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The Ottawa Citizen, Sunday, December 29, 1991 D5 JELEVLSLQN TODAY CHANNELING By Tony Atherton Bl vr7P. television, and it nicely rounds off CBC's repeat airing of the original Anne last weekend. In the sequel, Anne's an grown up, working as a teacher and falling for an older man. Spartacus: ABC at 9 p.m. The is the newly restored print of the original 1960 spectacular, which ABC presents as a miniseries (concluding Monday).

A lot of critics' favorite historical epic, it stars Kirk Douglas as the gladiator who fights for the rights of the oppressed. Among the big names backing him up are Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov, Charles Laughton and Tony Curtis. It was directed by Stanley Kubiick and owes its socio-political sensibility, at least in part, to its once black-listed screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo. Pamell and The Englishwoman: PBS at 9 p.m. In the first of a four-part series on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre, Francesca Annis plays Katharine O'Shea, the Englishwoman who married Capt.

Willie O'Shea and engaged in a long affair (producing three children) with Ireland's 19th century hero, Charles Stewart Pamell. The affair eventually undermined Pamell's dream of Home Rule for Ireland. Tony Altierton HIGHLIGHTS Sunday Arts Entertainment CBC at 2 p.m. Sylvia Tyson is the guest host this week, beginning with a profile of the Shumka Dancers, a Ukrainian-Canadian troupe which recently toured the Ukraine. Return of the Whirlwind follows the dancers on their triumphant and emotional tour.

Also this week are performances of bluegrass music from Shuswap, B.C., a traditional Nova Scotia ceilidh, a film portrait of painter Sam Borenstein by his daughter, Joyce, and a look at last summer's international fireworks competition at Ontario Place. W5: CTV at 7 p.m. CTVs weekly public affairs newsmagazine looks back at its first 25 years, from the days of black-and white film footage in 1 966, to E.N.G. color cameras and satellites in 1 991 The show has highlights from each decade, Including a 1980s campaign to free Ottawa resident Eric Rusmisel, arrested on a 20-year-old marijuana charge in Laredo, Texas. Anne of Green Cables The Sequel: CBC at 7:30 p.m.

This mini-series was nowhere near as engaging as the phenomenal original, but if still a worthwhile piece of 1-1 J. v.v if 'A I Kirk Douglas on set of Spartacus KIDS 7.00 a.m. Magic Library fl Kidstreet fj OWLTV Magic Garden 21KEI24 Pinocchlo 7.30 a.m. Sharon, Lois Bram's Elephant Show 0 Marie Soleil fl) Calimero (16 20 Jungle Book 8.00 a.m. Polka Dot Door Cj Wind In the Willows 8T30 a.m.

Today's Special Jodie buys the wrong brand of jeans for Muffy who dreams of being a jean model. Long Ago Far Away A boy's parents don't see that he needs glass Harrison Liu, left, and Donald Sutherland in scene from Bethune: The Making of a Hero Bethune mini-series both documentary and potent drama Bethune: The Making of a Hero, CBC, Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. Bruce Boxleitner. Undead spirits attempt to reclaim a woman who miraculously survived a brush with death. Based on a story by Gary Brandner.

(2:00) 10 "Face of a Stranger" 1 991 Drama) Tyne Daly, Gena Rowlands. Premiere. A wealthy apartment dweller's sympathy for a local homeless woman turns to friendship when her own financial security is threatened by the death of her husband. (2:00) 1 2.00 a.m. "Miss Tatlock's Millions" (1948, Comedy) John Lund, Wanda Hendrix.

In helping a friend out of trouble, a handsome man meets and falls in love with a young heiress. (2:00) 12.35 a.m. TheBig Chill" (1983, Comedy-Drama) Tom Berenger, Glenn Close. Reunited at a funeral, a group of college friends looks back at how their lives have changed since the turbulent 1960s. 1 .00 a.m.

"Mr. Mom" (1983, Comedy) Michael Keaton, Teri Garr. A rising young executive gets an on-the-job education in housekeeping after he loses his job and his wife goes to work. (2:03) 2.07 p.m. "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1967, West-em) Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef.

Three violent, determined men separately attempt to retrieve a $200,000 treasure. (2:53) 7.00 p.m. "Ghost Dad" (1990, Comedy) Bill Cosby, Kimberly Russell. A recently deceased businessman Is granted three short days to reassess his finances and bolster his relationship with his three children. (2:00) (3 43 "DocteurZhivago" (1965, Drame) Omar Sharif, Julie Christie.

