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Thursday, April 18, 1996 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER C7 Morning 'Good Day Philadelphia': Strong mix of local news, weather, traffic reports maps will also be ready any day now. Maybe he'll fix the weather maps, too; Wilmington, Philadelphia, Trenton and other places that people care about around here are left in a big, dark shadow. The whole show goes in the shadows when Good Day Philadelphia dispatches its not-so-crack remote teams to go out and interview folks on the street at the crack of dawn. Steve Keeley delivered some fine stand-up, including one from the snows of Allentown (skinhead murders), but he's a lousy live interviewer. Cathy Matusiak, who has been missing the last few days, is being TELEVISION from C1 face time.

Good Day coanchor Don Tollefson has come up with an interesting question or two, but his partner, Tracey Matisak, seems slightly at sea in the live interview format. That's a sharp contrast to the pair's overall performance, Matisak is the solid stanchion of professionalism on which the whole enterprise is secured, while Tollefson too frequently comes off as a glad-hander with all the suspect sincerity of a used-car salesman. Preceded by a half-hour newscast at 6:30 a.m., Good Day Philadelphia airs from 7 to 9 a.m. weekdays on box Philadelphia. Tollefson and Matisak anchor hard, reliable 10- or 15-minute newscasts at 7 and 8.

They are strongly slanted to the local side, but segments go wherever news is, from Montana to Washington to Jerusalem. Jim Castillo, more News Roger promises the fancy maps ready day now. 5:30 News 368401 This Morning Astronaut Shannon Lucid. 76499 1 Maury Povlch 78944 Isally Jessy 88234 1 Price Is Right 68470 News 94418 Good Morning America Bagels. 25789 Jenny Jones 10944 AMPhll.

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Her piece on Peeps, the little marshmallow chicky Easter candies turned out at the JustBorn Candy Co. just west of here, was something to cluck about. Speaking of clucks, somebody needs to slip Valium in Tollefson's Diet Pepsi. The veteran Channel 6 sportscaster's Philly connections benefit Good Day immeasurably, but the newcomers on the show don't need his patronizing. He says "of course" and "absolutely" every other word.

And his boosterism is abominable. "The Phillies have such a good track record," he said after the baseball team, which usually makes fans sit through monsoons so it can keep their money, turned Opening Day into bone-chilling opening night. "'A lot of people overlook agriculture in the Greater Philadelphia region, and we have got some great farmers out there," said Tollefson. "They're good guys out at the Belmont Barracks, as always." "We have so many wonderful print writers in this town." Well, at least he got that right. Fox stations in other cities have had great success with morning shows.

Channel 5 in New York frequently ranks first in the ratings, beating Today and Good Morning America. Good Day Philadelphia may never reach that level. It takes an Ice Age for Philadelphians to change their viewing habits. But the new show already has a lot to recommend it. With some modifications, it could become a potent alternative to the network morning shows.

OUT THERE (1995) (Paramount) 98 minutes. Bill Campbell, June Lockhart. Made-for-Showtime comedy with Campbell as a down-on-his-luck photographer whose luck changes when he finds an undeveloped roll of 25-year-old film that captures a human encounter with aliens. (CC) Coming next week Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett in Waiting to Exhale. Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep in The Bridges of Madison County, and Andy Garcia and Alan Arkin in Steal Big, Steal Little.

Stars: Excellent Good Fair Poor (Videos with no stars were not reviewed by The Inquirer.) MPAA ratings: Motion Picture Association of America ratings are included for all titles that received them. If the title was reviewed- by The Inquirer, further parental warnings (violence, nudity, etc.) are included. (CC): Closed captioned. Inquirer staff reviews and synopses, compiled by Christopher Cornell. $19.95 $19.99 Playboy ('96) $19.95 $14.98 done in by a camera operator who must have gone to art school.

A shot through a police car windshield showed water splotches. The poor reporter looked like an idiot trying to run along beside a cyclist in Fair-mount Park. Her interviews also frequently go around in circles. Worst of all is local comedian Graver Silcox. Even the 3-year-olds at Four Seasons Day School in Roxbor-ough were giving him the lame-o look.

Silcox isn't bad at finding neat things happening early in the morning a dairy farm in Yardley, a wacko who thinks she talks to animals, fish-market follies at the South Philly Food Distribution Center but then he's helpless in bringing them alive. Good Day Philadelphia would do well to focus on a few more prepared pieces where are the home and sports sections of this magazine show? and skip some of the live remotes, which can give fits to even the most seasoned network pros. minutes. Frank Zagarino, Bryan The creation of Indestructible, high-tech warriors leads to the disappearance of a TV reporter. R.

