Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 31

FRIDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 4 1983 1983 FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM 1 1 Steve Martin will compete with 'War' 21 ON TV squabble over adult programs By LEE WINFREY Knight-Ridder News Service Steve Martin has been given equivalent of a kamikaze mission: competing Sunday night against the opening episode of huge mini-series The Winds of War The comedian is approaching his monumental task with relaxed modesty hoping to come in second" he said in a telephone interview Even that be easy since competition on CBS is a popular Clint Eastwood movie called Any Which Way You Can one-hour special titled The Winds of Whoopee will air at 9 pm on NBC NBC has been running a funny promotional ad narrated by Orson Welles to try to entice viewers away from The Winds of Wor Welles suggests: spend 18 hours watching someone war when you know how it comes out? We win and then we have to buy all their cars Watch Steve The Winds of Whoopee See it all in one hour on Martin said NBC called him some time ago and said they wanted a TVTonight Martin bits be able to see again are a rendition of his hit novelty song King Tut a takeoff on The Elephant Man titled The Elephant Guy and a turtle rodeo using Galapagos turtles from the San Diego Zoo Martin is eager for viewers to know that one new segment a trick roping bit that closes the special is a genuine act looks like a fake he said real I learned how to trick rope when I was 12" Martin said he might have been bothered by being scheduled against The Winds of War if The Winds of Whoopee had been an all-new special one of those taking him three months to do But since Whoopee mostly involved editing rather than acting it took him only a month Martin has been seen less often on TV recently because he prefers to concentrate on movies He has appeared in three so far: The Jerk in 1978 Pennies From Heaven in 1981 and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid in 1982 have a new film The Man With Two Brains coming out in the summer and he is now working on a fifth called The Lonely Guy Cable pay channels will attempt to hold their ground against The Winds of War with some of their strongest programming of the season At 7 pm Sunday for example both Home Box Office (HBO) and PRISM have scheduled Star Wars the blockbuster 1976 movie that has not yet appeared on network TV In the same time slot The Entertainment Channel (TEC) youngest and smallest of the major pay-cable channels will offer a first-class production of the classic farce Aunt This version was videotaped in November at the La Mirada Civic Theater in La Mirada Calif Since Brandon Thomas wrote Charley's Aunt in 1890 the play has been impressively durable It has been made into a movie five times notably in a 1941 version starring Jack Benny and was also converted into a hit musical Charley? starring Ray Bolger The black gown of aunt is worn this time around by Charles Grodin Grodin plays a Yale University student Lord Fancourt Babber-ly who impersonates an old woman in order to help out two fellow students Charley Wykham and Jack Chesney play is so tightly written and swiftly paced and its characters so broadly and clearly drawn that comparatively little competence is demanded from the actors filling the roles schedule Thursday night KTXA objects to programs that are "basically a series of sex scenes with only the most minimal said Bart Wulf a station attorney Under its contract with ON TV KTXA has the right to monitor programming and a licensee is charged by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) with ensuring that all programs transmitted over the air on its frequency are suitable and in the public station spokesman Ed Prince said But ON TV officials said the controversy involves its right to expand its broadcast hours on the station according to a statement released Thursday 21 does not wish any of its existing commercial time to be pre-empted by an expansion of ON TV hours" the statement said threat to exercise censorship of movies scheduled by ON TV is designed to cause ON TV to withdraw its plans to expand its broadcast ON TV is one of two subscription television services in the Dal-las-Fort Worth area Friday FRIDAY AFTER FIVE DALLAS (AP) A dispute between a subscription television service and a Dallas-area television station has resulted in the cancellation of some adult programming Officials of ON TV the subscription company call the action "censorship" but