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20 THE SCRANTON TIMES, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1991 Late IVlovies KATHY McLAUGHUN ED FINN 12:00 CD A Moonlight Sonata" Charles Farrell. 4358329 12.05 (PRSM) a Vi The Banker" Robert Forster. 79177771 12:30 (HBO) Vk In the Spirit Mario Thomas 8638077 1:00 Game for Vultures" Richard Harris. 606503 (TNT) V5 All the Fine Young Cannibals Natalis Wood 629042 1:30 (DISN) The Crimson Pirate Burl Lancaster. 442874 1:50 (MAX) a The Drifter" Kim Delaney.

5189042 2:00 ID Madame BoutaUka Shirley MacLame. 139961 2:20 (SHOW) Basket Case 2" Kevin Van Hentenryck. 48519526 2:30 GD Lookin to Get Out Jon Volght. 303690 2:35 (HBO) ae Brain Dead Bill Pullman. 8441690 2:45 (WTBS) a a Apache Uprising Rory Calhoun.

8986874 3:00 a Public Enemy James Cagney. 2057936 3:20 (MAX) a a Kite of the Beast Sheri-lyn Fenn. 6833333 3:30 (TNT) aavi The Power" George Hamilton. 55406771 (DISN) aaa Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" Walter Pldgeon. 899313 'Veronica Clare' Dead on Arrival By JOE LOGAN Knight-Ridder Newspapers Veronica Clare," meet "V.I.

Warshawski. Kathleen Turners new big-screen private eye, Warshawski," was dead on arrival at the box office. And Veronica Clare," the new Laura Robinson series on Lifetime about yet another female private eye, died in people's living rooms. "The show's been canceled, says Laura Stein, assistant to the series executive producers. VC made its debut only July 23, as part of the cable networks Tuesday lineup of original programming, but its get- Baseball Documentary Nets Emmy Nomination The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Mid-Atlantic Region, announces Little League Baseball: 50 Years of Dreams has been nominated for an Emmy Award.

The one-hour special was produced and directed for WVIA-TV, Ch. 44, by Pittston native Ed Finn, who is currently production manager for Kaleidoscope Productions 52 Luzerne West Pittston. The documentary received the Emmy nomination in the category of Outstanding Sports ProgramOne Time Onlv Special." The PBS special program celebrates the 50th anniversary or Little League baseball and reflects on the 50 years of dreams that built network of Little League 750,000 volunteers. The documentary serves as a tribute to every boy, girl, mom, dad and grandparent who ever spent time and energy making big league citizens out or Little League baft players. The special program was written by freelance writer and television news proaucer, Joseph Buckley; Kathy McLaughlin, Kaleidoscope Productions and Juditn Pomento, Kaleidoscope Productions Inc.

An Emmy is the most prestigious honor awarded in the broadcasting industry. The Ninth Annual Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards for the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware region will be awarded Sept. 7 at the Adams Mark Hotel, Philadelphia. Two-Hour 'Masters' Show Portrait of Great Violinist ting the ax alter only nine episodes. Ste specul a result of the high production costs on the one-hour drama.

That seems lausible, because it did as well in ratings as Lifetimes two other new Tuesday night offerings, Confessions of Crime and The Hidden Room." Alex Wagner, publicist for VC," says only: Were stopping production to rewrite and retool. We are committed to the series. No word yet on what will fill the 10 p.m. iiesday slot after Sept. 24.

JON BUftUNGAMC Tune in Tonight HOLLYWOOD Yehudi Menuhin, one of the worlds great violinists, is profiled in an absorbing two-hour documentary on American Masters (9 p.m., Ch. 44; 10 p.m., Ch. 46). "Menuhin: A Family Portrait is not, however, the standard cut-and-paste collection of clips and reminiscences by colleagues. Director Tony Palmer (who made the nine-hour biography Wagner" and the Shostakovich fum Testimony) intercuts excerpts from musical performances with remarkably candid observations by Menuhin, his wife Diana, his sisters and children.

