THE DAILY NEWS OF LOS ANGELES: BOWIE FORGING AHEAD WITH R&B EFFORT, SANS TIN MEN
WICHITA EAGLE-BEACON
DATE: FRIDAY April 26, 1985
PAGE: 4C EDITION: CITY EDITION
SECTION: LIFESTYLE LENGTH: SHORT
SOURCE: LA TIMES/WASHINGTON POST
AN OLD MOVIE GETS A NEW SCRIPT
HOLLYWOOD - Ira Barmak, the producer who took so much flak last
Christmas for turning Santa into a slasher in ''Silent Night, Deadly Night,''
is doing more tampering - remaking 1945's ''Pride of the Marines'' as an Army
picture.
Barmak, who wrote the new script (and the new title, ''Just an Ordinary
Guy''), acknowledges that he did not mention his past credits when he sought
(and got) the Army's cooperation.
But neither is he apologizing for ''Silent-Deadly,'' which will be
reissued May 3 by a new distributor: ''I still think it's a wonderful
picture. But for those who disagree, this latest film is my expiation - to
show what a wonderful guy I am.''
Now filming in Salt Lake City under Peter Cooper's direction,
''Ordinary'' stars*Richard*Dean*Anderson*in the original John Garfield role
and Valerie Bertinelli standing in for Eleanor Parker. This time the blinded
and embittered hero is a Vietnam vet.
KEYWORDS: MOVIE
LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER
DATE: SATURDAY August 31, 1985
PAGE: C1 EDITION: FINAL
SECTION: LIFESTYLE LENGTH: LONG
ILLUSTRATIONS: Photo Glenn Close stars in MAXIE, a comedy.
Peter O'Toole plays the unorthodox Dr. Harry Wolper in the
fall film CREATOR.
Anne Bancroft, left, and Jane Fonda in AGNES OF GOD
SOURCE: By Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune
FALL FLICKS ARE REFLECTING A RETURN TO MORE SERIOUS FARE
If you never want to see another teen-age student blow up his high school
laboratory, turn into a werewolf or drag race off a cliff, then has Hollywood
got a fall for you!
As always, the fall movie season brings out more sober fare because
Hollywood executives believe that the little rascals who dominate summer
moviegoing presumably are too busy studying to go to the movies during the
week. What a laugh.
Nevertheless, that's why you'll find movies about religion, family
problems, paranoia and troubled love affairs dominating the big screen for
the next three months.
And if any one trend can be divined from the following list, it is that
for the second year in a row actresses finally are being given as many, if
not more, serious roles than men. (Remember last year's ''save-the-farm''
melodramas?)
Here's the lineup of the more serious films scheduled for the fall
season followed by the scheduled action-adventure films, comedies and the
inevitable teen-oriented pictures. (The dates listed are national release
dates subject to change and do not necessarily indicate when the films will
open in Lexington.)
Agnes of God (opening Sept. 13): Jane Fonda plays a lapsed-Catholic
psychiatrist investigating the death of a newborn in a Montreal convent. Anne
Bancroft plays the clever Mother Superior, and Meg Tilly is featured as the
seemingly innocent nun who gave birth. Directed by Norman Jewison and based
on the hit Broadway play.
Wetherby (Sept. 13): A film of the highly regarded David Hare play about
the effects of a violent death upon a small English town. Vanessa Redgrave
and Ian Holm co-star.
Key Exchange (Sept. 13): Brooke Adams and Ben Masters star in a light
drama-comedy that looks at the conflict stage of a relationship that may or
may not be headed to marriage.
Plenty (Sept. 20): Another David Hare play, with Meryl Streep in a drama
about an English woman haunted by memories of her experience as a French
resistance fighter.
Sweet Dreams (Oct. 4): Jessica Lange and Ed Harris are paired in the
stormy life story of the late, great country singer Patsy Cline.
Jagged Edge (Oct. 4): In this courtroom suspense drama, Glenn Close
plays a defense lawyer attempting to acquit a newspaper publisher (Jeff
Bridges) of his wife's murder.
