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Illinois Friday; i9933FjSilf 1 MCRNiNG By BETTEL0U PETERSON Knight-Ridder Writer Murray. Caesar the ape leads simians in revolt against the governor enslaving them on future Earth. PG 87m. (MAX) "The Berlin Conspiracy" (-92) Marc Singer, Mary Crosby. A CIA agent and art East German agent thwart a terrorist germ plot as the Berlin WaH falls.

83m. 2:45 A.M. (HBO) "Guilty as Charged" 91) Rod Steiger. Lauren Hutton. A meatpacker thinks his mission in life is to execute the wicked with his very own electric chair.

95m. 3:00 AM. (WGN) "Go for Gold" ('84) James Ryan, Cameron Mitchell. A long-distance runner goes all out to win at the risk of losing his family and friends. 120m.

3:10 A.M. (SHO) "Short Circuit" (-86) Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg. An animal lover befriends harmless runaway military robot No. 5, followed by its inventor. PG 98m.

3:30 A.M. (ENC) "Immediate Family" ('89) Glenn Close. James Woods. An infertile couple and unwed parents see a lawyer about adoption. Directed by Jonathan Kaplan.

PG-13 100m. (TNT) "Kansas City Bomber" (72) Raquel Welch, Kevin McCarthy. A divorced roller-derby queen has an affair with her boss and a grudge match with her rival. PG 120m. 3:45 A.M.

(AMC) "The Meanest Gal kt Town" ('34) ZaSu Pitts, 0 BrendeL A stranded prima donna turns manicurist for a barber with a jealous girlfriend. 75m. A.M. "The FBI Story" ('59) James Stewart. Vera Miles.

An agent with a worried wife stays 25 years fighting the Ku Klux Klan. gangsters, Nazi spies. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. 180m. (MAX) "Evil Clutch" f92) CoraHna C.

Tas-soni, Diego Ribon. An ancient-cutt demon rises from the dead and stalks men as an alluring female. 88m. 4:20 A.M. (HBO) "Highway to HaJT 92) Patrick Bergin, Chad Lowe.

Young lovers are pulled over and parted by a deputy of the devil, which caHs for a rescue mission. 93m. 1:00 A.M. (HBO) "Mortal Thoughts" 91) Demi Moore. Glenne Headty.

Best friends in New Jersey get in trouble after one's rotten husband goes too Directed by Alan Rudolph. 104m. 1:10 A.M. (MAX) "Whore f91) Theresa Russell, Benjamin Mouton. A Los Angeles streetwalker explains her life and work as she goes about them.

Directed by Ken RusseH. NC-17 85m. 1:15 A.M. (DtS) The Mark of Zorro" (74) Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalban. Foppish Don Diego fights tyranny by night as a masked swordsman in old California.

78m. 1:30 AM. (0) "Morgaa Stewart's Coming Home" 85) Jon Cryer. Lynn Redgrave. A teen-ager back from boarding school tries to change his mother and senator father.

PG-13 120m. (SHO) "The Taking ot Beverly Hffls" ('92) Ken Wahl, Matt Frewer. A football star and a policeman foil a mad billionaire's plot to loot the city during a toxic-spiH scare. 96m. (TBS) "Dressed to Kill" ('80) Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson.

A psychiatrist, a prostitute and the son of a slain woman seek a Manhattan slasher. Directed by Brian De Palma. 120m. (TNT) "The Oklahoma City Dons" ('81) Susan Blakety, Eddie Albert Factory women form a football team to assert themselves, with a has-been as their coach. 120m.

2:00 A.M. (ENC) "Mr. Biffloa" (77) Terence Hill, Valerie Perrine. Schemers waylay an Kalian mechanic who has 20 days to claim an inheritance in San Francisco. PG 90m.

(USA) "Sorority Girts end the Creature From Hell" ('91) Len Lesser. Debbie Dutch. An ancient curse turns an archaeologist into a monster near a mixed party of college students. 120m. 2:30 A.M.

(AMC) "Next Time Wo Lava" ('36) Margaret Suflavan. James Stewart. An actress stays behind with a family friend after her newsman husband is sent to Rome. 75m. 2:35 A.M.

(DIS) "Conquest at Mm Planet of the Apes" (72) Roddy McDowaN, Don ker? Is that his real name? What is bis correct age? Is be married? How many children does he have? G.B., Petersburg, Va. A. Barker uses his real name. He'll turn 70 on Dec. 12.

He's widowed, no children. Q. When did "Combat" debet, how long did ft run and what were tbe ages of stars Rick Jason and Vic Morrow then? What happened to them? WJ. Brawn, blester, BSSch. A.

