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"Cabaret" (1972) Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey. Set in a 1931 Berlin cabaret, this musical tells how the rising tide of Nazism affected the lives of everyone. 'PG' (2:00) HB02 Thu. 7 a.m., 6 p.m. "Cabin in the Sky" (1943).

Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. Vincente Minnelli's screen version of the stage musical about a divine battle for a gambler's soul. (1:38) MAX Thu. 4:30 p.m.; MAX2 Sun. 10:15 a.m.

"Cannery Row" (1982) Nick Nolte, Debra Winger. A marine biologist in a 1940s California coastal town becomes romantically involved with a woman from the local bordello. Rased on the book by John Steinbeck. 'PG' (2:00) TMC Sat. 6:30 a.m.

"Carnival of Souls" (1962) Candace Hilligoss, Sidney Berger. The sole survivor of a tragic car. accident is stalked by phantoms. 'PG' (1:20) TMC Tue. 4:30 p.m.

(1976) Sissy Spacek, John Travolta. A teenager who's the butt of a cruel prom-night prank retaliates with supernatural fury. Based on the novel by Stephen King. 'R' (1:37) TMC Sat. 5:30 p.m., 3 a.m.

"Catch Me if You Can" (1989) Matt Lattanzi, Loryn Locklin. The class president of a financially troubled high school places her confidence and the school's funds into the hands of a rebellious drag racer. 'PG' (1:45) TMC Mon. 2 p.m., 10:05 p.m. "Caught in the Draft" (1941) Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour.

An entertainer winds up in boot camp after his plan to sidestep the draft backfires. (1:22) TMC Fri. 6 p.m. "Clara's (1988) Whoopi Goldberg, Neil Patrick Harris. A Jamaican housekeeper brings joy and laughter into the life of a disillusioned 13-year-old.

'PG-13' (1:48) HBO Mon. 5:30 p.m.; HB02 Tue. noon; HB03 Thu. 6 a.m., 1:20 a.m. "Class Action" (1991) Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.

An attorney matches wits with his estranged daughter in court. 'R' (1:49) HIB02 Thu. 4 p.m., Sat. 6:05 a.m., 6 p.m.; HB03 Tue. noon "Closet (1991) Madeleine Stowe, Alan Rickman.

In an unnamed dictatorship, a children's book author is mentally and physically abused by a cruel government interrogator who insists that her latest manuscript is politically subversive. 'R' (1:30) SHOW Sun. midnight, Thu. 2:55 a.m.; SHOW2 Thu. 10 p.m.

"Clownhouse" (1989) Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh. Three escaped lunatics disguise themselves as circus clowns and embark on a rampage of terror. 'R' (1:24) SHOW Wed. 2:50 a.m.; SHOW2 Wed. 11:30 p.m.

"The Comfort of Strangers" (1990) Christopher Walken, Natasha Richardson. A troubled English couple's holiday in Venice takes a dark turn when they fall prey to a wealthy Italian's perverse game of seduction. 'R' (1:45) MAX Sun. 11:30 p.m. "Cool Blue" (1988) Woody Harrelson, Fly Pouget.

A starving artist searches the enigmatic woman whose beauty inspired him to paint a masterpiece. 'R' (1:31) MAX Sat. 3:15 a.m. "Corvette Summer" (1978) Mark Ilamill, Annie Potts. A young car buff and a would-be prostitute join forces to track down the thieves who stole his cherished automobile.

'PG' (1:45) MAX2 Fri. 6:15 a.m. "The Courtship of Eddie's (1963) Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones. A young boy uses a (1965) Omar Sharif, Julie Christie. orangutan Clyde get mixed up.

Based on the Boris Pasternak with crooked lawmen and bumnovel about the Bolshevik Revolu- bling bikers while pursuing the tion as seen through the eyes of a country singer of their dreams. sensitive Russian physician. 'PG' 'PG' (1:59) HBO Wed. 6 p.m.; (3:17) MAX Wed. 4:30 p.m.; MAX2 HB03 Sat.

12:30 p.m. Sun. 11:45 p.m.; SHOW Wed. 12:30 "Fast Getaway" (1991) Co-. p.m.; SHOW2 Wed.

6 a.m., 8 p.m. rey Haim, Cynthia Rothrock. "Doin' Time on Planet Father and son bank robbers join Earth" (1988) Nicholas forces to revenge themselves Strouse, Hugh Gillin. Oddballs against the two former partners convince an awkward high-school who turned them in. 'PG-13' (1:25) student he's the progeny of an- MAX Sun.

6:30 p.m.; MAX2 Wed. cient astronauts. 'PG' (1:25) 1:30 p.m.; SHOW Thu. 11:25 a.m., SHOW2 Tue. 10:30 a.m., 8 p.m.

10:35 p.m.; SHOW2 Thu. 6:25 p.m. "Dominick and Eugene" Is the (1988) Tom Hulce, Ray Liotta. (1964) Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan. Robert M.

