European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Brinkley show the Road Snipes Rolls from wire reports except for occasional out of Washington jaunts during presidential election years Abc news Sun Day morning 77�/ week with David Brinkle has mostly been studio bound. That s going to change with the show planning More on location Broad casts. The first occurs this weekend when Brinkley George will Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts go to los Angeles to explore California s problems ranging from its ailing Economy to immigration education and crime. Guests lined up so far include new los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan and state treasurer Kathleen Brown. Even though Brinkley normally originates in Washington it recently has been covering More outside the be Way topics including the Midwest floods the airline Industry and chinese immigration. The most recent trips the show made were last year to new Hampshire during the Pri Maries to new York City and Houston for the political conventions and Ohio during the presidential Campaign. Tho color of acting Wesley Snipes who co stars with Sean Connery in the feature film rising Sun which opens Friday in the states talked on Abc s primetime live this past week about whether Hollywood considers him first a actor or a Black actor. I m a Black actor who s a Good actor. You know i Wake up in the morning. I m Black first. I act Sec ond. I go to bed Black  Snipes 30, says he was surprised to be cast with Connery it s like you Don t see that happening until you re about 35,40 or 50 years old you know that you get enough technique and enough Talent and enough support behind you to stand toe to the with an icon like  he describes Connery As a brother. You did t know he had Blacks in his family i mean becomes across like he does you know. So he was Cool with me now he s real  payoff Hob s much praised miniseries Laurel Avenue an All too rare to drama about contemporary Black family life registered solid ratings against the big three net works in Homes that take the pay Channel. If Hob does t turn the tale into a continuing program one of the commercial networks should try to grab it and produce it As a weekly serial. It s terrific. Mystery full House stays right up there in the weekly ratings and surely some Day you la meet somebody who watches it. New look the casting of two women in key roles this fall in the male dominated Star ring cast of Abc s Law & orc Ferias just a matter of time. The series one of to s Best is clearly trying to broaden its viewer Appeal but it s too bad that actor Richard Brooks no table As an assistant District attorney is being replaced in the process. Wesley Snipes Wam Broi. Harrison Ford As or. Kimble in the  s fugitive joining hot summer action by Bernard Weinraub the new York times the summer is still heating up in the real world but in Hollywood it s just about Over. Summer movies which generate 40percent of studios annual revenues reappearing and disappearing at the local Cine Lex with alarming frequency. And every producer agent and know it All in town can sum up the summer with a few Choice words. Dinosaurs Are in. Arnold Schwarzenegger s out. The firm and sleepless in Seattle Are doing just Fine. And looking ahead Wolfgang Petersen and Andrew Davis Are expected to be two of the season major winners. Petersen director of in the line of fire and Davis director of the fugitive Are two filmmakers whose careers have abruptly surged and who Are being flooded with new scripts on the basis of their movies. The two films have generated extraordinary Buzz. In the line of fire an action drama stars Clint Eastwood As a secret service agent haunted by his failure to protect president Kennedy in Dallas. The film is no. 1 at the Box office and has left its producer Castle Rock entertainment exhilarated. Columbia pictures which financed and is distributing the movie has seized it like a life jacket after the studio was left drowning with the disastrous Schwarzenegger film last action hero. Davis fugitive starring Harrison Ford opens aug. 6 in the Stales after some of the most positive audience previews in years. The Warner Bros film which includes a spectacular train wreck that pro Vokes spontaneous applause among audiences is based on the David Janssen television series that ran from 1963 to 1967. Its Lead character or. Richard Kimble is unjustly accused of murdering his wife. The heart of the film is a cat and mouse game be tween the Kimble character Ford and his pursuer a . Marshal played by Tommy Lee Jones. Action films Only work if you car about the people Davis the director said in an interview. The action part is the easiest anyone can run and jump and blow things up. The hard part is weaving in a Story with people who Are believable people who seem  Davis and Petersen Are fully aware their respective films Are career breakthroughs after years of struggle and uncertainty in Hollywood. Petersen who is German directed the 1981 Clas sic Das Boot a meticulously constructed drama about a German a boat during world War ii. But after moving to Santa Monica in 1937, his Ca reer stalled. You had to come to America this is where the Best material was he said in an interview the other Day in his office at tristan pictures in Cul ver City. I grew up on Hollywood films. Coming Here was like a  but he added the fantasy soon turned into Holly Wood reality. He worked for months on a project for Kathleen Turner that dissolved when the actress be came pregnant. It just disappeared in a few seconds he said. Davis grew up in Chicago where the fugitive was filmed in a theatrical family. His father Nate Davis appeared on Broadway in the Steppe Wolf production of the crapes of Wrath. A former pcs reporter with a degree in journal ism from the University of Illinois Davis worked As an assistant to cinematographer Haskell Wexler inthe making of the 1969 film medium Cool about the 1968 democratic convention. He spent years As a director of photography working on 15 films. Starting in the mid-1980s, Davis began developing a reputation As a successful director of action films. His movies included code of silence 1985 with Chuck Norris above the Law 1988 with Steven Seagal the package 1980 starring Gene Hackman in a political thriller about a United states soviet military conspiracy and under siege an acclaimed and highly successful adventure yarn about modern Day pirates attempting to Hijack a battleship loaded with nuclear weapon Davis who lives in Santa Barbara with his wife and two Young children is most certainly one of the hotter directors in town. Like Petersen he was selected Only after the film s Star in this Case Harrison Ford made the final decision. Arnold Kopelson a producer of the the fugitive who had owned the rights to the television series said that Davis name came up As soon As he saw under siege. He then phoned Ford who saw the film and immediately agreed on Davis. I told Andy i must have a collaborative director said Kopelson. He grasped very clearly what Harri son and i wanted for this movie. He really pulled it  Davis is planning a break from the action genre and is set to direct what he Calls a Zany comedy called steal big steal Little. But action films remain his Forte. They re not taken very seriously by critics who often look Down on action films but they re certainly taken seriously at the Box office he said. Action films can be serious. And they work if you inject elements of Intelli gence humor and real acting if you genuinely care about the people in  cafes says  will open sept. 4 on its circuit. J july 25, 1993 sunday Page 11