The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 34

ihfc liUSam Ui.Untv vv I Qui, i jtiny Broadcast notes Seinfeld plays himself in sitcom i .1 I i. ('4- "Iff. ti" By Kathryn Baker Associated Press NEW YORK When a network wants to give you a prime-time show, "aimless wandering" Is probably not the best concept to try to sell to them. But if his sitcomstand-up show, "The Seinfeld Chronicles," does well enough tonight to become a midseason replacement on NBC, that's what comedian Jerry Seinfeld hopes It will evolve into. "The Seinfeld Chronicles" (Channel 4, 9:30 p.m.) has a great cast, smart writing and an unusual format, Intercutting a sitcom with Seinfeld's stand-up comedy act.

Seinfeld is basically playing himself, a stand-up comedian named Jerry who Is a bachelor. Seinfeld and co-writer Larry David, also a stand-up comic, came up with the Idea "over a couple of cups of coffee on Eighth Avenue one night," Seinfeld said. "I said, 'NBC is interested in doing some kind of show with me, and I don't have any We figured why not Just do a show about how comedians live and how they work and how It happens." A lot of the show is very much like Seinfeld's own life, he said from Los Angeles. "I mean, it was easy for me to do it, I'm really not acting. Watching TV and sitting in a coffee shop that's what comedians do." With the time spent on Jerry's stand-up routine, a half-hour isn't much time to tell much of a story, which is why Seinfeld would Just as soon dispense with a plot line.

"I want to have a show of aimless a woman who wants to sleep with you! Why don't you bring In an eje-tra guy, too?" Hoffman shows up "to borrow meat" and stays to complafh about the Mets' loss, spoiling trie game for Jerry, who had taped It and "avoided human contact all day" so he could watch It, In suspense, it Viewers of "The Tonight Show" and "Late Night" have probably seen much of Seinfeld? act, but prime time will give his always funny material a wider audience. 1 A scene In a laundromat prompts his laundry routine. Jerry believes the washing machine is the clothes' nightclub. He thinks that we return from tne laundromat with one missing sock because, in the hamper the night before, It plotted Its escape. After his rendezvous with Ms.

Wonderful turns sour, Jerry analyzes romance: "Women know what men want. Men know what men want. What do men want? Women." I "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin is scheduled to make her first appearance on NBC's "Late Night with David Letterman" July 1 11 Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz has signed a deal to develop a TV series with PBS" MacNeil-Lehrer Productions. Jijn Lehrer.

co-anchor of "The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour," will fee the host of the series on diplomacy and statecraft. MacNeil-Lehrfcr president Al Vecchione said the series will be filmed around the globe over two to three years. wandering through life. But we figure that's a good way to get audiences Interested In the beginning. I mean, it will always be some sort of progression of events, but we want to structure It very loosely.

"If they pick it up, it's going to progress In a different direction from that show. It's going to be much more an Interior monologue" that would show what Seinfeld is thinking and how he incorporates everyday experiences into a comedy routine. David, who was a writer-performer on ABC's "Fridays" and a writer on "Saturday Night Live," does a stand-up act that seems to be so personal it can be almost painful to watch. Pair him with the more mainstream Seinfeld, and the result is an honest, warm and amusing examination of life in the late '80s. Jason Alexander, who won a Tony as best actor in a musical for his work In "Jerome Robbins' Broadway," plays George, Jerry's neurotic manager.

Another "Fridays" veteran, Michael Richard, who more recently starred In the syndicated "Marblehead Manor," plays Seinfeld's oddball neighbor, Hoffman. In the pilot, Jerry has met a woman on the road who is coming to New York to visit. Does she want to sleep with him or not? George puts him through an angst-wringing analysis of her possible motives. Jerry, observing decorum, obtains a spare bed for the visitor. George is stricken.

"I can't believe you're bringing in an extra bed for uioDe pnotostephen Kose Work on depots, such as the Falmouth Station off Depot Avenue, is considered 95 percent complete. Only roof and interior work remains to be done. Mass. spent 1.2m on depots where trains now seldom go L'JEAI'HGn Mostly cloudy, humid, letter of the law," he said. Rep.