Medecin et poete, Yuri Zhiva-go epouse une amie d'enfance, Tonya; mais la guerre I'oblige a quitter son foyer et a alter servir au front, dans un hopital ou il rencontre une in-firmiere. (4:00) 7.30 p.m. SO S3 8134 "Anne of Green Gables the Sequel" (1987, Drama) (Part 1 of 2) Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst. Trouble awaits an unsuspecting Anne when she accepts a teaching position at a prestigious girls boarding school. 9.00 p.m.

01 20 "From the Dead of Night" (1989, Suspense) (Part 1 of 2) Lindsay Wagner, MOVIES 11.00 a.m. (1935, Musical) Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers. The songs of Irving Berlin underscore this story of a young woman who mistakenly believes that the American dancer romancing her is married to her best friend. (1 :39) 12.39 p.m. The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942, Drama) Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten.

Orson Welles directed this adaptation of Booth Tarkington's novel about an eccentric Indiana family desperately clinging to tradition during a time of rapid changejl :28) 2.00 p.m. Ql 20 "Spartacus" (1 960, Drama) (Part 2 of 2) Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier. A restored version of Stanley Kubrick's Oscar-winning account of the Roman slave-turned-gladiator who rallied his oppressed countrymen against their tyrannical rulers in 775 B.C. (2:00) 2innzD "South Pacific" (1958, Musical) Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi. An American woman falls in love with a Frenchman while stationed as a Navy nurse in the South Pacific during World War II.

es. 9.00 a.m. Fl Sesame Street Join Inl 10.00 a.m. TO Pot-Pourri 10730 a.m. Wonderland Alice's Adventures in Enigma OWLTV 10.50 a.m.

Forget the recriminations, tne nasty epitnets siung Dy star and writer, the controversial crew strike in China, the ballooning budget (somewhere between $18 million and $21 million depending on who you listen to), Telefilm's coerced largess, and the fact that the movie couldn't even break $400,000 in box office receipts 1 1 .00 a.m. 03 Tom Sawyer 1 1T30 a.m. Heidi 1 2.00 p.m. 2fXM Puttnam's Prairie Emporium during a pitifully short run in theatres last year. Bethune: The Making of a Hero, the four-hour miniseries version of the mammoth and mammothly controversial Canada-France-China co-production, comes to TV this week, and it's well worth watching.

Forget as well that CBC has all but buried the film, for which it contributed $2.5 million up front, on New Year's SPORTS Day and Jan. 2 at 8 p.m. And forget that CBC chose to promote the film two weeks ago by broadcasting former fifth es tate correspondent Bob McKeown's expose of the film's troubles in China, Strangers in a Strange Land, as if Bethune's best hope was to attract the morbidly curious rather than a general TV audience. In fact, Bethune: The Making of a Hero is both an intri 4.00 p.m. NFL Football AFC Wild Card New York Jets at Houston Oilers.

(Live) (3:00) 0023 Road to the America's Cup Challenge From the East. Profiles the Japanese and Russian challenges for the America's CupMR) 4.30 p.m. EOuSD World Invitational Double Dutch Championship From Maryland. (R) 5.00 p.m. fl MotorSports Hour 5.05 p.m.

IO0SI WCW Main Event Wrestling 5.30 p.m. EfluSJJ NBA Action (R) 6.00 p.m. feltiaS Goals (R) 6.30 p.m. EElugS SportsDesk 7.00 p.m. ItSugS Don Cherry's Grapevine Guest: Pittsburgh Penguin goalie Frank Pietrangelo.

Figure Skating Ladies Inter national Championships. From Atlanta. (R) (2:30) 1 .30 p.m. fl Outdoor Sportsman 2.30 p.m. Le Magazine du ski Anime par Dominic Laroche et Michel Ferval-Larose.

This Is the NFL A look at the ten most decisive moments of the '91 season. 14 College Football Independence Bowl Georgia vs. Arkansas. From Shreveport, La. (Live) (3:30) 3.00 p.m.

0 Bills Sneak Preview With Jim Kelly Highlights of upcoming games. Equestrian Pan Am Three-Day Championship. (R) 3.30 p.m. NFL Live 7.30 p.m. BQuSZJ NFL Primetime Scores and highlights of today's NFL playoff games.

8.00 p.m. EEIG33 Hockey Alberta Cup Tournament Championship Game. From Red Deer, Alia. (Live) Iu03l College Football Gator Bowl Oklahoma vs. Virginia.

