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ABC dev< By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The law enforcement officers of "Cop Rock" burst into song. In "Twin Peaks," they guzzle coffee, speak in hyperbole and covet cherry pie. Is ABC being weird simply for the sake of being weird? Has TV gotten so predictable that the only way to stand out is to be completely off the wall? Not if you ask "Cop Rock" creaior Eleven rsocnco or "Twin Peaks" executive producer Mark Frost. "I think there's a real trap in trying to create programming that is -simply going to be scarier or more out there than the next guy's program," Bochco told TV columnists during a weekend session of ABC's summer press tour. And no, Frost said, "Twin Peaks" was not trying to pull a fast one on its audience by being confusing. >. "I think that's ascribing some pretty terrible character traits to us," Frost said. "I don't think we'd give up two years of our lives to MON PEOPLE WITH M( are urgently needed to aid ii Mono test kits. 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The affiliates didn't quite kno\ what to make of the first install ment, which contained a jury belt ing out a guilty verdict in choi robes, a junkie selling her baby fo a fix and a police officer who re solves a botched attempt to arrest < cop-killer by simply murdering him. During last month's affiliate convention in Los Angeles, a large portion of the audience walked ou during the "Cop Rock" screening. Several complained to Bochcc ? the mastermind of hits such a* Come Work i 1/ rl 0? IN0NUCLE0SIS i the manufacture of the Mono, or have had Mono :s, you may qualify for )0 of your time, in Call or Come By: \LS, INC Dr. Suite 105 i, SC i37 [T GOVERN 4 DIFFERENCE <NT GOVERN Ml \ x f1'. - STEPHEN K. 1 IDENT - G. TOI M |: jf m/ " p, - DEBRA L. G1 / -v. \ ? ^ / j \ WjL\ 1 A.'" j // \ I \ * r < : f I I V * , " .:J \s : .ym#J ' -vv * .,> , ^ < ^ ?->V V' PMp w? .W. . . . . , .v.v/rt ?ifV.-MW.W.'.v.v,- * - A vWWAV.'.VWWiV.VlWMV ' * W.'.V,V/.w,Wl..v - . ATION CALL OF UDENT GOVERNM] RUSSELL HOUS^M ^jjj^77-2654 ?' * 'si " ' 988 m ' veird TV s in "Hill Street Blues" and "L.A. Law" ? that "Cop Rock" )f wouldn't play in Peoria, te "Twin Peaks," by Frost and film 0 director David Lynch, premiered il as a spring replacement series in April and almost immediately became one of the most talked-about and written-about shows in televi sion history. y The goings-on of a fictional Northwest lumber town inelnd^d the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer, a dwarf who spoke backwards in a dream sequence, lo^s of talk about coffee and junk food, and enough plot twists to inr duce motion sickness. i When the series ended this seay son without solving the murder of beauty queen Palmer, audiences ^ were incensed. t "Twin Peaks" will repeat all eight original episodes beginning > Aug. 5. Its fall season begins Sun5 day, Sept. 30, with a two-hour spe is free in tne ca out with US!! 77' I YOUfL 1 PI Final Exam Date Football and Oth Sport Dates Maps of USC University Hour: of Operation All proceed: fMENT WITH INT" i , ' A * t I i m w ., ,,ji &r:? 1 _ _ ': . :* " < 9t JENJAMIN m fHH )D WEISS \ h ? vV s:?: ? ' LADSTONE i 1 >?srf * I . i r I JS| A > ;:?:: .$ J^<py ^ 7 * f S / 3? ' ^ sif \ COME BY: . ENT 12 hows rial, after which the series moves to a new time slot, 10 p.m. Saturday. Frost, in keeping with the show's tone, was humorously vague about what will happen next season. He hedged about when, or how, Palmer's murderer will be identified. Coffee-loving FBI agent Dale n _i i i LT..1. if?t ?i v_uupci, piaycu uy xvyic iviaci-acnlan, will remain in Twin Peaks, investigating other crimes besides Palmer's killing, Frost said. Obviously, Cooper survives the season-ending shooting by a mysterious gunperson, Frost said. 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