"Combat" was seen 1962-67. Jason was 36 and Morrow 31 when the show started. Morrow died in a freak filming accident in 1982. Jason's been seen in the soap "The Young and the Restless." Q. On "Bonanza," what was Koss Cartwright's real first name? R.B., San Jose, Calif.

A. He was Eric, son of Inger, a Scandinavian woman who was Ben Cartwright's second wife. According to "Bonanza," Hoss is Norwegian for good luck. Q. My friend says Robert Urica played "MacGyver." I say it was someone else.

J.M.S., Elsie, Mich. A. How soon they forget. Richard Dean Anderson was, and is, MacGyver. He's in Europe working on a pair of "MacGyver" TV movies for ABC for next season.

Q. la the eariv 'GQs. I recall a 5:00 A.M. (AMC) "Midshipman Jack" 33) Bruce Cabot, Betty Fumess. An Annapolis maverick redeems himself and wins the commandant's daughter.

75m. (HBO) "A Time of DesHay ('88) WHIiam Hurt, Timothy Hutton. World War II buddies forge their bond in combat, one unaware of the other's vow of vengeance. PQ-13 118m. (MAX) "The Amazing Dr.

Offleroouse" (38) Edward G. Robinson. Claire Trevor. A criminologist joins a gangster's gang, becomes their mastermind and stands trial for murder. 87m.

5:50 A.M. (ENC) "Lawrence of Arabia" 62) Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness. Flamboyant British officer T.E. Lawrence unites Arab tribes against the Turks. Oscars for best picture, director David Lean.

PG 219m. 6:15 A.M. (AMC) "Footlight Fever" ('41) Alan Mowbray, Donald MacBride. Two producers try to raise money by telling a rich old woman they knew her sweetheart. 75m.

6:30 A.M. (MAX) "Handle With Cara" ('77) Paul Le Mat Candy Clark. A CB-radk user crosses paths with others headed for high jinks in the Southwest Directed by Jonathan Demme. PG 98m. 7:30 A.M.

(AMC) "Raftes f30) Ronald Cohnan, Kay Francis. A Scotland Yard inspector matches wits with a cat burglar, the famed cricketer A.J. Raffles. 90m. 8:00 A.M.

"The FBI Story" ('59) James Stewart, Vera Miles. An agent with a worried wife stays 25 years fighting the Ku Klux Klan, gangsters, Nazi spies. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. 180m. (HBO) "FooCoosa" ('84) Kevin Bacon.

Lori Singer. A hip Chicago teen moves to a Midwestern town where, thanks to a pastor, dancing is outlawed. PG 107m. (MAX) "Pocketful of Miracles" 61) Glenn Ford. Bette Davis.

Runyonesque Dave the Dude turns Apple Annie into a Manhattan dowager in director Frank Capra's remake of his 1933 "Lady for a Day. 141m. (SH0) "Not Without My DaogMer" ('91) Sally Field, Alfred Molina. Abused by her husband in the AyatoHah Khomeini's Iran, U.S.-bom Betty Mahmoody flees with their daughter. PG-13 116m.

9:00 A.M. (AMC) "Those Redheads From Seattle" ('53) Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry. A Seattle woman and her four single daughters head for gold-rush Alaska. Originally 3-D. 90m.

(UF) "SpaceCamp" f86) Kate Capshaw. Lea Thompson. Youngsters from a camp for budding astronauts are accidentally sent up on the space shuttle. PG 120m. 935AJM.

(TBS) "Coma" ('78) Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas. A doctor links her hospital's high coma rate to a black market in vital organs. Directed by Michael Crichton. PG 120m. 9:30 A.M.

(ENC) "Carousel" f56) Gordon Macftae, Shirley Jones. A carnival barker finds a wife, dies in a holdup and returns to Earth to guide his daughter. Directed by Henry King. 129m. 10:00 A.M.

(SH0) "The Korst Soldiers" ('59) John Wayne, William Ho Wen. A pacifist doctor joins a Union colonel's cavalry raid kr Confederate territory. Directed by John Ford. 119m. (USA) "Murderow Vision" f91) Bruce Boxleitner, Laura Johnson.

A pofice detective and a psychic Bnk two cases: missing persons and surgical mutilation. 120m. 10:30 A.M. (AMC) "FoeOkjM Fever" ('41) Alan Mowbray, Donald MacBride. Two producers try to raise money by telling a rich old woman they knew her sweetheart.

