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F2 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Thursday, August 18, 1988 TELEVISION THURSDAY PRIME-TIME BROADCAST LINEUP Polished look of 'The Loner' fails to disguise outrageous plot Late night A "Best of Carson" rerun (NBC at 11:30) from last September features Don Johnson, David Brenner and Dale Robertson. On "Late Night with David Letterman" (NBC at 12:30 a.m.), there's a repeat of a February episode with David Steinberg, Melanie Griffith and an Indiana mayor who doubles as an Elvis impersonator. Local channels A high school crusade for revenge begins after a gang pulls a prank that goes too far in "Massacre at Central High," at 8 on WHCT (Channel 18). Drivers of a nearly bankrupt Washington taxicab operation become heroes when they rescue two kidnapped children in "D.C Cab," starring Mr. T.

and Adam Baldwin at 8 on WTXX (Channel 20). A new syndicate member is forced to kill the man who taught him how to set up "accidental" deaths for syndicate victims in "The Mechanic," starring Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent at 8 on WTIC (Channel 61). A group of adventurers must contend with piranhas and savage headhunters while searching for a fortune in diamonds in "Treasure of the Amazon," starring Stuart Whitman and Bradford Dillman at 12:40 a.m. on WTXX (Channel 20). Cable channels "The Old Man and the Sea" (MAX at 6:30) An aging Cuban fisherman's skill and courage are tested when he hooks a huge marlin.

Starring Spencer Tracy and Felipe Pazos. "Donavan's Reef" (TBS at 8:05) An ex-Navy man living in the South Pacific with his new family finds his paradise disrupted by the arrival of his daughter from a previous marriage. Starring John Wayne and Elizabeth Allen. "Ernest Goes to Camp" (TMC at 8) The existence of a summer camp standing on sacred Indian land is threatened by a local mining operation until a bumbling custodian-turned-counselor comes to the rescue. Starring Jim Varney and Victoria Racimo.

"Cobra" (HBO at 9) As his investigation continues, an L.A. cop discovers that there is more than one killer. Starring Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielsen. "The Loneliest Runner" (LIFE at 9) An Olympic athlete looks back upon his teenage years when his promising running career was nearly sidetracked by his chronic bed-wetting. Starring Brian Keith and Lance Kerwin.

"Firecreek" (TBS at 10:20) A small town that is protected by a timid sheriff is terrorized by an outlaw and his men. Starring James Stewart and Henry Fonda. P.M. I 6:00 6:30 I 7:00 I 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 1 10:00 1 10:30 I 11:00 11:30 WCBS (CBS) Channel 2 News At 6 News Wheel Republican National Convention News N. Heat WG8H (PBS) MacNeil Lehrer This Old House Special News American Masters WFSB (CBS) News News Entertain.

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Who Business MacNeil Lehrer Jacques Cousteau Evening At Pops Mystery! Old House Conventl. WLVI (tod.) Company Laverne Company Benson Movie: "Cheech And Chong's Next Movie" News Newlywed Dating 6P WGBY (PBS) MacNeil Lehrer Business Survival Tom Peters Mystery! Mystery! Conventl. QP WTIC (Fox) Company conn. Star Trek Movie: "The Mechanic" jstarTrek Conn. Show PRIME-TIME CABLE LINEUP P.M.

6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 I 8:30 I 9:00 9:30 1 10:00 1 10:30 1 11:00 11:30 Age Ivariety Travel survival Edge lourselves Barefoot In The Park Comedy Movie Cont'd Movie: "King Of Jazz" Movie: "Success At Any Price" Movie: "King Of Jazz" BET Notes I The Line Forum Movie: "Junction 88" Video Soul soft Notes BRAy jazz Movie: "Shakespeare Wallah" South Bank Show Big Valley Remington Steele Crazy Like A Fox 700Club Talk Kitchen Remlngton Steele CUM Moneyline Politics Moneyline Crossfire Republican National Convention Wrap-Up Crossfire JE EdMcBain pragon Island For A Gorilla Beyond 2000 Explorers Refuge Spectacu. Adventure DISW Movie: "The Great Land Of Small" Mouseter. Pisney Presents Movie: "The Legend Of Young Pick Turpin" Ozzie Movie 122 SportsLo. Side SpoCtr. SpeedWk.

