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39 wm* CD 3§ ftmNy AfMr 9:00 AM OmomAM1 © MifMy Mmm • At# ||«mi TkU IM ®®V«MNfMM CD O AJM. ia €0 StfR Oa/Nmn 4:15 AM ®WwMA«a» 4:30 AM (E) flay Yaw I ((daytime)) ®S •<00 AM C O (23) ao Mbwta WMkMl CD3$*-> O (SInmm WmW liput ' V* •I CNN 2 10:15AM 10.30 AM I CMM*> Play MEDIA MONITOR Farentino disguises himself, not his talents By Joan Crosby In the recent TV movie "Something So Right," James Farentino was almost unrecognizable. The actor, who has a full head of hair and is trim and fit, played a character who was balding and fat. It was Farentino who dic­ tated how he would look. "It was my choice," he says. "It was also my choice that when I appeared in another TV movie to have eyes that are a very unusual shade Of green." That film, "The Cradle Will Fall," airs May 24 on CBS. "I wanted those green eyes for the character I play. I don't wear contacts or even glasses and I had been warned that I could only leave the lenses in for an hour at a time and that I had to have 30-minute breaks in between. "It seems when the lenses are left in too long the eye is not getting oxygen, it is unable to breathe. I nearly went, bananas -- for 21 days I was taking those lenses out and putting them in. On the last day of shooting, my left i eye began to develop an ulcer." When Farentino was doing "Something So Right," he shaved a portion of his head to give him a large bald spot. "That and the padded suit i wore made me look Jamaa Farentino . much older and heavier," he recalls. "When I finished shooting that picture, I shaved my head complete­ ly. From the'day I was total­ ly bald to my first haircut was about six weeks. You know, 'Something So Right* was the second high­ est rated movie of the season, which is amazing ^when you consider there was no action. It was a character piiece." In September, Farentino begins rehearsals for the Broadway production# Ira Levin's new thrfiler, "Footsteps." Returning to the stage is important to Farentino. He began his career as a beach boy in the original production of Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Igu&na" and has appeared in a 1973 revival of "Death of a Salesman" and in Lin­ coln Center's 2$th anniver­ sary production of "Street­ car Named Desire?' ©1M3 Computes