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CALENDAR 'Cos Anaclcs (Times San Diego County Friday, December 6, 198S Part VI HOWARD ROSENBERG SURE-FIRE ADVICE TO SAVE SLIPPING NETWORKS With Such Tantalizing Series as 'Goldfinger's Girls' and 'Miami TV Season Could Be Rescued CLASSICAL foreign agents and is beaten to a pulp by Maude. "The Crosby Show." Family comedy. Bob Crosby, Annette Crosby, Mary Crosby, Norm Crosby and Crosby, Stills and Nash live in the same house and don't get along. But their music video for the poor and starving makes them a hit with the MTV set. "Itzhak: For Hire." Crime series.

The great Itzhak Perlman is a private eye who wears a black stocking cap. "The Scarecrow and King Hussein." Spy thriller. The Jordanian leader becomes a secret agent for William Morris and takes meetings with studio executives. "Two's a Crowd." Comedy adventure. Siamese twins joined at the head apprehend international criminals, who then laugh at them.

"Why?" Reality-based science fiction. A network TV executive can think of no good reason to watch his own network. "Wheel of Tongues." Action-packed game show featuring a cute twist. In this more exciting version of "Wheel of Fortune," contestants have their tongues glued to the wheel before spinning. "Odd Guy." Science fiction.

A mysterious man who is understood by no one raises squash by day, plays squash by night and then is squashed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Please see ADVICE, Page 26 All right! This is it! You've seen the new TV season, and you know the networks particularly slipping CBS and sliding ABC need help. So I'm going to give them one last chance to follow my suggestions for new series'. I can't keep on doing this forever. My patience is wearing thin.

This time my advice is free. Next time I'm charging plenty. Understand? And now get ready for. "Miami Mice." Adventure series. Hip small mice in teeny, trendy pastel clothes scurry to rock music and terrify drug dealers, making them stand on tables and scream.

"Very Ordinary Stories." Science -fiction anthology. These stories are so usual, predictable and unsuspenseful that there is no need to watch them, which makes them all the more intriguing and irresistible. "Lady Flue." Crime -adventure series. A gorgeous female chimney sweep fearlessly apprehends top criminals by sliding down their chimneys and pelting them with ashes. "Little Black Rambo." Cute, issue-oriented comedy.

A small black kid is adopted by a white, middle-class mercenary couple and sent on military missions to destroy Communists in Southeast Asia. "I Dream of Dr. Ruth Westheimer." Hilarious comedy. An Air Force officer is driven bananas by wee sex therapist who emerges from her bottle only to appear on TV talk shows, make condom commercials and giggle. "Toms for the Tummy." Spy thriller.

Tom Snyder, Tom Lasorda and Tommy Tune are diet doctors by day and secret agents by night. "Bolshoi Bums." Outrageous black comedy. Two zany Soviet dancers these guys are such schnooks that you wouldn't believe it cause such havoc that they are evicted from their half-room Moscow flat and exiled to Murmansk, where they cause such a stir that they are put into an insane asylum, where they short-sheet the doctors, resulting in their execution. Possible spinoff series: "The Ghosts of Bolshoi Bums." Possible blockbuster movie of the week, scheduled during ratings sweeps: "The Ghosts of Bolshoi Bums Meet Little Black Rambo." "Turner's Burners." Adventure series. A broadcast mogul recruits an elite team of demolition experts to destroy TV networks that he is unable to acquire through legal means.

Girls." Comedy adventure. An old James Bond nemesis resurfaces in Miami, where he operates a shady retirement home for elderly female BOB GRIESER Los Angeles Times MOVIE REVIEW EDDIE MAY: FOOLS FOR 'LOVE' By SHEILA BENSON, Times Film Critic May and Eddie. Eddie and May. Fools for each other for 15 years. Connected.

Disconnected. Unconnected. But always aware of the other's whereabouts. Moving to the same music, which only they can hear. Among other things, "Fool for Love" (at the Fine Arts) is Sam Shepard's vision of the hot blast that rages between these two: the rootless rodeo cowboy, crisscrossing the country in his horse trailer piebald with Altman has rolled up his sleeves and, for starters, has let the two lovers breathe.

Out of the one room that served to remind us only too well of a cage, their bone-jarring, wall -rattling assaults on each other now range all over this crummy neon-pueblo trailer court. Altman's most inspired stroke is to people this trailer court with a mixture of real and memory figures, to have time flow as effortlessly as his camera. Harry Dean Stanton, like an agree able coyote, is staked out in a rusting silver trailer at the back of the court. With a more important and less shadowy role than his character had in the play, Stanton is also the film's omnipotent chorus and The Cause of It All, and he is marvelous. If you watch carefully in the procession of cars that glide in and out of El Royale, you'll also notice Stanton as an earnest young husband and father, and a little girl of about 3 who looks like a baby Basinger, with her mother.

