European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                On to Sarah Bottor frock Roll and Joan Collins that Kinda week to Johnny to has some of the Best music and the stupidest Story line Ever in a Rock n Roll movie. And when you think we re talking More than 30 years of Rock movies a to came out in 1958 a you can just imagine How stupid this is. But of boy the music. For most of us Chuck Berry is an old Man who gets arrested a lot for tax evasion and stuff but this film shows Why he was such a sensation. He appears about 10 minutes into the film tuesday morning on an to doing Quot Little Queenie Quot with an ear to ear Grin. Guitar sliding Knees knocking eyes ablaze a when he sings that he s wondering if he s got a Chance with Little Queenie there s no doubt in your mind he a not just talking about getting a dance with her. Great stuff. Then you be also got the flamingos Quot i Only have eyes for you quo the Cadillac Quot Seedoo Quot and Ritchie Valens Quot la Bamba Quot less than a year before he was killed in the plane crash with buddy Holly and the big bopper. This is one great movie for music. It is As noted one terrible movie otherwise. The Quot plot Quot has to do with real life Rock impresario Alan freed and Jimmy Clanton Quot Venus in Blue jeans Quot. Clanton plays an average Joe who s picked the name Johnny Melody and Hopes to be a big Star if he can reach freed. Clanton has a ludicrous girl Friend and a saxophone and when people Stop singing the Only Way you can Tell this ridiculous movie from the ridiculous Public service commercials on an is that the commercials Are in color. But go is Well Worth watching just to listen. It comes on an at an awkward hour but that s what Vars Are for. Southern european broadcasting gets to in  november. Rally a round the Flag Boye is from the same year and there Are similarly Good reasons to watch this otherwise not so Good film in a relatively lightweight week on an to. One Good reason is Joan Collins who had the sense even then not to take herself seriously. She s playing the Vampy would be Home wrecker of course. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward Are equally Good As the soulless suburbanite and his ditzy wife. And while the script does no to quite come together this comedy about cold War missile building in the burbs has its moments. Lots of them actually and a Good cold look at family life in the 50s that will cure you of any nostalgia. Round the Flag also airs Early on thursday morning. As for the rest of an s week a Robert Young is an extraordinarily talented actor not that father knows beat or Marcus Welby . Ever gave much indication of that. But in mercy or murder airing Friday night he is Superb As an elderly Man who shoots and kills his hopelessly ill wife and then stands trial for her murder. The made for to film is based on a True Story from Florida. If you done to believe in euthanasia you May be convinced by the time Young gets through with you. A manhunt search for the night stalker on thursday night is another made for to Docu drama but it s not in the same class As mercy or murder perhaps because it s difficult to find a sympathetic focus when the main character is a multiple murderer rapist who haunted Southern California slashing and smashing. It s very accurate this film if somewhat plodding. A brotherhood of the Roee starts wednesday a Short two part miniseries about espionage and a father Robert Mitchum who must have one of his sons killed because the kid s getting too Good at assassinating people the wrong people. This did t make much of a splash when it aired on stateside to in 1989 its based on Robert Morrell s Book of the same name. A family ties is bowing out after seven years on tuesday. The producers wrapped up this Long running sitcom by breaking the family ties and sending Alex Michael j. Fox off to new York. But you can bet they la be together for a million years on reruns when you get Back to the states a perfect strangers comes Back for its fifth year on sunday and it was sorely missed. If you be managed to miss it this comedy about an old world immigrant and his Yuppie Chicago Cousin is Well Worth seeing a no brain food Here but one of the funnier sitcoms to come along. A also to see if you Haven t yet the apartment a 1960 comedy morality play with Jack Lemmon As the chump Fred Macmurry As the Schmuck and Shirley Maclaine As the Good girl the chump tries to save from the Schmuck. It airs sunday morning. Seb gets thirty something Back a Elliot gets Nancy Back Nancy gets her Mother moving in practically next door Melissa finds Young love and a baby is born. Its a Busy year for the Philadelphia yuppies starting thursday night. The wild wild West also comes to seb one in a series of 1950s, Early-1960s shows that the armed forces radio and television service sends out on the general theory that if people in the states Are watching old Black and White series on saturdays we should be too. Seb will air it saturday afternoon. Joan Collins surfaces in a rally a round the Flag  inside to plus the Nielsen ratings to listings video reviews top 10 videos cafes movie schedules movie reviews top 10 movies 45-8 9 9 10 11 11 staff editor Art director production editorial assistance Sarah Bottorff Sharon Kilday Lisa Williams Denise Adams Louis Pierce Marian Hamilton on the co ver Armand Assante plays Texador an underworld figure struggling with undercover cop Nick Nolte in Quot a amp  also new on the cafes circuit is a the witches Quot which staff writer Chuck Vinch reviews on Page 11. A stars and stripes publication Page 2 c to plus sunday september 23,1990