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TV Page 6 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah. Monday, November 3, 1986 Provo cable system to add more channels N.Y. to LA. commute to end for star of x227' Although the changes will also affect TCI systems in Salem, Spanish Fork and Payson and in Nephi. Heber City and Fillmore, those changes may not come on Dec.

1. Bork said that's because priority systems generally those with larger population bases) get first call on the hardware needed to make the changes. TCI recently signed an exclusive contract to broadcast 20 live Utah voice. I didn't see anybody doing Mae West on television. Especially a black actress.

I know Mae West wouldn't mind, so I lifted it." She has also given Sandra a vulnerability that helps endear her to the audience. She doesn't always win. "They've made her more sympathetic and likable," she said. "I like her more brassy. But I'm not the star.

"Sandra is the vamp. She gets what she wants from men. But they also want me to lose sometimes. They want to round out the character. I'd like to do more physical humor.

I think it's just a matter of time, as the show gets more established." Harry was born in Winston-Salem, N.C., but grew up in New York, where she attended the High School of Music and Art and Long Island University. She was teaching history at Brooklyn Technical High School when she got a job in the chorus of a Broadway musical. She quit teaching. She also appeared in "Eubie" and "One Mo' Time" on Broadway and in several Off-Broadway shows. "People see me as Sandra, but I was a serious actress before that." she said.

"Although I am naturally funny. I also sing and was in musicais. I had a tiny role in 'Moscow on the Hudson' and 'Cotton but they cut me out of that one." Harry said her ambition is to be like Judy Holliday. "I want to be funny and serious and glamorous." she said. "I want to do it all.

Whoopi Goldberg is like that, in a wav." show. I go to Los Angeles to sing." Her role on "227" came about when she taped a personality screen test for NBC. She was called not long afterward. She originally read for the part of Rose, now" played by Alaina Reed. "I was dressed differently, my hair was different." she recalled.

"I wore dowdier clothes. But they were looking for someone glamorous for Sandra. Another actress came in to read and I thought the part was gone. Then they asked me to read for Sandra. I had to go back to New York immediately for my soap.

They called me at the hotel, before I left and said it looked like a pretty good chance I'd get the part. "I flew to New York, did my part on the soap, went home and called my agent. He said I had the role. I flew right back to Los Angeles that night. It was like a fairy tale." Still, she renewed her contract on "Another World." She didn't think the part on "227" would last long.

Harry said she has endowed Sandra with a little bit of Mae West, some of Opal (the character Dorothy Lyman plays on "All My and "my girlfriend Valjean and my Aunt Ver-na in Philadelphia." She said, "Valjean was my best friend in high school. Aunt Verna was down to earth. She loved to pull practical jokes. She was funny and loud and had a booming For Home or To save more winter after winter, call us about our high-efficiency 90 PLUS gas furnace We'll help you make the right choice: Rheem. By BOB HUDSON Assistant City Editor Provo's cable TV system will become more "customer-friendly" about Dec.

1, according to Tom Bork. a community relations spokesman for Tele-Communications. Inc. Bork said cable will be undergoing some dramatic changes in the next few months. The changes his company is instituting are tied into cable deregulation, which takes ef fect Jan.

1, 1987, Bork said. TCI, Bork said, decided to use deregulation "as an opportunity to design systems to benefit subscribers." According to Vicki Hansen, the general manager of the Provo system, one of the first changes area subscribers will notice is the addition of four channels to the company's basic service. Those new channels, Hansen said, will include Lifetime, the Discovery Channel, American Movie Classics and the Cable Value Network. Those additions will bring basic cable offerings to 23 channels. Another change.

Bork said, will be the clustering of similar channels such as the Public Broadcasting stations, musir channels and the like. Bork said, however, that the three Salt Lake commercial stations will be left in their familiar spots on the cable dial. So, too. will KBYU-TV. channel 11.

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Just be glamorous and the brunt of the jokes. She was supposed to spice up the show for a while then be gone." But after the producers saw her perform in the pilot as Sandra they extended her contract to 13 episodes. "I was happy," she said, "but I still figured I'd be gone." The NBC comedy is now in its second year, and Harry is now a fixture as the sexy and funny Sandra. "227," centered on the residents of an apartment building in Washington. DC, also stars Mar-la Gibbs.

Hal Williams, Helen Martin, Alaina Reed, Regina King, Curtis Baldwin and Kia Goodwin. Gibbs. who previously starred as the maid in The Jeffersons." plays Mary Jenkins, whose penchant for gossip and meddling frequently brings her into conflict with Sandra. Harry is near the end of her role in "Another World" after commuting between New York and Los Angeles to do both shows. "I just have to fly back to New York for the Christmas show, then I'll be released." she said.

She spent 24 years on "Another World" as Lily Mason, a former prostitute. "I wanted to be evil." she said, "but they said no. they wanted me to be likable. I owned a night club, fell in love and got dumped. I really wanted to be bad.

Then I embarked on a singing career. That's how they're writing me out of the We Want People Interesting people make interesting news. If you have a tip, call The City Desk. 373-5050 during business hours. Jazz games and four "classic' games, tnose determined to be franchise turning points.

Those games will be aired as a part of the basic service as well. Bork said plans are to pre-empt some cable offering corporate officials determine as less appealing in favor of those games. Eventually, he said, such broadcasts will have a channel set aside. "We think this will bring a lot of satisfaction to the viewers," Bork said. Of the new offerings, All Movie Classics may be the most populai.

Bork said. The channel will feature vintage movies from the 1930s. 1940s and 1950s. The company has exclusive rights to many of the films. The Discovery channel will feature programming similar to that offered on public broadcasting stations, including educationally-oriented and informational shows.

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