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F6 THE HARTFORD COURANT Saturday, November 22, 1997 TELEVISION THIS WEEKEND Pf Cyborg's Human Dilemma: Will He Be 'Dead By Midnight' pher on "The Pretender" (NBC at 9, TV-PG) A seemingly normal man who allegedly killed his wife and daughter and then fled is profiled on "America's Most Wanted" (Fox at 9, TV-PG, Y) Gary must save an aging gridiron great from being critically injured during a game on "Early Edition" (CBS at 9, TV-G) Sunday's other highlights Scheduled on "60 Minutes" (CBS at 7): a profile of tennis star Venus Williams; the baptist boycott of Disney; and a new look at the Kennedy papers. Carol Burnett and her daughter Carrie Hamilton, Rita Moreno and Tim Conway guest star on a "Touched by an Angel" (CBS at 8, TV-G) set on the Broadway stage. Sunday's series Jamie has to drag Junior to the hospital on "The Jamie Foxx Show" (WB at 8, TV-G) Bobby runs away from home on "King of the Hill" (Fox at 8:30, TV-PG) Tom tries to shine in front of his old friends on "The Tom Show" (WB at 8:30, TV-PG) Scully and Mulder are trapped in the woods with something deadly on "The X-Files" (Fox at 9, TV-PG, V). By KEVIN Mcdonough United Feature Syndicate David Larkin (Timothy Hutton) is no ordinary person in "Dead by Midnight" (Sunday, ABC at 9, TV-14). From' all outward appearances, he's got a great job, a loving wife, two kids and a piece of the American dream.

But he's haunted by strange memories, and occasionally overcome by bouts of rage. Then he uncovers the fact that he is the butt of the ultimate existential whammy. None of his memories are real Larkin is really a dead guy who has been rebuilt into an experimental zombie cyborg, "62 percent biological and 38 percent cybernetic," and his whole "life" is nothing but an elaborate computer program. Insensitive bureaucrats, high taxes, popular resentment and sporadic rebellions. America in the 1990s? No, the American colonies in the 1770s.

"Liberty! The American Revolution" (Sunday, CPTV, Channel 24 in the Hartford area, at continues through Tuesday) is an inspiring and occasionally exciting look at the events that led to American independence. Programming executives for ABC should be gently reminded of the events of 1776, for they have devoted a full hour of Saturday night to "Adventures With the Duchess" (ABC at 8, TV-G). Watch Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, climb mountains, dive with sharks and bounce on a trampoline. Tonight's other highlights im i mi mi.u.11.. in.Mii.

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Night OWTNH(ABC) College Football News Wheel Adventures WDuchess PrimeTime live The Practice News NYPD Blue (DW)AR (NBC) News NBC News Entertainment Tonight Players: Con Amore The Pretender Profiler: Second Best News Sat. Night fl)WPIX(WB) Star Trek: Next Gen. Star Trek: Deep Space Hercules: Journeys Xena: Warrior Princess News Cheers Movie (BWPRI(CBS) College Football Wheel Jeopardyl Medicine Woman Early Edition walker, Texas Ranger News NYPD Blue WNET(PBS) Digital Quo Any Wild Nature Appear. Chef! Movie: "Arabesque" sessions at West 54th (B W13BF Futbol: Cuartos de Final: Atlas vs. Cruz Azul Ciudad Desnuda Nuestra Musica Boxeo Telemundo gDWTXX(UPN) Psi Factor: Paranormal Star Trek: Voyager The Outer limits Poltergeist: The legacy News Crossroad Kwik Witz KISS TV gWWLP(NBC News NBC News Jeopardyl Match Wits Players: Con Amore The Pretender profiler: Second Best News Sat.

