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...show's future. (Carsey-Werner executives would not comment on Roseanne's problems with ABC.) Nor are the Arnolds likely to find life outside ABC as rosy as they might hope. Roseanne has shown no ability to draw an audience in any fictional role besides Roseanne Conner. Her last film, She-Devil, was a flop ("They exploited me," she says now), and an April TV movie, The Woman Who Loved Elvis, in which she and Tom co-starred, got middling ratings...
Guitarist Gary Lee Conner and his brother, bassist Van Conner, blend together so naturally that the immense noise ends up disciplined and coherent. They keep glamrock solos to a minimum, instead emphasizing a steady, balanced sound. Even the dissonant chords created when Gary Lee reached his guitar out to the groping audience worked within the songs...
Perhaps the only thing that keeps The Screaming Trees from broader stardom is their anything-but-poster-boy appearance. The Conner boys probably weigh in at 500-plus pounds. Drummer Barrett Newman never looks too cool thrashing his parted afro coif. Gravelly voiced and stationary frontman Mark Lanegan stares blankly into the lights, oblivious to fanatics rushing about and pawing him. His self-conscious exhortation, "Narcotics. Do 'em. Share 'em. Love each other," was acknowledged by laughter from the crowd...
Prime time will draw even more heavily on the headlines this fall. The recession will be Topic A on Roseanne, as Dan Conner loses his job and the family must scramble to pay its bills. The Los Angeles riots will be the backdrop for episodes of several series, including A Different World and Doogie Howser, M.D. In Doogie's season opener, for example, the hospital staff spends a frantic shift caring for riot victims. Though the show takes no political stand on the riot or its causes, Doogie expresses his sympathetic sentiments at the end by paraphrasing Martin Luther King...
...swift final race certified Bill Koch's America 3 as the America's Cup defender, with veteran Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes well astern and out of the competition, seven races to four. This Saturday the Americans will face Il Moro, the Italian entry, skippered by canny Paul Cayard, which won the challenger's match over New Zealand...