European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                On to % a Sarah Bottorff to plus Surprise a film Worth staying Home to watch the heroine of tha room upstairs is a Young boarding House Landlady who s disorganized and insecure intimidated by her cheerful tenants. She a also a teacher of a unreachable1�?T teenagers kids who throw babies off balconies and sit in classrooms stabbing their desks with knives. She comes Home at night to sit in a welter of crumpled clothes and already read newspapers. And then a dark haired cellist comes to rent the big room upstairs. The room upstairs is wednesday nights movie on an to and its a Surprise. This is not the Ordinary social Issue of the week movie for wednesday. It s a made for to movie All right from 1987, but without the usual predictable script and the usual Quot bankable Quot actors like Lindsay Wagner and Perry King. Stockard Channing and Sam Waterston Are not exactly household names but they Are Brilliant actors and Brilliant As the Landlady Leah and the cellist. And tha room a Patara is a Brilliant film. Where did this wonderful movie come from anyway it features an Academy award Winner Linda Hunt Yar of living dangerously playing a minor character Mentor to the insecure testy Leah Channing. There a a crowd of other minor types in the boarding House who enter into a conspiracy of sympathy for Leah the last thing she wants. And the cellist Waterston who a wandered in and out of various Woody Ailen films a a Hannah and her is Star Interior is the Best part of Leah a life a character with layer after surprising layer of personality. Channing though is the Best part of this film. She is a wonderful actress although it wont occur to you to think that when you see this film. It May sound trite but you re Likely to forget you re watching an actress at All or a movie at All. This is an absorbing real Story and a great Surprise for a wednesday night at Home. The Only Surprise in till a moot again is that terrible As it is you la probably watch both parts of it. This sweeping Saga of silliness in. Valves Chateaux in France wilful daughters world wars and Michael York wearing a pained expression. It also passes my personal test for wonderful trash it features a character named Bruno who hates everybody. Don t All Good miniseries have a character named Bruno who hates everybody till a meet again is from a Judith Krantz novel and will be broadcast on the next two Friday nights also on an this week a nothing Ever seems to happen on thl Tyso Methling Why do we like this series but who can give it up the third season of Yuppie life in Philadelphia will feature career disasters and major illnesses among other catastrophes for everyone to discuss in Hopes Kitchen. Unfortunately an ha9 scheduled this show for saturday night so it will Bounce around at unscheduled times after sports. Sometimes the easiest thing to do is just Start the video tape at 7 . And let it run for 12 hours  is bound to show up somewhere on the tape. A tha wild wild West for those of you who missed this 1965 series the first time around involves undercover agents for president Grant Riding the rails in the old West ferreting out wrongdoing and righting it. Robert Conrad and Ross Martin starred first Stop is difficult run va., saturday afternoon. A red Dawn the film about Brave american f teens fighting the Nasty commies who take Over a Small Middle America town does not appear As implausibly ridiculous As you might think it would in these Post cold War Days. The 1984 movie is still a Good action film and it s fun to see a baby fatted Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey pre dirty dancing. The film s on saturday afternoon before tha wild wild wat. Tom Boaley and Tracy Nelson Star in father Dowling on Southern european broadcasting Friday. Abc it seems almost impossible but a new football season is about to Start the annual Mali of Fame game pits the Chicago bears against the Cleveland Browns saturday. An and the other military networks also will be airing the exhibition game in Tokyo Between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle sea Hawks also saturday and after some bickering and dithering broadcast rights have been acquired to the Goodwill Gamas. You can see them five in the Early mornings this week on an Southern european broadcasting and other military networks. Seb has a film that s As Good As tha room upstairs a Fox Lra a and one that a almost As Good trash As till a meat again a tha prize pulitzer Foxfire airing wednesday stars driving miss Daisy a Jessica Tandy As an appalachian woman who frequently talks to the ghost of her husband and faces the Prospect of leaving her land to go take care of her troubled son. Tha prize pulitzer late sunday is about less than Bright people with too much Money. It s based on what shards of truth emerged from the recent and sensational pulitzer heirs divorce trial. Seb also has a couple of fair-to-middlin1 films. The Competition saturday stars Amy Irving and Richard Dreyfuss in the age old struggle Between love and ambition. And de Begley or. Stars in a Bunch of silliness called spies lies and naked thighs Friday. Finally father Dowling on Friday is comfortable mystery that served As Pilot for a series that did not survive tha season it stars Tom Bosley and Tracy Nelson As a priest and a nun solving murders. A a a inside to plus the Nielsen ratings to listings video reviews top 10 videos cafes movie schedules movie reviews a top 10 movies 4 5-8 9 9 10 11 1 staff editor Art director production editorial assistance Sarah Bottorff Sharon kurday Lisa Williams Denise Adams Louis Pierce Marian Hamilton on the cover Mel Harris and Ken Olin Are Back Fin another year of Yuppie distress in a thirty something Quot saturdays on an to. A stars and strikes Publica Tion Page 2 c to plus sunday july 29, 1990