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Tuesday, September 30, 1986-Mattoon, II. Journal Gaiefte -B 5 'Crime Returning to a real Mann's world NBC Enterf.t 'ini'Mi! resident Brandon ff believes in Hie show so m'! Hi.T hp has giveu.it the task of anchoring" Tuesday night, an important night of th' week for NBC ith all-new shows. And other show, Miami Vice, i aKn crucial to PC this season. Its time was moved up to 8 n. so it 'could challenge CBS's Dallas on Friday s.

and provide a solid lead in audience for the most critically acclaimed show of the new season. La. Law. With so much at stake, Mann is constantly flying hack and forth between the set of Miami Vice and Crime Stun, serving as executive producer and tmubleshooter. "I've got -enough aocumulated airplane mileage to get a first class seat on tl next shuttle," Mann says.

Why would anyone want to put his neck on the network chopping block and risk failure when there's already enough' monev: in the bank? "The work that I do is tun," Mann savs But Mann stresses that this show is not about shootouts. It's about the lives of three men over two decades. He promises several shows with no gunplay at all. "There is no blood. I didn't want to appall people," Mann said.

He also wants to attract women viewers, and to do that you need more, than violence. You need a good story. Mann found that in Chuck Adamson, who spent 17 years as a vice detective in Chicago before moving to Las Vegas. Adamson will serve as writer and story Playing Lt. Torello is Dennis Farina, who spent 18 years of his life on the streets of Chicago as a detective before becoming an actor.

When you have a cop playing a cop you get reality. At first, Mann planned to zip the story along rapidly, moving through two decades and from Chicago to Las Vegas in the first year of the TV series. After that, Mann wasn't saying what would happen. But it was decided to slow things down a bit, spend a little more time in the 1960s and in Chicago. By MARK SCHWED UPITV Editor NEW YORK Michael Mann gave us Miami Vice, television's first color-coordinated cop show, and so when Mann unveiled his new series, Crime Story, there was much discussion about color.

Some thought the hue was blue, others said it had a lime green flavor to it, while still others said bright colors were the rule. But they're all wrong. The color of record is midnight black and the feel is grit and grime the perfect match for Chicago's mob-busting cops in the 1960s and quite the opposite look and feel of Miami Vice. Mann made his mark in television with Miami Vice, a show that changed viewer habits, fueled a fashion trend, and rejuvenated Miami's old retiree image. Vice was good because it was so unusual for television.

The show has a dreamlike quality, punctuated with hip hit music, and flavored with electric pastels of turquoise and pink, cool cottons and crumpled Crockett and Tubbs, the white and black cops, Italian designer suits, drove a black Ferrari and did battle with the drug barons of South Floriua and Latin America. Young people actually stayed home on Friday nights to watch the first music video cop show. And by romancing the sleaze, Miami Vice did wonders for Miami's image. The show went beyond being just contemporary itself a rarity in TV and actually set trends. With Crime Story, marvelous Mann has done it again, giving us television with a twist in an Interesting, city, during a turbulent time.

Crime Story debuts in its regular slot Tuesday Sept. 30 from 8-9 p.m. after three sneak previews on television and an usual sneak preview of the two-hour pilot in selected movie theaters. The serialized crime saga centers around the Major Crime Unit of the Chicago Police Department in the 1960s, and tells the tale of three men: Lt. Mike Torello, a gruff, 'old-fashioned cop who would just as soon shoot a crook as arrest him, David Abrams, a liberal lawyer and son of a former mobster, and Ray Luca, a street punk.

who becomes a. shrewd mob boss. Mann sets the scene well. The streets seethe with grit, the bars are sleazy, the diners are dressed in formica, police drive sleek black Fords with fins, gas is 24 cents a gallon for regular. In the opening two-hour episode, there are at least a dozen killings.

