34 - Wednesday, December 27, 1989 - North Shore News

FRIDAY
DECEMBER 29

. 6:00
ARTS :12) «ee “A Little Romance’ (1979,
Comedy, ! aurence Olivier, Arthur Hill. An eld-
erly con artist joins two young runaways in
love on a mad dash across the European conti-
nant with the children’s parents and the police
in hot pursuit.
SUPER @2 w#* “Three Men and a Baby”
(1887) Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg.
7:00
@ G2 ex%% “The Sand Pebbles” (1966,
Adventure) Steve McQueen, Richard Crenna.
An Amagrican is forced to take a stand when
opium is planted aboard his gunboat cn the
Yengize river.
8:00

@ QO *« “Cold River’ (1982, Adventure}
Suzanne Weber, Pat Petersen. The father of
two young children dies, Igaving the kids alone
in the Adirondacks with few survival skills.
Qi) *% “Lightning -- The White Stai-
tion” (1986, Drama) Mickey Rooney, Isabel
Lorca. A young woman faces a series of ob-
stacles in her quest to race a very special
horse.
23 “The Chameleons” (1989, Comedy)
Marcus Gilbert, Crystal Bernard. Premiere.
Two women join farces with a costumed cri-
mefighter to expose the men responsible for
killing their grandfather, a self-styled super-
hero. {In Stereo)
SUPER G2) ##¥ "High Spirits’’ (1988) Peter
O'Toots, Darryl Hannah.

8:30

xxt'2 ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Bro-

die” (1969, Grama) Maggie Smith, Robert
Stephens. A teacher at a girls’ day school
teaches her students an appreciation of
beauty and romance.

10:00
ARTS G7) x#& “A Little Romance” (1979,
Comedy) Leurence Olivier, Arthur Hill. An eld-
erly con artist joins two young runaways in
love on a mad dash across the European conti-
nant with tha children’s parents and the police
in hot pursuit.

10:30

@ GH xxx “I Cover the Waterfront”
(1933, Mystery) Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert.
A waterfront reporter falls inlove with a smug-

gler’s daughter.
11:30

©} @ «* “The Kennel Murder Case”
£1933, Mystery) William Powell, Mary Astor.
Detective Philo Vance sifts through clues and
comes up with seven possible suspects in the
murder of a sportsman.
(7) wwe “La Rose pourpre du Caire”
{1985, Comedie} Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels.
Dans les annees 30. Cecitia, une serveuse de
restaurant battue et trompee par son mari, se
confine dans te reve que lui offre le cinema.

11:40
@ (18) xx “On Approval” (1944, Comedy)
Ciyde Brooks, Beatrice Lillie. Two girls on va-
cation with their boyfriends decide *o test their
feelings by switching mates.

12:30
SUPER G2 “Popcorn and Ice Cream”
{198 1) Gesa Garbor, Alexander Grill.

12:37
@ GG) «e«% “Marked Woman” (1937)
Batte Davis, Humphrey Bogart.

4:00
@ @S xx “The Sea Wolves” (1980)
Gregory Peck, Roger Moore.
ARTS (7) #%* "Medium Cool’’ (1969) Rob-
ert Forster, Verna Bloom.

1:30
AD a0% ‘The Revengers” (1972) Wil-
liam Holden, Ernest Borgnine.

2:00
@D 20 xx0% “Fantastic Voyage’’ (1966)
Stephen Boyd, Edmond O'Brien.
(2) «a “At the Earth's Core” (1976)
Peter Cushing, Doug McClure.

2:10
© (id #2% “House of the Long Shadows”
{1983} Vincent Price, Peter Cushing.

3:00
SUPER G2) «#12 “High Spirits’’ (1988) Peter
O'Toole, Darryl Hannah.

3:25
@ ® « “They Szill Call Me Bruce” (1987)
Johnny Yune, David Mendenhall.

