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SCAR TV RADIO Page 1C if Wednesday May 17 1987 ftWltsUlf press SOrvtOSe on the Princess tube "Grace Kelly: An American Princess the third show in a series on Hollywood legends will have its premiere at 8 pm June 8 on Home Box Office Award-winning film maker Gene Feldman wrote and produced the hour long documentary Feldman traveled around the world interviewing friends family and former co-irorkers of Kelly's for the project which follows her from her Philadelphia childhood to her death Besides film clips the show includes borne movies never Grace Kelly Late night programming: 230 am (5) VaknTaMakXt 2 Ml (41) Modi 'Tin 230 am (8Z) Ml Nam 330 sm (5) Nightvmlch 4 ml (41) Lucy Show 4J0sjh (41) Gantts Ban Channel 11 prognmatag (whan dNImnt from Chaw 19): 8 Power of Excsttmcs wtth Tom Peters 9:30 pm ITa Your Turn 10 pm Wild America 1030 pm Business Report 11pm MacNel Lahrar Nmnhour 1 TV HIGHLIGHTS (B We Can Keep You Forever1 Powerful documentary 8:00 PM- seen by the public Marilyn Monroe and Steve Street Devane bought full-page ads in the two Hollywood ment dailies The Reporter and Dally eulogize cast 1 the Street read the ad a short Thursday daytime television McQueen have previously been profiled on tbe Hollywood legend series Feldman is working on a retrospective of Cary Grant Off to college squirt to congratulate you on a splendid run You have made us all proud to be actors Best of luck doom the Midway through its seventh and final season was yanked from its Thuiuday night berth and placed opposite on Tuesday nights at 8 hastening the Emmy-winning demise Carly concert Singer Carly 8imoa will film her first-ever solo TV concert next month in Vineyard Mass in Concert: Coming Around will be shown in July on Home Box Office Although regular Ari Meyers will be a fulltime Yale freshman in the fall she has worked out a deal to stay on the series Meyers 18 plays Emma the daughter of co-star Susan Saint James Fond farowoll William Devane who stars as Gregory Sumner one of the biggest heels on is quite a gentleman it turns out Recently Devane uy $2000 to bid farewell to ngtime night rival CBS loni i Tonight The film guide All commercial TV moving to bn broadcast tonight in Kansas City are listed the cable movies listed are those judged to be of Interest Romance takes over on two-hour finale By Judy Flander 01987 United Features Prime time actor Crispin Glover visit Johnny Carson on (10:30 on Channel 4) Visiting Night With David (midnight on Channel 4) are comedian Paul Reiser and pop singer Joe himself George Carlin will be sitting in as guest host on Late Show" (10 on Channel 41) His guests include actress Katey Sagal With Author Gore Vidal musicians KD Lang and the Reclines and falls parallel Patsy rise to brilliance in the world of country music PG-13 Heart Is a Lonely 10 on Very good 1968 Alan Arkin Sondra Locke A sensitive deaf man is befriended by a young girl who understands his private torment Late night Barry Garron The Star 's TV-mOo critic Hearings ratings and other stuff Letters notes comments and great thoughts from the listening and viewing public: I have written you several times over the years complimenting you but now you made me wonder what made yon go over the deep end Either you were contaminated by the effete snobs from New York who reviewed paintings or you have gone over to Lee psychology I listened to the congressional Iran-contra committee doing nothing but a public relations job on themselves I read the recap in the paper and it took me all of 17'j seconds instead of several hours When are you liberals going to learn that this rehash is a waste of time and stop making yourself look silly by writing these EG North Kansas City I wrote that it was important for at least one network to broadcast the Iran-contra hearings instead of the usual lineup of soaps and game shows Now I think a compromise is in order I propose that the hearings be held in the form of a game show Congressmen can spin a wheel to determine who gets to ask the next question Hard questions are worth more than easy ones At the end of the week congressmen with fewer points drop out in favor of new contestants The key to making it work would be getting Vanna White hired as a page I am disappointed by the decision of KCMO-AM to drop the Toni Grant from its broadcast schedule In the 8 to 10 pm time slot weeknights I listened regularly to this program a nationwide phone-in affair from Los Angeles with a woman psychologist discussing love and human relationships It was remarkably insightful I believe this show attracted affluent well-educated and relatively young listeners surprised that KCMO would spurn this audience and replace the Grant show with old-time radio recordings When I inquired about this decision a gentleman at the station said KCMO already offered a shrink in the daytime and that the Grant show lost its time slot to Sally Jesse Raphael on Talknet Yet the Grant show would be clever counter-programming to Royals RL Kansas City Maybe KCMO is worried The Federal Communications Commission recently warned three stations that material they broadcast was indecent and in violation of commission rules Under these circumstances broadcasting a program from Los Angeles on love and human relationships makes as much sense as hiring Jim and Tammy Bakker to teach a course in ethics I heard you on Walt show on KCUR-FM but now your name has left me completely SS Perry Kan And here I was worried about being snowed under with requests for autographs For some reason your and the has gone crazy continuously talking about and printing the so-called Nielsen ratings These ratings were meant for advertisers not to be used as the Judgment of