Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 36

A TTT C-10 Richmond Timet-Diipaich Friday February 20 1987 losing touch? KioiiAaHET mmm WMffmBR HmMRW by mo cm Aw Mi tf Urn NT SID ft NANCY MA ML 79111 STANO BY MB 4:10 5:50 7:409:30 FfL4SataiNMl A New FHm by Jim Jarmusch BY ins 7:159:15 Un Lund at tfw Mighty Wurttzar 8909 CARY ST 8884911 week WRLH will feature Began the Mary tyler Moore-Robert Preston romance filmed in Richmond at 8 pm Monday The next night also at 8 Channel 85 will feature the new color version of Maltese With help from Gary King viewers will be able to vote whether or not they like the coloring process which adds tints to black and white films Channel 35 will also give color TV owners directions on how to watch the movie in black and white Music of Windham a weekly radio special featuring the distinctive music of artists made popular through the Windham Hill label joins WQSF-Radio (FM 965) at 5 pm Sunday The three-hour musical show will include artists like George Winston William Ackerman and Earl Klugh TV call letters challenged ROANOKE (AP) A radio station has filed suit to force a television station to change its call letters The suit filed Wednesday in US District Court by public radio station WVTF asks that television station WVFT be ordered to change its call letters because the public Is confused over which is which WVTF alleges the independent TV station has Infringed on Its trademark because the call letters are similar Steve Mills who manages the radio station said the biggest problem that sane of our public contributions may be going to the wrong Bill Harper general manager at the TV station said Family Group Broadcasting which owns WVFT chose the call letters "because they happened to coincide with our television WVFT stands for either Western Virginia Family Television or Very Fine Television WVTF stands for Virginia Tech Foundation SWIFT CREEK ML PLAYHOUSE SENIOR CITIZEN STUDENT GROUP RATESVISA MASTERCARD Singles night set Safeway which attracted about 2000 singles to its first Singles Night its Merchants Walk store in the West End will try It again on Feb 34 between 7 and 10 pm in its Jahnke Road store on the South Side SOT OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE is: "COMIC RAZZLE-DAZZLE" MAGAZINE Peter Travers "RAMBUNCTIOUS" Richard Corliss "HILARIOUS" David Ansen When she comes to Ife PGi 53 Bar era BETTE iMffXJER' Telly Savalas ia back as Kojak tomorrow night in a new two-hour CBS movie The Price of There are plenty of the old touches here including a New York locale and an energetic younger assistant But also something missing Savalas now In his early 60s just seems to be going through the motions playing Theo Kojak cracker Jack cop and bon vivant And a shame Kojak as seen in two previous TV movies Marcus-Nelson The Belarus and five years in a series used to be one of the best of the TV policemen Tomorrow's case which will be shown at 9 on Channel 6 is based on a Dorothy Uhnak novel another reason it should be better than it is Two young children are found murdered one strangled one shot The parents played by Kate Nelligan and Pat ingle are brought in for questioning and it is only a matter of minutes before the mother becomes the chief suspect As played by Miss Nelligan who is usually cast in a more sympathetic motherly role a the mother is a high-strung demanding woman who shrugs off questions and help Kojak who has always had an appreciative eye for the ladies cant quite make up his mind whether she is guilty or not The audience will be in the same boat The circumstantial evidence points to a guilty verdict The woman and her husband often live apart She has a wardrobe too expensive for her job On the night of the murders she made a call to a mobster living in Florida Newspaper singer settle libel lawsuit WEST PALM BEACH Fla (AP) -A settlement has been reached In the $5 million libel suit filed by singer Cat Stevens now known Yusuf Islam against the Globe newspaper The terms disclosed A June 19 1984 front-page headline in the Globe said Stevens joins the evil The story said Stevens had devoted himself to Iran's leader Islam a convert to the Moslem faith Mid the article defamed turn Islam 88 lives in London and helps run an Islamic elementary school wssuMssaafciiMQfcio Muds II CMMmill HAW WEEK ONLYI mm TONIGHT I 7:30 9:30 TOMORROW A JOHN HUGHES Some Kind Of NOW PLAYING! DOUGLAS DURDEN TV listings page C-1J She appears to have ties to a powerful publisher of a New York tabloid played by Jack Thompson And so on through a maze that even has Kojak bamboozled at times The question asked over and over again by various people is is a mother capable of killing her own children? (The answer according to a Larry King cable show on the same topic earlier this week is yes) Kojak by the way has a new title He has been elevated to inspector which Involves a modest subplot about an ambitious politician hoping to use the case a springboard to the office Kojak tells the viewer he has finally been admitted to the but you get the feeling rather be on the streets where the action Is But wrong with Savalas? Did giving up lollipops take away his spunk? This Kojak is so so understated By now he has started to look like a well-fed version of those hairless cats that are being paraded around and there are only occasional traces of the dd Kojak Among its prime time movies next "EDDIE MURPHY IS A BRILLIANT COMIC ACTOR iM-onlNpcnliftjGmir I FROM BCCMMHS ID END Ww MWP ttiw WWl DUO whaciMko mi wdhpptflr ml taMkr Km tnwt) HUM THE GOLDEN CHILD NOW SHOWING AT THESE THEATRES MIDLOTHIAN CINEMAS 7903 Midlothian Pike 272-9300 WILLOW LAWN THEATRE 1624 Willow Lawn Dr 282-5046 Before they could stand together They had to stand alone PRODUCTION Wonderful 276-6600 CLOVERLEAF 7201 MIDLOTHIAN 2:00 3:45 (5:30) 7:30 9:30 $250 AT 5:30 SHOW a'ACADEMYA Mnomina WARD tionsM What's at the movies? Find out in Fare' Wednesdays in The News Leader RESERVATIONS 748-5203 WEDNESDAY THRU SATURDAY anything can happen! 0 270-7111 WEST TOWER BROAD AW END DRIVE 1:40 3:405:407:40945 ADULTS $250 1st SHOW I MIDLOTHIAN 1 7903 MIDLOTHIAN 272-9300 ft15 4:45 7:15 0:40 ADULTS 1250 lit SHOW 270-7111 WEST TOWER BROAD A END DRIVE 2:004:006:008:0010:00 ADULTS $250 1st SHOW HH INCLUDING BEST PICTURE BEST DIRECTOR BEST SCREENPLAY FORTUNE wwr MIDLOTHIAN 7903 MIDLOTHIAN 272-9300 1 OO 3: 10 1 5 7: 9:35 ADULTS 3250 IB SHOW "A tense riveting murder mystery full of thrills twists and surprises I love this it will leave you -Hti ItotS KT THE MOVIES 4TH OUTRAGEOUS WEEK! 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