The music, drawn from TV and film coverage (even silent news- JS pEDlSl MnlkiWl. AlSfctwtlefara LOO ML SCRANTONI8 KR-C4HS HiGHway. 343 1459 343 DOS reels) of his seven decades of playing and conducting, is carefully chosen to reflect the moods ana DOUBLE IMPACT (R) 1003 106 10 7 700 30 DELIRIOUS (TO) 1 163166167 16018 PURE LUCK (ra) 1 003 00 6 007000 00 KTUMI TO DC BOX UtOON on BOOH PA8TI 1 OQ(PH 1006 007-000 00111) broadcasts. Tonight, its a March 1990 show featuring model-actress Paulina Porizkova, along with music group Th Pmclaimers. CULT CHOICE Acclaimed Italian moviemaker Sergio Leones output ranged from the spaghetti Western Tne Good, the Bad and the Ugly to the masterpiece Once Upon a Time in America.

One of his most underrated films was 1972s A Fistfhl of Dynamite (10 p.m. Eastern, TNT) originally more colorfully titled Duck, You Sucker with Rod Steiger and James Coburn as a Mexican peasant and an Irish terrorist who join forces during the Mexican Revolution. It includes one of composer Ennio Morricones cleverest, most atmospheric scores. SERIES NOTES All are reruns. Wood is forced to testify against Evan in court on Evening Shade (8 p.m., Ch.

22) Will entertains a royal visitor by taking her to the disco on Fresn Prince of Bel Air (8 p.m., Ch. 28) Elizabeth dates a Marine on Major Dad (8:30 p.m. h. 22). LATE NIGHT Scheduled guests: Actor Bob Ne-whart, newsman Peter Jennings and musician David Byrne appear on a Tonight Show rerun (11:30 p.m., Ch.

28) Comedian Brad Garrett begins a second week of hosting chores on Into the Night (Midnight, Ch. 16) with actor Jason Hervey, saxophonist Clarence Clemons and comedian Brett Leak. Newsman Robert MacNeil is interviewed on a Later With Bob Costas rerun (1:30 a.m., Ch. 28) Actor Meshach Taylor, tennis star Gabriela Sabatini, musician Doug Kershaw and music group Color Me Badd appear on The Arsenio Hall Show (11:30 p.m., Ch. 38).

1991, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. HOT SHOTS (PW13) 1703 106707 7070 101 Ml MAHANS on Bill 1Q1 B06J1 JOURNEY 100? 464 158 00 IQ 7 300 30(70) the Los Angeles Raiders and the Dallas Cowboys from Texas Stadium in Irvine, Texas. Comic Book Confidential (8 p.m. Eastern, Bravo) will delight comic-book buffs with its interviews with somC of the fields most notable talent: mainstream artists Jack Kirby (Captain America) and Will Eisner (The Spirit), underground favorite Robert Crumb and Mad magazine creator William M. Gaines.

NBC attempts to heighten Mayim Bialiks profile with the first of two Blossom episodes (8:30 p.m., Ch. 28) to air this week. (The second one airs on Thursdays highrated lineup). Tonights repeat finds Blossom needing emotional support, from Six while calling a boy for a date. Meredith Baxter-Birney gives one of her best performances in Winnie (9 p.m., Ch.

28), a poignant 1988 TV movie based on the true story of a mentally handicapped woman who spent 30 years in an institution but is determined to make it on her own. An April episode of Northern Exposure (10 p.m., Ch. 22) raised a few eyebrows for its story line about Holling deciding to have a circumcision to please Shelly. Also tonight: Maggies father visits, leaving Mag- 5ie in the uneasy position of asking oel to play her boyfriend for a few days. Late Night With David Letter-man (12:30 a.m., Ch.

28) begins what its calling Leggy Supermodel Week, all drawn from 1990 and 1991 REGARDING HENRYeoia 1003 06 007100 70 TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DA Yi 164 16700046 feelings being expressed by the speakers at the moment. No complete work is performed (nor, unfortunately, are any of them identified), but they encompass a wide range from Beethoven and Handel to Gershwin and Ravi Shankar. Menuhin reflects on his lifetime of music-making, recounting his Carnegie Hall debut in 1927 at the age of 11, his later meetings with Edward Elgar and Bela Bartok, and more. There is also footage of him performing with Benjamin Britten at the newly liberated Belsen concentration carim after World War II, which, his family says, had a profound effect on him. Palmer managed to elicit incredibly intimate details of the artists youth, his troubled first marriage and his failings as a father from other members of his family.

And his second wife, Diana, turns out to be outspoken and funny: TONIGHTS OTHER HIGHLIGHTS Monday Night Football (live, 8 p.m. Eastern, Ch. 16) airs a preseason NFL matchup between The Judds are among the artists slated to perform in Budweiser Rock 'n Country" on TNN: The Nashville Network. The program, which highlights a recent concert from Busch Stadium in St. Louis, also features The Kentucky Headhunters.

