The York Dispatch from York, Pennsylvania • 19

i is THE YORK DISPATCH TUESDAY AUGUST 2 1988 19 Tonight at-a-glance Daytime Dial i for many years as a radio show host before becoming so popular on television that Night John Lovitz does an on-target impersonation of him In a variety of interviews Jr has talked about his estrangement from his father and their periodic reconcilations America Syndicate I want to mention any names to avoid hurting feelings but why do serial producers take beautiful women and turn them into plain Janes by making them cut their hair dye it a boring shade or give them out-of-date hairdos? GR Lancaster NY A Thanks for being so discreet GR Sometimes a storyline requires that an attractive actress be for her role and one way to turn a beauty into a beast is to give her the wrong hair style or color Those not-so-hot looks however are sometimes not intentional on the part but unintentional on the A private hairdresser may tell her for instance that a certain style will make her look wonderful when in fact' it makes her look woeful One actress who is no longer dwelling in daytime or in any other area of show business except a tacky ad for a tacky tabloid had a surefire way of getting even with her bosses Her producer told us she was involved in a storyline where it would be impossible for the character to have a change in hair style you know caught in an avalanche in a coma in an airplane she would appear on the set the next day while the same scene was still going on with a different color or length hair It was a game she played After a while everyone just let her play it without paying FULL LISTINGS for DAYTIME and LATE NIGHT are in TV YORK EVERY SATURDAY in THE YORK DISPATCH Robert Harper excels at lawyer roles i plays by Shakespeare Ibsen Arthur Miller and Thornton Wilder Harper made his Broadway debut in a revivial of in a and Inspector and last appeared there in Arthur American I like lawyers and I like the Harper said law deals with interpretations what does this or that mean what we do when we perform in Shakespeare do we use what was done when it them Harper said in an interview He adds that played a lot of other things too -I was eaten by a monster in I play a chemist in twins are Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito) and I once played an accountant who turned into a werewolf in a CBS He also has played a lot of other roles as a member of the repertory company at the Arena Stage in Washington DC he performed in By Joan Hanauer NEW YORK (UPI) Robert Harper says he is becoming the CBS lawyer Harper plays New Orleans lawyer Bubba Weisberger in the series He plays a Beverly Hills lawyer in the upcoming CBS movie In the CBS miniseries he played the Kansas prosecutor who tried a minister for murder been playing a string of Are the characters of Kelly and Jeffrey divorced on Santa If so why? PT GetzviUe NY A No Though they were once happy for a few minutes after they married Kelly and Jeffrey are separated but not divorced In the storyline the separation came about because of unrelenting faith in his mother Pamela who turned out to be malevolent willing to do anything to get what she wanted when she wanted it Pamela the first wife of CC father) and the mother of Mason decided she wanted her sonnyboy Jeffrey all to herself so she poisoned Kelly his wife Kelly die but was in a coma for a while When Jeffrey learned of his evil-doing he disowned her but by that time Kelly was already attracted to TJ And TJ a former gigolo who once had a fling with mother (Sophia) seems to have really fallen for Kelly Right now Kelly is trying to figure out which man if either she loves The reason the breakup was made part of the storyline was that Robin Wright who created the role of Kelly wanted to leave the show At first the plan was to have Kelly written out for a while but the producers finally decided not to put the character on leave so they recast the role and gave Kelly and the other characters involved in her storyline a meaty plotline to chew on seen at the wheel of a 1953 Jaguar happily rolling down the road as he sings but Jackson driving at all being towed strange thing about this is I even know how to drive at Jackson says had a good time for three is part of this Budweiser Superfest a 26-date 22-city tour that also features Earth Wind Fire Stephanie Mills The Deele and A1 Sure BIG BAND BONANZA: Jazz masters Doc Severinsen Gerry Mulligan Dave Brubeck Eddie Daniels Buddy Morrow Ray Brown Ed Shaughnessy and Cab Calloway combine forces Tuesday and Wednesday with Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops orchestra in a Band Hit concert and recording project perform live in Music Hall on Tuesday night then return Wednesday for a recording session The record for Telarc International will pull tunes from the songbooks of Count Basie Glenn Miller Duke Ellington Benny Goodman -Tommy Dorsey Artie Shaw and Woody Herman COLOMBO AGAIN: Peter Falk is looking forward to reviving his even if he sure about all the specifics The show is set for a Saturday night time slot that will rotate between show another featuring Burt Reynolds as a cop and a third with Lou Gossett Jr as an adventurer I know is gonna be three different shows each two hours and we will do six of them he said times six 18 and they Jell me gonna be Saturday nights I know what call Falk really ready to give up the wry and rumpled detective when went off the air in 1977 but he had other things ih mind was still high in the ratings but I wanted to do other things he says was trying to find some ways to do bothAt that time they want to give me that much time off The new deal is still a big job six two-hour movies a big hunk of time