European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                On to Sarah Bottorff to plus cops show is As real As it gets have you Ever seen anyone get arrested it. Does t took like it does on to people yell and cry their clothes get pulled Over their Heads. The cops hit them. They tussle and get thrown into cop cars a All in All it s a fairly painful thing to watch. A a cops coming to an to monday night brings just that sort of scene to television in an hour that brings new meaning to the words Quot reality  there a no soothing William Shatner narrating As in Rescue 911 or sense of crusading Justice As in America s most wanted. Each episode shows a few Days weekly in the lives of real Broward county fla., sheriff s officers and deputies with video cameras following around behind them recording what they really do and with a few bleeps Here and there say on the streets of one of the most crime Ridden areas of America they go into crack houses and Point out the filthy unsanitary conditions to the camera As they roust out the inhabitants. They cruise around crumbling neighbourhoods stopping All White Guys and questioning them on the apparent grounds that the Only whiles on these streets must be there Lor drug deals. They fish bodies out of the swamp and Tell the cameramen cheerfully that in general the Quot wildlife Quot in the swamps has eaten off corpses lips and ears by the time police find them. If you get the impression this is not a show for Young kids to watch you re right. On the other hand for the rest of us cops has a lot to say Fogt about America and american cops and american streets. A. It s a Little rough on the innocent till proven guilty suspects a some of their faces Are blurred on camera but often they Are not its also rough on the cops there s no pretence Here that american cops Are Barney Millers or Andy  Days these Guys and women Are Tough. Still there s not much doubt that Fox television caught a real part of american life when it launched this show cops is a far cry from the television Norm but its Well Worth watching. If you have the stomach for it Southern european broadcasting gets the. Show the week of oct. 15. You May not have the stomach for coach either but for entirely different reasons. This is television Norm unfortunately its a lacklustre comedy wasting the talents of a Bunch of Good comedians. Craig to Nelson plays Quot coach Quot whose particular charges Are a Bunch of dimwitted Minnesota College football players. His Girlfriend Shelley a bares is a sportscaster his daughter Clare Casey is a whiner and his assistant coach Jerry Van Dyke is the Only Bright spot of the show. Van Dyke can make you laugh even with the inane lines he a Given in this Dull script he a easily As Good As his More famous brother Dick Van Dyke. The rest of the cast is not quite As talented unfortunately but the studio audience laughs dutifully anyway. Quot hey changing my life is no big Deal Quot coach says to daughter and gets a big yuck from the audience Why Well there Are these things called Cue cards see. Coach starts on an Friday and on se0 in mid october. A scene from  a better bet is the monkeys coming Back to television after a 20-year hiatus. Now the jokes Are stupid Here too really stupid but funny stupid a a Quot this is , Wool hat Quot a Mon keep Mickey says to the chambermaid hoping Shell be impressed. Quot who s he Quot Quot you be heard of Wool hats Haven t you Quot  Quot Well this is  for those of you who Haven t seen it this 1967 show about a Rock o Roll group was about As exploitive of teen agers As shows Ever got. Its products searched for and picked these four Young men using a formula of what kind of Guys the kids wanted to see. Instant new kids on the Block their musical ability was scanty but no one much cared they became a pop group launched a Bunch of singles and got their to show on the air. Naturally the surveys were right the monkeys were an immense hit and so was the show. Coincidentally the show was actually , it must have been a bitter irony for the producers that the monkeys began to complain after awhile that they weren t allowed to perform the music they Felt they should be performing but instead had to Sig what the producers wanted them to. This was somewhat amazing considering that two of the four weren t musicians in the first place and were picked for their looks a and in fact when the group hit the Road after making their records audiences quickly discovered they did not know How to play their guitars. In any event the group split from the producers and went off seeking musical Freedom killing the to show and quite quickly the group itself and that s today s television history lesson. The monkeys comes to an to wednesday afternoon. Also this week. A China Beach Back for another season on tuesday night with Ricki Lake and Ned Vaughn As new regular characters. A being there the bizarre Peter Sellers film whose simple mindedness is mistaken Tor quiet. Genius on Friday night. A into the night on tuesday morning an. Early 1985 Michelle Pfeiffer movie about a Dull Man Jeff Goldblum swept up in danger and mystery by a Beautiful woman. Notable chiefly for the fact the Pfeiffer character spends 36 hours in jeans so tight she a shown lying Down to zip them up. Now in real life the character would have gone Home to change into a jogging outfit would t she. A a War games saturday afternoon one of the Best of the 1980s brat pack specials this one with Alley Sheedy and William Broderick alternately endangering and saving the world from nuclear War. All of the above come to seb. This week Denver the last Dinosaur is the new series a cartoon about kids and a Friendly beast on saturday morning. As for films Oliver North a Point of View is aired in the docudrama guts and glory a two parter starting wednesday. Silent movie is a 1976 Mel Brooks concoction that s Only occasionally funny on Friday. Quot suddenly Quot is a political thriller from 1954 with Frank Sinatra As an Assassin on wednesday. And the shooting party has James Mason and a Bunch of complicated characters on an English weekend in the country on Friday. The Nielsen ratings to listings video reviews top 10 videos cafes movie schedules movie reviews top 10 movies 4 5-8 9 9 10 11 11 staff editor Art director production editorial assistance Sarah rot Torff Sharon Kilday Lisa Iilliams Denise dams Marian Hamilton on the cover coach Quot a new sitcom on an to stars from left Craig t. Nelson Jerry \ an Dyke and Bill eager Bakke a stars and stripes pibl1ca Tion Page 2 c to plus sunday August 19, 1990