Available on videodisc. (CC) Venus Rising (1995) (Columbia TriStar) 91 minutes. Costas Mandylor, Billy Wirth. Futuristic tale with a pair of women who escape an island prison to a Pacific paradise of virtual love and drug-controlled emotions, R. (CC) Witchcraft: Salem's Ghost (1994) (A-Pix) $84.95.

90 minutes. Lee Grober, Kim Kopf. A warlock returns from the dead to trouble an unsuspecting couple. (also available in a second unrated version). For children THE MAXX: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (1995) (Sony) $14.98.

120 minutes. Compilation of the first 13 episodes of the MTV series The Maxx, about a homeless man who, along with a social worker, fights evil as a superhero in an imaginary world. Made for television FULL BODY MASSAGE (1995) (Showtime)' 93 minutes. Mimi Rogers, Bryan Brown. Made-for-Showtime drama with Rogers starring as a businesswoman who becomes involved with her worldly masseur.

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Unstrung Heroes (1996) (Hollywood) 94 minutes. Andie MacDowell, John Turturro, Michael Richards, Maury. Chaykin. A scientist who loses faith in science's ability to save lives, a boy who loses the sun in his solar system, a family that loses, and finds, its religion. Based on the memoir by Franz Lidz, Diane Keaton's directorial feature debut is a heartbreaker with a healing effect.

PG (appropriate for children mature enough to cope with the story about a parent's death). Available on videodisc. (CC) Magic in the Water (1995) (Columbia TriStar)' 100 minutes. Mark Harmon, Harley Jane Kozak, Joshua Jackson. Whole chunks of such marine fantasies as Free Willy, Andre and The Secret of Roan Inish are borrowed for this film about a family who encounter the legend of a lake monster.

And then encounter the monster itself. PG (spooky underwater creature, children in jeopardy). (CC) Cutthroat Island (1995) (LIVE)' 118 minutes. Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella, Maury Chaykin. A leaky, creaky homage to Hollywood's skull-and-crossbones canon of yore, with Davis starring as "the notorious lady pyrate" Morgan Adams.

It's all enjoyably awful, and the gangly actress proves thoroughly ill-suited to the role of distaff Errol Flynn. PG-13 (violence, sexual situations, salty language and saltwater splashing around). Available on videodisc. (CC) Now and Then (1995) (New Line) 97 minutes. Demi Moore, Melanie Griffith, Rosie O'Donnell, Rita Wilson, Christina Ricci.

Tepid and uninvolving coming-of-age piece set in Indiana in 1970 in which girls take over in a male-dominated genre. The wonderful Ricci and three other fine young actresses do their best in a losing cause. PG-13 (language). Available on videodisc. (CC) The Scarlet Letter (1995) (Hollywood) 135 minutes.

Demi Moore, Gary Old-man, Robert Duvall, Joan Plowright. Not a remake so much as a drastic rewrite of the classic that's politically correct and artistically wrong. Moore and Oldman do their muddled best to sell Roland Joffe's modern spin on this tour of Hester Prynne's adultery and the tragedy it unleashes in a Colonial Puritan settlement. (violence, nudity, sex). Available on videodisc.

(CC) To Die For (1995) (Columbia TriStar) 106 minutes. Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix. Despite a delicious performance by Kidman as Suzanne, a cable TV weathergirl with killer ambition and instincts, this is a mostly stale satire of media culture. (violence, discreet sex, sexual candor, profanity). Available on videodisc.

(CC) Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) (Paramount) 102 minutes. Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Allen Payn, John Witherspoon. Murphy, whose career is on life support, joins the undead and stalks Brooklyn in a gory comedy that sorely needs a transfusion of fresh ideas. (violence, language). (CC) This video supplier does not set suggested retail prices on titles it deems primarily for rental.

Recent movies Baja (1995) (Republic) 92 minutes. Molly Ringwald, Lance Henriksen, Corbin Bernsen. Ringwald plays a woman who, while hiding out with her boyfriend in a desolate region, seeks help from her estranged husband. R. Available on videodisc.

(CC) Galaxies are Colliding (1992) (Paramount) 97 minutes. Kelsey Grammer, Dwier Brown. Brown plays a young man who flees his impending marriage and sets off with a friend for the desert in hopes of finding enlightenment. R. (CC) Never Talk to Strangers (1995) (Columbia TriStar) 86 minutes.

