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Show Advice/Television 4B Monday, March 10, 1997 Horror in the classroom TV TIPS Stone and Lolita Davidovich also 8 KTVX Channel! 4. which concludes Thursday, opens CHICAGO HOPE - Watters and Shutt (Hec- with a report on their history and ability to maneuver. 11 p.m., Dis- tor REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL - Spike Lee chronicles the life of Curt Flood, the baseball player whose fight to play on the team of his choice paved the way for free agency. Also: reports on Wake Forest center Tim Duncan and women’s pro boxing, 11 p.m., HBO. covery Channel. Elizondo, Adam_ Arkin) propose a plan for the medical staff to buy the hospital. 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It was a welcome display of manners, since only minutes before I had heard another that food is not at the heart of Please tell me where I can get pre counselors, is (847) 831-3438. It is important to recognize joke ty close a long (business-size), self-addressed, stamped (55 cents) envelope. ANAD’s hotline, answered by understanding DEAR READY TO MOVE ON: Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized in part by a preoccupation with food, binge eating (usually in secret) and purging after eating. The disorder is generally accompanied by depression, shame and guilt, mood swings, low self-esteem and withdrawal from normal social activities. Physically, bulimics can suffer from malnutrition, dehydration, tears in the esophagus, and serious heart, kidney and liver damage ered suicide. i your child is terrified of something, and seek professional help immediately For information, contact the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders by writing to:ANAD, Box DEAR ABBY Abigail Van Buren 2 nate ar nar native declares. often astounds people wach to quest busimess transact ing with individua r What " e “Y appeared inexplicable ‘ estyle. Gest ai toGay. Is tive. creative. have tember and October way they are heard tc takes place im Apr has financial clout. will ghouls. And like any goodslayer, she carries holy water, a crucifix and a woodenstake in her purse. “T decided to do a horror movie every week set in a high school,” explains Whedon, who wrote the original “Buffy.” His screen credits also include tie Somer? ye. USMC 2) whois a “Slayer” - a person proclaim, “How you'll be dea You are sens f exot shes and people. Ser aiso be memorable in positive WBNetwork BUFFY AND FRIENDS: The castof‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ includes(left to right) Nicholas Brendon as Xander, Anthony S. Head as Giles, Sarah Michelle Geller as Buffy, Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia and Alyson Hanniganas Willow. Do. She’s just extraordinary and incredibly professional.” Althoughthere will be an assortment of supernatural villains, Buffy will, of course, be She puts her martial arts skill doing battle on a regular basis with vampires. “The vampires for to good usein the series. “I doa good deal of the kicking and the punching that you see; the things I can do without putting the us are sort ofthe aliens of ‘The X-Files,” says Whedon. “They sort of inform everything that happens.” showin jeopardy, I will do. It’s the best part (of doing the series). In the first episode, I beat up a vampire whohasgot to be 6-foot-4. I am, like, 100 pounds Not onlyis the series different from the movie, so are the characters. “Buffy was sort of ignorant,” says Whedon ofthe big-screen Buffy, who was played by Kristy Swanson. and 5-foot-2. It’s extremely empowering.” “She was a little vapid,’” adds Gellar. “This Buffy maynot be book smart, but she’s street smart. She’s quirky. She’s offbeat Whedon acknowledgesthat “Buffy” is a difficult showto produce becauseofthe special effects, makeup and stunts. “We have a limited amount oftime They areall situations that we versus dumb.” Alyson Hannigan co-stars as Buffy’s best friend, Willow, a shy, bookish girl whois a social outcast. Nicholas Brendon plays her other companion, Xander. Anthony Stewart Head, best known as the Taster’s Choice coffee guy, plays Giles, a middle-agedlibrarian who secretly supervises Buffy’s clandestine activities. Gellar, who won a daytime Emmy for her work on ABC's “All My Children,” is the perfect Buffy, says Whedon. “I don’t think the show would exist without her. I can’t imagine we wouldhave filmed it without her.” Gellar, he says, is “the best actress I have ever worked with in my life. It also helps that she’s around him. Don’t hiss and snarl have experienced.” beautiful and can do Tae Kwon and make a big, dumb show.” “Twister,” “Speed” and “Toy Story.” “In the movie, the horror ca — NICK Taxi (CC) “Buffy,” based on the 1992 film of the same name, follows the adventures of a 16-year-old student (Sarah Michelle Gellar) m Youn — DISC Chopper Power 5) NBC NewsNightside apor DEAR ABBY: I am 18 years old and recently went from 180 pounds to 130. I've droppedsix pants sizes, plus two moresizes in shirts Ever since I was a little girl, my parents have bugged meto ] lose weight, even though I was healthy and well-built. I played sports and ran track, so a lot of my weight was muscle, but my parents always wanted me to look like a tiny gymnast in miniskirts, so they bribed me to lose we it. By the time I was in the eighth grade, I was so depressed about my weight that I consid- that he’s not alone: “Every time (one of our writers) creates an evil character, I say, ‘Where did destroy vampires and other eeen MTV Dreamtime A&E Movie “Machine Gun AcCain McCain" — oo: Rand word I would use” to describe them, he says. 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To make matters worse, you often feel too fat, awkward or geekyto ever fit Vampire Slayer” goes even further, turning high school into 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 |News 213 [Entertain [Cosby Los Angeles Times thriller-comedy “Buffy the MONDAY EVENING 3/10/97 (2) _| ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ described as ‘X-Files’ meets ‘Sabrina’ By SUSAN KING didn’t come from high school,” he says. “It just happened there. In the series, hopefully, most of the episodes will reflect a grotesque parody ofactual high school experiences.” “What makes the situations so horrific,” says Gellar, “is that Joss bases themonreality. We have just taken real-life situations and put themon a grander ora more horror-level scale. But they are all situations we have faced, like the cheerleading episode. It’s about a girl who just wants to please her mother and her mother is trying tolive vicariously through her daughter. ‘Magic’ to host and produce .What A Combination! Sources at Fox’s TV syndication arm, Twentieth Television, have confirmed a report in Daily Variety that the former Los Angeles Lakers star has agreed to host and executive-produce a newlate-night talk-variety series. Details of the program remain sketchy, other than that Johnson will host the show and produce it with his longtime agent, Lon Rosen. The program would not premiere before next January and possibly later in 1998 Fox officials believe Johnson will have a uniqueability to attract celebrities from various fields, including sports, film and music. The project underscores a desire to reach a younger urban audiencethat’s largely been disenfranchised since Arsenio Hall's syndicated late-night show went off theair in 1994 At this point Johnson's show would be syndicated that is, sold directly to stations, as opposedto airing on the Fox network: however, Fox doesn’t currently offer network programming in late night, having scrubbed plans to introducea late-night soap opera in January The Fox-ownedTV stations blanket more than 35 percent of all U.S. homes, giving the Johnson project a leg up in reaching a national audience never about them. The problem you have most on this is grounding it emotionally. I'm constantly going on about that. We are muchmoreinterested in nospecial effect than a special effect that’s going to take over the scenes.” Whedon says he’s constantly telling the actors playing the villains: “Don’t walk like a vampire. Walk like a guy who is tougher than the other guys Bobbie Miller By BRIAN LOWRY again behind him, Earvin “Magic” Johnson appears to be looking for a new title to win: king of late night. 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