prefer an hour and a half but npt enough money in that for the studio or the he said The last round of federally mediated bargaining between producers and the 9000-member union collapsed without resolving differences over residual payments that have led to the crippling walkout now in its 22nd week Screen writers struck back by picketing two popular Los Angeles theaters showing Walt Disney Framed Roger Guild spokeswoman Cheryl Rhoden said Disney was singled out because the company a hardline position and made it very difficult for us to move forward (in the Rhoden said plans announced at a news conference by the 200-mem-ber producers alliance to recyle old scripts with new casts or hire foreign writers will not what thd networks Is Morton Downey Jr the talk-show host related to Morton Downey the Irish tenor of the 30s and 40s NB Bradford Pa A Yes Downey Sr was Downey father Jr who has become the latest talk-show-host darling toiled Peopletalk 27 7Wr United Press International LOVE MATCH: Tennis star Chris Evert and ski champion Andy Mill were married Saturday in a private ceremony at the Polo Club of Boca Raton Fla Evert walked down an aisle strewn with rose petals shortly after 6 pm to wearing a white mid-calf dress and carrying a bouquet of orchids and ferns was real emotional We were both said Evert 33 feeling was just said Mill 35 who finished sixth in the downhill in the 1976 Winter Olympics something been waiting for for over a Among the 100 guests were Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver Billie Jean King Johan Kriek and Carling Basset Seguso from the tennis world along with race driver Danny Sullivan actress Lynda Carter and author Carol Thatcher daughter of the British prime minister was a very intimate said Evert publicist Peggy Gossett It was the second marriage for both Evert and Mill MURPHY MOVIE: Eddie Murphy says his new hit movie to is a bit biographical I sit back with people like (Sylvester) Stallone we can trade Murphy tells People magazine in a rare interview like the same identical things happen the way power isolates you and everybody tries to get close to you and the weight of being such a patriarch in your He says the breakup with girlfriend Lisa Figueroa had a lot to do with into which is the story of an African prince who goes to New York in search of a bride was feeling sorry for he says was that old cliche going to love me for and I came up with an idea for this movie It was a parallel to what was happening in my life at the Art Buchwald the syndicated Washington satirist says into also is parallel to a movie idea he once submitted to Murphy called a Crude Crude NOT ON A ROLL: an inside joke to the video that goes with singer Freddie hit In it Jackson is i i I i 51 i 4 1 1 if i i was written or how it applies now? something of a law he said adding that when he whs at Arena Stage he acted by night and by day amused himself listening to tapes of the Watergate trials and out of curiosity he also visited the Supreme Court All this stood him in good stead for the role of Bubba the gentle rumpled southern Jewish lawyer I went down to New Orleans to do my homework (although the show is not shot there) I went to Tulane law school and attended some classes on evidence and procedures I actually took he said felt Bubba went to Tulane and I wanted to be familiar with the campus and the Napoleonic code I had a copy of the Louisana code in my dressing room I went to court down there lawyers call it the zoo You can absorb a lot that way going down there and soaking it in where he went to school where he lived I could feel like Bubba He always wore a suit he even went to class in a Parker also carried a tape recorder to pick up the cadences of local speech his own accent is standard American without a trace of drawl and pored over the short stories of Tennessee Williams helps instruct me on the rhythms and elaborations of New Orleans speech Tennessee never says in three words what he could say in a 10-word Parker said He also read the letters of Eu-dora Welty and Flannery to become steeped in the southern sensitivity that he called distinct pronounced and rich Harper said he feels about acting the way Willie Mays did about baseball he believe being paid to do it considering the joy and psychic income he gets from performing good material The big question is whether they will be able to watch the show next season not only must contend with the Writers Guild strike but the fact that it is not on the CBS fall schedule The network however has ordered 13 new episodes and Kim LeMasters president of CBS Entertainment has promised the show a mid-season replacement spot preferably in a compatible time slot out of business New York Times NEW YORK AGB Television Research which took on the AC Nielsen Co in a costly war for the business of measuring the American television audience has surrendered and will suspend its ratings operation in the United States Producers try to save fall television season LOS ANGELES (UPI) With contract talks at a standstill Hollywood producers announced plans to circumvent striking screen writers and salvage a fall television season by recycling old scripts looking overseas for talent and offering protection to writers who choose to cross picket lines will get our productions on schedule in any way we Nicholas Counter president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers said have no choice to do Counter acknowledged that some producers had plans to hire striking members of the Writers Guild of America to write shows for the fall season and would offer them legal and financial protection is an issue that has to be worked out between individual writers and the companies.