The Republican from Springfield, Massachusetts (2024)

May 12, 1990

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The Republicani

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Springfield, Massachusetts

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Saturday, May 12, 1990

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23

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UNION NEWS SATURDAY MAY 12 1990 23 Comic Relief TONIGHT'S TV on HBO tonight Highlights I KH3 Saturday Thunder (Live) ft fc Ilk 4 DISC Wings The XB 70 a supersonic bomber that was replaced by the RETURN ENGAGEMENT rom left Robin Williams Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal return to host Relief tonight at 8 on HBO plays his sister in this well liked comedy the 1986 Oscar win ner as Best Picture makes its net work TV debut (9 pm ABC) Oli ver Stone who won this series all in the genre and two of which attempt to duplicate the success of unniest Home air on Sunday night It Yourself (7 pm NBC) with Dick Clark and comic Darryl Sivad as hosts salutes Day with kid videos offers home videos of and by ce lebrities and uses public access programming as another source for humor unniest Part (8:30 pm ABC) from the produc er of unniest Home was once called thing Else unny About but in concept it sounds exactly like the old Come dian David Coulier hosts this col lection of offbeat video bits about well real people doing funny things "The Story Behind the (8 pm NBC) hosted by actor Rich ard Kiley and newswoman Jane Wallace is produced by creators John Cos "Xaturrtav Niaht pm nov is controversial oeiore it even airs regular Nora Dunn dropped out of this show after comedian Andrew Dice Clay whose frequent sexist re marks are offensive to many was named as host Singer Sinead is the musical guest OTHER HIGH LIGHTS Scheduled on (7 pm CBS): Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack amous Teddy returns (9 pm CBS) This critically admired but low rated series cre ated by Hugh Wilson in stars Jon Cryer as a novice Hollywood agent In this episode Al loss learns that he has been nominated as Agent of the Year a certain kiss of death Also back tonight is Valerie Harp sitcom (9:30 pm CBS) this episode features Estelle Getty Golden as a former city manager Living (9 pm ox) lampoons Men and a with the notion of heavyweight champs Mike Tyson Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali attempting to care for a baby left on their doorstep Scheduled for Night With Connie (10 pm CBS): a Missouri man in prison for a murder that someone else has con fessed to the controversy over the NutriSystem diet plan and wheth er it causes gall bladder ailments the pod group New Kids on the Best Director Oscar for on the ourth of also copped the 1986 directing Oscar for this intensely realistic depiction of combat duty in Vietnam Charlie Sheen Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe head the cast A London concert by The Temp tations including their renditions of such classics as Way You Do the Things You Get Next to and airs on the Disney Channel (9 pm) Part four of on terpiece (9 pm Channel 57 10 pm Channel 24 PBS) finds a radically changed Jack returning to Pakistan to sign an aid agree ment and in Hamburg Ulli plan ning to avenge death WEEKEND CULT CHOICE new comedy channel HA! offers a day long marathon of Bilko episodes on Satur day including a classic featuring Ed Sullivan (12 noon) competitor The Comedy Channel is expected to merge with HA! later this year which will sig nificantly expand its reach SATURDAY'S SERIES Elvis becomes a teen idol in need of bodyguards on (8 pm ABC) A cosmetics tycoon falls for razier on (8 pm NBC) old friend is accused of an Indian massacre on a rerun (8 pm CBS) A stabbing is investigated on (8 pm ox) Thelma suffers from amnesia on an repeat (8:30 pm NBC) The owner of