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Page 10 DTH Omnibus Thursday November 1, 1990 TBEVHON iki 1 Singing the Wednesday 1.(2) 60 Minutes, CBS 21.1 rating, 19.6 million homes 2. (1) Cheers, NBC 20.4, 19.0 million homes 3. (3) Rosanne,ABC 20.1, 18.7million homes 4. (6) Designing Women, CBS 19.9. 18.5 million homes 5. (7) Murphy Brown, CBS 18.6, 17.3million homes 6. (21) Murder, She Wrote.CBS 18.5, 172mi!lion homes 7. (8) America's Funniest Home Videos, ABC 18.1. 16.9 million homes 8. (9) Empty Nest, NBC 18.0, 16.8 million homes i-: Listings include the week's ranking, with full season-; to-date ranking in parentheses, rating for the week, and total homes. An T in parentheses denotes one-time-: only presentation. A rating measures the percentage of the nation's 90.4 million TV homes. Cop Rock Peter Onorati, Anne Bobby, Larry Joshua, David Gianopoulous.Teri Austin Wednesday 10:00 pm ABC (WTVD Channel 11) 000 f henever TV tries to be a little bit innovative. there's always a chance it's not going to grab much of an audienre. Snrh is the case with Cop Rock, Steven Bochco's latest television offering, which follows on the heels of Hill Street Blues and Doogie Hawser, M.D. Only this time, Bochco has added a new nnn l II. A I I 1LM AT ELECTRONICS UNLIMITED Electronics Unlimited is the Triangle's newest dealer for f) Infinity ICES START AT SO SPEAKERS U a 1 m each 3-way system with 15" woofer. ouu wans max $49 each O blaupunkt CAR CD PLAYER $399 AMFM 4x ovenamplng Front and war proampout Music search and track otect Ti rna Jl Attzzzz Atlanta SCD09 Was $599. SALES SERVICE INSTALLATION We also buy and seff used CeAJor phones CELLULAR PHONES i rum $349 Installed! Antenna Included. Whistler RADAR DETECTORS Cl selection $. V Vf of radar 5" We can &T. iP? test your Vxms-rtS Financing AvoHoble. E3 C5 IS Durham Guess Road 479-8181 1918 Wake Forest Road 8334417 Chapel Hill Eastgate Shopping Center . 968-3338 Billy Stockard ir v element: the actors sometimes sing their lines. For example: Det. Vincent LaRusso (Peter Onorati), on trial for murder, has just been put into a cell. If you're expecting him to give some dramatic speech, don't hold your breath. LaRusso starts to sing. What was that? He's singingl Has he completely snapped? This cop is being escorted into a prison full of people he's helped put away, and he's singingl LaRusso may be crazy, but he's brave and confident, singing, "You can't keep a good man down." Next, we have a girl named Patty who's sold her baby for $200 to buy drugs. She's told Officer Vicki Quinn (Anne Bobby) that she wants to clean up and get her baby back. But both Quinn and Captain John Hollander (Larry Joshua) want Patty booked. A disillusioned Patty assaults Vicki with a song, where, once again, we were expecting some sort of a dramatic soliloquy. "You lied," Patty sings. "I didn't want much, but you gave me nothing. If that's all there is, there's nothing to say." Hey, if this job only lasts one or two episodes, here's a prime candi date for a Reba McEntire backup singer. Meanwhile, the average viewer probably thinks, "This is so stupid! Don't the other people notice she's singing?" The actors do look at each other with some pretty blank expres sions during these lyrics. That might be a sign that the songs symbolize some sort of emotional release. If Patty merely yelled the lines at Vicki, Cop Rock would be just your average cop show. It's far from that. Think how ordinary it would be for Vicki and her cop "husband," Andy (David Gianopoulous), to try en trapping a baby dealer if they only spoke. It's an okay story, but the seri ous moment lightens substantially when the baby dealer starts to sing to the couple, offering them a baby for only $11 thousand: When you're shopping for a dream come true, A little package in pink or blue I'm the baby merchant, Tots are us I'll give you all the service, And none of the fuss. m mma is But why stop at just one, when you can have six... twelve... two dozen or any multi tude of delicious Bruegger's bagels? Order several of each kind. Remember, one is such a lonely number. Don't let your Bruegger's bagel go home alone. r BRUEGGER'S BAGEL BAKERY 104 W. Franklin St. 967-5248 Durham: 626 Ninth Street Cary: 122 S.W. Maynard Rd. Raleigh: North Hills Mall. Pleasant Valley Promenade and 2302 Hillsborough St. OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK Where are Mary Poppins and Bert ? All we need now is John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John to follow up with "Summer Lovin'." This is a throwback to the days when Angela Lansbury and Julie Andrews would reach a certain point in a movie scene and then burst into song. However, the reaction of the modern audience is disbelief. There haven't been many successful musi cals in recent years. More often, movie soundtracks are packaged, making songs fit into scenes in some insignifi cant way, all for the purpose of selling a tape or CD, something on the order of Pretty Woman. Bochco is trying to bring the musical to television. Does it work? Well ... the music's not that great, but it is interesting trying to figure out when somebody will be singing next. There are a few good scenes without music. LaRusso discovers that his attractive attorney (Teri Austin, formerly the maniacal Jill on Knots Landing) has posted his bail for him and shows up one night to thank her; he soon finds her undoing his belt. Always following standard legal pro cedure, Austin informs her client of his Miranda rights while she binds his hands with his belt. "I'm taking you into custody," she says. "Do you understand each of the Constitutional rights I've just ex plained to you? Good, then assume the position." Wonder if she'll frisk him? Cop Rock is a rare show not only because of the music, but also because it doesn't take itself too seriously. Steven Bochco can't afford to, right now; the ratings reality is too depress ing. Cop Rock is down in the ratings cellar, buffeted on all sides by un known Fox shows. Daring to he dif ferent isn't always profitable. But this one's worth a look, if there's still time. And even if there's not, Bochco will bounce back. As LaRusso says, "You can't keep a good man down." O miss it OO watch it and rag on it OOO if nothing better is on OOO watch it OOOOO invite people over T-SHIRTS Jg POSTERS w TUTUS' U r. w " mi - -m"UM(lJJ XS&QSBBBOB&StL
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