Double The Action At 'Sweet Valley High'

June 21, 1994

-Valley girls: "Sweet Valley High," the series of novels based on teenage life in a fictional California town, will become a syndicated half-hour television show in the fall. Starring as Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, the 16-year-old identical twin heroines of Sweet Valley, Calif., are Cynthia and Brittany Daniel, best known as the "Doublemint Twins" of the gum commercials.

-Singin' in the theater: How cool would your friends think you were if in the middle of watching Disney's "The Lion King," you started singing "The Circle of Life," "I Just Can't Wait to be King," or the three other songs from the movie? If that's a measure of coolness, then the ruler is Walt Disney Records' "The Lion King Sing-Along." Included are a cassette featuring the five tunes as they are actually sung in the movie, and a book that gives you the words to those songs. There are also several illustrations from the movie. "The Lion King Sing-Along" sells for about $11.

-Wedding "Bell": It may be the wedding of the century: Zack's and Kelly's of "Saved by the Bell," the show that won't die. Even though "SBTB: The College Years" was canceled by NBC last month, "Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas" is in production as a two-hour TV movie. Mark Paul-Gosselaar and Tiffani Amber Thiessen will return as their characters get hitched, which should happen in October.

-Quick words: Janet Jackson nailed two MTV movie awards a few weeks ago, for best female performance and most desirable female off her appearance in "Poetic Justice." And Janet's brother Michael, whose "Will You Be There" from "Free Willy" also won an award, will soon be back in the recording studio. ...Multiwave Innovation has created the Audiowave 3D Surround Stix, the world's first joystick to feature built-in 3D sound.