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Tm BOSTON GLOBE KKIUAY, SEPTEMBER 22. 1989 41 I It's one stylish street Friday night's prime-time shows Thank you, networks, for a night of reading 9:30 p.m. Just the Ten of Us, ABC p.m. Vfe 2020, ABC 2 Falcon Crest, CBS Mancuso FBI, NBC Worth staving home for Worth watching if you're home Worth watching if you're tired Worth watching if you're sick Worthless No tape available She likes to dress up. He likes to dress down.

She likes to go dancing. He likes to watch boxing. She shops. He frets about money. This all results in some half-decent interplay between the Reids, but the chemistry set leaves out any other elements necessary to the 'Thin Man" genre, such as witty dialogue, well-paced direction and interesting plots, at least If the pilot is any indication.

And sad to say, this is the best that the networks have to offer at 8 because ABC begins its juvenile-comedy lineup and NBC offers us: Baywatch 8 p.m. Fridays, NBC Some might think this Is an improvement over the "Beach Blanket Bingo" meets "Adam-12" TV movie that inspired the series. It takes the first episode six minutes to show us the first flash of thigh, eight minutes for a cleavage close-up and a full nine for a navel. of Italian Romeo Gigli. Gigli was the, rage of the fall Paris collections, but 7 his clothes were so expensive as to be unattainable for most -No matter, Bilzerian's customers Cher, Mick Jagger, wealthy stu-' dents from the oil-producing tries as well as women from Boston "1' and Its suburbs are happy to pay" i the price.

The salespeople at Bilzerian wear the chic black-on-black ward-- robes that the Bilzerians they are young and able to" show a customer, without laughing, how to wear the garment they puf1' on upside down and cannot tie of remove. They also leave customers1' alone if they prefer to struggle. The same is true at Sumner, 16 Newbury which used to have the reputation of hari boring the hungriest and haughtiest, saleswomen in town. That in 1985, when Anita Chilen Britt d'Arbeloff bought the storey and, more recently, brought inki Mary Cosgrave as assistant ager and public relations coordina tor. Now shoppers can wander boths floors without being harassed.

Chirbs len, former manager for Jaeger,) and d'Arbeloff, a former with a degree from MIT, have the popular fashions of Donnai' Karan, Isaac Mizrahl and Glared franco Ferre to the racks, as well as a small section de.ff voted to enough Valentino. Sumner is a boutique in the sense of the word, in that one find a special evening gown andif(: also choose a great career With the help of enthusiastic, salespeople, a customer can then find the perfect shoes, stockings. jewelry, coat, gloves, belt and hat to, make it all work. -Moving up the street towarcl'; Massachusetts Avenue, the fash- ions grow younger and funkier. shoe store called John Fluevog afy 328 Newbury St.

carries black shoes and boots from don, for men and women, that lege students seem to cherish. tv Continued from Page 29 anyone else to turn off 1 a. i I lC Ul (till and veg out 1 "Remington kJ i steele" or a "Major Dad." That doesn't mean you network honchos have to be brainless, too. Look at the new shows you're giving us 'tonight. "Bewitched." updated forthe '80s as "Free Angels" meets "Charlie's Hunks" at the 1 beach for and "Hart to Hart" recast for Tim and Daphne Maxwell Reid as "Snoops." And every bad family comedy you've ever seen put together as 'Family Matters." What arrPl supposed to tell my people? Buy HBO? Read a book? Watch PBS? Talk? TJould you cut us some slack here? -Vb Snoops 8 p.m.

Fridays, Channel 7 JThe first scene makes it look as if Snoops" Is going to be a roman-tic'drama in the spirit of "Remington Steele" and "Moonlighting." Whatever their faults, particularly "Moonlighting," at least they didn't insult our intelligence, and neither does the first scene of "Snoops." sThe Reids meet in a Washington park and she asks, "How'd the cholesterol test go over 250?" He nods and orders two chili dogs, only to be rebuffed by the hot-dog-gef "No way, I don't want a triple-bypass on my conscience." OK, so it's not "Cheers," but there's a successful attempt at fusing, contemporary concerns with light entertainment. That evaporates faster than you can say, "Hart which "Snoops" turns into by scene. 2 when we learn he's a Georgetown professor of (We later learn she's a State Department aide.) FASHION Continued from Page 29 Maynard Goldman is a former owner of Charles Sumner, and Seitz was for 1 1 years store manager and accessories buyer there before starting this shop across the street in 1986. Seitz has some of the more ex citing accessories in the city crammed into this 1 foot space. Very special Rafael Sanchez belts and handbags, Deanna Hamro handbags and jewelry, Jean Muir handpainted-on-wood pins and earrings are the kind not seen anywhere else.

