbus, where he and his crew wife Mona, 45 often come during stormy seasons to spend time with family. The boat is dry-docked for now in Malaysia.

A boyish 68, Eric reminds me of Toby Tyler, the kid who ran away and joined the circus. This week Eric is feverishly painting, hoping to have another canvas ready for the Monday opening of a one-man show at Miriam's Cafe and Gallery in downtown Columbus. Already, across the world in Thailand, his work is the subject of another one-man show at a Phuket art gallery. "It's a great feeling," modest Eric admits, having this visual journal of his journey on display simultaneously at two "ports." For decades he was content to read and fantasize about sailing. He worked for 23 years in the PeKalb County school system as supervisor of music.

He also played first-chair clarinet and was associate conductor with the Atlanta Chamber Orchestra. (His college art interests took a back seat to music, except for the stained glass work, some of which hangs in the Atlanta area.) During his Atlanta years, Eric was mostly an armchair sailor, reading every book on the subject he could find, occasionally going for weekend sails with friends. "The plan was, when I i I-- -Cj; 'lis i itW 1 i i i 1 'l 1" 1 SF -Sit. Video images courtesy of BOB TODD In a scene somewhat reminiscent of "Laugh-In," Atlanta's "Now Explosion" featured dancers (above) with its logo. Repeating patterns was one of the show's regular special effects.

ing "The 100 Greatest Rock and Roll Moments on TV" this week, the self-appointed rock historians noted that it was the day when MTV launched the nation's first music video television show. (Sound of needle being ripped across a vinyl 45.) Well, not exactly. (Scratch, pop, hiss. Turn up the spacey, distorted guitar intro of the 1970 Norman Green-baum hit, "Spirit in the Let's set the record straight. The nation's first music video show didn't start in New York in 1981, and it wasn't MTV.

An early chapter in the video revolution happened right here in Atlanta, over a fleeting, nine-month period in 1970, when a group of young disc jockeys and film producers (eventually with the help of Ted Turner) launched a 28-hour weekend block of music videos called "Now Explosion." Now Explosion (echo: explosion, explosion, explosion, Imagine the psychedelia of Austin Powers blended with the trippy light shows of Filmore West with a little "Laugh-In" bikini dancing sprinkled into the mix: Hippies frolicking in Piedmont Park to the Plastic Ono Band's "Instant Karma." Traffic speeding past the Varsity to the sounds of "Vehicle" by the Ides of March. Bikini clad young girls surrounded by floating blobs of paisley dancing to Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Lookin' Out My Back Door" at the Channel 36 studios. "I was 16 and thought it was the closest thing to rock 'n' roll heaven that I would ever get," says 47-year-old Alice Walker of Gay, Ga. "I can still hear my mother saying, 'Are you watching that rock music show? Turn it I envied the dancers." One was 48-year-old advertising executive Lori Krinsky, who hopped in the car with a fringed-vested friend one night in 1970, wound up at the Channel 36 studios and danced on-air ajexom It's hip, groovy and online! In 1 970, "Now Explosion" was the most happenin' show in town. See what made Atlanta rock with our exclusive highlights videodip, on www.ajc.com.

Starting today in Buyer's Edge: Consumer advice from Clark Howard a it 1 1 i IT" 3 i- to "Spirit in the Sky." "I don't remember much," she says with a laugh. "It was kind of cool. We waited for hours, then they said, 'Come on in and They did that weird photography that shows just your shadow and outline in psychedelic colors. What a riot." The mere mention of the words "Now Explosion" send Dan Turner, a 47-year-old jazz pianist from Conyers, into a retro stream of consciousness: "The fog lifts. Lazy days sitting around watching TV.

My friend in knee-high moccasin boots Staring at the rfjfe I Ij. in BITA HONARVAR Staff How do you deal with unauthorized charges on a credit card? Would you make a deal to turn your car into a rolling billboard? Consumer advice expert Clark Howard deals with both issues in a column debuting today. Page F9. PLEASE SEE F3 AJC.COM EVERY SECTION, EVERY DAY THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION.