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TT The Sun Family: Take stock of how to loveD3 TV: Newsman Tom Brokaw 'does' the MetD4 Health; Don't get strung out with tennis elbowD6 iuivnini' MONDAY September 16, 1991 Rosemary McClure, Features Editor (714) 386-3857 P.S.: Holliman's glad to be back ITT" Palm Springs goes prime time on sitcom By LIMINE LEE Special to The Sun 1 to work. I fee) like I'm (now) getting back in the business." Holliman stars in the TV comedy-drama series "P.S.I. LUV which premiered Sunday on CBS. He plays the put-upon boss of Connie Sellecca and Greg Evigan, who portray two hustlers in the federal witness-protection program pretending to be employees of Palm Security Investigations (P.S.I.) in Palm Springs. His own initiative helped him secure the role.

"Sometimes, you can't depend on agents," he says. The show is produced by Glen A. Larson a man with whom Holliman had teamed before. Holliman had guest-starred on Larson's "It Takes a Thief years ago and later appeared in the pilot of the producer's series "Alias Smith and Jones" and the pilot for "The Six Million Dollar Man." "I'd like to get back in the business," Holliman says, "and even if this show doesn't succeed, I'd like to let people know I'm back." Holliman made nearly 30 movies and two 1 series, but he says "Police Woman," a smash all over the world, changed his life. Luaine Lee Is a Southland entertainment writer.

probably the best medium for creating awareness." It's as if Palm Springs Mayor Sonny Bono made a wish list and gave it to pro-: ducer Glen Larson, whose cameras stroke the desert, offering golden sunsets behind windmills, endless fairways and, of course, skimpy bikinis. The show, which in its regular time slot will debut at 10 p.m. Saturday, stars Connie Sellecca and Greg Evigan. It is a mix of action and comedy featuring glamorous backdrops such as the Marriott Desert Springs Resort and El Paseo shop- ping district in Palm It's not a handsome face, not one you'd bestow on an actor. With his square jaw, narrow eyes and skyscraper shoulders, Earl Holli-man looks more like a cowboy who has prettied himself up.

The Hollywood veteran has been cast as a good ol' boy in films such as "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" (1954), "Giant" (1956), "The Rainmaker" (1956), "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" (1957), "Summer and Smoke" (1961) and "Sharky's Machine" (1981). But he is probably best known for his r.ole in the '70s TV series "Police Woman." He played Lt. Bill Crowley, the straight-arrow foil for Angie Dickinson's character, Pepper Anderson. Since then, Holliman's appearances on the small screen have been scarce.

He says it is his own doing. "I was pretty picky," he says in his breathy voice, which still has a hint of a Louisiana accent. "I did movies-of-the-week, 'The Thorn Birds' and other specials. But I had some illness in the family and didn't want to go away The crafty chaM saw Guns N' Roses comes out shooting Sun Staff and Wire Reports By SHELLEE NUNLEY Gannett News Service Whether it flops or flies, Sunday night's premiere of "P.S.I. LuvU" ultimately was a two-hour commercial for Palm Springs on prime-time television.

Considering a 30-second spot costs about $250,000 these days, CBS' Sunday night's pilot was a bonanza for the desert community, said Dave Stewart, a marketing professor at USC. "It's literally worth millions of dollars a week in terms of publicity for the city," he said. "Television is Photos by DAVID EULITTThe Sun chain saw. PROFILE Name: Earl Holliman Age: 63 Last role: 'Thorn Birds' (1983) Current role: LuvU' weeks carving a wooden buffalo with a I Si ml itrfrtt Jifflltl gihi A wooden buffalo takes up much of J. J.

Joines' yard. Yucaipa sculptor is on the cutting edge of art mm i'h Hundreds of record stores in the Southland and around the country will open their doors at midnight tonight to get a jump on the scheduled Tuesday release of two new albums from Guns N' Roses: "Use Your Illusion and "Use Your Illusion II." It's one of the most anticipated album releases in the history of recorded music. On Tuesday, Geffen Records will ship 7 million albums (4 million domestically and 3 million internationally), making it the largest initial shipment in music history. The occasion also marks the first time a major contemporary recording act will release two separate albums simultaneously. So anxious are fans that approximately 1,000 record stores around the country plan to open their doors at midnight tonight to accommodate the demand.

