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ft1foiNMNM 10111MO lag TELEVISION but 'Baseball' is a winner bets back page IL tipur INSIDE Iasi -c'' 1- 1 1 i ok 71 0 1 1 4- 64 1 i i 14 44 o' I 1 I 1 -1 i 1 'L i 1 1 1 Ii) Is I a 'h Chamber Music society ofFort Worth -0! ri performs ud Encore Page 2 yd 1 lc ni '0' LIFE LIFE MO a )1 r------ gli 00 il 9 9 4 1 L21 a )e 0 tl 0 I aali eirt34D Cilia Ctl eg I 1----' Oat) 0 EITIDIDGETTi Series premiere 8 tonight IOCASChannel 5 to The battle Brandos Section Page 1 110J1 REVIEW ic iNt ziiii( to ovd tgln iCklire VA A 4 Al At i A "1 SN' '11 irri I Piing errmps good ci1 I A lit 1 Steven Cole Smith L1 Nt 14- 1 4 1 it 1 4 4 41 111 Val If ABOUT LAST NIGHT Saturday night Chet Atkins Brookhaven College Farmers' Branch ATTENDANCE: Sellout crowd of 470-plus THE CROWD: Senior citizens' night out r) i -rle 4- --'ts-- vi 1 44 1 ByJOHN AUSTIN FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM lf)t-TL: The doctor is on 4 FARMERS BRANCH Chet Atkins is the man who made a lot of people hate country music In fact the whole early '70s outlaw country music scene was a repudiation of the slick over-orchestrated countrypolitan sound that Atkins engineered as RCA's vice president and guiding Nashville light By ditching the strings and horns Music City renegades like Waylon and Willie have abducted country music from the house Chet built and took it back to the trailer parks honky-tonks and other low-rent haunts that spawned it But regardless of what you thought Moreon ATKINS on Page 3 Special to the Star-TelegramDARWIN WEIGEL Chet Atkins showed why he's won a couple of handfuls of Grammys last night at Brookhaven College PERSOHALITIES I By DAVE FERMAN FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM t- 7-- I 7----- I 1 1 i 14 44 I i 1 i I A By DAVE FERMAN FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM "IN''''''''o14pi I 4( I A -00 4 ty 0 -r 'Av4ilt 0- 1 )- y- Lir' --vL- lo i l'-'1 t'-f) r- --01 I I I i '4I ViP-iv 1 'Pi ')r $:4 1 Last night you got a sneak peek at Chicago Hope CBS' medical drama that will I air at 9 pm Thursdays 04) Tonight NBC previews its medical drama ER which will also air at 9 pm 1 Thursdays (KXASChannel 5) rivl ER created by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) and John Wells (China Beach) gets a two-hour introduction tonight at 8 and if you're a fan of medical dramas you'll like what you see The setting inside a high-pressure hospital emergency room guarantees action and a good cast knows how to handle it 1'1: That cast includes Anthony Edwards '(Northem Exposure) as a married harried but competent physician and George 'Clooney (Sisters) as a similarly competent Jr1 bachelor doctor whose love life sometimes takes precedence over his career Others in- clude Sherry Stringfield (NYPD Blue) and -dc Eric' LaSalle (The Human Factor) They're til all effective Lots of blood lots of life-or-death situa- lions and like the show it will remind you of St Elsewhere little dark humor looks like a keeper 'VCR ALERT: If you don't already own a 10 VCR this fall TV season gives you reason to buy one ER and Chicago Hope appearn ing in the same time slot is one good reason Tomorrow night there are a few more NBC and ABC (WFAAChannel 8) each --has a one-hour comedy block at 8 pm and all four shows have their season premiere this week On ABC it's the just-movedfrom-Wednesday Home Improvement fol- by Grace Under Fire It's a typical Home Improvement meaning it's clever but not hilarious I under stand the appeal of this show but I've never INen a dedicated fan Jill (Patricia Richard0son) loses her job and decides to go back to college to become a therapist Tim (Tim Allen) of course doesn't like the idea so it's up to wise next-door neighbor Wilson (Earl Hindman) to set Tim straight Sound familiar? Doesn't this happen every week on this iji show? It's followed by a much more innovative edgy Grace Under Fire Referred to often lin but never seen Grace's abusive ex-husband Liu 6 returns and tries to pick up where he left off Geoff Pierson is just right as Jimmy We see Grace (Brett Butler) saw in him but we 'also see why she had to leave On NBC it's a wonderful episode of 041 Frasier moved from its cushy Thursday time slot followed by TheJohn Larroquette Show Frasier demonstrates why it just won an Emmy for best comedy and star Kelsey Grammer won for best actor Frasier is -0 'miffed because an old drinking buddy from Boston author Thomas Jay Fallow (John O'Hurley) has used a story Frasier told him in confidence as the basis for his bestselling book The tale details Frasier's first love affair he was a teen-age piano student who had a fling with his older-woman piano teacher All this makes Frasier go back and see his old piano teacher and the results are hilarious hink of all the '70s rock and pop acts 11 that cyoenartinpulaeydintoghthitetohledrhoiatd EI of yesteryear and a few new songs to large loyal audiences Think Steve Miller Think the Moody Blues Think Lynyrd Skynyrd and James Taylor and Aerosmith and ZZ Top Cheap Trick and Foreigner and Ted Nugent and the O'Jays and the Ohio Players and Elton John and well the list does go on doesn't it? Said list does not include Boz Scaggs By the time he hit pay dirt with I 976's Silk Degrees Dallasite Scaggs was as popular as many of the above a poprock soul man with a More on SCAGGS on Page 2 that i T1 year after year ph yesteryear and a fl large i lnoky Steve eavuedmi ri Moody Blues Think Lynyrd James Taylor and Aerosmith Cheap Trick and Foreigner an the O'hys and the Ohio Playei and Said well the list does go on ist does not include Bo By the time he hit pay dirt Degrees Dallasite Scaggs was I 1 1 Dallas rocker is re-emerging after a lot of low-profile years moomm Virgin Records MOVIES OWES CT: Searing we( Readers tell of violent reaction to 'Natural Born Killers' 41) wee' 4 4 toe FROM STAFF REPORTS orized on magazine covers and tabloid TV shows It's a graphically violent movie so graphic that many people walk out of the theater But it's also a darkly comic satire a point easily lost amid the bloodshed of I 97 people who called us with their opinions 60 said they couldn't make it all the way through NBK Another 26 made it through but wished they'd left early Eleven callers refused to see the movie at all based on the violent content of the ads and movie trailers "I couldn't even sit through a commercial for that" said Dee Riffee 36 "I think it's disgusting that Hollywood glamorizes crime like More on REACTION on Page 3 Two weeks ago we staged an informal call-in poll asking reader opinion about Oliver Stone's new movie Natural Bom Killers starring Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis as Mickey and Mallory Knox a pair of serial killers who commit 52 murders in three weeks and wind up being glam ot quite hilarious but often close is Larroquetto which has his character John moving into a new apartment across the hall from a pretty nurse (Alison I2Placa of Tom and The Jackie Thomas Show) He falls for her to the disappointment of Carly (Gigi Rice) who quits her job as neighborhood prostitute to try to win John's heart 4: 4 irmwormws000w 'gwwwwvocoovt Warner Bros A -I i.