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Here's what you get if you win the silver medal: an endorsement contract with Caress and a deal for four prime-time skating specials with ABC...
KARL MALONE is down with his fellow workers, but perhaps didn't realize they include people working in TV. The Utah Jazz basketballer, an outspoken advocate for NBA players locked out by team owners, appeared on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee last week, passing picketing ABC workers to do so. Malone's agent said the hoopster was ignorant of the strike and was asleep when his driver wheeled through the picket line. A spokesman for the striking ABC employees said the union accepts the highly plausible explanation. Later, Malone visited Central Park to film a video for a virtual...
...JIMMY SMITS FAREWELL (ABC) NYPD Blue dispatched Detective Bobby Simone in four intensely moving episodes. Smits' low-key virility and Dennis Franz's emotionalism played perfectly in the tragic setting, and if you have to die, Kim Delaney is the woman--tender, beautiful--to have at your side...
...SPORTS NIGHT (ABC) Of all the shows that premiered this season, only this one was at all intriguing. Set at a fast-paced cable show, Sports Night is a sort of ER with jokes--the camera work, the dialogue and the conflicts are similar to those of TV dramas, but it offers wry comedy and could lead sitcoms in a welcome new direction...
DIED. MICHAEL ZASLOW, 54, Emmy award-winning actor; of a heart attack; in New York City. CBS had dismissed Zaslow from Guiding Light when his speech became slurred from the effects of Lou Gehrig's disease. Undeterred, he reprised a former character on ABC's One Life to Live, successfully incorporating the disorder into the role and raising awareness...