ENTERTAINMENT
University Daily Kansan, August 27, 1984
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Cops, robbers invade TV
By United Press International
HOLLYWOOD — Count them — there will be 23, yes, 23 cops and robbers shows on television this fall.
Viewers will be exposed to more crime fighters than there are cops on the entire police force of Ashtabula, Ohio.
The detective overkill is a reminder of the 1950s plethora of westerns. Instead of nightmares accompanied by the clip-clop of a car, they can be driven mad by the screech of car tires and deafened by gunfire.
THE ROLL CALL of good guys versus bad guys includes amateur crime fighters, cops, private eyes, secret government spokes, men, women, kids and a dog or two tearing around in patrol cars, motorcycles, helicopters and souped-up hotrods.
NBC tops ABC and CBS with nine crime shows, including the most popular, "Hill Street Blues."
The armed-to-the-teeth private army, "The A-Team," along with "Remington Steele" and "Knight Rider." will be back on NBC.
Challenging the old "Charlie's Angels" series for sexy and glamorous private eyes is the network's newcomer, "Partners in Crime," starring Loni Anderson and Lynda Carter. Lives there a felon who would not happily surrender to the pair?
not happy with Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas are rounding up criminals in "Miami Vice."
LOS ANGELES CRIME will be tackled again in "Riptide," starring Joe Penny, Kerry King and Thom Bray, three debonair detectives who live on a marina houseboat. Then, there is "Hunter" in which Fred Dryer is a plainclothes cop and Stepfanek Kramer as his partner.
And in "Hot Pursuit?" Eric Pierpinte plays a veterinarian who is chasing a killer who trapped his wife under the orders. The villian: Dina Merrill.
CBS is right behind NBC with eight shoot-and-duck thrillers.
Back again are "Magnum, P.I.",
notable for Tom Selleck's presence;
the team of female cops in "Cagney
& Lacy," "Scarecrow and Mrs. King."
"Simon & Simon"; "Mickey
Spillane" and "Airwolf," featuring a helicopter with more intelligence to the show's writers.
New on CBS this fall is "Cover Up," featuring handsome, muscular Jon-Erik Hexum and Jennifer O'Neill as an undercover investigative team traveling the world for a secret government agency.
A SECOND CBS newcomer is "Murder, She Wrote" with distinguished stage and movie star Angela Lansbury playing a dowager mystery writer who solves murders as a hobby, along the lines of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.
ABC, alas, trails the other networks with a scant six bang-bangs, three of them new to the tube this coming season.
Returning are "Matt Houston."
starring Lee Horsley as the millionaire private detective, and street cops William Shatner and Adrian Zmed in "T.J. Hooker." Also back is inane "Hardcastle & McCormick," which would have us believe an ex-judge and ex-convict run the streets capturing criminals.
superb coach "Hawaiian Heat," ABC neopromer "Hawaiian Heat," Robert McGinty and Jeff McCracken crowding "Magnum" for the glory of collaring in our crooks 50th state. A second new show, "Street Hawk," stars Rex Smith as a police press agent gunning down scofflaws on his motorcycle.
THERE WAS A TIME when Angie Dickinson in "Police Woman" was the only woman cop on the beat, but as the feminist movement makes TV inroads, more women are chasing miscreants in the name of justice.
Now beautiful Wagner joins such other distrike crime stoppers as Loni and Lynda in "Partners in Crime," Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless in "Cagney and Lacy," Kate Jackson in "Scarecrow and Mrs. King," Stephanie Zimbalist in "Remington Steele, Betty Thomas in "Hill, Street Blues" and Pamela Hensley in "Matt Houston."
Lindsay Wagner, who began TV life as the "Bionic Women," is the star of ABC's "Jessie," in which she plays a police psychiatrist.
Doubtless enough blood will be shed, vehicles totaled, ammunition fired and arrests made to convince the country's bad guys that crime doesn't pay — unless you can make it into a television series.
Scientists dig around Louvre
Grounds contain artifacts
By United Press International
PARIS — Custodians of the Louvre, already the world's largest museum, have uncovered a new trove of medieval treasures.
Archeologists are digging up the grounds of the former palace turned museum and are unearthing hundreds of artifacts from fortress walls to shoe soles.
At one dig site a 12th century fortress and dungeon built by King Philippe Auguste have been uncovered.
By the end of 1965, visitors will be invited into the hole 8 yards under ground level to scrutilize the bases of two ancient towers and a roomy dungeon from the former castle moat.
ARCHEOLOGISTS SAY two other fortress towers are buried beneath the museum, but they will remain buried below the rambling structure.
"The history of the Louvre Palace is not as well known as it should be." Culture Minister Jack Lang said.
