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Q&A WITH DICK CLARK : 'Popular Music Is the Soundtrack of Our . . . Lives'

February 07, 1994|MICHAEL ARKUSH | TIMES STAFF WRITER

A: God knows, I take care of myself. I've launched a skin care line and it's going to be a huge business. It's an excellent line of skin care products. It has all the latest developments in it. It has nothing to do with what I look like, but I act as its spokesman. I own it, as a matter of fact. Why not capitalize on the fact that there's a guy who is 64 years old and looks pretty good for his age?

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Q: Why hasn't your company produced successful dramatic series or situation comedies?

A: Situation comedies are a specialty area. If we had had the kind of money to spend on the creators, producers and writers, we could do it. I don't think that's a good way to invest the public's money because the odds are minimal that you'll succeed. We may get one on, but we're hanging on with bated breath for CBS to give us a nod one way or the other. It's a story of two teen idols, who happen to be real idols--Frankie Avalon and Michael Damian. Frankie plays the father, Michael the son who gives up his teaching job to go into music, much to the dismay of his father, who is a former teen idol. It's a very, very funny premise. We did a run-through for CBS and they had us commission a script. You and I can relate to the older end of it, and those kids who are falling in love with the 8 o'clock shows will love the youthful end of it.

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Q: What have you not done?

A: I'd like to launch a Broadway show because we failed twice. It's a part of the entertainment business I haven't quite licked yet. I'd like our company to have more regular series on so that we don't have to reinvent ourselves every few minutes, but in the meantime, being the most successful of what we do is not a bad mantle to carry.

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