The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 17

BRU Raquel Welch looks anything but glamorus in fact based drama TV Tonight By aye Zuckerman 5:25 7:20 9:15 Eisenhower Pkwy 477 6444 I Riversid'i Drive 474 9358 irJ4r Riverside Drive 474 9358 OCTOBER EAST $5H9 QQ 20 pieces of amous Recipe or Crispy Plus Kenny Rogers at awards show WESTGATE 781 4272 A MAU QU A0 477 6444 ar RIVERSIDE4 474 9358 iiimiiiiiiiiimiiii SOMEONE TO WATCH RIVERSIDE CINEMAS 4 MACON MALL QUAD CINEMAS 4:50 7:00 9:15 NOW SHOWING! Everything You and Your amily Need to HBO at 8 pm: Surgeon General Dr Everett Koop discusses misconceptions and fears about the disease and answers questions from HBO viewers Topics include AIDS testing the transmis sion of the disease and the experimen tal drug AZT By Jerry Buck The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Raquel Welch looks anything but glamorous in a new television movie and the actress be happier about it She stars as a college professor and mother of two who is losing a battle against Lou disease in to a very unglamorous said was very relaxing for a change An awful lot of work goes into looking glamorous that people realize It was great to play such an emotional She stars as Emily Bauer a woman who develops amyotrophic lateral sclerosis a fatal degenerative dis ease Her mind stays sharp but she is so ill she cannot breathe or swallow without assistance One morning she taps out the message want to to Die" which NBC will tele cast at 8 pm tonight also stars Michael Gross as her husband and Bonnie Bartlett as her nurse Phil Penningroth wrote the screenplay and Paul Wendkos directed is the story of a woman who was very vital and attractive" said Welch was full of life had two children and a husband she was deeply in love with She believe she had this fatal illness As she loses control of her bodily func tions put on a respirator She just wants to die loses all abilities just able to blink her eyes She wants to be allowed to die with Welch said she talked to a number of people with the illness before play ing the role The movie was filmed this summer man was losing his speech" she said said he want to go on a respirator and drag out the inevi table He was thoughtful and open and direct in talking to me The disease progresses very fast He w'as diag nosed in December and died in June NBC at 8 pm: AL joins a monastery after he discovers a scandal in his family tree: His parents were married before he was bom which was a disgrace on his home planet Melmac by PBS at 8 pm: Part 3 of 5 traces the construction of highways avenues and boulevards and explains how streets have shaped the look of our country Host Spiro Kostof tours back roads and paved streets to point out Maj Pierre design for radial avenues in Washington DC Gen James grid for Savannah Ga and Chicago architect Daniel "city beautiful" creations in San rancisco and Mas sachussets You Look ABC at 8 pm: Richard Dreyfuss is 8 pieces of chicken mixed 1 pint mashed potatoes pint gravy and 4 buttermilk biscuits NO COUPON NECESSARY! 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UNITED ARTIST cwwnumamom iHc: Knighf Ridder Newspapers After the speedy demise of John James said he is happy to be back with the fam ily He said it was and it a part of his contract to return to the night time soap You may recall it was on the supersoap that upright hunky character Jeff Colby was introduced contract finished with because been there seven years So 1 had to decide whether I wanted to go back or not And I did And they wait too long to ask me which was he said James credits the ABC talent school for his success Like the movie studios in the old days ABC grooms young talent casts them on their daytime soaps and helps them graduate into featured roles Besides James other alumni include Tom Hanks Donna Dixon Ann Jillian Al Corley and Emma Samms co star on I had that I probably be talking with you today I was waiting for a Broadway play in New York If it been for them probably still be waiting It is an opportunity for young actors to be seen a lot harder today and I think that people remember that there is no studio system to help the actor Anytime anyone can say move you out to California give you something to live on not much but something and give you the opportunity to audition for a lot of well ATAL ATTRACTION Rated 4:55 7:10 9:30 disease affects people dif ferently but everyone goes through the same experience irst the denial Then anger depression and finally an acceptance You have a 1 confrontation with the fact that not going to be around and how you resolve that with the ones you love all going to die and those who have to face it tend to teach us what our attitude toward death has to Welch says the larger issue of the movie and the reason she accepted the role is that she believe society should tell individuals when to live or die should be able to choose the she said "Some call it suicide but I think a misleading term You have only your own spirit She dies in the picture She gets herself off the respirator and dies I think if a person can express herself and says I want to die with then I think her wishes should be respected I would not have wanted to linger that long There used to be a time when people just died Now they have all these medical tech nologies that can prolong life I think an infringement on people's rights a personal choice And if you don't want to die another The movie is the first for television for Welch since ar for NBC in 1982 After that she made her Broadway debut in "Woman of the She and her husband producer Andre Weinfeld have moved to New York but they return regularly to Los Angeles They recently produced two exercise videos She also did a music video that will be released simultan eously with a single called Back in In development is a miniseries based on the life of Libby Holman the famous and controversial queen of Broadway in the 1930s Welch has bought the rights to Milt book about Holman RllfA'tDRY WARSR BRClS IuJKI the mastermind behind this tribute to the bicentennial of the US Constitu tion Jiminy Cricket lectures on some of the finer points Lily Tomlin as Judith Beasley has a few theories on why our constitutional foremothers are not mentioned and Whoopi Goldberg and Rhea Perlman present a spoof about the Constitu tional convention Also on hand for this bicentennial celebration is John Gielgud as an 18th century English lord Henry Winkler Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson Music Association CBS at 9:30 pm: Kenny Rogers is master of ceremonies for the 21st annual awards show aired live from the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville Tenn Artists include Graham Brown Holly Dunn The the Judds Willie Nelson Reba McEntire George Strait and Randy Travis Cable SURRENDER Rated PG 4:50 7:00 9:15 THE PRINCESS BRIDE Rated PG 5:25 7:20 9:15 DIRTY DANCING Rated PG 5:35 7:35 9:30 LOS ANGELES Raquel Welch and Michael Gross tackle the controversial issue of euthanasia in emotionally tax ing but intriguing "Right to Die" (1987) at 9 pm Emily Bauer (Welch) is a popular psychology professor wife and mother of two little girls When she develops Lou dis ease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ALS) an illness that progressively and eventually completely paralyzes her body (her mind remains sharp) strong willed Bauer is determined to fight the disease Her loving and devoted husband Bob (Gross) help lessly watches his wife dealing with her illness When she's incapacitated surviving only with the help of machines she asks Bob to turn them off body is a she whis pers Discussions and debates among her doctors the hospital and her religious nurse Lillian (Bonnie Bartlett) about when and if life support sys tem should be turned off present an engrossing look at euthanasia Through flashbacks writer Phil Pen ningroth interweaves happier Bauer family moments with the distress of Emily's horrifying disease Welch proves capable in a serious highly dramatic role She spends the last quarter of the fact based drama using only her eyes to convey pain and suf fering Gross is effective as the hus band but Bartlett (Emmy winner for who gives an outstanding performance as protective nurse Have tissues handy this movie culminates on a teary note Highlights THRILLING EXCITING VERY UNNY AND ABSOLUTE MAGIC MISS IT!" 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