Freed from its existential single box, Shepard's story flows, burns, scalds and confounds, as the camera of Canadian cinema- The Los Angeles Philharmonic makes its first appearance of the season in San Diego Sunday with Finnish-born Esa-Pekka Salo-nen conducting a concert featuring Pinchas Zukerman on violin and Heiichiro Ohyama on viola. Sought as a guest conductor since his spectacular London debut with the Philhar-monia Orchestra in 1983, the young European conductor made his debut in America with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The program for the 8 p.m. concert includes Berg's "Three Pieces," Op. Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat, K364; and Schubert's Rondo in A.

On Sunday, the first day of Hanukkah, the First Unitarian Church will present Handel's dramatic oratorio "Judas Maccabaeus" in the church meeting house on Front Street. Tenor William Trabold is Judas in the story of the Jewish historical figure whose military conquests freed the Jewish nation from Syrian rule. Daniel Ratelle directs the chorus, joined by a 15-piece orchestra and soloists in the 5 p.m. concert. Opening the three -day festival celebrating the 85th birthday of composer Ernst Krenek at UC San Diego, mezzo soprano Joanne Regenhardt and pianist Liana Myusior will interpret nine selections from Krenek's "Reisebuch aus den Osterreichischen Alpen" (Travelbook from the Austrian Alps), Op.

62 songs that depict the people and places encountered on a journey through Krenek's native Austria. Charlotte Zelka, here following concerts in Europe, will perform a Krenek work commissioned for her by her mother, Sonata No. 5, Op. 121. Guitarist Lisa Smith will perform the final piece of the afternoon concert, "Mensajes Para Cuatro Amigos," a work composed by a Krenek student and admirer, Panamanian composer Roque Cor-dero, who will be here in honor of the event.

Krenek, a living link to the major developments in music of this century, was instrumental in the selection of faculty for the first music department at UCSD in the mid -'60s. EXTRA Roasted chestnuts and gingerbread men will be sold while carolers stroll along the museum -lined avenue lighted for the holidays tonight and Saturday in the annual Christmas on the Prado in Balboa Park. Holiday-trimmed model trains will be clipping down rails at the San Diego Model Railway Museum, a Santa Lucia Procession will highlight the Swedish Christmas celebration at the Museum of Man, and tarot card readers and handwriting analysts will give free advice at the San Diego Art Institute. Visitors can enter most museums free of charge during the two -night event from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., and the Rueben H.

Fleet Space Theater and Science Center will offer reduced admission to the "Star of the King" show. Choirs, bands and dancers will perform at the organ pavilion, and free shuttle service will ferry visitors from the San Diego Zoo parking lot both evenings. Arranged on a 35-foot stage shaped like a pine tree, 170 carolers will perform as a "Singing Christmas Tree" beginning tonight, at Seaport Village. Accompanied by the 33-piece Seaport Village Orchestra, the carolers will perform at the West Plaza at 7 p.m. today through Sunday.

The 35th annual Children's Christmas Parade marches and motors down Hill Street at 10 a.m. Saturday with competing floats and high school bands. About 80 entries will parade north on Hill starting at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue, and turn east at Mission Avenue to Ditmar Street. The new mascot for the California State Parks, Cali the Quail, will be grand marshal at the 24th Old Town Christmas Parade at 11 a.m. Saturday! About 110 entries, including marching bands, drill teams, horse riders, clowns and classic autos, will circle the plaza in the State Historic Park, beginning at Congress and Ampudia streets and San Diego Avenue.

The North Park Toyland Parade is back after a two-decade hiatus, with about 90 entries beginning the march at 3 p.m. Saturday. As part of the community's effort to rejuvenate a sagging commercial district, the North Park Business and Community associations are reviving the parade, which began in 1936 and once drew 400,000 people. The parade will start at the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Idaho Street, travel east on Lincoln, turn south on Iowa Street, west on University Avenue and back to Idaho. Caroling and refreshments follow at the North Park Recreation Center at Lincoln and Idaho.

For a more complete listing of coming events in San Diego, see WHAT'S DOING starting on Page 16. -NANCY REED Sam Shepard and Kim Basinger in "Fool for Love Dr. Vance E. Kondon with some pieces from his collection that will be on display at the San Diego Art Center in Horton Plaza. WHAT DOCTOR ORDERED FOR ART CENTER'S DEBUT tographer Pierre Mig-not glides in and out, from high to low, peering in these little lighted cabins, watching the sexual dramas that take place silently within.

(Mignot also worked for Altman in 'Streamers" and "Come Back to the 5 Dime, Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean." It would not be out of order to refer to him as the great Mignot, since that seems to be the case. The editing of Luce Grunenwaldt and Steve Dunn is an integral part of this sinuousness, as is Stephen Altman's wonderful set: these toylike, glowing cabins which in this purply-brown night light seem to pull us to their mysteries. Eddie and May have had other romances Please see Page 10 mud, and his fine-boned, hair-trigger-tempered sometimes lady. As played by Shepard himself and a ferociously wonderful Kim Basinger, it's a raw, explosively funny, elemental tragicomedy about the pure willfulness of love. It comes to a rolling boil during one night at the seedy El Royale Motel at the purple edge of the Mojave Desert.

