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Show 8B The Salt Lake Tribune, Monday, January 27, 19K6 Television Fare 4The Roommate (a Collegiate Odd Couple) Airs Tonight Updikes radio voices of Richard Nixon, Adlai Stevenson and Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the haircuts, college garb and cars of the time and reminders of panty raids and beer The play, adapted and produced by Morton Neal Miller and directed by Nell Cox, moves in the leisurely, low-kerather earnest manner fairly typical of American Playhouse. imHenry represents the rebellious in pulses that Orson has suppressed his striving to emulate and please his father, his towns only doctor, and the story is mainly about Orsons becomunder the ing a bit less strait-laceinfluence of Henry and college in general. "The Roommate" is a slight tale; By Walter Goodman New York Times Service YORK John Updikes short story The Roommate" is a literary roommate of "The Odd Couple. A young overachiever from North Dakota named Orson, who lines up his toilet articles like toy soldiers, finds himself sharing a room at Northwestern University with a misfit named Henry, who stands on his head and operates a spinning whetl for spiritual refreshment. It's boy meets beatnik. The events take place during the school semester of 1952-53- , and the American Playhouse version on PBS Monday night at 8:00 p.m. captures the period, with the help of the - NEW d By Bill Television Stations KTVX, Channel 1, Kl ED, Channel 7, 5 5, 8 KBYl, Channel 11, (Provo) KOOG, Channel 30, (Ogden) KSTL-TV2- 378-529- 5:15 am. Down To Earth ffi Together 5 with Keith McCord Holly McCollum. Carol Burnett And Friends 5:30 a.m. NBC News Morning Stretch CBS Early Morning News ffi CD 5:55 a.m. Down To Earth (1) S3 3D 29 (23 Secret 89 Andy Griffith (2D 2:00 p.m. Another World 6:15 a.m. Hooked On Aerobics (ED 6:30 a.m. 89 89 T ransformers JO A.M. 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Much of this was out of their hands. The company was in the throes of takeover shakedown. It seemed almost no one was too certain how long he or she would have a job. Right smack in the middle of ABCs sessions, word came from New York that the president of the network, Fred Pierce, had resigned after failing to work out an arrangement with the new ABC bosses from Capital Cities Communications. (Virtually everyone concluded he had been forced out.) That precipitated the mass management meeting in New York that sent ABC executives scurrying like small animals in a forest fire. At least one major event had to be canceled outright. ABC would announce certain stars who would attend a dinner interview. Many never showed up. The only significant ABC executive still in a position of importance, News and Sports President Roone Arledge, was nowhere to be seen with good reason. He was the subject of rumors of pressure by the Cap Cities bosses to relinquish his sports authority. The one important ABC executive Branwho did manage to appear don Stoddard, the new president of the entertainment division (and thus the chief programmer for the network) began with an attention-getting- , polemic about the exills of ABCs e cesses overkill, exploitative, substanceless material). Then he quickly shot himself in the foot with the announcement that a controversial upcoming miniseries, "Amer-ika- , might be shelved because of as well as budgetary reasons considerations of Soviet opposition to the show. This week, when ABC announced that a final decision was made to go ahead with the Amerika show, there was more than a little suspicion that the networks hand had been forced. The show had to go on or the network would be put in the position of having wimped out to the Russians not exactly a strong marketing ABC acknowledged that playing the show might mean its news division would have to pay a price in reprisals from the Soviets. That served the useful purpose of making it look like the decision was made on princi Deaths in the U.S. Due to Tobacco and Selected Other Causes in 1984. has political views along with strong convictions about not eating meat or killing roaches. That is a perfect example of your total disregard for anyone different from you, he tells Orson, who has just squashed left-win- g There are other funny scenes, notadiscussion over bly a lunch-tablwhether a philosophical vegetarian like Henry should wear leather shoes or drink milk. And the freshman class, despite some typecasting, makes a lively company. The humor, however, tends to be muffled in a cushion of meaningfulness, as the roommates begin to see themselves as they are seen by each other, agree that they dont agree on anything and become a little more mutually considerate. e CNN News, until 5 30 a m managed the situation better. 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The point is, there would have been no real principle to defend if ABC had CauuofDutft 2:05 a m. 4 en- terprise. Factory CBS News Nightwatch ( whoop. As for Henry, his wackiness comes and goes. He is a grab bag of unorthodoxies. From the posters on the wall and some of the mail he receives, he one in their room. Today your shoe, tomorrow the bomb. Henry intended to pick up the roach gently and deposit him outdoors, in the apparent belief that roaches like fresh air. (car-chas- Black Sheep 1:40 a.m. (51 troubles are L d out with heavy symbolism, but this makes him less an individual than a case. That applies equally to the hints that Orson's idolized father is often too busy to talk to him. When Orson allows himself a little whoop at a panty raid, it is evident that the scene was staged for the ings. Squadron (4, Report 89 Benny 1:05 a.m. Nightly Business QD Entertainment Tonight Rockford Files Midnight 12:05 a.m. Bolerjock, Wheel Of Fortune One Day Time Independent 11:35 p.m. ffi Thomas, i Nourse, Welti (41 Zone Comedy Tonight News EYEWITNESS NEWS 8i Twilight 11:05 p.m. toqether with Mark 5 America's Musical Theater QD King Eubank on Tonight WKRP In Cincinnati Carter Baltimore Sun Writer Right now, if ABC were a guy walking down the street, a brick would fall on his head. The network is in utter disarray. I can tell because I just spent several days in ABCs company at the recently completed press trip to Los Angeles. The idea of this trip is to show the press what new and exciting things the network has coming up for the rest of the television season. In ABCs portion of the trip this year, it showed off its latest lumps and bruises, from where the latest bricks have fallen, then tripped over its feet trying to leave the room. In past years ABC was so buttoned-dow- n at these sessions it was almost frightening. ABC executives would be extensively prepped before every press conference. Absolutely everything was organized. ABC would carefully manage events, bringing out stars at the right time (And here is Carol Burnett!), bringing in an entertainer from some upcoming show who could perform for the visiting press (Robin Williams was a memorable highlight). Whatever else was said about ABC, it usually was an impressively run organization. This time ABC was about as organized as the last exit from Saigon. Nothing worked precisely right; not the press conferences, not the star interviews, not even the press releases. (They were full of mistakes; one even had Williams first name spelled Robyn.) 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Lance Guest plays Orson largely with his eyeballs, whose shifts register perplexity, temptation, exasperation and suppressed rage. He is especially bothered by the success Henry has with the prettiest girl on campus. The viewer is asked to take Henrys unlikely way with women on faith, no easy job. Barry Miller, as Henry, makes an engaging entrance as a homegrown screwball, but we learn far less about his background than Orsons, and as the play goes on, he becomes a touch too resourceful for belief. We are offered a nightmare of Orsons in which his sexual inhibitions, his fears of nonconformity and other Shaky ABC Executives Were in No Shape to Host Press Todays Viewing KUTV, Channel 2, 973-300- 0 KSL-TChannel 5, 575-3- stretched out for television and without benefit of Updike's prose, it becomes mostly surface. (An interview with the author follows the telecast.) It makes an agreeable enough anecdote but may leave you feeling there is more here than has met the cameras eye. "I think you're a nut, Orson tells Henry, and Henry tells Orson that hes intolerant of people. Both are correct, but not very revealing. Despite much evidence of a clash of what a few years later would be called life styles (Orson goes to church every day and prays, Henry tears up telegrams from his draft board), the two never become much more than pawns of an unprobing script. r I if if .' IVSh Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc. |
