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C-10 The News Tribune Tacoma Mon June 2 1986 3 Television irrsig-J2io Reynolds scared of remarriage in By JUDY FLANDER Channel 13 news staff gutted at staff part of 18-person economic layoff Actors want raises producers ask relief as contract talks open tees will make a general response to the proposals June 12 followed by open negotiations he said Together the unions represent about 90000 members but generally oily 15 percent to 20 percent are working A walkout would affect television shows and feature movies but not television commercials and industrial or promotional films not made for a general audience Actors are seeking a 25 percent minimum wage increase while producers want to eliminate videocassette residuals and stop paying residuals on reruns of prime-time shows until they have recouped their money Producers say forced to deficit-finance their shows hoping to recoup their investment and finally make some money when the show is sold in syndication Producers say videocassettes which have become a major entertainment business are no longer supplemental markets but instead should be considered primary sources of income covered by initial compensation The Associated Prate LOS ANGELES Motion picture and television actors are seeking raises while producers want relief for their deficit financing of television shows as both sides begin a review of new contract issues this week The talks are critically timed because most prime-time television shows begin shooting for the fall season in mid-to-late summer In 1980 a nine-week walkout by film and TV actors delayed production of fall TV shows until late October The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Actors are in joint negotiations with producers as the first phase in their eventual merger Their contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers an umbrella group representing 144 producers ends June 30 Both sides announced their proposals last week and today committees were to begin examining such issues as wages residuals and use of minors said Mark Locher a spokesman for the two unions The commit stituted in all areas of the station this year according to the an nouncement They are indicative of staff reductions and belt tight- ening throughout the television industry for the past year as program costs rise faster than ad revenues the statement continued "We (viewers) are in the age of -greater multiple Kelly said referring to the increased fractionalization of television auv diences between independents networks VCRs and cable stations are doing this now in order to make certain that we will otS have to make any further cut- backs this said Kelly KCPQ will remain in the news? business with Q-13 weather and! sports reports in prime-time twice-daily CNN headline and a commitment to interrupting its program schedule for breaking news according to the statement! But the half-hour KCPQ Newest Ten will not continue Kelly said the station needs to? concentrate on its popularity as movie and college sports The announcement said the sta--tion will help the laid-off employ ees during their job transition by? providing an office extended efits and severance pay You may prefer Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit but I thought he had his best chance to show he could really act in Starting Over (ABC Channel 4 at 9) Of course here he is surrounded by Candice Bergen Jill Clayburgh and Mary Kay Place not to mention Frances Sternhagen and Charles Durning You could say he up" to them or simply accept his sweet performance as Phil Potter a newly divorced man who is deathly afraid of dipping his toe into the matrimonial sea again No I'm not being frivolous Just getting you in the spirit for this lightheaded little comedy about some awfully nice people Bergen just about steals this movie from the whole bunch as the tone-deaf and faithless wife who leaves him for a singing career I wonder if Bergen really can't sing or is she putting on a good act? Either way she's endearing Clayburgh get as much of a workout as the others In one of the funniest scenes Reynolds has an anxiety attack buying a sofa at Bloomingdale's and upon his brother's call for Valium every shopper gathered to gape helpfully reaches into a pocket or handbag I also like the scene in which the wife tries to win Phil back with song and seduction She's silly and sad but the plot isn't condescending Silly but not sad: Stella Stevens stars as a tough Western widow with three tough daughters who wants her husband's job as sheriff in Me Man's Land (NBC Channel 5 at 9) a repeat made-for-TV movie It's the women in the white hats against the men in the black hats in a shoot-'em-up on the ubiquitous Main Street Definitely missable Locally: At 8 Channel 11 has a repeat of Ike: The War Tear starring Robert Duvall Lee Rem-ick Dana Andrews Cannon and ex-Tacoman Darren McGavin in a bio-drama dealing with the life and career of Dwight Eisenhower Part 1 tonight and the remaining episodes in the same time slot Tuesday and Wednesday Also at 8 Art Carney and Stuart Margolin star in Friday The Rabbi Slept Late (Channel 13) a mystery about a rabbi and a police chief teaming up to solve the murder of a housekeeper back to the chase again as Channel 22 presents 77m Fugitive adventure series (10 pm) starring David Janssen as Richard Kimble wrongly accused of murder pursuing the real murderer a one-armed man Kimble in turn is pursued by a police inspector played by Barry Morse There were 120 episodes in this series which ran on ABC-TV in primetime in the 1960s then went to daytime repeats and afterward Into syndication I Roddy McDowall Tuesday Weld Lola Albright and Ruth Gordon star in Lord Love a Duck (Channel 13 at 11) a satire on high-school life and the suburbs TV on Good Morning America (Channel 4 at 7 am): the San Diego Steve Garvey Gerry Marsden (Gerry and the Pacemakers) Garry Shandling guest hosts The Tonight Show (Channel 5 at 11:30 tonight) with Marvin