their counterparts at KTXA the Arlington-based station that carries ON TV programming say the adult features are "not in the public interest" ON TV officials also contend the dispute centers around the desire to extend its programming hours KTXA and ON TV already have been to state district court in Fort Worth and the right to cancel programs was upheld late last year ON TV has filed an appeal which is pending In the same case ON TV won a court order requiring KTXA to provide more air time for the subscription service The movie The Pleasure Palace was canceled earlier this week and the adult soap opera A New Day in Eden and Portrait of a Seduction were pulled from the Feb 4 DAYTIME Listings AFTER FIVE 6:30 pm PM MAGAZINE (8) The top female surfer a look at jaw-alignment problems 7 pm THE DUKES OF II AZZ ARD (4) romance with a lady stunt driver leads to a fight between the two cousins when Vance suspects the lady is not what she seems 7 pm SIIOGUN (5) Conclusion Mariko makes a secret deal with the Portugese to save her beloved Blackthorne at the same time Toranaga preparesf or the final battle to become the supreme military dictator (R) 7 pm BENSON (8) Benson the governor and the other men in the mansion gather to watch a fight but when the champ trips over a beer cooler and knocks himself out their bash becomes a night of poker and tall tales 7:30 pm MOVIE: Ja m2 (8) Roy Scheider Murray Hamilton The police chief of a small town that was once terrorized by a killer shark fears that another giant white has moved into the waters surrounding the ocean resort (R) 8 pm DALLAS (4) Bobby is forced to match his brother in dirty dealing JR denies having any political aspirations and Afton receives some shocking news 8 pm MOVIE: Joe Kidd (11) Clint Eastwood John Saxon A silent stranger is hired by a wealthy landowner to track down a gang of Mexican-Americans who have invaded the territory Associated Pros STEVE MARTIN special to run against The Winds of War Martin suggested a compilar tion of his best TV work a sort of Best of Steve Martin and suggested it be called The Winds of Whoopee Very little of special is new Most of it is taken from previous specials on NBC and from his work on Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show cial is an assemblage of videotapes edited to suggest the diversity and range of Twyla innovative career as a modern dance choreographer 9 pm STANDING ROOM ONLY (HBO) Paul Simon and Art Gar-funkel perform old favorites in their first joint concert in 11 years taped during the summer of in New York Central Park 9 pm JAZZ FESTIVAL (Bravo) Herbie Flute and Percussion Theater 10:10 pm GREAT PAINTERS: TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (ARTS) The artists own writings are read aloud as the camera scans the work of one of the most enduringly popular figures in the school of French impressionism 8 pm TEXAS REPORT (13) Premiere of a program that will have weekly analysis of the Texas Legislature and key political issues 8 pm FOR THE LOVE OF A CHILD (39) Shields Yarnell Robert Wagner Carol Lawrence Dale Evans and Glenn Ford join hosts Daniel Travanti and Anita Gillette for a look at the problem of child abuse 8:30 pm SEA POWER (13) The history of naval power is traced in this series with the first segment concentrating on the battleship 9 pm FALCON CREST (4) Love without money cannot thrive for Lance which he realizes when he leaves Falcon Crest to live with Lori defying Angela Channing 9 pm LIFE ON EARTH: The First Forests (13) David Attenborough looks at the ways plant life overcame the difficult problem of migration from sea to land (R) closed captioned for hearing impaired) 10:30 pm THE TONIGHT SHOW (5) Steve Martin Ali MacGraw 10:30 pm MOVIE: Kidnapped (11) Michael Caine Trevor Howard Based on the classic by Robert Louis Stevenson A young boy is abducted and sent to sea as part of his wicked plan to claim his inher itance SATURDAY Cable FRIDAY 11 pm MOVIE: The Pink Panther Strikes Again (8) Peter Sellers Herbert Lorn The maniacal former police Inspector Dreyfus directs a dozen assassins to eliminate the bungling Inspector Jacques Clouseau mssnt Midnight SCTV NETWORK (5) Crystal Gayle is guest for a parody of A Star Is Bom Cable Tonight 5:30 pm FRAGGLE ROCK (HBO) Paranoid Boober loses the special protective hat given to him by Marjory the talking trash heap 8 pm TWYLA THARP SCRAPBOOK: 1965-1982 (ARTS) This spe- MovieVision FRIDAY 5:00 pm Pardon Mon Affaire 7:00 Never 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