BEHIND THE SCENES Straight role on ‘Wiseguy’ is a nice change for Banks By Frank Lovece As Frank McPike - Terrano Vinnie s liaison with the bureau is on “Wisepuy™ (CBS, Wednesdays) — Jona- than Banks plays TV's cold- est good guy since “The Equalizer" went off the air, i and a real exterior, al- sup for an adr rush. To the prod eredit, he doesn't live sly through Vinn fot his own life woven throughout the sprawling, novelistic series, Jonathan Banks Until “Wiseguy,” Ban was one of the most in-de- mand character actors in TV and film, He killed Eddie Murphy's buddy in “Bewer- ly Hills Cop" (1084) 1 played assorted nasties in r Crazy" (1980), “Cald Steel (1987) and elsewhere Release the week of Nov. 1 not used to doin’ a straight ¢ er all these bad g he muses. “Maybe | was tthe type east uso villain, but y'know, it didn’t bother me much. Clearly, the world-weary part comes from [Hank self. In his early 40s, he had kind of life that r McPike. His parents di- vorced soon after his birth in Chillurm Heights, Md., a block outside Washington, D.C. He was raised by his single mother, who went to night school and later be qume a college instructor. After being entranced as a child by, the movie “Peter Pan" = "1 didn't want the lights to come up, 1 did ce lo end” ventually attended In diana University school after major, and le his junior year “because my daughter Joanna was born, and J had to work.” He be- cume a waiter, then a stage manager and director, work- ing for two y sin Austra- lin before embarking on a screen career here Now he divides his time between Malibu and Var- where emuy” is nd he's a bit world- Uh, main, let me out he pleads, more day who fall with neouy don't spend any time the It's nice to see that with Hanks, as with MePike, the adrenaline can kiek in. in love 19-25, 1989