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Strauss spent seven months in France and Switzerland working on 'Tender Is the Night" as the phlegmatic Dick Diver. He stars in this British adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel about a psychiatrist who marries' a mentally unstable woman after World War I. "When I finished, I had just 10 days to get that Polish accent for 'Kane & Abel, " he recalls. "I had a Polish musician badger me. He wasn't a tea cher. It was just a matter of listening and putting it together. The Polish dialect is not like any other dialect. You don't lose it in time. You improve your use of articles and verb tense. And I had to do it out of time sequence." "Kane & Abel," which spans six decades of the 20th century, was filmed in Toronto, New York and France. The contrast between the two miniseries and the two characters played by Strauss is enor mous. "Tender Is the Night" moves with a pace so slow it would take a glacialist to measure it. "Kane & Abel" gallops at a fast clip. It's grab, hold and hang on. And Strauss' Abel is as lively and driving as Diver is stoic and withdrawn. Showtime pay television network will show the six-hour "Tender Is the Night" in four parts, begin ning Sunday night and ending in late November. It also stars Mary Steenburgen, John Heard and Sean Young. CBS will telecast the seven-hour "Kane & Abel" in three parts on Nov. 17, 18 and 19. Sam Neill plays Kane and the all-star cast in cludes Veronica Hamel. "It was very interesting to see how one country interprets another's literature," says Strauss, ref erring to the BBC version of Tender Is the Night." "I want the show to be successful. The English made an English approach to Fitzgerald. British viewers loved it. I don't want to go on record say ing I don't like it. Let's just say the pacing is not 'Miami Vice."' About "Kane & Abel," Strauss says, "I'm not one of those people who find making pictures fun. You would have thought Abel would be a fun part, but toward the end he goes through some very emotional times. I can't shut myself off from that. But I will say that working with director Buzz Kulik was wonderful and I'd work with him again. I can't say that about BBC." Besides learning a Polish accent, Strauss also had to learn to be a waiter for scenes early in the miniseries. "I'm the worst waiter in the world, " he says. "I trained at La Chaumiere at the Century Plaza Ho tel. I wanted to train well enough so that when I came through the door people would say 'this is not an ordinary waiter.' Do yon know why wait er's pants have a back pocket? To put the tip they cut from a cigar." □ daytime KPRC 0 KBTX 0KCEN 0 KUHT CD KHOU fflKTVT (Dktrk © KAMI) © KTXH CSPAN ©KTVV ©KHTV WTBS WGN CBN USA McCaw © 0 0 © 0 © 0 © © 11 © © © © © rjoo Today CBS Morning News Good Morning America Sesame Street CBS Morning News Plasticman News M.A.S.K. 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