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a 'f nif iiiiiiiiifiimiimiiiEiiiiiitiiiiiiiiKijifiiF WEEKEND 4 I 1 A mmivt it WEEKEND TELEVISION iTONIGHTISiPRIMEITIMEfGUIDt lONiTViTODAY Triumph of Spirit is triumph for Dafoe For complete daily television listings see The Sunday TV book Channel 6 programming can be picked up on UHF Channel 27 in Broward County KEY: gciosed captioned for hearing impaired in progress Shaded areas indicate movies Movie ratings: Excellent Good Fair Poor Actor gives intelligent aching performance 10:00 10:30 9:30 9:00 8:30 8:09 BEST BETS 8PM Q(Q You Look 40 Charlie Brown! Michele Lee presents highlights of the 40 years 8 PM MIDNIGHT movie TheMarkofZorro Adventure) Tyrone Power Linda Darnell Don Diego Vega courts the daughter of a tyrant whose henchman he fights as a masked avenger (2:00) 8:05 PM (T movie The Adventures of Robin Hood Action) Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland The forest outlaw and his men save King Richard and Maid Marian from bad Prince John and Sir Guy (2:00) 9:30 PM GD 63 Just the Ten of Us The girls fly to the tropics but their parents think on Charlie Brown 8PM a prayer retreat (Part 1 of 2) 10 PM CD 2020 Medical ethics and saving premature babies Czech President Vaclav Havel (1:00) 10 PM CO High School Basketball Carol City vs Miami High (Taped 2:00) By RYAN MURPHY Herald Staff Writer War pretty but there is a ravaged beauty in the faces and spirit of those who survive it they say The haunting Triumph of the Spirit revolves around such a viewpoint It is the rare war story that sidesteps overblown epic status by gently letting the survivors tell their tale The past year has been a banner one for movies that twist and weave around a Holocaust theme Triumph of the Spirit lacks the charm and heart of Paul Enemies a Love Story or the chilling and effective desolateness of Music Box But it does have Willem Dafoe the screen's logical successor to Robert De Niro whose intelligent aching performance helps Triumph transcend its genre and gives it quiet depth A tribute to a young Greek boxing determination and courage Triumph of the Spirit is based on the true experiences of Salamo Arouch (Dafoe) the middleweight boxing champion of the Balkan countries in 1938 As the film opens all is right with the world Salamo is a hero living with family and friends who is on the verge of marrying the stunning Allegra (Wendy Gazelle) The trip to the altar is cruelly interrupted when German soldiers march into town carrying forth command to exterminate European Jewry All are captured and sent to Auschwitz Allegra and her love are separated there and left to ponder each fate in the dark days ahead physical talents keep the gas chambers at bay The SS officers who love to gamble bet on prisoners in matches with no rounds Losers are weakened to the point of physical exhaustion and then sent to the chambers For the camp boxers Salamo included the reward of victory is TALK SHOWS 7 AM Today Willie Shoemaker cast of Fury Willem Dafoe Rosemary Clooney (2:00) (B This Morning Lesley Ann Warren Willie Shoemaker (2:00) CD 03 Good Morning America Preview of the salute to Sammy Davis Jr Bette Midler Carol Lawrence South African Parliament convenes (2:00) 9 AM 0 CD Donahue Sidney Biddle Barrows Mayflower Manners: Etiquette for Consenting Adults 1:00) Regis Kathie Lee Bill Cosby (part 2 of 2) David Hassel-hoff model Elle MacPherson 10 AM Everyday Co-host: Perry Stephens Loving (1:00) CD (B Sally Jessy Raphael (1:00) 4 PM 0 03 Oprah Winfrey Spouses meet old flames (1:00) Joan Rivers Beverly and Catya Sassoon battle alcoholism (1:00) 5 PM Geraldo Saving marriages from lack of desire (1:00) 5:30 PM Hard Copy Beach-wear preview 7 PM Inside Report Frances Bavier Aunt Bea spends her final days alone 7:30 PM Entertainment Tonight Bette Midler 9 PM cnn Larry King Livel Gore Vidal Hollywood (1:00) SINISTER SITE: Much of Triumph of the Spirit starring Willem Dafoe was filmed at Auschwitz SARGE MOVIE REVIEW LATE NiGHT Gary Kroeger stars in A Man Called Sarge a comedy spoof about a mission to blow up German fuel depots during the North African campaign of World War II The film was not made available for location in Auschwitz and the eerie evil of the place pervades nearly