Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 70

E-10 Richmond Tfaaw-DiyttA Friday August 19 1988 has a problem Newport DOUGLAS DURDEN NEWPORT RX (UPI) The Newport Folk Festival this weekend celebrates the breadth of contemporary folk and blues at Fort Adams State Park The Ifcx-Mex band Los Lobos which hit the pop charts last year with headlines program The contemporary blues of foe Robert (fray Band will be top draw The festival revived in 1985 after a 15-year absence brings back for the first time one of its most Important traditions It will hold free morning workshops on songwriting and guitar playing Tomorrow's lineup also includes Fairport Convention founder Richard Thompson Queen Ida and her Bon Temps Zydeco Band Odadda! a troupe from Ghana that mixes drumming with energetic choreography and folksingers Taj Mahal and Buffy Sainte-Marie Sunday's show also features Tom Paxton New Orleans boogie pianist Dr John Holly Near Doc Watson and the Nashville Blue-grass Band story about local actors familiar from their work in TV commercials is spending most of this week in Statesville NXX working in a TV movie Ryan White Joy has a fourday assignment playing a lawyer (and star George son) in this fact-based story about Ryan White the teen-age AIDS patient whose struggle to attend school attracted national attention Meredith Strange-Boston another performer profiled in the article has been cast in a small role requiring a work In a recent column about new reality-based series on local stations I neglected to point out that Fox new which airs at 8 pm Saturdays is carried locally by WRLH-Channel 35 Since the same story was written WWBT-Channel 12 has added another such program to its foil schedule Current which will air 5 pm weekdays beginning Labor Day Charlie Rand has a problem He is convinced he ii being pursued by his ex-wife who happens to be dead So he hires a private detective to find out what the deceased wants The detective Eddie Martel Mallard has an even bigger problem: He falls in love with the ghost This is the bare bones djotham" a made-for-pay TV movie premidring over Showtime channel at 9 pm Sunday Maybe thinking this sounds like and that it be all bad wrong it is even with Ibmmy Lee Jones and Virginia Madsen in the lead and even with a stab at stylishness that winds up giving film noir a dirty name a screenplay by its director Lloyd Fonvielle (he wrote the script for is as confusing and gratuitously profane as any pay-TV production seen (Keep in mind these are often the goals of such films which want to distinguish themselves from network offerings) Mallard who uses a four-letter word to tell off a customer who wants him to find her dog is one of those rude and reluctant anti-heroes supposed to like anyway Fat chance Miss Madsen by turns beautifully overdressed and beautifully under dressed is supposed to be a drop-dead beauty who can make men fall in love no matter what her expiration date She is not much on likable dialogue either Tm a woman with very expensive she tells the smitten and poorly dressed Mallard can tolerate a thief I can tolerate an embex-iler And I can tolerate a racketeer But I cannot tolerate a man who wears $100 The plot line has the ghost wanting her Jewels back and then discovering they have been switched for phonies But it will take a sharper viewer than I to figure out what is real in this film what is not and why we should care what a waste of a perfectly good title Mark Joy recently included in a Aasodated Pres RAY-TV MOVIE Tommy Lee Jones and Virginia Madsen aren't enough to save 'Gotham' TERROR BEYOND YOUR WILDEST DREAMS ORRUtaSRUdl 1 OSBfiSBSlBBfiBill naaimaa REEVENTOFiT Rumors persist that 2 stations here will merge Although rumors persist that two