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The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday, August 30, 1986 Page 38 1 3 PTTTPW The swashbuckling Cap'n Jane cuts a swathe through visual sugar -nm I ll 1 II I And anaesthetised sensibilities of generations brought up on highly refined visual sugar can't take much disturbance. No surprise that Australia's most plausible (comfortable) public figure is Brian Henderson. He doesn't do anything alarming or threatening, but TV EXTIUl that really count: the bigger and emptier the vessel, the more dollars it's possible to pour down the lavatory. On reflection, perhaps this apparent discrimination isn't such a bad thing. After all, the theatre-lovers of North Queensland are surely in for a treat: an interesting and relatively new play featuring Cilento and Frances, when they might, if policy were different, have had to sit through She Stoops to Conquer.

Unfortunately, Slate of the Arts didn't have time for such ramifications on this occasion. If they had it would surely have been to ponder the flipside of the pleasure-doubled syndrome. And that brings us back to actors on TV. Cornelia Frances's ability on a stage is still over-shadowed by her role in 17ie Young Doctors and she'll be sold likewise for years to come, sucn are the exigencies of the modern theatre box office. The ads for Are You Lonesome Tonight? feature Martin (The Professionals) Shaw, even though he hung up his gun and sexy pout years ago and is unknown in this country for anything else.

Peta (I didn't say crocodiles stink, honest) Toppano, on the other hand, has even more to live with. At least Diane Cilento's work for the Rare narrative, drama, scandal, laughs and minimum viewer effort. News and current affairs have come to be treated and consumed in the same way. The result is deleterious not only on "news" subjects but also on the people who work in the field. Stories, trom Dickens to 60 Minutes.

have a beginning, a middle and an end, usually with a dollop of dramatic tragedy or scandal on top. If they don't then they're avant garde and, per se, difficult. Real life is rarely so neat, and certainly not within the limited and frantic time-scale of a news deadline. Conventional thinking has it that this is not good enough. It's only necessary to look as far as the first series of Street Blues, with its fractured narratives and "gritty authenticity" to see how unusual such thinking is in mainstream TV.

Imperceptibly, over the seasons, Street has been smoothed out, the very features that set it apart have been tidied up and reduced. I here are those who would do the same to 77ie 7.30 Report. The cut of Cap'n Singleton's jib (or her clothes at least) often rates as much comment as does the content of the program. The minimal trivia content also disturbs. Fruits Council can be viewed rather more soberly.

Speaking of rare fruits, a rare and scrumptious compote was served up by the very delicious Bill Collins with the midday movie Against All Flags. This pirate yarn starred a painfully puffed and almost-past-it Errol Flynn and Maureen O'Hara as a flame-haired, swashbuckling moll. Set in a studio water tank amid luridly painted backdrops, 'twas exceeding pleasurable. It was made doubly so by Bill's geography lesson, which sought to place Madagascar (site of the tank) in its global context. It is sadly de rigeur to heap scorn on El Enthusioso, but then a ruling passion given full rein is just not cool.

Bill's particular appetite, aside from old movies, is for the inconsequential details that breathe life into the most moribund reel of celluloid. Maureen O'Hara for instance, (and Joan Fontaine, says Bill) was one of Hollywood's most accomplished swordswomen. Having just learnt that from the Beaming One added immeasurably to the scene where Spitfire Stevens (Maureen O'Hara and not an extra, that is) takes on a pack of 44 A PLEASURE doubled is a Vi pleasure runs the cosy assurance of the cur-X -Li. rent Nescafe Blend 43 commercial. This lyric inanity is not something to dwell on lest a storm of gnashing and renting be unleashed.

I mean really, what does it mean? State of the Arts unwittingly provided a clue with its feature on North Queensland's New Moon Theatre Company. Filmed in rehearsal for a make-or-break production of Agnes of God. the divine Diane Cilento and equally divine Cornelia Frances are clearly carrying a heavy load. Apparently, unless the company goes into the black with this one, its days of government subsidy are over and New Moon ill go down the gurgler. So what? Who cares?" the cry goes up.

This is belt-tightening time; austerity is the watchword. Don't cut if you can slash. Don't slash if a full-scale bloodbath is possible. For some maybe. As the State of the Arts person pointed out, with due wonderment.