Joshua Then and Now (Oct. 4): James Woods plays a writer and media
celebrity who spends a day looking back at his turbulent life. Alan Arkin
also stars in this Mordecai Richler story.
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Oct. 4): A study of a recent Japanese
cult figure, an author who committed suicide in what many people believe was
a political act. Directed by Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Cat People).
After Hours (Oct. 11): A paranoia-filled Manhattan comedy by Martin
Scorsese, featuring Griffin Dunne as a young man who spends one long night
with an assortment of women, including Rosanna Arquette and Teri Garr.
Murphy's Romance (Oct. 18): Sally Field stars in a romantic comedy about
a divorced mother in Arizona who opens a horse farm, whereupon she is
romanced by the town pharmacist, played by James Garner. Directed by Martin
Ritt and written by Harriet Frank and Irving Ravetch, the team who created
Field's first Oscar-winning film, Norma Rae.
Marie (Nov. 1): Sissy Spacek stars in the ''true story'' of a battered
housewife who becomes head of the Tennessee parole board, only to blow the
whistle on the corrupt governor who appointed her to the job. Sort of
''Norma Rae in the Statehouse.''
Target (Nov. 8): Matt Dillon stars in Arthur Penn's adventure about a
young man who finds that his father (Gene Hackman) is involved in a spy plot.
Fever Pitch (Nov. 15): Ryan O'Neal plays a sportswriter who gets hooked
on gambling while investigating sports betting. Written and directed by
Richard Brooks. Co-starring Giancarlo Giannini.
Eleni (Nov. 15): Kate Nelligan and John Malkovich star in the true story
of New York Times reporter Nicholas Gage's search for the cause of his
mother's death in Greece in 1948.
White Nights (Nov. 22): Two very different professional dancers, Mikhail
Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines, star in a story in which, we are told, East
meets West artistically. Directed by Taylor Hackford (An Officer and a
Gentleman). This one is being touted as a sleeper hit. Consider yourself
tipped.
An Ordinary Guy (November): TV's Valerie Bertinelli makes her film debut
opposite*Richard*Dean*Anderson*in a remake of the John Garfield-Eleanor
Parker drama, Pride of the Marines (1945), about real-life World War II hero
Al Schmid, credited with machine-gunning 200 Japanese on Guadalcanal after
being blinded by a grenade early in the attack.
Twice in a Lifetime (November): A family drama about the way different
people react to the dissolution of a 30-year marriage. Starring Gene Hackman,
Ellyn Burstyn, Ann-Margret, Amy Madigan, Ally Sheedy and Brian Dennehy.
Produced and directed by Bud Yorkin, who obviously hopes he has made this
year's Terms of Endearment.
Comedies
Maxie (Sept. 27): Glenn Close, Mandy Patinkin and Ruth Gordon, who died
this week, star in a fantasy about a 1920s flapper who invades the body of a
San Francisco housewife.
My Man Adam (Sept. 27): Page Hannah stars in a contemporary tale of a
young man who dreams of becoming a newscaster.
Transylvania 6-5000 (Nov. 1): Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley and John Byner
star in a story of two reporters who travel to Transylvania to find out more
about vampires.
LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER
DATE: SUNDAY October 19, 1986
PAGE: TV3 EDITION: FINAL
SECTION: LENGTH: SHORT
SOURCE: By Susan White
BEST BETS Public television:
"The West of the Imagination" is a new six-part series that explores the
myths and realities of the American West. Jerome Dempsey, left, plays
artist Frederic Remington, and Richard Young plays artist Charley Russell.
Maureen Quinn plays Russell's wife, Nancy (10 tonight, KET-46). Also making
its season premiere tonight is "Nova," which opens with an episode about the
scientists who are documenting the politically motivated disappearance of as
many as 30,000 people in Argentina. A forensic anthropologist shows how he
has identified bodies as those of missing Argentinians by comparing
their genetic markers with those of their grandparents (9 tonight, KET-46).
