12 PREVIEW Wednesday, December 2, 1992

In “Revenge on the g
priors Claude Sams (Stacy Keach,
pictured) is bent on vengeance af-
ter his son is killed by a hit-and-run
big-rig driver. His search leads him
to a dangerous group of renegade
truckers. The NBC movie, which
was inspired by an actual event,
airs Sunday, Dec. 6.

“Shadow of a Stranger,” Emma
sala and Parker Stevenson star
as affluent young marrieds who
steal away for the weekend to their
house on the beach. But blackmail,
betrayal and murder enter the pic-
ture when they meet a mysterious
couple. The NBC thriller airs Mon-

day, Dec. 7.

sday, Dec. 8, ABC's “Rose-

On f rebroadcasts its memorable
season-opening episode. In it, Rose-
anne (Roseanne Arnold) has her
(John Goodman)

is motorcycle

IN FOCUS

Some films should stand on
their own, unsullied by a re-
make. “Father of the Bride,”
which stars Steve Martin and
Diane Keaton and airs Sun-
day, Dec. 6, on Showtime, is a
valiant 1991 effort to match
the quality of director Vin-
cente Minnelli’s 1950 ver-
sion. But despite his undeni-
able comic talent, Martin
can’t approach the hilarity
that Spencer Tracy lent to
the role of the harried, loving
father. Still, “Father of the

Bride” is sweetly appealing.
_ RR NNT SE

Hepburn, O‘Neal star
in ‘The Man Upstairs’

BY FELICIA A. FEASTER

he Man Upstairs” (CBS,
Dec. 6), one of the silliest
premises for a TV movie,
sports an equally bizarre pair
of Hollywood recluses: Kath-
arine Hepburn and Ryan O’-
Neal. Hepburn stars as Victoria
Browne, a spitfire old maid
who one evening discovers
jewel.thief Moony Polaski
(O’Neal) raiding her refrigera-
tor. Rather than call 911, Vic-

toria develops a fondness for
the prison escapee, who re-
minds her of a soldier she
loved decades ago, and finds in
Moony a good excuse to kick
up her aging heels one more
time. The odd couple become
fast friends and prepare to cel-
ebrate an unusual Christmas
together. While it makes for
good yuletime viewing, the
greatest joy of “The Man Up-
stairs” is seeing Hepburn
again.

e Leaning heavily on the
cutesy factor and a resem-
blance to “Home Alone,”
ABC’s “To Grandmother’s
House We Go” (Dec. 6) is a holi-
day offering that stars twins

Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen
(“Full House”). The girls de-
cide to help out their haggard
mother (Cynthia Geary), a
convenience-store manager,
during the seasonal rush by
embarking on a trip to their
grandmother’s house. Along
the way, the twins tackle a
pair of idiot thieves (Rhea
Perlman and Jerry Van Dyke),
who hold them for ransom.

e Stacy Keach plays an ex-
perienced driver whose son is
“dusted” by a pill-popping
trucker in “Revenge on the
Highway” (NBC, Dec. 6). To
avenge his son and make the
interstates safe for the com-
mon automobile, Keach buck-
les up and steers his big rig on
a cross-country drive for jus-
tice.

e TNT's “Four Eyes and Six
Guns” (Dec. 7) concerns the
Western pilgrimage of a sensi-
tive optometrist (Judge Rein-
hold) who wants to be a gun-
fighter and helps Tombstone
marshal Wyatt Earp (Fred
Ward) focus in on the town’s
bad guys by fitting him with a
pair of new spectacles.

e “My Own Private Idaho”
(Showtime, Dec. 10) has a pret-
ty-boy cast of the thinking
teen-ager’s sex objects. River
Phoenix stars as a gay male
hustler working the streets of
downtown Portland, Ore.,
when he’s not collapsing into a
sudden heap of snooze. Keanu
Reeves is the son of the city’s
mayor, biding his time before
he collects a handsome inheri-
tance by slumming with the lo-
cal pack of vagrants, dope
fiends and hustlers. Darkly
funny and unique, the film is
impeccably photographed.
Phoenix is amazing as the
fragile, in-love street waif.

INEROL@ES

“A Day in the Life of Holly-

wood” (premiering Tuesday,
Dec. 8, on Showtime) is in its
own way the perfect Holly-
wood metaphor: people
shooting a movie about peo-
ple taking pictures of people
who shoot movies. Camera
crews tag along as still pho-
tographers snap the famous
and the wannabes for a new
addition to the “A Day in the
Life” series of coffee-table
books. Among those inter-
viewed is Mariel Heming-
way (pictured).

Pat O’Brien and Dorothy Lucey are
the hosts of “How’d They Do
That? The new reality series
which is previewed Wednesday,
Dec. 9, on CBS, goes behind the
scenes to show how various feats
and achievements - from scientific
breakthroughs to solving crimes —
are actually accomplished.

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