Prag Racing Truck And Tractor Pull Auto Racing: USAC Sprint Cars SpoCtr. Narc Movie: "North Shore" Tidy Endings Movie: "Cobra" Warning "Night Of The Creeps" i J.Wilson Collector Success Success Anger lSAT State-To-State News GEO Ask Washington IE Cover Up FoleySq. EasySt. Cagney Lacey Movie: "The Loneliest Runner1' Easy St. Cagney Lacey MA Movie "The Old Man And The Sea" Movie: "The Karate Kid" Movie: "Let's Get Harry" NfSN P' Road Raynham Red Sox Baseball: Seattle Mariners at Boston Red Sox Fishing Fishing Baseball Keepers Don tSit You Can't Dare Daddy Mister Ed 3 Sons P.

Reed Laugh-In Car 54 Monkees Sothern PI-Y Erotic Images: Chapter I Romantic Movie: "The Amorous Headmaster' Prostitute. SC Baseball Cont'd Saratoga Rockingh. Sports Writers On TV Boxing Racing FMbs Movie: "Jaws The Revenge" Movie: "Invaders From Mars" "Falling In Love" JK Alice c. Burnett a. Griffith A.

Griffith Movie: "Ponovan's Reef" Movie: "Firecreek" Movie: "Legal Eagles" Movie: "Ernest Goes To Camp" Movie: "Aliens" Fandango Be A Star Crook video Nashville Now Country Crook video Be A Star Am. Mag. Del Saber Noticiero Primavera Piana Salazar PosVidas Noticiero Univision America No 'JSA Icartoons AirwoH Bitten" Hitchcock Hitchcock Hitchcock Wired By JON BURLINGAME United Feature Syndicate "Dynasty" producer Aaron Spelling made several series pilots this year, none of them very good and none of which made the fall schedule. The pilot with the most outrageous, unbelievable premise is "The Loner" (ABC at 8), the only original piece of entertainment on the networks tonight, falling as it does on the final night of Republican National Convention coverage. Michael Shane is not your average Los Angeles cop.

He shoots a young punk before taking his tuxedo off and jumps into his beat-up old Porsche for an art-show opening in Beverly Hills. Shane is a wealthy, well-educated, handsome man who has this unexplained inner need to seek life's truths on the street. He plays Chopin preludes in his loft (one floor above his only friend, a paroled poet) when he's not out breaking the rules Dirty Harry-style or talking tough to cliche-spouting hoods. mii'rWHWf I'll John Terry, who once TV tonight gSS had a minor role in "The Living Daylights," plays Shane. "The Loner" has a highly polished look, but this one is better consigned to the shelf.

Other highlights Coverage of the Republican National Con-vention at the New Orleans Superdome concludes with the nomination of George Bush's vice-presidential candidate, and acceptance speeches by the GOP ticket. CBS begins its coverage an hour earlier than its network rivals (at 8). ABC and NBC begin at 9. CNN and C-SPAN continue their gavel-to-gavel cover- age. Geoffrey Owens, who plays Sondra's hus- band Elvin on 'The Cosby Show" (NBC at 8), became a regular with this week's episode, which originally was broadcast in January.

Sondra and Elvin came home from their camping-trip honeymoon with plans that don't in- elude graduate school. The joke in this week's "Return of Sherlock Holmes" entry on "Mystery!" (CPTV at 10, Channel 24 in the Hartford area) "The Priory School," is that its central figure is a man named Dr. Huxtable. No, not Cliff Thorney-" croft, described by Conan Doyle in 1904 as "so pompous, so dignified that he was the very embodiment of self-possession and solidity." Now, does this sound like Bill Cosby to you? Cult choice Lauren Hutton, now frequently reduced to making TV commercials for her living, probably regrets her starring role in "Once Bitten" (USA at 8). In this 1985 clunker, Hutton plays a vampiress in need of (literally) virgin blood.

Tonight's series Dwayne is spotted climbing out of Whitley's window late at night on "A Different World" (NBC at 8:30, rebroadcast). For detailed listings and complete cable programs, see TV Week in the Sunday Cou-rant. For special sports programming and highlights, see Page 2 of the Sports section today. Alopecia sufferers band together for support GAMES Bridge By CHARLES GOREN and OMAR SHARIF Tribune Company Syndicate Both vulnerable. North deals.