Ait'iough the compact machine gu is prevalent on Miami Vice re not yet fashionable in the 'iiOs, crooks were not without firepower. Shotguns do just fine in a jewelry heist and a revolver makes a nice size bullet hole when the target is a head a few inches away. And for a wild daytime shootout in a crowded department store any weapon will do. Newspaper Advertising 1 000 AT KERASOTES THEATRES WILL ROGERS 345 9222 Put a Smile All Seats 1 Karate Kid II (PG) 7.00 Club Paradise (PG13) 7:15 (nW IAU SHOW SCHIOULiIrI TIM 205-0515' 5:05 I Vasectomy (PG13) -Bullies (R) 5:00 The cast of NBC's 'Crime Story' NtWMtl SNOW SCHtOUttl on your car! CINEMA 0 256-8228 The Fly 5:10 7:15 The I I I Touch Go (R)- 5.05 7:10 Back To School (PG1 3) 5:00 7:05 Tou Bac RED CARPET CAR WASH bOO Charleston Ave Soaps tackle eno a se, enter the operating room NtWMU SHOW SCItUUltlLoof $2 ALL SHOWS DtrOM 6. P.M.

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"We're telling a real story, which in a way is nice for a change." "The doctor was very cooperative when I suggested we film the operation. He thought about it for 30 seconds and said yes." "Jordy Clegg was a womanizer. He lived on his looks," Conboy said. "So when this happend it was a perfect opportunity to play that on the air. What happens when a man who lives on his looks loses them?" The operation may be a month away.

Doctors have, the final say. Another daytime soap, As the World Turns, is about to deal with the subject of menopause. Long before Joan Collins strapped on a tight gown and became a conniving shrew, Eileen Fulton was the meanest woman on television. She played Lisa Col-ema-McColl on the CBS soap, the Very first vamp. But there was a problem.

As she aged, her.nastiness was smoothed over until she became a nice person. "We were trying to work out how to make Lisa a little more bitchy," said Fulton, who has played Lisa Tor two decades. "She hasn't been in so long. I told them, 'I know a good reason to make her nasty. Let her go through change of Menopause in the morning is new for soaps, but not for prime-time, Edith Bunker on All in the Family spent two weeks going through menopause.

"We just started getting into it," Fulton says'. "The character's already flying off the handle every now and then. She's terribly funny one minute and irrational the next. This week we'll finally mention that she is going through menopause." Fulton says she's going through menopause herself. "I am just beginning to go through it," she said.

"Being such a method actress it seems like I've suddenly caught it. I have had hot flashes." Stay tuned for more than you ever wanted to know about the private lives of the soap stars and the characters they portray. AIM I 1 NEW YORK Daytime soap operas have never shied away from tackling a controversial subject, whether it be rape, incest or adultery. This season, at least two soaps are venturing into untraveled TV terrority live on-air plastic surgery and menopause and both will raise some eyebrows. John Conboy was dubbed the "Ziegfeld of television soap operas" for being the first to introduce sex, sleaze and style to the daytime soaps.

He also has quite an eye for "star quality," having brought in such stars as Tom Selleck, Donna Mills, Tony Geary and David Hasselhoff. By dressing the stars in designer gowns and placing them in sumptuous environs, with nothing but fiery romance on the agenda, Conboy had a strong hand in changing the face of daytime television. Those changes eventually bled over into nighttime soaps. All this has helped make his latest soap, CBS's Capitol, one of the top-rated serials in daytime. But his newest idea is startling: live on-air plastic surgery.

If you can believe it, live plastic surgery has been done before on another soap, The Young and the Restless, but Capitol's plan is different because it involves reconstructive surgery, not a cosmetic facelift. Todd Curtis, who plays rich and spoiled playboy Jordy Clegg on Capitol, was thrown through a shield arid seriously injured in an automobile accident. Because his character was so popular and to help Cur-tis's spirit, writers, worked quickly to bring him back totheshow. He returned July 28 as an accident victim, his scarred face wrapped in bandages. As soon as he is ready, Curtis will undergo reconstructive facial surgery and Capitol cameras will be in the operating room recording the operation live.

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