Night 38WEDH(PBS) Birdwatch look Old House Hometime Appear. As Time Movie: "love Is a Many Splendored Thing" Sessions at West 54th GDWVIT(NBC) News NBC News Entertainment Tonight Players: Con Amore The Pretender Profiler: Second Best News Sat. Night fflWSBE(PBS) Burt Wolf lombardo Lawrence Welk Nature Sagebrush Symphony Sessions at West 54th Off the Air 83 WSBK (UPN) G'd News Sparks NHl Hockey: Dallas Stars at Boston Bruins News Star Trek: Voyager SB WGGB (ABC College Football Seinfeld Mad About Adventures WDuchess PrimeTime live The Practice News Mad Aboul fflWlVI(WB) Star Trek: Deep Space Earth: Final Conflict Hercules: Journeys Xena: Warrior Princess News Baywatch: Eel Nino Movie Red Green Trailside lifeRiley Burns Movie: "Casablanca" Bogart Sessions at West 54th On Tour WBNE (WB) Due South Pensacola: WingsGold Soldier of Fortune, Inc. NYPD Blue Patrol Patrol Star Trek: Next Gen. Q)WTIC(Fox) Star Trek: Deep Space Earth: Final Conflict Cops Cops America's Most Wantec News Simpsons MAD TV WEDW, Channel 49, and WEDN, Channel 53, carry the same programming as WF.DH, Channel 24 im fk rwnr-'iif-m1 mi- w-i Bob Vila Bob Vila Mysteries of the Bible Biography This Week Investigative Reports Movie: "Desperately Seeking Susan" AMC Movie: "Loving You" Movie: "Demetrius and the Gladiators" WENN Movie: "The Mississippi Gambler" Movie: "loving You" BET Thea Planet Groove Top 20 Hit List Comicview Comicview Paid Prog.

Paid Prog, BRAV Movie: "Notorious" Placido Domingo: A Year Wings Movie: "Crimes and Misdemeanors" "Bobby Deerfield" CNBC Succeed Business Business Russert Best of Great Stuff Rivera live Charles Grodin Hardball Russert CNN WorldView In Politics Cap, Gang Business Pri. News Sports Larry King Weekend The World Jim Huber CNNSports Illustrated DISC Scl-Trek 3 Minutes to Impact The Ultimate Guide Sci-Trek Justice Files Detectives: Science DISN Growing Muppets Movie: "How the West Was Fun" Surfers Movie: "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" Movie: "Under Wraps" ENCORE Movie: "That's life!" Movie: "Caddyshack" Movie: "Halloween" Movie ESPN Shooting SportsCtr. Football College Football: Alabama at Auburn College Football: Colo. St. S.D.

St. ESPN2 College Football: Clemson at South Carolina NFL's Greatest Games Sup, Bowl Sup. Bowl NHL2nighl FAM Hawaii Five-0: Murder Eyes Only Movie: "Flood: A River's Rampage" Movie: "The Night of the Twisters" FOOD Mario Quench Dining Fat ladies Ready Set Entertain. Emeril live Tamales Taste Quench Dining HBO Movie: "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" Movie: "Dear God" Boxing: George Foreman vs. Shannon Briggs HISTORY Beyond the Wild Blue History's Mysteries As It Happened: The JFK Assassination Movie: "The Plot to Kill Hitler" JLC Understanding: VirusesUnderstanding Understanding: Oceans Understanding: Flight Understanding Understanding: Oceans LIFE Movie: "Convictions" Movie: "An Inconvenient Woman" MAX "Roxanne" Movie: "My Girl 2" Movie: 'The Proprietor" Movie: "Back to Back" "JFK" MSG Jets Jrnl.

GameNightj NHl Hockey: New York Rangers at Pittsburgh Penguins AtGarden SportDesk NHL Hockey MJV Sports and Music Festival Sex in the '90s Sex in '90s Sex in '90s NF.SN College Football Sports Attack Skiing Magazine on TV Fox Sports News Fox Sports News NKK Figure Out Now This Doug Beavers Rugrats All That Kenan, Kel Journey Wonder Yr Wonder Yr Love Lucy Happy Day College Hockey Tennis: Chase WTA Championships, Semifinals College Football: Kansas State at Iowa State SCIF1 Mystery Sci Theater Movie: rancers II" Movie: 'To the Ends of Time" Mystery Set. Theater SHO My life Boxing Movie: "Pretty Woman" Fast Track Dead Man's Gun 155 WCW Saturday Night Coach Coach Coach Coach Auto Racing: NASCAR Suzuka 100 TMC "Devil in a Blue Dress" Movie: "Mulholland Falls" Movie: "Unforgettable" Movie: "Fargo" Week in Country Music Hee Haw Backstage Oprylive statler Bros. Life of Minnie Pearl Backstage joprylive" TNT Flintstones B. Bunny Lois Clark Movie: "Rain Man" Movie UNJ Fuera Noticiero Tutti Frutti Gigante Sabado Gigante Noticiero Bienven. USA Movie: "Backdraft" Movie: "Mobsters" Movie: "Sub Down" VH1 Fashion Videos iHard Rock Live Hollywood Fairway to Heaven IV Fairway IV Concert iRuPaul I Videos ON-LINE listings'' Extraterrestrial Contact Today at 6 p.m.

