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Film, TV roles create comeback for'SNL' original Garrett Morris

c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service NEW ORLEANS The phone rang at the residence of Garrett Morris, cast member from the original “Saturday Night Live.” “Juvenile hall,” answered Morris. Impression No. 1: This is not a man who wants to be taken seriously. Unlike Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner and Jane Curtin, other “Saturday Night” originals, Morris didn’t get any gonzo movie deals when his television stint ended in 1980. He didn’t get any gonzo TV deals, either. Frankly, besides a pink slip, he didn’t get much of anything.' Save for some bit parts in a TV series here and there, and stage work on the coasts, Morris has all but disappeared from the public eye. “I haven’t been totally out of work,” he says. “I’ve been a semi-regular on the Jeffersons, for instance.” But he wasn’t exactly thriving, either. Instead of jumping from New York, where Saturday Night Live was broadcast weekly, to Hollywood, Morris came home to New Orleans and got married. He tried some offBroadway plays, some more plays in Los Angeles, and in between toured the nation’s campuses as a standup comic. “Not that I’m a comedian, you understand,” says Morris. “It’s just that ever since ‘Saturday Night Live’ that name has been applied to me so many times that I figured I might as well make some money off it.” Impression No. 2: This is not a man concerned with art for art’s sake. Morris says he’s done his last college tour for a while. “There’s going to be a real rush of Garrett Morris coming up,” he says. It won’t make him a star, but it could be a comeback. He was recently seen on the NBC situation comedy “It’s Your Move” as star Jason Bateman’s high school principal. That’s potentially a continuing role, he says. Morris appears in an upcoming episode of the CBS mystery series “Murder, She Wrote” in a story about a murdered jazz musician from New Orleans. He’ll also appear as a framed thief on “Hill Street Blues,” a role that lasts at least three weeks. “Let’s hope,” he says, “that it is ad infinitum.” On the big screen, he has roles upcoming in “The Stuff” and “The Census Taker.” In “The Census Taker,” due to be released

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next winter, he plays the lead. “Sick comedy,” he says. “Do you have any idea how much liberty census takers are given? If they are zealous in their pursuit of other people’s business, they can get away with just about anything they want. Well, this guy is a low-down, nasty, dirty census taker. A very, very difficult part for me to play.” Morris laughs again. “It must be a great, great tribute to my acting ability,” he continues after the laughter subsides. “When my character finished the last day of shooting, the crew all stood up and applauded.” The big problem for Garrett Morris has been getting people to forget “Saturday Night Live.” “It was only four years ago,” he says. “How could they not remember? My career the past few years has been plagued by the fact that there aae still some sadly uncreative minds out there who see me only as a product of that show. But prior to that, I was involved for 18 to 19 years as a serious actor on Broadway. And there are still three or four people out there who take me seriously as a jazz musician. Some don’t see me as a comedian at all. They don’t know' why anybody would think I’m funny.” He laughs. “I’d have to include myself in that last group.”

Opryland to hold auditions at Bloomington BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Hoosiers wanting to break into country music will have the opportunity to show their stuff when representatives of Opryland, the Nashville, Tenn., theme park, holds auditions Monday and Tuesday. The park will hire about 350 singers, dangers, dance captains, conductor-pianists, musicians, stage managers and technicians from across the country. The Bloomington auditions will be from noon-4 'p.m. each day at the Solarium of the Indiana Memorial Union at Indiana University. No appointment is necessary for theopen-dallaudition. ? '• i > ‘ ‘ i .’T *

