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'Cheers' dominates 43rd Annual Emmy Awards
Popular NBC series claims best comedy honor for the fourth time in nine years; Burt Reynolds wins first Emmy award for starring as coach in 'Evening Shade'
The Associated Press
PASADENA, Calif. — *Cheers* was the toast of Sunday's 43rd Annual Prime-time Emmy Awards, picking up four prizes for best comedy series, actress, supporting actress and director.
"I said we were good, but now we're venerable, I guess," said series director, co-creator and co-executive producer of the show who won the comedy directed trophy.
"I only thank God I didn't have to wait as long as last Ted," joked actress Kirstie Alley, referring to co-star Ted Weiner, who played eight times before winning last year.
Bebe Newwir captured her second consecutive supporting actress-comedy series Emmy for NBC's y-year-old barroom cinema, which also won its Emmy Award.
burt Reynolds, nominated for the
first time, won best comedy actor for his portraital of a high school football coach in *Evening Shade* on CBS.
"I've never been nominated, and I sure as hell haven't won anything," Reynolds said.
The NBC series *L. A. Law* won its fourth Emmy for best drama series, and James Earl Jones of ABC-TV's Gabriel's Fire and Patricia Wettig of the canceled ABC series *hythlysome* took the category's top acting honors.
It was the third Emmy for Wettig's portrayal of Nancy Weston, a character who underwent treatment for ovarian cancer last season.
It was the second win of the night for Jones, who also picked up a supporting actor miniseries award for Turner Network Television's Heat Wave.
"It is a little sad, Wetting said, fight
turned to sausage goodbye to this character."
Veteran comedian Jonathan Winters and actress Madge Sinclair picked up their first Emmys.
They were honored in supporting actor and supporting actress categories. Both missed the ceremony.
The Emmy presentations saluted 40 years of television comedy. Also, in a show of support for AIDS awareness and research, enters cameras on camera
Television also honored the motion picture industry with three Emmys.
ABC-TV's 63rd Annual Academy Awards won the Emmy for variety, music or comedy program; the writing tropes used in them; and the top individual performance, Billy Crystal, in a variety or music program.
Timothy Busfield finally picked up an Emmy after four nominations as the immature Elliot Weston on *thirtysomething*.
"Cool!" said a bemused Rusfield
Thomas Carter won best drama director for ABC's ensemble legal series *Equal Justice*, which also was canceled this year.
He encouraged the television industry to continue innovative programming and cautioned networks not to "slink back into the mundane."
Home Box Office's multimillion-dollar epic miniseries The Josephine Baker Story picked up early statutes that revealed her husband and her husband, director Brian Gibson.
Gibson and Whitfield thanked each other in their acceptance speeches.
The minisister actor Emmy went to John *Eligud* *lid* *Masterpiece* Theater.
The supporting actress trophy for a miniseries was given to Ruby Dee for the Hallmark Mark F of Fame presentation. The director, a black man's refusal to accept a
"Thanks to everybody responsible for my getting this," Dee said.
Medal of Honor 31 yearslate.
Jones accepted his supporting actor Emmy "in honor of all those who died in the heat wave of the Watts riots." The TNT miniseries depicted 1965's black uprising in the Los Angeles ghetto.
The comedy series writing Emmy went to Gary Dontzig and Steven Greenman.
David E. Kelley, who left the muchhonored L.A. Law drama series this year, also won an Emmy for drama writing.
Colleen Dewhurst, who died last week of cancer, was named outstanding guest actress in a comedy series. She is also the animated program of one hour or less.
A total of 328 nominations in 76 categories — including technical Emmys
were made by Academy members who voted for programs and other cat-acts. The candidates were Peer panels screened the nominations and selected winners by secret ballot.
"I've never been nominated, and I sure as hell haven't won
anything."
-Actor Burt Reynolds, after winning his first Emmy
Efforts aim at increased voting by young
The Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. — It's been 20 years since 18-year-olds got the right to vote, but their numbers at the polls have dwindled to an all-time low.
The Vietnam War helped draw slightly more than 50 percent of young voters to the polls in 1972, the year after Congress approved a constitutional amendment giving 18-year-olds the vote.
Phi Thea, based in Jackson, Miss., has 28 chapters throughout the state, serving over 60,000 students. Some of them will set up voter-registration
"There was a real issue for the voting then — the Vietnam War," said Rod Risley, executive director of PhN' Theta Kappa, the international honor society. "I think we have to remember them to be an issue motivating the students to vote."
stations at community colleges in Mississippi as part of a pilot program aimed at reversing the lackluster trend.
Fliers will help explain absentee balloting, help will be available in filling out ballots and Phi Theta chapters will find notary publics to notarize ballots. If the program works at the 15 community colleges in Mississippi, it will be expanded nationwide.
To increase their numbers, the league is advocating a "motor voter" program to register young
Young people are the nation's most mobile group, which is one reason for their low voter turnout, said Marlene Cohn, director of election relations at Women Voters Education Fund in Washington.
people in the U.S. Senate next month, Cohn said to the
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With no unifying issue like Vietnam, Risley is banking on the pocketbooks of young people to draw them out.
"We're hoping the lack of funding for two-year colleges will get (Mississippi students) motivat-
Statistics for presidential elections from 1972 to 1988 document the decline in young voter turnout.
According to the League of Women Voters Education Fund, 49.6 percent turned out among 18- to 24-year-olds. In 1987, it was 42.2 percent; 39.9 percent in 1980; 40.8 percent in 1984; and only 36.2 percent in 1988.
Lawrence man, 24, dies after losing control of motorcycle
Kansan staff report
Bradley Roberts, 24, of Lawrence was killed at 1:55 a.m. Saturday when he lost control of his motorcycle, hit a fence and ran into a dumpster in U.S. Highway 40 just outside Topeka.
over onto Roberts and killed him,
according to the Kansas Highway Patrol. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Roberts, who was not wearing a helmet, was traveling east on the highway, the highway patrol said.
The motorcycle apparently rolled
Library staff offers tours of facility
Watson Library tours will be offered Aug. 26 to Sept. 19. Tours, given by the Watson Library reference staff, will be 1:30 to 2:15 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, and 2:30 to 3:15 p.m. Tuplesdays and Thursdays.
The tours provide general orientation to the library and basic instruction on the catalogs, indexes, books and periodicals. For more information, visit the Watson Library reference desk or call 864-3347.
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