Or maybe as the final scene hints just at the edge of hell. Shepard's view of love is unabashedly mythic, more lust than love, more animal than anything else, and he throws in a prickly family secret for good measure. Not for the timid or the tidy, this play. In transferring it to the screen, director Robert ly. His final words were: "We'll section her." The physician's argot for a Cae-sarean section comes as easily to Kondon's lips as do the names of the painters from his favorite style SAN DIEGO COUNTY By HILLIARD HARPER, San Diego County Arts Writer LA JOLLA Two passions animate Dr.

Vance E. Kondon medicine and art collecting. Kondon was talking about one of these loves Wednesday when a telephone call demanded his attention for the other. A pregnant patient approaching her time for delivery was experiencing difficulties that he had foreseen. The doctor discussed the case over the telephone matter-of-fact of art, German Expressionism: Klee, Fe- lixmuller, Beckman, Kirchner, Dix, Munter, Pechstein, Nolde and Schlemmer.

Kondon is one of San Diego's premier art collectors, and his Please see ART CENTER, Page 12 TURNER URGES CABLE TV TO JUMP ON AD WAGON berserk. He set fire to his bed, and in the aftermath found himself diagnosed a psychopath and carted away in a straitjacket to Camarillo State Hospital. Parker's six-month stay at the mental institution, in which he was forced to come to grips with himself as a human being, a musician and a member of society, is the subject of "Relaxin' at Camarillo," Russell's new play, which runs through Sunday at UC San Diego's Warren Theater. Parker's emotional turmoil first as a rebel freaked out by the fear of losing his creative muse, then as a grudging conformist once he regains it is depicted with unusual understanding and even sympathy. Russell has said he did not want to write a message play, but like it or not, he did.

He delivers a profound social statement: Creative people must be dealt with differently than other people, and the mores of society do not necessarily apply to all. Sure, Parker's got a problem. But to help him solve it, conventional means don't always work. One must look behind the problems in order to understand them, and in Parker's case, traditional psychiatric methods overlook his inner struggles to make it as a black musician a black human being in a white man's world. Parker is frustrated: at being exploited by his producer, at seeing white musicians make loads of money by playing homogenized versions of what is essentially a black man's music, at being called a "nigger" the same night he brought down the house in a New York nightclub filled with white celebrities.

But nobody gives a damn all his doctor and the hospital committee care about is how Please see PLAY, Page 21 THEATER REVIEW RUSSELL'S PLAY PACKS MESSAGE ABOUT GENIUS By THOMAS K. ARNOLD SAN DIEGO Charlie Parker's career, as short and fiery as a Roman candle, aptly demonstrates that there is indeed a fine line between genius and insanity. In "Relaxin' at Camarillo," playwright Charlie L. Russell captures the legendary alto saxophonist at the point in Parker's life where he's seriously straddling that line. Parker, a key figure in jazz's Sjppn be-bop revolution of the 1940s, COUNTY came to California in 1945 after winning acclaim from New York critics for his wild, innovative style of composing and playing.

But his debut at Billy Berg's jazz club in Los Angeles was panned by West Coast critics more attuned to the mild, less -adventurous sounds of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman. More bad reviews followed, and after a while Parker's mental and physical state started to rapidly deteriorate. Addictions to booze and heroin didn't help, nor did Parker's growing annoyance with the continual prejudice against black musicians he encountered almost daily. After the recording session for "Lover-man," in which Parker was almost too sick to play, he returned to his hotel room and went better product to make more money. Turner, who was introduced with an anecdote about how he sold an out-of-state cable operator on the idea of carrying his little Atlanta station's programs 11 years ago, probably could have convinced the audience that the rest of the opening session would be as interesting as he was.

But he didn't, and it wasn't. After a brief talk, Turner said he had to race to the airport to catch a plane to take him to a meeting with his Soviet partners in the Goodwill Games. That left no time to answer such questions as whether his pending deal to purchase MGM suddenly had him favoring high-priced, studio-produced shows for cable, an element hardly in evidence on his own WTBS. Please see CABLE, Page 28 By MORGAN GENDEL, Times Staff Writer The way Ted Turner sees it, the grand solution to all of cable TV's woes is salesmanship. "We have to gather more advertising support so we can spend more on programming," Turner told a crowd of 850 at Wednesday's opening session of the Western Cable Television Show in Anaheim.

Noting that the commercial networks, their affiliates and independent stations spend about $5 billion annually on programming versus about $1.5 billion by basic and pay cable, Turner completed the math with generously rounded numbers: "We're being outspent 4 to 1 and their service is free." In other words, you have to sell more ads to earn more revenue to spend more on programs to make a INSIDE CALENDAR ART: San Diego galleries. Page 19. FILM: Reviews of "Prince Jack" and "Spies Like Us" Pages 6 and 8. TV: Tonight on TV and cable. Page 23.

Lewis Segal reviews "Cinderella" on PBS. Page 31. VIDEO: VideoLog by Dennis Hunt. Page 22..