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Write our columnists at Box 828, Detroit, Ml 48231 DETROIT FREE PRESSTHURSDAY, SEPT. 26, 1985 Sti Buglta Ann Landers; There are no guarantees for parents; despite plenty of love and attention, a child still can go bad Dear Not necessarily. Genetics' experts say half-brothers and sisters! would have only 50 percent of (he family genes compared with full-blQod! brothers and sisters, who would have! 100 percent. Even with the latter the-child would be OK, unless there is a hereditary disease in the family. Ann Landers will reply to all questions accompanied by a stamped, self-j addressed envelope.

1 i undermine and even destroy the efforts of loving parents. Too many parents these days are feeling guilty for things that are not their fault. Dear Ann Landers: I understand most donors to sperm banks are medical students. How do they know that one day their own progeny won't meet and marry a brother or sister? Wouldn't the results of such a union be disastrous? Utah have to leave their homes. Unlike the kid with his finger in the dike, there seems to be no help on the way, and we've run out of fingers.

Isn't it nice that "Dubuque" is a teacher and has a job she can quit? Parenthood goes on forever. One Of Many Dear One: Thank you for a letter millions of people will be able to relate to. I have said repeatedly that peer pressure and outside influences can I become enraged when parents are blamed when children go wrong. I would like to remind "Dubuque" that parental influence counts for nothing when society at large is sick. Our children are exposed to filthy lyrics, pornographic magazines, sexy ads and trashy films.

Freedom has become a license. What parents teach in the homes is undone on the outside. Now, thanks to television, they don't even be a full-time mother. I was always available to chaperone a class trip, bake a cake, have my son friends in or drive them to a movie or a ballgame. 19 My husband coached Little League summer after summer.

He helped with LIVE the Scouts, went hiking and camping. We had splash parties, pajama parties, Halloween parties you name it. Occasionally when my husband and I FS)gln)0Ifi) SIH)W Dear Ann Landers: This is in answer to the teacher from Dubuque who is quitting because she "can't bear to see wwhat we are doing to the generation 1 that is expected to lead us into the 21st Century." I agreed with her until she dumped on parents who are "too busy making money." I was a latch-key kid from the age of seven. Both parents worked and had neither the time nor energy to do the things most parents do with their children. I was an only child growing up in New York City, left to my own devices until my parents came home.

Sometimes it was as late as 9 or 10 O'clock at night. I did not become hostile, I didn't use drugs and I did not i. steal. My grades were good and I never 1 got into any trouble. When I married at age 22 I was still a virgin.

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54.97 4497 game. And tonight, with "Birth, Death, Love and Rice," we'll begin again. Saddened by the death of Coach, Sam searches for a new bartender and comes up with Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson), an Indiana farm boy who had been pen pals with Coach. Meanwhile, after being dumped by Diane, Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) returns in a dire emotional state to report that Diane is working in a convent. NIGHT COURT: The sleeper of the bunch, "Night Court" echoes "Barney Miller" with the wild assortment of jovial oddballs and kooks who circulate through Judge Harry Stone's (Harry Anderson) courtroom each week.

The "Barney Miller" ambience is no fluke. JrW Sl HOURS: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday -til 6,. Ann Arbor: 200 S. Main, Mon. Fri.

til 9, Tues Sat. til 5:30, closed Sunday West Bloomfield: 6555 Orchard Lake (at Maple) Oak Park: 22130 Coolidge (Shaefer) at 9 Mile Rochester: 1406 Walton Blvd. (Hills Plaza) Thursday Friday til 9 Sunday 11-5 pm Roseville: 31770 Gratiot (next to Farmer Jack's) Mon. thru Sat. "Night Court" executive producer Reinhold Weege was a writer and producer on that excellent police station comedy.

Again, chemistry and casting are king. Led by the lanky, affable Anderson, the "Night Court" crew fits together nicely. They are fun to watch. The key bit of business involves the verbal jousting of Anderson and prosecuting attorney Dan Fielding (John Larroquette), who's the stuffy elitist to Anderson's laid-back humanitarian. But "Night Court" will have a couple of changes as the season opens.

Ellen Foley, who was so good as public defender Billie Young, has been replaced by Markie Post. And the late Selma Diamond, ideal as irascible court matron Selma, has been replaced by Florence Halop, the unforgettably cranky Mrs. Hufnagle on "St. Else ences of all families. FAMILY TIES: Though similar in tone to "The Cosby Show," this family comedy really has become the Michael J.

Fox show over the past couple of years. It can be an engaging half-hour, although parents Elyse (Meredith Bax-; ter Birney) and Steven Keaton (Michael Gross) occasionally have been orced to become one-dimensional background characters. The show's comic twist is liberal '60s parents with a conservative, yup-piefied '80s son. Alex (Fox) is a role model for today's material world teenagers. But Alex, who's full of bluff and bluster, usually learns from his mistakes.

Which are frequent. Tonight's "The Real Thing" is no exception as Alex picks the girl of his dreams out of the college freshman directory and then winds up swooning for her roommate. But what makes "Family Ties" work is the perfect chemistry of a very likable cast. Tina Yothers and Justine Bateman, who play the Keaton daughters, have exceptional comic smarts. The whole Keaton family is the kind I'd like to live next door to.

CHEERS: Hey, here comes Norm. I love the way he waltzes into his favorite taproom every week and orders his regular ration of frosty pop. Simply put, "Cheers" is the best comedy series on television. It sparkles with the sort of sophisticated writing and superb ensemble acting reminiscent of such classic series as "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Taxi." When Sam Malone (Ted Danson), Diane Chambers (Shelley Long), Carla Tortelli (Rhea Perlman), Norm (George Wendt), Cliff (John Ratzenberger) and Coach Ernie Pantusso (the late Nicholas Colasanto) started winging the zingers three years ago, it was like discovering a grand comedy pinball THE MOST LAVISH where. HILL STREET BLUES: The foundation for NBC's current reputation as the quality network, "Hill Street Blues" is a historic show in television.

It established a whole new way of doing a TV drama series, offering a gritty, naturalistic look at the working life of cops in the street. Hand-held cameras, overlapping conversations, a huge cast and multiple plot lines that dangle from week to week are part of that special style. The "Hill Street Blues" writers nev fc9 ST-A-GED! (HAS. Utae. OT- II titan Summ.

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