Stores planning the unprecedented move include chains such as Tower, Musicland, Sound Warehouse, Hastings and the Wherehouse. Madness' is the name we're giving it," said Jack Witt, manager of the Wherehouse store at 1631 E. Highland in San Bernardino. "We'll close at our usual time, 10 p.m., and then at midnight we'll be open again for business until la.m." The San Bernardino store will have on hand between 350 and 500 copies of the two albums, Witt said. He doesn't think the entire supply will sell out in one hour, but he's not sure what to expect, he said.

"We've never done anything like this before, so we don't know what will happen. This is the most-anticipated release in years." Robert Smith, Geffen's marketing executive, said, "There are moments in time when the record industry takes a giant step forward. The rock n' roll economy has been very soft this past year but the excitement in the marketplace for these albums is astonishing. The entire industry expects Guns N' Roses to spark a huge resurgence of passion for music among rock fans. Business is always great when you're offering something great." Each "Use Your Illusion" album contains 75 minutes of music (usually the length of two regular albums), for a total of 2Vi, hours and 30 songs.

I PROFILE Name: J.J. Joines Age: 51 Workshop: 13698 Third Yucaipa. Call (714) 795-2330 for appointment. Works on display: Three life-size bears at the Mountain Town Museum, Oak Glen Road, Oak Glen; a coyote, grizzly and totem pole at Parrish Pioneer Ranch, 38561 Oak Glen Road, Oak Glen. Prices: From $15 (small knot v.

heads) to $1 ,500 (eagle sculptures). Demonstrations: Joines is available for chain-saw carving demonstrations. Call (714)795-2330. boy hats and even cowboys. This time, Joines fired up his chain saw, and within a couple of days the head and shoulders of a bison emerged.

The piece was then hoisted with pulleys and placed on top of another chunk of pine, which eventually became its legs. Joines had a special drill bit made and then bored holes in the body and inserted pipes to hold it all together. Nearly finished now, except for some final touchups, Barney weighs about 2,200 pounds, stands 6 feet tall at the shoulders and measures 9 'a feet long. "Before I started, I quoted a price of $2,500," he said. "But I don't think I'd like to make another one for that.

The daughter ordered it for her mother, who owns a ranch. I understand her mom wants to sit on her porch and see a buffalo in her front yard." i J.J. Joines has spent the last two By KATHRYN CURRIE Sun Staff Writer YUCAIPA J.J. Joines relaxed on a rusted metal seat that once belonged to some antiquated hay rake. In his faded and worn jeans and Willie Nelson-style bandanna, the tall, middle-age man was dressed for his role of Western chain saw artist.

"I was a country boy for sure. I was born and raised on a dead-end dirt road in Susquehanna, said Joines, his blue eyes.focused on the distant childhood memory of back-breaking work in a stone quarry 200 yards behind his home. Country-Western tunes provided a background for Joines, who told his story in his workshop surrounded by knot heads (faces carved in wood knots) and other smaller wood carvings. Some were painstakingly created with a rusting, antique farrier's knife. But the fledgling artist's biggest and most ambitious creation of all loomed in the front yard and as usual was stopping traffic on Third Street.

Joines has named this yet unfinished, life-size work Barney Bison. "Barney is headin' for Utah soon as I'm finished with him," drawled Joines, who was commissioned to create a buffalo for a woman in Utah he has never met. "I moved him around yesterday so people could see him better. I was afraid somebody was goin' to get in a wreck gawking at him. He is pretty awesome." Indeed, the beguiling buffalo dominates Joines' yard.

The work of art began as a 1-ton section of pine given to him by a friend. Joines has transformed pieces of wood into giant cow- mi -W-rairiiiiW 1 J.J. Joines puts his muscle behind his chain saw to whittle the hooves of his life-size buffalo. 7.