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PACE 10 THURSDAY. MAY 23 Radio 1990 CD A Whole New You CD MOVIE: 'Icoman' 05 Hawaii Fivo-O © Odd Couplo €0 Hot Shoo Show W-1 Off Track Rotting 11:30 PM O MOVIE: 'Crookt and Coronets' An in­ ternational gang sets out to pull off some fancy robberies ot some stately British mansions. Telly Savalas, Warren Oates, Cesar Romero. 1969. 0(D© Lato Night with David lottorman Tonight's guest is Roseanne Cash. (60 min.) O Sal* of tho Contury o MOVIE: 'Dodgo City' A fighting • cattleman clashes with the 'boss' of Dodge City, but cleans up the town for homes teaders. Errol Flynn, Ann Sheri­ dan," Bruce Cabot. 1939. <E> USFL Football: Oakland at Donvor (TP QJ (52) Suporioccor CD Candid Comoro " CD ABC News Nightlino CD Nature of Thing* CD <m Hawaii Fivo-O 1*1 Disney Family Album S) (26) Africa: A Continent in Crisis Startky and Hutch SD SCTV © Danco: Tho National Ballot © (T§) Twilight Zono © Jackie Gleason Show 11:45 PM CD Yot Again Mero Ail-Now Unoxpurgatod Bonny Hill 12:00AM O MOVIE: 'Island of Dr. Moroau' A sea­ man is lured into the bizarre ex­ periment of a mad scientist tinkering with evolutionary mat­ ters. Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport. 1976. O dS) MOVIE: 'Tho Hoalers' Tensions and conflicts abound in a vital medical re­ search hospital. John Forsyth, Pat Harrington, John Mdntire. 1974. CD CNN Hoadlino Nows CD NHL Hockoy: Stanloy Cup Championships -- Gamo 2 CD Eyo on Hollywood CD Rogis Philbin's Lifestyles 0) Ribald Classics Theatre: The Tales Con't m MOVIE: 'Ride The High Country' Two aging gunmen, down on their luck, team up to guard a gold shipment. Ran­ dolph Scott, Joel McCrea. Mar- iette Hartley. 1962 60 ABC News Nightline €D@® Jimmy Swaggart , © (18) Night Gallery Mil Saint 12:30AM G © 0D News o New Country CD MOVIE: 'Escape from El Diablo' re CNN Headline News © Comedy Classics ©13$ 700 Club C1« News/Sign Off 12:45 AM CD MOVIE: 'Endangered Species' CD MOVIE: 'Jamaica Inn' Part 1 © MOVIE: 'Bonnie ft Clyde' The story of the Harrow gang who held sheriHs and bank tell­ ers in terror ond captured news­ paper headlines. Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman. 1967. 1:00 AM 0 CBS News Nightwatch KP Anything for Money (9 Play It Again Nashville CD Spaceflight (CC) The Wings of Mercury.' The develop­ ment and competition between the-United States and the Soviet spoce progroms are examined. {60 min.) CDO««T*X!.. © MOVIE: 'Fairytales' © CNN Headline News © © Entertainment Tonight © S i 7 0 0 Club Mil Joe Franklin Show 1:30 AM 0 Family Feud © Porter Wagoner at Opryland © Bionic Woman ©@i 700 Club © Dance: Swan Lake Minnesota 2:00 AM 0 Ifday in Chicago CB News o INN News © America Talks Back with Stanley Siegel © MOVIE: 'Alligator' © m Changing Lives Special tR MOVIE: 'Higher and Higher' A man, unable to pay his servants, forms a corporation with them. Michele Morgan, Frank Sinatra, Jack Haley. 1943. 2:15 AM © MOVIE: 'The Verdict' A dismissed Scotland Yard superintendent plots the perfect crime. Sydney Green- street, IJe.ter Lorre. 1946 2:30 AM 0 Meditations © Newlywed Game 0 MOVIE: 'The Prisoner of Zenda' A king is kidnapped be­ fore his coronation and his dis­ tant cousin, his double, is persuaded to fake his place. Ronald Coleman, David Niven, Madeline Carroll. 1937. © Sportscenter CD MOVIE: 'The Changeling' CD MOVIE: 'Bonii* Playboy's Candid Camera 60 N«w Name That Tune 60 Fashion: Inside Story 2:45 AM © News 3:00 AM O Dating Game © Tennis Magazine © MOVIE: 'Paris Express' A beautiful woman flees a killer on • FALCON CREST The stability of Maggie's (Susan Sullivan) and Chase's marriage is threatened by outsiders, when the season- ending cliffhanger of '•falcon Crest" airs FRIDAY, MAY 24 on CBS. 4 CHECK LISTINGS FOR EXACT TIME 1 liPSli Sf If *'v @1985 Compulog GREAT PERFORMANCES Tom Bosley hosts a tribute to the stars of American musi­ cal theater. Top song-and- dance