Show HMIm r- - rn !' kW-- i T’" V J- V i i i ilf)l!n Hiii i Page 14 —The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday March 21 2000 SHERMANS LAGOON tonumti vmm'tv pom Hen on meNstoH &MD? By Rob Owen Pittsburgh Post-Gazet- homes in oo the characters The partnership and jocular friendship between Mike and Zane relationshows traces of the Pembleton-Bayli- te ss In TV pedigree carries a lot of weight But it can't cany an entire TV show Keep that in mind when I tell yon UPN'a police drama 1116 Beat" (9 pm Tuesday) was created by Tom Fontana die genius behind CATHY EMftKUf NEMMPM& rea A SEASIDE CUM BMC HAWAIIAN PRINT CHIFFON WRAP FOR COCKTAILS AT THE CUIB ’ comm r flowered slides ado NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Street" Although "Hie Beat? rises above much of AUXREAUM DO IS 60 TO BEADED DENW FDR LAKE OUTSIDE THE MJSEUfl what’s on TV — and everything else on UPN THE OFFICE AND HAND OUT AT HOME SEQUMCD MERRINO DMA FOR AN AWARDS BAWOUET — it is nowhere near as complex and layered as “Homicide” But it may be just as to wm viewers camWhere “Homicide” used a heity-jerk- y era style jump cuts and repetition — particular ly in early episodes — “The Beat' mixes scenes shot on video and scenes shot on film Barry Levinson who directed Tuesday's pilot and serves as an executive producer said when talk police business “The Beat1 is shot on video When they talk about more off-putti- ng WHITE TUBE DRESS R DN-NG-R AT THE CAPINNS TABLE personal matters film stock is used That doesn't always seem to be die case but after watching a few episodes die variety of visuals BEETLE BAILEY became less distracting Some viewers may not give die show that much of a chance The series follows twentysomething New York cops Zane Marinelli (Mark Buffalo) and Mike Dorigan (Derek Cecil) as they bicker chase pops and give one another advice on their Icwe lives That personal interaction makes “The Beat” interesting We’ve seen all the cop stories before including the rand discoid when a black man dies in die custody of white officers But nowhere has there been a series regular as crazyas Beatrice (Heather Bums) Zane’s psycho girlfriend By the end of the fust episode she commits a crime punishable by imprisonment yet she’s a regular cast member who keeps returning in subsequent episodes to torment Zane' Beatrice is n fascinating character because she behaves totally illogically You don’t know what she’ll do nexL Mike’s fiancee Elizabeth (Poppy Montgomery) is far more down to earth as are their spats She thinks he drinks too much He’s more interested in planning their wedding than she is “Homicide” was more about the cases and their effect on the squad but “The Beat’’ READINESS MEANS WE MUST BE READTi HAGAR THE HORRIBLE ok : MTV’s ‘The Real World’ meets PEANUTS SEE HOU) SHE HOLDS MER HANDS T06ETMER? GOP 19 ' ship on “Homicide” As Mike writes' up a report Zane reminds him “Don’t forget die tittle above the ’i” then explains a tittle is die dot above the “L” “What’s the part below the 'i called?” Mike wants to know In another scene Zane looks at a porn magazine and says the women in the photos are “engaged in lesbkmic acts” When Mike knges him on whether there’s such n word as “lesbionic” Zane replies “It’s like moronic but with lesbians" Watching “The Beat” you won’t forget it’s on UPN Profanity is common in the series though nothing we haven’t heard' on “NYPD Blue” Euphemisms are used for sex acts including Zane’s line “Am I supposed to check every girl I bodega for LDr Mike is the more sensitive of die two Zane is more of a hothead who com- pares his relationship with Beatrice to “the space shuttle Challenger" That image applies J when Beatrice confronts Zane in a market and reveals to everyone on die New York sidewalk Zane’s tragic childhood a running theme in the senes ' The performances are uniformly good and the use of video makes Cedi and Buffalo even more believable as young inexperienced cops But Bums steals die show as die unpredictable unbalanced Beatrice Like “Homicide" which had its own “Second Shift” of stories on the Internet “The Beat" also has a Web component at htqi7AFwwthebeattvcom One last comparison: Zane sometimes seems like a younger less paranoid version of Del John Munch (Richard Bqlzer) Munch (Richard Belzer) now on NBC’s “Law & Order Special Victims Unit” appears in die second episode of “The Beat? checking in ooacrime scene “Tm kind of nostalgic for a good homicide’’ Munch says He’s referring to die crime but he could just as easily be talking about the TV show and I know plenty of viewers feel the same “The Beat’’ can’t replace “Homicide” but it’s a decent if more juvenile successor ' PLEASED UHTHHERJTWNKu ORLANDOFla (APT— ’A sign hanging MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM above a row of television monitors in the production room of die new ABC television show “Making the Band" tells producers and directors “Don’t ForgetYour Humanity” The