From Jacksonville, Fla. (Live) (3:30) 10.30 p.m. 0 Sports plus weekend 10.40 p.m. IDEII Instant Replay 1 1 .00 p.m. Fpu23 SportsDesk 1 1 .30 p.m.

Et Sportsline ffj Les Nouvelles du Sport EEIO03 Motoring '92 (R) 1 1 .35 p.m. 0 George Michael's Sports Machine 12.00 a.m. KEliiEffl Transworld Sport (R) 6.00 a.m. EEfiEU Motorcycle Racing AMA U.S. Outdoor Motorcross Nationals.

From Buchanan, Mich. (R) 9.30 a.m. Rod Reel Stream-side Don and his guest demonstrate old fashioned methods for catching bass. 14 39 Bowling Tournament of Champions. 10.00 a.m.

Rod and Reel EEI0B3 Canadian Sportflshing (R) 10.30 a.m. FETTigT) Raceline(R) 1 1 .30 a.m. PQiibaS SportsOesk 1 2.00 p.m. NFL Today 12.30 p.m. NFL Football NFC Wild Card Dallas Cowboys at Chicago Bears.

(Live) (3:30) guing documentary about an amazing man, and powerful drama. Mind you, it still suffers from some the same problems SUNDAY PRIME TIME AT A GLANCE that irritated critics in its film lorm. I he story is disjointed, told through much of its length in non-sequential flashbacks. They are fractured memories conjured from ex-wives, lovers, friends and colleagues by a socialist journalist (Colm Feore) intent on discovering the essence of the man after his death. Writer Ted Allan, whose script star Donald Sutherland openly excoriated when the film was on the festival circuit, was fictionalizing his own experience researching the Norman Bethune story for his 1942 biography The Scalpel and The Sword.

But he may also have been thinking of the structure of a cinema classic. Citizen Kane, another film about a great man with noble intentions and jumbo-sized ego, was more ably strung together, however. The disorienting effect is less apparent in the mini-series, if only because it is approximately twice as long as the feature film. And that's even taking into account that roughly an hour of the four-hour length is devoted to commercials. Film was recut to make it more chronological The film has been deliberately reeut to make the story more chronological, says CBC, and has been given an entirely new narrative track, written by Allan and recorded by Feore and Sutherland.

It's rather heavy-handed, but helps to keep the audience on track. The editing is a little jarring, particularly at commercial breaks, but overall the film has more elbow room. The good news is the miniseries has a full measure of the film's attractions as well as these paler versions of its blemishes. Chief among these charms is the performance of Sutherland as the ideological doctor. Sutherland is galvanizing whenever he takes on the character of a passionately-committed individual, but Bethune has been a career-long passion for the actor who also played him in a relatively low-budget 1977 CBC biography directed by Eric Till.

There's also strong, if spotty direction by Philip Borsos (The Grey Fox) and lots of spectacular footage of the Chinese interior. The story is comprehensive, from his days as a crusading Montreal surgeon who has little time for his wife Frances (Helen Mirren), though endowed with a sexual appetite to match his ego. It covers his battle with tuberculosis, from which he cured himself after doctors refused to attempt a risky new procedure, and his subsequent lobbying for a socialized medicine system, a passion that eventually inspired his interest in communism. The film includes a segment on his service in Spain as a bull-headed surgeon serving the socialist alliance fighting Franco's fascist forces. He is too belligerent for the cause, however, and is asked to leave Spain.

Back in Montreal, he finds a new cause to espouse, that of Mao Zedong's Eighth Army. In China he meets a protes-tant missionary (Helen Shaver) and is finally humbled by the actions of a less than perfect but truly dedicated Chinese doctor. Freed of his ego, he finally becomes the hero he wanted to be. Norman Bethune is still a much-honored figure in China. am mi; -m -s i TVOnlario24 22 Jeunes esprits Sefalreunnom Science amateurs Carte blanche "Une histoire de vent" (R) Cinema "Ma Comedie) Maurice Chevalier.

