(/s/)6r4/ I CLIC viwuri ssy eaonstattvsrO van emsOnaurreS The real Oswald, and a pale imitation By the time next week, even INSIDE TV / BY PETER JOHNSON the new ardent Kennedy-def- ter will probably have mid "enough" to the TV feeding Bonham Carter, in sync with Marina Many forecasters rain frenzy marking the 30th anni- versary of Inca assassination. By Tracey Wong Briggs — 1 thought that would be WO Two two-hour CBS specials on country's parades USA TODAY rude and crude." to prime tithe, a four-hem ABC Nonetheless, she picked up miniseries, a TNT Larry King Helena Bonbam Carter on what she Calls Manna Os- You don't need a local forecaster to know which way the Where Were }-ac' special and wasn't even born when John wind blows, most americans say. wald Patter's strength and countless news features — all F. Kennedy was eseresinated. zest for life_ The anew te- 01 1,25fi adults. Stek my they nhen make decisions based harking hack to a shattehng and much of what the knew emed on letting her portrayal on weather forecasts that don't come true, according to a national tragedy brought home about the shooting and Lee IOW from the ancent "It's new Barris Poll And elm say they gar angry in the previous by TV, which has flogged It re- Harvey Oswald came from Moe a meek, really, or a am month bemuse they'd made plans using such forecasts lentlessly ever since. the mimeo IFK. But though a mere 77'1 say forecasts are reliable, moss pair of shoes. If you get the But tret the had guy. certainly didn't know of Recent right, Me other char- credit TV weather mavens for being real weather experts. This week of remembrance the existence of Marina, nor Experience and attitude about weather forecasts might letaristice come." betare with two looks at assas- of her children" says the Bonham Caner and Frank depend an where you're coming from, Respondence In the sin Lee Harvey Oswald, and ns Beef& actress, 27_ South are more likely to call forecasts reliable; thine In the Whaley ponn)y the Onweids Bea known for the lash as a couple whose marriage Midwest are most likely to Ind them unreliable and to Merchant-Ivory period now- make plans based on wrong iorecasa Both MIdevalerners TV PREVIEWS is eroding from cultural dlf. ies A Room With a View and ferences, economic stress and Easterners are meat MATT ROUSH Howards Feel, Bonham Car. likely to have gotten and her lack of trust in his se- ler put away those corsets (Yet activities steamed recently over an so often the nee, there's is add look a crash muse on "They °belt:est). had a tem- Inaccurate forecast And nothing like the real thing the Dallas shoaling before those In California? pestuous reletinnthip," she Neck the lesser of the two is starring in NBCs Fatal De- mye "They might have cow Mellowest, of course; NBC's lurid docudrama with motion: Mrs Lee Harvey Os- they're much tem likely w noted in such a way that the preposuenies title Fatal weld, airing tonight they set each other off." be upset by wrung Forecasts Deception: Mrs Lee Hervey Told In flashbacks and Filming look place over than those In other teems_ Oswald (**, tonight. I flash forwards, the story three Weeks in Moscow and The poll has a margin or er- ETIPI). (An earlier, and bet opens with his widow as a ror of plus or minus 3'h. Terms Though she's used to ter, name was Marina's Story, Russian immigrant. adrift the more leisurely pace ef but NBC always Ukm to put "fa- and actracered In Dallas with BUMMED: Paula films "I loved IL I vets exhila- tal" or "deadly" In Its elle%) two young daughters and lim- rated at the speed. You didn't Poundsthre, whose comedy If you're not paying attention ited English skills show was axed by ABC Ma By nays S Pa,, PiliC have time to think: Mara at — always the tree way to "1 think she's been given week alter only two outings, HISTORY MAKERS: Frank Whaley end Helena Denham a good thing for acting" watch NBC movies — you pretty hard tint She was an Camay are no Doubled Oswalds or NBC's 'Fate Deception: is understandably licking In the movie, Marina as Gen./leer meld metake the far any one Innocent sort of bystander," her wotindl. 