New Moon is the only living theatre available to an area the size of the British Isles and a whopping percent- he reads nicely and looks reassuring. Not that he claims anything different for himself. Unlike the 60 Minutes, crew for instance, who are simply not content with finding, arranging and placing the facts of a matter before the public. The presentation of this telly tabloid fixes entirely on presenter as star Minnie Minor I'm George Gorgeous I'm Tarquin Beancurd and this is our it reverses the raison d'etre of news and current affairs and the results can be curious. Not that Cap'n Jane is creepily self-effacing: too many blustering pol ticians would still like to have her garters for guts for that to be true.

It's just that in a milieu of total plasticity, she evidently has a mind and heart and they work in close co-operation. Now that's entertainment. Richard Coleman is on leave. age of its budget goes on travel alone. Barry Cohen, Minister for the Arts, (and lately, arts funding hero) talked about how much he wanted to see the arts as part of the wider community surely the pleasure doubled, pleasure shared principle in living stereo.

Why, then, is New Moon different than any other publicly subsidised theatre company? If a profit is the mark of artistic excellence and cultural merit, then the STC, the Australian Opera and the Nimrod, to name but three, would be mere glimmers in the memory. As any metropolitan culture-vulture knows, however, it's the capacities of your begging bowl and bailing bucket malodorous seadogs with her trusty rapier. Seen in a similar role on The 7.30 Report is the redoubtable Cap'n Singleton and First Mate Goward. It is heart-warming to watch these two strike out for truth and sanity against the forces of "good Television -as we know it (back to pleasure at this point), has been constructed as entertainment. It's about "1 ATN 7 NUN 3 ATN 7 NBN 3 SBS SBS ABN 2 ABN 2 2.30: The Noise (Rpt).

4.00: Hello Australia -(Rpt). Australian culture. 4.30: Movie Roly (77, Rpt). Drama about an eight-year-old country girl moving to the city. 6.00 World Soccer.

7.00: 7.30: 8.30: French drama 9.30: World News. Dateline. The Year Of The (Rpt). Historical series. (Ireland).

The Celluloid Kids 6.30: Jesus Telev ision. 7.00: Big Dog And Friends. 9.00: Sounds Music. 12.00: Sara Drama. 12.55: Up The Garden Path.

1.00: NBN Sports Centre. 5.00: Star Search. 6.00: News. 6.30: It's A Knockout. 7.30: Webster Webster's uncle springs a special suprise for him in glamourous Hollywood.

8.00: Family Ties -(PGR). Jennifer's old friend and cousin returns after three years overseas. 8.30: Movies The Goodbye Girl (AO, 77, Rpt). A has-been dancer falls for an actor. Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason.

10.30: Airport '77 (PGR, 77, Rpt, Final). Cultural terrorists hijack a plane carrying art worth millions of dollars. Jack Lemmon. 12:20: Close. 6.30: Religious Programs.

8.00: Sunday Topical. 11.00: Country Report. 11.15: Racing Review. 11.30: World Of Boats. 12.00: Movies On Giant's Shoulders (78).

Featuring Terry Wiles. 1.40: Soldiers Three (51, bw). Adventure with Stewart Granger. 3.15: Battle Beneath The Earth (68). Featuring Kerwin Mathews.

5.00: Young Talent Time. 6.00: News And Weather. 6.35: Wonderful World Of Disney For the family. 7.30: 60 Minutes. 8.30: Movie Rash Gordon (PGR, 80).

Flash Gordon must battle against the evil Ming to save the Earth from destruction. With Sam J. Jones and featuring the hit music of Queen. 10.30: Rugby League. 12.00: Close.

2.30: Motorcycle Racing Highlights of the Suzuka 8 Hour Endurance Race. 4.00: Live From Studio One Musical variety series from Singapore. 5.00: Dateline (Rpt). 6.00: A Man Without A Horse Documentary on the Turkmen refugees from Afghanistan. (UK).

6.50: Sneak Preview Highlighting programs. 7.00: WoridNews. 7.30: Vox Populi Mui-ti-lingual topical show. 8.00: Ballet Five varied pieces performed by the American Ballet Theatre. 9.55: Malingeritis (Rpt).