Love:
Valerie Bertinelli and*Richard*Dean*Anderson*("MacGyver") star in Ordinary
Heroes, about a Vietnam veteran who is blinded in combat. When Tony Kaiser
returns home, he and his girlfriend try to pick up the pieces of their
prewar relationship. But do they have the kind of courage to make their love
work? (9 tonight, ABC-36). Masterpiece:
The new season of "Masterpiece Theatre" opens with "Paradise Postponed," an
11-part series written by John Mortimer ("Rumpole of the Bailey"). Annette
Crosbie plays a woman whose husband willed his estate to a conniving friend
in this satirical look at post World War II England (8 p.m. Friday, KET-46).
Groundbreaker:
A CBS made-for-TV movie, Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI, is based on the true
experiences of the FBI's first black female agent. Lynn Whitfield, right,
plays Gibson and Marta Du Bois plays the woman who becomes her friend and
roommate during the difficult training program (9 p.m. Tuesday, CBS-27).
Comedy:
Martin Mull, right, is back with four new installments in "Martin Mull
Presents the History of White People in America." The first program, "White
Politics," has Hal Harrison (Fred Willard) running for water commissioner
against his former best friend. (9:30 p.m. Friday, Cinemax).
THE DAILY NEWS OF LOS ANGELES
DATE: MONDAY October 28, 1991
EDITION: Valley SECTION: L.A. LIFE ZONE: rop PAGE: L20 LENGTH: MEDIUM
ILLUSTRATION: 2 photos
SOURCE: MARILYN BECK and STACY JENEL SMITH
CLAY WANTS TRAVOLTA AS CO-STAR IN COMEDY
Comic Andrew ''Dice'' Clay is pushing hard for John Travolta to be his
co-star in ''The Comic and the Con.''
The big-screen project, based on an original story idea of Clay's, was
put in turnaround by 20th Century Fox last year after the controversy
surrounding the raunchy comic's stand-up routines (which many labeled racist,
sexist and homophobic). It was picked up by filmmaker Ivan Reitman for
Universal earlier this year.
Clay, who'll play a gangster who gets involved with a comic's career,
feels Travolta would be perfect to play the funny man. Seriously, folks. He
explained, ''The comic has to be sort of a Dice-like character - like
Travolta played in 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Grease.' ''
He says Travolta has expressed interest in taking on the role, but
''Ivan doesn't want to sign anybody to play the comic 'til the script is
done.''
Sounds doubtful that Universal would generate too much enthusiasm for
Travolta. ''Shout,'' his most recent flop, was released by that studio.
Clay is supervising the script being written by John Byrum, and expects
the film to get rolling next February.
The videoland view: After raising eyebrows with a story of budding
lesbian romance last season, ''L.A. Law'' is looking for an actress to play a
new gay female character in what could turn out to be a recurring role.
Maggie will be introduced as the former lover of ''Law's'' bisexual
associate C.J. (Amanda Donohoe) in a segment dealing with a bitter child
custody dispute between Maggie and her ex-husband.
TV traumas: The ''MacGyver'' team, working on the seventh season of
the series, has pretty much reconciled itself to the fact there won't be an
eighth season of the show.
Executive producer Steve Downing reported, ''ABC ordered 13 episodes of
the series this season, with an option for four more, but it hasn't asked for
the extra segments, and the discussions we've had lead me to assume it won't.
I'm going under the assumption that it's over for us.''
He added that - barring a minor miracle - we can expect to see the
show, which stars*Richard*Dean*Anderson,*end its run in January. ''The real
shame,'' he said, ''is that there's not another action adventure hero on an 8
p.m. show that provides the kind of role model for kids that MacGyver does.''
WICHITA EAGLE-BEACON
DATE: THURSDAY August 1, 1985
PAGE: 14A EDITION: CITY EDITION
SECTION: LIFESTYLE LENGTH: MEDIUM
ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO: Edward Woodward
SOURCE: By Lee Winfrey, Knight-Ridder News Service
MEMO: COMMENTARY
'EQUALIZER' BALANCES TREND AWAY FROM SOLO HEROES
The lone hero, a longtime staple of television entertainment, has been
rather a rare commodity during the 1980s. But he will be making a comeback
this fall.
