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fJptahVHri-Late Late pQ fel; 2S St 5 ST' "gf- Mo.e Sher cov mSSSE WZIZI SS F. HpjL-theCurve bWl, gg- g- Today on TV 'Biography' subject recalls city stint By Mel Bracht Staff Writer It didn't take long for Mary Hart to become a pop culture icon after leaving Oklahoma City's Channel 4 in the late 1970s. But Hart still credits her 3'A: years as co-host of "Dannysday" talk show with BBlBiBiBB LaVTF VHaHBBlBlBlBlBlBlBlBlBfl SBlBiBiBm helping to prepare her for TV stardom in Hollywood. In her 19th year as co-host of the popular syndicated show "Entertainment Tonight." PHOTO PROVIDED Mary Hart She helped build "ET" into the most popular magazine show in the country and certainly with the longest tenure. The show, which she co-hosts with Bob Goen, begins its 20th season tonight (6:30 week-nights, KWTV-9).

Hart said the show plans to introduce a new set next month. "We created a whole genre of television," she said. "Many, many shows have been spawned because of our success." Hart is proud that unlike many TV programs, the show's ratings have improved each year. A physical fitness enthusiast. Hart has produced two exercise videos.

She also has sung in variety shows in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, N.J., and recorded an album, "Lullabies from the Heart" in 1994, including "Lullaby for A.J.," dedicated to her only child. Hart, 48, is married to Burt Sugarman, a business tycoon and former film producer. Sugarman underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor. In recent years, Hart has showed her hectic lifestyle to take care of A. who is in the third grade.

"ET" is taped at 12:30 p.m. PDT, which allows her to drive J. to and from school. "I still can be home to do homework for him in the late afternoon," she said. "He's my top priority, without a doubt." Former "Dannysday" co-hosts Danny Williams and Mary Hart stand with program director Bill Thrash in this photo from the late 1970s.

show every day with an audience, we did everything from household tips to interviewing politicians and Girl Scout leaders. We had live bands on. It was a real variety show, too. "We also got to go to the state fair and the arts festival downtown. I got to work with a guy I consider to be a master entertainer." Back then, Hart was a newcomer to television.

Born and raised in South Dakota, her limited resume included hosting a local cable TV show in Sioux Falls while teaching high school English and a six-month stint doing TV and radio newscasts in Codar Rapids, Iowa. When her husband was transferred to Oklahoma City in 1976, she approached Thrash about getting a job on Channel 4, then known as KTVY. "She was special," said Thrash, now the deputy director of programming at OETA. "Danny and I knew it the minute we met her. She was a natural." Williams, a popular morning radio personality an KOMA (FM 92.5 and AM 1520), said he was impressed with how quickly she learned the TV business.

She also produced the show and lined up guests. "This girl is really smart, and she did a marvelous, marvelous job," Williams snid. the cheery Hart has been honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame and a place in Broadcasting Cable magazine's Hall of Fame. At 7 tonight, the former Miss South Dakota will be profiled on "Biography." The show will include comments from "Dannysday" co-host Danny Williams and former Channel 4 program director Bill Thrash. "I've always said the best experience I've ever had in the business was working with Danny in Oklahoma City, because we did everything," Hart said in a telephone interview.

"Not only did we do a live Philbin on NBC. The 30-rninute morning show was canceled after only four months because of poor ratings. "We had the great unfortunate experience of having followed David Letter-man in the morning," Hart said. "He had been on the year before." The cancellation quickly turned into a blessing. When "Entertainment Tonight" interviewed her about the shortlived show, producers were so-irnpressed with her that they offered her a job, first as a reporter and weekend anchor and three months later as weekday anchor.

"She's extremely pretty and has got a great personality. When we got out in public, she was always real friendly with people. She claimed that she learned that from me." Hart became an Oklahoma City celebrity and appeared in several theater productions at the Lincoln Plaza Hotel, including "Godspell" and "The Fantastics." After Hart divorced in 1979, she moved to Los Angeles to seek work. She landed a job on the local "PM Magazine" and broke into network television in 1981 as co-host of "The Regis Philbin Show" with Compiled by Mel Bracht Media Writer BEST BETS "One Day in September," 7 p.m., HBO. Oscar-winning documentary about the hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics, where members of the Israeli team were kidnapped by terrorists.

