The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 17

The News Tribune Mon Jan 9 1989 B5 Entertainment to re-enact area slaying Irwin show pushed to is comedy greatness The Pat Sajak we're fresh out of time Sajak's 90-minute interview series debuts at 11:30 tonight on the Seattle-Tacoma CBS station Hollo? anybody there? To hear the syndicators and the producers tell it Today: The Television Show" is 100 percent better than it was when it made its godawful debut in September Just to prove the point GTG Studios which produces the show claims to have renewed for a second year Just one problem: The ratings are still horrendous Either America hasn't heard that has improved or just guessing now America cared Some stations have tried switching the time slot some have axed it altogether And just what KIRO may do if the ratings don't pick up during the February sweeps In desperation Today" will launch a massive promotional campaign this week As Freeman says trying to get people to come back to But it's hard to get a second chance in television these Andee Beck covers the television and radio industry for The Morning News Tribune Her column appears each Sunday in Video Week and on the Monday Wednesday and Friday TV pages is in town this week shooting a re-enactment of the 1985 crime that took a Puyallup life and saw the disappearance of her companion In December 1985 trapper Michael Riemer Jr 36 Diana Robertson 21 and their two-year-old daughter Crystal left Puyallup to check animal traps along the Nisqually River Crystal was found wandering in front of a Spanaway discount store that night and her parents were determined missing Two months later Diana partly decomposed body was found mi a logging road in Lewis County But Riemer is still missing and the case remains unsolved no air date yet for the dramatization Double Look for the radio version of hot game show to hit the air here March 20 Still to be determined is which station Contracts go in the mail today to an information station and an adult-contemporary music station both in the Seattle-Tacoma market but only one of which will be awarded the rights John Chanin executive producer for the radio version said by phone from New Jersey be exactly like the TV show with Alex Trebek as if' movietimes 'v Tacoma AMC NARROWS PLAZA I Oliver A Company 1:40 2 (PG) The Naked Gun (PG-13) Dirty Rotten Scoundrel 4:45 9:50 (PG) Twins lift a (PG) Working Girl 2 4:30 9:40 (R) Rain Man 1:55 4:55 10:35 (R) Hellhound: Hellraitor 1045 (R) -The Land Before Time 4:15 (G) 9-Cocoon II: The Return 10:40 (PG13) Without A Clue 7 (PG) High Spirits 9:05 (PG-13) GENERAL CINEMA'S LINCOLN PLAZA 1-Rein Mon 7:10 9:45 10:15 (R) Childs Play 545 9:35 Cocktail 3:35 (R) Oliver end Company 2 3:40 5:25 (G) -Accidental Tourist 12 2:30 ft 7:30 10 (PG) games Viacom will also add American Movie Classics as well as switch many of the existing program services to other channels And there are more changes in the works Viacom Cablevision says it will spend 83 million over the next three years to rebuild and expand its systems in the Northwest The upgrading is due to start in the spring in Lakewood University Place and Steilacoom Meanwhile back at ranch subscribers can look forward to a 12 percent raise in the basic service fee As of Feb 4 the tab will be 81695 plus tax Customers now are paying 81650 tax included More news 4 you: Is KOMO-TV developing a magazine series? That's the word from my source who says the new Channel 4 show has gone beyond the planning stages and into the hiring process The word from station program director Dick Warsinske? The usual Can wa talk? think to KIRO has Joan Rivers and putting her on the shelf Her new TV talk supposed to launch in September but