''Magnum, P.I.'' and ''Knight Rider'' have been about the only
successful solo acts fighting crime on the little screen during this decade.
And they haven't been truly alone. Michael Knight on ''Knight Rider'' enjoys
the awesome aid of an astonishing car, and Magnum is usually surrounded by a
coterie of second-stringers.
More fashionable lately have been two men, like those on ''Simon &
Simon,'' ''Riptide,'' ''Hardcastle and McCormick'' and ''Miami Vice''; or a
man and a woman, like those on ''Scarecrow and Mrs. King,'' ''Remington
Steele,'' ''Hunter'' and ''Moonlighting.'' The variations of two women, as on
''Cagney & Lacey,'' and the ensemble cast, as on ''Hill Street Blues'' and
''The A-Team,'' are seen less often.
DID THE nabobs of the networks decide that one man was no longer enough
to make a difference? Or that 1980s crime was so virulent that at least a
pair of people was necessary to stand against it? I don't know. The deep
undercurrents of TV creative thinking are often a mystery to me.
In the face of this strong trend of recent seasons, CBS' ''The
Equalizer'' and ABC's ''MacGyver'' represent a throwback to bygone days of
adventure when lone heroes as varied as the Bible's young David and the old
West's Shane stepped forth in courageous isolation to beat back the forces of
evil.
''The Equalizer,'' the better of the two new series, stars a skilled
English actor, Edward Woodward, as a former government agent named Robert
McCall. We are clearly meant to assume that McCall used to work for the CIA,
although the agency is never named.
BUT NOW McCall lives in Manhattan, where he runs an advertisement in
the newspapers that says, ''Got a problem? Odds against you? Call the
Equalizer.'' I think that ad is a master stroke, the best single thing I saw
on ''The Equalizer's'' pilot episode. Those three sentences tap directly into
one of the most basic and deeply felt of human needs: the fact that all of us
get stuck sometimes in some trap where we wish we had a helping hand.
With brains and muscle and a variety of firearms, McCall clears up other
people's personal problems with a celerity that Rambo might admire. But,
since the current TV tradition requires that every star show some spot of
vulnerability, McCall has been given a young son from whom he is estranged.
The pilot featured McCall rushing back from solving crimes for hurried,
usually awkward meetings with his son. In all of these scenes, you can
virtually see the scriptwriters pulling the strings, but again, the problem
being dramatized is a real and common one in life. Oedipus is only the most
famous of many sons who couldn't get along with Dad.
THE HERO of ''MacGyver'' is single, so he has no spawn to trouble his
sleep or disturb his digestion. Between feats of derring-do, he lives a
tranquil, thoughtful life in an observatory somewhere out West.
I don't know why MacGyver has no steady companion, since he is portrayed
by*Richard*Dean*Anderson,*a handsome young actor who played Dr. Jeff Webber
on the ''General Hospital'' soap opera for five years, and then was a regular
cast member on two short-lived prime-time series, ''Seven Brides for Seven
Brothers'' and ''Emerald Point N.A.S.'' Maybe women think that there is
something strange about MacGyver because he apparently has no first name.
MacGyver's gimmick is that he is a scientific genius. In the pilot
episode, he used a bunch of chocolate bars to plug up an acid leak that
threatened to poison the Rio Grande. According to the script, the lactose and
sucrose in the candy reacted with the sulfuric acid to form a gummy residue
that plugged the leak.
HENRY WINKLER, who is now a producer after making a mountain of money
playing Fonzie on the old ''Happy Days'' series, and his partner, producer
John Rich, say they have already assembled thousands of little scientific
tricks for MacGyver to use. ''I've learned that if you soak a piece of wood
in ammonia for a while, you can tie knots in the wood,'' Winkler says.
I think the two lone heroes should meet. Maybe McCall could use
MacGyver's wood trick to tie up his son long enough to make the lad listen to
sweet reason.
