The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 115

TV-RADIO 5C MOVIES 3C ARTS 4C SECTION MONDAY APRIL 8 1991 PB BRO- NT This just in! Joel Cheatwood is back in charge of the Channel 7 News SEXIER? Larry image consultants spiffed him up a bit judge him alone on his driving Among those driving in the American Red Cross fundraiser just before the Miami Grand Prix was US District Court Judge William Homier A distinguished jurist Hoeveler also is a sports-car buff who recently sold his 1970 Porsche 91 IT Hoeveler cramming his 6-foot-5 frame into the little Ford Formula cars was quite a sight Once in the car he performed admirably on the track his wife Griff noted She was only slightly nervous watching him: kept driving up the tail pipe of the car in front of him just like he does driving in traffic on the Cooper City singer tries new image new album Larry Boone remade create a By MARIO TARRADELL Herald Staff Writer Country singersongwriter Larry Boone is missing his cowboy hat these days His oversize belt buckle and permanent-press striped shirt are also gone Now the Cooper City native wears jeans with no belt solid-colored T-shirts with rolled-up sleeves and flashy cowboy boots His sandy blond hair has been fashionably styled all part of new look a look that he hopes will gave him a second chance at stardom Columbia Records his new label has remade his image to make him a little less country and a little more hip Musically new album One Way To Go is much like the PLEASESEE BOONE 2C Alternative for elderly: foster home Idea saves money some independence This is the debut of a weekly column on aging Readers are invited to send in questions for use in upcoming columns For information see Page 2C Mary Bermudez is in a foster home She is no child abandoned or abused by her parents She is an 81-year-old widow with no children Like hundreds of older people in Florida Bermudez is not sick enough to be in a nursing home But the frail Havana native is not independent enough to live alone or in a congregate facility By February her weight had AL DIAZ Miami Herald Staff STARMAKER: Joel segment on host Rick Sanchez and later an anchor position That and the Channel 7 News brought recognition to sleeves-and-sweat other features raised the intensity of South Florida news more involvement and in the broadcasts Channel 4 staffers immediately interpreted it as an order to be more like Channel 7 want to be perceived as copying Joel counters Channel 4 news director Sharon Scott respect him I think done a lot of things that are quite interesting in this market but I look up to him as somebody who I want to emulate Basically just get-in-your-face bloody news for no Cheatwood defends his news style as innovative vital to standing out among South six full-time news operations (four English-language and two Spanish-language) do want to re-invent the wheel We have he says quo is no fun to me I could never work on an assembly The California-reared Cheatwood who developed a reputation as a boy wonder when he turned Channel 7 around first moved into management at 20 on the assignment desk at a station in Fresno At 22 he was an executive producer at a San Francisco station Last year the spotlight bright from Channel 7 success he was lured to Los Angeles by Fox Broadcasting to develop the syndicated interview show Personalities It would become his first major failure but it matter to Channel 7 who enticed him back a By JUAN CARLOS COTO Herald Staff Writer hen Joel Cheatwood returned to WSVN-Channel 7 News last month local television insiders pretended they interested They were Two years ago Channel 7 lost its NBC affiliation and was facing a potential ratings disaster Cheatwood 32 is the news director who redesigned the look and feel of the newscasts driving them to No 2 in the ratings behind WPLG-Channel 10 In fact he got the ultimate revenge his afternoon news ratings eventually surpassed those of the new NBC-owned station WTVJ-Channel 4 Cheatwood also is the shrewd reserved executive who created two of the boldest features Inside Report with Penny Daniels a splashy syndicated tabloid show and with Rick Sanchez a nightly segment that offered live reports on the crimes no matter how gruesome Both features are gone from the air but not without lasting effect The new product raised the competitive intensity of South Florida TV news while shades of go-for-the-throat promotions and brash presentation drifted onto other South Florida channels Last May when it became obvious that Channel 4 could not quickly regain the ground lost to Channel 7 a memo went out in the Channel 4 newsroom asking for ON RECORD: Former Fort Lau- I derdale Mayor Bob Cox only days out of office is not leaving quietly Responding to a recent story on this page about racial and ethnic discrimination at private social clubs Cox wrote: defend the right of everybody to join a club for their own purposes whether a club