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C8T AVAILABLE COPY 04 EL PASO HERALD POST Thursday October 23 1986 H'J Lifestyletelevislon and entertainment THURSDAY EVENING 'Our World' get Cosby assistance El Paso Channels WNIliMnlNrionMMkbiokQraundtfilvvIciifVwMioulGibiii Biscfc nuinbfff on wMIt background if fofvtaMFB with csMft Mexico Channels Visit ando 24Horas Mexico En La Cuttura Increible Matofido Movie XEPM Hogar Empujen Hart To Hart AVivir CHiPs Nacer News XEJ News Movie1 Ryan Cine Mexicano xhj CD (2) Topacio Section De Entrevistas Con El Publico Elizabeth Movie Tete Teatro Contacto44 Las Cruces Channel krwg £0 (3 MacNeil Business News Wonderworks MacNeil Lehrer Living Planet Mystery! Cable Only Channels Hardcastle 700 Club GBums Groucho GD Hardcastle 700 Club EPCH Enterprise Sports Magazine Jack Benny DobieGHBa House Love Boat CD KTLA Spoons Movie: "Like Normal People" H'mooners Sat Night Magnum Big Family CD Jesus Testament John The Nation Love Hearts CSPAN Anniversary Rosary Manning Hospital Thndrcats Facts Facts WKRP Movie: "Villa Rides" Late Show KTTV News Company Too Close Company Dr Ruth Show LIFE Movie: "Pray TV" Family King's Crossing Everybody's Money Matters Regis Philbin (ID LesMiserables "The Devil And Daniel SHOW Movie: "Once Upon A Time In America" Washingtn cm Chase Videocoun Mountain Videocoun NASH Fandango Ronnie Milsap In Celebration Be A Star Fandango Ronnie Milsap In Celebration I Williams At The Met Inside The NFL Movie: "Heidi" Movie: "Reno And The Doc" All The Rivers Run HBO Airwolf 0 Riptide I Movie: "Cloud Dancer" USA Alfred Hitchcock Hour Dragnet' Edge Nt EdgeNt Movie: 'Taking Off' ESPN SpoCtr NFL Films Karate SpeedWk Auto Racing: CART Laguna Seca 300 Auto Racing: Mex Gr Prix Horse Wk SportsLook SpoCtr (H) 9 Movie: "Mexico 2000" GALA Movie: "Los Miserabies" i- IIBmmII mow Beam Fernandez Movie: "En 0 Pais De Los Pies Ugeros" CD Movie: "Better Off Dead" Movie Movie: "Ghostbusters" Movie: "Creator" MAX GD Sanford Times KHJ Fall Guy Pyramid Chance News The Judge Dating Squares Hollywood Hollywood 00 H'mooners Movie: "A Summer Place" Movie: "A Question Of Love" WTBS Movie: The King's Men" TMC "The Doctor And The Devils" Movie: "Joshua Then And Now" Movie: "Dune" Movie: "Forever Darting" CCD Moonstone Gem Movie: "Oliver!" Movie: "Fluteman" Ozzie Movie osn Animals Disney Presents KCIK-TV takes stronger independent look alcohol abuse" At 6 pm Friday KCIK will present a one-hour special Testing in the Work At 8 pm on Saturday KCIK will present a two-hour look at classic movies The first show is hosted by KCIK program director Jay Duncan a movie expert Through original previews and per- hy you may 1 ABC schedule its new-prime-time show (Channel 7 at 7) opposite Cosby (Channel 9 at 7) in what executive producer Av Westin calls really desolate time Daniel Burke president and chief operating officer of Capital CitiesABC explained to me last week that a way of preventing the quick death of a good entertainment show Not that ABC wouldn't love to get great ratings for World" but in the case of a news-department-based series there's a lot less to lose I think the hope is to build a decent audience to establish the show The folks at ABC take a positive view of the time period and its use Linda Ellerbec who with Ray Gandolf is cohost of says if it for Cosby they wouldn't be on in prime time Tonight you can revisit the spring of 1954 Series picks On Simon" (Channel 4 at 7) the brothers are hired to protect an old prospector in Mexico On (Channel 4 at 8) Greg's trying to get Phil out of town On (Channel 4 at 9) Patrick O'Neal guest stars as a friend of the chief of surgery TV talk Actrcsscomcdian Lily Tomlin joins Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show" (Channel 9 at 10:30) On Late Show Starring Joan Rivers" (Fox Network check local listings): Mel Brooks Sally Keller-man PBS picks The plot gets a touch amusing on for a on (Channel 13 at 8) Movie alert Elizabeth Taylor and Angela Lansbury star in Agatha Mirror Crack'd" KCIK Channel 14 at 7 pm Cable channels Country music fans have a great two-hour treat on The Nashville Network (at 6 and at 10:00) with Milsap in Celebration" "Once Upon a Time in America" (Showtime at 9) Shortened (two-hour) version of Sergio violence and sex-filled movie about ghetto-spawned gangsters Judy Flanders writes about television for United Features Syndicate CL own show which Ehret describes as a news magazine I saw one of their shows during the last school year and was impressed with the quality of work I expect that the quality of this show will be just as high Hats off not only to Winstead and Ehret but to Betty Thomas