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MW arm MEMPHIS THURSDAY AUGUST 1 1996 THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL All Jim THURSDAY MORNING AUG 1 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 TALK SHOWS offering more entertainment off-screen lately I 7 TUNE IN 1:00 1:30 2:00 2:30 6:30 6:00 6:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 By Kirk Nlcewongcr United Feature I NEW YORK On New York Undercover repeat (8 pm WHBQ-TV Channel fillii 13) when Williams (Malik Yoba) and Torres (Michael De Lorenzo) go after a sniper Sam he has a vendetta five people who had set for a scam at the Wall Street firm where he once worked So what? Well so nothingac- tually The real drama of New York Undercover lately has taken place behind the scenes In an endless summer of reruns for three days last week this series provided some of the most entertaining television of the year all of it off-screen I laughed I cried it was the fed-good 1-good contract dispute of the season! It all started Tuesday July 23 when Yoba and DeLorenzo staged an impromptu sit-down strike to force the show to renegotiate their contracts apparently believing that it was their blinding star power that rocketed New York Under cover to its spectacular 77th-place finish in the Nielsens what gave TV insiders a case of the chuckles was that Yoba and DeLorenzo might have been in the worst possible Elace to pull this: New York Undercover is produced by Dick Wolf who is famous for abrupt cast changes on another of his series Law A Order In any case the walkout set into motion 72 hours of comic theater the likes of which TV seen since the glory days of I Love Lucy These were the day-by-day developments: Tuesday: Production on New York Undercover shuts down when its stars fail to show up for the second straight day manager issues the following statement: "Michael was prepared to report to work this week only to find production executives were not interested in discussing his future Wolf issues his own statement: of the actors has asked for $75000 per episode AND creative input AND a gym AND a star trailer AND better He adds can promise you this: New York Undercover will be back this fall with or without the two actors who are in breach of their Wednesday: Wolf interviews actors to replace Yoba and DeLorenzo New York Daily News reporter Christy Slewinski asks Wolf how the show will explain the disappearance cops die in cnurch he succinctly re- 6 lies And if Yoba and eLorenzo subseq to return? Wolf says When you're dead Thursday: Yoba and DeLorenzo report for work They issue a joint statement are happy to be back at work on New York Undercover and look forward to working with our producers our fellow castmates and the entire production team for what we hope will be New York most compelling season Wolf describes foe i atmosphere as and NBC has scheduled cover- Fighters Fugees and Hootie foe Blowfish Morissette leads the pack for new artist against Jewel Tracy Bonham and Garbage Hootie foe Blowfish announced the nominees at a New York press conference on Tuesday along with MTV president Judy McGrath age of the following Olympics events tonight Prime time (beginning at 6:30 pmt WMC-TV Channel 5): UallV Pi6AAf ITMAVa track-and-field finals in the de- cathlon and 200 meters 400-meter hurdles basketball semifinal platform diving rhythmic gymnastics Late night (beginning at 11:41 pm WMC-TV Channel S): women's volleyball semifinal equestrian team jumping final boxing semifinals free style wrestling matches On a High Incident repeat (7 pm WPTY-TV Channel 24) ruli uiBuiwi i Len turns to counseling to deal with his grief over death Richie faces a venomous defense attorney in court and Terry gets emotionally involved in the search for a missing child Martin and Gina wind up homeless after his subletting scheme backfires on a Martin rerun (7 pm WHBQ-TV Chan- nel 13) The rebroadcast of the 1993 miniseries Return to Lonesome Dove concludes (7 pm WREG-TV Channel 3) Jon voight and Rick Schroder are among