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9' 'Bad-boy' Sean Penn pitches morality in a film that is either the ultimate in home movies or a shrewd calculation By JOAN GOODMAN Special to the Star-Telegram yndknaowshromp works he oabouct I'm gonna ys get myself a real job" says 18-year-old Brad Jr to his younger brother Tommy in the movie At Close Range "Yeah how much do you make?" Tommy asks looking surprised "Ten 12 an hour Depends" A( "That's not much" says Tom- my "It's a steady job man Noboby gets killed" Brad Jr replies making a clear moral choice He has been flirting with the kInk idea of following Sean Penn in At Close Range his father into a life of easy money and crime The dialogue may sound deceptively simple but nobody's said anything like it on film for a long time Hollywood's teen-agers have been so busy hotfooting it into the fast lane they rarely have had time to worry about things like regular work moral responsibility or consequences So Brad Jr's words as spoken by actor Sean Penn are powerful immediate and literally owia: thrilling "That's what we wanted them to be" says the 25-year-old Penn "You can't do good work unless you have a passion for what you're doing" he says "This film has an urgency to it in the sense of something very much at stake" Please see Tad-boy' on Page 8 2 TM Smile Senator! 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I 0 pick-aht1 tJokx AkiT4 1 Less-than-candid candid camera i 1' 14114 ii to focus on Icifty chamber i 1 "ig of A 1 Carson faces a new challenge el I AO A AP AO it A 1 1 00111 0411 AFqk MO di" Iiii Ark Joan Rivers Johnny Carson It doesn't really matter that the Senate proceedings can't expect to get a decent Nielsen rating even with regular TV entertainment suffering from the off-season blahs We're talking about a historic breakthrough here the collapse of the last barrier to direct public access via video to the loftiest of the nation's time-honored legislative rituals It will happen Monday when CSPAN the cable-TV outfit that's been covering the House since 1979 opens up a second channel to beam Senate chamber proceedings to receptive cable systems and Please see Less on Page 2 It ricipQn't rpn1 ly mnttpr thnt thp By JERRY COFFEY Star-Telegram TV-Radio Editor A nd now from the same net- Pt work that brings you the excitement and suspense of The House of Representatives comes a thrilling new serial-drama The United States Senate All right maybe that's exaggerating a bit Maybe gavel-togavel live television coverage of Senate sessions won't be as lively and gripping as Dallas or Dynasty Maybe it will be more like waiting for the track to dry in Indianapolis Maybe a lot of the time it will be about as rousing as your average TV test pattern and a good deal less colorful boosts on Carson's Tonight Show For Carson fans the scenario could be entitled "Ingratitude" Rivers and Brenner undoubtedly see themselves as participating in the all-American game of "Go for It" The final arbiter of course will be the thoroughly impartial ratings and it is here that Carson operates from strength generated and maintained over nearly 25 years The first hosts of NBC's Tonight were Steve Allen and then Jack Paar Carson took over in October 1962 parlaying a combination of By JOHN O'CONNOR 1986 NY Times News Service EW YORK Once again Johnny Carson is facing challenges to his pre-eminence as the nation's favorite talk show host In the past his competitors have included just to mention a few Dick Cavett David Frost Gerald() Rivera Alan Thicke and Jerry Lewis This time however there is an unusual twist Come autumn Carson will be squaring off against Joan Rivers and David Brenner both of whom got major career Midwestern propriety and Peck's Bad Boy antics into a performing persona of remarkable longevity His opening monologues can cover everything from international events to his own widely publicized personal problems He can be silly with Ed McMahon the announcer who jovially plays the kind of sidekick Don Wilson used to provide for Jack Benny Carson his staff and his loyal audiences are clearly comfortable together But who are Rivers and Brenner Please see Carson on Page 8 ompon nomms id Peck's rforming ongevity can cover rnational ublicized with Ed who jovikick Don for Jack and his irly corn Brenner Page 8 111 David Brenner From Canada for the better Beginning Monday the Star-Telegram will feature the comic strip For Better or for Worse on the comics page in its evening editions Monday through Friday and in our Saturday paper For Better or for Worse is the creation of Lynn Johnston who lives in remote Lynn Lake Manitoba Canada 750 miles north of Winnipeg The strip's Elly dentist John and children Michael and Elizabeth bear a striking resemblance to Johnston family The comic strip Muppets which had appeared in our evening edition is being discontinued by King Features Syndicate For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston login MI I Street words Guess what? Stephen King's novelmovie Carrie is being made into a musical and the word on the street according to Elston Brooks is tat Fort Worth's Betty Buckley Is up for the role of the mother in the chiller 50 For Better or For Worse --by Lynn Johnston From Canada for the better 40 rms I r8 rimt Aiittb Mill Bkoib1 as NotA) -Go FErch 1 81 Hcs GO1ING-THErce No JAM THIS STicK 2 FE Silk I Beginning Monday the Star-Telegram will feature the comic FFR LEy Tl iUMF Itft rr kett-r '5-) ow strip For Better or for Worse on the comics page in its evening 0 editions Monday through Friday and in our Saturday paper t10 Street words St I For Better or for Worse is the creation of Lynn Johnston who I 1 Guess what? Stephen King's lives in remote Lynn Lake Manitoba Canada 750 miles north of -9 I novelmovie Carrie Is being Winnipeg The strip's Elly dentist John and children made into a musical and the word Michael and Elizabeth bear a striking resemblance to Johnston on the street according to Elston family t'A ll' i -wil 1 1'1''1' IlkA I) Brooks is Tat Fort Worth's Betty i I )1 ATh I a Buckley Is up for the role of the The comic strip Muppets which had appeared in our evening am) 00 i mother In the chiller 50 edition is being discontinued by King Features Syndicate OA 's 44 King's being he word Elston I's Betty I 3 of the 50 I i1 7 4.