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THE CUMMEKUAL APPEAL Memphis sAniKiiAy utAJiMHEKy jA12 SATURDAY MORNING DEC 9 Kissinger foams but TNT drama fascinating Fox-ABC switch generates calls for Rush soaps 6:00 6:30 6:00 6:30 1:00 1:30 2:00 2:30 AFTERNOON 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30 EVENING 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 IWakiair Taxaa Ranger: The Cowmanr 114248 133 Cheers 8812880 8856557 Sisters: "A Tough Act A 648441 78170 chair an That's Entertabimsnd 1994 Chariaat A cotlaction of soma of rabmtrnomant mualcala(3no) 802808 Saturday Alan Grier 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 Extra Ent Mag 6 8378K5 foS 1:35 Parry Mason Cheers 8200847 18188002 rf the Bride at AggijRua Night Ua: Host David Music Touched by an Angal: TearNotT(R) A 7712 Btly Graham Crusads A 35077 Q) WREQ Dr Quinn Madkana Woman: "Ha on Wheats" 9064 58567 B) Muiicain WMC 6:60 Over America: Yom Skarritt narrates aerial portrait ot the United Statea A 68175773 WKNO Copa: "Buffatf 115847 America's Moat 53 million theft Las Vegas WHBQ taw 28825 With Farrakhan" 21712 "Math Made Easy ran" 21 35 Renegade: Want-sd in 48488 rRcBFf in Mexicor (R) 4284538 69 of the adult in theHeetolthe Night AH 38335 In tha Iriaaiioi die Night 648083 WLMT ra WBUY In Touch B42885T Z55G5BS444ET Ptter PanA 6 (3 8744373 Land's Patti" (R) A 688847 Maiy (R) mprovs 56151 John Caiman 715828 Pat Boons 704847 Alvin StawMar 77140B 771606 AbsotutaCZ 381557 Absoluts CZ 36464? 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Let ua by calling CA Infoline 544-6000 category No 7400 CJL IMFOLIME For Information on these topics call 544-6000 and enter the category code: Daily soap opera updates Category code 4050 Nighttime drama updates Category code 4083 Off 111) Town Countiy Jewlers DIAMOND MKRCHANT By Kirlt Niccwouger United Faaiura Syndicate NEW YORK Two notable TV movies one controversial and one heartwarming vie for your attention Sunday night Kissinger and Nixon (7 pm TNT) based on Walter book Kissinger A Biography dramatizes the alleged rift between the president and national security adviser in the critical days of the 1972-73 TUNE IN Paris peace talks which led to the end of American involvement in Vietnam If its account of events is even halfway true an astounding story: Nixon (Beau Bridges) is portrayed as a petty jealous anti-Semite obsessed with and sports metaphors Kissinger (Ron Silver) comes across as an egoistic Machiavellian bootlicker who flatters a president for whom he has zero respect even as he drastically oversteps his authority in negotiations with the North Vietnamese Kissinger aide Alexander Haig (MattFrewer) meanwhile is drawn as an ambition-driven recruited by Nixon to keep an eye on and at times undermine the efforts of Kissinger Ultimately Kissinger brokers a peace agreement which is promptly scuttled by Nixon A fascinating thesis but is it accurate? Kissinger reportedly madder than a Rhode Island Red in a rainstorm has publicly denounced the movie as But in any case Bridges and Silver give performances of remarkable verisimilitude uncannily capturing the appearances accents and mannerisms or their well-known characters A considerably more appealing note is struck in the igentle Journey (8 pm WREG-TV Channel 3) a Hallmark Hall of Fame production adapted by Patricia MacLachlan (Sarah Plain and Tall) from her book of the same name Max Pomeranc (Searching for Bobby Fischer) stars as 11-year-old Journey whose mother (Meg Tilly) abandons him and his older sister (Eliza Dushka) to the care of their farming grandparents (Jason Robards and Brenda Fricker) Through family pictures the photography-obsessed grandfather tries to help the wounded boy make sense of his new bewildering world and begin the process of healing Unabashedly sentimental (in the best sense) and unarguably good-hearted Journey also boasts fine performances especially by Robards and Frick er highlights Robin Williams Dustin Hoffman and Julia Roberts star in Hook (7 pm WPTY-TV Channel 24) director Steven 1991 update of liter Pan Larry King hosts the live interactive special Miracles and the Extramdinary (7 pm TNT) Macaulay Culkin plays the richest kid in the 1994 comedy clunker Richie Rich (7 pm HBO) On Walker Texas Ranger (9 pm WREG-TV Channel 3) martial-arts students from series star Chuck Kick Drugs Out of America Foundation guest in a story about feuding youth gangs Other Sunday highlights Scheduled reports on 60 Minutes (6 pm WREG-TV Channel 3): scientist Maryann Ma who was poisoned by a radioactive substance at the National Institutes of Health cellist Yo Yo Ma the use of the drug Ritalin Sports Sportsman of the Year Award is bestowed in a special hosted by Terry Bradshaw (6 pm WHBQ-TV Channel 13) The summer series Lost Civilizations returns in reruns (6 pm WMC-TV Channel 