Robert Cerasoli (D-guin-cy), chairman of that committee, said he was unaware the state was in the midst of platform construction and station renovations when the subsidy was canceled. He said he also had not known that the work then continued to completion. But he said the contracts suggest that state Transportation Secretary Frederick P. Salvucci may have plans for extending permanent railroad service to Cape Cod, over objections of local officials, "after the current fiscal crisis dies down." Committee aides said they were told by Salvucci deputies that such plans were under discussion with the MBTA, possibly in conjunction with the $350 million plan to reopen the Old Colony Railroad between Boston, Middle-borough and Plymouth. Snider, also the president of the Cape Cod Hyannis Railroad, said he was told that "we were part of a grander puzzle.

The rehabilitation programs started before our trains began." The Cape's objections to commuter trains to Boston stem from fears that regular service will lure more year-round residents to an area already under severe population growth pressures. "Our advisory board points to Long Island New York, where small communities became built up because of the presence of the Long Island Rail Road," said Joseph Potzka, administrator of the Cape Cod Regional Transportation Authority. While summer passenger service to encourage tourism has been welcomed, he said, the board believes "having a daily commuter service would make things worse." Sen. Henri Rauschenbach (R- EDT, forecast and highs for Wednesday, July 5. fh'i JL Brewster) said he sees a day when that opinion might change.

"The growth is there anyhow," he said. "The people already are commuting by road. This might be an investment down the road, the most cost-effective thing that can be done" to handle an increasing traffic load. Rauschenbach said he believes the station work was well intended. "I think the idea of the reconstruction when the state had the resources to do it was a nice thing to do," he said.

"Of course you can question all these commitments that were made when it is obvious that we are now looking at a $1.5 billion deficit. But I don't think the issue of commuter rail is dead," Rauschenbach said. Approximately one-fourth of the $1.2 million spent on the-sta-tions went toward building granite-curbed asphalt platforms more than 500 feet long and 30-foot-long elevated concrete platforms with ramps for use by handicapped riders. The Buzzards Bay station, more than 60 years old, got major roof repairs and interior refurbishing along with its platform. It is used five days a week as a tourist information center by the Bourne-Sandwich Chamber of Commerce, which pays the state $1 a year in rent plus utilities and other maintenance costs.

Buzzards Bay remains an on-demand stop for one Amtrak train a week, run in summer only, from Washington to Hyannis via New York. That train, the Cape Cod-der, also gets state subsidies. The majority of the reconstruction, however, has taken place in Falmouth, where the depot will be used upon completion of work by Bonanza Bus Lines as the depot for 22 trips every day to Boston, Providence and New York. Bartle said Bonanza pays about $475 a month for the 1,850 square-feet of space at Falmouth. The bus company occupied the depot before work began in December and is now temporarily using a large construction trailer for its offices and waiting room.

The entire project got its start with the efforts of the Falmouth Council for Civic Beautification, which in 1984 persuaded Rep. Thomas Cahir (D-Bourne) to sponsor the state Transportation Bond Issue line item covering its costs. The Falmouth depot was considered a community eyesore, so deteriorated that plywood awnings had been hung to protect passersby from being hit by falling stonework, according to Arthur Calfee, chairman of the beautification council. "The state picking up the tab made it easy" to get the needed repair work under way, Calfee said. That no passenger trains run to the depot and that its platforms will remain vacant for the foreseeable future are only a mild embarrassment amid the civic pride the restoration has generated, Calfee said.

"It was unusual that the money dried up so fast," he said. "We hope that the trains will come back. And when theyrlo they will find a nice new station waiting for them." -r By Jerry Ackerman Globe Staff FALMOUTH State officials pver the past eight months have 'spent $1.2 million on platforms and building restoration at two dCJape Cod railroad depots where "passenger service was sharply reduced this year. The work took place at and Buzzards Bay, which, ujitil last October, were stops for the now-defunct Cape Cod Hyannis Railroad, a summer-only tourist service that received $6 million in state subsidies over its 'four-year lifetime. The state Executive Office of Transportation and Construction canceled the subsidy to the tn January, saying the $4 million Ldue to be spent this year was more than could be justified in light of "(mounting budget deficits.