The events are described by eyewitnesses, athletes and one of the terrorists, who has been in hiding. "On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying," 8 p.m., OETA-13. Second in a four-part series. The approach to palliative care used at Mount Sinai Medical Center helps patients face death the way they choose. WORTH A LOOK "Intimate Portrait: Jamie Lee Curtis," 6 p.m., Lifetime.

A winding career path has led Curtis from "Halloween" (1978) to mainstream success. "Since You've Been Gone," 7 p.m., KOKH-25. In this latest variation on the "Survivor" and "Big Brother" theme, people are kept away from all news for a week then quizzed on current events. "Biography: Mary Hart," 7 p.m., A profile of the "Entertainment Tonight" anchor from her South Dakota birth to her lengthy career in broadcasting. "The Hughleys," 8 p.m., KAUT-43.

Canceled by ABC, the show gets a second chance on UPN. The new season begins with Yvonne and Darryl getting nutty over who to hire to re-modeltheir Kitchen. "Girlfriends," 8:30 p.m., KAUT-43. Four best friends (who don't necessarily like each other all the time) share urban life in this new comedy series. "Dick Van Dyke Week," 9 p.m., TV Land.

The network is presenting special episodes of the enduring 1960s sitcom. OTHER HIGHLIGHTS 7 p.m. "Mysterious Ways," KFOR-4. Miranda and three other people with an urge to jump find themselves strangely drawn to a New Zealand bridge. "2020 Downtown," KOCO-5.

Heroic or reckless? Jam! Floyd speaks to a 7-Eleven employee fired for confronting an armed robber at work. "Law Briscoe and Green believe a husband is responsible for drugging his wife, until the discovery of a shocking tape points the Investigation in a new direction. "Monday Night Football," KOCO-S. New England Patriots at New York Jets. "Third Doherty saves the lives of Doc and Carlos when they are trapped in a burning building.

For (demon! program WoWKiMt, eontulf TV Thli VM slaying Olympic slaughter What: "One Day in Septern bar." When: 7 tonight. Where: HBO, Cox Cable channel 2. film was able to include protagonists from all sides, everyone from Gashey who talks of his hate-Ailed, hopeless childhood in a Palestinian refugee camp to the other ill-fated nine as hostages. The 95-minute flint, narrated by Michael Douglas, combines interviews, news footage and period music. The 1972 Summer Olympics was sup terrorists from that slaughter have not found him.

But here he is, tolling his story without any trace of regret, in the Academy Awnrd-w inning documentary, "One Day in September," which would have been stunning even without Gashey's testimony. With it, the film, which debuts at 7 tonight on HBO, is extraordinary. "My director, Kevin Macdonald, found him in Africa," producer Arthur Colin said. "He has contacts with Palestinian sources. "But, something else which is fascinating once lie found him, (Gashey) was very, very anxious to toll what had happened in Munich.

It was not that we had to (pull) every word out of him. He was absolutely delighted to tell the world." Cohn says he felt relieved that the By Virginia Rohan The licenni, Hackensark, N.J. The man Is in shadow, his face slightly digitized, a baseball-typo cap pulled low over his brow. His hands the first glimpse of him that we see move animatedly as he calmly describes, in Arabic, his involvement In one of modern history's most horrific and public terrorist acts. As the only remaining survivor of the eight Palestinians from the Black September movement who stagod a deadly invasion of the Israeli housing compound at Munich's Olympic Village on Sept.

5, 1972 this terrorist, Jamil Al Gashey, is a marked man. He has moved frequently over the past quarter-century to protect his life. The Israeli secret assassination squads that the film says traced and killed two posed to undo the image of the Nazi-drivon Olympics of 1936. Security was deliberately lax, and it was easy for the terrorists to scale the Olympic Village's fence. The terrorists' intent was to force the release of political prisoners being held in Israel in exchange for the athletes, a deal Utat Israeli Prime Minister Oolda Melr refused.

KNIQHT RIOOEfVTRIBUNB INFORMATION BERVICH8 Zvi Zamir, head of Is- raeli intelligence at the time. They helped to ensure "a balanced, even-handed film," Even if you vividly remember how tragically the story turns out, "One Day in which won the Oscar for best documentary feature in March, manages to re-creato the via ceral, sickening, nail-biting; suspense that prevailed during that 24-hour period. The terrorists killed two of the athletes almost immediately and took Oklnhorrmn. i Sunday.