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23 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Thursday, May 31, 1990 PICPLEACHEERS' STAR TO STAND TRIAL pm 'ii n. i ii i him iU pp, mm mm A 1. Newhurt 18.7 29 CBS 2. Cheers 18 3 32 NBC 1 Murphy Brown 17.7 27 CBS 4. Designing Women 17.3 26 CBS IRoseanno 16.1 26 ABC 6.

A Different World 15.9 29 NBC 7. Killing In a Town 15.8 26 CBS I. The Cosby Show 15.7 30 NBC 9. Unsolved Mysteries 15.5 28 NBC tie Voices Within. Part 2 15.5 25 ABC OVERALL RATINli NBC: 11.1 ABC: 10.4 CBS: 10.0 Top 10 Mar 21-27, 1990 Ratings points are trie percent of 92.1 million TV households; shares are the percent of households with sets on.

'PXTs newest news director -i I a -a i Radio highlights 11 a.m. (WTAE -1250) Lynn Culltn. Jamie 0 Neill. author of "What Do You Know?" I p.m. (KDKA 1C20) Frad Hons-bt rgar.

Attorney John Ventura explains how to tile lor personal bankruptcy. 9 p.m. (KDKA -1020) Mika Pintak. Transplant surgeon Or. Maureen Martin discusses lite-and-oeath decisions she sometimes has to make.

Wedding consultant Lynetta La Fever wilt discuss the best and worst of weddings. II p.m. (WTAE 1250) Larry King. Journalist Ousko Ooder talks about his book. "Gorbachev Heretic in me AM stations WWC8t 540 WBVP 1230 WMB3 SAO WTAE 1250 WHJB 620 WKST 1280 WI8R 680 WJA8 1320 WPIT 730 WCVI 1340 WPIC 790 WIXZ 1360 WEDO 110 WACB 1380 WYJZt 660 KQV 1410 WAV! 910 WJPA 1450 WESA 940 WMBA 1460 WWSW 970 WMQZ 1470 KDKAf 1020 WCNS 1480 WBUT 1050 WOHI 1490 WEEP 1080 WXVX 1510 WA8P 1130 WBCW 1530 WKPA 1150 WCXJ 1550 WWVA 1170 WQTW 1570 WBZY 1200 WANB 1580 WPLW 1590 Source: A.C.

Nielsen Co. Blinke. there's pnorf Tryouts for Tokyo Disneyland Here's an unusual audition notice: Tokyo Disneyland will hold tryouts June 25 at Point Park College as part of a five-city search for singers, dancers and a ragtime pianist. Winners will spend six to eight months working at the Japanese park. Can didates sltould be at least 18 and bring phot.o and resume.

Registration will be 9 a.m. for singers who dance; noon for dancers; 2 p.m. for pop and singers and ragtime pianists. Information: call (407) 345': 5701 weekday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. mr DAYo! WO REASONABLE OFFER Will RF PFFKFf) if)Af If aT aaita fiaTiaa VafiKkf WAV Juliet Lambert will play Johanna In CLO's "Sweeney Todd" John Allderdice as Abner Dillon, Erick Devine as Bert Barry, Carol Swarbrick as Maggie Jones; Frank Root as Andy and Beaver's Lou Va-lenzi as Pat Denning.

"Sweeney Todd" (July 17-July 22): Roger Bart as the young apprentice; Juliet Lambert as Johanna; Carolyn Marlow as the Beggar Woman; and Richard Warren Pugh as Beadle Bamford. "The Student Prince" (July 24-July 29): G. Ross Berger as Josef; Tim Hartman as Tarnitz; Kathy Lash as Gretchen; Alan Pinsker as Ruder, and Beth Zumann as Stephanie. 'Hunky' challenge Latest salvo in the "Hunky Steel Worker" sculpture controversy: Larry Evans, former editor of the defunct Mill Hunk Herald magazine, has issued a tongue-in-cheek challenge to City Controller Tom Flaherty, who has denounced the statue as an ethnic slur. Evans wants Flaherty to attend tomorrow's official coming-out party at Graffiti for "Overtime, the Mill Hunk Anthology," published by Piece of the Hunk Publishers, a non-profit publishing umbrella.

Flaherty and Evans would then kick off the dance at 9 p.m. with opposing three-minute presentations on the statue's presence at the Three Rivers Arts Festival. An open mike would be Erovided afterward and during the and's breaks, according to Evans, "in order to air all opinions on this controversy, which threatens to do more damage to the Arts Festival than our predictably lousy spring weather' Information: 481-6321. Fleetwood tickets Fleetwood Mac is set to play Star Lake Amphitheatre at 7:30 p.m. on July 17.