SATURDAY
DECEMBER 30

6:00
@® 0) sxx “The Purple Rose of Cairo”
(1985, Comedy) Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels. A
Depression-era waitress who frequents the
movies to escape her unhappy marriage em-
barks on a whirlwind adventure when a mati-
nee ido! steps off the screen and into her life.
G2 &#¥2 ‘Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower
the River’ (1968, Comedy) Jerry Lewis,
Terry-Thomas. An American continually at-
tempts ridiculous “‘get-rich-quick’’ schemes,
eventually causing his British wife to leave

him
; 8:00

2B (6) #* “Crazy Moon" (1986, Comedy-
Drama) Kiefer Sutherland, Vanessa Vaughan
A wealthy, eccentric teen-ager from a trou-
bled furuly finds friendship ard romance with
a young deaf woman.

GD) 20 eeee “The Stunt Man’ (1980.
Orara) Peter O'Toole, Steve Raisbuck
Wanted by the police, a disturbed Vietnam
veteran finds an unsure haven on a movie set

a World War | epic is being himed

Dirty Rotten Seoundrels”

SN bee Ces

TV.

EVENING MOVIES

9:00

© GD «ex “Columbo: Murder, Smoka and
Shadows’ (1989, Mystery) Peter Falk, Fisher
Stevens. Special effects and movie magic are
the order af the day when Columbo investi-
gates a young filmmaker suspected of murder.
(R} (in Stereo} Q

@ GD «*% “Brethren” (1976, Drama) Ken
Welsh, Tom Hauff. Having been raised in the
shadow of their strong-willed father, three
brothers individually search for ther own

identities.

10:00
SUPER G2) e**¥ ‘’The Accidental Tour-
ist’ (1988) William Hurt, Kathleen Turner.

11:00
@B i xx “The Nanny” (1965, Suspense)
Bette Davis, Wendy Craig. A disturbed child
and his nanny resent each other for their res-
ponsibility in the death of the boy's sister.
11:05
(7) ®* “La Vie, 'amour, la mort” (1968,
Drame) Amidou, Caroline Cellier. Un homme
est accuse du meurtre de trois prostituees.

11:30
@Q «ak “Escape From New York’’
(198 3, Science Fiction) Kurt Russell, Adrienne
Barbeau. in the near future, a hardened cri-
minal is offered a pardon if he can rescue the
president of the United States from convicted
killers in the prison city of Manhatian.

12:00

SUPER “Gotham’’ (1988) Tommy Lee
Jones, Virginia Madsen.
12:30
@® «#2 “Meatbalis’’ (1979) Bill Murray,
Chris Makepeace.
1:00
AATS (G7) xx* “Dance With a Stranger’
(1985) Miranda Richardson, jam Holm.
1:07
G) **'2 “Romance on the High Seas”
(1948) Doris Day, Jack Carson.
1:30
SUPER G2 « “Moon in Scorpio” (1987) Britt
Ekland, John Phillip Law.
1:35
© GV &% “Firebird 2015 AD” (1981) Dar-
ren McGavin, Doug McClure.

2:55
fé J

*x'2 ‘The Name of the Rose”
(1986} Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham.

3:00
SUPER G2 * *% “Dirty Rotten Scoundrets”’
(1988) Steve Martin, Michael Caine.

SUNDAY
DECEMBER 31

_ 6:00
SUPER_ (32) *x'2 “Cocoon: The Return’
(1988) Don Ameche. Wilford 8rimiey.
7:00
G2) ** “Dick Tracy vs. Cueball’ (1946,
Mystery) Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys.
Based.on the Chester Gould comic strip. A
keen-eyed detective matches wits with a vi-
cious and elusive crook.
7:30
GB GD 22% “The Sound of Music" (1965.
Musical) Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical inspr ed
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 freedam.
7 8:00
SUPER G2 #* “Heartbreak Hetel" (1988)
Gavid Keith, Charlie Schlatter.
8:05
#* “Mon cher petit village” (1986,
Comedie) Janos Ban, Marian Labuda. Dans un
village de la bankeue de Prague. un chauffeur
de camion et son assistant sont a l'emploi de
ja cooperative locate.
8:30
© G2 wee “Thunderball” (1965, Adven-
ture) Sean Connery, Claudine Auger. British
secret agent James Bond faces a series of
lethat obstacles as he tries to foil SPECTRE’s
atom bomb ransom plot in the Caribbean. (R)
(In Stereo)
G2) weer “M*AS*H™ (1970, Comedy)
Donaid Sutherland, Elliott Gould. During the
Korean War, a pair of unorthodox surgeons
raise havoc at a mobile Army surgical hospital
in Robert Altman's Oscar-winning military sa-

tire.