Rebecca De Mornay, Antonio Banderas, Dennis Miller, Harry Dean Stanton. Criminal psychologist De Mornay becomes romantically involved with a stranger while working on the case of a serial killer. R. Available on videodisc. (CC) A Reason to Believe (1995) (Vidmark) $92.99.

108 minutes. Allison Smith, Jay Underwood. Smith stars as a coed who finds herself ostracized after she speaks out against the fraternity where she was raped. Redemption (1995) (Vidmark) $92.99. 87 minutes.

Mark Dacascos. Kickboxing action with a martial-arts ofampion out to avenge the murder of a friend. R. Terminal Impact (1996) (New Line) 94 1. BRAVEHEART Mel Gibson.

Paramount 95, Rl. A spirited and bloody evocation of the life and brutal times of William Wallace, the greatest of Scotland's heroes. Gibson, as a director, shows a command of individual moments and scenes. As an actor, he gives us a cultivated man, who has mastered several languages and has tried to learn the political skills to match his martial prowess. 2.

BABE Christine Cavanaugh (voice), James Cromwell. MCA-Universal 95, G). You've heard of the man who would be king? Babe is the swine Who would be sheepdog. 3. ACE VENTURA: WHEN NATURE CALLS Vi Jim Carrey.

Warner ('95, PG-13). The star is back as the swaggering, cockatoo-coiffed pet detective on a mission in Africa. 4. ASSASSINS V4 Sylvester Stallone. Warner ('95, R).

Kill-a-minute action movie with Stallone as a contract hit man who wants to retire. An exercise in pointless and mindless violence. 5. THE USUAL SUSPECTS Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey. PolyGram ('95, R).

This tough-talking, twisting noir thriller about a quintet of career crooks caught up in a major heist is slick and smart and boasts a great ensemble cast and an ending that will throw you. 6. COPYCAT Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter. Warner ('95, R). An efficient suspenser about a serial killer who mimics famous murderers of the recent past and the two women criminal psychologist Weaver and tough-cookie cop Hunter hot on his trail.

7. DANGEROUS MINDS Michelle Pfeiffer. Hollywood ('95, R). The star makes a lesson Hollywood has been teaching since Blackboard Jungle seem fresh, urgent and relevant. Sleepers Awake WFLN.

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Jazz From Lincoln Center 9 p.m., WRTI. All-star Latin ensemble saluting bandleader Tito Puente, featuring Ignacio Berroa, Andy Gonzales, Hilton Ruiz, David Sanchez, Arturo Sandoval and Steve Turre. SoftwareHardtalk 10 p.m., WHYY. Personal computing with John C. Dvorak.

Grateful Dead Hour 10 p.m., WXPN. Superstar Concert Midnight, WYSP-FM (94.1). A rock event of the past. Classical Music Morning Concert WFLN (95.7). Highlights: Debussy, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Beethoven, Symphony Pastoral; Stravinsky, The Fireoird Suite.

Afternoon Concert WFLN. Highlights: MozSrt, Halfner Symphony; Brahms, Piano Concerto No. Grieg, Old Norwegian Melody Variations. Radio Highlights Thursday Theme All day. The Class of 1959, WPEN-AM (950).

Radio Times 10 a.m., WHYY-FM (90.9). Al-vm Snyder, an insider at the U.S. Information Agency during the Cold War with the Soviets. He has a new book, Warrors of Disinformation, about the portrayal of America in glowing terms through propaganda in that era. Voice of the Voters 1 p.m., 8 p.m., WHYY.

Discussion of issues in this presidential election year. Talk of the Nation 2 p.m., WHYY. Topic: First anniversary of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Tom Marr 3 p.m., WWOB-FM (96.5). Alan Keyes, Republican presidential candidate, World Cafe 3 p.m., WXPN-FM (88.5).

'ha-mell on Trial visits David Dye. Susan Briy 5 p.m., WWDB. E.J. Diftnne author of They Only Look Dead, about progressives dominating the next political era. 8.

A WALK IN THE CLOUDS Keanu Reeves. Fox ('95, PG-13). Dewy, glowy and dumb, Alfonso Arau's Like Water for Chocolate followup stars Reeves as a World War II vet who poses as a beautiful woman's husband in the California wine country. 9. SEVEN Vi Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt.

New Line ('95, R). A religious psychopath makes some cardinal sins truly deadly for transgressors, but what elevates this film above police routine is the understated virtues of Freeman's contribution as the detective on the case. 10. TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR Vj Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo WCA-UroVersaf ('95, PG-137). This cross-dressing comedy features the stars as drag queens who teach the female residents of a small town how to be real gals.

From Billboard magazine 42096 1996.