at Compuserve: GO UFO Dr. Joe Burkes, activist and Los Angeles coordinator for the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence discusses his experiences. UFO Investigator Dr. Bruce Maccabee 8 p.m at Compuserve: GO UFO Dr. Bruce Maccabee, physicist, UFO investigator and author, answers questions on the connection between UFOs and the CIA, and his analysis of the FBI's flying disk file (the real SUNDAY, NOV.

23 Nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman 1 p.m. at Compuserve http:www.compuser-ve.com Join Friedman as he discusses his investigations into Majestic-12, the Corso book and RoswelL (Software Required: Compuserve) -YackiInc. "Investigative Reports: The Son of Sam Speaks at 9) talks with imprisoned killer David Berkowitz. Scheduled on "PrimeTime Live" (ABC at 9): a report on missing children; and older men becoming fathers for the first time.

After his parish priest kills a man during an exorcism, Bobby tries to shield him from the justice system on "The Practice" (ABC at 10, TV-14, D). Heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman takes on Shannon Briggs live from Atlantic City (HBO at 10). Tonight's series Diphtheria threatens the life of Dr. Mike's sister (Alley Mills) on "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" (CBS at 8, TV-G).

Jarod poses as a high-fashion photogra A Terrible But Amusing Action Movie A GUIDE TO THE AM MANCHESTER BALLET COMPANY presents Twos the Night Before Christmas Based on a poem by Clement C. Moore An enchanting full length ballet. Perfect for the holiday season. Performed by members of the Manchester Ballet Company and Guest Artist Brandon Skolnick Sat. Nov.

29, 2:30 1 7:30 pm Bailey Auditorium Manchester High School 136 East Middle Tpke, Manchester Tkts: $10 Adults, $8 Child under 12Srs Call (860)643-5710 TRINITY COLLEGE CONCERT CHOIR Conducted by Bradley Wells Performing Beniamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols and folk music from around the world in the beautiful Trinity College Chapel November 21 ft 22, 8:15 pm Tickets $6 General $4 Discounts BOX OFFICE: 297-2199 CHICK AUSTIN ARTS CENTER TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CT Repertory Theatre of New Britain 23 Norden St. New Britain presents Its 197th production THE PREMATURE CORPSE A Chrime Thriller by MIKE JOHNSON As directed by JOSEPH MARINO Nov. 21, 22, 28, 29, 30 December 5, 6, 1997 Curtain Times: 8:15 pm Fri 4 Sat 7:15 pm Sunday Reservations: (860)223-3147 MCVISA By MALCOLM JOHNSON Courant Film Critic Life has its terrible inevitabilities. Sooner or later, the constant moviegoer must undergo Mortal Kombat The sequel to the 1995 live-action video-game movie turns out to be idiotic but amusing low kitsch. Full of mythical types and sacred temples, "Mortal Kombat Annihilation" rolls along under John R.

Leonetti's MTV-style direction as a kung fu "Star Wars," with the high seriousness of a really terrible, foreign-made, laughably dubbed Bible epic. "Annihilation" refers to the impending end of the Earth, a scheme engineered by the evil warlords of Outworld. The new adventure of the mortal heroes headed by Liu Kang and Princess Kitana begins where "Mortal Kombat" ended. Having defeated the warlords, Liu and Kitana thought the world was safe for a generation. But the Outworlders break the rules, leading their killer gang back through the portals where they proceed to wreck the Bay Area and the Golden Gate Bridge and lay waste to Paris in the Eiffel Tower arrondissement The plot cooked up by Lawrence Kasanoff, the producer, and two others consists mainly of pitting Liu, Kitana and their sidekicks, Jax and Sonya Blades, against various minions of Shao-Kahn in extended He fights gracefully FILM REVIEW QYlA $hp $haW OTPflt MORTAL KOMBAT ANNIHILATION, directed M' 9 91 V9 CtU by John R.