NORTH 10 4 A K83 0 73 J8 EAST J72 7 10 9 7 0 Q654 964 WEST K3 9 J542 0 A92 10 5 3 2 Continued from Page Fl pertinents with some success. Minoxidil is marketed by UpJohn Co. as a treatment for hypertension, but it also has the side effect of stimulating some hair growth in some balding men. Awaiting approval While minoxidil is used to treat baldness in 40 countries, Upjohn is awaiting FDA approval to use the drug for that purpose in the United States. Once a drug has been approved for any purpose, however, it legally can be prescribed for whatever use a doctor deems appropri- ate.

A recent survey of U.S. derma- tologists cited in Consumer Reports found that 72 percent were prescribing minoxidil for hair-loss ment. While there is no medical cure for alopecia, the disorder can cure itself with no treatment at all, for reasons that are unknown, Kallor said. "Especially in children, where we may not want to cause significant discomfort (by giving shots, we just leave it alone, and spontaneous re-growth is very common in small areas," Kallor said. "It can even occur when larger patches are involved, and I have seen regrowth occur in alopecia totalis, al- though that is not common.

"It's is a judgment call. Not doing anything is also a very viable alternative," he said. Kallor said there is some research being done on alopecia areata be-. cause of the interest in minoxidil, and because the immune system is receiving increased study in general. But alopecia is not getting the same losing a part of you.

It's like a roller coaster your emotions go up and down, because when it grows in, the hope is always there. Mine grew back in at one point, and that summer it was great. But then it all fell out again, and the second time was even worse than the first," she said. Martha's shoulder-length brown hair and Patti's chin-length strawberry-blond hair look as normal and attractive as anyone's. To conceal their hair loss, both women wear what is know as the Blundell hairpiece, a wig developed in Australia 15 years ago that has been available in this country for about four years.

The wig has 160,000 human hairs on a fiberglass cap that is molded individually for each person and looks so natural it is undetectable. For children, it can be enlarged every nine months to accommodate the growth of the head. Also, the youngsters can swim and play while wearing it without worrying about the hairpiece's coming off. The wig costs about $1,700 and lasts about four years for the average adult before replacement is needed. Martha said the support group has had some success in helping alopecia patients get insurance coverage for the wigs as prosthetic devices.

Chance meeting Patti met Martha at a crafts fair five years ago. "She came up to me and said, 'I have to talk to you because we have the same At first I thought she was crazy," Patti said, laughing. "But when she got close, I could see she didn't have eyelashes or eyebrows, just like me." Martha said, "We started talking on the phone and having coffee together, and for a while we thought we were the only ones, but we realized that there must be others like us out there." About 100 people have passed through the group over the years, and it is on the official list of support groups recognized by the Alopecia Areata Foundation. The foundation, based in San Rafael, holds a national convention every year at which dermatologists, patients and immunologists discuss the research and treatment of this stubbornly unpredictable disease. "Things that work we try to give to others," Patty said.

Those that have lost eyebrows and eyelashes can learn to apply eyebrow pencil and individual false eyelashes in a manner that looks very natural, she said. "When I talk to someone who is dating, I tell them that this is a nice weeding-out mechanism. If you can tell him, 'I have no then you know he likes you for you and he's an understanding guy, and that you have a really good person there," Martha said. "Actually all girls should say that just to see their reaction," she said jokingly. "We've found that most of the spouses have been very good when this happens, and there are more success stories, more that make it than those that don't," she said.

"It helps just having someone to talk to who's been where you are. If we can help one person not go through it alone, it's worth it." For further information, contact Alopecia Areata Foundation, San Rafael (415) 456-4644 or 236-5762 or 561-3084. While there is no medical cure for alopecia, the disorder can cure itself. kind of scrutiny as other, more serious diseases. "It's a frustrating thing, because while it may not be life-threatening, it is very emotionally debilitating, which is the deepest scar," Martha said.