Channel 7 which bought the program rights has no room in its broadcast schedule KIRO Program Director Nick Freeman tells us the advent of South King County KENT SIX CINEMAS 1-Rain Man 4:30 7 9:30 (R) Twins 5:30 7:40 9:40 (PG) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 5:40 7:50 9:50 (PG) Oiivor and Company 0 7:45 9:45 (G) My Stepmother Is An Alien 5:30 7:30 9:30 (PG-13) -The Land Before Time 545 7:40 9:45 (G) LEWIS AND CLARK THEATRES Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 2:20 4:50 7:20 9:40 (PG) t-Worklng Girt 2:10 4:30 7 9:30 (R) My Stepmother Is An Alton 2:40 4:50 7:10 9:25 (PG13) Cocoon II: The Return 2:20 4:40 (PG) The Naked Gun 2:40 4:30 7:00 9:10 (PG13) Scroogtd 2:40 4:50 7:30 9:35 (PG-13) Hellhound: Hollroisor IL 2:10 0 5:50 7:40 945 (R) PARKWAY PLAZA CINEMAS Rain Mon 1:10 0 7:10 9:45 (R) Toquilo Sunrise 7:10 9:30 (R) Oliver and Company 1:30 3:30 5:30 7:30 9 (G) The Land Befora Tima 1 3 1 (G) Hellhound Hollroisor 0 1:40 340 040 740 9:45 (R) Accidental Tourist 4:10 7 9:15 (PG) SEA-TAC SOUTH Olivtr A Co 1:40 4:10 5:15 (G) Tha Land Befora Tima 240 5:10 (G) Cocoon II 0 10:30 (PG) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 2 4:40 740 9:50 (PG) The Naked Gun 240 0 7:50 10:05 (PG-13) Scrooped 2:10 4:50 7:30 9:55 (PG-13) nrr 4 WITHOUT A CLUX (PC) 70 plus HKH SHUTS (PC-13) Ml I REGULAR ADM $2 ITUES BARGAIN NITE61 Bill York (The Further Adventures of a Post-Modern plays through Feb 4 at the Bagley Wright Theatre Seattle Center Call 1-443-2222 mass of gowned academicians who follow Irwin and his friends around The academicians are led by Jeff Gordon a champion diver who demonstrates his springboard talents by doing flips into a large trapdoor in the stage floor All the human characters in the show act and interact with a host of electronic equipment In one scene which combines pre-filmed videos with stage action Irwin is trapped inside a television set and has to be rescued by a vacuum cleaner A video camera becomes a wrestling partner wires become spider webs The media become the message and the movement merges it all Illusions are created exploded and imploded Nothing holds still everything is suggested and then moves into another lively interpretation of itself There are messages dozens of them statements about victimization by the media about loneliness and alienation and about that ever-present that could be out there waiting to destroy us But to belabor the messages would be to join the flock of academicians who study and imitate Irwin and his friends without understanding For this is above all entertainment wonderfully intricate and brilliantly presented Where can Bill Irwin go from here? Anywhere he wants 6 Golden Globe nominations including Best Picture (comedy) NOW PLAYING! Cheek THEATRE GUIDE ktrshoedmes HoUbound Hollralsor 2 5:20 7:40 10:10 My Stepmother Is an Allan 2:10 7: is 9:40 (PG-13) SEA-TAC NORTH 1-Twins 2 4:50 7:20 10 (PG) Working Girl 1:50 440 7:30 10:10 (R) Accidental Tourist 2:20 5:10 7:50 (PG) The Boost 2:10 0 7:30 10:10 (R) Toquilo Sunrise 1:50 5:10 7:50 10:20 (R) 5-Rain Mon 1:40 440 7:40 1040 (R) SOUTHCENTER THEATRE Twins 7 9:20 (PG) Puyallup Iron Eagto II 7:10 9:15 (PG) PUYALLUP CINRMAS 1-Rain Mon 4:10 5:50 9:30 (R) 2-Twlns 4:30 7 9:15 (PG) S-EUrt Rotten Scoundrels 0 7:30 9:40 Toquilo Sunrise 9:10 (R) l-Tho Naked Gun 0 5:50 7:50 10 (PG13) Oliver and Company 4:10 5:50 740 (G) DHva-lna STARLITE Hellhound: Hollralsor II The Accused (R) Open 7 show et MO STAR CINEMAS By Eva Dumovich The News Tribune Where can Bill Irwin go from here? Right now he's pushing stagecraft to its hilt in New on Seattle Repertory Theatre's main stage He has married movement the media and mime in a production with as many layers as a Walla Walla sweet