Show ON THE COVER “ Full House is just a likable show with lovable faces” FKAVK LOUX'E Stamos is not a Russian Tea kind of guy Vet here he is at that landmark Manhattan restaurant where Woody Allen tourists and silver-hairepower brokers are the usual clientele The young of "Full House" (airing Fridays on ABC) is singularly unfazed Just give the boy jeans a studded black-leathjacket and a salad plate of greens so expensive they have Italian names "Is this where like kinda elite people hang out?" Stamos wonders tongue-in-chee"It's funny 1 love New York but you see these people in the restaurants and clubs and they have at- - John d co-st- ''paul d Hopkins' DDS Complete Family Dentistry k INCLUDING ORTHODONTICS (Call about our $90 plan) IN ROY 773-961- 1 best show on television but I do think it's one of the most likable shows " And in a sitcomv w ay it is While not a hit in the league of "Cheers" and "The Cosby Show" it does win its time slot consistently and anchors one of two nights each week that ABC regularly sweeps Though he doesn't say it - again too polite - Stamos is one of the reasons for his show's popularity The has boyishly handsome an insouciant charm that gave him a fan following back in his "General Hospital" days Stamos (nee Stamo-polousnagged the role of "GH” bad boy Biackie Parrish scant months after graduating from high school in his native Cypress Calif acting gig into a turning a five-dastint - and an eventual Daytime Emmy nomination He had less luck as lf welder-by-dayroc- star-by-mg- Popular guy: Stamos on the town (above) and with Jack Klugman titudes and they dress nice and you wanna go 'But you work in a shoe store during the day - lighten up!’” No one has to give Stamos that advice As rock ’n’ roll relative Uncle Jesse on “Full House” he gets into one u'acky lovable escapade every week with his widowed brother-in-law’- s three adorably zany moppets! While Stamos doesn't exactly wince at the thought - he's too - you know he knows he's not doing Arthur Miller "It's not a critically acclaimed-typ- e show and it never will be” he s concedes "It's never gonna win It’s just a nice likable show with lovable faces And that’s why it’s a hit Not because it's brilliantly written or brilliantly acted or brilliantly directed I don’t think it’s the Em-my- P U SAN PS 1 2 k Gino Minnelli on the CBS series "Dreams" a sort of male "Flashdance” The series was canceled after just four weeks -and for a cocky young actor on a roll the end of "Dreams" became his worst nightmare "I was so stupid" Stamos muses looking back “I’d thought I'd never not work Then 'Dreams’ got canceled and I thought 'I’m not invulnerable!’ ” That sinking feeling resurfaced soon afterward w'hen his next series "You Again?" a father-so- n NBC sitcom with Jack Klugman was canceled after a year "After ‘You Again?’ and ‘Dreams’ 1 hit the point where I said 'I better start thinkin' about becoming a good actor and not relying on looks or personality or whatever’ ” Now Stamos is up against the challenge of working with children and dogs “It can be tough” Stamos says of doing a show with and toddlers such as the twins Ashley and Mary Kate Olsen who play Michelle "Here you do two lines and you gotta stop “I think about all my friends who are good actors that aren’t working I try to think about how fortunate 1 am to be on a hit show that can propel me into things that I really wanna do" pre-tee- ultra-adorab- STANDARD-EXAMINE- |