90m. (HBO) "Talent lor the Game" 91) Edward James Oimos, Lorraine Bracco. A big-league baseball scout tries to save his job by signing a phenomenal pitcher. PG 90m. (MAX) "Murder by Death" (76) Peter Falk.

Peter Sellers. A bored millionaire invites a gumshoe, a Chinese detective and other sleuths to solve the perfect crime. PG 95m. Q. On a recent episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," I was facsinated by Olivia D'Abo.

Wfeat other work has she done? J.T., Southgate, Mich. A. D'Abo, 24, is best known as Karen Arnold, Kevin's older sister in "The Wonder Years." She's been acting since her teens and was in "Conan the Destroyer" at 15. She's done many TV guest roles and feature films of 76," "Beyond the Stars" and "Mission Her cousin, Maryam D'Abo, was a Bond girl in "The Living Daylights." Q. Provide some background en Marina Sirtis, Counselor Troi oa "Star Trek: The Next When she speaks, she seems to be trying to suppress some foreign accent but we cant identify ft.

A.F., Salt Lake City, Utah. A. The accent's British. She was born and raised in London, studied at London's Guild Hall School of Music and Drama and made her professional debut playing Ophelia in "Hamlet" in a provincial repertory company. She did British TV before moving to the U.S.

in 1986 and appeared in features "The Wicked Lady" and "Death Wish II." Q. Give me information en David Rasche, Jack in "Burses." Ke looks familiar. What else has he starred in? J.M., Phoenix. A. Rasche made his biggest impression in the 1986-88 wacky cop comedy "Sledge Hammer!" He's been on "L.A.

Law," "Kate and Allie," "Trials of Rosie O'Neill" and "Miami Vice." His comedy training came as a member of Chicago's Second City but he's also done serious drama on Broadway and in movies. Q. What's the status of Bob Bar crash-land amid fierce women with names like Bambi and Snow. 120m. 10:00 P.M.

(AMC) "They Got Ma Covered" ('43) Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour. A cowardly newsman and his girlfriend foil Axis spies out to blow up Washington. 120m. (DIS) "Switched at Birth f91) Bonnie Bedelia, Brian Kerwin. Tragedy and lawsuits decide the fates of two girls raised for 10 years by the wrong parents after a hospital error.

(Part 2) PG 95m. (SHO) "One Good Cop" f91) Michael Keaton, Rene Russo. A New York police detective and his wife try to take care of his slain partner's three orphan girts. 105m. (tNC) "The Takisf ot Peibam Oat Tars Three" (74) Walter Matthau.

Robert Shaw. Hijackers of a New York subway train win kill a passenger a minute to get their $1 million ransom. 102m. (USA) "Summer School" ('78) John McLaughlin, Phoebe Schmidt Bikinis, custom vans and teen-age romances are required for the summer. 120m.

10:30 P.M. "Sfcaae 53) Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur. An ex-gunfighter sides with Wyoming homesteaders against a ruthless cattle baron. Directed by George Stevens. 130m.

(MAX) "Desert Passkm" ('92) Carrie Janisse. Missy Browning. Vice ring shanghais duo on way to Las Vegas. AO 76m. 11:00 P.M.

(TNT) AN fta Martin" 81) Peter Falk. Vicki Frederick. A wrestling promoter hits the road with his California Dolls tag team, grooming them for the We. Directed by Robert Aldrtch. 150m.

11:30 P.M. (KBO) "Black Magic Woman" T91J "Marfi 'Amanda Wyss: Lovers- 1:00 P.M. "Rio Bravo" f59) John Wayne, Dean Martin. A Texas sheriff and his deputies try to hold a cattle baron's brother in jail. Directed by Howard Hawks.

180m. 1:30 P.M. (AMC) "Hurricane Smith" 52) Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland. A 19th-century fugitive and his buddies seize a ship to search for gold in the South Seas. 90m.

(HBO) "The Last of His Tribe" 92) Graham Greene, Anne Archer. An anthropologist learns the Indian ways of Ishi. the only Yahi left, found in 191 1 California. PG-13 90m. P.M.

(MAX) The Ofctahoman 57) Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale. A widowed doctor settles in an Oklahoma town ruled by two land-grabbing brothers. 80m. (SHO) "Short Circuit" f86) Ally Sheedy. Steve Guttenberg.

An animal lover befriends harmless runaway military robot No. 5, followed by its inventor. PG 98m. (ENC) Teletoa" (77) Charles Bronson. Lee Remick.

Moscow sends over a KGB man to meet a KGB woman and stop a Stalinist mad bomber. Directed by Don Siegel. PG 103m. 3:00 P.M. (AMC) "Paiat Your Wagoa" ('69) Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood.