a KDBC news photographer who tapes the various segments for the program Segments include an interview with UT El Paso Miner quarterback Sammy Garza by fifth grader Danny Chavez Sixth grader Erika Guerrero does a spot with the El Paso Diablos along with a segment on hurricanes Ana Alba a sixth grader talks with City Rep Pat Haggerty about city government John Pena a fifth grader takes a look at the Amigo Airsho And Abby Duarte a fifth grader talks about the Texas Sesquicentennial and Replica Museum at Fort Bliss Halloween costumes and Halloween makeup will be examined by sixth graders Stephanie James and Loni Ajinga respectively And Amy Hutchins also a sixth grader will tell us about Mickey Mouse is being shown a different times during the school hours through Nov 7 For more information on air times and dates contact Sherry Lantow at 595-5717 or Lisa Lem at KCOS-TV at 532-6013 Wine fund raiser Final figures weren't available at press time but KCOS describes its of Wine last Friday night as a Kayla Marks director of development at KCOS says more than 1200 attended the fund-raising event compared to 800-900 for last year Don Woodyard is radio and television editor of the Herld-Post Having examined new fall TV seasons for commercial networks and public television independent programming be overlooked Although an affiliate of the new Fox Broadcasting Network KCIK-TV still considers itself an independent station have a stronger independent look" says Robert Munoz president and general manager of KCIK Munoz said that one of the things that held up signing with Fox was his insistence on being able to cancel or pre-empt any program any time he wants to and as often as he wants to have an extraordinary opportunity to capture the television market" said Munoz He optimistically expects gains in viewing audience for the station this fall programming good entertainment good humor that shock or insult is the way Munoz characterizes his fall shows still feel we are appealing to the whole he adds Munoz is zeroing in on the 6 pm to 7 pm time slot (KDBC KVIA and KTSM) news departments have taken that time for granted" he said will now have to do a better job" It will be a tough row to hoc for KCIK The network affiliates compete intensely for the attention with newscasts from 6 to 6:30 pm Munoz is trying to make a dent in that market with syndicated reruns of in Cincinnati" a comedy about a radio station staffed by offbeat characters It ran from 1978 to 1982 and is now seen frequently in reruns From 6:30 pm to 7 pm KCIK is presenting and the Man" one of the best comedy shows ever to hit the small screen It stars the late Jack Albertson (The Man) and the late Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez If anything the competition is even harder for KCIK during this time It is up against of (KDBC) (KTSM) and New Newlywed Game" (KVIA) All this leads up to the movies which he considers the of his prime-time lineup are El movie station" he said adding that the station shows 17-20 films a week The early episodes of Crest" follow the movies and leads into Late Show with Joan More reruns cartoon shows movies and religious programs dot the sche-dulein the morning and afternoon hours Monday through Sunday at 8 am weekdays to New (at 5 pm Saturday) And there is "Silverhawks" (at 4:30 pm weekdays) to Hawk" (at 4 pm Other familiar favorites on the schedule are Rogers" (at 3 pm Sundays) followed at 4 pm by new episodes of Starting at 2 pm the weekday cartoon circuit offers in 30-minute shows Jet-sons" Rangers" and the previously mentioned Another focus for KCIK this fall is in drug and alcohol abuse Munoz says he is strong to raise the awareness level of the dangers of drug and We have an extraordinary opportunity to capture the television market Robert Munoz JJ sonal commentary Duncan examines about 45 movies including Kong" Birds" "The Day the Earth Stood Seventh Voyage of and and the Argonauts" Following at 9 pm is World of Horror" a study of the horror genre of films Parkland Elementary School its fall television lineup this week Its consists of one show which airs on KCOS-TV as a part of its educational television schedule For the second year in a row Betty Ehret and Janet Winstead teachers at Parkland Elementary are working with elementary school students who interview write and produce their -Literary corner Hobbs novelist shuns typecasting Choreography garb best in '20th Century' musical By Dale Walker Special to the Herald-Post I ParisfAftohl Bonds By Betty Ligon El Paso Herald-Post arts editor was right on the mark Coca's role lengthy but she is cute as a puppy and limber enough to kick her shapely