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Th Mu-Jowml, Qraanvood, UjMi Dae. 1t TV MM I mmpmm i Plastic surgery plots don't cut it on soaps No. 1 was invoked on "Dynasty" when Jack Coleman replaced Al Corley as Steven Carrington. (For plot purposes, Steve was blown up in an oil rig explosion, and his face was surgically "Days of Our LINDA'S LIFE Would yon please tell about Linnda Koxlowiki, who co-starred in Crocodile'Dnndee" tad 'Crocodile' Dundee A 1981 graduate of New York's famed Juilliard School, Kozlowski made her stage debut in, appropriately enough, It All Began." She continued to perform in plays across the United States leading up to her big break, apearing on Broadway along with Dustin Hoffman in a revival of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman." Kozlowski went on to reprise the role in the Emmy Award-winning 1985 TV adaptation. Best known for her creation of Sue Charlton in the two smash Paul Hogan movies, Kozlowski GREENWAY BUILDERS Licensed Contractor FREE ESTIMATES New Homes, Additions, Decks Remodeling 227-9121 Lives" also used it when Drake Hogestyn succeeded popular Wayne Northrop as Roman Brady.

But can anyone replace unique Buchanan? We hope the "GH" surgeons are skilled at doing sexy eyebrows, at least. also starred opposite Tim Curry in the 1988 comedy "Pass the Ammo" and on the small screen opposite "L.A. Law" 's Harry Hamlin the miniseries "Favorite Son." Complete voi then complete vi shopping at the Strawberry Patch. free gift wrapping Sraw6erry Taicli rm ofureenwood U'314MainSt 229-6100 Uptown Complete your list, jut IAN BUCHANAN Lavery, left the show last spring for the English theater. He returned recently, but for what turned out to be only seven episodes.

Buchanan's unique Scottish burr and vaguely downtown sensibility not to mention those sexy knit-together eyebrows make him a very difficult actor to simply replace. all of the NBA's are in Milwaukee By CONNIE PASSALACQUA Every few weeks, the situation arises: We spot a soap-opera plot line or scene that is so cliched that it seems to set back the entire medium 20 years. We rave and rant, then, just when we're ready to forgive and forget, it happens again! Examples we've groused about in recent weeks include a scene in "The Young and the Restless" in which Paul Williams (played by Doug Davidson) revealed himself to his grieving mother and the revelation that "Guiding Light" 's thirtyish Reva (played by Kim Zimmer) is the long-lost natural mother of 18-ish Dylan (played by Morgan Englund). In fact, there's so much of this going on that with a bow to the National Weather Service, we hereby invoke Soap Scoop's own Cliche Watch. A very serious soap cliche is brewing right now on "General Hospital." The popular Ian Buchanan, who played lead Duke By MARTY LINEHAN If you think athletes are already getting a lot of money for playing kids' games, you, as the late Al Jolson used to say, "ain't seen nothin' yet." The salaries of basketball players are almost sure to go up! That big athletic pie in the sky, that instant prosperity, that come-and-get-it medium TV-has done it again.

Last month, NBC signed a four-year, $600-million deal with the National Basketball Association that is Vk times richer than the NBA's last contract with CBS. The new deal will enrich each of the league's 27 franchises by $4 million. And you know the players can read and act accordingly. Baseball is doing all right financially, too, thanks to the TV tube. Next year it begins a four-year contract with CBS for $1.06 billion and a four-year deal with cable's ESPN for another $400 million.

Each club will get $14.04 million a season. The NFL's current contracts with ABC, CBS, NBC and ESPN will be up at the end of this season. Right now each team gets $17 million in TV dollars. You know that will go up next year. Hockey players, as usual, are the poor guys on the block.

Like football players, they are in the second year, with Sports-Channel. Each club gets only $810,000. On Sunday night, Dec. 10, ESPN airs the New England Not bucks So "GH" has chosen to with Soap Chiche No. 1 plastic surgery! To shield his real identity (Duke is currently in the Federal Witness Protection Program), Duke had had plastic surgery, and a facially bandaged mystery figure recently appeared in Port Charles.

But who's underneath those Mummy-like bandages? When they are removed, we know it won't be Buchanan, who is now a regular on "The Garry Shandl-ing Show." Actor Deke Anderson (who formerly played Eddie Reed on "Days of Our is playing "the mummy." Whether or not he'll continue in the role of Duke when the bandages come off hasn't been confirmed. But there is a very slight physical resemblance between Buchanan and Anderson. You'll recall that Soap Cliche This Saturday, Dec. 16, CBS carries the Dallas Cowboys-New York Giants game from Giants Stadium. This should be a "lock" for the Giants.

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