Prospectors share a wife and a scheme to coHect gold dust lost in the cracks of a California boomtown. 180m. (HBO) "Without a Trace" fB3) Kate Nelligan, Judd Hfrsch. Estranged from her husband, a New Yorker turns to the police after her son disappears on the way to school. PG 120m.

(UF) "Looker" 81) Albert Finney. James Cobum. A plastic surgeon and a model link slain models to a tycoon's computer-made TV saleswomen. PG 120m. (TNT) "The Quick Gin" ('64) Audie Murphy.

Merry Anders. A banished gun fighter returns to his sweetheart and helps his sheriff friend face outlaws. 120m. 3:30 P.M. (MAX) "Fire, ka I Dynamite" ('91) Roger Moore.

Shari Beiafonte. Would-be heirs compete for a British tycoon's fortune in a race of daredevil outdoor sports. PG 105m. 4:00 P.M. (SHO) "Mea ot Boys Towa" 41) Spencer Tracy.

Mickey Rooney. Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a crippled boy and saves an older boy from reform schooL 106m. (ENC) "Battle for the Planet ot the Apes" (73) Roddy McDowell. Claude Akins. Gorilla general Aklo hounds ape leader Caesar and what's left of humanity on simian-ruled future Earth.

92m. PJM. (HBO) "Footloose" ('84) Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer. A hip Chicago teen moves to a Midwestern town where, thanks to a pastor, dancing is outlawed. PG 107m.

(MAX) "Seems Like OM Times" ('80) Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn. A writer mixed up in a bank robbery seeks help from his ex-wife, who's now wed to the district attorney. PG 102m. EVENING 6:00 P.M. (AMC) "Next Tim We Leva" ('36) Margaret SuHavan.

James Stewart. An actress stays behind with a family friend after her newsman husband is sent to Rome. 90m. (DIS) "Alice in Wonderland" f85) Natalie Red Buttons. Lewis CarroTs little heroine explores a musical fantasy land of strange notions and characters.

(Part 1) 95m. (SHO) "Not Without My DaogMer" 91) Sally Field, Alfred MoSna. Abused by her husband in the AyatoHah Khomeini's Iran, U.S.-bom Betty Mahmoody flees with their daughter. PG-13 116m. (ENC) "Mr.

Billion" ('77) Terence Hill, Valerie Perrine. Schemers waylay an Kalian mechanic who has 20 days to claim an inheritance in San Francisco. PG 90m. P.M. (FAM) The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County" 70) Den Blocker.

Nanette Fabray. Townsfolk soothe their blacksmith by having a saloon girl pose as his no-show mail-order bride. 120m. (HBO) "Mantae Cop ('90) Robert Davi, Christian. A New York detective hunts the unreal title character, now teamed up with a titer of strippers.

89m. (MAX) "Cousin, Constat" (75) Marie-Christine Barraurt, Victor Lanoux. Two distant French cousins meet fan" in love and have an affair despite their marriages. 96m. (TNT) "Wise Soys" f86) Danny DeVTto, Joe Piscopo.

Two flunkies lose a New Jersey mobster's money and flee to Atlantic City. Directed by Brian De Palma. 120m. 7:30 P.M. (AMC) The Great Gatsby" (74) Robert Redford.

Mia Farrow. F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby, shady 1920s millionaire, tragically loves Daisy, another man's wife. PG 150m. 8:00 P.M.

"Dakota (Color)- f45) John Wayne. Vera Hruba Ralston. A frontier gambler and his bride oppose swindlers trying to drive farmers off their land. 120m. (DIS) "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" (72) Roddy McOowall, Don Murray.

Caesar the ape leads simians in revolt against the governor enslaving them on future Earth. PG 87m. (UF) "Lost Angers" 89) Donald Sutherland, Adam Horovrtz. A psychiatrist treats a brooding, rebellious middle-class teen-age boy in Southern California. 150m.

(SHO) "A Stranger Among Us" ('92) Meianie Griffith, Eric Thai. A New York policewoman enters the Hasidic community to investigate a diamond-robbery murder. Directed by Sidney Lumet PG-13 111m. (ENC) "Immediate Femfly" (89) Glenn Close, James Woods. An infertile couple and unwed parents see a lawyer about adoption.

Directed by Jonathan Kaplan. PG-13 100m. (USA) The Rescue" f88) Kevin Dillon, Christine Hamos. Teen-age offspring of Navy SEALs sneak into North Korea with stolen weapons to free their fathers. PG 120m.