FJ GLOBAL 6 12 60 Minutes Murder, She Wrote "The Family Jewels" I With Alfd. Hitchcock I Funny Faces Red Skelton. WNPE-WNPI (PBS) 18 16 Austin City Limits 'Little Feat' (R) Nature 'Seasons in the Sea' R) Masterpiece Theatre: Parnell Mini-Dragons (R) (Part 1 ol 4) a QuatreSaisons49 5 Cinema "Olivier- (1988) (Cont'd) Cinema "Fantomes en tele" (1 988. Comedie) Bill Murray, Karen Allen. Le Grand Journal Sports CHR05 6 W5g Down to Earth Funniest People Movie "From the Dead ol Night" (1989) (Part 1 of 2) Lindsay Wagner, CJ0H(CTV)13 7 W5Q Home Videos Funniest People Movie "From the Dead of Night" 1 989) (Part 1 ol 2) Lindsay Wagner, CB0TICBQ4 2 Raccoons on Ice (R) Movie "Anne ol Green Gables The Sequel" (1 987) (Part 1 of 2) Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst.

(CBC News Venture 0 WHECfNBQIO 9 Movie "Ghost Dad" (1990. Comedy) Bill Cosby. Kimberly Russell. 0 Golden Girls (R) Golden Girls (R) Empty Nest (R) Nurses (R) C3 CHOT(TVA)40 10 Cinema "DodeurZhivago" (1965, Drame) Omar Sharif, Julie Christie. (TJ 11 Lei Demons du midl "Permission speciale" Les Beaux dimanches "Les Francofolies de Montreal" Beaux Francophones hors-Quebec Le Telejournal B3 Family of Flowers Hands Over Time (R) Prisoners of Gravity Whalesong I Harbourfront I Making Opera flp WR0C(CBS)8 21 60 Minutes Murder, She Wrote "The Family Jewels' Movie "Face of a Stranger" (1 991 Drama) Tyne Daly, Gena Rowlands.

Premiere, 14 ID WOKR(ABC) 19 Life Goes On "Hello. Goodbye" (R)q Home Videos Funniest People Movie 'Spartacus' (1960) (Pari 1 ol 2) Kirk Douglas. Laurence Olivier, 51 20 CFCF(CTV)12 33 W5q Home Videos Funniest People Movie "From the Dead of Night" (1989) (Part 1 ol 2) Lindsay Wagner, 22 Rogers Community Bulletin Board (Cont'd) Community Bulletin Board 22j Maclean-Hunter Community Bulletin Board (Cont'd) Community Bulletin Board gfl C1V030 Cinema file d'incognito' (Cont'd) Sherlock Holmes: Lady Frances Carfax Comedie) "Coltsd'or" 43' CFTM10 27 JulieChnstie. SO CKWS 11 Raccoons on Ice (R) Movie "Anne ol Green Gables The Sequel' (1987) (Part 1 ol 2) Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst. CBC News Venture B134 CBMT(CBC)6 Raccoons on Ice (R) Movie "Anne of Green Gables The Sequel' (1987) (Part 1 ol 2) Megan Follows.

Coileen Dewhurst. CBC News rj Venture ffJTiTl Nmworld (CBC) 26 Fashion File (R) Newsmagazine Medicine File (R) Workweek At Issue (R) 2Hlg4J VTV 24 Save the Children (R) Young Canada (R) Wide World of Kids Zorro Smith and Smith Wild Side 24t30J Vision TV 14 Day of Discovery Ralph Martin II Is Written Peter Young ren Bernice Gerard Ministries World Religions Door of Hope VUZ MuchMusic 23 Backtrax Cliptrip VJ Michael Williams Fromage (R) Blue Spotlight Power 30 TSN 28 Don Cherry NFL Primetime Hockey: Alberta Cup Tournament Championship Game. From Red Deer. Alta (Live) 33 MP Musigue Plus 20 Transit Muslque video Musique video Nu musik (R) tSiaifj TVS 15 Nouvelles euro. Vision 5 (R) L'Heure de verite Caracteres "Les aventuriers de I'art" Faut pas rever G3 Arts A EnL Price (Part 3 of 3) (Cont'd) David Letterman EH) CNN CNN World Today Sports Sunday PrlmeNewsQ Week in Review (R) World News am Family Channel FAM Jingle Bell Rap Movie "Pete's Fantasy) Mickey Rooney, Helen Reddy.

Frank Sinatra "A Concert for the Americas" First Choice FC Movie "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1 989) Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Movie "Reversal ol Fortune" (1 990, Drama) Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, ES Headline News HN Headline News (Cont'd) Headline News Headline News El Super Ecran SE Cinema "Les Sirenes" (Cont'd) Cinema i "Alberto Express' (1990) Sergio Castellito. I Cinema "Dick Tracy" (1990) Warren Beatty, Madonna. tllj Learning Channel TLC Hollywood "End of an Era' Negro Ensemble Company (R) Making ol Do the Right Thing Played in the USA(R) tlilj WTBS Movie 'A Force ol One' (Cont'd) College Football: Gator Bowl Oklahoma vs. Virginia. From Jacksonville.

