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Show TV Page 2 - " THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah," Saturday,' March 9,' 1996 Television Q&A CARVEY: By JAY BOBBIN, (Continued from Page 1) half-hou- Emmy-winnlow "SNL" alumnus Robert Smigel, who most recently worked on NBC's "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" - to serve as executive producer and head writer of the program, and each episode will boast a sponsor's name prominently, parodying specials and sports events identified largeer -- ly through the given advertiser. "I wanted to do this show for a long time," the freCarvey says, "and this felt like quently a good time because (Smigel) was available. I was doing some movies, and they were making so much money, it was hard for me to part with that arena." That's a tongue-in-chee- k comment, since the only Carvey movies that truly have been hits are the two "Wayne's World" spinoffs of "Saturday Night Live" he's done with Mike Myers. "It's more about creative control," Carvey believes of his pictures such as "Clean Slate" and "Opportunity Knocks" that had little box-offi- impact. "If you're in a film where you're sort of a passenger being directed, it comes out and you're like, 'Gee, if it's any good, I had nothing to do with it.' When I was working on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had a lot of input in writing and creating the characters. In movies where I bend like a puppet, they haven't turned out too well. "TV, especially with this show, is kind of like living in the present," Carvey reasons. "We're not going to tape 10 episodes (in quick succession) and then air them. We're going to be doing it right before it airs, so it'll be real current. In movies, I notice that I'm really giant on the screen and on TV, I'm really small. I don't know. I like it all. I was a busboy, and now, they're paying me a lot of money." That's being done by ABC to inspire Carvey to deliver the type of material he knows best on a regular basis, and he vows, "This show is not going to pull any punches. It's going to be very potent, and for It's going to be very stuff you haven't seen on (TV) at this hour, ever, and and kind of wicked it's going to be very and a little mean sometimes ... and incredibly silly." While he earned his first dose of major fame via 'early-night-- y.' fast-pac- "Saturday Night Live," that wasn't Carvey's first television series. "One of the Boys" was a 1982 sitcom that featured him as a college student who invited his grandfather, played by Mickey Rooney, to move in with him and his roommate (Nathan Lane, movie "The Birdcage"). "I now in the didn't know what I was doing," Carvey muses. "1 was under contract to NBC, and president) Fred Silverman said, You're Mickey Rooney's grandson.' I said, 'Yes, sir! Right away, sir!"' Actually, Carvey recalls doing that show as "not a lot of fun. I just wore a sweater and asked a lot of questions: 'Where are we going? What are we going to do?' Thirteen weeks, that was it." Carvey then in a short-live- d played James Farentino's series spinoff of the 1983 adventure movie "Blue Thunder." about a specially equipped police helicopter. "I had a helmet on, going, 'Look out! Here comes a missile!' I've had the weirdest career of anyone." Nevertheless, as with any performer, Carvey just-releas- (then-netwo- rk co-pil- ot appreciates how professional success can impact one's personal life. "It sounds like kind of a cliche to say, 'I've got a family and that rules my life.' but it is true," he maintains. "I've got two boys, and it would be great if (the new show) did go, because it's great for a father not to have to travel. At least, I'd have a little bit of a 'Leave It to Beaver' life where I'd drive to work, do my thing and come back home. I'd like the consistency of it." Carvey almost had that with David Letterman's slot on NBC, which was offered to former him before Conan O'Brien was picked for it. "I thought about it for quite a while," he reports, "but in I figured out that with all doing some hosts didn't have any the work they do, children or were divorced. I looked at my kids in the crib sleeping, and I looked at my wife and hugged her It was like "It's a Wonderful Life'." late-nig- ht g, talk-sho- w Tribune Media Services Q: After seeing the "Project: ALF," I was wondering if there are any plans to syndicate the original series. A: Actually, the comedy show about the alien had a reprise with that recent ABC offering - has been in the syndication market ever since its original NBC run ended. A sizable number y berth right after of stations gave it an its network stint concluded, but some programs don't produce the same sort of ratings as evergreens like "Cheers" and "MASH," so "ALF" didn't remain a perennial in that market. However, it's still available for any channel that wants to give it so you might want to notify your another local stations of your interest in seeing the series again. Q: I'm a great fan of Jane Seymour and just had occasion to watch a film of hers with Christopher Reeve, "Somewhere in Time." My friend and I are having a dispute about it; surely, the elderly woman at the beginning of the story is not Ms. Seymour, though my friend insists that it is. A: Though it's meant to be the same person, it's not the same performer, even if the hunch is that it was Seymour sporting an extensive makeup job. In the d (by us, too) opening sequence of the a veteran character 1980 movie, Susan French version of Elise actress - plays the senior-citize- n McKenna, the stage talent who's also portrayed in the tale by Seymour once Reeve's alter ego hypnotizes himself into going back in time mentally. Q: Can you tell pie what happened to Chris Noth of "Law & Order"? The show isn't the same without him. A: A lot of viewers evidently feel the same way, since we continue to receive plentiful mail about the actor, probably fueled in part by his continuing appearance in repeats of the series on cable's A&E. Though he left the NBC show at the end of last season reportedly by mutual consent with executive producer Dick Wolf he's stayed busy in and miniseries, having appeared in last November's TV-mov- ie r will tape each installment in New York City close to air time (two days prior), in order to keep the comedy topical. He also has recruited a fel- y' Local 7U Channel Giiftb one-nig- ht -- every-weekda- d, much-belove- - -- - - es CBS drama "Nothing Lasts Forever." You'll be happy to know that he has two more projects set to air before the end of the current season; he plays a maritally estranged man who kidnaps his child in the NBC film "Abducted: A Father's Love" (slated to air on Sunday, March 31), and he also stars as a widower who moves to Africa in "Born Free: A New Adventure," which ABC plans to televise sometime during the spring. Noth also has made a couple of independent feature films, "Burnsy's Last Call" and "This Black Rich Country," which didn't have release dates attached to them as of press time. Q: I remember, when I was a child, watching an old Glenn Ford movie in which he played a man whose son was kidnapped. Can you tell me the name of the movie, and whether it can be purchased on videocassette? A: The picture was the 1956 drama "Ransom," which currently is being remade by director Ron Howard with Mel Gibson in the lead role. (It's expected to be released later this year.) The original was an MGM picture, but MGMUA Home Video hasn't made it available on tape, nor has made any mention of doing so in the near future; however, it tends to surface with reasonable regularity on cable's TNT particularly during the afternoon hours, we've noticed so you might want to keep an eye on the - - listings there. Q: Could you please tell me if Marisa Tomei played one of the roommates during the first season of "A Different World" ? A: Indeed she did. but she clearly had other things in mind ... and they paid off big for her a few years later, when she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for the 1992 comedy hit "My Cousin Vinny." Her other films since have included "Untamed Heart." "The Paper." "Only You." "Chaplin" and "The Perez Family." Q: Which series did producer Donald P. Bellisario do first, "Airwolf or "Magnum, p.i."? 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