THE OUTLOOK Saturday August 1989 Page Is Pee Wee Herman a real person Digging for gold ASK DICK KLEINER By Dick Kleiner My husband says Martin Short is Herman I say be is wrong Please tell me who is right and what is Hermans real- name CS Mass ill on Ohio A Martin is Short and Herman is but that doesnt mean they are the same two They are en tirely separate chaps Peewees real name is Paul Rubenfeld Martin Short Joe Regalbuto Conld yon tell me if it was Jack Bennys wife or Bing Crosbys wife who was stabbed in the heart with a letter opener I understood they were living in France at the time Ican find no one else who remembers hearing about it Texas A Include me among that number who has never heard about it Neither Mary Livingston Benny nor either of wives Dixie Lee or Kathy Grant ever was the victim of such an attack And I do not have any idea who you might have them confused with Im curious about a name that keeps cropping up on the music cred its for a lot of primetime TV shows Could you tell me something about Mike Post NR Skillman A Mike Post is a Los Angelesborn pianistcomposer who hopes some day to be a symphony conductor He got started in TV when his old pal producer Stephen J hired him to write the score for Post has done the music for many shows including Magnum PL and Hill Street Blues When he is not working he is an ardent runner He has competed in several marathons Whatever happened to that hand some actor John Gavin Is he still liv ing NH Lancaster Ohio A You must not read your newspa pers very carefully Ronald Reagan appointed Gavin to be our ambassa dor to Mexico and he served in the post for several years Now that he is no longer in that job Gavin is thinking about resuming his acting career Help Please list in chronologi cal order all the James Bond movies especially the one made tor TV before the Sean Connery movies youll be a first class stress management aid if you can help Saginaw Mich A I havent room to list them all but the TV one was an adaptation of Ian Flemings Casino with Barry Nelson as Bond It aired on Oct 21 1954 on the old CBS ClimaxMys- tery Theater On the show Murphy Brown there is a man who plays a character called Frank Fontana Years ago maybe 20 or so he played on a regular weekly program but I cannot re member the name of the show nor the name of the actor Can you help Georgetown Tenn A Joe is the actor His previous were The Asso ciates in Ace Crawford Pri vate Eye in and the recent Street Hawk NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE Send your questions to Ask Dick Kleiner Newspaper Enterprise Association Park Ave New York N Due to the voiume of mail personal replies cannot be provided TC Jericho a small mining town in he remote Australian bush Golden Pennies Saturdays at on traces the fortunes and misfortunes of the Greenwood family Released from an unjust prison sentence in England along with his wife Rebecca and two stepchildren Jack and Lucy emigrates to Australia in search of a better way of life But as fate would have it their quest for riches seems to bring only poverty illness injury and corruption Befriended by martialarts expert Lin Ping French illusionist Marcel his daughter and Bojinda an abo rigine boy the Greenwood family man age to overcome their difficulties with the help of their new friends special skills Golden Pennies shows life during the Victorian gold rush days seen through the eyes of the children Writ ten by Graeme Farmer this family drama stars Bryan Marshall as Luke Greenwood Carol Drink water as Rebecca as Jack as Lucy and Gerard Kennedy as the corrupt storekeeper Uriah Lovcjoy Left to right Bryan Marshall as Luke Greenwood Lawrence Man as Lin Ping Carol as Rebecca and Alan Dargln as Bojinda in Golden Pennies Turner and Hooch is a real summer clog FILMETER The movie abounds in calamities minor and major The 9yearold son of Steve Martin and Mary Steenbur- suffers severe emotional prob lems the toddler daughter of over weening father Rick Moranis can read Kafka but she doesnt know how to play the teenage daughter of lone ly divorced mother Wiest for sakes her top SAT scores and college plans to marry a layabout racecar In Movie Theaters TURNER AND HOOCH PG Tom Hanks is one of the most likable and gifted comic actors working in mov ies but who is picking his roles Hanks most recent movie choices have been abysmal The Burbs and now this inane cutesy affair about a detective who Inherits a big slobbering dog The pooch has witnessed the mur der of his master and you dont have to be Albert Einstein to know that its only a matter of time before the dog helps Hanks track down the killer Though it comes on like a thriller most of this picture is played for broad slapstick as the everdrooling flatulent mastiff destroys Hanks house As played by a disagreeable beast named Beasley this animal is certainly no Lassie GRADE PARENTHOOD PGI3 The title tells all This latest Ron Howarddi rected comedy looks at the frustra tions of American family life in the late 80s as seen from the perspective of a whole gang of moms and dads By focusing on four generations of a typical middleclass brood Howard and his screenwriters Lowell and Babaloo Mandel Splash have tried to show how parental attitudes and expectations are carried from one generation to the next EVERY THURSDAY HOT ROAST BEEF PLATE IncljdM French Fries Reg 550 MARTYS TOO RESTAURANT Georgetown Market Place 8777417 TOM HANKS plays a cop whose life is thrown into turmoil when be teams up with a dog in Turner and Hooch STEAK LOBSTER FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST Bar 8731409 RIVIERA CENTRE 530 Guelph Street Box Norval Ont LOP IKOHW driver the selfcentered son Tom Hulce of family patriarch Jason bards returns home to sweettalk his dad for money to pay off gambling debts The movie has been literally stuffed with traumas soap opera style on top of which Howard and his writers have applied a glaze of humor the humor of a slightly daring sitcom Through it all the outstanding cast finds truth in even the most contrived situations with Steve Martin and the standouts Despite its manipulations a surprising amount of the movie manages to be both charming and touching But it fi nally goes down the tubes when How ard supplies a screwy lyrical coda in which almost every couple has anoth er baby After all the parentchild problems weve been shown the film suggests that having more little ones is the answer GRADE Vi LOCK UP In the wake of the brouhaha over the sadomasochistic strain in some of the late photogra pher Robert Mapplethorpes work along comes the new Sylvester Stal lone picture Talk about sadomasoch ism This prison flick glories in graph ic brutalities with enraged inmates and cruel guards bloodying each other as often as possible all choreo graphed to supply a rousing macho jolt If its obscenity you want Stal lones movie has it in spades over photos The Italian Stallion plays Frank Leone the only man who ever es caped from a prison run by a psycho pathic warden Donald Sutherland Now the 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