quality The whole concept of Judging shows by the numbers is ridiculous A certain group of Nielsen homes tells us that one show is better than the other and on this opinion a show stands or falls And the media Is peddling this opinion I have yet to meet anyone who actually watches the No 1 show We only watched Cosby when moved to another night no different from any other show about a family I can watch my own family and get the same headache for that TW Topeka True Nielsen ratings are meant only for advertisers 'But hey practically all television is meant only for advertisers It is a way to deliver audiences to them And OK if gives you a headache You can count on the fact that sometime during the evening you will be able to see at least out) commercial for a pain reliever 7 on Very good 1965 Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton A married clergyman falls in love with a liberated Californian who shares a beach house with her illegitimate son 8 on Channel Good 1985 Rachel Ward Robin Mason In Australia a schoolteacher and nine of her students fight for survival after being abducted by criminals at Central 8 on Channel Fairly good 1976 Andrew Stevens Robert Carradine A high school crusade for revenge begins after a gang pulls a prank that goes too far 8 on Very good 1950 Judy Holliday William Holden A romance develops between the uneducated mistress of a junk tycoon and the man hired to broaden her intellectual and social horizons 8:30 on Very good 1985 Susan Dey Tom Hulce Three people sharing a ramshackle house in Los Angeles try to make ends meet while pursuing dreams of success in show business and writing 9 on Very good 1985 Jessica Lange Ed Harris Marital pit- The suds foam in the two-hour season finale of (8 on Channel 9) also a lot of romance first love (Marc Singer) returns to make her his wife Dinah Shore makes her first appearance on a TV series playing a wealthy widow wooed by two fortune hunters Rich she is and smart too Meanwhile Peter is off on a date with a woman from his past and Dave Kendall tries to pass the bar exam Again In baseball (7 on Channel 4) the Kansas City Royals conclude their road series with the Chicago White Sox An amnesiac leads New Mike (7 on Channel 5) into a deadly confrontation with American and Soviet agents Larry takes Balki along to an important meeting with a top photographer on (7 on Channel 9) On of the (7:30 on Channel 9) Charlie plays cupid when the romance between Ar-vid and Sarah hits a bumpy patch (8 on Channel 5) comes to the rescue of a native girl who having witnessed a murder is marked for murder On a new episode of (9 on Channel 5) a security expert is forced to decode a mechanism he installed midnight on Channel Fairly good 1953 Rory Calhoun Cor-inne Calvet A western marshal sets out to find the assailant who killed his old mining buddy Comes to 12:30 am on Channel Good 1970 Godfrey Cambridge Raymond St Jacques A free-for-all erupts when a bale of cotton containing $87000 in extortion money is lost somewhere in Harlem Were Never 12:30 am on Channel Very good 1942 Fred Astaire Rita Hayworth A man tries to cheer up his daughter by sending her anonymous presents 2 am on Channel Fairly good 1974 Judd Hirsch John Beck A sensational homicide trial leads to unsavory maneuver-ings behind the scenes Is ho still waiting to come home? FIND OUT TONIGHT! MIA WE CAN KEEP YOU FOREVER A powerful and disturbing documentary with answers And questions 1 TONIGHT at 8 Edited movies still reveal more than some want to see NO PAPER? Missed a paper or want to start a subscription? Call your metro-area carrier or call The Kansas City Star service desk at the following number 234-4545 for ddivwy of morning Times 6:30 am 1000 am for delivery of evening Stir 4:00 pm 7:00 pm fordelivery weekends By Barry Garron The Star's TV-radk) critic THE KANSAS CITY SEAR you thought you were Stauber said And the viewers who said there was oral sex and sexual intercourse? were suggested but you actually see should have seen it before it was she said and "Private were edited at Channel 62 which was shown earlier this month and which is scheduled for 8 pm Thursday were edited at corporate headquarters in Chattanooga Tenn knew I was going to get Stauber Mid we have a movie that even has foul language we get try to stick to our policy as closely as we can When you get into some of the newer movies kind of hard why we try to advise parental Stauber said the station advised parental discretion at the beginning of the film and a couple of times during the movie In addition to callers who Mid the station went too far two callers complained that there was too much editing the program director Mid knew we had cut quite a bit of it the most part our movies are family Stauber Mid just have a hew scenes that are theatrical in Late last year KZKC Channel 62 announced that movies with frontal nudity were things of the past This month some viewers are not so sure The station took more than a dozen calls Tuesday from viewers who thought it had gone beyond the bounds of decency by broadcasting The movie shown Monday night is the story of a young man who gets more than book learning from a woman tutor hired by his parents On Tuesday night the station showed This time the French maid who gives special attention to the young man of the house still have the same said Debbie Stauber Channel 62 program director we can we will edit out frontal nudity and Referring to she said: did edit that movie very heavily The only time you really saw anything at all except suggestive scenes was one time when she had her clothes off and her back was turned toward the What about the viewers who called and protested that they had seen frOntal nudity? exactly see what.