Tickets for $22.50 and $19.50 go on sale Tuesday at 10 a.m. at National Record Marts, Home's, Kaufmann's and at noon at the Civic Arena Gate 1. To charge, call 333-SEAT. Compiled by Bob Hoover Our Entire Inventory Including I Fine Persian masterpieces MAKE YOUR CHOICE NOW WHILE THE SELECTION IS GOOD, BECAUSE EVERY RUG WILL GO QUICKLY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PRICES AND SELECTION OF ars Oriental ugs GOING OUT OF BUSINESS KYTB MUSI 60! NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED! aTaTi i i "i IT timm- TTi Flijafliil, ajaT Miiilirffl ii l'iiiiiiititS i IILMIt-BLllrll'r'Q'l'l'l'l Vi.AUlM.tMUiMUUli ft news and bad news. You've been named news director at WPXI- TV.

Ifs good news for Blinke because he's been in line for the post after three years as managing editor of Channel 11 News. He has been serving as acting news director since Dick Tuininga left last month for a job in Los Angeles. The bad news, of course, is that WPXI news directors qualify for the Endangered Species list. Blinke is the sixth man to hold the job in the last 10 years. Even the station's anchor teams don't come and go that quickly.

To be fair, the previous two news directors, Tuininga and Mike Se-Christ, were not fired but left of their own accord. WPXI management has apparently recognized the importance of stability in the news operations by signing anchors David Johnson and Peggy Finnegan to long-term contracts. That recognition may be reinforced by the fact that Blinke is the first news director since By Williams, who preceded Sechrist, to be hired from within the ranks at WPXI. Continuity is particularly important at this stage. Finnegan and Johnson are still relatively new, and WPXI is trying to improve and ex: fiand its news image with projects ike the 24 Hour News Source and the four-hour Saturday morning newscast that begins this weekend.

All I want to know, Al, is this: Can you get Mike Boguslawski out of our collective corner? Radio notes: Jazz jockey Butch Perkins, recently fired from WYEP-FM, has picked up a new gig as the Saturday (and occasional Sunday) morning host on WRCT-FM, the Carnegie Mellon University station at 88.3 on the dial Frankie May-son has replaced Geno James on the WAMO-FM "breakfast club" morn-ingshow. James has joined the staff of KJLH-FM in Los Angeles. KQV has flip-flopped its morning and afternoon anchor teams. Steve Lohle and P.J. Maloney have moved to the wakeup slot, while Bob Cochran and Walt Golden have taken the p.m.

shift. The station is also adding a cooking show to its Saturday "how-to" lineup starting June 9 at 10 a.m. In review: We all have days when it seems our lives are being shaped by sitcom writers. How else do you explain Pittsburgh traffic patterns? Educators who feel threatened by Bart Simpson T-shirts? The Reagan presidency? In "Seinfeld," a series NBC is auditioning over the next few weeks (beginning tonight at comedian Jerry Seinfeld straddles the line between reality and television. He portrays a stand-up comic named Jerry Seinfeld whose routines become the springboard for scenes from his private life.

But whose life is it, anyway? Not the real Seinfeld's, to be sure, but that of the character he portrays, who counts among his friends a likable kvetch (Jason Alexander), a neighbor (Michael Richards) whose schemes are as vast as the space between his ears, and an ex-girlfriend (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) with whom he still spends much of his time. These are not people so much as character types from a network programmer's bible. Seinfeld is hardly the first comedian to play himself or a version of himself in a television show. George Burns and Gracie Allen did it 40 years ago. More recently, Garry Shandling brightened television screens with a program that used the format to spoof the medium itself.

Both of those programs made no distinction between the stars and the characters they played, who were aware that they were performing on television and acknowledged it by speaking to the audience. Neither distinction is true of Seinfeld. For that matter, his on-screen character displays a split personality. The man who does the stand-up segments seems to be commenting on the life of the man in the sitcom portions. It's as if the same person exists on separate planes, and yet what is the point of the program if not to make the connection between life and comedy? Far from inviting us in on the joke, "Seinfeld" shoves us further away than most series.

'So how can we relate to the situations in which Seinfeld finds himself? Tonight, he agrees to accompany Elaine, his "ex," to her friend's birthday party, where he meets the potential woman of his dreams. But she leaves before he can get her name. Does he ask Elaine and risk her wrath, or must he resort to sneakier methods? of us have faced a similar dijemma involving introductions to a member of the opposite sex. "Seinfeld" manages to make it seem neither meaningful nor realistic. Here's hoping Jerry's real life is funnier.