Suzanne's customers come from Europe (their children are in school here), the North and South Shores, the western suburbs. New Hamp shire, Connecticut and New York as well as the Back Bay, and their re action has forced Seitz to begin looking for a bigger space. She has not found it yet because she says it has to be on Newbury Street, and It has to be perfect. Alan Bilzerian nine years ago brought the kind of clothes to Newbury Street (he's now at No. 34) that made people say, "These are so weird that he's got to be from New York." Wrong.

He's from Worcester, where his 21 -year-old Alan Bilzerian store is as successful as the one on Newbury Street. Bilzerian dared to bring designers to Boston whose clothes needed to be explained before they were worn. "Have you seen the new Dries van Noten clothes? He's from Belgium," says Bilzerian, who introduced the city to the delights of Japanese design-, ers Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawa-kubo (who designs under the Commes des Garcons label). He also carries the dramatic art-to-wear clothes of Issey Miyake. Here's where the offbeat British outlook of Katharine Hamnett and Rifat Ozbek are displayed with barely contained enthusiasm by Bilzerian and his French-born wife, Be.

Here one can see first-hand the French chutzpah of Jean Paul Gaultier and Azzedine Alaia and the breathtaking beauty of the designs you are age 18 or older and have 3 or more of these symptoms, you may be able to participate in a Harvard Medical School Research Project at McLean Hospital. We offer a free initial evaluation and, It qualified, the opportunity for treatment with a new research antidepressant. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL Q55.2QQ3 or mall this checklist with your name, address and telephone no. to: Psychopharmacology Program Mclean hospital sb 302 115 mill street, belmont. ma 02178 mother, not a magician." Or: Carl: "That's the last time I do anything around this house." Mother: "Here, take this to the kitchen." Carl: "Yes, Mom." Suddenly, "Baywatch" doesn't sound so bad.

V2 Free Spirit 9:30 tonight, Channel 5 Then 8 p.m. Sundays This one might spark some in terest in "Bewitched" reruns. If anybody watches it. Sunday night is one of ABC real trouble spots, and this hocus pocus is just hokey and pokey. Corinne Bohrer isn't bad as the witch sent from above to help out a struggling lawyer and his three kids.

But a show like this needs to be zany, and this show is about as zany as a Brattle Street think tank, Winnie Goodwin, if tonight's show is any indication, is deter mined not to use her magic so that the kids won be cheated out of doing things for themselves. Well that's fine for the kids, but what about the viewers who are cheated out of finding anything remotely tunny about ree bpirit Winnie's big line is "Not neces sarily. Just make it Not neces sary" and you have "Free Spirit's' contribution to the fall season. DEPRESSION STUDY How to succeed as Capote HAVE YOU BEEN: APPLES! PICK YOUROWIN OPEN Vm RAIN OR DAILY 10-5 SHINE macoun Mcintosh cortland delicious empire Mcintosh a cortland ARE READYI DOE ORCHARDS Harvard, Mass. 508-772-4139 Take Rt.

2 West to Rt. 110111 Aver exit. Follow signs 1V4 mis. on LEFT. Sal blui or discouraged Tensi or anxious more than usual Unable to enjoy friends or activities Sleeping poorly Losing your eppetite Lacking in motivation and ambition Feeling fatigued Unable to concentrate Below, Ed Siegel's ratings of the shows that will appear In the regular Friday prime-time lineup this season.

FRIDAY 8 p.m. Va Washington Week in Review, PBS Snoops, CBS 2 Full House, ABC Baywatch, NBC 8:30 p.m. Wall Street Week, PBS Family Matters, ABC 9 p.m. V2 Great Performances, PBS Hardball, NBC Dallas, CBS Perfect Strangers, ABC in desperate need of a hit after his new studio's three failures of last year. Tinker isn't Spelling, which means that "Baywatch" will do as little for the libido as it does for the brain.