The history of the Louvre, in part, is the history of France, since both the modern Louvre and its heavy
stone predecessor were homes of French rulers.
Monarchs and emperors razed and rebuilt at their pleasure. The present-day museum took more than 300 years to complete, starting with the ambitious designs of Pierre Lescot.
The final touch, sprawling gardens around the Louvre today, is the result of a bomb hurled at the palace on Christmas Eve, 1800.
Napoleon promptly demolished the surrounding neighborhood and expanded the palace grounds to give himself a wider berth from the rowdy populace.
THE BLAST DESTROYED 40 houses and killed 10 people but just missed its target — master of the palace, Napoleon I.
The area became the Napoleon Courtyard. But remains of the bustling neighborhood razed to make room for it are once again seeing the light of day — ironically, because of a fire that subject to modernize the Louvre again.
As 100 workers have excavated to build a futuristic glass pyramid that will form a new entrance to the Louvre, they have uncovered a potpourri of everyday medieval artifacts.
R.E.M. to perform at Hoch
Bv the Kansan Staff
Student Union Activities has started lining up its calendar of events. Leading off this semester's concerts is R.E.M., the progressive rock band.
R. E.M. will preform at 9 p.m. on Sept. 14 at Hoch Auditorium. Tickets are on sales at the SUA office in the Kansas Union and at Omni Electronics, 540 Fireside Court. Reserved seats cost $9 and $10, but with a KU identification card they cost $8 and $9 dollars.
The band formed in April of 1980, with the purpose of fighting the boredom of Athens, Ga., where all four members were students at the University of Georgia. Two of the members, Peter Buck, guitarist, and Michael Stripe, vocalist, were living in an abandoned building in R.E.M. Drummer Bill Berry and bass guitar player Mike Mills joined them to complete the band. In that same abandoned church, R.E.M. made its debut.
America Tour. The group is promoting its second album, "Reckoning." Its first album, "Murmur," was named No. 2 Album of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine critics.
R. E.M. s'stop at the University of Kansas is midway through it Little
THEY FOUND SHOE soles, game dice and even a piece of oriental Ming china — which pyramid architect I.M. Pei has deemed of inferior export quality.
Archeologists have found the once densely populated area had all the services of any medieval neighborhood, including a street reserved for prostitutes. The bones of sheep sold at an open market give more clues to downtown Paris, 14th century style.
This second dig site will never be open to the public, since it is to covered for completion of the pyramid within four years.
But the unearthed artifacts will become part of an exhibit on the Louvre's history inside the museum, which attracts 3 million tourists a year. That will only add to the days it already takes to thoroughly tour the Louvre.
Among the many rigors of student life, it's really the little things that grind you down. Like having to fish around for coins to make a paycall. Then, having to wait on line. Only to have anyone who passes by hear your every word just when you need all the privacy you can get. Like when you tell someone, "I like you, too."
And, of course, there's always that awkward moment when, on the verge of a profound thought, the operator chimes in for another dime.
But all this can be different. With an AT&T phone of your own, you can talk and reach people at the best time. When you want to. And
now, for a limited time, the KU Bookstore's AT&T Phone Center is offering special prices on the AT&T Traditional telephones, and Trimline* telephones. Prices are good until Sept. 7, 1984 on telephones currently in stock.
Reg. Price Sale Price
Reg. Price Sale Price
Traditional Rotary Desk $39.95 $33.95
Touchett Wall $59.95 $50.95
Touchett Wall $44.95 $37.95
Touchett Wall $64.95 $52.95
Trimline® Rotary Desk $39.95 $41.95
Touchett Wall $69.95 $51.95
Rotary Wall $49.95 $41.95
Touchett Wall $69.95 $55.95
AT&T. The phones that set the standards
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Is your calculator in the same class you are?
Move up to the TI-66. The easy 512 step programmable.
You're into higher math and your old calculator helped get you there.
But now it's time for something more. The TL-66 from Texas Instruments. The TL-66 offers full programming power and flexibility so you can solve complex and repetitive math problems quickly, easily and with fewer keystrokes than you thought possible. Its 512 merged program steps and over 170 built in scientific, engineering and statistical functions make for powerful program
In Algebra Operating System makes it easy on your brain by allowing you to key in problems as they are written, left to right. And a 10-point angle Liquid Crystal Display not only makes it easy on your eyes but provides alphanumeric notation of your program steps so you can make easy modifications as you go along. There are large, readable keys for your fingers, and an easy-to-tollow
ming. And the sleek, streamlined design makes for easy use.
gadgetbook so you shouldn't get confused.
And last, but certainly not least, at a suggested retail of $69.95, there's a price that can buy on your pocketbook.
All in all, if we made the TI-89 programmable calculator any easier to use, it would deserve its own degree.
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