FCC prepares to answer cable questions quickly
WASHINGTON (API — Television
viewers who are con fusts! about now
cable television regulations can take
heart Federal regulators My help is
one phone i all awnv
The Federal Communications
Commission also has printed a fact sheet with answers to
consumers’most frequent questions
And officials at the agency, legendary for speaking to
targon and bouncing callers from one office to the next,
say they an* changing their ways
"We re finishing up the rules, making them clear and
simple, so that any consumer who wants to take some
time can understand them, said Sandy Wilson, chief
of the FCC's new cable TV bureau.
When a consumer t alls the bureau, the person who
answers will be expected to start addressing the caller's
problem immediately, she said
Wilson is in the process of hiring and organizing n staff
of 240 lawyers, accountants. I'commusts and clerical work
ors They will In- divided into learns, ear h of which will
have authority over all cable problems in one region of
the country
Hut Wilson emphasized that the FCC is not a police
fort e patrolling the nation's U.tMM) cable companies look
ing for violations
And consumers can't e\pe< t every change in month
lv hills to lie 1 overed by the law For example, subscrip
tion fees i barged for om e free cable TV program guides
or fees for fixing VCRs a re not covered by the law
It's inevitable when |>art of a business gets regulated,
companies will look for w.i\s to make more money in
unregulated areas, said Mike Huger, an !-( .( attorney
We have soon operators who have dreamed up charges
they never had before, he said, adding that the agent v
is interested in hearing about new charges
The public's biggest nusi otu eptton about the new lavs
appears lo tw> that nil rates would go down and mat me
federal government regulates everything cable-related.
FCC officials said.
Actually. lotal governments regulate the cost of equip
ment needed to ri* eive cable serv ice; installation: service
charges, and basic (able programming i e , all over-the
air broadcast stations, public and government an ess table
t hnnnels
Consumers who have problems in those areas should
c all their lot al government's i able 1 V offlt e Officials
there are supposed to determine whether basic rates are
reasonable
I'he I ( (. regulates the cost of channels that aren't basic .
inc luding premium c hannels. sue h as HHO and Show
time. and pas per s less for spec ini sporting events or
movies
The H ' will decide whether program |kic kages lievund
the basic are reasonahlv pru eel
Police question suspect’s kidnapping story
TRENTON, N.|. (AIM — A woman who is
still a suspect in her son's 1991 kidnapping
and death has new troubles with the law
she claims she was abducted by two men
who said they were FFU agents
Michelle I.odzinski disrippeared Friday
Her brother, Edward I.odzinski. said that
five hours after she left for work, he found
her car idling outside the apartment they
share in Woodhridge. The driver's side door
was open, but her pocketbook, coat and a
canister of Mace were still inside, accord
ing to police and neighbors
Lodzinski said his sister called him collect
Saturday morning from Detroit and told him
two men driving a black four-wheel-drive
vehicle abducted her and said that she had
better keep quiet about the death of her son,
Timothy Wiltsey
"The two guys who took her were telling
her You're going to learn a lesson from
this " I.odzinski said " They told her ‘Every
one's going to think you're nuts hoi ,iuse of
this You're going to lose your job It'll make
you look had
Before Timothy's body was found.
Mil belle I.od/.inski repeated I v told relatives
she feared those responsible for his death
might t ome after her
FBI offii lals and Middlesex t ountv Prose
color Kolmrt Gluck said Mil belle I.od/inski
claimed to have been kidnap|>ed by two men
identifying themselves as FBI agents
"At the end of the interview with her. we
determined her story Ini ked credibility,
said Hank Glaspie. FBI spokesman for the
Detroit office.
Michelle l.odzinski, 2t>. was staving with
relatives Sunday in Toledo. ()hio. and could
not be real bed for comment Her mother,
Alice Lodzinski, said her son planned to
pick her daughter up but did not know
when she would bo bei k
Gluck said investigators want to speak to
Mic.hallf? I.od/mski whim sho returns, and
addl'd that she i> still a su*p«* t m Timothy s
death
I hi' fivt> year old disap|**ared at ii carnival
he was attending with his mother in Slav
loot Ills skeletal remains were found in
April 1992 in a marshy section of an indus
trial park
Shi! has never stopped (wing .1 stispei t.