for left-handed people tall people overweight people and whether the differences are gender or language or any other possible difference I have belonged to some clubs unappreciated by others I was a member of an amateur radio group that people all thought were a little peculiar I have been a member of a motorcycle club One belongs to clubs because of a commonality of interests and to achieve a comfort level that comes with being with people He added: am always amazed at people who try to get into organizations where they probably would feel uncomfortable There are certainly many of them which let me in or in which were I to insist I would be the proverbial bump on a Yep Bob the ACLU comes to mind HOKES ALONE: In Palm Beach I the working socialite of great renown is real estate broker Martha Gottfried newest version of Martha is Sue Carolyn Wtee After 20 years selling luxury homes for various incarnations of Prudential Florida Realty Wise quit last week and started her own realty firm Sue Carolyn Wise Properties Carrying her clients around in her sleek black Rolls Wise has sold $67 million worth of homes this year it was time to go out on her own She celebrated her new venture Friday morning while chairing an officer-election party for 100 women of the Fort Lauderdale Philharmonic Society she says a great time to SHORT SHORTS: Happy birthday to legendary South Florida environmentalist Marjory Slonaman Douglas who turned 101 Sunday The name Tom and Lynn Gustafson chose for their new baby boy: Thomas Andrew The St Jude Hospital celebrity gala fund-raiser at Pier 66 next month has been postponed for lack of interest It was to have featured Stave Kane Al Rants! and Norman Kent all fighting for the microphone And congratulations to Broward Film Society president Scott Austin and wife Jil-isa proud new parents of a 9-pound baby boy named Alec Stevan Austin All are doing well KICXEY1: You watch all these con- I tests on TV and in the newspaper and you think no one really ever wins Well meet 7-year-old Joey Bliss of Hollywood He just won a trip for himself and his family to Walt Disney World in Orlando and Disneyland in California and Tokyo Disneyland in Japan Joey and his grandmother Peggy followed contest clues on a Disney TV show called Tale Spin last fall and mailed in the contest answer on 10 postcards going to Joey predicted "No but at least she told him Joey who has a hearing impairment knows going to see Mickey then fly over the water and see Mickey again (They may skip Orlando) this asks Grandma Indeed Have a great time for all of us PLEASESEE CHEATWOOD 4C PLEASESEE AGING 2C Unusual wit sets Exposure apart HAL BOEDEKER tube dresses like Vanna White to watch Wheel of Fortune absorbs Magnum PI in Japanese and spends $4000 through the Home Shopping Network matter what show it is Hogan Heroes Oprah watch anything" she confesses In other plot Dr Fleischman suffers depressing fantasies after receiving a Dear John letter from his fiancee Elaine At the movies he sees the blank screen fill with a younger version of himself urging it up be a He dreams that like Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate he will break up wedding to another man Finally handywom-an-aviatrix Maggie (Janine Turner) offers some surprisingly effective therapy Next show is even more fantastic in story and execution Fleischman (Rob Morrow) a New Yorker educated at Columbia University cannot adapt to Cicely where he must practice medicine to pay off a student loan another fish-out-of-water story but this time what a catch! Everything else about Northern Exposure is offbeat: the disc jockey who quotes Jung the allusions to the movie Wages of Fear and the concept of closure the appearance of ghosts and other apparitions But worry that Northern Exposure is overly odd This gently witty show from the creators of St Elsewhere breaks the rules of television physics: It remains down-to-earth yet soars In episode 63-year-old tavern owner Holling Vin-coeur (John Cullum) buys a satellite dish for his 19-year-old girlfriend Shelly (Cynthia Geary) She becomes addicted She sits mouth agape before the fl Northern Exposure 10-11 tonight Channels 6 12 Viewers who find Twin Peaks too weird thirtysomething too whiny and LA Law too slick should look north north to Alaska specifically to tiny Cicely where Dr Joel Fleischman resumes his medical practice tonight He has been missed Fans of Northern Exposure which premiered last summer already know this quirky comedy-drama as a charming oasis in a desert of asinine sitcoms and talky law dramas CBS has almost guaranteed wider exposure for Northern Exposure by scheduling it behind the powerhouse comedies Murphy Broun and Designing Women Smart move smart show The premise is about the only thing that's formula Dr TELEVISION THE DOCTOR'S IN: Dr Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow) resumes his medical practice tonight PLEASESEE EXPOSURE 5C.