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Thocast of Martin is back for their third season premiere, on Thursday, Sept. 1 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT)
on Fox. Pictured clockwise from top left: Carl Anthony Payne II as Cole, Tommy Mika! Ford as Tommy,
Tisha Campbell as Gina, Martin Lawrence as Martin and Tichina Arnold as Pam.
Martin, a relationship comedy
starring multitalented comedian/ac-
tor/director Martin Lawrence, returns
for its fourth season when newly
weds M artin (M artin Lawrence) and
Gina (Tisha Campbell) embark on
their new life together as husband
and wife, yet fes much as they love
p n fp th e r, each has a different per
spective orrTfTe road that lies ahead.
Martin isn’t about to let the institution
o f marriage take away his individual
ity or putacrim p in his lifestyle; Gina
is perfectly content with settling down
and moving into a new phase in her
life. One thing is for certain -- Ozzie
and Harriet they are not!
Lawrence plays M artin Payne, a
wuecracking, macho man whose bark
is far worse than his bite. Though he
doesn’t care to admit it, underneath
his tough exterior is a sensitive guy
who is all heart. M artin works for
D etroit’s cable station 51 as host o f
his own p o litic a lly incorrect talk
show. “ Word on the Street.” As much
as he loves serving up laughs and
stirring up trouble, M artin ’s real pas
sion is his beloved Gina, a marketing
executive and career woman with a
mind o f her own. As the only one
who can keep martin in check, Gina
is his perfect counterpart, providing
the “ yin” to M artin's “ Yang.”
Memories o f their single days
w ill not be forgotten with their close
pals never far behind: Pam (Tichina
A rnold) is Gina’ s quick-tongued,
sassy best friend, forever verbally
dueling with Martin; Tommy (Tho
mas M ikal Ford) and Cole (Carl
Anthony Payne 11) are M artin ’sever-
present buddies and comrades in the
battle o f the sexes.
Lawrence also plays a number
o f other characters on the series in
cluding Sheneneh, his feisty, know-
it-all neighbor across the hall; '«'Jtis,
and overweight, no-nonsense securi
ty guard; Momma Payne, M artin’ s
o ld -fa s h io n e d c o u n try m other;
Roscoe, the young, bratty neighbor;
and Jerome, a street-slick, neighbor
hood friend forever stuck in the ‘ 70s.
M artin has earned two NAACP
Image Awards, fiaving been selected
in 1993 as Best New Television Se
ries and in 1994 for Outstanding
Comedy Series. Lawrence was also
chosen as the recipient o f the 1994
N A A C P Image Award for Outstand
ing A ctor in a Comedy Series, the
show has also garnered a People’s
Choice Award for Best New Come
dy Series.
Samm-Art W illiam s and Martin
Lawrence are the executive produc
ers for HBO Independent Produc
tions.
Bob James, Lee Ritenour, Nathan East, and Harvey
Fourplay serves up a rom anti
cally intoxicating and soulfully sen
sual mix on E lixir, their third release
on Warner Bros Records. Bob James,
Lee Ritenour, Nathan East and
Harvey Mason take it to a new high,
blending pop rock, jazz, funk, R &B
and classical elements into a heady
and magical p o tio n -w ith special
guests Phil Collins, Patti Austin and
Peabo Bryson
Fourplay’ senduring and distinc
tive alliance grows richer w ith each
album and E lix ir adds one more chap
ter to an already impressive list o f
accomplishments. The first epony-
were all about and what was possi-./
ble. W e’ re solid and surviving w ith y
our own identity.” Ritenour adds,
“ It’s impossible to not sound like
Fourplay. We each have our own
style, but when we come together as
Fourplay whatever the song is, no
matter who wrote it, there is a tangi- '
ble and unique direction.” James
concludes, “ When we get together,
there is something larger than the
four o f us. Our styles merge in a way
that we don’ t even need to talk about
it.” He laughs and adds, “ Although '
we do talk...a lot!”
And they have a lot to talk about..'. ;
mous release spent an unprecedent
ed 33 weeks at No. I on B illbo ard ’s
Contemporary Jazz chart. Fourplay’s
Grammy-nominated second album,
Between The Sheets, also captured
theNo. I spotontheB illboard,R & R ,
Gavin and M A C charts and followed
the debut recording to gold certifica
tion.
Bob James asserts, “ I think we’ ve
fin ally really settled into our style In
the beginning, we were exploring
and trying to find out i f we were a
group.
This third album is the first time
we went in really knowing what we
The Preston
Episodes
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Saturdays 8 :3 0 -9 :0 0 PM
The Preston Episodes is a half-
hour comedy about David Preston
(David Alan Grier), a newly di vorced
college professor who moves from
his comfortable but predicable life in
New Jersey to pursue his lifelong
dream to become a w riter in New
York City.
A 37-year-old scholar and aca
demic, Preston makes the drastic
move to the big city and rents a tiny
one-bedroom apartment that comes
complete with a very eccentric, ne 'er-
d o -w e ll neighbor named Derek
(Tom m y H ikley), who is constantly
on the lookout for schemes to raise
rent money, usually getting David
into trouble in the process.
Landing a w riting jo b proves to
be harder than anticipated, and
Preston’ s overly optim istic vision o f
making journalistic history and w in
ning the Pulitzer Prize is soon deflat
ed when the only jo b he can land is
with a People-like, puff-piece maga
zine called S tuff and only as an un
derpaid photo caption writer.
Determined to make his new jo b
a stepping stone to greatness, Preston
descends upon the magazine’s some
what cynical staff with his impossi
bly positive attitude. His editor, Larry
D unhill (C live R evill), is a belliger
ent lover o f printed nonsense who
rebels against any attempt David
makes to increase the integrity o f the
publication. David discovers a con
fidante, however hesitant, in K e lly
Freeman (Judith Scott), a bumed-
out, one-time award-winning w riter
who left the world o f real news to
escape ulcers and anxiety attacks.
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