$:00
@ ® *% “The Goddess of Love” (1988,
Comedy) Vanna White, David Naughton. The
legendary Venus misinterprets the romantic
attentions of the affianced hairdresser who
brings her back to life.
(8) @4 **% “Liberace: Behind the Mu-
sic’’ (1988, Biography) Victor Garber, Mau-
teen Stapleton. A fact-based chronicle of the
personai and professional ives of the flam-
boyant entertainer known as ‘’Mr. Showman-
ship.” (Rh) O
3 GD «32 “Tho Goddess of Love” (1988.
Comedy) Vanna White, David Naughton. The
legendary Venus misinterprets the romantic
attentions of the affianced hairdresser who
brings her back to kfe. (R) (In Stereo) D
€D G3) «%%2 “Liberace: Behind the Music’
(1988. Biography) Victor Garber, Maureen
Stapleton. A fact-based chronicle of the per-
sonal and professional lives of the flamboyant
entertainer known as “Mr Showmanship.”

10:00
@D (18 24%: “How the West Was Won”
{1962, Western) George Peppard, Debtue
Reynolds Henry Hathaway. John Ford and
George Marshall co-directed ths histary of
Western eapansion during the 19th century as
seen through the bves of three generations of
a pioneer faruly

12:00
ED 13 sae “Elis! (1979 Bograpby) hurt
Russell Season Hubley,
tram poverty and ob

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YTV @5) xee “Till the Clouds Roll By”
(1947, Musical) Judy Garland, Robert Watker.
Jerome Kern makes his mark upon the musical
world as a composer.
12:30
G2 G) exe “Charge of the Light Brigade”
(1936) Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland.
12:35
GD Gt ae% “Frances” (1982) Jessica
Lange, Sam Shepard.
_ 1:00
DB (22 xx “Biame it on the Night’ (1984)
Nick Mancuso, Byron Thames.
ARTS (7) «#%z Oh, You Beautiful Doll”
(1949) June Haver, Mark Stevens.
SUPER G2 «#42 “Shakedown” (1988) Peter
Weller, Sam Elliott.
1:30
G2 «*% "The Wild Wild West Revis-
ited” (1979) Robert Conrad, Ross Martin.
2:55
@ © #2% “The Woman in Red’ (1984)
Gene Wilder, Kelly LeBrock.
3:00
SUPER G2 «* Heartbreak Hotel’ {1988}
David Keith, Chartie Schlatter.

MONDAY
JANUARY 1

6:00
SUPER @2) «212 ‘**batteries not included’
{1987} Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy.

7:00
(2) «4% “Drop-Out Father" (1982, Co-
medy) Dick Van Dyke, Mariette Hartley. A
middle-aged man leaves his advertising job
and moves to a loft apartment with his young-
est daughter when the rest of the family rebels
against his decision.

8:00
SUPER G2 * '’Teen Wolf Too’ (1987) Ja-
son Bateman, Kirn Darby.

9:00
waee “Kramer vs. Kramer” (1979,
Drama) Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep. Five
Oscars, including Best Picture, went to this
account of the bitter fight between a worka-
holic executive and tis estranged wife over
custody of their 7-year-old son.

DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
Steve Martin and Michael Caine star in this
wondertully crafted comedy about women who
make their living conning wealthy women

7.

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@ G2 ** “He's Fired, She's Hired” (1984,
Comedy) Wayne Rogers, Karen Valentine. At-
tempting to preserve thew well-heeled iifes-
tyle. an out-of-work ad executive gets his
inexperienced wife a copywriting job on Madi-
son Avenue.