But by then, said Elizabeth Bartle, a spokeswoman for that state office, most materials had already been bought and supervi-, sors worried about the danger to the public of leaving trenches open and buildings unroofed. Bartle said work on the depots, '''administered by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, is now considered 95 percent complete. Only roof and interior e-Work remains to be done at Fal-gmouth. 3 The came under harsh criticism last month in a report the House Committee on Post and Oversight, which charged that the company's own- er-manager, Mark Snider, and his got $2 million of the state -money in salaries, fees and vaca- -tion and pension benefits. Snider has denied any wrong- doing in the railroad's use of the funds and said no one from the House committee bothered to question him before the allegations were leveled.

"I've held to the 1 Warm Stationary 100 NATIONAL FORECAST: Scattered showers and will extend from the Gulf Coast to the and Ohio valleys to the East Coast. There showers and thunderstorms across sections of and the Dakotas. Isolated afteroon thunderstorms will cover the Rockies and eastern Arizona. only in the 60s and 70s over the Pacific Northwest along the California coast; in the 80s from the Valley to the Atlantic Coast, with some 70s Appalachians and lower 90s over Florida: near 80 (T storms) 1989 Accv-Weather, inc MINIATURE ALMANAC Wednesday, Jury s.isns i' Tt Sunrise 5:13 Moonnse 7:36 em Sunset 6:24 Moonset 10:14 pm Length of day 15:11 pay ot year AM PM HIGH TIDE 1:45 Hot. of tlde, lit LOW TIDE 7:271 7:35 Hgt.

of low tide MOON'S PHASES First Quarter July 10 8teopm Full Moon July 18 Last Quarter July 25 New Moon Augustl CLIMATE DATA 8 p.m. 1989 BOSTON TEMPERATURES I Digriis High yesterday 75 Low I 6B Mean Departure from normal -i Departure this month Departure this year BOSTON DEGREE-DAY DATA Degree-day units Total this month 0 Total for season 0 Total corres. date last year i9 30-yr. normal, corres. date jO BOSTON PRECIPITATION Inchis Total 24 hours, ending 8 p.m.

O.ffJ Total this month to date O.OD Departure from normal 0.3 Total this year 16.15 Departure from normal BAROMETER AT SEA LEVEL at 2 30.19 in. 1022.4 mbi. at 8 p.m 30.17 in. 1021.5 mbi. 8 p.m.

relative humidity 74 YESTERDAY'S SUNSHINE INDEX 406 45 of possible. Boston record temps for July, 5 art 101 in 1919 and 52 in 1933 HIGH TIDE A.M. P.M. Old Orchard, Me 12:53 1:36 Hampton Beach, N.H 1:04 1:47 Plum Island 1:02 1:45 Ipswich 1:00 1:43 Gloucester 12:59 1:42 BOSTON AREA 1:45 Scituate 12:57 1:40 Plymouth 1:07 1:50 Cape Cod Canal (E) 1:01 1:44 Cape Cod Canal W) 10:52 11:35 Falmotrth 12:44 1:27 Hyannis Port 2:03 2:46 Chatham 1:32 2:15 Wellfleet 1:14 1:57 Provincetown 1:16 Nantucket Harbor 2:07 2:50 Oak Bluff? 1:32 2:15 New Bedford 9:45 10:28 Newport, R.I 9:32 10:15 8 p.m., National Weather Service Boston area: Mostly cloudy, warm and humid with chance of showers and thunderstorms, light winds south, with afternoon sea breezes, highs around 80 (27 C). Tonight, cloudy with chance of showers, lows around 65 (18 C).

Tomorrow, becoming partly sunny, warmer and continued humid, highs 85-90 (29-32 C). Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut: Mostly cloudy with chance of showers and thunderstorms, highs 75-85. Tonight, cloudy with chance of showers, lows in 60s. Tomorrow, becoming partly sunny, warmer and humid, highs 85-90. Cape Cod and Islands: Mostly cloudy with ocean fog persisting, chance of showers and thunderstorms, winds southwest around 10 m.p.h., highs 65-72.