a Stradivarius is told that his violin has been destroyed" on Hidden (8:30 pm ox) Geraldine itzge raid guests as ill friend on a rerun (9 pm NBC) A former patient asks Harry to father her child on an repeat (9:30 pm 'NBC) Tracey Ullman and Julie Kavner play competing spies on Tracey Ullman (9:30 pm ox) Howie Mandel guests on (10 pm NBC) Kate has erotic dreams about Grover on the final scheduled (10:30 pm NBC) SERIES Becca ends up with two dates to the spring formal on Goes' (7 pm ABC) A racial skir mish involves Sodapop and a black student on (7 pm ox) Parasailing is featured on unniest Home Vi (8 pm ABC) Jessica be comes embroiled in an Athens spy case on a She re peat (8 pm CBS) Two lorida fugitives are profiled in an edition of Most (8 I' By JON BURLINGAME HOLLYWOOD Relief (8 pm Saturday HBO) is the fourth annual all star comedy benefit for the nation's homeless televised live from New York Radio City Music Hall This year Robin Williams Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg are again the hosts HBO is descram bling its signal for the scheduled five hour show to enable most cable households around the coun try to watch Among the talent signed to per form are comics Louie Anderson Elayne Boosler George Carlin Bill Cosby Bobcat Goldthwait Robert Klein Richard Lewis Dennis Milter Paula' Poundstone Joan Rivers Paul Rodriguez Bob Saget and Steven Wright Actors' Candice Bergen and Art Carney singers Natalie Cote and Al Jarreau and musical director Tom Scott are also on the bill HBO says that the first three benefits have raised nearly $9 million for home less health care projects in 23 cit ies a toll free number will be an nounced on Relief to enable viewers to pledge dona tions to the cause Like (9 pm Sun day NBC) is a four hour TV movie concluding Monday adapt ed from Dominick novel about an author who uses his New York society connections to avenge his murder Ben Gazzara plays the writer and Connie Sellecca portrays the so cial climbing ex stewardess whose mysterious connection to the kilter is revealed at the end of part one This is another beautiful people have troubles too scenario sty lishly produced and nicely cast with a number of former film stars who have become familiar TV faces: Jean Simmons as Gaz invalid wife Eva Marie Saint as a socialite who cannot come to grips with her AIDS Beatrice Straight as an art dealer and Paul Williams as a ubiquitous gossip Also in the cast are Dennis arina as crude finan cier husband and Teri Polo start World War III Phantom of the as daughter unusual about Like a reference to the wealthy socially accepted elite is the fact that Dunne lived through a tragedy similar to that of character The far fetched melodramatics of the TV movie however are likely to turn off viewers who read the book or followed personal life grove and Terry Dunn Meurer and like that Wednesday night hit couples new interviews with dra matic re enactments Included: a look at Abraham Zapruder the Dallas businessman who shot the famous film of the Kennedy assas sination in 1963 and comedians Mitzi McCall and Charlie Brill and musician Davy Jones who appeared on Ed Sullivan the night the Beatles also appeared in 1964 OTHER HIGH LIGHTS the 13th James Bond adventure is repeated (8:30 pm ABC) Roger Moore plays 007 in this 1983 outing with Maud Adams as the title character and Louis Jourdan as one of the vil lains set in India and involves a renegade Russian general out to 8:00 ooo Paradise Ethan is caught between a renegade Co manche chief and a bitter Army colonel who was once his hero Comic Relief 90 Comics perform stand up and skits at New York Radio City Music Hall to benefit homeless Hosts: Billy Crystal Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams In stereo (CC) 8:39 13 East Monique celebrates her 40th birthday by dating a former beau (CC) vuu Golden Girls Sophia' faces a