'It hurts 11 dreads November, and thn POUNDSTONE Having her of the network's ubiquitous do- Bentham Carter rare A pari- really does, For a variety of which she healed- before he didn't do It on hN (31111 He year will probably be worse senors canceled 'nuns.' mmticeragedy movies of de ah to three who thought her the Warren Commission, reasons. Sheer ego is one — wasn't equipped to do it an his with the al/th anniversary of week. Once It lapses Into flash- husband acted Mane, and a when she said she thotig,h1 and (the cancellation) was fairly public," Premdsone said own and the baste mativatIOn the sheeting el think It's a his back mode. Fatal Deception disappointment to conspiracy her husband had acted alone. Friday. But. the says. practicing a wee bit of spin control aasiit them' macabre, they're showing It In reduces itself to the tale of a theorists, Martha took k from But the actress doesn't Bonham Carter welched November,' Bonham Carter (though this happens to be true), It wasn't as if lee show foreign bride whose secretive all sides, the actress Says have any answers. could hours of interviews before nays, "She melba") bred drew zillion, of viewers who decided they hated her humor. husband Whin out whenever of "Hopefully thin shows how Only perceive It from Mar, 1- meeeng Marina two days be- it. [would be sick [Fitt by hestead, nobody came to her party. "The ratings were just she dares to ask what gives moor, much prearare she was un- na't point of view,' she says, lieve filming waned "But I la have your whole life deter- as low. Thais all there was to IL" Of course, the stakes are der, the bewildered stale In "No one knees, but I wet didn't want to ask questions mined by thin one event," higher this lime around. This BRIEFLY: at Amer and Felicity Huffman will play fa- hushand Isn't just up to no geed, ther (retired race-ear driver) and daughter (divorced, he's about to achieve lasting in wall a night and get absorbed a dangerous and delusional po- moves In with her three kids) In Thunder Alley. an ABC The good news is that as In the exhaustive three-hoar litical dilettante who len a per- melee.. on replacement .., CBS This Morning begins a Russian-born Marino, who Frontline report Who Was Lee pletting and often contradic. weeklong series today called "Who's Watching You?" — all must raise their daughters In Harkey Oswald? (**t%, tory trail of allegiances and about the eavesdropping Does part of our lives.... John the shadow of his awful act. P85,2 p.m ET/PT, fiches may connections tint have fueled e Wayme Bobbin — acquitted of raping his wile, Loretta, last Helena Bonham Carter ewe vary). Manna didn't partke legion of conspiracy sceneries week, hula lo Nancy Glass on today's American Journal an eloquently brooding perfor. pnte, but her biographer is on This account leaves little (check local Menses). lie says he (omens her — Loren. mane of reposed guile hand, among Wes journalise daubs, however, that he pulled that Ls — for chapping off he penis.... Finally, on Friday's Blond Freels Whaley IS no- and experts. In shed light on the trigger in the Texan Book CBS Reports — Who Killed .IFK, The Final Chapter? (9 where near as effective as the this most ragging of mysteries p.m. ET/PT). anchor Dan Reeser asks Walter Crenkite how Depository that fateful Nov. 22. enigmatic Lee Harvey, but that Frontline plans a news con- lull was he a patsy, m he he tell when he broke the news la the nation that President could he a function of the ference today in Washington, claimed after his arrest? Or Kennedy was dead. Cronkite breaks down, then says. "An- murky script, which poses ac_. to Ulimpel new evidence was this the last desperate act chormen Shouldn't cry." vague conspiracy theories but It has uneertlusl in this invish of a frustrated man aching to is an limited to Marina's waive biography of "a man be noticed? His motives re- mournful perspective, you who chose his (11.81 politic% in- main unclear, but In its hal. Tonight's TV listings, 6D hardly know what to think. vented his awn secret life and anted and thorough 'reproach, cut Anyone interested In the Os- made himself into an assassin." Frontline again eves as much NO DOUBT: PBS' Frendne portrays Lee Harvey Oswald as wald mystique is advised to The Oswald that emerges is provocative fond for thaughe complex and delusional, capable of Mime President Kennedy. .