Young's critically ac- After a plane crashes with 50 pasclaimed account of the special re- sengers aboard, an airline execlationship between a med school utive attempts to vindicate his pistudent and his slightly retarded lot friend by simulating the event brother in Pittsburgh. 'PG-13' to determine the real cause. (1:46) (1:51) SHOW Mon. 8 a.m., 7 p.m.; MAX Mon. 7 a.m.

SHOW2 Mon. 1:45 a.m. "Father (1980) "Double Agent 73" (1974) Hal Linden, Timothy Hutton. Two Chesty Morgan. An agent uses her boys face the difficulties of re-adanatomy to spy on the members justment after their mother dies of an international drug ring.

'R' and they are sent to live with the (1:30) TMC Sat. 12:30 a.m. father they have not seen in five "Double Revenge" (1988) years. (1:40) MAX Fri. 2:30 p.m.

Leigh McCloskey, Joe Dallesan- "The FBI Story" (1959) dro. A botched bank robbery leads James Stewart, Vera Miles. The to a vendetta. 'R' (1:36) MAX Tue. history of the FBI is reflected in 2:35 a.m.; MAX2 Fri.

10:30 a.m. the career of an agent who (1981) mains devoted to his profession Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clark. A despite the strain on his personal sorceror's apprentice is called life. (2:29) MAX Sun. noon, Wed.

2 upon to save a kingdom from the p.m.; MAX2 Fri. 8 a.m. wrath of a fire-breathing dragon. "Fellow Traveller" (1990) 'PG' (1:49) MAX2 Wed. 8:30 a.m.

Ron Silver, Hart Bochner. A (1968) James Co- lywood screenwriter, blacklisted burn, James Mason. An American during the McCarthy era, escapes adventurer is persuaded by his to England in an attempt to break two half-brothers to help pirate a into British TV under an assumed million-dollar cash shipment. 'PG' name. (1:37) HB02 Wed.

8 p.m.; (1:41) MAX Fri. 11 a.m. HB03 Sun. 3:10 a.m. "Eddie Murphy Raw" "Femme Fatale" (1991) Col(1987) Eddie Murphy.

The popular in Firth, Lisa Zane. An underactor-comic lets loose on every- ground video tape draws, the husthing from sex to family life in band of a missing newlywed into this filmed concert performance. a sordid conspiracy in the seamy 'R' (1:31) MAX Tue. 10 p.m., Thu. underbelly of L.A.'s avant-garde 11:30 p.m.

art world. 'PG-13' (1:30) HBO Sun. "Edison, the Man" 3 p.m., Tue. 11:30 a.m.; HB03 (1940) Spencer Tracy, Rita John- Thu. 8 a.m., 4 p.m.

son. Thomas Edison, one of Amer- "Femme Fatale" (1991) ica's greatest inventors, recalls Colin Firth, Lisa Zane. An underthe most productive years of his ground video tape draws the huslife. (1:47) SHOW Sat. 8 a.m.; band of a missing newlywed into SHOW2 Sat.

4 p.m. a sordid conspiracy in the seamy "Eight Men (1988) underbelly of L.A.'s avant-garde John Cusack, Charlie Sheen. The art world. 'R' (1:36) HBO Tue. 1:20 infamous 1919 Black Sox Scandal a.m.; HB03 Wed.

8 p.m. inspired this story of eight bal- "Fire (1990) Nicolas players from the Chicago White Cage, Tommy Lee Jones. Exciting Sox accused of throwing the aerial footage highlights this stoWorld Series. 'PG' (1:59) SHOW ry about an Army helicopter piFri. 1 p.m.; SHOW2 Fri.

6:30 a.m., lot's rigorous training for a con11 p.m. frontation with South American "The Elephant drug dealers. (1:25) SHOW (1980) John Hurt, Anthony Hop- Thu. 2:30 p.m.; SHOW2 Thu. 7 kins.

An adaptation of the life sto- a.m., 11:35 p.m. ry of John Merrick, a horribly de- "F.I.S.T." (1978) Sylvester formed Victorian-era Englishman Stallone, Rod Steiger. A twowhose life was spent in cheap fisted laborer rises from local freak exhibitions until he met a union organizer to national power dedicated physician. 'PG' (2:05) and prestige in this story inspired MAX Mon. 6 p.m.; MAX2 Thu.

by the real-life exploits of former 9:30 p.m. union boss Jimmy Hoffa. 'PG' "Eleven Days, Eleven (2:25) SHOW Sat. 2 p.m.; SHOW2 Nights" (1989) Jessica Sat. 9:30 a.m., 10 p.m.

Moore, Joshua McDonald. A pas- "The Five Heartbeats" sionate encounter with a seduc- (1991) Robert Townsend, Michael tive stranger leaves a groom-to- Wright. A wealth of songs propels be with only 11 days to choose be- this story about five black singers tween his lust for her and his love pursuing their dreams of music for his fiancee. 'R' (1:26) SHOW2 stardom in the turbulent '60s. 'R' Thu.

3:15 a.m. (2:01) MAX2 Sun. noon "Emperor of the North" "Flight of Black (1973) Lee Marvin, Ernest Borg- (1991) Peter Strauss, William nine. A legendary Depression-era O'Leary. An Air Force captain hobo and his young accomplice races against time to save Las battle a sad*stic railroad worker Vegas from a psychotic student in a determined bid to hitch a pilot who intends to destroy the ride.