Drama about events at a family party held to celebrate a couple's 40th wedding anniversary. Geert de Jong. (Holland). 10.30: Soccer Match of the day. 12.00: Close.

6.00: Rocket Robin Hood. 6.30: Buford Files And The Galloping Ghost (Rpts). 7.00: The Hi Hello Show. 8.00: Cartoon Connection. 9.00: Sounds Rock music show.

12.00: 1985 Academy Of Country Music Awards Hosts include Loretta Lynn. 1.55: Australian Rules VFL match. 5.00: Great Mysteries Of The World -(Rpts). Castle Of Secrets Life After Life. 6.00: News, Sport And Weather.

6.30: Telethon '86 All funds raised will aid The Children's Hospital. Cam-perdown and the Children's Medical Research Foundation. Terry Willesee opens the event. Guests include Stuart Wagstaff, Lorrae Desmond, Emily Nicoll. Barry Crocker, Jackie Love, Kamahl, Jono and Dano.

Billy Fields, Jeff Phillips. 1. 00am: Cross to Los Angeles where guests including Michael Gross, Jack Klugman, Gregory Harrison. Stepfanie Kramer, Murray Rose and Soleil Moon I rye will acknowledge donations. (During telethon onlv: Numbers for donations: Svdnev area 806 1 1 1 all other areas (008) 426000).

TEN 10 6.00: Animal WorM Nature show. 7.00: The Early Bird Show Australian children's show with cartoons. 11.00: Lost In Space (RpU- The Robinsons are tried by a mysterious tribunal for committing "space 12.00: Tennis McDonald's Junior Challenge. Coverage of competition from the Sydney Entertainment Centre. Teams are from Australia, West Germany, Scandinavia and United States.

5.00: TheMuppels (Rpt). Comedy. 6.00: News, Sport And Weather. 6.30: Young Talent Time Music. 7.30: Magnum PGR, Rpt).

Magnum hunts five countrv songs. 8.30: Movie War And Peace (56). King Vidor was amongst the directors involved in this American-Italian co-production based on Leo Tolstoy's famous novel about the troubled Russian aristocracy during the time of Napoleon's invasion of in the 19th century. Features Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Herbert Lorn. 12.00: Music Video (AO).

Rock music show with Basia Bonkowski. CTC 7 8.15: Home Grown Gardening. 8.30: Let's Learn Japanese. 9.00: Wild, Wild World Of Animals (Rpt). 9.30: Wonders In Letterland.

9.50: Sup-erted. 10.00: Meldrum Tapes (Rpt). 11.00: Beatbox (Simulcast 2JJJ-FM). 1.00: Rock Arena (Rpt). Nick Cave.

2.00: Netball 1986 International Tri-Test. Australia New Zealand. 2.45: League '86 Match coverage. 4.30: Rugby Union Match coverage. 6.00: Countdown (Rpt).

Pop music. 7.00 News, port A nd Weal her. 7.30: State Of The Arts National arts news program with Andrew Saw. 8.00: Australian Impact (S). Documentary on the four days that changed the Philippines government.

8.55: The Irish RM (S). Comedy series set in rural Ireland. Tonight: A wrecked ship's cargo of rum finds its wav into the village. 9.45: Late News. 9.50: Jack High (S.

Rpt). Mazda International Bowls Tournament. Coverage of match 13, the first semi-final. 10.50: Rock Arena Bob Dylan, Textones, Human League. 11.50: Close.

TCN 9 6.00: Thunderbirds (Rpt). 7.00: The Cartoon Co. With Karen And Bobby Australian children's show. 12.00: Indoor Cricket Australian Championships from Adelaide. 1.00: Wide World Of Sports Hosted by Ian Chappell, Mike Gibson and Max Walker.

Includes Sydney races. 6.00: News. Weather And Sport. 6.30: Hey Hey It's Saturday. 8.30: Moie The Odd Couple PGR, 68, Rpt).

Gene Saks directed this film version of Neil Simon's acclaimed comedy about two mismatched men sharing a New York apartment. With Jack Lemmon. Walter Matthau and Larry Haines. 10.40: Late News. 10.45: Tennis US Open highlights.

