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iMuouamrmmi September S-1 1 1 999, TV Telegram Page 8 3ES lMi'i. Goofy but true Happy Face Murders offers a breezy Showtime outing a soft-spoken Michigan grandmother who has become terrified of her violent younger live-in boyfriend, Rusty Zuvic (Nicholas Campbell). may forever change your opinion of Matlock fans. Ann-Margret laughingly acknowledges that Lorraine is one of the most eccentric characters she has ever woman that her only way out was to start lying." The actress says her compassion for Lorraine grew even deeper 'as she learned more about the bleak life of the woman who inspired the character. "(I was strucklby) the complexity of her, the fact that her second husband Don't miss all the local and national news, weather and sports.

Everyday in theHocky Mount Telegram. played. After doing research on the real woman, however, she says she found it all too easy to buy into the incredible story the character eventually tells. that she loved dearly got stomach can ByJohn Crook CrTVData Features Syndicate Not since The Positively True Hires of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader- Murdering Mom has TV seen such a wacko black comedy as Showtime's Happy Face Murders, which premieres Sunday, Sept JS, on the premium chan- nel. investigation In the Midwest, Happy Face chropicles police attempts to capture a serial killer despite a loopy grandmother who' keeps sending them on wild-goose chases for her own personal agenda.

Ann-Margret stars in the thoroughly deglamorized role of Lorraine Petrovich, cer nTine iiioi uo had to buv it as an actress, of her head. "Her "What i couldnt understand was why son had muscular dystrophy. So did her After finding (he corpse of a young woman along the highway, police re- ceive nn anonymous call implicating Rusty. That tip leads investigators Jen 4 hina Beach) and her criminology student pHiHii-'DVfenrcCarthy mmy Thomas, the Extra-Terrestrial), to Lorraine who provides enough information nof only to convict Rusty, but to face arrest herself as an accomplice. But Lorraine keeps changing her story, for reasons viewers will discover later.

Suffice it to say this quirky little movie grandson, someone didn't tell her about a women's shelter, because she beaten by her first husband and then started being beaten by Rusty. That bothered me a lot that she couldn't (find a way out, that she was) such a desperate, desperate "I think it's what this woman has come through, and so desperate that she had to start lying. But she was very proud that she sort of 'played very proud indeed." MONDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 6, 1999 mi hew 2E forum "New Bern' liSl 202011 Movie "ATF (1999, Action Katny Bator, Amy Brenneman. Keith uavid. Premiere.

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