European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Television Light Perlman provide surprises in an movie by Sarah Bottorff sometimes people Surprise you. Judith Light is the  Hammy comedian of the very Hammy comedy who s the Boss yet she plays it straight and Well in the suspense movie dangerous affection. The film also has Rhea Perlman being surprising the smart mouthed waitress in cheers plays a gentle supportive Friend to lights nine months pregnant character in this Story of a woman and child who stumble across a murderous Man apparently Selling air Force secrets to saudi Arabia. Light plays a Loo gentle soul More sad than angry at her husband for leaving her in the midst of pregnancy and at least initially unable to Cope with All these bad Guys suddenly in her life. Limmy Smits of . Law shows up As Light s love interest and Helper with coping skills. So the plots not out of the Brothers Karamazov a this is to. After All. And dangerous affection is pretty decent to for a slow week on superstition an. The plot is Light the scenes Are Well acted and As noted Light As a dramatic actress is a pleasant Surprise. Dangerous affection comes on at 8 . Wednesday Central european time and at 7 . In the United kingdom. Southern european broadcasting gets the movie the week of March 22. There Are no surprises whatsoever in sports illustrated the making of the swimsuit Issue. This Quot documentary Quot at 10 40 . Get monday on an is full of interviews with models and photographers and such and is just what it sounds like a Fine excuse to show women in bathing suits. Some of you May want to turn the sound Down you wont miss much. Chip and Dale Rescue rangers which is also new this week has a far better plot a at least in its initial episode. The cartoon will air wednesdays at 3 ., by Michael e. Hill Washington Post at 5 10 ., David Nuell the general in charge of entertainment tonight was at his desk sorting through the overnight dispatches from new York. The uniform of the Day was casual More casual than usual since this had been declared crazy shirt Day. Nuell wore one of those flagrantly red yellow and Green numbers that insult hawaiian style. The file on his desk contained photocopied newspaper columns and news items on the entertainment business from All Over the country. It was intended to help Nuell and his Comrade in arms in Van Messel set the show s Agenda. Nuell the executive producer focused on Long Range Story possibilities. Van Messel the supervising producer concentrated on shaping that Days broadcast. For three years the two Early risers have succeeded in saving entertainment tonight from what might have been an indignant Middle age. From Washington a arc to they brought a buttoned Down East coast hard news orientation to a soft news to show based on the West coast. Quot the first week i was Here Quot recalled Van Messel Quot weekend Host Leeza Gibbons told me a you re not going to make it Here if you dress like a  a a out with tie and Blazer in with Golf shirts. Since then casual and Laid Back has been their byword. But Nuell and Van Messel did make Waves. Since 1981, entertainment tonight or ., had been and it s unmistakably Disney. There Are no space age aliens or super powered laser beams just a couple of soft Little chipmunks with High voices and some nol very scary bad Guys. That s about the highlights on an this week Here Are a few More items Worth noting a Start setting your Vars again in the morning Leopard is Back thank goodness As is wheel of Fortune. The two game shows were replaced for a few weeks with classic concentration and family feud. They re Back at 11 30  Get weekdays jeopardy and at 10 30  Get tuesday through Friday wheel of Fortune. A also coming in for another Landing is knots Landing now in its 10th year. At the end of the last season Val was dying on her bedroom floor of the overdose Lill made her Lake Paige and Michael were trapped with the federates in Mexico and everybody else was wringing their hands. See what happens next at 9 30 . Get thursday. A dynasty ends at 9 30 . Monday and it will really leave you hanging. This is the last episode in existence the series was cancelled. So just who did kill Roger Grimes Well never know. A the Day they came to arrest the Book shares a similarity with those american Treasury spots you so often see with people explaining to you what s in the Library of Congress. The show is Well meaning but not precisely High budget entertainment. The topic at 3 . Get tuesday is censorship in America and the plot has to do with a Bunch of High school kids and Book Banning. Its a Good idea for a show and could have been As hard hitting and controversial As some of the books it talks about Banning. Instead its a weak after school special with a lot of 30-year-old actors playing teen agers. A Tom Selleck shows up at 1 . Get saturday in one of his earlier movies a Good Western called the the Sacketti with Glenn Ford and Ben Johnson. Another an movie offering mass Appeal did t Appeal to All the critics but a lot of them thought Lack Lemmon was great As a priest bedevilled by a reformist Young seminarian. It airs at 11 30 . Get monday repealed at 8 30  Get tuesday. For the rest of the movies Worth seeing this week there Slack Nicholson As a Border agent going bad in doing Fine