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rzONINGIOUTiWITHIMARIOlTHEIRLUMBER Nintendo Virus Invades Kids TV 5 wont find this scenario bo farfetched). The series will include heroes, villains and settings from all of Nintendos huge library of games. One week, the Captain may take on the vicious ape from Donkey Kong, while the next episode may take place in the outer-space setting of Metroid. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show will be a more innovative mix of live action and animation.

The live segment will feature Lou Albano (yes, Captain Lou Albano of professional wrestling and Cyndi Lauper videos) as the lovable plumber Mario. Hes in love with a beautiful princess who lives upstairs in his Brooklyn apartment building, and is beset by his hapless brother Luigi as well as by weird creatures who come down through the pipes. Four days a week the animated segments will follow the comic adventures of Mario and Luigi (a spokeswoman for the production company describes their relationship as Very Honeymooners-like). The fifth episode will feature the warrior Link in the enchanted land of Hyrule, the setting of the Zelda video game. Besides running five days a week in syndication, Mario Bros." will be released on videocassette by Kids K1 assies, with single half- By Lou Kesten HOS MOST POPULAR among the 6-to-14 set? Well, if Madonna, Darryl Strawberry and Tom Cruise are the sort of names that come to mind, it shows how out-of-date you are.

Try Mario the Plumber. Doesnt ring a bell? Then you probably dont live in one of the 10 million households with a Nintendo Entertainment System, the wildly successful video games featuring such characters as Mario (of Super Mario Bros.) and Link (from Legend of Zelda). But even if youve managed to refuse them entry to your home, your children probably know who they are. And if they dont, they soon will, thanks to not one but two television shows scheduled for the fall season. Captain The Game Master will be part of NBCs Saturday morning lineup, while The Super Mario Bros.

Super Show will run five afternoons a week on WNYW 5. Captain (you can guess what it stands for) is a half-hour cartoon about a boy who finds himself fighting side-by-side with characters from various Nintendo games after being sucked into his TV set (anyone who has seen a kid zone out for hours while pitying Nintendo much for us, said Johnson. The current rates range from $10 per hour for Studio 7 to $45 per hour for Studio 3. If you take the big room for a longer period of time, you get a break: $245 for an eight-hour day, $1,300 for a week. The Minskoff studios have an astonishingly diverse list of clients.

Actors in the Thanksgiving Day parade, performers in cruise-shop shows and Dustin Hoffman have all rehearsed in the MinskofTs eight studios. Recently, the cast of "The Nerd, scheduled for a summer run in a Neder-lander theater in Birmingham, were rehearsing in Studio 1. Two dancers from the upcoming production of Show-boat at New Jerseys Paper Mill Playhouse were working on some steps in Studio the shows chorus was rehearsing in the Studio 3, MinskofTs largest. Two replacements for the Cats cast were in 4, dancers from Jerome Robbins Broadway were in 5. Auditions were under way in 6 for a show called Look Back in Love," a musical director was working with a one-person dub act in 7 (the smallest studio, with 270 square feet) and 8 was set up as a costume-fitting room fin1 Showboat.

Finding other space for such goingB-on has so far proved impossible. Part of the problem is that we need large, column-free spaces, said Johnson. You cant have columns in the middle of dance spaces. Location is important: We need to be close to subways; we need to be in Manhattan, where the actors are. And construction costa cant be too high.

Its been difficult indeed, so far its been impossible to find a place whore all three things mesh together. There are other rehearsal studios in Manhattan, some in Midtown. The 890 Dance Center has 12 Btudios on eight floors of a handsome old building at 890 Broadway. Were definitely getting an increase in the number of calls as a direct result of the Minskoff dosing, said Marion Koltun, the centers general Please see NINTENDO on Page 25 Please see MINSKOFF on Page 25 I possible wrongdoing. And the word is: milken, named for Michael Milken of the $500 million Milkens.

It can be used as either a noun or a verb. Example: Harry Jones is really a milken. He made $600 million last year. As a verb: Harry Jones really milkened the company last year. He made $600 million.

Now go out there i and start milkening. House Sale Solid rumor has it that the sprawling, five-floor, five-bedroom mansion at 603 Park Ave. that was home to last years Kips Bay Designer Showhouse has been sold for $17.5 million. The place could have been used for an embassy or a corporate headquarters, but instead it apparently will remain as a single-family residence. Some family.

Some price. Some home. But no names yet. Reagan Redux For all you art animals, theres an unusual show going on downtown at the Humphrey Galleries at 37 E. Seventh St.

and 242 E. Fifth St. Its called Reagan: American Icon. And its a splashy show of paintings, sculpture and drawings by 30 big-name artists, including Red Grooms, Jimmy Ernst and Warhol. Even though I never liked Reagan, this is one fun show maybe because a lot of the art slams the ex-prez where he deserves it.

Anyway, Robert Metzger, who I knew years ago when he was curator of the Stamford Museum and I was night city editor of the Stamford Advocate, curated the exhibit. Hes now head of the Bucknell University art gallery, where the show originated. After New York, Reagan goes on the road to Tokyo. But before the show heads East, the president may drop by to view Himself with Queen Nancy, sez Metzger. Stay tuned.

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