| Show 0 'NWamtib - “ ' - t i p ninTir-- i la" ' 'Tr-fiT- r I Page 20— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday September 2 1999 SHERMANS LAGOON ‘Emmy’ producer must cope with egos censors By Luaine Lee Scrlppe Howard News Service CATHY hAS A V2K CONSULTANT HOTONW 8FGRADE 9K-TEf- A r IT UHL BE EVERYTHING !! BANKING SHOPPING SHIPANG TRAVELING SORE MY BUTiMKE CLIENTS I lS ME INTERNET- - IN THE YEAR 2000 THE WORLD WILL BELONG TO 1 THOSE UNLESS OF COURSE THE'' THEN THE MIORLO MU COUNTRY'S ELECTRICAL GRID GOES COMMON 3ANUARV1 HAVE A FLASHLIGHT AND IN WHICH CASE THERE WILL A BUNCH Of BATTERIES BE NO BELONG TD THOSE WHO tut Hirroticr 19 a Sept 12 Mischer has marshaled his troops for the last r three months planning every facet of the show This will be his filth outing as head honcho of the swards show which will sir live on Fox three-hou- INTERNET CAN NAVIGATE WHO 0 LOS ANGELES — While we are relaxing in our living rooms checking to see if Calista Flockhart has put on weight or who the gorgeous blonde is on Kelsey Grammer’s arm there’s one guy who’s sweating bricks He’s Don Mischer executive producer of the “SI st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards” airing beginning at 7 pm (MT) “Everybody wants to be on the show” says Mischer “I mean we never have the problem of trying to find people or book people for the show Our problem is trying to find slots for people to do things who want to be on the show and who deserve to be on the show” Because the Emmys are being aired on Fox does that mean that the network will pack the roster with Foxy folk? No way says Mischer “People think that when you do a show for ABC that ABC will push their stars And nothing could be further from the truth I've done Emmy Awards for every network and they've always basically said ’Go out there and put the best show together ’ le He's aware of the ethnic mix and the balance he says "Other than that we want to put a show together that's die best and that has the funniest people the most important people the people that our viewers want to see It's a tough decision because there are many many people who deserve to be on the show And it is drmcult because agents will call you and can’t be on the show?’ say 'You mean Jenna Elfman and David Hyde Pierce will this year though Mischer prefers to orchestrate a show without hosts Mischer thinks it's healthy that the networks take turns airing the proceedings “All of us who work on ihowi like this we know that the strength of the Emmy Award is the fact that it is accepted by the whole industry And the fact that the show is on a wheel is a tremendous asset to us “There were times in our history in which we were on one network for a long period of time and I don’t think it served the show real well to be hon BEETLE BAILEY Scilppa Howavd photo male-fema- HAGAR THE HORRIBLE co-ho- st AiJPP5PWiiJ0 goes WrrM MRAT IZIHT ? P&tT V est' This year cable programs have besieged the fortress with acmes of nominations led by “The Sopranos” with 16 nominations Due to cable’s greater permissiveness regarding content Mischer aUi m 94 PEANUTS YE5 u has to hie very careful when choosing its clips that might air as part of the Emmy broadcast “I’m sure that Fox Standards and Practices (ie censors) will want to know and in fact every network we ever do this for — before those dips are finalized before they are put in their final form on the reels — Standards and Practices people take a lode at them” says Mischer “And there's always something that they want changed or whatever which we negotiate back and forth and I’m sure the same will be true this year” Since the flashy event moved from Pasadena to LA’s cavernous Shrine Auditorium more people can attend notes Mischer All the nominees are MAYBE YOU COULD TRADE IN LAST YEAR'S SEEING AS HOW THEY'VE HARDLY SEEN U5ED LIKE TO BUY SOME SCHOOL SUPPLIES SIR-l- 1 I M ! 