moral dilemma when an ill friend asks for help in ending her life (R) In stereo (CC) Movie Hus (1961) Paul Newman Piper Laurie' A traveling pool shark embarks on a personal crusade to defeat Minnesota ats at his own game (215) Empty Nest Harry is stunned when a former pa tient asks him to father her child (R) In stereo (CC) 10:99 Carol Company Carrie Hamilton and Robert Urich guest star in a sketch about a mother daughter sing ling duo In stereo (CC) 13 10 Muscle Magazine LIE Up Dr Ruth? 0EO Movie Trig (1988) Steve Bond Dona Speir A ruthless criminal sends his henchmen after the BI agents who killed his brother in this sequel to Ticket to (1:45) TNT (:20) Movie in the (1965) Richard Chamber lain Yvette Mimieux A struggling law student and his wife try to cope with poverty and parental oppo sition to their marriage (2:15) 12:30 Byron Allen In stereo 0 Movie 'a Hanging (1959) (2:10) (:35) Lifestyles of the Rich and amous Host: Robin Leach 0 Star Search 0D WW Wrestling CD riday the 13th: Series 83U9 Evans Novak DISC Big Cat Tales LIE Day by Day Movie Ya (1988) Lane Smith Viggo Mortensen An innocent convict returns from the grave seeking vengeance against the warden responsible for his death 25 years ago (1:42) Cusack stars as a loner who begins a mismatched love affair with the high school valedictorian (Ione (8:30 pm ox) Al Skye) real life sister Joan holds a yard sale on With (9 pm ox) Linda Laura and Margo take the wrong cruise on an repeat (9:30 pm ox) Booker is stalked by a hit man on a rerun (10 pm ox) (9 pm Sun day CBS) is the fact based story of Charlotte edders the wife of a prominent Washington lawyer whose 1985 divorce publicly re vealed a long history of domestic violence Lindsay Wagner plays Charlotte Michael Nouri plays her husband John who was di rector of enforcement for the fed eral Securities and Exchange Commission when the 17 year marriage enaea John edders is depicted as a cruel and demanding man whose Block career ambitions rinminated his 111c lIIfll lUlIe IS IHir i lHVPfl loving long suitenng wiie who en dured a decade of physical and emotional abuse before she threw him out of the house She later wrote the book on which this movie is based and continues to lecture on the subject of wife beating The scenes of physical abuse are harrowing and the film is well intentioned in its advice to battered spouses (ind support and laouo him TJnt IiHIa rlif ferent from a dozen similar films KemP a former Romanian TV TV has done in the past newswoman who returns to her country a convicted murderer who is scheduled for execution on Three pilots for proposed new riday in Louisiana Last year movie say Any thing makes its national pay cable debut (8 pm HBO) John pm ox) from Tampa la Bart and Lisa sitter is the notori ous Babysitter Bandit on prisoners nosi: iviicnaei Danuon a a a iviuvie Dduy ouuin (1987) Diane Keaton Sam Shepard' a nign powerea executive innerns a year old daughter Movie (lysz) cnucK ivorris Mary Louise Weller When his casino boss is mur dered by rivals an unemployed bodyguard seeks revenge ffl This Old House Drilling a well at the Concord barn site (R) (CC) Cops Los Angeles detectives investigate a stabbing murder S3 Movie (1982) Henry Winkler Shelley Long A mild mannered supervisor runs a call girl ring trom the city morgue 5 Movie Ya (1987) Nick Nolte Lane Smith A group of former inmates takes to the roads with a play about life behind bars ootsteps of Man A portrait of a writer who resides 20 miles from the inland USSR border Primenews DISC Big Cat Tales ollows the birth and raising of leopard cubs in an African game reserve (R) (G33 Mud Racing' AM Movie '(1959) Susan Hayward Stephen Boyd A Widowed mother with an 8 year old son struggles against the hardships of ranch life IHliR Comic Relief SEE HIGH LIGHTS Movie (1989) Paul LeMat Irene Miracle A group of psychics investigating a suicide