NEW YORK Art Carney and Barnard Hughes, a couple of Irish actorswho look enough alike to be brothers, are now playing brothers on"The Cavanaughs."
On hiatus for 1 1/2 years, the CBS series returns to the airtonight (at 7:30 on WBBM-Channel 2). Hughes plays Pop Cavanaugh, whounlovingly refers to his brother as "the weasel." Carney appearsonly in the first of eight new episodes ready to air. He hopes to bein more after the writers' strike ends.
In 1986, Carney's daughter praised "The Cavanaughs," a sitcomabout a working-class Irish family in Boston, so he watched. "I wentafter the part; I've never done that before. I called up my agentand said, `If the brother …
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