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Vednesday, November 6, 1985
Daily Nebraskan
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Wednesdays mean
3y Deb Pederson
Senior Reporier
it' Wednesday night and the middle-
If-the-week blahs have hit, not to men-
tion the savings account drought. What
nolle ce student to do?
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!put on by the University Program
Council-East, that is.
ThP S chts and Sounds committee
sponsors a fall film series of eight cur-
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By Fred Rothenberg
The Associated Press
NEW YORK ABC's "North and
South" miniseries got off to a strong
start Sunday, beating Eddie Murphy's
"48 Hours" on NBC and crushing CBS'
regular programming. But it wasn't
enough to keep the third-rated network
out of the ratings cellar again.
Figures released Tuesday by the A.
C. Nielsen Co. had NBC, with "The
Cosby Show" and "Family Ties" run
ning one-two again, winning the week
of Oct. 28 to Nov. 3 with an average
rating of 17.5. CBS had a 1 6.7 rating and
ABC is a 15.3. For the six-week prime
time season, NBC leads with an 18 rat
ing to CBS' 16.9 and ABC's 16.2
Are stuideints pack rate r
Most college students are notorious
for not knowing when to get rid of
something old and replace it with
something new. I know I don't.
Why, just today, I was faced with two
such dilemmas, involving first my hair,
then my feet.
I never know when to get a haircut.
For sorority women this decision is
easy. They get a haircut when they go
two straight days without someone ask
ing if they just got a haircut.
For me, it's more difficult. I hate
spending money on haircuts. You can't
eat a haircut. You can't drink a haircut.
You can't sit a haircut on your coffee
table and say, "Hey, that's my old
Newton-John's 'Kiss' burdened
by 'blah' lyrics, artificial image
By Randy Schummer pened to guitars? don't do this to it.
staff Ronnrt.r niivia. vou have an excellent voice, Please see OLIVIA on! O
Olivia Newton-John, Soul Kiss,
MCA.
I have two questions to ask Olivia
Newton-John: "Why do you insist on
applying your makeup with a paint
roller?" and "WTiy do you insist on try
ing to be a 20-year-old in heat on the
cover of this album?
Her answer probably would be,
"Record sales!"
Sorry Olivia, you're no longer 20, but
in your late 30s.
"Soul Kiss" isn't totally nauseating;
it just comes off sounding blah. Every
song sounds alike.
Newton-John's voice never really
stands out.
It sounds like Mrs. Newton-John
woke up at 11 a.m., sat in a recording
studio with curlers in her hair and in 45
minutes completed the album's lyrics.
And those lyrics! Olivia, where did you
unearth those lyrics?
A fine example is "Queen of the Pub
lication," which goes, "Something
strange is going onand I'm in
the middleI'll do anything to
solve the riddleVve got a city
editorput me on a deadlineIf 1
don't come through I'm on the
breadline. "
One thing that Olivia does have is a
remarkable band. Mike Fisher plays
the typewriter on "Queen of The Publi
cation," and Mark Napier plays the car
on "Driving Music." What ever hap-
chairman Brad Katz
Tonight's movie is "Indiana Jones
and the Temple of Doom."
The last two movies in the series are
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"The Birds," "Caddyshack " "Revenge
of the Nerds," "Rambo First Blood
Part Twn " "Man
and "Friday the 13th The Final
Plmntnr"
miniseries, A
A rating measures the percentage of
the nation's 85.9 million homes with
TV.
Part 1 of "North and South," the
12-hour saga about two families before
the Civil War, opened in fourth place
with a 25.8 rating and 37 share (per
centage of sets in use). The share
exceeded the forecasts of all three
networks, although it was below exec
utive producer David Wolper's optimis
tic 50 share prediction.
Top 10 shows "Murder, She Wrote"
and "60 Minutes" gave CBS first place
Sunday night, despite the sagging follow
up performances by "Crazy Like a Fox"
and "Trapper John, M.D." against
"North and South" and "48 Hours."
For NBC, "48 Hours" ranked 10th for
haircut."
It's a purely aesthetic thing, in most
cases. I usually wait until people start
doing Tarzan yells behind my back.
Bill
Allen
Then I run down and have it cut real
short. This way I don't have to pay for
another one for a long time.
A few times I've made the mistake of
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movies
The $1 admission covers costs, Katz
said.
'We don't make money on the
movies." he said. "Beverlv Hills Con"
costs us $400 we'll lose money on
that one."
wuuunree is anucaieu money
from UPC wnich is funded bv student
feeshesaid.
The committee is allocated money
lhe movies are shown in the Great
Plains room of the East Union, com
plete with big screen and free popcorn.
the week with a 20.8 rating. More
importantly for the network, a one-hour
segment of Steven Spielberg's "Amaz
ing Stories" rebounded and improved
its position for the first time this sea
son. "Amazing Stories" ranked 14th
with a 19.9 rating.
