'Fantasy' ratings grow

ABC's Hawaii-based "Fantasy Island" showed some marginal progress in the Neilsen ratings Saturday night with a 3.5 rating and 8 share in homes, and a 2.4/7 in adults aged 18-49. That's up 14 percent over its previous-week 18-49 rating.

Apparently ABC plans to keep the show in production through its 13 episodes. Last week producers replaced the two writers of all the episodes except the pilot, which received the highest ratings for the show.

CBS won the prime-time Saturday ratings in homes followed by Fox which won the 18-49 category.

Each household rating point represents 1 percent of the country's TV households. Each adult 18-49 rating point represents about 1.2 million viewers, 1 percent of the U.S. total. A share is measured against only the homes or viewers watching television during the timeslot involved.

Prazak Quartet opens series

The acclaimed Prazak Quartet from Prague opens the 44th season of the Honolulu Chamber Music Series at Orvis Auditorium at 8 p.m. Friday. The quartet will perform Dvorak's Op. 51, a fiery tribute to Bohemian folk music; Janacek's "Intimate Letters," telling of the composer's bittersweet love for a young woman; and Beethoven's Op. 132.

Tickets are $20 and $15, at Orvis that night. Buy them in advance at the UH Campus Center ticket office or Harry's Music Store. Meet the artists at 7 p.m. in Room 36 of the Music Complex.

Future performers: Ying Quartet Nov. 21; Eroica Trio Jan. 22; Palladian Ensemble March 26; American Quartet April 10. Order season tickets, $90, at 956-8242. Student season tickets, $65, are available at Campus Center.

PREVIEW

Five films open on Friday:

"The Siege": Annette Bening stars as a tough, morally equivocal CIA agent. Rated R.

"Touch of Evil": Orson Welles 1958 film stars Janet Leigh as a newlywed to a Mexican cop (Charlton Heston) struggling to find a killer in a nightmare border town. Rated PG-13.

"Wizard of Oz": Dorothy and company come back in blazing digital color. Rated G.

"The Waterboy": Adam Sandler in a revenge comedy about a football team assistant who's kinda slow. Rated PG-13

"Living Out Loud": Holly Hunter plays a New York nurse whose surgeon husband walks out of her life. Single again at fortysomething, the confused Judy veers between dreams of suicide and self-realization. Rated R.

Also opening tomorrow:

"Belly": A drama about two childhood friends from New York. Rated R.

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