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12 Section 2 Chicaso Tribune. Friday. July 29. 1977 TV Cl Radio mmn all i a fj Sift Ate Gary Deeb TV-radio critic 'Long Goodbye' was a short one, thanks to ABC The low tar with the taste that could only come from Pall Mall. I rJiattaL tir nicotine mgcig mgcig Extra Mild 14 1.0 Extra Mild 14 1.0 Milds 14 09 nLrghU 13 09 .0 Lights 13 08 11 08 10 07 Golden Lights 9 07 8 0 5 PALI MALL Extra Mild 7 0.6 Friday's best TV movies For complete movie, listings, see your TV Week.

9 a.m. Channel 9 "THE COURTSHIP OF ANDY HARDY" Andy MckeyRooney Judge Hardy Lewie Slona Potty Arm Rutherford Directed by George a Seu (1942) Until 10:56 a.m. Andy dates a girl whose parents are in the process of getting a divorce. 12:30 p.m. Channel 11 "MIRACLE IN MILAN" Intle Tow Branduam Gianni Tha Good Too Francasoo Golisano The Bad Rappi Paolo Sloppa Tha Old Lolatta Emma Gramatica Directed by Virions Da Sca (1952) Until 2 p.m.

A va grant tries to turn his poverty into paradise in post World War II Milan. 7 p.m. Channel 7 "TIME TRAVELERS" Dr. Eamshew Sam Groom Tom HaHick Jeaa Adama Dr. Henderson Richard Baaaharl Directed by kwui Man (1976) Until.

8:30 p.m. (Color) Present-day scientists, combating an epidemic, journey back through time to 1871 Chicago to find a cure that was lost in the Great Fire. 8 p.m. Channel 2 "FOSTER AND LAURIE" Poeco Laurie Parry King Gregory Foster Dorian Harawood Adelaide Laurra Talia Shire Jacqueline Foster JonelJe Allan Directed by John Moxay Until 10 p.m. (Color) The true-life story of two New York City policemen who were killed in a brutal ambush.

8 p.m. Channel 32 "HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN" Kate O'Mara Ralph Bates Directed by Jimmy Sangiter Only 7mg.tar Of all brands.lowest...tar less than 0.5 mg. nic. less Ihan 0 05 mg. av.

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0.6 ir.g. nicotine Nevada LasVegas DF YOU SAW Robert Altman's "The Long Goodbye" on television a couple of Sunday nights ago, you witnessed a stunning example of TV's maddening compulsion to transform everything it touches into a piece of sausage. Of course, if you hadn't seen the movie previously at a' theater and therefore were watching it for the first you had no idea that you had been played for a sucker. Without getting into a complete review of "The Long suffice to say that it's a moody but thought-provoking film based on a Raymond Chandler novel about private eye Philip Marlowe. Elliott Gould plays Marlowe with laconic ease, and there's a nice supporting performance by Henry Gibson.

The movie ends with Marlowe shooting and killing the slimy opportunist who betrayed him under the guise of friendship. BUT THAT'S not the way it played on the "ABC Sunday Night Movie. Viewers who had invested two hours instead saw Marlowe confront his adversary and pull out a gun. Then they saw a closeup of Marlowe's face. At that point, ABC ended the film.

There was no shooting and no body. Thus, in what might have been TV's most outrageous "truth-in-packaging" violation, ABC actually changed the ending of a fine movie. In so doing, the network wiped out the whole point of the story, not to mention the ironic climax that director Altman had been building up to. The ABC censors defend their hatchet job by explaining that they ruled out Marlowe's sudden act of homicide because the movie provided "no retribution" for the killing. In other words, Marlowe got away with it in the original film, and even though the adversary was a murderer himself, ABC felt the lack of punishment for Marlowe's dirty deeds somehow would put networks in the position of advocating vigilantism.

THAT'S PRETTY tortured logic. But even if you accept the explanation, the question is: If ABC executives are so concerned about being identified with a movie that supposedly advocates taking the law into your own hands, why in hell did they buy "The Long Goodbye" in the first place? I'll give you the answer to that one: ABC purchased "The Long Goodbye" not for its value as entertainment or cinematic art, but rather for its "marquee value." The network knew the movie had a good reputation, and therefore that it might attract a fairly large TV audi- ence. But once ABC enticed its "customers" to tune in the movie, the network couldn't have cared less about delivering on its promise that is, living up to the title. Besides, with the main censorial butchery being committed at the very end of the film, there's not much the home audience can do about it. Or, to put it even more bluntly, how does a television viewer demand a refund? ACTUALLY, THIS latest example of crude ABC censorship further points up an amazing form-reversal that's taking place at that network.

For many years, ABC was the most sadistic and exploitative network when it came to dishing out unnecessarily violent programs that appealed to vicarious-thrill seekers. Now that it suddenly has become fashionable to be against TV violence, ABC is wiping out even realistic violence that's properly motivated by the plots, as in "The Long Goodbye." The result, however, remains the same: bad television almost totally predicated on a fantasy world. Included: Jet Round Trip -Open Bar Meats A Days Hotel Translers Handling 2 Meals a Day Nickels 24 Lucky Bucks Drinks Bingo Cards Keno Ticket Tax Tips Ask about Shows Elliott Gould: In case you missed it, he got to kill the bad guy, but not on TV. Forgetting the violence issue for a'moment, the most heartbreaking aspect of ABC's treatment of "The Long Goodbye" is that network's continuing disrespect for outstanding movies, and for the physical and emotional effort that goes into making such films. CBS AND NBC certainly have performed their share of mutilation in the editing of theatrical movies for TV telecast.

