26 - Wednesday, December 28, 1988 —- North Shore News WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 28 8:00 © QD *« “Showdown (1973, Western) Dean Martin, Rock Hudson. A sheriff's old friend turns out to be a bank robber. @ (2 “Prototype” (1983, Science Fiction} Christopher Plummer, David Morse. A Nobet prize-winning scientist abducts the humanoid he helped to create to prevent it from being used for military purposes. @) x “The Final Option’ (1982, Drama) Richard Widmark, Judy Davis. An anti- nuclear group seizes contro! of the American Embassy in London and warns that govern- ment hostages will be murdered if its demands are not met. 9:00 ©@® xxx “The Return of Martin Guerre’ (1981, Drams} Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye. in rural 16th-century France, a young husband, mysteriously absent for a number of years, returns to raciaim his wife and family property. © G3 “Lilac Dream” (1987, Drama) Susan Almgren, Dack Rambo. Seaking an escape from the rat race, a beautiful executive finds the serenity of her resort island vacation inter- rupted with the discovery of a handsome am- nesiac seemingly cast upon her shore. 10:40 @ «xe “Benvenuta”’ (1983, Orame} Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman. Deux his- toires enchevetrees: celle d'un scenariste venu rencontrer une romanciere, dans le but de mieux cerner I'heroine de son livre, qu’it veut porter a l'ecran; puis celle des person- nages de Il’ecrivaine. 11:00 © @® xxx “Golden Boy” (1939, Drama) Witliam Holden, Barbara Stanwyck. Out of fin- ancial necessity, a young man foregoes a car- eer as a concert pianist to become a prizefigh- ter. 11:33 B® @ xx “Superiug: The Wild One” (1977, Adventure) Richard Lynn, Constance Seich. An amazing car called ““Superbug" be- comes the wackiest animal in the jungfe. 12:07 @@® 24% “The Ship That Died of Shame” {1956, Drama) Richard Attenborough, George Baker. A gunboat revolts against its use as a smuggling vessel by three ex-war buddies. {R) 12:45 eo ®@ kk ‘Three Littl Words” (1950, Musical} Fred Astaire, Red Skelton. Vaudev- ilian Bert Kalmar and Coney Island piano player Harry Ruby join forces to become one of the mo: st famous songwriting teams of the EVENING MOVIES THURSDAY DECEMBER 29 8:00 2) «#2 “How to Beat the High Cost of Lising’’ (1979, Comedy) Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin. No longer able to keep up with inflation, three Oregon housewives turn to lar- ceny to balance their budgets. @® ae ‘La Guerre des Turquas” (1984, Comedie) Cedric Jourde, Julien Elie. L'histoire d'un grand jeu de guerre opposant deux gangs de jeunes tres soucieux de vaincre et dont la temerite les amene a se prendre au serieux. 9:30 & wanlz “David Copperfield” (1935, Drama} Lionel Barrymore, W. C. Fields. Based on the story by Charles Dickens. A young or- phan boy grows up in 19th Century England. {Colorized Version) 10:40 @ ** "Le Roi de coeur’ (1966, Conte} Alan Bates, Genevieve Bujold. En 1918, tes Anglais envoient un specialiste desamorcer une mine dans un village francais. 11:15 © @ ae2% “Major Barbara” (1941, Co- medy) Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison. From the play by George Bernard Shaw. A rich society girl joins the Salvation Army. 11:45 ea@® ** “Superbug: Super Agent’ (1976, Adventure) Robert Mark, Heidi Han- sen. A versatila compact car becomes in- volved in intemational espionage. 12:15 © «4% "The Cartior Affair’ (1984, Co- medy) Joan Collins, David Hasselhoff. A TV sex goddess teams up with her male secre- tary, a handsome ex-con, to retrieve her stclen jewelry collection from a crime ring operated from inside a prison. 1:00 *« “Mountain Family Robinson’ (1979, Adventure) Robert Logan, Susan Da- mante Shaw. A city family runs into trouble with the forestry service when they ssek a simpler lifestyle in the wilderness. FRIDAY DECEMBER 30 8:00 CD) wxx “Stand By Me" (1986, Comedy- Drama) Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix. In the jast days of the summer of 1959, four friends share what could be their fast adventure to- gether as they search for a missing boy's body. . GO *% “Private Resort” (1985, Co- medy} Rob Morrow, Johnny Depp. Two teen- agers prowl the beaches of a luxurious resort in their quest for beautiful girls. TV. (12) #&2 “Hang Em High” (1968, West- ern) Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens A man brings those who tried to lynch him to justice. (2D #2 “Gus” (1976, Comedy) Edward Asner, Don Knotts. While a last-place football team uses a pigskin-kicking mule to improve its standings, a pair of bumbling crooks tries to kidnap the animal. @ @ xeex “The Sound of Music’ (1965, Musical} Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer. Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical inspired this Oscar-winning story of the convent- trained Von Trapp family governess who won the heart of the children’s father and whose courage led them across the Alps in their 1938 flight to freedom. (R} D @ «x “Henri (1986, Drame) Eric Brise- bois, Jacques Godin. Pour se valoriser, Renri, un jeune garcon, qui court tous les matins pour se rendre a fecole, decide de participer a la course annuelle de ja region. 11:00 © @ *«% “The Secret Agent” (1936, Mystery) Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud. Two spies pair off as man and wife in order to track down an enemy agent. 12:10 @ *«'2 “Tout feu tout flamme’’ (1981, Comedie) Yves Montand, Isabelle Adjani. Un homme qui a abandonne sa famitle veut re- venir mais il doit faire face au caractere intran- sigeant dune de ses filles. 11:45 @ @® GD «*% “Digby. the Siggest Dog in the World” (1973, Fantasy} Jim Dale, Angela Douglas. A dog belonging to a lovely widow grows to an enormous size after he acciden- tally drinks a potion intended for scientific re- search, 12:10 @ GD #*% “Where the Boys Ara’’ (1960, Comedy) George Hamilton, Delores Hart. Four young women join the hordes of Florida- bound collegians during Easter vacation. - SATURDAY DECEMBER 31 . 8:00 @ GD «*% “Superman Ill’ (1983, Adven- ture) Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor. A vil- lainous industrial magnate tries to neutralize the Man of Steel by splitting him into his good _ and avil personalities. (R} Q @ BO xxx “Alvarez Kelly” (1966, West- ern} William Holden, Richard Widmark. An ad- venturer bringing a herd of 2500 cattle to the Union Army is abducted by Confederate guer- rillas. GQ xe4% Network’ (1976, Drama} Wil- liam Halden, Faye Dunaway. An aging televi- sion newsman, whose ratings are steadily slipping, is turned into a ranting prophet of the airwaves by a crafty female programming exe- cutive. 12:10 DB AD «2 “Night Shift’ (1982, Comedy) Henry Winkler. Shelley Long. Two nighttime morgue attendants become ‘love brokers’ for a group of hookers who have lost their pimp. 92:15 3 & «ex “Bad Boys” (1982. Drama) Sean Penn, Ally Sheedy. Sentenced to reform school for the accidenta) death of a young boy, a sneering hoodlum comes face to face with his victim's vengeful brother. 1:00 @ A «4% "The Angel Levine" (1970, Fan- tasy} Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte. An angel's mission to provide a miracte for an elderly cou- ple is hindered by their lack of faith. SUNDAY. JANUARY 1 6:00 QD x "The Frisco Kid” (1979. Co- medy} Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford. A Polish rabbi finds himself involvea in wild frontier misadventures with a daring bank robber when he travels to San Francisco to take over @ new congregation. 8:00 GD GO «* “Murrow” (1986, Drama) Danie! J. Travanti, Dabney Coleman. The career of newsman Edward R. Murrow, whose integrity and style has become a benchmark for broad- cast journalism, is traced from his early days in radio thruugh his ofttimes controversial years at CBS television. 9:00 @ GD «22 “A View to a Kill” (1985, Ad- venture} Roger Moore, Christopher Walken. British agent James Bond attempts to thwarta genetically superior industrialist whose diabol- ical plans of becoming czar of the computer industry are nearing completion. (R) Q @ 8 GD “The Man in the Brown Suit’ (1988, Mystery) Stephanie Zimbalist, Edward Woodward. Premiere. Agatha Christie’s 1924 novel inspired this tale of an adventurous American tourist who plays amateur sleuth following a suspicious “accident” in Egypt. Q @ @ GD “The Karen Carpenter Story” {1888, Biography) Cynthia Gibb, Mitchell An- derson. Premiere. Based on the life and career of The Carpenters’ popular singer, and details surrounding her tragic death in 1983. (in Stereo} O DUE TO courier problems over the holiday season, the television listings in today’s Now section are incomplete. Listings for today’s paper include Wednesday through Sunday. Monday and Tuesday television listings will be printed in the Sunday, Jan. 1 edition of the North Shore News. An RRMA HET a ROA ba fy RRA A AVE ieChon hee NEWS photo Mike Wa! JANE McLENNAN (left) and Peggy Naphtali, both big fans of local artist Daniel Izzard, pause to admire one of his paintings while shopping over the holidays. [zzard's paintings bave appeared in galleries around the North Shore. One of his collections was on display at Park Royal shopping centre during December.