1 1.15: Kojak (AO, Rpt). Crime. 12.15: Movie In Like Flint PGR, 67, Rpt). B-grade espionage spoof about a superspy battling a secret women's crime organisation which kidnaps the US president. James Coburn.

Lee J. Cobb. 2.30: Tennis Coverage of the US Open tournament from Flushing Meadows, New ork. Host is Patrick Lindsay. 6.00: Telethon '86 (Continued).

All funds raised will aid The Children's Hospital, Camperdown and the Children's Medical Research Foundation. Children's fun with Keane Kids, Sandra Fleeton, the Wonderland Kids, Marionette Theatre puppets. Sports entertainment with the Cumberland Cowgirls, Plays Of The Week, The Swanettes. Also features ethnic dancers. The Bachelors, Ricky May, Young Talent Team, Rolf Harris.

(During telethon only: Numbers for donations: Sydney area 806111 all other areas (008) 426000). 6.00: News, Sport And Weather. 6.30: Family Ties Comedy series. 7.00: Gimme A Break Comedy. 7.30: Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (Rpt).

Frank and Betty take a holiday. 8.00: Me And My Girl (PGR). 8.30: Movie Futureworld (PGR, 76, Rpt). A sequel to Westworld. Journalists -visiting a huge fantasy park uncover a sinister plot to take over the world.

Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner and Yul Brynner. 10.35: Falcon Crest (PGR). Drama. 11.35: Time Out. 12.05: Close.

TEN 10 6.30: The World Tomorrow. 7.00: Sunday Playhouse. 7.30: Hour Of Power. 8.30: Cartoon Capers. 11.00: Tarzan (Rpt).

Adventure. 12.00: Tennis McDonald's Junior Challenge. Syd Entertainment Centre. 5.00: Elvis: One Night With You -(Rpt). Documentary program.

5.30 News, Sport And Weather. 6.00: Rugby League NEC Big Game. 7.30: Highway To Heaven (PGR). Drama series with Michael Landon. 8.30: Movie Network (AO, 76, Rpt).

Sidney Lumet directed this multiple Academy Award-winning drama based on Paddy Chayevsky's tale of an emotionally disturbed TV news commentator whose candid comments make him a messiah. With Peter Finch. 10.50: Entertainment This Week (PGR). Leeza Gibbons, Robb Weller. 11.50: The Making Of Big Trouble In Little China (AO).

Film production. 12.20: Mother Makes Five (PGR, Rpt). 12.50: Dad's Army (Rpt). 1.20: Sunday Playhouse (Rpt). 1.50: Religious (Rpt).

1.55: Close. CTC 7 7.30: League '86 Rugby League. 9.00 Programs For Young Viewers. 11.00: Divine Service Coverage of the Conference For The Aged, Uniting Church, Brougham Place, Adelaide. 12.00: Countrywide (Rpt).

12.30: Four Corners (Rpt). Topical. 2.00: Home Grown Gardening show with Graham and Sandra Ross. 2.15: The World Of Tomorrow Documentary on the 1939 New York World's Fair and its exhibits. 3.35: Hockey Men's Championship.

5.00: The Winners VFLh lights. 6.00: Countdown Pop music show. 7.00 News, Weather and Sport. 7.30: The Beiderbecke Affair (S, PGR). Jill and Trevor have a Fight.

8.25: Soldiers Experience Of War (S, Final). 9.15: Late News. 9.20: Sunday Stereo USSR State Symphony Orchestra with Yevgeny Svetlanov. (Simulcast ABC FM). 11.00: State Of The Arts (Rpt).

Arts news program with Andrew Saw. 11.30: Travellers la Time Assault On Everest (1933) (S, Rpt). 12.00: Close. TCN 9 6.00: Tennis Continued coverage of the US Open from Flushing Meadows. 8.00: Business Sunday.

9.00: Sunday. 1 1.00 Wide World Of Sports H'lights. 1.00: Movie Sink The Bismarck! (60, Rpt, bw). World War II drama with Kenneth More and Dana Wynter. 3.00: The Roots Of Rock And Roll -The Cheek To Cheek Years 1959- 1962.

Hosted by Paul Anka. 4.C0: SportsSunday Mike Gibson. 6.00: News, Sport And Weather. 6.30: Our World Peter Ustinov's Russia. My Russia (Final).

