European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A David makes you wonder about making movies arc there some events so horrible they should t make to movies out of them the question comes up in David the True Story of the boy who was hideously mutilated when his father Sot fire to him in a bizarre Effort to keep his a wife from claiming custody it s not that this is an exploitive cheap movie its excellent Bernadette Peters plays Marie Rothenberg who helped her 6-year-old cling to life and Hope after he suffered third degree Burns Over 90 percent of his body John Glover Matthew Lawarence and John Cirillo Complete the cast and All do a Good Job. Thai s just the trouble if this were schlock you could dismiss it or even laugh at it. Instead it s an extremely disturbing movie a All the More so because the people portrayed including the now paroled father Are extremely real. There s probably no real Way to draw a line on what s of and what s too terrible to dramatize in a to movie after All David Rothenberg s Story has been in All the papers including this one and Over and Over again on news broadcasts. Why is it going too far to make a film about it Well it seems to be that Sall. Superstition an had the sense to schedule this one late Friday night rather than in the wednesday prime time Slot such docudrama usually get. This is definitely not one for the children to watch. Southern european broadcasting gets the film and the rest of the an programming mentioned below in Early july. Cagney and Lacey ends it seventh and final year on an tuesday night a not with a bang but with a slight ambiguous Little ending scene. The emmy winning show which has already bowed off the air in the states does no to try to tie up too Many Loose ends. You May in fact wonder if this is really the end of it but armed forces radio and television service people swear that this is All there is. They la be missed. Christine Cagney and Mary Beth and Harvey Lacey were real people to a lot of us real people getting buggy in the Middle and struggling with their teen age kids and drinking Way too Many drinks and facing a stagnant bureaucracy Day in and Day out. They Aren t easily replaced by the likes of Hunter and Mccall say or even Colleen Mcmurphy a or sgt. Zeke Anderson. A Bright note afro so Bob Matheson Points out is that when television series end in such a muted Way they leave the Story line open for a return perhaps in the form of a to movie. No Way of knowing whether Cagney and Lacey will get such a movie. But would t that be Fine the top rated morning show Abc s Good morning America is broadcasting from England Scotland and Ireland this week but we re still not seeing it Here. The Joan Lunden Charles Gibson team that a been beating the pants off the today show in the Nielsen ratings is just not going to be available for broadcast internationally said arts s Matheson. Good morning is an oddity in that it s full of separate segments produced by different people. Getting All those separate producers each week to agree to International Quot clearance Quot is impossible he said. No such problem with today which is seen on most if not All military television stations serviced by arts a and no such problem either with lbs this morning. Cagney Sharon Gless left and Lacey Tyne Daly talk it out in the women a room. Cd what do you think did we get it right anything you want to see More of a or less of a in to plus drop us a line at the stars and stripes features department Apo by 09211. I think 1 "volh0  a it country. Square one to is Back on an this wednesday. It s the show that does for math what Reading Rainbow does for Reading gets youngsters interested in it. Other than that it s business As usual with the series and kid s shows. The movies Are a mixed bag. There s the above mentioned David Friday and the wonderful educating Rita thursday morning. On the other end of the scale we have the Tacky and stupid mysterious death of Nina Chereau a would be horror film late thursday night. And somewhere in the Middle of the scale is once upon a Texas train. This Little Story of aging train robbers wont win any major theatrical awards but it s fun. And it has Willie Nelson in it. The Hogan family returns to Southern european broadcasting tuesday which will make some people Happy no doubt. A different world comes Back too on wednesday. And seb gets two vastly different children a programs Reading Rainbow which As mentioned above gets kids involved in Reading and super Sloppy double dare which gets kids involved in Well if you Haven to seen it you would t believe any description of it. Double dare starts on tuesday afternoon and Reading Rainbow on thursday. As for films seb celebrates mothers Day this afternoon with a film of the same name. It s not you la be glad to hear the 1980 horror film about a hillbilly Mother terrorizing College students but instead the 1989 to movie in which a mom tries to Clear her son of a drug related murder. An found no Mother s Day programming of note so decided to let the Day pass without programming comment. Instead mom can Wake up at 1 . And watch the indy 500 time trials. Seb plans to skip the trials but both stations plan to air the Stanley cup playoffs game six if needed at 2 30 . Inside to plus the Nielsen ratings 4 to briefs 4 to listings 5-8 video reviews 9 top 10 videos 10 movie reviews 10 top 10 movies 10 cafes movie schedule 10 staff editor Sarah Bottorff Art direction Sharon Kilday production Lisa Williams editorial assistance Louis Pierce Pam Runquist Gidget Smith on the cover immediate family Quot is new on the cafes and Viacom video store circuits this month. Other suggestions for videos to rent this month Are in Quot Jim s picks Quot on Page 9