Tonight's episode deals mainly with a power-ski terrorist who bumps into a wind surfer and drowns her. When she is pulled from the water a day later she still looks sexy enough to pose for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Aside from the show being patently stupid, Al Campanis has apparently been hired as the "Baywatch" adviser: The only black person in sight Is a cop who can't stand the water. Family Matters 8:30 p.m. Fridays, Channel 5 There are plenty of black faces on this show, but there should be red faces at producing a comedy with so few laughs.

"Family Matters" makes 'The Cosby Show" still look fresh. "Family Matters" makes "Father Knows Best" look fresh. The writing is practically nonexistent. Harriette Winslow, the elevator operator from "Perfect Strangers," tells her husband, Carl, a fat policeman, that his mother is moving in with them and their four children. "Harriette, she'll put me on a diet and I will waste away to nothing." "We're talking about your cess took an hour and a half.

Applied while Morse is in a barber chair (a red plastic antique the like of which Morse remembers from having his hair cut in Waban when he was boy), the makeup is now down to 45 minutes. "And like that! I Just lose Robert Morse. Robert Morse is also lost if people don't happen to know me," he adds with slightly bitter irony. As though some of these people who don't know him are listening right now, Morse talks about growing up in Newton and the show business ambitions he shared with his brother Richard. Their mother, May, was a concert pianist, a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music it counted for something, as she used to their father, Charles, owned and operated the Kenmore Theater, a moviehouse Morse used to "haunt." He was a "show-off, always imitating Danny Kaye, Ray Bolger, Sid Caesar." He graduated from Newton High in 1951, then served in the Navy during the Korean War a sonar Discharged, he "went straight to New York and enrolled at the American Theater Wing." He married Carole Andrea (the oriel nal Velma in "West Side "sometime before 'How to Succeed in I'm sorry but the year slips me.

They re now divorced Originally booked on ART'S Fall Festival '89 series for two weeks at the Hastv Pudding Theater. 'Tru has been extended through Oct. 8 (and it may be extended further). It is expected to open on Broadway in mid- or late-October, most likely at the Booth. Whatever fears Broadway mav stimulate in Robert Morse he says he's prepared.

For all his havering, he seems to have found the message in Frank Loesser's "I Believe in Me," which, as J. Pier-pont Finch, he used to sing in the executive washroom at the World Wide Wicket Company while staring devotedly at himself in the mirror. "The toughest opening so far was Poughkeepsie. It was terrifying because it was the first time I inhabited the makeup, the costume, the set, the whole shmeer. I opened nervous on a hot summer night.

There I was on the stage of the Powerhouse Theater, padded and bundled together as Truman Capote, all the professionals having done their stuff, and I thought. This is it, this is the now." I only began to get any idea of what I was doing and only an inkling of an idea when people kept telling me how like Capote I was. "Well, I'm now ready," Morse says. "I've been waiting so long for someone to give me a chance a real chance to be the actor 1 know I am despite my anxieties! that I've heard myself saying over and over 'Gimme thp all rtlmmp the ball, gimme the Now I've got tneoall and I'm gonna run! "10 MORSE Continued from Page 29 Huckleberry FinnMickey Roon-eyishMusical Comedy Type Person that's all. I'm not putting dbwn what I've done on Broadway, How to Succeed in Take Me any of that stuff.

All I'm saying is that I've been draining, hoping, wishing that something with a little schmarzka-pop would come my way. Tru' is Written and directed by Jay Pfresson "Tru" is a one-man play in two acts drawn from Truman Capote's life. (Allen has said tha 75 percent of her script is Capote's own words.) It came to Robert Morse's attention in Los Angeles through his agent at Bauman and Hiller. Although Morse was not Allen's first choice to play Capote (no one is saying who that first choice was), when Morse read the 90-page script it was his "dream come ora NEEDED! What am I supposed to tell my people? Buy HBO? Read a book? Watch PBS? Talk? Could you cut us some slack here? But don't get the wrong idea. This isn't about skin, it's about the lives of dedicated public servants.