@ GD “The Operation’ (1989, Suspense}
Joe Penny, Lisa Hartman. A malpracuce suit
leads to a w3b of betrayal. decen and murder
for a surgeon whose life is already in turmoil
over his impending divorce.

10:00
O @® «a8 “Victim” (1961, Suspense)
Owk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms. A iawyer's past
jeopardizes his legal career.
@ «* “Le Matou’’ (1985, Comedie)
Serge Dupwe, Monique Spaziani. Le yeune pro-
pnetaire d'un restaurant est en butte aux man-
oeuvres occulies d'un mysterieux vieulards.
SUPER G2) *** “Dead Man Out’ (1989)
Danny Glover, Ruben Blades.

11:30
SUPER (32 * ‘’Mercenary Fighters’ (1988)
Peter Fonda, Reb Brown.

12:00
B® ex2 Passage to Marseilles” (1944,
Adventure) Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains.
Convicts escape from Devil's Island and join
the Free French forces fighting the Nazis dur-
ing World War il. {R)

1:00
G2) *«& ‘The Five of Me" (1981) David
Birney. Dee Waliace.
QD *#%2 “Wild Horse Hank’ (1979)
Linda Blair, Richard Crenna.
ARTS (47) *#*% “The Party’ (1968) Peter
Sellers, Claudine Longet.
SUPER *Gotham’’ (1988) Tommy Lee
Jones, Virginia Madsen.

1:05
$3 GD *% “Lady Chatterly's Lover’ (1981)
Sylvia Kristel, Shane Briant.

2:00
6D 20 ** “Now and Forever’ (1983} Chery!
Ladd, Jan Clark.

3:00

©) 2D x22 “Flying High” (1978) Kathryn
Witt, Connie Sellecca.
SUPER G2 « ‘Teen Wolf Too" (1987) Ja-
son Bateman, Kim Darby.

3:25
@ @) “Street Games" (1987) Richard Zep-
pieri, Patricia Stretieff.

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TUESDAY

JANUARY 2

6:00
SUPER 32) x««'2 “The Accidental! Tour-
ist’’ (1988) Watiam Hurt, Kathieen Turner.

6:30
ARTS (17) # #2 ‘The Life and Death of Co-
lonel Blimp’ (1943, Drama) (Part 2 of 2) De-
borah Kerr, Rager Livesey. The kfe and loves
of an Engst mubtary tnan from the Boer War
through Wed War Il

7:00
@ G2 «+* “The Defection of Simas Ku-
dirka’’ (1978. Drama} Alan Arkin, Shirley
Knight. A Lithanman seaman makes a daring
leap for freedom from a Russian ship moored
off the coast cf Massachusetts.

8:00
(2) «es “Out of the Past’ (1947,
Orama) Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer. After
settling in California and changing his identity,
a New York detective finds that he can’t es-
cape past tres to a gangster and his mistress.
Coltonzed version.
SUPER 32 «2 “Tapeheads’’ (1988} John
Cusack, Tim Robbins

8:30
@) BH «ae “Children of a Lesser
God" (1986, Drama) Willam Hurt, Marlee Ma-
tlin. A newly arrived teacher at a school for the
deaf falls in love with a hearing-impaired
former student who possesses an indepen-
dent spirit. Based on Mark Medoff’s play; Best
Actress Oscar winner {Matlin}. (in Stereo) O

9:00
(42) *# “March or Dis’ (1977, Adven-
ture) Gene Hackman, Catherine Deneuve. An
archaelogist digs for Arab treasure in the Mor-
occan desert while a hard-headed major tries
19 control a young legionnaire with romance
on his mind.

10:00

@ @ «x2% “Vacation From Marriage”
(1945, Comedy) Deborah Kerr, Robert Donat.
To get away from their problems, a shy En-
glish couple join the service.

ARTS (7) x *# “The Life and Death of Co-
lone! Blimp** (1943, Drama) (Part 2 of 2) De-
borah Kerr, Roger Livescy. The life and toves
of an English military man from the Boer War
through World War Il.

SUPER G2) x ‘‘Heartbreak Hotel’ (1988)
David Keith, Charlie Schlatter.

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