independent TV stations WRLH-Channel 35 and WVRN-Chan-nel 63 may become one station in the future none of the principals will confirm the possibility In fact Victor Rumore president of the company that owns Channel 63 describes the rumor that his station will sign off in the early fall as a and total have bought all our fall programming Why would we have bought new programming if that were asked Rumore president of the Florida-based Sudbrlnk Broadcasting Rumore did confirm however that there have been between his company and the Atlanta-based Act Broadcasting which is awaiting approval from the Federal Communications Commission to buy WRLH-TV from Busse Broadcasting According to the FCC the sale price is $6450000 Three years ago the station sold for $114 million have had conversations about what it would be like to put the two stations together and have one mega Rumore said we be more competitive with other stations? Would it be better for the viewers since we have half the good programming and they have half the other good programming? W0 talked and all we have Rumore said that after Act announced it was buying WRLH it was suggested that the talks might be continued after the safe said interested at that time They said the same thing WRLH which signed on in February 1982 has been sold four times although three of those safes were part of package deals WVRN originally signed on as WTLL-TV a religious station in 1981 It was sold to Sudbrink and became a regular station in 1981 'i I 1 r'l: AN MARI frh RTJtANRhNCW HE RIG Rl 1" 1 1 1 'JMKl 1 BESS aJP'LL'CRLSRUN hill pairiu Llpoit CKKPLK oneoN WILLOW LAWN 1 STARTS TODAY! Check Theatre Guide for Showtlmes Aufc A WHew Laws NW IM CINfM HflMM aMUUNKlDONS INC wf SUIT E9C PKTMB hsud MB! SHAH MkHm 4 KNNY MUM Ms MW BKUI1ID Is 1 NKMTIUM 09 fil Stiff! fc THf MUM MiSTIT Buy k) WUUW HTZWWl! ad MUI NELKUND SoNffiw by HUN ad SCOTT HBKE hofed br mol uuye mi uckiuuuy imau ierry mtus Mill Anew line cinema wmiinu ml 95! iP hA'irfr -rref UtKir'HA'Nt! STARTS TODAY! Cineptex I United Artists' CLOVERLEAF WEST TOWER 7201 Mkftothian 276-6600 I Broad End Drive 270-7111 2:30 5:15 7:30 9:35 $3 til 6PM 12:00 2:00 4:00 8:00 8:00 10:00 12:00 All Seats 3250 Before 6PM sacMeririaaaHiiMAirmrwssnnMriiffAM STOCKWELL 99 66 Mike Clark USA Today XimUffiMNET -Gary Franklin ABC-TV LOS ANGELES 'EMILIO ESTEVEZ GIVES A REMARKABLE PERFORMANCE'1 -Michael Wilmington LOS ANGELES TIMES "YOU'LL GET A BANG OUT OF 'YOUNG GUNS'!" -Donna Britt USA TODAY AND HILARIOUS! -Peter Travers People WILD AND HANDSOME 2 -Leonard Corliss Time Magazine 1 the JAMES i JOE iUII rcaii MORGAN CREEK fwoi CHRISIDPHEH CAIN wi 11 GUNS EMILIO mm SMEUHOU Dll PHILUPS-CHARUE SHEBt-DERMOT MULJfONEY-CASEY SIEiSZKO TBIRY DIINN JACK FALANCE TERENCE S1AMP ANINDNY MAUI BRIAN BANK JACK HOfSTRA plSUIDEAN SEMLE ui TSS JANE MUSKY IRBY SMITH no PAUL SCHIFF SIJDHN FUSCO UIJAMES IB TJi FUSED JOE DDTHn DDNB CAINCHRISIDPHER Mliai I RELEASED BY TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION COLOR BV DELUXE DCs CREEK 'nT' 2ND ACTION FILLED WEEK! CINEPLEX UNITED ARTISTS' AJONPJHANDEMMEPKUJRE MKHEUECraFfB MffTHEWMOONE DEANSTOOCWBi 'MARRHTOTHEMG8 MERCEDES SUEHL A1ECSA1DWN Vusc by QWD BYW Reduction Designer KHST1ZEA DreCtor of Photography I4K RiJMOTD Edlcd by CRAIG McKAX ACE Executnc Abduces XXL SIMON tod BUTOCMANJl RWRtcn by BARRySIRUGflTZ 5 MARKS BURNS Reduced by KEfWETH UTT and HMRRD SAXON Deeded by JONATHAN DEMME jjtM A United Artists MIDLOTHIAN 7901 Midlothian 272-9300 12:30 2-40 4 55 7:10 9 25 12:00 AS Sort! 250 Baton 6PM Near Pwtiam 255-1507 2-15 4-30 7 00 9 30 53 IS 5PM CLOVERLEAF 7201 MIDLOTHIAN 276-6600 2:20 5:00 7:35 9:50 $3 TIL 6 PM WEST TOWER BROAD END DRIVE 270-71 1 1 12:10 2:304:50 7:10 9:3012:00 ALL SEATS $250 BEFORE 6 PM fWga I.