are attacked by a long dead malicious army of little people In stereo (1:30) fcin: Donna Reed Marathon GE3 Movie Ya (1988) Bruce Willis Bonnie Bedelia A New York City cop faces over whelming odds when his Christmas visit to California is interrupted by terrorists who seize his estranged office building (2:11) TBS Major League Baseball Atlanta Braves at St Louis Cardinals (Live) TNT Movie Glass Bot tom (1966) Doris Day Rod Taylor A physicist becomes involved with a girl who poses as a mermaid part time (2:20) Slkf Movie of the (1977) William Shatner 0OO News (CC) SSJXDNews Comedy Tonight CD Cheers (CC) Nightmares Andy Warhol A profile Comic Strip Live rom Los Angeles: Ritcb Shydner (3 Showtime at the Apollo 3 Arsenio Hall (R) In stereo ffl (: 15) Movie Is Spin al Tap" (1984) Christopher Guest Micnaei Mcnean me attempted comeback of a sagging British rock group is chronicled (1:15) (S3 Lainie Kazan at Improv Capital Gang (R) DISC Big Cat Tales Rare camera footage of the Bengal tiger as it fights hunts and raises its young (UkJt Baseball Tonight LIE Spenser: or Hire CCT Movie Man Walk (1987) Wings Hauser A termi nally ill adventurer accepts a job to rescue an kidnapped daughter from the plague contami nated frontier (1:30) QQ3 Movie Yz (1988) Sho Kosugi Jean Claude Van OommA A PT A familv ie I kidnapped by the KGB when he arrives in the Mediterranean to re i tneve a top secret laser (1:33) Movie i (1987) Bruce Willis Kim Basinger A blind date pairs an overworked yup pie with a beautiful woman who re acts to alcohol in a strange way 11:30 Entertainment This Week Saturday Night Live i 0 Cosby Show (CC) 0 Movie (1986) Thomas Howell Rutger Hauer A homicidal hitchhiker tar gets a young motorist for death (: 35 Perry Mason American Gladiators 0 Nightmares (END MASH (D Movie (1937) Barbara Stanwyck John love and sacrifice for her daughter WW Wrestling felKA Sports Tonight (S33 SportsCenter TBS (:45) Night Tracks 12:00 0 At the Movies American Gladiators S3 Movie (1958) James Stewart Kim Novak A de tective who is afraid of heights is hired to watch his wife a National Geographic Q30 ootsteps of Man 00(EMDfflD Movie flOOQX Rnrror Mnnrn Maud Adams Bond attempts to thwart plans for a Russian world conquest In stereo (CC) (2:30) New Yankee Workshop A mod ern pine cedar lined blanket chest modeled after a 1790 antique (CC) Totally Hidden Video S) Wild America Host Marty Stauf Boles A classic story of a i nnrl rnAT ifinn 4 nn ier ioiiows minx along sireajns near Lake Superior (CCO 9:00 0QO The amous Teddy Al views his of the nomi nation as a precursor to forced re tirement In stereo (CC) Golden Girls SEE HIGHLIGHTS Red unny aces Shields and Yarnell and Yacov Noy join the comedian in a program fea turing such famous Skelton charac ters as reddie the reeloader and Plom TTndidTl chnnnor In Living Color anewoorn oaoy is lett witn Mike Tyson Sugar Ray Leonard and Mu hammad Ali In stereo Movie (1975) Sean Connery Ian McShane' A Scandinavian security chief matches wits with skyjackers Movie SEE HIGHLIGHTS y) faild Movie (1980) Woody Allen Charlotte Rampling A successful director begins to question the di rection his life and career are tak ing yr (1977) (2:05) (:45) Movie (1989) (1:35) 1:00 0 Byron Allen In stereo ffi Video Zone Green Acres Hollywood GD Movie to Murder Your (1965) Q30 Movie (1980) (Oi News Update (:10) Travel Guide DISC America Coast to Coast (G33 Road to the NR Um Movie (1989) (CC) (1:45) Movie (1974) 1:30 0 Night Music 0 (:35) Movie (1945) (1:55) Siskei Ebert ABC News (CC) riday the 13th: Series Tales rom the Darkside 83m Pinnacle EEO (:45) Movie Night in the Life of Jimmy (1988) 2:00 Monsters ffl Movie Ninja (1984) Movie (1980) 85m The International Correspon dents DISC Planet Earth fa Ulb SportsCenter AM Jewish Voice S239 (:15) Movie (1981) (1:25) 8EH (:20) Movie Longest (1974) 2:30 News (CC) Hawaii ive 0 0 (:40) ABC News 0 (:55) Movie (1955) (CC) (1:55) (D USA Tonight Movie Scout and Cathouse (1976) 830 Sports Latenight 8Hm (:45) Tales rom the Crypt 6:00 BGONews(CC) mDCD News Urban Update A Team War of the Worlds Degrassi High (CC) Matt Houston Hollywood Company 03 New Yankee Workshop CD Star Trek Kingdom of the Sun fem Newswatch DISC Sporting Life AM Bordertown (im Movie One of the (1985) (CC) EIE3 Movie Spirits (1988) TBS (:05) Wrestling TNT Bugs Bunny Pals BED The Equalizer 6:30 OO CBS News (CC) NBC News News the Boss? ABC News (CC) Wild America (CC) WKRP in Cincinnati Three's Company Austin City Limits 83m Pinnacle DISC Outdoor Life AM Zorro 8E31B Movie Academy 3: Back in (1986) (1:30) KE33 Mister Ed 7:00 Lifestyles of the Rich and a mous Host: Robin Leach Siskei Ebert Star Trek: The Next Gener ation (CC) MissingReward Our Times Wheel of ortune (CC) 0 Who's the Boss? (CC) Entertainment This Week riday the 13th: Series Travel Magazine Hunter 1999 Superboy St Elsewhere Star Search Out of This World Q3O New Wilderness 8am Capital Gang x' DISC Natural World SportsCenter AM Rin Tin Tin 9 Cop LIE Movie Michael Calls" (1971) 8ES Miami Vice 7:30 MissingReward 0 Crime Stoppers 800 Jeopardy! (CC) 0 Kate Allie (CC) As Schools Match Wits Hometime (CC) New Lassie (CC) Taxi Lonesome Pine Special OiU3 Challenge of the Seas 83m Sports Saturday DISC Natural World AMT and (CC) Loonev Tunes Movie 8ED Showbiz This Week snn 0QO Paradise SEE HIGH ballistic missile (R) LIGHTS Saturday Thunder (Live) A amily for Joe (CC) LIE Moonlighting 0 Cosby Show (CC) Movie Elvis Elvis learns the Deborah Richter The search for a stolen robot leads an adventurer when he is beaten up In stereo (CC) into battle against nomadic post Desperate Passage Emmy apocalyptic scavengers (1:25) Award winning special traces the 93I 10 day voyage of seven juvenile A 'former citv man nrisnners Host: Michael Tendon sHWI City A tormer city man ager returns to city wan atter si 'cai a uiHiMUK sue a duix ui uiiai kc fn cfprpn (CP Empty Nest SEE HIGH TBS (:45) Movie Last Di LIGHTS CsalU iraeey uuiuaii ui eiueriy confession a Russian agent is ordered to change a US loyalties In stereo (CC) 8im East Meets West fclhi Movie of the De (1988) Mimi Kinkade Linnea Quigley A malevolent creature is unleashed upon the living during a Halloween party at a haunted fu norn I hnrrvn in ctaron i I 1 1 000 Saturday Night With Con nie Chung In stereo (CC) Carol Company SEE HIGHLIGHTS Tonight 03 Monsters An American snv is ordered to save a Russian scientist from hell demonic agents Red More unny aces The comedian is joined by rench mime Marcel Marceau Entertainment This Week Major League Baseball Boston Red Sox at Oakland (Live) News CD MissingReward A 17 year old who disappeared in Tennessee 8311 CNN News DISC War Stories AM Hardcastle and McCormick LIE Hotel GIED (:15) Movie (1988) Michael Dudikoff Robert Lyons During the Viet nam War an American lieutenant leads his men in battle behind enemy lines In stereo (1:40) TNT (:20) Movie Y2 a Little Love a (1968) Elvis Presley Michele Carey A strug gling photographer juggles two jobs in an effort to make ends meet Hitchhiker 10:30 Down Home secret erotic dreams about Grover become public knowledge In stereo Jack Benny At the Movies Thrillers Tales rom the Darkside insecticides create a mutant race of Weekend Scoreboard tarantulas who spin a web of terror CD Crime Stoppers 800 around an Arizona town TBS (:45) US Olympic Gold Jesse 8:30 Owens Track and ield Classic 13 East SEE HIGH 81hi8 Alfred Hitchco*ck Presents LIGHTS 11:00 i I 7 7 i s' ZOil SCHERMERHORN ish Markets RIDA and SATURDA ONL reshly Picked Select Lobster Meat Lobsters 095 lb R99 V2 lb up lb M00ntSru 481 Belmont St rS 1152 Westiield St CLOSED SPRINGIELD IK WEST SPRINGIELD Monday 7 II0I13 19122 30 40 4 4 13 22 30 4 13 22 30.

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