every frame Director Robert Young (Extremities) pulls back at just the right moments allowing audience members to go on several voyeuristic tours and should be commended for telling his story with a minimal amount of graphic sensationalism Triumph is spooky and it is win-ningly effective that way The strangely elegant documentary-like images of death comeback and survival that sweep through the grounds of the place say much more than words ever could 11 PM Arsenio Hall Blair Underwood Sally Jessy Raphael 11:30 PM 0 The Tonight Show Actress Jennifer Grey Carl Reiner 12:30 AM 03 After Hours Robin Givens inside MTV another day to live Dafoe is the core of the film and has never been better His tremendously physical performance literally all sweat and tears and blood seems vastly underappreciated award-wise (not even a Golden Globe nomination) Supporting performances by Robert Loggia as Poppa Arouch and Edward James Olmos as the prison-camp gypsy are equally superb Every performance in this film is as lean and taut as a violin string easy to see why Triumph of the Spirit for the most part was shot on TRIUMPH OF THE SPIRIT (R) Cast: Willem Dafoe Edward James Olmos Robert Loggia Wendy Gazelle Kelly Wolf Costas Mandylor Kario Salem Director: Robert Young Producers: Arnold Kopelson Shimon Arama Screenwriters: Andrzej Krakowski Laurence Heath Cinematographer: Curtis Clark Music: Cliff Eidelman A Nova International Films release Running time: 120 minutes Violence strong language Off (WHYIFM 1007) 10 AM Classic Ten at 10 (WGTRFM073) 11:30 AM MajicCafe (wmxjfm 1027) 7 PM at 7 (wgtrfmo7J) 7 PM Love Songs wjqy FM 1067) 8 PM Music for Lovers (waxy FM 1050) 11 PM Larry King (wiodamsio nd WPBR AM 1340) OH RADIO 7 AM Friday Morning Joke Stella does justice to original classic CM cc cc CO Today at 5 Why Husbands make Love! FRIDAY FEBRUARY 2 1990 THE MIAMI HERALD oc cc 2 Midler makes the role her own Stanwyck played Stella with a kind of plucky independence but Midler adds more of the Divine Miss to the character The Stella of the is ferociously liberated sometimes foul-mouthed and wears clothing that could be spotted by high-flying planes After the birth of daughter Jenny Stephen reappears and starts up a relationship with his baby girl Through high school and up to college Jenny lives with her mother and visits with daddy in New York for vacations The grown-up Jenny (Trini Alvarado) starts becoming the intelligent well-rounded woman her mother wants her to be but at the same time seems to be growing By JUAN CARLOS COTO Herald Entertainment Writer Watching Stella the modern-day update of the 1937 Barbara Stanwyck classic Stella Dallas you get the feeling that Bette Midler (in the Stanwyck role) sat down with screenwriter Robert Getchell picked the most memorable moments from the original then said The remake is even more episodic than the original with a plot that jumps across time and place What makes the movie jell are some top-notch performances especially As Stella Claire a headstrong waitress from a northeastern mill town who finds herself pregnant after a fling with soon-to-be-rich-doctor Stephen Dallas (Stephen Collins) MOVIE REVIEW STELLA (PG-13) Cast: Bette Midler John Goodman Trini Alvarado Stephen Collins Director: John Erman Screenwriter: Robert Getchell Producer Samuel Gold-wyn Jr Cinematographer: Billy Williams Music: John Morris A ouchstone release Running time: 105 minutes Vulgar language implicit sex distant from world Stella wants to give Jenny the chances she never had and must make a heart-wrenching choice The film succeeds in its peak dramatic moments especially two climactic scenes almost directly lifted from the 1937 version But Midler is more convincing in the lighter passages She is exactly the opposite of Stanwyck an actress of impressive power whose comedy seemed forced Then John Goodman as Ed Munn hard-drinking loud-mouthed buddy Stella is another strong showing for Goodman one of the great performances in a movie that might jumble its story a bit but mostly does justice to a classic mibwiwwww STREETS Christina Applegate (of Married with Children stars in Streets an R-rated thriller about a teen-age hooker who finds herself in peril The film was not made available for preview cn 0 0 CM.