The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 19

5 Thursday February 19 1998 SECTION bee on the internet wwwsacbeecom iHonest to goodness everyone fibs "a little right? So how do you know when a falsehood? Here are some truths about lying true lying is acceptable because role models lying habitually By Alison apRoberts Bee Staff Writer Cm nothing like a He detector test to make you feel guilty Maybe that feeling of entrapment as you are held fast by the Velcro tentacles Maybe the examiner Claude A Davis -a former cop and one-man truth squad who has documented more deception than most of us will ever encounter Maybe the guilty feeling is a measure of that nagging consciousness that to be human is to lie at least sometimes Ever since Adam and Eve tried to pull a fast one on God been no shortage of human deception The story of Eden places the lie at the center of that which makes us human: We traded in unswerving truthfulness for our knowledge of good and evil And ever since human beings have spent untold trying to discover deception From attendance school clerks to card players and academics many of us play Find the Liar every day Much of what entertains us I think that more today our are is a variation on the game Read a good mystery lately? Or have you seen in the news? Remember Joe Klein denying his authorship of Remember Susan Smith looking into the camera and pleading for the return of her missing sons when she knew she had left them to drown? The latest round of Find the Liar is being played out over very private facts on a very public stage One of the players is the president Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky allegedly confided to a colleague and perhaps to others that she had an affair with Bill Clinton He went on camera eyes steady voice firm to say: did not have sexual relations with that So who is lying? In ancient China Lewinsky and Clinton might have faced the old riceswallowing test Trouble swallowing the rice meant you were lying Claude polygraph Please see LIAR page C3 -Joe Tecce neuropsychologist at Boston College Lies lies and videotapes Prime-time fibbers believe her (8 pm Tuesdays Channel 58) Rock From the Your basic aliens-next-door deception shtick (remember the Coneheads from that small village in France?) Much of the humor relies on apparent willingness to be deceived (8 pm Wednesdays Channel 3) group of high-school friends who try to cover up a rape end up involved in a murder Classic example of the old lie that grows and grows plotline "Liar (1997): Jim Carrey plays a successful lawyer (aka a guy for whom lying counts as billable hours) who is suddently unable to lie thanks to his birthday wish George Costanza (Jason Alexander) makes such a grimace when he has to tell the truth you just know it hurts His ficticious character of Art Vande-lay is one of the recurring lines and lies that make the sitcom such a work of comic art pretend that the talk about the show ending is just a lie (9 pm Thursdays Channel 3) -Alison apRoberts "Buffy the Vampire This is the up-to-the-minute take on the old superhero-who-must-live-a-lie-to-save-the-world theme Spunky teen Buffy played by Sarah Michelle Gellar is always having to explain away stuff like that stake that fell out of her bookbag at school Those around her seem to always Lies are at the heart of just 'about all that entertains us Here are a few highlights A few liars on video Love (1951-1961): In just about every episode Lucille Ball tries to pull one over on hubby Ricky (Desi Amaz) panicky eyes and high-pitched voice always gave her away to the audience but luckily Ricky all that quick to catch on (1986): Ann Dusenber-ry is a starving actress who is lured into being part of a treacherous plan to steal the inheritance of a rich patient in a mental hospital (1993): A 1 I JJ 4 I I 4 4 i David Hosley tapped to lead Channel 6 into the digital age By Dan Vierria Bee TV Writer Di Wine and food feet C3 Make-A-Wish Foundation will have two kinds of auctions at its Winter Wine and -Food Fest Gloria Glyer has the details Sensational singers C8 Bee Critic at Large William Glackm reviews the Boys Choir of Harlem show at the Community Center Theater INDEX Columns C2 at Channel 6 and head of the search committee to find replacement said Hosley is well-Buited to face the formidable challenges ahead for public TV obviously sad that Van has elected to move to LA but David Hosley has the type of personality that KVIE needs said Elmets got a tall order in front of The tallest order will be to prepare and outfit Channel 6 for the coming digital TV age Digital will become the industry standard and replace the current analog TV signal by 2006 Some digital programming is supposed to be broadcast in the 30 largest TV markets Sacramento is No 20 by November of worked for two CBS owned-and-operat-ed stations and very aware of Van (Gordon Sauter) and his accomplishments KVIE was very fortunate to have him lead the Sauter had been president of CBS News and Sports earlier in his career Hosley had been the general manager of San Mateo PBS station KCSM He has an extensive background in both radio and television the past 10 years with public stations I have a chance to spend time with the staff and the people who watch and support Channel 6 going to come away with a sense of where the focus ought to said Hosley the top of my head digital TV on one hand and membership on the Doug Elmets chairman of the board avid Hosley will lead Sacra- mento public TV station Channel 6 (KVIE) into the competitive high-tech 21st century On Wednesday Hosley was named Channel vice president and general manager replacing flamboyant Van Gordon Sauter Sauter after nearly three years at Channel 6 resigned six weeks ago to spend more time with his wife Kathleen Brown in Los Angeles Hosley 48 was in Sacramento on Wednesday to answer questions and meet the Channel 6 staiT very much aware that I have large shoes to said Hosley C4 Television Bee photographOwen Brewer new vice president and general manager David loeley talks about his plans for the PBS affiliate C5.