(In 1972, CBS scissored 36 minutes from Luchino Visconti's "The Damned." Last season, CBS' blue-noses severly damaged "Smile," the Michael Ritchie movie about beauty pageants.) But ABC still is the all-time champion in the Silly Censor Sweepstakes. A few highlights from the network's past-performance charts: Led by chief censor Al Schneider, ABC hatcheted "Midnight Cowboy" into incoherence. Among other things, the network removed all traces of homosexuality, thus rendering the home audience oblivious to a crucial ingredient of the story. Jan lost nearly one-third of its footage when ABC telecast it as a "Bicentennial special" on 4th of July weekend last year ABC this month planned to repeat "Katherine," a made-for-TV movie about a girl who becomes a violent political radical. ABC wanted to trim the original two-hour film into a 90-minute time-slot.

The movie's director heard about it and raised a fuss. ABC hastily canceled the rerun. And on it goes. The networks, particularly ABC, have an astonishing lack of respect for the artistic accomplishment of filmmakers. Judging from their casual explanations for their brutal editing, they don't think too highly of us viewers, either.

New voice at WLS Radio THE LOCAL LINE: Kathy McFarland, recently a reporter and weekend news anchor at WISN-TV in Milwaukee, is a new reporter at WLS Radio. She fills the vacancy created when Lyle Dean left to join WFRY-FM. Bob Wussler, president of CBS-TV and former boss of WBBM-Ch. 2 in Chicago, is about to move his family from Winnetka to Beverly Hills or another exclusive area near Los Angeles. He and his wife, Grace, hope tor make the move before school starts in September.

In celebration of its fifth anniversary as a pro- gressive-rock station, WXRT-FM is sponsoring a free rock concert featuring the British group Renaissance at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Gillson Park, Wilmette. And Bob McBride, former Channel 2 news anchqr who left Chicago in 1973, has been promoted to vice president and general manager of WJBK-TV in Detroit. Since quitting his Chicago on-air job, McBride had been station manager (or second-in-command) at the Detroit station. FRONTIER -179 95 TR0PICANA17a95 DUNES FLAMINGOH.179.95 SANDS LAND1YIARK179.95 SAHARA RIVIERA CAESARS MGM "219.95 full pni UlVfglilnc mr.

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ly I I Ityr Li NtarOoublrOrr. All rj Baggage $18 1 8 in Including Chicago (1970) Until 10 p.m. (Color) The Frankenstein legend takes a beating in this poor version of the good doctor's creation of artificial life. 8:30 p.m. Channel 7 "GORDON'S WAR" Gordon Hudson PaJWInlield Bee Cart Lee Otis David Downing Directed by Ossie Davis (1973) Until 10 p.m.

(Color) Ex-Green Beret declares war on the drug mob after his wife dies of an overdose of heroin. 10:30 p.m. Channel 11 "OCTOBER" Directed by Sergei Eisensleln (1927) Until 12:20 a.m. Classic dramatic account of the first 10 days of the Russian revolution. 11 p.m.

Channel 9 "THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV" Dmitri Karamazov Yul Brynnef Grushenka Maria Schell Katya Claire Bloom Directed by Richard Brooks (1958) Until 1:55 a.m. Four brothers in 19th-century Russia are each affected differently by the death of their father. 12:30 a.m. Channel 7 "A TASTE OF EVIL" Miriam Jennings Susan Dr. Lomas Harold Jennings Barbara Stanwyck Barbara Parkins Poddy McDowal William Windom jonn Arthur O'Connel Directed by John Llewellyn Money (1971) Until 2:02 a.m.

(Color) Average melodrama of a woman trying to stop her decline into mental illness. 2:25 a.m. Channel 9 "BARBARY COAST" Mary Rutledge Miriam Hopkins Lome ChamaliS Edward Q. Robinson James Carmrchael Joel McCrea Ok) Atrocity Waller Brannan Directed by Howard. Hawks (1935) Until 4:05 a.m.

Great adventure yarn has Hopkins arriving In turn of the century San Francisco to find her husband-to-be was cheated and mur-'dered. Friday's AMFM highlights FR1DAV MORNING 1:09 WNIB (FM 7.l( Schubert's Impromptus, O. 809 and musio by Rossini. 10:00 WMBI (FM 90.1) Gerald Moore discusses the art ot accompanying. WFMT (FM 997 and AM 1450) FROM THE BBC.

Ralpn Holme, and Anthony Goldslone per lorn) Eloar Violin end Piano Sonata. FRIDAY AFTERNOON 11:00 WEFM (FM 99.9) MATINEE. Muse Includes Malcolm Arnold conducting a concert performance of Roeaini'a "La Cambiale dl Mai' nmonte" Overture. WFMT (FM 99.7 end AM 1450) CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL 1973. A guitar racital by John WWiams.

WNIB (FM 97.1) DICK LAWRENCE REVUE. A program about tha Charming Cherry Sailers, a famous vaudeville act 00 WFMT (FM 99.7 and AM 14SO) MY MUSIC. An entertaining gama Show from trie Braisfl Broadcasting Corporation. 1:00 WXFM (FM 10 9) MUSIO FROM BROADWAY. "Pippin." 7:00 WEFM (FM 99.9) Kodahg Symphony, Pnion Violin Concerto, snd Toohs Trwd Symphony.

WFMT (FM 99 7 and AM 1450) BOSTON SYMPHONY CONCERT. Klaus Tennstedl oonducts Webem's Paiiacagiia. Haydns Symphony No. 100, and Schubert Symphony No. 9.

1:00 WCFL (AM 1000) FOCUS lOOO. A program on UFOs. 10 90 WNIB (FM 97.1) RON RAY AT THE Movies. Bernard Her mem eonducte Britten fam mueio. 10:10 WFMT (FM 99.7 and) AM 1450) CHICAGO SINGER-SONGWRITERS.

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