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ANrttt ALL even when it’s cm land Poorly written and directed without distinction this last gasp of summer action wastes two capable actors Skeet Ulrich and Cuba Gooding Jr play ordinary guys who find themselves transporting a deadly chemical device to a military base They’re being pursued by a former military officer who’s out for revenge If you're a film buff you’ll experience a major casd of (you’ll pardon the expression) deja view Director Hugh Johnson borrows from Clouzot’s “The Wages of Fear” from Henri-Georg- es “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and from a variety of other action pictures He kicks off the story with a military experiment on a remote island in the South Pacific When things go terribly wrong someone must be blamed Capt Andrew Brynner (Peter Firth) becomes the designated flak catcher taking die foil for die scientist (David Parana) who miscalculated die impact d of his chemical weapon “Elvis” Does someone say “Elvis has left the building”? Feel safe to bet die rent code-name- REAL LIFE ADVENTURES SO AFTER CLOSE TO HOME J WAIT IN THE MWNG I S’ HSSAYS NOtH HAS By Phillip Alder REFER Me TO A TOS SPECIALIST BUT HEDOB CONFIRM WE TOE IS BROKEN TREONO TOE SPECIALIST ON THE lISTDGESffT HAVE AN OPEN APPOINTMENT FOR SIX MONTHS GET SO NAD WALK INTO THE OOOR AND TWITS WHY I'M LIMPING INTO YOUR OFFICE WITH A BROKEN NOSE DM NOSE SPECIALIST I TO If you have an uncontested auction you will rarely gain an insight into the location of miss- ing key honor cards However if an opponent bids you have been given a blueprint Don't forget to read the plan and act on iL I In this deal you reach four hearts after West kicks off with one diamond He leads the diamond queen What is your line of play? 9--1 Apparently HMO stands for "Humoroua Medteal Options" red-carp- et d hours” Movie review After its island opening the movie flashes forward 10 years Brynner is about to be released from prison and Paymer's character has taken up residence at a research facility in Montana Ulrich playi cook who has befriended a drifter and short-ord- er the guilt-riddscientist Gooding portrays an ice cream delivery man who becomes involved in the laboriously assembled plot that’s meant to support the action This action picture takes too long getting to die actum After lots of story development Ulrich commandeers Gooding's ice cream truck and sets out on his heroic mission The villain pursues An elite Ranger unit joins in the chase and we’re treated to a variety of routine stunts: Ulrich hangs on a swinging door of the ice cream truck as it races ova a winding mountain road he engages in fistfights on top of the speeding vehicle the ice cream truck overturns and so on The villain in the piece seems about as menacing as a marshmallow and his motivations are hackneyed Wronged by the government he once proudly served this fiend is out for vengeance Both Ulrich and Gooding will survive this lame Facattempt at excitement But die generic tor" remains a noisy waste of a movie that deserves to disappear before fall en “till 01999 by NEA Inc via two spades four hearts two diamonds and two clubs but When in a suit contract first check your losers then count tm&ALlAK There will be some tickets available to the public via a special weekend package that includes hotel treatment transportation to and special The price ii from the Emmys and the post-part- y $499 per person and does not include airfare or hotel taxes For information about the package call the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment Commission at (213) 236-235-4 The Emmy show commands big bucks from busicommercial goes for $430000 nesses A While most programs allot 16 minutes per hour for commercials there's no hard and fast rule about that with the Emmys says Meryl Marshall CEO of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences “We really work very closely with Don have a great amount of admiration for putting together a program that works and it’s not based on restrictions” she says The show is supposed to be limited to three hours Local affiliates which have their own programming considerations are less than pleased if Emmy goes into overtime Sometimes gushing recipients stretch thank-yo- u speeches into filibusters A couple of years ago Mischer reminded than that tempus fugit by queuing the music and retracting the microphone into the floor when someone got overly garrulous He’s not worried about the time element this year he says “We have all kinds of options We have shut packages medium packages long packages We have pieces that are scripted that we can simply cut out and in every commercial break we’re making the assessments about what to do to get off the air on time And we’ve gotten fairly good at it It'll be three hours We won’t be going over three Win at bridge ROOM FOft HOURS ASK MY PRIMARY-CARPHYSICIAN TO SET MY BROKEN TOE invited to attend — free of charge — but the rest of tlx glitterati pay for their tickets — Scripps Howard 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