The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 47

Saturday January 4 1997 The Kansas City Star E-SL'f 1 CM' HOT STUFF TOP VIDEOS Here are the top rental videos as projected by Billboard magazine: 1 Independence Day (Fox) 2 Enter (Warner) 3 The Nutty Professor (MCA-Universal) (Platinum) 4 Mission: Impossible (Paramount) 5 Striptease (Columbia TriStar) 6 The Cable Guy (Columbia TriStar) 7 Dragon heart (MCA-Universal) 8 The Rock (Hollywood-Buena Vista) 9 Fargo (Polygram) 10 Primal Fear (Paramount) Things look so ducky for Corn-fed (Gragg Berger) and Duckman (Jason Alexander) In this still But maylhlngs will Improve In the season premiere of at 6:30 tonight on the USA Network Nancy Zappa EQ Daily andHfcurry provide some of the Not just another Ivans! Ivans dream boat jDflvana is dangerously built and abysmally So she says in a suit against the manufacturer Cantieri di Baia Cora She wants her $4 1 million back plus $35 million for emotional distress extremely upset" her attor JHil re Trump ed rftC ney says So I is By DAVID BAUDER Astodcfttd Prats lX Bryant Gumbel BIDS A FOND FAREWELL TO HIS NBC COLLEAGUES Donald Trump money was given to you so that it may someday go to the he says in a letter to his ex sure did not give it to you so that it goes to your next husband whomever that may Betrothed Kenny Rogers 58 officially popped The Question to Wanda Miller 30 before his New Eve concert in Las Vegas Then he sang a tune he wrote God Is My to her on stage Stork report Speaking of New Eve CBS anchorwoman Paula Zaho had an eventful one She went into labor two weeks before her due date She and hubby Richard Cohen a real-estate developer were celebrating with friends in Manhattan when and the rocker formerly known as Prince were there in person Ali one of favorite interview subjects rose in mock anger when Gumbel kissed his wife Outside the ground-floor windowed studio in Rockefeller Center a marching band greeted tourists who showed up to watch the last day firsthand going to miss him I think he is very witty and said Jamie Blazer of Athens Tenn who traveled with her friend Jill Gregory to watch the show final program came one day short of 15 years after his first one when he was plucked from NBC Sports to replace Tom Brokaw He says time to do something new in television although he made clear what that will be would hope that people would simply say for 1 5 years shown up for work every day he has shown up prepared and he was real Gumbel said what they say plenty for me because very proud of that Former host Jane Pauley was invited to the tribute but the woman who replaced her Deborah Norville was not Norville was co-anchor from January 1990 until April 1991 Her elevation over Pauley was controversial and the ratings suffered Katie Couric stepped in when Norville went on maternity leave Norville never returned Bryant Gumbel's NEW YORK For once the man famed for his careful preparation and controlled manner during interviews had no homework to do and tears in his eyes Bryant Gumbel has hugged Barney jousted with celebrities from Prince to presidents and sampled the fruits of countless cooking segments On Friday his 1 5-year reign as host ended with an emotional salute to his colleagues He said he carried extra handkerchiefs to prepare for the day And late in the show the 48-year-old host's voice trembled and his eyes filled with tears as he bid farewell has been a real pleasure and a genuine privilege to represent this program and the wonderful wonderful people who put it on" he said had a great time I really have I hope that you all enjoyed it a fraction as Earlier executive producer Jeff Zucker had promised Friday's show would prove to be nice fun sentimental yet happy Gumbel a professed "control admitted he was uncomfortable with the insistence that he not know what would be on the two-hour tribute OK a little bit apprehensive" Gumbel said at the start was the first time I spent the night before a broadcast with nothing to First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton former President Bush actress Sandra Bullock and actors John Travolta Tom Cruise and Jeff Daniels paid tribute on tape Muhammad Ali poet Maya Angelou The Associated Press Matt Lauer get into the groove on Gumbel (left) and replacement host last day on the show Zahn on Monday legacy is relentless preparation and a hard-driving style that some judged as arrogance but others saw as toughness been a real presence there in the Brokaw said succeeded me and as I often remind him he made the world forget about me awfully good at what he does" Gumbel leaves at a ratings' high point The show has led Morning every week for more than a year and its lead is widening Gumbel is now courting oilers from other TV networks trying to see what suits him best ABC News is believed to be the front-runner Zucker said it was his call not to invite Norville made the decision that we were Soing to celebrate the happy days of the ist 15 years and there's no getting around the fact that that year and a half was one of the rockiest points of the he said Gumbel will be respected for his