KEYWORDS: TELEVISION
PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
DATE: FRIDAY August 22, 1986
PAGE: 75 EDITION: 9STAR
SECTION: FEATURES LENGTH: MEDIUM
GRAPHICS: PHOTO
SOURCE: By JOSEPH P. BLAKE, Daily News Staff Writer
MEMO: TV/RADIO PEOPLE
CH. 10 'LIVE AT FIVE' ENDS IN SEPTEMBER
Come September 15, don't look for Larry Kane and Alan Frio on Channel
10's ''Live at 5'' newscasts. In fact, don't look for the newscast at all,
because it's being dropped and replaced by reruns of ''Quincy.''
Steve Cohen, vice president and general manager of the CBS-owned and
operated station, said Channel 10's 5 p.m. news, which started in January
1981, was canceled because of a drop in viewership during the time period.
''What's happened in the market is that many more folks are in the
workforce these days - particularly women - and there's just not a lot of
people around at that time of day,'' said Cohen.
According to the local Nielsens for May and July, Channel 10's 5 p.m.
news came in third behind Channel 3's ''Newlywed Game'' and Channel 6's
''Action News'' broadcast, which was first for both ratings periods.
In an effort to improve its position, Channel 10's afternoon lineup in
September will start with all-new versions of ''Divorce Court'' at 4 p.m.;
''Quincy'' from 4:30-5:30 p.m.; and ''The All New Dating Game'' at 7:30 p.m.
The 5:30 p.m. newscast will be anchored solo by Frio, with Kane - also
solo - handling anchor chores for the 6 p.m. news. Currently, Kane and Frio
jointly anchor the 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts.
The change is being made, said Cohen, to make room for Stan Stovall
(currently at KSDK-TV in St. Louis, Mo.), who was hired by Channel 10 to work
as an anchor for the station beginning in December. Stovall will be paired
with either Kane or Frio, but no decision yet on who will be sitting with
whom.
Meanwhile, Channel 6 will be the only station in Philadelphia with a 5
p.m. newscast, and according to spokesman Art Moore, that's just fine with
them.
''Things will stay as they are,'' said Moore.
Channel 3, which was the last station to start a 5 p.m. newscast and the
first to drop it, had no comment. MORE CHANGES
While on the subject, on September 15 Channel 29 will replace its
one-hour version of ''Divorce Court'' (now airing weekdays at noon) with
''True Confessions,'' a new half-hour syndicated series, and daily re-runs
of shows it normally airs on the weekend.
Following ''Confessions'' (based on stories from the magazine of the same
name), Channel 29 will carry reruns of ''Fame'' on Monday, ''Star Search'' on
Tuesday, ''Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous'' on Wednesday, ''Solid Gold''
on Thursday and ''Return to Eden'' on Friday. SNEAK PEEK
A look over the shoulders of the writers for ABC's ''MacGyver'' reveal
that next season star*Richard*Dean*Anderson's*character will live in a
trendy loft in the Larchmont district of Los Angeles and fall in love with a
woman about to take her final vows as a nun.
The genius-for-hire also will have a partner named Pete Thornton, a
former intelligence agent turned freelance, played by Dana Elcar.
THE DAILY NEWS OF LOS ANGELES
DATE: MONDAY December 18, 1989
EDITION: Valley SECTION: L.A. LIFE ZONE: rop PAGE: L19 LENGTH: MEDIUM
SOURCE: MARILYN BECK
STARS ARE GAZING AT ISAACS' SPY TALE
Casting has yet to begin for the film adaptation of Susan Isaacs'
best- seller ''Shining Through,'' set to shoot in several months. However,
Sandollar Productions president Howard Rosenman revealed that volunteers for
the lead role include some of the hottest actresses in town - and the top
candidates are the very hot Meg Ryan and Michelle Pfeiffer.
The screenplay for the drama - about an American secretary who ends up
spying on the Nazis as a World War II agent for the OSS - has been completed
by David Seltzer, who's directing the Columbia Pictures project. And on Jan.
3, he and Rosenman leave to scout locations for the film in East Berlin;
Warsaw and Krakow, Poland; and Budapest, Hungary.
