SCREEN BEAT

Far be it from me, one lone U.S. citizen, to try and personally intervene in our government’s foreign policy, but I feel it only my patriotic duty to point out to the leaders of Home Box Office that if there’s even the slightest chance that Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev staved in a house equipped with cable during his summit conference with Ronald Reagan, then the network had better have kept the Billy Joel From Leningrad, USSR special off that week’s schedule lest they wish to be held responsible for threatening the entire course of international diplomacy.