(iluck said Sunday The investigation is still
open
When questioned after I iuiothv s disap
pea ranee. Michelle l.od/mski first said she
lost trai k of her son when she went to buy a
soda 1-iter she told police a couple that she
re< ogni/ed took the hoy aw.in
She moved in with her brother after she
rei eived harassing phone calls and her
apartment was burglarized, f.dward l.odzin
ski has said Police also have tint onfirmed
reports that someone stalked Mu belli*
laxlzinski for about two months in 1992
Golden Globe Awards honor ‘Schindler’s List’
BEVERI.V HILLS, Calif. (AP)
— Schindler's List, considered
by many the crowning achieve
ment of Steven Spielberg s dis
tinguished filmmaking career,
left the Golden Globe-winning
director at a loss for words on
what lies ahead.
"The sad thing for me. I don't
know what I'm going to do
next," said Spielberg, who
accepted Golden Globes on Sat
urday night for best dramatic
picture and best director.
Schindler s Ust was the expe
rience of my motion picture
life." said the maker of laws,
ET The Extra- Terrestrial and
The Color Purple
What could lie ahead are
Oscars for the director and his
soaring black-and-white film
about a Na/.i profiteer's rest ue of
Jews in the Holocaust
The Golden Globes, awarded
by the Hollywood Foreign Press
Association, are seen as a
barometer of film industry senti
ments leading up to voting for
the Academy Awards, which
will be handed out March 21.
Also in the running are Tom
Hanks and Holly Hunter, hon
ored for best dramatic perfor
mances in Philadelphia and
The Piano, respectively.
The 51st Golden Globe
Awards show was staged at the
Beverly Hilton Hotel
Monks, who plays a lawyer
with AIDS who sties his firm for
firing him in Philadelphia,
accepted his award with humble
thanks to 0 number of advisers
now dead from AIDS
"I am a very lucky man to
have been able to make the
i holt es I've made this \ear. '
said Hanks, who also starred in
Sleepless in Seattle
Hunter was honored for her
role as a mute virtuoso in colo
nial New Zealand The star of
The Piano thanked director
writer Jane Campion for "com
ing up with such an amazingly
original story "
After the ceremony. Spielberg
said youths who laughed during
a recent Oakland screening of
Schindler's List and applauded
when a Jewish woman was shot
by .1 sadistic. Merman officer
were "not to blame
"They've been desensitized to
violence," he said The director
also said he planned to take bis
film to Germany in a couple of
weeks, "and that should lie very
interesting."
Kohin Williams was named
IHist actor in a musical or come
dy for masquerading as a British
nanny in Mrs Doubtfire. which
was named best musical or com
edy film.
"If I start shaking, it's my
nerves, not the room.” Williams
s.ud, referring to last week's
quake mid iho aftershocks Tho
exits are over there und there
Angela Bassett. vvlm portrayed
Tina Tumor in What's Give t-ot
to Do With It. won Iho (.loin- for
Im'sI ai tress in a musii a I or corn ■
edy
Winona Ryder of l hr Agr of
Innocence and Tommy I.oo
lories of The Fugitive won Gold
on Globos us host supporting
plavors
Tho press assor lalion made
Iho comedy series Seinfeld, tho
hard-nosed cop show NYPD
Hlur and the HBO drama liar
bantu is at the (late multiple
winners in the television cate
gories
Seinfeld was named best
comedy series, and star Jerry
Seinfeld and supporting actress
Julia I .outs Dreyfus also coder I
oil Gloiies
SYPD Hlue. dropped by some
stations because of its frank
material, was selected lies! dra
ma series, and star David Caruso
was honored for best perfor
mance by an actor in a dramatic
series.
Kathy Baker of Picket Fences
won best actress honors for a
dramatic television series
Barbarians At the Gate, the
scorching treatment of financial
chicanery in the 'HOs, scored a
Globe for best millineries or
movie made for TV Its. shir.
James (aimer, won for lies! actor
in 11 minisorios
Helen Hunt of Mod About
You. was named lies! actress in a
musical or comedy
Bruce Springsteen claimed
the Golden Globe for best origi
nal song in a motion picture for
"Streets of Philadelphia," writ
ten for Philadelphia
The ballroom at the Beverly
Hilton Hotel seemed festive
despite the devastation of the
past week in Los Angeles
"We all thank God that we re
alive and well and able to be
here tonight." said em< ee Faye
Dunaway.
Before the program began,
producer Dick Clark said the
ballroom was safe and pointed
out emergency exits to the audi
ence.
Presenters included Gregory
Peck. Al Pacino. Mariel Heming
way, Carol Burnett. Morgan
Freeman, Lou Gossett )r , Laura
Dern, Charlton Heston, Tim
Robbins. Andy Garcia and Sam
Waterston.
Two presenters dropped out:
Kirstie Aliev and Arsenio Hall.
The homes of both were report
edly damaged by the Jan. 17
earthquake.
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