Review 0nly- when you peel this baby your tears are ones of gutsplitting laughter Last vehicle for Irwin's baggy-pants rubber-legged style was Regard of which also played at the Rep transports that style into the realm of pure comic genius In this production Irwin is who wanders through the streets of New York or having encounters These encounters are all expressed in dance and body language Not one word is spoken or sung and not one needs to be From the time Irwin stumbles onto the stage waving a remote-control device to the energetic finale the action never stops the pacing never drags During his odyssey Irwin meets a contemporary dancer (Margaret Eginton) and falls in love with her He also develops a relationship with two breakdanc-ers (Leon Chesney and Steve Clemente) The adventures of the four leads are accompanied by sparkling ensemble work by some of finest performers They form a corps of citizens and a HARBOR CINEMAS Olympic DUJW 8it-COOO COCOON II: THE RETURN 6306:45 (P6)j THE LAND BEFORE! TIME 730830 (G) DAKOTA 635 (PG) 1969 835 l)l $350 AduhStOCWWrwSrC- 8150 ALL SHOWS TU6i WED General Cinema BARGAIN MATIN! IS 300 MON HI ML SHOWS KfONE PM SAT SUN 8 NOUMYS 1st SHOW ONLY POUT ITIHIO I LINCOLN PLAZA ft lUti 4 PS kiwi fra Ik 477-7W0 TWINS 2 nl Scrum 1: 120 2ft tft 70 fcSA Scrum 40 70 dft (PG) CHILD'S PLAY 1:50 Sft 2 (I) WITH COCKTAIL MS 72 (X) Walt Disney's OUVU A COMPANY MS 3ft MS (G) MY STEPMOTHER IS AN AUEN MO (PG-11) RAIN MAN on 2 Icratml SctmhI: 145 045 Scram 2: (THX) ftSft 7ft ISsIft (I) MU BOUND: HEUBAISKR 2 1:10 24ft 550 Mft 10:10 (It) ACCIDENTAL TOURIST 120 20 2ft7ft10A (PG) HELLBOUND HELLRAlSERnml THE ACCUSED be Mi The half-hour program has been sold to 23 stations in such cities as Anchorage Orlando Tampa Tucson Minneapolis and Nashville Cable increases: Here they come again those pesky price hikes from the cable companies Starting Feb 1 Viacom Cablevi-sion viewers will have to cough up an extra 8150 for basic cable or $1695 a month The escalation comes a year after a basic cable increase of 81-50 and two years after a 83 basic boost But at the same time that Viacom raises its rates next month the Tacoma company will squeeze two channels into its system Black Entertainment Television will join the lineup mi Channel 6 and will be offered 1 am-3 pm Sharing the channel from 3 pm-l am will be Northwest Cable Sports a joint venture between Viacom and TCI that among other things promises the Tacoma Stars the Mariners and Husky basketball Twins 12:30 2:10 2:50 4:30 5:05 7 7:20 9:20 9:50 (PG) 4-My SUpmolher It An Alien 7:15 MO I PC-11) Hellhound Htllriwn II 5:50 110:10 (R) Bull Durham 7 Married To The Mob (R) TACOMA MALL TWIN Tequila Sunrise 4:15 7 0:40 (R) arl-Scrooged MO (PG-11) TACOMA SOUTH CINEMAS Dirty Rotten Scoundrel! 4:45 7 Mft(PG) Working Girl MO (R) Booftt (R The Naked Gun 3:45 5:45 (PG-11) The Land Before Tima 2 5:40 (G) TACOMA WEST CINEMAS My Stepmother I An Allen 0:10 (PG-11) Tequila Sunrlw 0:20 (R) Accidental Tourlit 7 0:15 (PG) Scrooped 0:40 (PG-11) Crowing Delancay 0:45 (PG) VILLAGE CINEMAS Who Framed Roger RabbitT 0:20 (PG) Watcher The Accused 7:20 (R) Punchline (R) 1040 (PG-13) Cry In The Dark (PG-11) Iron Eagle II (PG) Gig Harbor HARBOR MALL CINEMA-Cocoon II 1:45 (PG) Land Before Time 7 (G) Dakota (PG) 1040 (R) TOTAL Family Events The Peking Acrobats Saturday January 21 1 pm Grace balance and agility will hold you spellbound to the edge of your seats The Peking Acrobats a 25-member troupe direct from China move in unbelievable waves of color and control How to make the law work for you matmff) tooav- I $951 MONDAY MSI I Zbiwjs ECONOMY Zmii MIGHT No Economy Pries onltsrrad uxm 548999 MiOO NvMm Stt? 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