septuagenarian limbs in a modified dance She may be tiny in stature but when she belted out her song she was all lungs and voice Gorshin's dramatic portrayal of the needing-a-comeback theatrical producer was first rate Born: July 21 1944 Tampa Fla Education: Completing associate of arts degree New Mexico Junior College Hobbs NM Family: Husband Ted Bonds five sons oldest 19 youngest 7 Published Works: "Sweet Golden (1976) "Dust Devil" (1982) "Deep Purple" (1984) "Blue Bayou" (1986) "Snow and Ice" (1986) and 14 others Favorite author: Frank Yerby Favorite book: "Golden Hawk" by Frank Yerby Current Work: A historical-romance novel set in medieval France been writing since I was seven" says Hobbs New Mexico novelist Parris Bonds in fact I still have my first novel three pages long written when I was not much older than 7" Author of 19 novels since her first in 1976 Bonds specializes in romantic-historical stories several with settings in the American West But she says want to be typecast I've also written science fiction magazine articles and all types of things My new novel and has to do with a female undercover agent in Europe in contemporary times It is a' mainstream novel and the snow and ice of the title are cocaine and diamonds I want to try my hand at writing Bonds says the first real inspiration to write a book came after she and her husband moved to Mexico City in 1971 "I had a maid to take care of the house and children and really began having time to write When we returned to the US the romantic novel genre was undergoing an explosion and I was very lucky I wrote Golden and Popular Library bought it and my next book as well That first novel was not very good and I be as El Paso was just a whistle stop for the 20th Century" judging from the half-filled Civic Center Theater Wednesday It was a mixed bag of onlookers but comments overheard on leaving indicated that most of them enjoyed the touring musical whether they were old loyal fans of Imogene Coca and Frank Gorshin or younger supporters of the Sunturian project Since there aren't any big hit songs to remember from the Broadway show that copped a Tony back in 1978 and the story is pretty thin it's the costumes the clever sets and the inspired choreography that keep this production on track It might even be asked why bring a relatively unfamiliar musical to this traditionally tough theatrical climate By taking the 20th the Sunturians will be allowed to have in about a year and a half when it is released for short runs across the country The performance lasted until almost 11 pm Part of the length was due to a 15-minute delay in starting because one of the stars Judy Kaye was ill and her understudy Alexana Ryer took over the role of Lily Garland a reigning stage star Although some were disappointed at not seeing Kaye the luscious Ryer filled out the role and the 1930s gowns with ease Her Jean Harlow look-alike I Review It Was Keith Curran as Bruce Gran-it latest love whose exag- I crated stances brought the most aughs Just by striking a pose he spoofed the self-importance of every aspiring actor of that time The company brought its own sound system but it failed to work well in the theater The action takes place aboard a train traveling between Chicago and New York in the early 1930s Several ingenious scenes show passengers looking through train windows first class roomettes and once Coca came riding out on the engine's cowcatcher Glenn Mure added spice to the action with his multiple roles as the conductor the cheatin' congressman and the train doctor each of whom had written a play and wanted Gorshin to produce it An excellent pit orchestra was led by a womln Kay Cameron a position held all too infrequently 4 lucky with it She spent time in Europe last year on a research trip for and and will return to Paris let she says of the current terrorist unrest in the city) soon to begin work on the background for her planned romance set in medieval France Of her strengths as a writer Bonds says have fast-moving plots and a lot of history but history that does not She is a founding member and past vice president of Romance Writers of America member of Western Writers of America and -winner of numerous awards for her novels including citations from the Texas Press Women's Association (Best Novel Devil') the National Federation of Press Women and Romance Writers of America She will be one of six writers inducted next year into the Silhouette (a publisher of romantic novels) Hall of Fame Dale Walker serves as director of Texas Western Press at UT El Paso and is the author of 12 books and countless magazine and newspaper articles aona I.