Tonight, foggy with chance of showers, lows 60-65. Tomorrow, becoming partly sunny, highs mid-60s to low 70s. Massachusetts coastal marine forecast: Southwest winds 10-15 knots, becoming southeast during the after-' noon, changing tonight. Average seas around 1 foot through tonight. Visibility occasionally 1-3 miles in patchy fog and haze through tonight.

Maine: Showers and possibly thundershowers, highs near 60 at the downeast coast to near 80 in southwest interior. Tonight, slow clearing with patchy coastal fog, lows mostly near 60. New Hampshire: Showers and possibly thunder-showers, highs near 70 at coast to near 80 inland. Tonight, slow clearing, lows near 60. Tomorrow, mostly sunny, highs mostly in 80s.

Vermont: Showers and thunderstorms likely, becoming partly sunny north in afternoon, humid, highs 80- 85. Tonight, partly cloudy, mild, lows 60-65. Tomorrow, partly to mostly sunny, highs 85-90. EXTENDED FORECASTS Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut: Warm, muggy and hazy Friday and Saturday with scattered showers and thunderstorms, turning cooler Sunday with lots of clouds. High in 80s Friday and Saturday and 70s and low 80s Sunday; lows in 60s.

Maine, New Hampshire: Chance of showers north and fair south Friday with chance of rain south and showers north Saturday, clearing Sunday. Highs in 70s north to low to mid-80s south Friday, in 60s at coast to 70s inland Saturday and 70s statewide Sunday; lows in mid-50s to low 60s. Vermont: Scattered showers and thunderstorms Friday, gradually tapering off Saturday, fair Sunday. Highs 80-90 Friday, 75-80 Saturday and Sunday; lows 65-70 Fri-f day, 60-65 Saturday and Sunday. CoM THE thunderstorms Tennessee will be Minnesota Highs and Mississippi in the US Weather and City Albany Albuquerque Anchorage Asheville Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Birmingham Bismarck Boise Buffalo Charlstn.SC Charlstn.WV Charlotte Cheyenne Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland DallsFtWrth Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso GrndHapds Great Falls Green Bay Greensboro Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jackson Jacksonville Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Beach Milwaukee MplsStPaul Nashville New Orleans New York Norfolk OklhmaClty Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland.Or Raleigh Rapid City Richmond Sacramento St Louis SaltLakeClty San Diego SanFrncsco San Juan Seattle Spokane TmpStPete Topeka Tucson Tulsa Washington FOREIGN CITIES Weather and temps yesterday.

