The Shreveport Journal from Shreveport, Louisiana • 17

t- 1 Fashion shows are benefits2B Olympian motivates youth4B 1b THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14 1989 SHREVEPORT JOURNAL SHREVEPORT BOSSIER CITY LA im Deborah Tucker (left to right) Halle Berry Alison Elliott and Leah Remini star as glamorous New York fashion models who live study and work together in "Living fensive either and it does promise oc- Danza under the age of 14 and on a Saturday' casional guest appearances by Tony It will probably entertain youngsters night a lot to be said for that three more programs please see pages 3B and 4B Friday: Watch for Nancy's piedictions of Emmy winners for the 1988-89 season in Journal TV This is the final day of reviews of the new television shows by Nancy Morris the Journal's television writer Today she takes a look at the offerings on Friday and Saturday nights For reviews of 'Family Matters' I -ft if ACHES HAHofUS A Dovid Hasselhoff (left) and Parker Stevenson star in 'Baywatch' "Baywatch" 7-8 pm Fridays KTAL Channel 6 (NBC) premieres Sept 22 Though the first episode of the new NBC series was not previewed the pilot a two hour made-for-TV flick "Baywatch Panic at Malibu was And it was reason to panic as it was pretty scary for a number of reasons The first and most important reason it was scary is that as much as fundamentalist religious groups say they want smut off television the truth is that the rerun the rerun of the pilot finished in the Top 10 of the Nielsens What that means is that there were some fundamentalist religious people out there watching the thing which is basically the story of a bunch of less-than-half -dressed lifeguards with IQs smaller than their chest measurements women and men) jiggling around the beaches of Malibu David Hasselhoff the guy who used to talk to his car in "Knight stars in this thing as Mitch Bucannon a career lifeguard So good was he at his job that Mitch was recently promoted to lieutenant of the lifeguards meaning that he had to cast off his orange bathing suit for a uniform and shoes best friend Craig Pomeroy (Parker Stevenson) is a lawyer who often exchanges his pinstripe suit for the orange trunks of the lifeguards (which says a lot about the difficulty of the California bar exam maybe TV preacher and former presidential hopeful Pat Robertson who flunked the bar in New York should go west) Also starring in this embarrassing TV skin flick is former Miss Universe Shawn Weatherly Hasselhoff Stevenson and Weatherly join a cast of what appears to be hundreds of orange-suited men and women whose only real function is to make one wish portfolio contained many shares in a Japanese surgical implant manufacturing company The pilot concerned the death of an old lifeguard and his burial at sea (about 200 feet out from the beach) Maybe a subsequent show will deal with his remains washing up on the shore All the female lifeguards could jump up and down and scream The screaming might be irritating but female lifeguards jumping up and down will definitely be one of the major things that happens in this series The point so to speak Also subsequent shows might deal with promise to go to court to try to get total custody of the son Not to be an alarmist or anything but this show is a good indicator of the the trouble civilization is in Not a pretty sight No Kidding? What Lon Chaney Wore In of Notre 1 Football shoulder pads 2 A 42-pound rubber 3 A 30-pound leather harness 4 Matted wig with bristly hair 5 Rubber suit with animal hair 6 Fang-like teeth held in mouth with wax 7 Popping false eye held with putty 1923 required 4V hours each day to dress Source: world Features Syndicate 'Living Dolls' "Living pm Saturdays beginning Sept 30 KTBS Channel 3 (ABC) preview Sept 26 "Living is another sitcom which was not available for preview but as sitcoms go this one sounds passable Granted it sound" like your funny but it does sound cute It is billed as a spin-off of the though it is unclear just why since the deal is that Samantha (Alyssa Milano) is going to New York for three days to interview models for her school paper This sitcom is about the four young models Sam will interview They are Caroline (Deborah Tucker) Emily (Halle Berry) Martha (Alison Elliott) and Charlie (Leah Remini) They all live with the woman who runs their modeling agency former model Trish Carlin (Michael Learned) The idea is that the girls all different one spoiled one intelligent one naive and one with a chip on her shoulder will all learn to live and work together in relative harmony It sound like anything over which mom and dad will cancel the party at the club but it doesn't sound of- "Family premieres 7:30 pm Sept 22 regular season 7:30 pm Fridays KTBS Channel 3 (ABC) Through the years there have been many "spin series new series which revolved around a secondary character or characters from an already successful series Some of these spin offs have been successful such as which was based on the George Jefferson character in in the Family" And some have not been successful such as which was based on Florence George maid in (well actually was a spin off of a spin off) "Family a 30-minute sitcom which will premiere on Sept 22 is a spin off of and revolves around Harriette (JoMarie Payton-France) the elevator operator in Strangers" The elevator operator Sounds like stretching things but hey one on Saturday "Living which is a spin off of the and nobody in it has ever been near the Boss?" But spin off or no spin off "Family is not funny In "Perfect the character of Harriette is funny In the character is merely one more sitcom mom trying to deal with a wimpy husband policeman Carl Winslow (Reginald VelJohnson) and mother (Rosetta LeNoire) Harriette and Carl have three children 9-year-old Judy (Jaimee Foxworth) 13-year-old Laura (Kellie Williams) and 15-year-old Eddie (Darius McCrary) who are at once so precocious yet so mischievious one would think they were Cliff illegitimate children Ah ha! So thats where Cliff really was all those nights he told Claire he was working late at the hospital Only kidding watching an entire PORT peoPLe Bartage and Black Kellie Shanygne Williams (left to right) Darius McCrary Rosetta Le Noire Reginald VelJohnson (holding baby Joseph Loyal Wright) JoMarie Payton-France and Telma Hopkins are featured in "Family his mother will make him go on a diet 11 cause t0 lauSh out loud But Harriette never one to consider even though the irritating laugh track new television shows all at once does things to the mind her dignity says talking about your mother not a After the woman moves in and interferes with the disciplining of the children however Harriette learns that having mother around may not be a bed of roses Basically this show is a ripoff And though not particularly offensive not really anything that sets it apart or makes it special either Though does have its similarities to Cosby it will feature an extended family In addition to mother who moves in with them in the first episode also Rachel (Telma Hopkins) widowed sister who along with her 8-month old baby has moved in with the Winslows In the premiere episode Harriette has decided to ask mother to move in with the family against it Says 6o disgusted you KNOW HOW TOLD YOU 1 WANTED TO GET AN EARLY JUMP ON DUCK SEASON? WELL HOT MESS THROUGH ALL cries out for such a viewer response but it might cause an infrequent smile for its occasional cuteness It will be hard for many people to relate to since it is three generations living under one roof This worked with but difficult to imagine it working with the Winslows Or anyway these Winslows On this one smart money says goodnight 1 MUST'VE HAD A 6AD CALLER AND A WORSE VEOOY ALL I ATTRACTED WERE A BUNCH OF GOOFY LOOKING RUBBER DUCKS AFTER I GOT THIS TIP ABOUT A WHOLE OF PUCKS PASSING HERE I BUY THE EQUIPMENT SET UP A PUCK BUNP ALONG THE (ZED RIVER AND I'M) READY FOR ACTION TT1 AND Lin of HOiftmOCH kTo wp fn a tvs thy TpgCiSt m-m at.