Leonetti; written by Brent V. Friedman and Bryce Zabel, from a story by Lawrence Kasan- clPPKnfYiPZ Josnua Wexler and John Tobias, based on the vjdeo game create(j by Ed Boon and John Tobias: director of photography, Matthew F. Leonetti; music composed by George S. Clinton; produc- fightS involving acrobatics and tion designer. Charles Wood; edited by Peck Pri- i or; produced by Kasanoff; executive producers, dirty triCKS by the forces Of evil Alison Savitch, Carla Fry and Brian Witten.

A New Rayden, a long-haired immortal Line Cinema Presentation of a Lawrence Kasan- offThreshold Entertainment Production, playing Shaman played by the film only at Showcase Cinemas, East Hartford, East Win real actor, James Remar serves as and Berlin and tne Bioomfieid Gnemas. Run- the Obi-Wan Kenobi type, the senior "me: 93 adviser and spiritual leader of the jomuai warriors. Kltana Tafca Soto Robin Shou and Talisa Soto, re- Rayden James Remar prising their roies as uu and m- tana, do not really register in the shao-Kahn Brian Thompson characterization department, but he fights gracefully and She Shows Jade Inna Pantaeva great cheekbones. Soto also sports a loti' jS Sheeva Mariean Holden knockout black leather costume, Nqhtwoif inefoot which gives her the look of the JhnnyCage Chris Conrad Ermac John Medlen World Sweetest dominatriX. CyraxScorpion J.

J. Perry Muscleman Lynn Red Williams Rain w'99'ns tosses oira few hip quips as jax "i iZil zzzzzzzzzzzSfl got no toilet tiSSUe" he mutters as Sub-Zero Keith Hirabayashi he and Sonya find themselves lost Excellent. Very Good. in the desert. Sandra Hess does Good; Fair; Poor some unintended comedy as Sonya, raging over the lost comrade with this overwrought outburst: "No- tlon proves Parable, even body told me why Johnny had to its maddening bursts of heavy die." There are other silly lines as metaL well Liu's "First you betray me, Rated PG-13, this film contains now you laugh" and with a moun- some rude talk, lots of brutal fight- tain-goatish centaur and a four- ing, many deaths, some on the hor- armed killer woman, "Annihila- rificside.

Norrthwestern Theatre presents THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK Northwestern Regional 7 School Battistoni Drive, Winsted Nov. 21 and Nov. 22 at 8 pm Nov. 23 at 2 pm Gala performance Friday night features a reception with the cast and crew. Tickets: $9 Friday, $8 Sat.

Sun. Available at the door or in advance. For tickets and information call (860)379-2679 The Dept. of Fine Arts and The Drama Society of ECSU present Moliere's Tartuffe (translation by Christopher Hampton) Directed by Ellen Faith Brodie November 19-23, 1997 Wed Sat eves at 8 pm Sunday matinee at 2 pm The Harry Hope Theatre Shafer Hall Groundfloor High and Valley Sts, Willimantic Tickets: $8 General, $5 for StdtsSrs For rerv. call (860)465-5123 The Producing Guild, Inc presents the Hartford premiere of Blood Brothers a music drama by Willy Russell Nov 13-16 and 20-23 Wallace Stevens Theatre of The Hartford 690 Asylum Avenue at Hartford Plaza Call 528-2143 for tickets and information nn.

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Joraensen Theatre Tickets: (860)486-4226 THE HOLE IN THE WALL COMPANY 10 Harvard St. New Britain Proudly Presents A Christmas Comedy with a Twist- GREETINGSI by Tom Dudzick Directed by Dennis Hull Produced by Frank Bradley Nov. 21 through Dec 20, 1997 Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM Reservations, call (860)229-3049 $10 suggested donation The William H. Mortensen Travel Series at The Bushnell presents Wild and Scenic Rivers Sunday, Nov. 23, at 2pm See this exciting film and experience the beauty of the world's most challenging rivers from the United States to Russia Tickets: $6, $6.50, $7 Call 860-246-6807 or fax Helen at (860)241-3866.

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