work on in much the same way as former host Dave Garroway is said Steve Friedman executive producer of the show from 1979 to 1987 and 1993 to '94 will be the standard by which everyone is fudged" Friedman said "Today's" new co-host Matt Lauer currently the show's news reader assumes the anchor chair next to Couric tried to put off goiijg to the I hospital until the last Zahn reports 1 am we decided that better go We stood on the Street shouting and trying to hail a cab for 20 Austin Cohen arrived at am baby No 3 for the couple wJEvicted A judge in Adrian Mich 45 has ordered funkman George Clinton aka Dr ctTunkenstein and his family to leave their 200-acre farm in a dispute over unpaid rent Owner Armen Boladian a Tf'hiusic executive charges Clinton $8500 a month 'Tciinton says Boladian is paying the rent to make up for $15 million in song roy- TAKE Note 1 Tire kickers alties REVIEW A touch of Ginger Ginger Baker Trio Tallin Off the Roof" Atlantic A trio featuring drummer Ginger Baker (of the power trio Cream) iconoclastic guitarist Bill Frisell and veteran bassist Charlie lladcn sounds highly improbable Yet last "Going Back was a delightful surprise and this return engagement is successful lladcn broad sound and sturdy lines anchor this program of jazz standards and originals with Baker driving hard and Frisell leaning into blues and bop (sounding unusually direct on Thelonious "Bcmsha Swing" and Charlie Just to hear the joy in playing is worth a listen Fernando Gonzalez The Miami Herald 'Simon' and 'Sons' Jason Bateman says he took a bold chance to get his role on Sons" midseason replacement scries He went after the part even though he was already on another weekly show the WB Bateman says he went in for his Sons" reading right after finishing the first season of "Simon" thinking the new sitcom was everything he ever wanted and telling himself I get it so I have to shoot myself when I do Bateman did get the part however only to find that his already-committed employers TriStar TV and the WB planned to hang on to him said going to gamble and shoot the pilot with you and hope gets And the anxiety really started to set in" Not to worry: got the ax James Garner and Paul Newman have been friends for years Now getting the chance to do something never done before act together They're playing a pair of ex-police detectives and partners in the big screen suspenses Magic never worked with Jack Lemmon before Fellow and that was a real says Gamer of his current big-screen comedy now working with Paul in this picture He has iuat the most marvelous In Newman plays the other man in Susan life and Gene her husband Gamer and Newman will no doubt talk cars between takes The two share a passion for auto racing see Paul at Indianapolis and the other races and we talk all the time But we never raced against each other I quit about the time Paul started Gamer says Growing up Actor Burt Reynolds 60 promises pay off his $1 1 million debt certainly going to simplify my life a little a grim Reynolds said Thursday during his first meeting with creditors since filing Chapter 1 1 bankruptcy Dec 2 do not have a motorcycle I do not have a lot of jewelry I do not drink I do iip mot gamble reached an age when better grow Candle count birthdays: Actress Jane Wyman is 83 REM locker Michael Stipe is 37 "NewsRadio" actor Dave Foley is 34 Sunday's birthdays: Actor Robert Duvall is 66 director Diane Keaton is 51 Rocker Kate Schellenbach of ViXuscious Jackson is 3 1 By Dru Sefton based on wire reports (dseftoiKddicstarcom Channel 4 kills newscast shuffles programs By AARON BARNHART 'Miitalnn VVIIWI Beginning Monday TV" will run at 3 pm with Hollywood" an "Entertainment Tonight" lookalike following at 3:30 pm and from 4 to 5 pm "Extra" will shift to 1 1:30 pm followed by "Jenny Jones" at midnight and at I am In another chunge "Fox News Sunday" the Fox network's entry into the Sunday-morning talk show fray will make its debut locally at 8 am Sunday The program originates from Washington with conservative commentator Tony Snow a onetime editorial page editor of The Washington Times as host Staff writer Robert Butler contributed to this had not been "as widely viewed as our research indicated would Piettc said on-air duties will not be affected by the format change he added Meanwhile the various infotainment programs that precede Channel evening news are being shuffled The tabloid TV show "Extra" on Monday will move from its afternoon slot to a late-night berth making way for "Real TV" and "Access Hollywood will be joined in the midnight hour by Jones" and reruns of "Bay watch" The current schedule has the Montel Williams show at 3 pm and at 4 pm 7 Weekday afternoons on WDAF-TV Channel 4 arc getting a fresh look for 1997 The station ia ending ita year-old attempt to compete with the networks' national news programs World Tonight With Phil 5:30 Em broadcast signed off for the last time Friday Piette general manager said the station will revert to a 90-minute local newscast from 5 to 6:30 am World Tonight" which billed itself as "the only national newscast produced for Kansas iy Witt I.