the stars On a Living Single repeat 50 pm WHBQ-TV 13) Knadijah hires a bike mes- senger as a writer for the magazine and he promptly goes after a big scoop Joanna Kerns stars as a battered wife who becomes embroiled in a custody fight in the rebroadcast of the 1993 drama Shameful Secrets (8 pm WPTY-TV Channel 24) William Faulkner of all people was one of the writers of the goofy 19SS sand-and-san-dal epic Land of the Pharaohs (9:15 pm AMC) This saga of i building of the Great Pyramid is notable chiefly for a hi- the 1 larious turn by Joan Collins and for its unintentionally laughable dialog The latter was explained by director Howard Hawks as being due to the fact that nobody involved how a pharaoh SELlIINGiZwal DIAMONDS! Best Diamond lames 9 kSTOIttJEWELERi 78 Partin Krt BK3-1XHI "Noncr TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE GOALS IN VS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS The Tennessee Department of Transportation has set goals for the participation of Aims owned and controlled by disadvantaged persons TDOT'S Disadrantaged Business Enterprise goal is 1 0 of the Federal-aid share of contracts awarded during fiscal 1 997 It is anticipated that the total dollar amount for Disadvantaged business Enterprises will be approximately thirty million dollars ($3000000000) These goals and a description of how they were selected are available for public inspection during normal business hours for thirty (30) days after the publication of this Notice at the: Tennessee Department of Transportation Contract Compliance Office Suite 400 James Folk Building 505 Deaderick Street Nashville Tennessee 37243-0347 The US Department of Transportation and the Tennessee Department of Transportation will accept public comments for Informaton purposes only on the goals forty-five days from the date of this Notice Comments may be sent to the address above or to the- US Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration 249 Cumberland Bend Drive Nashville Tennessee 37228 AFTERNOON 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30 EVENING 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 rule a a a pie big-budget videos Adam and Larry Clayton and Larry Mission: Impossible theme and the Coolio clip Paradise from Dangerous Minds With the possible exception of Pear embrace of these videos is believed to have driven the grosses for the films up millions I un C8PAN Washington Journal (Uva Phone-tn) (3:00) 604468 7 sm 77Ms Homing Water aerobics raped on computeri 42623 7 un (D Today From Atlanta atta of flia 1 996 Summer Olympic Games 93371 7 am a Good Morning Amor-lea Olympie rapod from Atlanta cooking advice on acna 41623 6 am Q) Uva Ragla A Kathla Loo Ado Jany Orbach Law A Ordar) pat expert Warren Eckstein wtth animal daaning tips 51468 8 am fUckl Loko From January: Family mambara ancouraga loved onaa to loas thalr mates guaata and audlanca mambara receive eaah and prizes 44130 8 ajn 8 Goorgo A Mono From 1995: Ittnaas expert Tony Uttla ainger Martha Raavaa 88130 8 a jn CSPAN Houoo of Rapra- (3:00) B91474 10 am Janny Jonoo From 1995: paranta who dlaapprova of thalr childrsn's Interracial relationships B3420 10 am a Caryl A Marilyn: Root FriandaTha raesnt AMA ruling on the cord blood transplant a comadlc look at marital dHficul-tlaa 20130 From I about thalr abueivei 11 am a WGN Qaraldo Teen-aga rapa survivors 80230 dotty Springer Trou-at a turning Noon FAM Homo A PamSy From June: actor Tony Danza magl-UrOarit eggplant par- Noon CSPAN Houaa of Rapra-- (3:00) 781420 1 pm a Chorda I 1 pm a Roaia OVonnaS From Juno: actress-dlroctor Penny Marshall talk show host Joan Lundsn Savkm Glovsr and tha cast of Broadway's Bring In Noiaa Bring In 'da Funk 21710 52062 3 pm (D Retonda From April: people who have drastically changed thalr physical appose 3 pm CSPAN Houaa of Rapra- aantaUvsa (30) 772772 4 pm 0) Oprah Winfrey From fralui iuji luyu ImSSasu iiiii rvofuvy now Kmory ww rvsb wore arrscioo oy msir 68401 wealth 4 pm ants who wart thalr tsans to i home 95772 6 pm CSPAN Houaa of Rapra-aantathraa (1:00) 345772 5:30 pm CNN Croaafke 110807 7 pm CSPAN Prima Tima Pub-dcAIfatra (3:00) 659994 8 pm CNN Larry King Uva (Uve Phone-In) 570265 10 pm El Howard Slam 635807 10 pm CSPAN Prima Tima Pub-Ac Affirm i (Repeat) (3:00) 382710 10:30 pm El Howard Slam (Re-ped) 644555 1035 pm CD Lola Shorn MW) David Lattarman From 1995: ac-tor-comlc Al Frankan singer Pladdo Domingo actresa Draw Banymora New York City Mayor 1 Giuliani 99233536 Rudolph! 