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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, August 26, 1990

   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To briefs Hollywood tiffs it s almost always Over Money Irv Letofsky los Angeles times they flare up like wildfires across the Holly Wood landscape these Star turns Roseanne Barr s fits with her Roseanne producers Lynn Redgrave right to breast feed her baby on the set of House Calls Redd Foxx s demand for a dressing room with windows on Sanford and son. The latest Between actress Delta Burke and her producers on designing women apparently has been settled. The show went into production for its fifth season last week and business As lbs Joanna Pacula in ". Force usual was the comment from both Camps. This has been one of the bitterest of the Star wars although come other great combatants come to mind Carroll o Connor and All in the family Larry Hagman and Dallas Suzanne Somers and three s company Valerie Harper and Valerie Fairah Fawcett and Charlie s Angels. Although most of the disputes have to do with dollars More never fewer not All. One of the louder of the disgruntled ones was Pernell Rob erts who Felt Lassord into a six year contract on Bonanza and yelled that the show was bad  Jam an actor not a carnival Freak he said butane stayed All six years. Publicist Richard Grant represents Connie sell Ecca who in something called contractual differences was dropped from add s baby talk before the new fall series starts. Asked about it fiut times Grant returned no comment five times but it was a different Dick Grant in 1980 in the Case of Larry Hagman Dallas and the Clif hang ing summer of the who shot j.r.?" episode. At the moment he was the 50-ton Gorilla he said the hottest actor on  Grant does t recall How Harrian s demand for a substantial raise first got into the Media but he fanned the publicity flames once they started and he remembers the negotiations. Larry sent All of the people that were negotiating on his team White Stet sons with the request that whenever they went into meetings they wore the White hats. Myself and his attorneys and everybody walked around town that summer in White Stetson and he got what he asked for a rated prime time brazilian television which was pretty steamy already is filling prime time with nudity and Semi explicit sex in a network ratings Battle. Viewers have been favored with such wonders As an All nude Rock band and a near Complete striptease. And what Many Call the to sex War has inspired heated debate on How much is too much it started in april when Machete to Brazil s third largest network launched the prime time soap opera Pant anal about a wealthy ranching family in the vast Pant anal wetlands of Central Brazil. Machete had an instant smash featuring near explicit love scenes female stars bathing in the River and total frontal nude of an underwater swimmer in the opening credits. As Machete celebrated its Success the Lead in network Globo counterattacked with a week of steamy uncut movies. Globo also unveiled literally popular Star Claudia Raia on its own prime time soap opera Queen of the junk Yard. T other networks joined in. A University of Sao Paulo Survey in late june counted 1,145 displays of nudity and 276 scenes of explicit or Impact sex in one week of television. Some viewers Are  Are not Voy eurs we Are Normal people Ana Conceicao of Rio wrote to a major newspaper. And Justice minister Bernardo Cabral has scheduled a meet ing in Early september with station owners writ ers soap opera stars and religious officials to discuss creation of a television code of ethics. But most brazilians seem to like the spice. The Public likes the sex and nudity said Marta sup icy author of several books on sex and Cul Ture. Most people have Boring lives and enjoy watching others have a Good  Ken Silverstein associated press new for fall Joanna Pacula is the administrator and Gil Gerard the Leader of an elite environmental group called . Force in a new series for fall of the same name. The group s Mission is to protect the environment from criminals polluting the world s resources and from natural disasters. They said it would not be a crisis of the week Gerard said of the producers who have made his character a heart surgeon and geneticist and former Green Beret to Boot. People get bored with that. We re going to concentrate on people stories with an overview of the Environ ment. If we Tell about an Oil spill the Story will be about its effect on one  the series the fourth for Gerard Buck Rogers in the 25th Century sidekicks nightingales also stars Pacula Robert Knepper and Clayton her. Jerry Buck associated press of o Nielsen the following Are the latest Avail Able rankings of television shows in America starting with the top shows As compiled by the . Nielsen co. The season to Date ranking is in parentheses or an a for first time showing and the final figure is the rating which notes the percentage of the nation s 92.1 million Homes where people watched the show. 1 60 minutes 9 lbs 15.8 rating. 2 cheers 1  15.1. 2 Roseanne tie 2  15.1. 4 Simpsons 26 Fox 13.7. 5 designing women 20 lbs 13.6. 6 empty nest 10  13.4. 7 America s funniest Home videos 7 .13.0. 8 married. With children 40 Fox 12.8. 8 coach tie 17  12.8. 10 unsolved mysteries 12  126. And these Are the least watched shows the ones at the Bottom of the Nielsen ratings. 79 Ann Jillian  4.7. 79 quantum leap tie  4.7, 79 his & hers tie lbs 4.7. 82 monopoly  4.2. 83 outsiders Fox 4.1. 83 21 jump Street tie Fox 4.1. 85 China Beach  4.0. 86 alien nation Fox 3.0. 87 Tracey Ullman show Fox 2.9. 88 ghostwriter Fox 2.7. 89 21 jump Street special Fox 2.3. 89 Molloy tie Fox 23. Page 4 to plus sunday August 26, 1990  
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