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A look at the n mnrf> nf the* cm By Lehman Stiles Entertainment Editor This is always an exciting time of year for those of us who keep an eye on things in the entertainment world: it's time for the new TV season. Will this be the year that television lives up to its potential? Is this the year that Fred Silverman will work his magic for NBC9 Is this, to use the athletic department's parlance, Next Year? Nope. Every year we await anxiously to see if TV will do Qnmofhino rlifforont Ar?H ovorv voir thinCc cppm to UV...VV....1& W?V>V>IV. J ? "??? WVV... get worse. Television is coming off of its most critically blasted season in many years; some of last year's shows were just marvelously bad. Amazingly enough, things aren't getting any better. Well, let's look over the offerings. ABC: The number one network, paradoxically enough, has the most new shows on the air. First of all, The Associates sounds as if it could be this year's rr> n U r il 1 _l i axi. ao iiiucn ior me goou snows. We've all seen 240-Robert before, in shows from Sky King to Emergency. How many ways can you make a car go over a cliff, anyway? The Lazarus Syndrome is a novel concept?a doctor show. And from the preview episodes, this one looks especially prone to using tense confrontations between doctor and hospital administrator, or tender scenes of the doctor's long-suffering wife taking care of the kids. Doctor Kildare lives again. Hurt to Hart is Switch, The Rockford Files, Vega$, etc., etc., all rolled into one. Benson won't really have to be very good to be successful; it's wedged firmly between Laverne and Shirley and Taxi on Thursdays. Out of the Blue combines Heaven Can Wait with Morfe and Mindy, which means that it can get by on its own momentum. We're supposed to like this one even if it's not funny. CBS: Network number two is really scraping the bottom this year for comedies. Struck By Lightning will rely on the horrific looks of Jack Elam for laughs; its plot possibilities are amazingly limited. Working Stiffs stars Jim Belushi, John's brother and vast inferior, and Michael Keaton as?how's this for Student night at the Top of from the rest of th Carolina Restaurant is Wed- Showtime is 8 p nesday, September 26, from 5:30? Saturday with a 8:00 p.m. For more information on show. Tickets wei this night of dining pleasure call Longstreet Theai 8198 for reservations. There will Friday. They cai also be a pregame buffet Saturday there between noo at the Top of Carolina from 4:30 to one hour before 7 p.m. evening. Call 777 - vations. The Students' International Meditation Society is sponsoring inmilllllllimiimillimil an introductory lecture on tran- |j scendental meditation tonight at = * 7:30 p.m. in room 203, Russell = i"flffjf House. The lecture is free. = B Two art exhibitions, Art = Nouveau and National Sculpture = for flllh 1979, open Sept. 21 at the Columbia = Museums of Art and Sripnrp Art = - Nouveau through Oct. 28 and I traterni National Sculpture closing Nov. 4. == A preview reception for museum s SOCIO I C members will be held Sept. 20 from = 8 until 10 p.m. Art Nouveau and || fllCTf National Sculpture 1979 are on = v,Uolv display during regular museum s Y hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10-5 ? p.m.; Sunday 2-6 p.m.; closed S 2767 RO Monday. The Columbia Museums = _ of Art and Science are located at S 2 the corner of Senate and Bull nlllllllllllllllllllllllllllll n J JU: i ' ? - ouccis. r ui auuiuunai lniormauon i call 799-2810. K The South Carolina Arts Com- j mission is now accepting ap- V\ plications for its Film/Video ^ ^ Fellowship. The purpose of the I \) $2500 fellowship is to enable a \ South Carolina media artist of \ exceptional promise to set aside a \\ ^ significant period of time for work )) in his or her chosen art discipline. X Applications will be accepted I \\W-J through Oct. 31, 1979. Official fl \\ilA> application forms and fellowship U guidelines are available from the South Carolina Arts Commission's Media Center, 1800 Gervais St., ===?=?== 758?7942. 1================== w The Potting Shed, a three-act mystery drama, opens the 1979-80 USC Showcase Theatre Season Sept. 21-23 in Longstreet Theatre. S6fVC( Written by Graham Green, The Potting Shed is a suspense story Win? i that begins with the return of an unwanted son to his father's deathbed. James Callifer, played by Mike Collins, is nof allowed to see JHarviather and is estrailge&fw ew TV season: hp nn/i j mnrcp I VTI . an exciting idea?janitors. The Last Resort has been on the CBS shelf for a year, and for good reason: although it's from the Mary Tyler Moore team, it has more in common with Moore's disastrous last two series than with the team's best efforts, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant. Finally, California Fever stars Jimmy McNichol as the pursuer of a