European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Television sixties comedy the ministers comes to an by Wendy Bourland dinosaurs have made a comeback. Dinosaur toys books to shirts and games Are the rage with America s youth and with More than a few adults. Perhaps this rekindled interest in creatures of the past is behind the arts decision to acquire the munsters a Dinosaur of another sort that debuts saturday on the american forces network. For the younger generation of viewers or others who Are unfamiliar with the 60s comedy the munsters stars Fred Gwynne As Herman Munster the seven foot Frankenstein husband to vampires Lily Munster played by the late Yvonne Decarlo. Other members of the Munster family include the Dracula like grandpa Al Lewis Werewolf son Eddie Butch Patrick and Niece Marilyn Pat pries the Only Normal one of the Bunch. The show revolves around life at the Munster residence at 1313 mockingbird Lane and the family s inevitable brushes with the outside world. Though not As Good As the Addams family a similar program about a family of horrific offbeats that also premiered in 1964 and ended its regular run in 1966, the munsters offers older Couch potatoes a dose of series comedy nostalgia not usually found on an and it gives younger viewers a Chance to see a show that their parents grew up with. Late night fun look out comedy fans because Garry Shandling is Here it s carry Shandling s show begins this weekend. It s scheduled after the Abc nightly news which airs at 1 30 . Saturday. Thank goodness for the Var because Shandling is Worth watching. He s Low key self effacing and outrageously funny. In the opening episode Shandling has been dumped by his Girlfriend and he s making a new Start by moving into a new House Vanna White s old one. Later he goes out to play racquetball with a Friend and returns Home to find he s been robbed. This is the ultimate insult he whines. First my Girlfriend moves in with another Guy. Now my stuff is moved in with another  child abuse Wesley Brice Beckham is frightened by the unwanted attentions of a summer Camp Counselor on Friday night s episode of or. Belvedere. Scared and confused Wesley does t Tell his parents about the incident when he returns Home but Belvedere Christopher Hewet seeing the boy s distress tries to find out what happened. At the end of the program Hewett and Beckham deliver a message on child molestation to the audience directed at Young viewers. Dead is dead not so on the tuesday episode of family ties. Alex Michael j. Fox has to work through his grief guilt and denial when his close pal Greg Brian Mcnamara Dies on his Way to help his brother with an errand Alex had promised to lend a hand with. Alex had backed out of at the last moment. The entire Keaton family tries to console Alex after the funeral but to no Avail. And to make matters worse Greg s ghost appears to Alex and seems determined to stick around. This award winning show is the first of two parts the conclusion airs feb. 7. Down South it did t do Well in the stateside to ratings but the critics and a Small but Loyal viewing audience loved Frank s place which debuts on an Yesso a natural for Frank s place by Jerry Buck associated press Don Yesso who d never acted before was offered a role on the to series Frank s place when he met the producer of the show while flying from new Orleans to los Angeles to look for a coaching Job. Yesso plays shorty a Cook at the Chez Louisianne run by Tim Reid in the critically acclaimed series. Hugh Wilson the creater producer of Frank s place was struck by Yesso s wit gift of gab and new Orleans accent the last As thick As Gumbo. Wilson figured that it would be far easier to teach Yesso How to act than to teach a professional actor How to talk like a resident of new Orleans ninth Ward. The accent which is not quite cajun or Southern is More Akin to Broo Lynese. I live Here now Yesso says of los Angeles. I like this stuff. I like being a  Yesso a mixture of italian French and american Indian grew up near the Irish Channel about two Miles from downtown new Orleans. He graduated from Louisiana state University where he played football and was a weightlifting Champion. He also worked As a bartender the manager of various nightclubs and a sales representative. He once owned a Down Home Delicatessen. But Yesso s Only previous Brush with the movie business came during College when he had a non speaking role As a bodyguard in a movie about Huey p. Long. He tells about his meeting with Wilson aboard the flight to the West coast Hugh came walking Down the aisle of the plane and saw my cigarette. He d quit smoking 43 Days earlier and asked for a cigarette. He sat Down and we had a drink and started talking about new Orleans. Then he said he did t know if he could work it out but How would i like to work on to. I thought he was joking but he was dead serious. I had to Send in a photo and a resume. I sent them a Polaroid snapshot. I stood on the sidewalk and waved. I looked like Tommy tourist. Hugh kept telling lbs that it was easier to teach me How to act than to teach an actor How to talk like i do. Finally lbs gave in. When he told me i had the Job i went out and bought three books on acting. Two of them i could t  Yesso says he found his role As shorty somewhat easy because he had grown up in a neighbourhood similar to that in Frank s place. It s supposed to be hard to look natural in front of a camera he says. I hate to sound cocky but it came easy to me. I guess i was Lucky. I think shorty and i Are pretty interchangeable. He s a Little slow but there s something about him. The Way i try to portray him is that he s a sensitive lovable Guy. A Man s Man that the women find  besides acting Yesso wrote the Christmas show last year. He has ideas for several More shows and is working on Story ideas for other series. He is also under consideration for roles in several films. Apparently Johnny Carson is also taken with Yesso who has appeared four times on the tonight show. The last time i was on i had All my friends in the audience he says. Johnny found out about it later and said Why did t you Tell me i d have brought them on stage " even Carson finds it hard to resist friends named stormin Norman bucket the dude or. Vinny Boom Bah and his Girlfriend Booboo ii and a Gigolo which is a Cross Between Angelo and Gigolo. Angelo thinks he s real smooth with the ladies feb. 2. When you watch it you la see Why. There s no laugh track. You can chuckle anytime you want to and you will frequently. The show stars Tim Reid As Boston professor Frank Parrish who inherits a Creole restaurant in new Orleans from the father he never knew. In the opener Frank goes to new Orleans to Check out the Chez Louisianne populated by characters with names like big Arthur shorty and Bubba Weinberger. They refer to Frank As the boy in memory of his deceased father. Reid s wife Daphne Maxwell Reid stars As Hannah the daughter of the woman who owns the local mortuary. Hannah is an embalmer. Frank expresses an interest in meeting the Lovely Hannah despite his aversion to her profession. Viewing tips Barney Miller is scheduled to begin a run on an Friday morning the Story of Jack and the beanstalk is the animated feature on saturday s Nickelodeon matinee the classic 1958 musical drama South Pacific airs sunday night the european Church s involvement in the politics of nuclear disarmament is discussed on for our times sunday and includes interviews with leaders of German and dutch churches and on the tuesday crime Story Torello Dennis Farina is assigned to guard a soviet defector and is determined to make the Man s one night of Freedom Worth remembering. Seb update on Friday night s episode of my two dads Michael Paul Reise Joey Greg Evigan and Nicole Staci keanan Are shaken up when Michael s Mother comes to town chitty chitty bang bang is the feature on saturday s classic theater on 5f. Elsewhere tuesday a Schlander Norman Lloyd discontinues his chemotherapy and tries to save a fellow cancer patient by putting her on a controversial treatment program against the wishes of or. Gideon Ronny co and Morrison David Morse starts believing he really is Adam Logan the doctor he plays in a Hospital and. Don Yesso in the Kitchen on Frank s place. A Yesso explains. And Vinny used to have a Girlfriend named Booboo. He liked the name so much he called his new Girlfriend Booboo  Yesso s Friend bucket recently had a son. The name what else but pail Yesso contends he perfected blackened food before chef Paul Prudhomme made blackened redfish a National favorite. I be cooked for years he says and being a Bachelor i blackened everything. I did t know it was  10 stripes Magazine january 26, 1989