Show Ths Harald Journal Logan Utah Friday July 10 1998 —Pag 17 ONE BIG HAPPY Pretenders open another season of roek on TV NEW YORK (AP) — There is rock V roll ind there is reck V roll on television Chcissie Hynde learned die difference when a makeup artist powder puff in hand scampered across the stage toward her during a break between songs We’ve got to stop the show because I’ve got some shine the Pretenders’ lead singer said looking slightly mortified She waved off the woman preferring a towel to wipe away sweat that reflected light into a camera Drummer Martin Chambers wondered aloud if his bald spot was causing similar problems Both shrugged off the annoyance to finish a set earlier this week Producers sharp Hard Rock hurriedly distilled it into an hour-lon-g Live installment in time for the season premiere this Friday at 7 pm on VH1 In Hynde they had a reluctant TV star “I don’t like being on television particularly I don’t think music comes off very well” she said a few hours before her performance "But CATHY mcdon- - HSMKO 250 M TA NOT IBKWNfr! 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INTERVIEWED ON TV TEAM LEAPING HE SAID HE WA5 GLAD YANTTHINS WHEN THE 6AME ABOUT K WAS CALLED? 1 BASEBAlC GAME tuseeauttierain like lay Leno David Lettennan O’Donnell and Conan Rosie Winfrey Oprah O’Brien also offer regular slots to musical acts All are a long way from the grainy footage of concert specials of the 1970s often shown if at alL And with radio station playlists tightening considerably in the 1990s more often television is the place for artists to expose their new work Hynde is old enough to be mom to sarcastic teenagers who wonder whether there was television when she grew up Television yes but her music career began in another ere that seems prehistoric to young people: before MTV In their early years the Pretenders and other British-base- d bands made rock videos that were aired on children’s shows in England When MTV started in 1981 its playlist was filled with this material “It looked like there was this English invasion in music when actually there wasn’t” she said “We a few videos knocking just happened to have i ' 'i'A I'LL 60 BACK AND WATCH SOME MORE BY TEN RUNS YOU f J KNOUT I HOPE HIS TRACTOR 66T5WET1 A siC: a ht 91 Hynde winces when she sees “rockumcntaries” that glamorize the mundane lives of musicians Television's unforgiving nature is also somewhat intimidating for her It's tougher to play past a bad night and hope no one notices “You can’t rely on any other party tricks you may have up your sleeves” she said When the Pretenders were asked to be on Hard Rock live she wanted to see some pest shows and producers sent tapes of performances by the Indigo Girls Lon Reed Rusted Root and Psula Cole She liked that they simply got on stage and played “If you like that act and they sounded pretty good that night you’ll like the show” she said “It wasn't like there were these incredible camera angles or something It was the straightforwardness that appealed to me” So the Pretenders standing on a New York sonndstage designed to look like the ruins of ancient Greece simply played There were two new songs but mostly they reared through hits like Back on the Chain Gang Precious and Middle of the Road Television cameras couldn't quite tame Hynde's rebellious spirit She seemed annoyed that organiz- ers didn't want to hear Precious presumably because of its obscenities She also didn’t ingratiate herself to sponsors “I know this won't make the final cut” she confided to the studio audience “but we by no means endorse the Hard Rock Cafe in any way” Further evidence that rock V roll isn't always polite Even television can't change that The second season of Hard Rock Live stretches into October with acts like Thud Eye Blind Boyz II Men Ani DiFranco Trisha Yearwood and the Allman Brothers Band Each week's show is repeated three times: Saturdays and Thursdays at midnight and Mondays at 7 pjn Elsewhere in television BEST BETS: Black Entertainment Television will introduce four new programs for the season beginning on Sept 7 The concert series “BET Sonndstage” will ran Monday through Thursday and Saturday nights Heart and Soul is a newsmagazine focusing oo health and fitness issues Buy die Book is a literary talk show and BET Sports is a sports magazine show BET has also acquired the sitcoms ‘Sparks and Good News for airing in the l' S t iWirtiM'i'l I: lJ fO I i I v !') v ID ti 3 works well in latest sequel ByBobThomaa 1-- Movie review Associated Press Writer MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM At die beginning of Lethal Weapon 4 Mel Gibson and Danny Glover encounter a maniac in a bulletproof space suit who is destroying a city block with a flamethrower and a weapon Gibson devises a crazy scheme to distract the marauder who is dispatched to a fiery death In the melee a huge gasoline truck is Mown SO feet into the air Gibson and Glover go fishing with Joe Pesd oo Glover’s boat which is rammed by a large freighter canying smuggled Chinese immigrants A firefight breaks out causing an explosion oo the ship's bow Glover's boat sinks and the swimmers are threatened by a shark The ship tuns aground All this in the first IS minutes of the movie Bigger bigger bigger Hist's the formula for producer Joel Silver and producer-directRichard Dormer in the fourth advtenture of the two disparate LA cops Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh Gibson the wild man willing to try any scheme and Glover the cautious older partner make the ideal learn despite their sometimes tedious bickering They interact smoothly their male hood having been established three movies Rgo Curiously the formula works Most sequels bring diminishing returns like Batman and the final Godfather With Lethal Weapon 4 you recognize the artifice but can't help being swept up by it The stunts are staggering die jokes funny the human stories plausible And this time the Chinese are the villains Chinese generals in cahoots with die underworld have been smuggling their citizens into the United steel-pierci- ng or REAL LIFE ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME ms HOSC D4US OH FROM 7m 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