with its daily dose of news from the world of entertainment. Co Host Mary Hart was Riding a wave of popularity setting new standards for jerkiness and Lohn Tesh had just come on Board. But after five years the show was Middle aged by to standards and the ratings were getting flabby. Quot when we got Here Quot said Van Messel Quot the show had a distinctly Fea Turish feel to it and was kind of inside the entertainment Industry at times. One of the reasons we were hired was that the ratings were getting a bit soft. Our approach because we did no to know any belter was to make the show More  Nuell describes it As Quot restoring the  the show does its share of predictable soft news from the entertainment Industry. Quot you get into a Mel Gibson Mode a everyone gets him when he has a film out Quot said Van Messel Quot but we be evolved. Quot next came the inside Story with some depth to it. Some Days its hard some Days its soft. It s a Long profile something sexy. It s a Way to keep an Edge on a Story. The show also has sort of an eyewitness news feel to it. We gave an immediacy to the  the result is an agreeable mix of both wheat and chaff. There Are the perfunctory party interviews and the stories with bite a such As video of an animal Trainer thought to be mistreating his charges. In recent years the syndication Market has been overrun with shows variously labelled reality trash or tabloid television. Nearly All of them with the huge exception of current affair have floundered. A year ago Usa today the television show mounted its Challenge in the form of a show that might cover the Border at 10 40 . Get Friday Kurt Russell is a science nerd in the strongest Man in the world at 8 30 get  Thursday and sports permitting late sunday night John Wayne is in one of his Best westerns in Angel and the badman. M finally or. Delts medical journal is the latest health show to crop up on an it starts at 10  Get wednesday. If you go in for medical titbits this is fairly Low budget but a not bad series. All of the above shows Start on 5eb the weeks of april 15 and 22. For those who have been wondering what s been happening to the honeymooner episodes which were supposed to run at 10  Every tuesday they re frequently being cancelled by Long running movies in the morning. Several honeymooner. Episodes have not aired this month. Unfortunately they can t be rescheduled on an a the honeymooner tapes must be passed on weekly to the next military station on the circuit an programmers say. Could t they just copy the tapes and air them later nope it would cause rescheduling problems and use up limited manpower resources says Tom Baxter chief of broadcast operations. This week seb gets two of the Best Odd Little movies Ever. The twelve chairs has Dom Deluise and Mel Brooks at their Best As a couple of nuts who Chase around Europe trying to find one of 12 chairs that has a Bunch of jewels sewn in its seat it airs at 3 30 . Friday. Brother from another planet to be shown saturday at 1 15 ., is the Story of a Black spaceman Landing in Harlem and it s almost As funny As the twelve chairs. Not quite so Good is Core Vidal s Lincoln a miniseries that starts at 9 10 . Wednesday and has a second part airing two Days later at 9 20 . March 2. You certainly can to say that Abe Lincoln had a Dull life but this show does drag a bit. It s not As Good As the Kennedy miniseries for example or Wallenberg a hero s Story. Finally to round out seb s week unsolved mysteries at a time to be announced this weekend is fairly Good tabloid to. Robert stack narrates this series which features True stories of crime and assorted peculiarities in  Middle age much of the same ground As ., with a lot More thrown in. But  Has buried them All. The morning at e. T. Headquarters on the Paramount production lot is generally a series of meetings in which stories Are screened selected reviewed and sharpened As the Day moves on toward the show s noon airtime. Between conferences with writers and assistant directors. Van Messel praised the facility and staff that support the show. Quot what id like to think we found was the ultimate toy store for Tsvor news Guys. We have All the technology you could want. The pleasant Surprise is that we have enough staff and Money. We have 120 people focused on the show every  at noon Hart and Tesh Are in their chairs in a surprisingly vacant looking studio with a few onlookers gathered to watch. In the control room director Ron de Moraes is in charge. The atmosphere is brisk just Short of tense As the show is done for real with retakes where necessary. Each segment is timed to the second with any Slack or tension at the end Likely to be compensated by a longer or Shorter musical ending Over the credits. At 12 30, the show will be transmitted via satellite to subscribing stations. The beginning of the show goes out while the end is being completed. It is this technology a satellite delivery a that makes a syndicated news oriented show possible. Editor note supers ton an Thow entertainment  tit rough saturday at 11 . And enter to a mint this weak on sunday at 10 30  in fart Manf Toru Ohl air on Southern european broadcast tag Tuatay through saturday at Fez 30 am. And  tto with it town at 4 . Sunday. A entertainment tonight keeps fit 24 stripes Magazine february 22, 1990