numbers from 22 Broadway musicals are re-cre­ ated on "Great Performanc­ es." airing FRIDAY. MAY 24 on PBS. CHECK LISTINGS FOR EXACT TIME ©1M5Com0u*og beautiful woman flees a killer on ST4RVIEW | Len Berman has his own unfulfilled sports fantasies By Peter Meade Every sports (an has at least one sports fantasy. NBC sportscaster Len Ber­ man admits that he's no different. "Growing up in New Yorkhe explains. "I always wanted to hit a homer at Yankee Stadium Last March. Berman asked sports fans to send him their sports fantasies The 38-year-old broadcast-. er claims he expected a moderate response. "I really expected between 500 and 1,000 responses," says Berman "Really I did. But we got over 20,000 You name it. we got it." The results will be used to put together a speciar called "Sports Fantasies" on NBC's "SportsWorld" The hourlong special will air Saturday. May 25, and a lucky half-dozen fans will have their fantasies fulfilled. The submitted fantasies ranged from the ridiculous wanting to be fired by 1 lew York Yankees' owner George Steinbrenner) to the sublime (one fan wants to go on a shopping expe­ dition with St. John's bask­ etball coacn Lou Carnesec- za and buy him some new » .sy/eaters^t-othe^nasoctys.- ,tic (a "?male fan requested Cyndi Lauper Len Berman that her favorite Dodger pitcher hit her with a pitch). Everywhere you look in Berman's New York office there are letters. Three full boxes sit next to his desk. He even received several requests on videotape. "Of course, baseball was tops." says Berman "Golf also was among the favor­ ites Wrestling was big. too. I was surprised how well motor sports were represented." The volume of mail has made it extremely difficult for Berman and NBC pro­ ducer David Hoffman to decide what fans will be chosen, but the lucky six should have a ball The rest of us will |ust have to go on fantasizing. C IMS Compulog1 Inside 'We Are the World' By Amanda Bruce This week HBO gives us an inside look at the recording of the' phe­ nomenal hit song "We Are the World" on "USA for Africa: The Story of We Are the World.'" a one- hour documentary that will air May 20. 23 and 28. The recording session brought together such disparate talents as Michael Jackson. Kenny Rogers. Bette Midler. Wil­ lie Nelson, Diana Ross. Paul Simon, Lionel Richie, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Cyndi Lauper, Quincy Jones and dozens more -- 45 in all -- to make a record, profits of which will help fight star­ vation in Africa. The documentary includes anecdotes about the historic recording ses­ sion and interviews with musicians who took part in it. » A noteworthy new nine- part series. "Fashion: The Inside Story." premiered last month on the Arts & Entertainment Network. Barbaralee Diamonstein is hosting^ writing, direct­ ing and producing the entire series, as she did for her previous Arts & Entertainment series, "Interior Design" and "Handmade in America." Although she's a bit for­ mal and stiff as an on- camera interviewer, Miss • Diamonstein elicits enter­ taining responses from her colorful subjects. They include Adolfo. Mary McFadden, Oscar de la Renta, Pauline Trigere, Kasper, Scaasi. Shamask and Bill Blass. On this week's program, which airs Thursday, May 23 and Friday, May 25. Miss Diamonstein talks with Albert and Pearl Nipon. • There's more music on Showtime. "Huey Lewis and the News: The Heart of Rock and Roll." airing May 22. 