sign is a reminder to respect thefishbowl existence of eight singers who will be living together for the next few months in a house whoe cameras record their every move Their goal: one of five spots in Lou next boy band creation “Making the Band” can be neatly summed up as MTV’s “The Real World” meets the Backstreet Boys Many of the show’s production staffers are veterans of the reality-base- d MTV shows “The Real World” and “Road Pearl-man- ’s O-To- ‘ 0H6T WBVBWKATnLAI I AFEWHEBP mmim CAMERA PONT TEL MOM I Rules” 'AWKf HI YOU'VE REACHED THE AT THE FOX RESIDENCE Sound OF THE BEEP ME BUT FRST RoSCR FOX WITH A MESSASE Of DON'T trtlOSTA BLAME MC wNE MACHIN-E- HSOWNI LEAVE YOUR FCSSA6K DAD-Y- andivkjhtx workFdrno- BcOTWnbUs tWrMMT OU BOUBHT YOU DO T)S HOW MANY WEEKS ABOW “A lot of people hive asked me ’What’s it like to be a fly on the wall getting die Back-street Boys and NSYNC together? What’s it like behind the scenes?’” Pearlman said Open anditions were held for hundreds of men ages 18 to 23 in Chicago Dallas Honolulu Las Vegas Los Angeles Nashville New York and Orlando The auditions make up die first episode In die second episode the group is whittled down to eight guys who move into a spacious THE CORD LONO ENOU6H TO e REACH YOUR SHOWER G3& REAL LIFE ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME Win I We are looking nt three ways to undermine dummy’s trump holding to n contract’s detriment They were highlighted by Ely Culbertson in an article that was reprinted in 8 Some mops "instant spaghetti AND DUSTOAUS THAT YWD B THANKING MB’ FOR THE pOO WORTH OF "SORUM UITSTANSa ‘ this month’s issue of The "MEATBALLS? AND IF YZK HAD HAPPENED Bridge World magazine How can the defense defeat rt this contract? ' Culbertson gave no bidding And I had difficulty devising a sequence to four hearts Still over West’s weak jump over-ca(which shows a decent suit and 0 hii 9 I? four-hea- It YZkuisine" ft ll six-ca- card points) for North with suit and a singleton to bid three hearts Then after East w i poroooutod "Chock R out Mom! Wtre having a anowboH wtth throo kkfa In Byriicuoo!” raises with light onable for Sduth to gamble on four hearts West leads the spade king i I SSM '6-1- rd --Lou Pearlman house in Orlando where 10 cameras record everything they do season the group By the end of the will be narrowed down to the five who will become Although the first episode doesn’t air until March 24 ABC has already ordered an addiO-lb- tional nine episodes said network spokes- woman MozeU Miley Hie cameras roll when die guys wake up and go to Pearlman’s recording studio to practice singing and dancing Cameras follow when they go on dates Whenever they leave the house they must call producers in die produc-ikroom the house’s converted garage to let them know where they’re going to they can be followed The cameras have even followed them into die shower “It’s all done in good taste” said Ashley Angel one of the guys on die show m g episode of "Making the Band" airs at 9 pm ESI Match 24 The then moves to a time slot of 8:30 pm EST on The firat hour-ion- at Bridge By PtiHTp Akter SURE AM GLAD YOU BOUGHT ALL THOSE CASUS OF FREEZE-DRIE- D FOOD FOR THE Y2K DISASTER? NUM NUM PASS ME MY scenes V w The idea for this show came to Ken Mok vice president of MTV Productions last year when he was blocked from entering a building in New York’s Times Square by a mob of screaming girls awaiting the arrival of NSYNC Mok contacted Lou Pearlman die Orlando-base-d pop musk impresario who put together the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC and die concept behind “Making the Band” was bora The show features the making of a boy band — from auditions to rehearsals to their first live FOXTROT tot of people have asked me Whatsit like to be a fly on the wall getting the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC together? What's it like behind the “A East can see that if South has a singleton club there is a great danger that dummy’s suit will be established and run How- ever-fo- the former because they know so much the latter because they know so little” OSMIyNEiLfcie that to happen r declarer needs to have three North dummy entries which he has: and club the heart queen-jac- k ace And he must drew trumps 'ending in the dummy which he can do unless To make sure his partner cannot go wrong East should overtake with the spade ace and return a spade forcing dummy to ruff As Culbertson wrote “The mechanism of this play is at oncepretty and complex It is one of the most paradoxical plays in bridge To a superficial mind the play is sheer suicide violating all the rules of common sense Actually it is a superlatively 7 effective stratagem and is used only by experts and dubs: I I— m — FQJI II I S A II I 1 1 4 West’ East AKQ1II4S A A 1 1 V 711 VIE A QS A Q J t1 KI7 JS South 6J F 0 It AKIMS K74S A Vulnerable: East-We-st Dealer South South West North If Pass Pass IF sa East sv Opening lead: A ia: Pass K |