meaningless, hedonistic, mellowed out life on the California beach. This one should definitely gain a 40 share with the 12-to-16-screamingBarry-Manilow-fan group. NBC: Perhaps NBC's season is best typified by the most illogical television move in the past few years: the character of Sheriff Lobo has been spun off into his own series from the awful bomb B.J. and the Bear (that's right, the show about the truck driver and the monkey). Only NBC's frequent combinations of the casts of Diff'rent Strokes and Hello, Larry into onehour specials match this audacious programming move. J A Man Called Sloane might as well be called A Man Called Bond; NBC isn't even pretending that they aren't trying to create a low-budget clone of the Ian Fleming character. Shirley casts Shirley Jones as yet another widowed mother "trying to make it on her own." You would think NBC could find better things to do with their top-line stars. Against all the experts, I'm predicting that Buck Rogers will be NBC's big hit. Of course, with NBC it l u ? uu * ~ * w ?:.. ^ ? ? J uucail l lldVC IU UC IHUtll UI d nil IU UC llicu UlggCSl. NBC also has Kate Columbo, Eischied, and From Here to Eternity, none of which merit much at- J tention. Eternity was one of those amazing shows that was developed from a mini-series before the mini-series was even aired. So there we are: rehashes, spinoffs, sloppy copies. Television has developed an aggravating pattern of perpetuating its own mediocrity. I wish I could tell you that this season will be one of imaginative nnmoHiDC fonco Hromoo onrl mAirinrf fnn cnnni olc T wnivvuvo, wiuv uiuiuuo, anvi iiivviu^, iuu opvviaw. a wish I could say something good about TV. The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobobegs to differ. 1 e family as well. m. Friday and The opening concert of the 3 p.m. Sunday "Wednesdays at Trinity Cathedral it on sale at the series will be today ~at 12:30. The re Box Office program will include Johann i be purchased Sebastian Bach's Concerto No. 5 in n and 5 p.m. and f Minor for harpsichord and orshowtime each chestra, and George Frederick -5221 for reser- Handel's Concerto No. 13 in F Major for organ and orchestra. iiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniHiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiimiigimmiiimiiiiiiiHiiiii^ *1*1# HI* T Olf tuit ^ M JUJL g - <?> 1 ties and \ : (rjpwwTj ^ rganizations j I | >m STYLED I -SHIRTS SEWOOD DRIVE % IIIIIIIIBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIfllllllllllllllllllllllllllHIIIIII^ * I \ ]B v. 1 I Mi Italian cJ 734 I Icirdeil St 799-?754 iA in Five Points _ _i i *. i! l_ i : l In eunesuay iNiyru ^peuat licken Cacciatora j w/Spaghetti, Italian Salad, VI IVyf 1V I 1 ui v^au $3.50 II T^j.j .njiijiii ,T in ; I, The too ten singles this week, according to Billboard magazine, are: 1. My Sharona The Knack 2. After the Love Has Gone Earth Wind & Fire 3. The Devil Went Down to Georgia Charlie Daniels Band 4. Rise Herb Alpert 5. Lead Me On Maxine Nightingale 6. Sad Eyes Robert John 7. Lonesome Loser Little River Band 8. I'll Never Love This Way Again Dionne Warwick 9. Sail On Commodores 10. Don't Bring Me Down Electric Light Orchestra The top ten albums this week, according to Billboard magazine, are: 1. In Through the Out Door Led Zeppelin 2. Get the Knack The Knack 3. Slow Train Coming Bob Dylan 4. Breakfast in America Supertramp 5. Risque Chic 6. Off the Wall Michael Jackson 7. Midnight Magic Commodores 8.1 Am Earth Wind & Fire 9. Candy-O The Cars 10. Reality...What A Concept Robin Williams The top ten fiction books this week, according to the N. Y. Times Book Review, are: 1. The Last Enchantment Mary Stewart 2. Sophie's Choice William Styron 3. The Matarese Circle Robert Ludlum 4. Shibumi Trevanian 5. The Dead Zone Stephen King 6. Tinsel William Goldman 7. Class Reunion Rona Jaffe 8. The Third World War General Sir John Hackett 9. War and Remembrance Herman Wouk LO. A Woman of Substance Barbara Taylor The top ten nonfiction books this week, according to the N. Y. Times 3ook Review, are: 1. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet Herman Tarnower, M.D. a /'i l nl z. ^ruei anoos Steve Martin 3. The Pritikin Program Nathan Pritikin 4. Restoring the American Dream Robert J. Ringer 5. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years Howard Ruff 6. Broca's Brain Carl Sagan 7. The Medusa and the Snail Lewis Thomas, M.D. 8. The White Album Joan Didion 9. The Bronx Zoo Sparky Lyle .0. The Powers That Be David Halberstam Cockf est *79 i I Any Croup interested in having a skit in Cockfest must submit an entry by 2:00 p.m. September 19th. Then, from Monday, September 24? Wednesday, September 26, auditions for skits will be held at the Russell House. 1st Place?$300.00 | 4?TJ a 2nd Place?$200.00 r? ! r jt3rd Place?$100.00 1 Drinks JH.OO 6 n,9ht? 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