On the go: Anne Archer and Donald Sutherland jet to Warsaw next month
to go before the big-screen ''Eminent Domain'' cameras. John Irvin
(''Hamburger Hill'') has been signed to direct the drama, which will feature
both English and Polish cast members.
Eye-opening experience: Treat Williams has a new-found respect for
drug- enforcement agents as a result of his work in the NBC ''Drug Wars: The
Camarena Story'' miniseries that will be televised next month.
''When I was in college, we called them narcs and thought of them as
stool pigeons,'' said the 37-year-old actor. ''Now I think they'll end up
being the heroes of the '90s. They're one of our last hopes.''
''Drug Wars'' tells the true story of Enrique ''Kiki'' Camarena, the
DEA agent who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Guadalajara, Mexico, in
1985. Williams plays the head of the task force responsible for bringing
Camarena's killers to justice. ''This movie makes a strong statement about
what's being done with the drug problem in this country and will probably
raise some eyebrows,'' he said.
TV traumas: *Richard*Dean*Anderson*said he and the rest of the
''MacGyver'' troupe are at that point of the season where ''we're so tired
it's getting catatonic. Our normal workday is from 5 or 6 in the morning to
10 at night. That aspect of work will never be simplified, but at least we've
got the rhythm now. We're in our fifth year and know how to make the show
work.''
He insisted he is not concerned that there might not be a sixth year
(the series is averaging only a 45th place in the weekly ratings). ''For the
last 3-1/2 or four years, we've been on ABC on Monday nights, where you never
get 100 percent clearance during football season.'' But, he said, since Bob
Iger took over as president of ABC Entertainment in March, ''the network has
been strong in supporting us with promotion and stuff.'' Anderson added that
they will be shooting a special segment as their 100th 'MacGyver' episode in
February. He also said the network, which committed to 19 ''MacGyver''
episodes this season, has now ordered three more scripts, ''which is a good
sign for the future.''
THE DAILY NEWS OF LOS ANGELES
DATE: MONDAY February 5, 1990
EDITION: Valley SECTION: L.A. LIFE ZONE: rop PAGE: L21 LENGTH: MEDIUM
ILLUSTRATION: 3 photos
SOURCE: Marilyn Beck
JUDGE ESCAPES L.A. FOR ORDER IN HIS COURT
Harry Anderson is giving up the Hollywood rat race.
He and his wife are relocating to Seattle with their 9-year-old
daughter and 4-year-old son. They expect to make the move in August, and he
said he will commute between there and Burbank Studios while he still is
doing ''Night Court,'' which he plans to give up next year. He also has a lot
of writing assignments. But, he noted, ''Writing is something you can do at
home in your underwear.''
Anderson has written a ''Night Court'' segment he will direct this
month, has scripted ''Live in Hell, Harry!'' for HBO and is co-writer of
''The Final Couvert Seance'' that, he said, ''HBO has been waiting for for
some time.'' Anderson also purchased film rights to Katherine Dunn's ''Geek
Love'' novel about a carnival owner who decides to breed his own freaks.
Anderson is writing the screenplay for the black comedy and also plans to
produce the feature. ''I won't appear in it, though; it'll take real actors
to pull off a story like that.''
The Oscar outlook: Steven Spielberg will be a presenter-participant at
the March 26 Academy Awards.
The 'Nightmare' continues: It will be a while, possibly a year, before
Robert Englund suits up as Freddy Krueger for the big-screen ''Nightmare on
Elm Street 6.'' This is the word from New Line president and CEO Robert
Shaye, who said that, at this point, there is not even a script for another
''Nightmare.'' He does want to continue with the series of pictures, though
last year's ''Nightmare 5'' could not scare up more than $30 million at the
box office. Shayeis convinced ''there's an ardent following for the films;
people want to see how clever we can be with Freddy Krueger.'' Shaye has just
completed principal production on the ''Jack in the Box'' feature in which he
makes his big-screen directing debut, and tips that the title of the Chris
Young-Michael McKean feature will be changed before release.
