European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Movie offerings on an to Good for coming week Martin Sheen left Beds Down on a Washington d.g., Street with homeless activist Mitch Snyder during a 1987 demonstration on behalf of the poor. Sheen starred the year before As Snyder in. A Samaritan the Mitch Snyder Story being shown on an to Friday. By Anita Gosch staff writer its a Good week for movies on an to so you might want to Stock up on Blank videotapes to record them for viewing during sports heavy saturday nights. Three made for to movies arc based on True stories. The first the children of an Lac kicks off the week tonight. Its a compelling 1980 drama that tells the Story of three women two americans and one Viet Nam Csc who did the next to impossible they managed to evacuate hundreds of vietnamese orphans from the an Lac a Happy place orphanage in Saigon just before its fall to the communists in april 1975. One of the women was actress Ina Balin who plays herself in the movie. Shirley Jones of the Partridge family Fame also stars. Samaritan the Mitch Snyder Story Afna a Friday night late movie is the 1986 drama based on the life of Mitch Snyder a Vietnam vet turned social activist who died an apparent suicide after this movie was made. Snyder stages a personal War against poverty by championing the cause of the homeless with hunger strikes and demonstrations in front of the White House. Martin Sheen himself a social activist brings enough Fervour to his role As Snyder to make the portrayal credible. Make sure you have enough kleenex when the movie airs. Looking ahead to next sunday May 26, an airs part 1 of. The two part 1990 drama Blind Faith. Its the Story of the real life murder of Maria Marshall played by Joanna Kerns of growing pains happily married suburban wife and Mother of a typical family next door. The Model husband Rob a prominent businessman played by Robert uric claims that Maria was killed by attackers on a deserted Roadside. But As we All know the Case was Well publicize that just ainu to so. The movie is intense and electrifying and its fun looking for clues and flaws in Marshall a behaviour As he maintains his innocence. Blind Faith was based on the Best Selling Book of the same name by Joseph Mcginniss author of fatal vision the real life Story old. Jeffrey Mcdonald a former Green Beret whose family was brutally murdered and who was charged with the slayings. In movies this week not based on True stories the ultimate private cye sup chose mystery Chinatown airs wednesday night. The 1974 movie directed by roman Polanski won an Oscar for Best screenplay. Jack Nicholson was nominated As Best actor for his portrayal of the detective who stumbles onto a crooked land Deal and murder in los Angeles during the 1930s. Faye Dunaway was nominated As Best actress for her role As the Femme Fatale who draws him into the Complex situation Chinatown a sequel the two Jakes which came 16 years later was a Box office bomb. Don t judge the former by the latter. Frogs on thursday morning is one of those a movies about a what else a the attack of killer , if you be seen one Quot attack of movie you be seen them All. But this 1972 film isso corny you be just got to watch it. Its about an Idle Rich family a la the ewings who have been destroying swamp wildlife for so Long that the Slimy creatures decide to get revenge. A memorable line comes from one of the sons a it seems everybody in our family is Hung up on talk about understatement. Every few minutes you get close ups of frogs of All shapes and sizes and from every Angle along with Eye a. Ball Contact with snakes iguanas Etc. The background music is typically melodramatic the Early �?T70s clothes and hairdos Are a blast and the constant Cricket of the frogs is nerve racking. Weight watchers beware on saturday afternoon when an airs fast food a fun looking 1989 junk food comedy about two College students who open a Burger bar and sell hamburgers laced with an aphrodisiac sauce. Finally in the movie department those who Haven to seen Jerry Lewis in the nutty professor can make up for their cultural Lack tuesday. Also Worth mentioning this week movie buffs and others will get a kick out of the movie trivia show Friday night. The special is set up As a movie quiz in which you have to answer about 20 questions. Plus its chock full of nifty Little facts you probably never knew. Like whose voice was behind Quot phone Home a or what a a Rosebud in citizen Kane Cully meant. There a great animation in tiie show and clips from such movies As the harder they fall his girl Friday the wizard of of Frankenstein Tootsie it Al. There a a a body parts Quot Section in which you have to guess whose lips belong to whom and there a a Quot replacements Section in which you have to figure out who was originally slotted to perform certain Are also a few series returning this week to an life goes on about a Downs syndrome teen and his family tonight and the Golden girls on thursday. Southern european broadcasting this week also has some Good movies. On Friday night is fax a fast moving entertaining tale about a movie special effects Man hired to stage a phony hit on a mafia turncoat who finds himself double crossed. Hannah and her Sisters tonight is a Woody Allen comedy about a group of neurotic a a a a a a. Abc Robert Urich stars in a Blind Faith next sunday. New yorkers. A for kids the flight of the Grey Wolf Satui Day afternoon is about a Wolf Pup that a taken in As a family pet and Oliver twist an animated version of Charles. Dickens classic tale airs sunday morning. A. The station is also broadening its audience. Starting this weekend eds to Torrejon goes Oil the air and the folks at Torrejon a get sub instead. The time zone is the same As Italy so people at Torrejon can use the schedule find on Page 12 of their edition of sunday Magazine to find out what programming is on. Zaragoza scheduled to go the same Way later this summer switching off its local to station and picking up Sebus signal from Italy seb already reaches the Royal Oaks Complex in Madrid and naval station Rota in Spain not to mention the Sinai Peninsula and parts of saudi Arabia. Acting sunday Magazine editor Sarah Bottorff contributed to this column. May 19. 1991,. Sunday. A Page 15
