The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 48

'rriw 8G The Salt Lake Tribune Wednesday December 17 1986 Television Today Foul-Mouthed Rivers Takes Bad Taste to a New Low on Late Show mi 1 I A iL I it ill a I mi Harold Schindler Television Editor In sixth place for the week among prime-time programs was Golden Girls then ABC Sunday Night Movie: A Smokey Mountain Christmas then 60 Minutes in eighth place and NBC Monday Night Movies: Anastasia Mystery of Anna ninth Dallas was 10th followed by LA Law Moonlighting Growing Pains and Hallmark Hail of Fame: The Promise which tied with The Boss for 14th Newhart was 16th Amen tied with Circus of the Stars for 17th and Frosty the Snowman 19th and Kate Allie 20th Others among the 69 prime-time programs surveyed included: Spenser: For Hire 65th Downtown 66th Twilight Zone 67th Sidekicks 68th and CBS Saturday Movie: Wild Wild West Revisited in the pits at 69th picked up two worth of experience in one agonizing game) it will interest fans to know that Jim McMahon will be Johnny guest on The Tonight Show Thursday along with Jane Fonda NUMBERS RACKET: Not much change in the top 20 this week according to the A Nielsen ratings It was The Cosby Show in first place followed by Family Ties Cheers Night Court and Murder She Wrote for the first five On the heels of this came the disclosure that Shelley Long the intellectual waitress on Cheers will quit the show at end to time to her family and two a new production Explaining that she had been offered an extension of her five-year contract but had refused the Emmy-winner who played Diane Chambers since the series premiere in 1982 said she was giving priority to family and her newly established film production company Talk around Hollywood recently has it that Cheers was not the happiest set in the town because of ego conflicts departure may ease some of the strain said Rivers tartly only want to wish her And later had enough time to get back to the phone no matter what side of the street she was walking And the networks wonder why viewers are turning away? FOR WHAT WORTH: A Colorado talent agency is looking for two sets of identical infant twin girls for a part in a motion Chris Farrell of Images Denver said the search is on for sets of twin girls Caucasian with clear clean features one set 6 months old and the other set a year old by next February Images she said will be videotaping and photographing applicants in its Denver office Thursday Friday and next Monday It would like twins dressed alike For appointments call (303) 779-8888 In the event applicants make the Denver dates (the agency called Salt Lake City because such a talent search limited to the Denver area offer a wide possibility for success) applicants can mail current photos and information about twins to Images 5251 DTC Parkway Suite 1100 Englewood Colo 80111 POSTSCRIPT: After watching rookie Chicago Doug Flutie learn a lesson in obeying orders from an old master like coach Mike Ditka Monday night (Flutie off some of his needlepoint keeps me busy between takes on asked Rivers you think we can sell this the And Rivers ever the lady ever the gracious hostess ever the star snapped gives a It was a vulgarity reserved for boot camp and saloons The word clear and unadorned spoken with none of the verve and panache exhibited by burlesque performers but with the sour anger of an affronted tramp lingered on the airwaves for a moment while the studio audience offered a collective gasp It was time for a commercial For the rest of the evening Rivers made repeated assaults on the telephone dialing furiously and exhorting neighbors who might be listening to the program to on her door and tell her to answer the Finally guest Eva Gabor uttered words of wisdom you let Victoria alone she obviously want to talk to a good thing that the ratings for The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers are so low If they and a sizable chunk of the television audience tuned her in say with the same regularity as they do The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson then Rivers would surely be in deep trouble with the Federal Communications Commission by now and the American television public would be subject to saliva tests As a matter of fact downright curious that Rivers' outrageous mouth hasn't landed her in a lawsuit or that the FCC tossed her off the air altogether For if anyone deserves a swift kick in the derriere more than the foul-mouthed queen of Fox Broadcasting Company I know who it would be Rivers famous monologue line: we used to provoke a gale of laughter when she was guest host for Carson on NBC but two months of raunchiness on effort to counter popular show has shown only that Rivers is handicapped by a limited vocabulary an obsession with other sex lives and an uncompromising penchant for bad taste Unfortunately she is seen nightly at 10:30 pm on KSTU but use that as an excuse to watch If the rules and regulations regarding commercial television were observed only slightly the FCC would have Rupert license before the sun came up again Rivers who long ago passed Don Rickies in insult humor took crudity vulgarity and obscenity to new extremes Monday night the spirit of One of her guests on program was Ken Kercheval who plays Cliff Barnes on Dallas From the moment Kercheval sat down the subject of his co-star Victoria Principal came up Principal and Rivers evidently are not the best of friends considering some of the comments Rivers has made about her in the past On this night however Rivers suggested that Christmas call her The thought made Kercheval blanch As Rivers reached for a telephone she said know her number call and you talk to her then give me the After a couple oi false starts the call evidently went through and to a voice on the other end Rivers announced Kercheval Two or three minutes of waiting and Rivers broke the connection call She dialed and got a busy signal For the next five or six minutes Rivers dialed and redialed and at one point angry because she continued to receive a busy signal she hung up the operator announced telephone number aloud (to the studio delight) and informed the operator she was speaking from office" with an emergency call for the number in question would the operator please clear the line and break through the busy signal? this is Dr Rivers and Dr she repeated The operator came back with line is clear Rivers dialed again The phone rang once or twice the receiver was picked up and just as quickly replaced The audience hooted Rivers responded hang up on Kercheval shrank muttering "Victoria will kill Rivers tried again to dial the number Kercheval who had been showing QUASAR FACTORY AUTHORIZED SERVICE It Costs Less to Coll the Best) Specialists 170 21 486-7555 THsfDt3IwinrD' UIJ SANTA CLAUS LIVE CALL TalkSanta Individually 1-976-9000 58pm 99 cants par min plus toll outaide SL a ret rm ybut we will just' SHlJmAkGET A MCOMMa NEW ROLAND PIANO $995 Never Needs Tuning AA NEW HOWARD ORGAN Only995 NEW BALDWIN PIANOS with bench 1795 FRENCH PROV CHERRY PIANOS USED ORGANS ALL KINDS from 195 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