Heavy on her mind: Actress Mare Winningham continues to struggle with
her conscience over her role in ABC's upcoming ''True Betrayal'' TV movie.
''The whole notion of TV docudramas is a sore point with me,'' she admitted.
Winningham plays a private investigator in the drama based on the true case
of a couple murdered by a daughter and her boyfriend. She said she decided to
take on the project because ''it's powerful, and the script was
extraordinary.'' Yet she cannot forget ''there are innocent members of that
family who already know what it's like to be the focus of unwanted attention
and have their pain commercialized. Now they're going to have to deal with it
all over again.''
She added: ''It would have been fine if we'd changed the names, but the
use of the real names was bought with the rights to the story. I continue to
think about those people. I don't know how to justify it in my mind any other
way than to say I really believed the story had something big to say about
humans and those we judge as being 'evil.' ''
Heading south: Doug Sheehan also has decided the Los Angeles-Hollywood
lifestyle does not suit him. He and wife Cate just moved to a ranch in the
mountains near San Diego.
''I've been working in L.A. for 12 straight years,'' said the former
''Day by Day'' actor, who is a guest tonight on the ''MacGyver'' series
starring his buddy*Richard*Dean*Anderson.*''During 'Day by Day,' I'd drive
from my house to Paramount Studios. It took an hour and 15 minutes. . . .
Ultimately it got to me.'' Now, he said, ''we're living the life of luxury.
My smog gills are getting plugged up with fresh air, and you can see more
than 500 feet away.''
THE DAILY NEWS OF LOS ANGELES
DATE: TUESDAY January 14, 1992
EDITION: Valley SECTION: L.A. LIFE ZONE: rop PAGE: L22 LENGTH: MEDIUM
SOURCE: By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith
BOWIE FORGING AHEAD WITH R&B EFFORT, SANS TIN MEN
Now that David Bowie has proved with his Tin Machine tour that he can
still rock with the best of them, the rocker plans to go in an altogether
different direction with his next solo album.
Bowie is heading into the studio with producer-guitarist Nile Rodgers,
who produced Bowie's massively successful 1984 ''Let's Dance'' disc.
''The album will be a fairly old-fashioned r&b kind of thing,'' said
Rodgers. ''David brought in two songs he wants to do, and we're searching for
more songs now.''
Rodgers, who recently released the new Warner Bros. ''Chicism'' album
disc with his '70s group Chic, said his latest collaboration with Bowie came
about through his good friend Iman - the model who's engaged to the rocker.
''I ran into her recently and told her to tell David to give me a call,
and the following week I was at his house for breakfast.''
The big-screen scene: Kevin Costner, in the midst of hot 'n' heavy
filming with Whitney Houston for ''The Bodyguard,'' doesn't know what he will
be doing next - but it won't be a sequel to ''Bull Durham.''
''I don't know how the rumor got started that he would be making the
movie, but it's simply not true,'' said Costner's partner Jim Wilson. ''Kevin
has no intention of doing a follow-up to 'Bull Durham.' ''
Mac back?: Don't be surprised if ''MacGyver'' lives beyond his
scheduled network extinction Feb. 3 - when the brainy detective hero is set
to close out his seven-year run on ABC by finding the 19-year-old son he
never knew he had.
''An examination of what becomes of the relationship would make an
absolutely perfect TV movie,'' noted producer Steve Downing. He also said
that he and star*Richard*Dean*Anderson*and the rest of the ''MacGyver'' team
''have talked among ourselves about how much fun it would be to do a two-hour
movie - with a two-hour movie budget.
''We could deliver stuff we've never (financially) been able to do
before.'' Downing hasn't spoken to the network about the ''Mac'' movie idea
yet but said he figures that ''based on the character's popularity and the
long run of the show, it's a good possibility.''
Meanwhile: Downing, who is a retired deputy chief of the Los Angeles
Police Department, is busy developing a police series - with a difference. It
would provide an inside view of the ''executive suite'' of a major
metropolitan police department, and show ''reactions to incidents like the
Rodney King beating.''