Lifeguards. David Hasselhoff plays the commander of this platoon, or whatever they call groups of lifeguards, and he's assisted by Parker Stevenson as a lawyer who just can't get the water off his brain. NBC couldn't go the all-out Aaron Spelling jiggle-o route on this one considering it's at 8 o'clock and the last thing the network wants is another "Nightingales." Instead we get Grant Tinker, the maestro of quality television, who apparently is can, you So I pulled the shades down and started to work. When the fear would strike, I'd call up Jack Lemmon and talk it out. I asked him how he got through 'Long Day's Journey into Or I'd call up Jeff Corey for pointers.

Jeffs an old friend and teaches acting in LA. And little by little Truman Capote started to take over. "I met Capote once. Had a two-minute conversation. I wish I could say I spent 20 hours a day researching him, that I saw every movie he made, every television appearance, but I didn't.

I saw a fragment of a tape from a Dick Cavett show, that was all. So where did he come from? From a puzzle bag of everyone I've ever known who had similarities to the type of person Capote was; from my own observations of people; my feelings about the life I've passed through. Plus, I guess, my own sweet, lyrical, musical way of looking at things. I just can't give a better answer than that. It was easier to find things to imitate, to get down pat, than if I were to play someone more commonly straight.

When people who knew Capote came to see me after we opened in Poughkeepsie and told me I had become Capote, that I really was him. I was astounded. Still am." Yet there is a further clue to the mysterious transference of Morse into Capote. "Jay is a perfectionist, a remarkable woman. And her husband Lewis, and David Brown, who are the producers, are keen and knowledgeable theater people.

Tru' was definitely not to be a dinner-theater production. Jay had decided to write about Capote when he was not over the top, on the skids. She wanted to write an entertaining portrait. She didn't want to do a drunk-and-drugs story, but wanted to show him in a specific year, 1975. She gave me 20 or 30 books on what happened that year, 1975, the exact look of things, the style, attitude.

And she took me to Kevin Haney, a makeup man in Van Nuys only calling Kevin Haney a make-, up man is all wrong. He's a sculptor, really, and a genius. "Haney was working on 'Dick Tracy' and in his studio at Van Nuys there were these heads molds of heads hanging along the walls. I remember an Al Pacino head and the Munchkins. Haney did a plaster mold, a prosthetic copy of my face, and then added a false chin, a jowl piece, some jiose work and stuff up under, and around my eyes.

This became the working model for what he was going to do later. The most painful thing he did was to fill the gap be-, tween my two front teeth. A wig-maker was flown in from London with a wig complete with a bald spot. When I was all put together I was Truman Capote." During the early run of the play in Poughkeepsie, the makeup She (filolic present THE BOSTON GLOBE presents PIZZA HUTPEPSI Hoop-ir-ip CHYIfAU. riAZA, BOSWN SEPTEMBER 22, 23 24 Iteneftling The Bay Slate Games I loop-Il-Up is a national grassroots 3-on-3 basketball tournament benefiting the Ray State Games.

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He tries to soft-ei the word "depression" (he's "so glad and grateful about so many things that have happened" since he Was a student at Newton High School). But the1 fact is, everything Be says reveals a deep underlying insecurity, a bottomless fear that everything really good was in his past and wasn't going to occur again. Morse's stardom happened 28 years ago in "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying." yrriike that show's boyish hero, J. fierpont Finch, who scales the lad-def from window washer to chairman of the board of the World Wide picket Company, Robert Morse has ecn stalemated. His stage and jnqvie life has been sporadic.

Recently he had been cast as Scooter i Molloy (a character based on Bobby Clarke) in "Mike.T an ill-fated musi- Jal about producer Mike Todd that has proved a disaster on the road, fecfore that, there had been soaps, a Pishey movie, dinner theaters and prgotten performances. I started to work on frru.M called Jay Pressori Allen and fold her I didn't think I could do it, I jwas too scared. Meanwhtle, my, i friends were saying my attitude was 11; wrong. Hilary aid, 'Daddy, you SIGN UP NOW! Call (617) 259-1580 ASSOCIATE SPONSORS SPONSORS JiA AA SportsCtutrmd Jl 4..