"North and South" gained strength
through the night and won each half
hour to give ABC a second-place per
formance overall Sunday. The first night
of a miniseries is considered crucial to
its success.
NBC's "The Cosby Show" led the
pack last week with a 30.1 rating.
NBC's "Family Ties" was second, fol
lowed by CBS' "Murder, She Wrote,"
Part 1 of ABC's "North and South,"
letting a friend cut my hair. They say,
sure, I once dropped out of beauty
school. ! say terrific, cut away, and
make it short.
Afterwards, I always want to imme
diately go out to Hollywood and become
an actor. I figure I can get all the roles
Telly Savalas turns down. , '
Some people I know spend $40 on a
haircut. They always let you know they
spent $40 for the haircut before they
ask you what you think of it. Then you
always feel obligated to say something
nice like, "Wow, that's a $40 haircut? It
looks like a $50 one to me."
Then they smile and show you how
they can flip it all over to the other side
- John
BC still
on East Campus
"We've tried to get it as close to a
cinema as possible," Katz said.
The movie series is aimed at East
Camnus students who don't have easv
access to downtown entertainment like
City Campus residents, he said. But the
movies are open to all UNL students.
The series will continue on a small
scale this spring, he said.
"There probably won't be as many
movies in the spring unless we get a
corporate sponsor," Katz said. "We
on
CBS' "60 Minutes," NBC's "Cheers," and ABC's "Dynasty," tied for eight,
CBS' "Dallas," NBC's "Night Court" and NBC's movie, "48 Hours."
NBC's Cosby Show
heads Nielsens again
NEW YORK Here are the top ABC, 25.8, 22.2 million homes,
prime-time TV ratings as compiled by 5. "60 Minutes," CBS, 24.6, 21.1 mil-
the A. C. Nielsen Co. for the week of lion homes.
Oct. 28 to Nov. 3. An "X" in parentheses 6. "Cheers," NBC, 24.1, 20.7 million
denotes one-time-only presentation. homes.
7. "Dallas," CBS, 23.5, 20.2 million
1. "The Cosby Show," NBC, 30.1 rat- homes.
ing, 25.9 million homes. 8. "Night Court," NBC, 22, 18.9 mil-
2. "FamilyTies,"NBC,26.3,22.6mil- lion homes.
lion homes. 8. "Dynasty," ABC, 22, 18.9 million
3. "Murder She Wrote," CBS, 26.2, homes.
22.5 million homes. 10. "48 Hours," the "NBC Sunday
4. (X) "North And South, Part I," Night Movie," 20.8, 17.9 million homes.
sentimentalists?
of their head, too, and it will be a
different color.
But haircut decisions are not easy.
It's knowing when to get rid of tennis
shoes that's difficult.
After three or four months of going
everywhere with your shoes even, in
my case, sleeping with them it's
hard to just toss them outside with the
trash.
That explains why I have about 10
pairs of old ragged tennis shoes in my
closet. I'm the Elton John of tennis
shoes, if you will.
Currently I'm in the third month of a
pair of Ail-American Converse All Star
leather high-tops. Physically, they are
still in good shape, but they are start
ing to look faded I feel really embar
rassed with the way they look now,
especially when I wear them with a
three-piece suit.
Eventually, though, I will have to
retire them to the closet with the oth
ers, and the old underwear. I can never
get rid of underwear.
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would like to have a screening of a
movie that has not yet been released,
but those are difficult to arrange."
Katz said he picked movies based on
preferences indicated in surveys given
to East Campus residents.
The turnout has been good, he said.
"We had 40 people on Halloween
night come to see Friday the 13th," he
said. "I'd like to see about 200 for 'Bev
erly Hills Cop.' "
The movies are shown at 7:30 and
9:30 p.m.
bottom
Most people never know when to get
rid of a boyfriend or girlfriend. Some of
us are lucky enough to have that
decided for us. But the rest of you are
constantly asking yourself, "Do I really
want a boyfriend who only calls me on
holidays?" or "If she really loved me
would she tell our children that I'm
just a friend?"
This is a complicated issue, and it
varies from person to person, but a rule
of thumb is to dump them when they
start making fun of your haircut and
tennis shoes.
And when do you get rid of leftover
pizza? Some say after three days in the
refrigerator. Some say after a week in
the refrigerator. I say after your child
ren grow up and leave home and it's not
longer useful as a pacifier. I still have
the pizza I cut my teeth on.
When I lived in the dorms I once left
a pizza under my bed while I went on
Christmas break. I came back and it
was covered with a green moldy sub
stance. Sure, it tasted okay.
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