Sports on TV

SATURDAY’S SPORTS MORNING 8:00 03 NFL PRO MAGAZINE 8:30 03 PURDUE BASKETBALL COACH'S SHOW 9:00 03 NOTRE DAME BASKETBALL COACH'S SHOW 10:30 O NFL WEEK IN REVIEW 11:00 0 WRESTLING AFTERNOON 12:00 O COLLEGE BASKETBALL Washington at Duke (2 hrs.) 12:30 0 TENNIS “Volvo Masters" Semifinal men’s singles matches, live from Madison Square Garden in New York. (2 hrs.) © JIMMY HOUSTON OUTDOORS 1:00 © COLLEGE BASKETBALL Creighton at Tulsa (2 hrs.) © WORLD CUP SKIING 1:30 © FISHING 2:00 0 © COLLEGE BASKETBALL Michigan at Purdue (2 hrs.) O COLLEGE BASKETBALL Regional coverage of Houston at DePaul or Kentucky at Alabama. (2 hrs.) © GREATEST SPORTS LEGENDS 2:30 0 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Regional coverage of Georgetown at Villanova or Notre Dame at Marquette. (2 hrs.) ® COLLEGE BASKETBALL Notre Dame at Marquette (2 hrs.) © COLLEGE BASKETBALL Toldeo at Ball State (2 hrs.) 3:00 0 BOWLING $125,000 Greater Los Angeles Open live from Gable House Bowl in Torrance, Calif. (1 hr., 30 min.) © COLLEGE BASKETBALL (Joined In Progress) Kentucky at Alabama (1 hr.) 4:00 0 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Wisconsin at Indiana (2 hrs., 5 min.) 0 © SPORTS SATURDAY Scheduled: 15-round IBF lightweight championship bout between Terrence Ali and Harry Arroyo, live from Atlanic City, N.J.; Women's World Cup downhill skiing from Bad Kleinkircheim, Austria; Great Pool Shoot-Out trick shot competition. a Super Bowl preview. (2 hrs.) © MISL GAME OF THE WEEK © COLLEGE BASKETBALL Wisconsin at Indiana (2 hrs.) 4:30 0 PGA GOLF “Bob Hope Desert Classic" Fourth-round play, live from Palm Springs. Calif. (2 hrs.) O WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS Scheduled: Men’s World Cup Downhill Skiing from Hahnenkamm Kitzbuhel, Austria; figure skating exhibitions by Robin Cousins, Dorothy Hamill, Tai Babiloia, Randy Gardner and John Curry from New York City. (1 hr., 30 min.) EVENING 9:00 0 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Northwestern at Ohio State (2 hrs.) SUNDAY’S SPORTS MORNING 6:30 O INDIANA OUTDOORS 7:00 © GREATEST SPORTS LEGENDS 9:30 0 GOOD FISHING 11:30 © DAVE SCHELLHAUS AFTERNOON 12:00 0 808 KNIGHT Q © NBA BASKETBALL Los Angeles Lakers at Detroit Pistons (2 hrs., 30 min.) 12:30 0 TENNIS “Volvo Masters" Singles final, live from Madison Square Garden in New York. (2 hrs., 30 min.) 1:00 0 WRESTLING 2:30 O © COLLEGE BASKETBALL Southern Methodist at North Carolina (2 hrs.) 3:00 0 SPORTSWORLD Scheduled: World Pro Figure Skating Championships from Capital Centre, Landover, Md. Among the competitors: Rosalynn Sumners, Scott Hamilton, Kitty- and Peter Carruthers, Toller Cranston and Dorothy Hamill, (j hr.. 30 min.)-

3:30 Q SPORTS DATELINE: 1984 4:30 0 PGA GOLF “Bob Hope Desert Classic’ Championship round, live from Palm Springs, Calif. (2 hrs.) O AMATEUR BOXING USA vs. Argentina, from Maude Cobb Center in Longview, Texas. (1 hr., 30 min.) O (D SPORTS SUNDAY Scheduled World Triathlon from Nice, France; World Junior Figure Skating Championships from Colorado Springs, Colo.; a Super Bowl XIX preview. (1 hr., 30 min.) EVENING 7:00 ® REGGIE JACKSON'S WORLD OF SPORTS WEDNESDAY'S SPORTS EVENING 7:30 ® NBA BASKETBALL Chicago Bulls at New Jersey Nets (2 hrs., 30 min.) 8:00 0 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Purdue at Northwestern (2 hrs., 5 min.) THURSDAY'S SPORTS EVENING 8:00 0 HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL 10:30 © INDIANA PACERS BASKETBALL COACH'S SHOW FRIDAY'S SPORTS JANUARY 18, 1985 EVENING 7:30 0 © NBA BASKETBALL Boston Celtics at Indiana Pacers (2 hrs., 30 min.) SATURDAY'S SPORTS MORNING 10:00 0 ROLAND MARTIN 10:30 0 NFL WEEK IN REVIEW 11:00 0 WRESTLING AFTERNOON 12:30 © JIMMY HOUSTON OUTDOORS 1:00 0 ® COLLEGE BASKETBALL Memphis State at Louisville (2 hrs.) © COLLEGE BASKETBALL Drake at Wichita State (2 hrs.) © GREATEST SPORTS LEGENDS 1:30 Q COLLEGE BASKETBALL Regional coverage of St. John’s at Boston College, Kansas at Oklahoma or Alabama-Birmingham at Western Kentucky. (2 hrs.) © I CHALLENGE YOU A series of man-to-man competitions between former NFL running backs Franco Harris and Jim Brown. 2:00 0 © COLLEGE BASKETBALL Purdue at Wisconsin (2 hrs.) 2:30 0 BILL DANCE OUTDOORS 3:00 0 ® COLLEGE BASKETBALL Maryland at UNLV(2 hrs.) 0 BOWLING $175,000 Showboat Invitational" live from Showboat Bowling Center in Las Vegas. (1 hr., 30 min.) 3:30 O(D GOLF “Phoenix Open" Third round (live). (.1 hr.) 4:00 0 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Indiana at Ohio State (2 hrs., 5 min.) © MISL GAME OF THE WEEK © COLLEGE BASKETBALL Indiana at Ohio State (2 hrs.) 4:30 0 WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS Scheduled: Donald Curry vs. Colin Jones for the WBA Welterweight Championship, live from Birmingham, England; a Super Bowl XIX preview, live from Palo Alto, Calif. (1 hr., 30 min.) O © SPORTS SATURDAY Scheduled: Men’s World Cup Downhill Skiing, from Wengen, Switzerland; Hector Camacho vs. Louie Burke in a lightweight bout scheduled for 10 rounds, live from Atlantic City. N.J.; a Super Bowl XIX preview. (1 hr., 30 min.) EVENING 7:00 O © ROAD TO THE SUPER BOWL 9:00 0 COLLEGE BASKETBALL lowa at Michigan (2 hrs.) , , . . • :■