8:30 P.M. (HBO) "Street Crimes" Dennis Farina, Michael Worth. A Los Angeles policeman and his partners put gangs in the ring to get them off the street. 94m. 8:45 P.M.

(MAX) Thnebomb" f91) Michael Biehn. Patsy Kensit. Weird flashbacks and a psychiatrist lead a hunted man to his forgotten past as a trained killer. 96m. 9:00 P.M.

(TNT) lasm f82) Tom Cruise. Shelley Long. A teen-ager and his buddies drive to '60s Tijuana with a woman looking for a quick divorce. 120m. 9:30 P.M.

(TBS) "Mysttrkws IsSafttf of Beautiful Women" (79) Steven. Keats, Jaime Ljn Bauer. An oil worker and his buddies program called "Checkmate" with Sebastian Cabot and two other stars. Who were they, what was tbe premise of the show and when did It run? D.W., Korth Wales, Pa. A.

Cabot was joined by Anthony George and Doug McCIure in the series, seen 1960-62. Checkmate Inc. was the name of an investigative agency hired to prevent crimes, particularly by people who thought they were marked for death. George and McCIure ran the agency with ex-Oxford professor Cabot as consultant. are subjected to voodoo revenge after a temptress visits their art gallery.

88m. (TBS) "Throoob Naked Eyes" f83) David Soul, Pam Dawber. A flutist with binoculars watches a woman watching him with a telescope, as someone else watches. 120m. (WGN) "The Choirboys" (77) Charles Durn-ing, Louis Gossett Jr.

An old timer, a bigot, a guy with a secret and other big-city policemen go too far. Directed by Robert AWrich. 150m. 11:35 PJM. (DIS) "My Heroes Haw Always Been Cowboys" ('91) Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw.

An injured rodeo rider comes home to his ex-girtfriend, his father and a family-farm crisis. PG 106m. 11:45 P.M. (MAX) "Up ia Smoke" (79) Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong. Two Los Angeles drug users go to Tijuana and drive back in a van made of marijuana.

86m. 11:50 P.M. (SHO) "Another Yon" f91) Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder. A paroled Hollywood con man's community service is to baby-sit a chronic Kar recently released. 96m.

MIDNIGHT (AMC) "The Great Gatsby" (74) Robert Redford, Mia Farrow. F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby, shady 1920s millionaire, tragicatty loves Daisy, another man's wife. PG 150m. (ENC) "The Beast" 088) George Ozundza.

Jason Patric. Afghan villagers use a found weapon to hunt a Soviet commander's tank trapped in a valley. 110m. (USA) "Zapped AoataT f90) Todd Erie Andrews, Kelli WUHams. A high-school teen in the science dub rediscovers the formula for telekinetic powers.

120m. 12:35 A.M. "The Afloat Are Coming" ('80) Tom Mason, Eric Braeden. An astrophysicist hunts energy-hungry aliens looking for human bodies 1o 120m. AFTERNOON NOON (AMC) "The Pita Beach Story" ('42) Claudette Colbert.

Joel McCrea. An inventor's wife meets some sporting millionaires on a train to Florida. Directed by Preston Sturges. 90m. (D1S) "The Mark ot Zorro" (74) Frank LangeMa, Ricardo Montalban.

Foppish Don Diego fights tyranny by night as a masked swordsman in old California. 78m. (HBO) "Near Mrs." f91) Judge Reinhold, Casey Siemaszko. Two wives and a girlfriend show up after Soviets kidnap a Marine posing as his bigamist boss in Paris. 94m.

(SHO) "A Stranger Among Us" ('92) Meianie Griffith, Eric Thai. A New York policewoman enters the Hasidic community to investigate a diamond-robbery murder. Directed by Sidney Lumet PG-13 111m. (ENC) "A High WM in Jamaica" 65) Anthony Quinn, James Cobum. A Spanish pirate captain is stuck with seven English children aboard his snip.

Directed by Alexander Mackendrick. 104m. 125 P.M. (TBS) "dash of me Titaas ('81) Harry Hamlin. Laurence Olivier.

Perseus, half-mortal son of Zeus, fights meddling gods and mythical monsters for the fair Andromeda. PG 150m. 12:15 P.M. (MAX) "Kafka" f91) Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell. An insurance clerk must enter a sinister castle to solve a mystery in circa-1919 Prague.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh. PG-13 98m. 12:30 P.M. (D) "Deed ob the Moaty" 91) Corbm Bernsen, Amanda Pays. An actress marries her new lover's cousin in a revenge scheme based on murder, maybe hers.

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