11 pm a Motdal WUHama Up-dataa on memorable teens who ha vs appeared on tha show 25623 11:05 pm OJanrry Jones From 1995: parents who disapprove of thalr childrsn's Interracial rele-tlonshlpa 1784265 11:30 pm LIFE Lata Data 229028 1137 pm gn Lata Lata Show (Uva Pnona-ln) 7362197 1235 am a Ruah Umbaugh 5884173 1 am El Howard Siam (Repeat) 355918 1 am CNN Larry King Uva (Repeal) 540444 1 am CSPAN Public Policy Conference (330) 733482 1:11 am CD Lauren Hutton And From February: actress Lsla Rochon (Waiting to Exhale) 9718444 3 am CNN Croaaflra (Repeal) 747260 330 am a Hark Walbarg Child IS 87060) molestation victims I 4 am CSPAN Public Policy Conference (2:00) 884005 Smashing By Jeffrey Jolson-Colbum Tha Hollywood Raportar LOS ANGELES Established alternative acts and a smattering of- hip-hop artists ruled foe nominations for the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards Smashing Pumpkins crushed the competition with a leading eight nominations followed by Alania Morissette Foo Fighters and Bjork with five nominations each The 13th annual MTV Awards are set for Sept 4 in New York for foe third year in a row at Radio City Music Hall Performers are to include Bush Metallica Oasis and the Pumpkins The Pumpkins who subsequent to the nomination voting period lost their keyboardist to a drug overdose and dismissed their drummer for continued heroin abuse earned a best video of the year kudo for their acclaimed retro sci-fi video Tonight Tonight and an alternative video nomination for 1979 However the six other nominations were all in the professional categories By contrast four nominations for 1J34 (Sum-pin New) and Grammy-win- I 1 1 I s- i i I i I I I a I i video nominations a a 1 Best male video nominees include Bryan Adams' Beck Coolio Kelly with Ronald Isley and Seal Top women include Morissette Jewel Tracy Chapman and Bjork Top contenders in a diverse field of best group video contenders are Bone ThugsN-Harmony Foo Donate your newspaper to someone who is learning to read Pumpkins ning Genista's Paradise all came in foe more prestigious eneral categories Another ip-hop act Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is contending three times in the general fields including best video for The Crossroads The video shows the group dying and meeting deceased mentor Eazy-E at the crossroads between heaven and hell The Foo Fighters are up for their Big Me video a sendup of a candy commercial Morissette is driving her Ironic video to foe awards a Multiplicity-type dip featuring four very different versions of her cruising in a car Iceland's biggest export Bjork checks in with a Spike Jonze-directed performance video set in a nightclub In the best director field Jonze will be up against Marty video) Callner (foe Cranberries video and the directing team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Paris who were nominated for foe Pumpkins and REM vide- Best videos from a film nominee include Machinehead from Pear Up in My Roan from "Waiting to which surprisin) one nomination 116 had oniy multi- Thanks to the generous support from many of our subscribers local literacy programs are using The Commercial Appeal in their training sessions You can help too When you call to request that your -newspaper be temporarily stopped while out of town tell our customer service representative you want to donate the unused newspapers to the literacy program Your delivery will be halted temporarily but your newspapers will still be used for a worthwhile cause TkE Commercial Appeal Call 529-2666 to garticipaU in this program -4r I.