Fla. (Live) tliiii Nashville Network American Sports Cavalcade (R) NHRA Today (R) Inside-Racing Bill Dance Outdoors Celebrity Outdoors Road Test Magazine Giii WCN Movie 'Great-Robbery (Cont'd) Star Search (R) Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (R) Newsq Instant Replay 7 WWNY (Air Only) 60 Minutes Murder, She Wrote "The Family Jewels" Movie "Face ol a Stranger" (1991. Drama) Tyne Daly, Gena Rowlands. Premiere, (Tony Atherton is the Citizen's television writer.) Both Ottawa cables Rogers only Maclean Hunter only Closed captions THIS WEEK international TV awards shows includes the presentation of an Emmy to Toronto producer Niv Fischman for best arts program. Le Dortoirvas filmed on the NAC stage last year.

Coronation Street CBC at 1 p.m. A one-hour retrospective of this popular kitchen-table soap from Britain will replace All My Children today. The special includes a segment where actors, writers and directors consider the importance of the role of Elsie Tanner to the series. 1992 and beyond: Newsworid at 7 p.m. On The Une host Patrick Conkxi moderates a panel discussion that looks at Canada's economic and political future.

U.S. futurist Marvin Cetron and pollster Allan Gregg are among the guests. Bethune: The Making of a Hero: CBC at 8 p.m. The original 1990 feature movie, starring Donald Sutherland, has been recut and considerably lengthened as a tour-hour TV miniseries. It concludes Thursday at 8 p.m.

See Channeling column for details. the well-coined Dick Clark. He'll be on ABC and Global tonight at 1 1:30 p.m. Clark is joined by Beverly Hills, 90210 star Shannon Doherty, and such performers as Vanessa Williams, D. J.

Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince, and Barry Manilow. Other New Year's Eve specials include NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and CBS's Hard Rock Cafe 20th Anniversary New Year's Eve Special. Also at 1 1:30 p.m., PBS has a live broadcast from the Schauspielhaus in Berlin, where Claudio Abbado conducts the Berlin filharrnonic in a 90-minute, all-Beethoven concert Wednesday The Tournament of Roses Parade: NBC, ABC and CBS at 11 a m. There are any number of bowl games today, but only one Rose Bowl parade, a New Year's Day tradition. Joan Van Ark and Ted Shaokleford host for CBS, Joe Garagbia and Marsha Warfield for NBC, and Gary Collins and Beth Ruyak for ABC.

The) 1991 International Emmy Awards: CTV at 2 p.m. Taped in New York in November, the Thursday They Never Asked Us: Vision TV at 7:30 p.m. This talk show, for and about teens, features frank opinions from seven teenagers carefully chosen from among 100 candidates. Once chosen, the young people had a hand in (he planning and development of the 13-part series, which examines such issues as spiritual beliefs, school, sex, suicide and male and female roles. Friday A Question of Conscience: Vision TV at 8 p.m.

The first of two documentaries on the murder of Jesuit priests in El Salvador, this film contrasts the lives of the six murdered priests and their murderers, Sakadoran soldiers, in an effort to understand the killings. Next Friday, Vision presents Killing Priest is Good News, a look at how the murder of clerics in Central America has profoundly changed the lives of three individuals. Tony Atherton Monday Aspen: PBS at 9 p.m. The 21 2-hour documentary by Frederick Wiseman on this plastic pleasure park in the pristine Colorado Rockies is really a condemnation of the American lifestyle, a damning exploration of the transcendence of consumerism over environmentalism. Tuesday Hockey Double-Header: CBC at 5:30 p.m.

Tis the season for U.S. college bowl games, but CBC gives us a Canadian alternative: two NHL games back-to-back. At 5:30 p.m., the Rangers face the Jets, and at 8 p.m., the Canadiens take on the Flames AJ of which moves The NationalJournal back to 1 1 p.m. CBC doesn't have any live New Year's Eve programming, but instead at midnight offers an entertaining Harry Connick, concert taped live in London, April of 1990. Live New Year's Eve programs: Various.

Ever since Guy Lombardo checked out (and even before), New Year's Eve has officially belonged to Harrick Connick, Jr. concert on New Year's Eve.