5) installment: a look at the Maya culture of Central America The three-hour special Monarchy (7 pm looks at the storied past rambunctious present and cloudy future of royals Eddie Murphy stars in the 1992 political comedy The Distinguished Gentleman (8 pm WMC-TV Channel 5) A soap battle with infertility is dramatized in Never Say Never: The Deidre Hall Story (8 pm WPTY-TV Channel 24) Hall stars as herself Vintage performances by Diana Ross and the Supremes Bing Crosby the Three Stooges Johnny Mathis and the Muppets are among those included in Holiday Greetings From the Ed Sullivan Show (8 pm The Family Channel) Mlrtaue (l9ei Cbmiady) John Candy A soap writer is awapt into Ihe worid of his (2:00) 215836 rtkaeteaandi Extraordinary: J' Larry King intarvtewa rekgioua leaden oalabritia (Liva) Wl 880 Mireiriea (R) A and the Extraordinary 6678441 Miracias and the Extraordinary (R) A 6288151 LIFE TNT A Teas Night 527625 Paid FAN Drummer Boy Book II 254644 A Kannyi Dotty: Christmaato Remember 506825 Taan Summit 180373 IVideoSoui TOM WALTER Television Radio Lynn Carthane remains as the other Weekday anchor The been a senes of axle-breaking potholes this week for Channel 24 and sister station WLMT-TV Channel 30 Which airs a 9 pm: newscast Technical problems' of titanic proportions have plagued the newscasts never got to! rehearse We had some read-throughs Thursday and before we- went on the am (last) Friday but we never did a frill newscast Peck said was unfortunate we had to go on the air in that manner but life Every getting better I i The problems came1 because Channel news operation was racing a Dec 1 deadline both to get up and running and to move into a new building Peck said the first newscasts were in essence a worth of rehearsals but rehearsals done in front of the viewers frustrated because not a person on the staff who doesn't want to put on 'a clean looking slick product as fast as we can without giving anyone a nervous he said start-up and the planning our problem not the he said I 1 New show blooms WREG-TV Channel 3 premieres Mid-South Gardens at 1 pm Sunday Originals of the show then move to 8 JO am Saturday Dec 16 and w31 be re-run at 1 pm Sundays beginning Dec 17 Steven Cohan executive director of the Memphis Botanic Garden is host for the show very clever has a very dry wit but also very said Channel 3 general manager Bob Eoff Cohan came to Memphis this year from southern California where ihe was director of a botanical garden show) will be directed toward people who do landscape work flowerbeds roses irises violets trees -4 instead of tomatoes and string beans do a few of those but mostly talking to people who take a lot of pride in their yards and said Oh Jerusalem William Shatner wants boldly go where nevdr gone before deep into hu Jewish heritage Standing on a cliff overlooking the Western Wall holiest site the Star Tret actor said Friday: am here i absorb Jerusalem and Isra and take a look at my heritage I think that it is so mystical ant Associated Preat Stacy wanted James Stacy star of 1960s TV Western Lancer is a wanted man after skipping his sentencing on charges of molesting an 11 -year-old girl Last month Stacy 58 pleaded no contest to molesting a daughter He also pleaded no contest to prowling The actor was to be sentenced Thursday Municipal Judge Steven Hintz issued a warrant when Stacy show Associated Press nuU cftmrW ChrtUwD muMeal Thto It joyM i MtobratJon of th trui mMnIng ot CMttmoo '1 TMOuLftaFOniaiMM jiilon Soar oT lha grassy vi moor Baptloi Dr ThoiMa Mnasn ma apparent LEAWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH Macon Road at Homer Dr Thomas Vinson Pastor uwBtbte8tmty0AJ Sun Worahta Sorvteoo 11 AJN AS PJM Wad Worship Barries 830 PJM MoANMWRV 640 11 AM Bun Cams Channst 21 1 PM Wad Praysr Towar Phona 323-PRAY by Request (R) 836002 BET Saent of Alex 452712 Modela Inc: "Good Girts Finish LasT 784642 RanT" NIC Are You Afraid 457267 A Fashion 586675 Vidsafaah-lon Baahatbali: Georgia Toch at Kentucky (Live) 506246 A Branson Country Christmas (R) 526488 Love Lucy 713460 Howard 8tam 3411 Lucy Show 779151 Howard Stam(R) 312441 Lucy and DaaiComa-dy Hour 432083 Talk Soup (RJWl'sr nFT Match-Up 158373 Raal WOrtdJR) nssires Sporttcantari 801198 K5S Rujaa Beavia A Bull-head 225680 Moth-nurn 177267 :45 619227373 Going SMriiwTtranooia Botha va Axel Schulz (Samo-day Tape) 670803 kuna ESPN 6:30 Hs man 886373 MTV Jams Count-down (R) A 520647 MTV IMySo-Callad Ufa: 1- Utntr rtODW MAX No Eacape (1894) Ray Uotta A Marina 84557 Overboard i8)CWdteh 11580 -4: "Pitot" (R) A (Part 1 of 2)20287 ITBiP Buddha" (Rf 84852 nSTaies- 347' rrasr Ghosts Quean 71217480 irmI Outar Limiti: The SandUngs" 6 674806 Beyond ReaMy 1537010 BA 381422 Fire by Nits 122403 Videos 710373 Star Trek difts 863188 Do-a-Bration 85467? 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