7.30 60 Minutes Current affairs. 8.30: Movie His Mistress (AO, 84). A wealthy industrialist falls in love with an ambitious executive. Robert Urich, Julianne Phillips. 10.30: Late News.

10.35: Kojak (PGR, Rpt). Drama. 11.35: Coast To Coast (PGR). Topical show looking at American fads. 12.05: Movie Henry VIII And His Six Wives (AO, 73, Rpt).

Biographical drama with Keith Michell, Jane Asher. 2.30: Tennis Coverage of the US Open tournament from New York. WIN 4 6.00: Religious Programs. 8.00: Sunday. 11.00: World Of Sports.

1.00: Movie The Music Man (62, Rpt). Musical comedy with Robert Preston and Shirley Jcnes. 3.45: Science Report. (Rpt, Final, Italy). 10.55: Movies The Maids (84).

Jean Genet's play about two embittered sisters. (France). 12.50: Supermarket. A teenage runaway struggles to find a better life. (Germany).

2.15: Downstream Of The Sun (Rpt). A teacher is caught in a bitter feud between villagers. (Yugoslavia). 3.50: Close. WIN 4 6.00: Last Of The Wild -( Rpt 6.25 For Young Viewers.

8.35 Religious. 9.00: Sounds Music with Donnie Sutherland. 12.00: Solid Gold. 12.50: NBL Basketball. 1.55: VFL.

5.00: Mup-pets. 5.35): Kid's News. 6.00: News. 6.30: It's A Knockout. 7.30: Knight Rider (PGR).

Action. 8.30: Movies The Lion In Winter (AO, 68). Academy-award winning drama about rovaltv. Peter O'Toole. 11.00: Margie (46).

'Twenties comedy, Jeanne Crain. 12.35: News Repeat). 1.05: The Great Wallendas (PGR, 78). Circus drama, Britt Ekland. 2.40: The Girls In The Office (AO, 79, Rpt).

Susan Saint James. 4.20: Doc Sav age. The Man Of Bronze (75). Adventure, Ron Ely. 4.00: 5.00: 5.15: 6.00: 7.30: 8.30: Decree Young Talent Time.

Bugs Bunny. News And Weather. Rugby League. Beyond 2000. Movie Murder By (AO, 78).

Sherlock 6.00: For Young Viewers. 9.30: Bloomin' Things. 10.00: Sounds Music. 12.00: Puttin' On The Hits (Final). 12.30: Hooked On Cannons Cannons Hobart.

1.40: Grandstand. 5.00: Billboard. 5.05: Star Trek (Rpt). 6.00: News And Weather. 6.30: Webster Comedy.

7.00: The Cosby Show -(Rpt). Family comedv. 7.35: A-Team (PGR). Action with Boy George. 8.35: Movie Archer (85).

Tale about the first horse to win the Melbourne Cup. With Brett Climo. 10.35: Entertainment This Week (PGR). From US. 11.35: Movie From Russia With Love (AO, 64, Rpt).

James Bond adventure drama featuring Sean Connery and Daniela Bian-chi. 1.45: Close. 6.00: Religious Programs. 8.00: Business SuDday. 9.00: Sunday.

11.00: Sportswatch. 1.00: Movies Two Weeks With Love (50, Rpt). With Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds. 2.45: Tut And Tuttle (80). Featuring Chris Barnes and Hans Conreid.

4.40: Legacy Australia's. Biggest Family. 5.00: It's A Knockout. 6.00: News And Weather. 6.30: Wonderful World Of Disney Family show.

7.30: 60 Minutes. 8.30: Movie The Duellists (PGR, 78). Drama featuring Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Tom Conti and Edward Fox. 10.30: Rngby League. 11.50: Movie The Shooting (PGR, 71, Rpt).

Western with Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson. 1.20: Close. Holmes and Doctor Watson investigate the 'Jack The Ripper slayings' which they find are connected to the British royal family. Featuring Christopher Plummer. 10.50: Entertainment This Week.

11.45: Religious. 12.15: News. 1.00: Movie Day Of The Outlaw (PGR, 59, bw). Western. Robert Ryan.

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