Local Temp. City Weather Time Aberdeen clear 1pm 75 24 Amsterdam clear 1pm 72 22 Ankara clear 3pm 89 32 Athens clear 2pm 84 29 Auckland clear noon 45 7 Beijing cloudy 8pm 73 23 Berlin ptly cldy 1pm 75 24 Bonn clear 1pm 70 21 Brussels ptly cldy 1pm 69 20 Cairo clear 2pm 91 33 Casablanca ptly cldy noon 76 25 Copenhagen clear 1pm 72 22 Dakar clear noon 84 29 Dublin clear 1pm 70 21 Geneva ptly cldy 1pm 72 22 Helsinki clear 2pm 81 27 Hong Kong cloudy 8pm 86 30 Jerusalem clear 2pm 78 26 Karachi ptly cldy 5pm 90 32 Lisbon cloudy 1pm 70 21 London clear 1pm 74 23 Madrid clear 1pm 83 29 Malta clear 1pm 83 28 Manila ptly cldy 8pm 84 29 Moscow cloudy 3pm 70 21 Nairobi cloudy 3pm 63 17 Nassau rain 7am 78 25 New Delhi clear 1pm 99 37 Oslo clear 1pm 77 25 Pretoria clear 2pm 69 21 Riyadh clear 3pm 1 12 44 Rome ptly cldy 1pm 78 25 Seoul clear 9pm 71 22 Sofia ptly cldy 2pm 77 25 Stockholm clear 1pm 81 27 Sydney ptly cldy 10pm 55 13 Taipei cloudy 8pm 83 28 Tokyo clear 9pm 66 19 Tunis clear 1pm 83 28 Vienna clear 1pm 84 29 Warsaw ptly cldy 1pm 77 25 The Young Reader Summer '89 Hid" CITIES and temperatures for today Thursday Todsy Tharsday Frest. High Frcsl. High shwrs 81 ptcldy 91 ptcldy 98 ptcldy 97 ptcldy 66 ptcldy 67 shwrs 78 shwrs 80 tstrms 83 cloudy 85 shwrs 76 cloudy 76 ptcldy 95 ptcldy 94 tstrms 82 tstrms 84 shwrs 84 shwrs 85 ptcldy 94 sunny 87 sunny 89 sunny 93 ptcldy 84 sunny 88 tstrms 88 cloudy 88 tstrms 80 shwrs 85 shwrs 83 shwrs 86 sunny 95 sunny 88 sunny 88 sunny 90 ptcldy 83 tstrms 87 sunny 83 ptcldy 87 haze 91 sunny 93 sunny 99 sunny 98 sunny 95 sunny 98 sunny 87 sunny 89 fair 100 fair 100 sunny 89 sunny 91 sunny 84 sunny 88 sunny 89 ptcldy 92 shwrs 62 shwrs 85 sunny 90 sunny 90 cloudy 91 ptcldy 92 ptcldy 87 ptcldy 90 tstrms 87 tstrms 88 ptcldy 92 ptcldy 92 sunny 94 sunny 95. sunny 112 sunny 112 ptcldy 86 ptcldy 87 sunny 100 sunny 100 cloudy 84 cloudy 86 cloudy 64 ptcldy 87 tstrms 86 cloudy 88 sunny 84 sunny 66 sunny 95 sunny 93 cloudy 85 ptcldy 86 tstrms 84 tstrms 88 tstrms 80 fair 88 ptcldy 86 tstrms 88 haze 92 ptcldy 90 sunny 96 sunny 98 ptcldy 92 ptcldy 92 shwrs 81 cloudy 86 sunny 115 sunny 113 ptcldy 81 haze 86 sunny 77 sunny 80 shwrs 84 shwrs 86 sunny 96 sunny 88 tstrms 85 tstrms 87 sunny 95 sunny 100 sunny 91 sunny 93 sunny 100 sunny 101 fair 84 fair 84 sunny" 70 sunny 72 ptcldy 88 ptcldy 69 ptcldy 70 lair 74 sunny 76 sunny 81 ptcldy 92 ptcldy 91 sunny 95 sunny fair 110 fair 107 haze 92 ptcldy 89 tstrms 82 tstrms 85 --Si' i The Young Reader is a newsletter about children and reading written by Stephanie Loer, Boston Globe children's book editor.

Contents of the Summer '89 issue: an interview with author Roald Dahl: Super books for summer reading, an annotated list of new and recommended Teachers' choices, a list of recommended books by teachers compiled for the International Reading Association; and Just for Kids, tips for youngsters on how to pick a book that's right for them. The Young Reader is offered free as a public service to Globe readers. To get a copy, send a stamped (25 cents first-class postage, no coins please), addressed, business-size (NoJ 10) envelope to: The Young Reader, Summer '89, Public Relations Department. The Boston Globe, P.O. Box 2378.

Boston, Mass. 02107-2378 (ihc Boston (61olic celebrating 1989 ThqYear of the Young Reader 1 VR 83089 PAN AMERICA Weather and temps yesterday. Local Temp. City Weather Time Buenos Aires clear 9am 37 3 Lima cloudy 7am 61 16 Mexico City ptly cldy 6am 56 14 Rio de Janeiro cloudy 9am 71 22 Santiago clear Bam 28 -2 CANADA Reports at noon yesterday. Temp City Weather Calgary clear 77 25 Edmonton clear 74 23 Montreal cloudy 85 29 Ottawa ptly cldy 90 32 Regina clear 78 25 Toronto haze 85 29 Vancouver cloudy 68 20 ill rl(.