Ham-lisch on his guest list On Late Night with David Letterman (Channel 5 at 12:30 tonight) a repeat zoo man Jack Hanna saxophonist Clarence Clemons comedian Ilya Baskin PBS picks: In the second episode of "Roanoak" on American Piayhouae (Channel 9 at 10:15) the English have built a settlement and an uneasy Wanchese (Joseph Runningfox) warns his tribe that trouble is inevitable Before the hour is over a treacherous English soldier will have Wingina'i head on a platter (so to speak)' Cable channels: The Lett StarHghter (HBO at 8) A movie for youngsters about an ordinary kid who is swept Inside his video game and ends up a hero Sports Alert: The Atlanta Braves play the Pittsburgh Pirates (WTBS at 5:05) The kt-Lawa (Showtime at 10) Fast funny movie starring Alan Arkin as a mild dentist swept into a crazy adventure by his prospective in-law (Peter Falk) who may or may not be on the wrong side of the law Judy Flander la free-lance columnist baaed in Washington DC Local highlights are compiled by News Tribune staff (c) HM United FMtern Syndicate Robert Kelly In the layoff of 18 full-time employees of Affected employees were notified today in a staff meeting by Kelly Television resident partner and KCPQ general manager Robert Kelly extremely unhappy about Kelly said one of the most agonizing decisions I've had to make and resisted making it for more than a Budget cutbacks have been in tion points out that in many cases the courts are ignoring what are being called assets" pensions medical insurance enhanced earning capacity and that "the husband is often walking away with the major assets of the Little time is given to rebuttal by the accused males who in fact NBC serves up a superficial documentary on divorce By HELEN ROGERS Newt Tribune Television Editor Nearly the entire news staff of KCPQ-TV (Channel 13) was among 18 employees laid off today in a move attributed to economic belt-tightening the Tacoma-based Kelly Television independent station has announced Newsroom employees who were laid off include Bill Oltman acting news manager and 10 pm anchor Keitha Mashaw sports reporter Mike Conklin news reporter a number of news producers editors and photographers and a couple of engineering staffers Those laid off were primarily involved with producing the KCPQ News at Ten Weatherman Paul Hagar and Public Affairs Coordinator Marianne McClary will continue working The layoff has been under consideration for approximately a year but the ultimate decision was made late last month it was reported The station's official announcement read: program costs and slower than predicted growth in ad revenue for the Seat-tle-Tacoma market have resulted says she can't come up with the money to hire a divorce lawyer Genna Mims of Novato Calif a mother of four reveals live in churches and emergency shelters until they kick me out I began considering things like maybe robbing a store Leonore Weitzman sociologist and author of The Divorce Revolu- FLRSH HOUR FOTO OUR NEWEST LOCATION OFFERS Drive-up window 5''x7" enlargement in one hour glossy HOURS: M-F 7 UL-7 pjn Safluu4pjn 888 NOW CELEBRATING THE 6R4NID OPENING seem to have a considerably weaker case (Following the reve-lation that 50 percent of divorced? fathers pay the full amount of child support they owe and 24 percent pay absolutely Lt Gov Mike Runneis of New: Mexico counters lot of it is economics The fathers are not well off probably barely? making it TACOMA B817PacHlcAve HO TACOMA 602 North Pearl 531 5060 564-7152 3 7 PM OF OUR 3RD 8817 PACIFIC AVE TACOMA PHOTO FINISHING SPECIAL "1 58SSS I I '1 OFFeyaeftetenl I I SAL 200 EACH tenMHMltelNWfete I I- From 1iaiU36or Dt etamUtateMiaiae Si Nagttwa Wte ten bpm ta MMI HteWitetei bFMtaMHU out and there are plenty: One out of every two marriages will end in the divorce courts 60 percent of the first marriages for women now in their 30s will not make it more than 3 million divorced and separated women live in poverty as do nearly 4 to million children all supported by the taxpayer at an estimated cost of $20 billion a year in welfare checks food stamps and other public assistance laws such as no-fault divorce were intended to promote women's Pauley expands they've become a major cause of poverty for divorced women" Perky as ever and dressed to the nines Pauley as she interviews some of those beaten-down women somehow comes across in all this as a latter-day Lady Bountiful offering instead of baskets of food precious minutes of national airtime Roberta Butler of San Rafael Calif divorced after 26 years as a housewife and mother of five says she is so frightened these days that I think end up a bag Carolyn Scissom of Du Quoin 111 who already $6000 in debt CARPET CtanetfhyaarkenN HOT WATER eitawsa MATE HwntnxlnoLL 3320 a ORENMON-FRLSejnlelRjn SATURDAY eJW 1 pjw By CLIFFORD TERRY Chicago Tribune CHICAGO The main problem with the television documentary producer Don Hewitt of 60 Minutes was explaining last fall while on a visit to Review Chicago is i the very name Because: "Who do you know who likes to read more Hewitt added in a series of sprightly (and sometimes self-serving) remarks the hour-long documentary is "not the end-all and the be-all People watch not an appetite for them" This season Pauley the networks have continued to retrench on their news departments' once-proud form which is fast becoming an endangered species But now that the May sweeps are over there will indeed be a documentary sighting Tuesday night (Channel 5 10 pm) as an NBC White Paper throws out the provocative title "Divorce Is Changing America" It is a bland superficial look advantage Hewitt at an obvious pervasive problem It serves up reporter-narrator Jane Pauley who proffers such pronouncements as studies Indicate that divorce can cause special problems for the As we used to say in third grade: The depressing facts are laid For RECORDS 'togPAYfrOFfSSJ 1024 80 TACOMA WAY NEXTTOMI 581-7947 SO HIU 11916 Meridian 8 841-3025 ALL NEWS 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