Kennedy Shows Lack Quality, Not Quantity
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[Air hEws / FRIDAY. OCTCBER t I 1801 1 LA. LIFE-59 TELEVISION THE FACTS- p-IL RoseriTHAL • Th. show: "A Woman Named - Jackie." ■ When: 9 p.m. Sunday through Kennedy shows lack fuesnsy. ■ Channet KNBC (Channel 41. ■ Starring: Roma Downey, Stephen quality, not quantity Collinc-losof Somme:. William Deane, Wendy Hughes. .10511 Ackland You know Marilyn Mantua (Eke Glarclun) - • Our riling: ► you've seen too are limited to the bland. implied many Kennedy naughtiness that NBC's lawyers ■ TT* show: 'Hearts of Darkness A documentaries, felt would keep the network out of Filmmaker's Apocalypse." dramas, domain. litigious danger. ■ When: 14 p.m. Saturday mas, dramamen- Watching this, your Mind will various repeats) tattles and the wander. You'll consider the poten- ■ Planned: Simemlime. like, when the tial for miniseries about untold a Ciur_rating: armor* sight of Jackie Kennedy stepping Kennedy tales ("JFK Jr.: The •r*. — amz non t 4-44 — — ha! az — el — off a plane in that pink pillbox hat Failed Bar Exams," "Palm Beach Gail doesn't send chills up your spine. Memoirs") or later first ladies. And, as Jackie in NBC's "A And then you realize "A Woman Woman Named Jackie," Roma Named Jackie" could have been "NBA Inside Stuff which returns Downey's shrieking as husband worse. for a second season Oct 26. Bay's John F. Kennedy (Stephen Col- It could have been "A Woman most recent credit is as cohost of lins) is shot in Dallas' Peaky Pla- Named Nancy." a show on the Travel Chorine?. za probably won't even wake you The honor, the horror: Mar- Impressed? up. tin Sheen, his star, has nearly ■ KLOS-FM (95.5) joy boys The Jacqueline Kennedy Onas- dropped dead of a heart attack Mark Thompson and Brian sis we meet in "A Woman Named and "Apocalypse Now" director Phelps take a stab at coaching Jackie" a threepart, six-hour en- Francis Ford Coppola is dis- football at Taft High Sclf3o1 in durance test that's scheduled for 9 traught Woodland Hills in a scrimmage p.m. Sunday through Tuesday on 'If Marty dies," he yells at an against Canoga Park High &tool KNBC (Channel 4), is an eyewit- assistant, fearful of what the bad in this week's scheduled edition of ness to history. She's not really a publicity might mean to the epic their low-rated NBC series, "The participant. As competent as that has come to dominate his life, Adventures of Mark & Brian," at Downey sterns to be. we get abso- "I want to hear everything's OK 7 p.m. Sunday an KNBC (Chan- lutely no insight into the events until I my Marty is dead:" nel 4). her character has seen. "Hearts of Darkness: A Film- Roma Downey as Jackie Kennedy faits to portray convincing horror e Take it from someone who Shc watches her husband be- maker's Apocalypse," which at the assassination of her husband, played by Stephen Collins. was somewhere last weekend come the Democratic presidential makes its debut at 10 p.m. Satur- where NBC's San Diego Chargers- nominee on television. She walks day on Showtime is a fascinating _nutmeat Bandy Travis. brain-dead Connie Sellecca-Greg Los Angeles Raiders telecast into a room as President Kennedy look at the making of Coppola's ■ Not that we haven't seen this Evigan series will be preempted wasn't blacked out_ Unsuspecting talks on the phone about what to epic Vietnam War Mot based on idea a few times. but sports guy by baseball this weekend. viewers should not have been sub- do about the Lune Meredith situ- Joseph Coarad's novella "Heart of Gary Cruz looks at life in minor. ■ Also pre-empted by baseball jected to Thompson and Phelps' ation. While her husband em- Darkness." league baseball among the players this weekend is the first-rate fami- attempt at football announcing as barked on the momentous first Director Fax Bahr has com- who are good enough to dream in ly series "Brooklyn Bridge," which a stunt for a coming edition of 100 days of his administration. bined 16mm footage shot by Cop- "High Desert — High Hopes" at 9 CBS will flip-flop on its schedule their Sunday show. she tells a White House house- poIa's wife. Eleanor, and inter- p.m. Sunday on KCAL (Channel with "Princesses." Beginning next ■ Fun fact of the day for those keeper she wants the bed sheets views with principals into a 9). week, "Brooklyn Bridge" will of you who aren't Willow Bay changed twice a day. breathtaking 100-minute docu- ■ Real baseball fans won't want move to g p.m. Fridays, followed fans: The New York Times re- This Jackie worries about her mentary about a mission and a to miss HBO's rerun of "When It by "Princesses" at 8:30 p.m. on ports Turner Broadcasting shares. family being shot — by photogra- movie out of controL Was a Game," which features rare KCBS (Channel 2). which were below 514 in late July phers. It all seems to be here. You're color footage from games of the With Julie Moran going to when Ted Turner's .Atlanta Braves No, it's not terribly interesting, got Sheen as drunk he can't per- '30s and '40s, at noon Saturday. ABC, the oddly named Willow were in third place. have risen to not at all affecting, and yet it's form. There's Marton Brenda II Glenda Jackson and Den- Bay has been earned Ahmed Ra- nearly SI 8 now that the Braves are probably the most intriguing part wanting to improvise his part. holm Elliott star in the two-part shad's co-host on NBC Sports' in the National League playoffs. of the miniseries. At least the Ken. You've got a script that's out of adaptation of John Lc Carm's "A nedys had an impact on our lives. control and a budget to match. Murder of Quality." the first half The first two hours deal pri- And then there's a typhoon to le- of which kicks off the 21st season manly with the influences of her vel the sets. "My film isn't about of PBS'"Masterpiece Theatre" at parents — played well by Wendy Vietnam" Coppola says at one 9 p.m. Sunday on KCET (Channel Hughes and William Devane, an point "My film is Vietnam. ... 213). old hand at [hear Kennedy series. We were in the jungle. There were ■ Michael Feinstein works his The final two hours center on her too many of us. We had access to Valley Indoor relationship with Aristotle Onassis musical magic on pop songs of the too much money, too much equip- (Joss Ackland), which was han- '201, '30s and '40s with Rosemary ment. And little by little, we went dled earlier in the semifictional- Clooney and Meter Ellington, Swap Meet insane." who conducts the Duke Ellington fictional "The Greek Tycoon" and By the end of "Hearts of Dark- wasn't all that good, either. Orchestra, on the PBS special ness," you might not disagree. In any ease, "Michael Feinstein & Friends" at it's not exactly the You won't want to miss it stuff of epic drama. 9 tonight on KCET (Channel 28). The Kennedy saga is, but we've Changing channels: The new ■ lo a crud twist, CBS has de- seen it so often that we've become edition of HBO's "Influences" cided to renew "PSI Luv U" for numb to it The whale point seems looks at how George Jones has in- the entire season. 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