It airs tonight at 8. BARGAIN MATINEES EVERY DAY $3.75 ALL SHOWS STARTING BEFORE 6 PM POINT BREAK 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40 (R) MOBSTERS 12:30, 2:40, 500. 7:15. 9:30 (R) 'Eerie, Indiana' Series For Wacko Generation V.I. WARSHAWSKI 1:30, 3.30, 5.30, 7:40, 10.00 (R) ROBIN HOOD 1O0.

400,700. 10:50 (PG-13) row MICHAEL J. FOX JULIE WARNER WOODY HARRELSON Only the Lonely 1210 5 00 PQ13 Backdraft 2 20 7 10 950 By RON MILLER Knight-Ridder Newspapers The ABC brass may have closed down Twin Peaks, for good, but members of the Great American Wacko Generation can take heart: NBC will open Eerie, Indiana City Slickers 1200 230 450 700 920 POIl Donl Tell Mom the Babysitter Dead 12 50 3 00 5 10 7 20 9 30 PG13 Thelma Louise 12 1 0 4 40 7.10 Out For Justice 2 40 9 40 Dying Young 2 50 9.15 fl Drop Dead Fred 12 40 5 05 715 P013 He was headed for Beverly DOC HOLLYWOOD 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9.50 Fi'l before you go into total withdrawal. Twin Peaks may have been the town where everybody ate huckleberry pie until their arteries were clogged and drank strong black coffee until their brain cells shriveled up, but Eerie is where mothers keep their kids young forever by vacuumpacking them each night. In other words, Eerie is my kind of town.

NBC thinks it may turn out to be everybodys town or at least the town of enough of us to siphon off a ton of viewers from CBSs 60 Minutes, which will be its primary opponent when it opens Sept. 22 at 7:30 p.m. ET. Aimed at youngsters and young adults, Eerie, Indiana is a half-hour show about the weirdest little town in America, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Marshall Teller (Omri Katz) and his pal Simon (Justin Shenkarow), who cant seem to convince their folks that something strange is going on. irv.

level, and they eat it up. Katz, the shows teen star, agrees. After eight years playing J.R. Ewing Jr. on Dallas, he says hes ready for a show with horror, gory parts and stuff like that.

Yet it would be a mistake to think Eerie, Indiana is just a kid show. Its really for all of us who refuse to totally grow up. In one episode, for instance, Marshall is afraid to visit the dentist to get a retainer. And for good reason: He knows a kid who was fitted with an experimental retainer that lets him hear what all the dogs in Eerie are thinking. The boys find out the dogs are planning a revolution, said Schaefer.

As soon as they solve the mystery of the doorknob, theyre going to make their move. In another episode, Marshall and Simon learn theres a giant warehouse under the streets of Eerie where all the lost stuff in the world accumulates. This is, of course, the perfect climate for director Dante, whose films are loaded with in-jokes, such as the werewolves in The Howling, who were named after directors of famous werewolf movies. I have a lot of props left over from old movies, said Dante, so I think a lot of the stuff that gets lost are things you might recognize from other movies. Running gags also can be expected.

Behind the main credits of the show, for example, we spot Elvis, who may be Hiding out in Eerie. Elvis will continue to show up in the background of scenes, said Rivera, you know, coming out of the 7-Eleven with a Slurpee. Adds Dante: Theres actually an episode where Elvis gives Marshall some advice. The show was dreamed up by two young writer-producers, Karl Schaefer and Jose Rivera, who seem i i igjg rk VX Vi normal, ail things considered. They talked about the show with reporters last week and brought along collaborator Joe Dante, the mad genius behind such movie hits as The Howling, Gremlins and Gremlins II, wholl direct several episodes.

The show seems to work great for even really small kids, said Schaefer. They take it on their own PG-13 991 fWlN'H ON1U9V CM SCRANTON 88 Violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin is profiled in "Menuhin: A Family Portrait," a two-hour film premiering on "American Masters" tonight at 9 on Ch. 44 and at 10 on Ch. 46. I Si If Aim MK.MVVAY (III KSON II 343-7459 343 3305 3.25 ALL SHOWS BEFORE 6:00 P.M.

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