"When my hair was falling out, I'd turn on the TV, and everywhere you looked was hair bouncing and behaving. You're bombarded with that all the time it's especially difficult." Camp for children Children and teenagers with the disorder have special problems because their peers are not always understanding. Camp Chingachgook, sponsored by the YMCA at Lake George, N.Y., opened this summer for the first time for children with alopecia. "One of the hardest things for kids is to go to camp. How do they sleep with their wigs? How do they swim? Here they can just jump around and be happy before going back to school," Martha said.

The loss of hair and the realization that it will not grow back triggers a grief process. The person mourns in a way that is similar to any other traumatic experience. "People don't mean it maliciously. They say, 'Oh well, you just lost your hair. It could be worse: You could have Patti said.

"That's a natural response, and at this point I could take it. But you're This deal was played in a duplicate game many years ago. Sitting North-South were two of the great players of the time, Charles Loch-ridge and Lee Hazen. Sitting East-West were their respective spouses. The males reached four spades on the auction shown.

West, Sylvia Hazen, realized that she could not expect much from her partner. So she found the devilish opening lead of a low diamond away from her ace. Her spouse Lee did not expect such a dastardly maneuver, so he not unnaturally elected to run the opening lead to his ten. East's queen won, and a diamond was returned to the ace. West continued with a third diamond, taken on the table as declarer discarded a heart.

The percentage play in trumps was to take two finesses, but declarer decided instead to put some psychological pressure on West. He to hand with the queen of hearts and led a low trump. Without a moment's hesitation, West played low. Declarer finessed dummy's ten, East won the jack and shot back her last diamond. Now there was no way to prevent West for scoring her king of trumps for down one.

As a result of this hand, the men finished fourth instead of first, while the ladies topped the East-West sec tion. SOUTH A 9 8 65 0 10 8 AKQ7 The bidding: North East South West 1 Pass 14 Pass 2 Pass 4 Pass Pass Pass Opening lead: Two of 0 We have often been accused of being male chauvinist pigs. On some counts we plead guilty, but not when it comes to ability at the bridge table. Perhaps at the very top level the males are dominant, but nowhere else need the ladies hide their heads in shame. Wordplay Chess quiz Thousands of animals saved by National Poison Center By SHELBY LYMAN 8-18 1968 King Feature! SynAcat, Pet cetera mo no ao ax nm to iFiii 'A poisonous substance and is manifesting symptoms, call your veterinarian immediately.

If the veterinarian is unaware of the proper treatment for the toxic element you've described, he or she can then call NAPINet. (All calls must first be screened though a veterinarian, which is why I am not giving out the hot-line number.) For further information on the service, write to: NAPINet, University of Illinois, SRIB, 2004 S. Wright Urbana. 111. 61808.

You may enclose a check for $15 to become a NAPINet member. a mi D.T By ANN L. HUNTINGTON Tribune Media Services One of my patients, who owned a small dog, had sprayed the pet with a then-new flea spray product called Blokade. The dog stopped eating and started vomiting. The owner didn't associate these symptoms with Blokade and, a few days later, sprayed the poor animal again.

Within a short time the dog was staggering and seemed tremely ill. The owner then called me. This was about a week or two after Blokade had been put on the market I gave her the number of the Illinois Animal Poison Information Center and she made the call. She called me back afterward and said the center had already received several cafljj, about alarinnsg reactions human pain relievers containing acetominophen, sometimes fatally. Dogs can have a frightful reaction if they ingest theobromine or caffeine, both present in chocolate.) The poison information center is funded by the University of Illinois and by contributions from about 40 dog food, chemical and pharmaceutical companies.

In its first year of operation, NAPINet received about 300 calls. In 1986 it replied to nearly 22,000 calls. During 1987, the tally of calls jumped to 28,000. All NAPINet calls end up in a centralized computer data base, and the center has compiled about 95,000 case history calls with information about 4,000 generic toxicological 'agents, both natural and man-made. If you suspect your dog or cat has ingested, or come in confcfct with, a no to Blokade.

I then called the center, headquarters of the National Animal Poison. Information Network, known as NA-PINet, and talked with one of the staff toxicologists, who informed me what to do for signs of toxicity from Blokade. The manufacturer, Hartz, subsequently took Blokade off the market. Dr. William Buck, executive director, founded NAPINet in 1978 at the University of Illinois after spending 16 years at Iowa State University, where he had set up an animal-toxicology program.

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