27 and 31. is the a ward-winning band's first special for pay TV. (They've garnered an American Music Award, a Grammy nomination and an American Video award.) This concert, which was taped in San Francisco in February, features the hit songs "Heart of Rock & Roll." "If This Is It." "Heart and Soul" and "Walking on a Thin Line." c ^ * * • 0i«MCane«Me TjefcMfrHss Joe Penny of 'Riptide' By Wendy Wallace Joe Penny, who plays Army MP-turned private eye Nick Ryder on "Riptide" (Tuesdays on NBC). has definite ide­ as about what makes a television series work. "My main concern, is the writing. I like the stories to be clean, crisp and have a lot of character development. That seems-to be an integral part of what works. » "What got us where we are today is the relationship between the guys and the storylines, because the writers . tend to write for us (referring to himself and co-stars Perry King and Thorn Bray). But we're the guys in front of 80' million people each week, so we've got to make it work. They allow us free rein because we know what we're doing. We have something real good here. "Hopefully, people will find a common factor they can •relate to. I don't ever want to lose the humor in 'Riptide' because that's very human, too. That's what makes 'Simon & Simon' work. The same can be said for 'The Rockford Files.'" • Penny is happy to be identified as Nick Ryder, but he's also realistic about his post-"Riptide" days. And he hopes his next non-series work will be a project that makes a statement. "Acting is a giving process, and there's no room for ego. You take advantage of the success you have and try to nurture it into other things. I like to entertain people. The big challenge at this point in my career is to step out and do something outside of Nick Ryder -- a feature movie, a movie of the week -- something of that nature. I'd like to do something that makes a statement -- that changes the consciousness of the audience and makes them think." ©IMS Compulog The BOX SEAT SportsWorld turns fantasy into reality By Adam Beckerman Here are two fantasies that viewers will not be see­ ing on the May 25 edition of NBC's "SportsWorld": A game of chess utilizing pro­ fessional wrestlers as the 36 pieces on a life-size board: Carl Lewis running 100 meters on a flat beach in snow shoes. Here are two fantasies to which viewers will be treat­ ed: A Detroit housewife bombing around the Indi­ anapolis Motor Speedway in a four-wheel vehicle: a Sunday tennis hacker lead­ ing 6-5 in games and serv­ ing for the set against Chris Evert-JLIoyd. Len Berman has been soliciting deep, dark sports fantasies for the past ten years. One slow summer day at WBZ-TV in Boston, Berman realized that pro­ ducing 10 minutes' worth of relevant highlights day in and day out was impossi­ ble. especially when the Red Sox were idle. "So one day I dressed up as a Bruin goalie and asked Phil Esposito to try and score on me." Berman says. "I can't skate to save my life. But the viewers appreciated the effort. Calls came in asking if I got sunburned from the con­ stantly blinking red goal light." Michael Weisman, exec­ utive producer of NBC Sports, has referred to the normal fare on anthology shows as "forgettable television." Through "SportsWorld's" recent spate of one-theme editions, such a& sports- music videos, a panoramic view of the phenomenon of pro-wrestling, an upcoming documentary on the great communicators in sports, and now Berman's fantasy project. NBC continues its efforts to transform a weary format into eclectic programming. The network receded more than 20.000 fantasy suggestions. "Some people wrote in asking to be fired by George Steinbrenner," continues Berman. "And many people wanted to change history. One guy said that if he were pitching for the Red Sox, Bucky Dent would have never hit that home run." It's understandable that Bucky would rather his epic dinger not be subject of revisionist tinkering. But a player like Tom Brennan should stiM^ thrilled fans are payin^^^ee him play. Tom Brennan is the last guy to make the Dodger's pitching staff. Berman sets the stage. "At the plate stands a 33-year-old man from Arizona. A pretty good athlete. His name is on the back of his uniform, his wife and kids are in the stands. And Tom Brennan's pitch­ ing as if he were a major leaguer." Ten minutes of fame and glory? Perhaps. But at least 600 seconds of air time. ©1MS Compulog