Kelsey Grammer at preliminary hearing yesterday. "Cheers" star Kelsey Grammer, already serving a 30-day sentence for drunken driving, was ordered yesterday to stand trial on a felony cocaine possession charge. The 35-year-old actor, who plays pompous psychiatrist Frasier Crane on the nit TV series, wore County Jail blue shirt and pants and was unshaven for the hour-long preliminary hearing that resulted in the trial order. Municipal Court Judge Aviva Bobb ordered him back to court June 13 for arraignment. If convicted of cocaine possession, he could be sentenced to three years in prison.

Grammer has served one week of a 30-day sentence for drunken driving. Filming for "Cheers" is over for this season, and Crammer's jailing did not affect the show. Police stopped Crammer's car April 14, 1988, for expired license tags. A check showed an arrest warrant had been issued for Grammer because he missed a court appearance on a drunken-driving conviction that year. While riding in the police patrol car, a packet of cocaine fell from Crammer's pocket, officers said.

The cocaine trial involved that incident. Folk music folk D.C. Fitzgerald, longtime Pittsburgh musician and songwriter, was a finalist in the New Folk songwriters' competition at the Kerrville, Texas, Folk Festival last weekend. Fitzgerald performed his songs, "Oak Tree" and "All The Around." Fitzgerald will appear at Graffiti in Oakland July 3 with the DC Band, Common Threads, Gypsy Wind and Anne Feeney. For details, call 242-9180.

CLO casts named The Civic Light Opera has announced these casting selections for its summer season: "Cinderella" (June 26-July 1): Patti Allison as the queen; Jane Connell as the fairy godmother, CLO veteran Paul Greeno as the Herald; Julie Kurnitz as the wicked stepmother, Vicki Lewis and Jan Neuberger as the evil stepsisters; and Paul Palmer as the king. "42nd Street" (July 3-July 15): USX art sales up to $3.8 million Christie's, New York, revised figures on USX Corp. art sales yesterday, bringing the running total to $3,810,650. Original estimate for the total of 64 lots was $4 million. In the May 8 sale of contemporary drawings, watercolors and collages, an uncounted watercolor and gouache on linen by Jules Bissier, "Marz 61," sold for $26,400.

In the second part of that sale, a painting by Friedel Dzubas, "Shadows Flight," 1976, fetched $16,400. An untitled 1944 oil by Adolph Gottlieb which did not meet its reserve, later sold for $60,500. Four lots were sold at Christie's East in sale May 7 of contemporary paintings, drawings and sculpture. They were an Enrico Donati, "Point Zero II," a Robert Natkin acrylic "Iago March II," 1971, a Lester Johnson oil, "Still Life in Milford and a Paul Jenkins 1965 oil, "Phenomenon as Far as Eye Can See," $28,600. Five works to be offered June 28 in London are: Karel Appel's "Storm Like a Corneille's "Journey of the Immeasurable Asger Jorn's Serge Poliakov's "Blue-Red Composition" and Antoni Tapies' "Japanese Water Color." Seven more paintings will be sold Oct.

18: three Bissiers; an untitled Moshe Castel; Hans Hartung's "1975 Andre Lanskoy's "Russian Easter" and Kumi Sugai's "Auto Route." Four paintings will be offered next fall in New York on a date as yet unset: Marsden Hartley's "Apples," his "Lemons and Limes," Fer-nand Leger's "The Rings" and a Conrad Marca-Relli. Mural artists chosen The Times Project Organization has chosen four artists from 22 applicants in competition for a mural on the Robert Wholey Cold Storage Warehouse, Strip District. They are: Scott Fertig, senior art major, Carnegie Mellon University; Marta Fuentealba, graduate art major. Carnegie Mellon; Helen Worsing, president, Artists Equity; and Michael Changnon, art professor, Slippery Rock State University. Three CMU students will assist in creating the mural.

Jurors were: Bryan Rogers, art head, CMU; Linda Metropolus, executive director, The Society for Art in Crafts; Barbara McClure, owner, Carson Street Gallery; Kenneth Batista, studio arts head, University of Pittsburgh; and artist Janine Stern, president of The Times Project. YouVe a winner in theseTrans Ams. Register to win a 1990 Pontiac Trans Am. Win, and cruise on down the road! Everybody wins. Men's and women's Etonic running shoes are $29.99 (Reg.

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