'PG' (1:58) MAX2 Mon. 10 city with a stolen nuclear bomber. a.m. (1:42) TMC Tue. 10 a.m.,; 11:35 "The Erotic Adventures of the p.m.

Three Musketeers" (1970) Pet- "Flight of the er Graf, Ingrid Steeger. A ribald (1991) Danny Glover, Willem Daaccount of D'Artagnan's sexual foe. During the Vietnam War, the adventures while training for a crew members of a low-flying career as a musketeer. 'R' (1:12) American bomber disobey orders MAX Thu. 4:10 a.m.; SHOW Mon.

in order to bomb a strategic a.m., Fri. 12:30 a.m. get in Hanoi. (1:55) MAX "Every Which Way but Sun. 10 a.m., Fri.

9 a.m. Loose" (1978) Clint "Fools of Fortune" (1990) Eastwood, Sondra Locke. Bare- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, knuckle boxer Philo and lain Glen. An Irishman returns we Sunday Republican, May 17, 1992 TV21 peculiar and humorous standard to determine the "perfect" wife for his widowed father. (1:57) TMC Wed.

5 p.m.. "Crazy People" (1990) Dudley Moore, Daryl Hannah. A new campaign involving honesty in advertising lands a burnt-out executive in an asylum for the mentally ill. 'R' (1:30) HBO Mon. 8 p.m.; HB02 Wed.

10 a.m.; HB03 Sat. 10:45 a.m. "Crimewave" (1985) Louise Lasser, Paul L. Smith. Two exterminators-turned-assassins try to stomp out their employer's wife after she sees them commit a murder.

'PG-13' (1:23) MAX Sat. 10:30 a.m. "Cry-Baby" (1990) Johnny Depp, Amy Locane. A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates: a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent in John Waters' send-up of 1950s teen movies. 'PG-13' (1:25) TMC Mon.

12:05 p.m., 1:30 a.m., Sat. 7:30 p.m. "Cry Havoc" (1943) Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern. During World War II, American nurses in the Philippines wage a heroic struggle against invading Japanese forces at Bataan. (1:37) MAX2 Fri.

1:45 p.m. "David (1935) Freddie Bartholomew, W.C. Fields. Based on the Charles Dickens novel about the adventures of a young orphan on the streets of 19th-century England. (2:10) SHOW Mon.

4:30 p.m.; SHOW2 Mon. 7:35 a.m. "Deadly (1974) Chesty Morgan, Harry Reems. An overly endowed executive uses her unusual physical attributes to revenge herself against her fiance's murderers. 'R' (1:30) TMC Sat.

11:05 p.m. "The (1977) Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte. The race to salvage a submerged cargo of treasure and drugs leads a vacationing couple into dangerous waters. Based on Peter Benchley's best seller. 'PG' (2:03) HB02 Sun.

12:45 p.m., 12:30 a.m. "Defending Your Life" (1991) Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep. A recently deceased ad exec is called before a heavenly panel to decide whether he will granted eternal happiness or be sent back to Earth. 'PG' (1:52) HB03 Wed. 7 a.m., 4:05 a.m.

"The Defiant Ones" (1958) Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier. Ttwo convicts, one black, the other white, must put aside their racial hatreds after escaping from a Southern chain gang. (1:37) MAX Wed. 10 a.m. "Demon Wind" (1990) Eric Larson, Francine LaPensee.

A young man's investigation into his long parents' demise brings him to the haunted family mansion and a date with a demon. 'R' (1:37) HB03 Thu. 11:40 p.m. "Dice Rules" (1991) Andrew Dice Clay. A filmed concert performance of the controversial comic's stage show at New York's Madison Square Garden.

'NC-17' (1:26) MAX Sun. 10 p.m., Fri. 11:30 p.m.; MAX2 Wed. 5 a.m. "Die Hard 2" (1990) Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia.

A Los Angeles cop embarks on a race against time after terrorists seize control of a Washington, D.C., airport. 'R' (2:04) MAX Fri. 2:45 a.m.; MAX2 Tue. 6 p.m. "Dirty Harry" (1971) Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino.

A determined polire detective defies his superiors and gambles with innocent lives to capture a sniper terrorizing San Francisco. 'R' (1:43) MAX2 Tue. noon "Disaster in Time" (1992) Jeff Daniels, Ariana Richards. An innkeeper is suspicious of the reasons behind a time-traveling tour group's visit. 'PG-13' (1:38) SHOW Wed.

8 p.m.; SHOW2 Wed. 10. a.m. "Doctor Zhivago' from self-imposed exile and meets the daughter he didn't know he had. 'PG-13' (1:44) SHOW Wed.

6 a.m., 6:05 p.m.; SHOW2 Wed. 2 p.m. "Fort Apache, the (1981) Paul Newman, Ed Asner. A tough cop battles crime and corruption in New York City's South Bronx neighborhood. 'R' (2:05) MAX Tue.

8 p.m., Sat. 1:10 a.m.; MAX2 Thu. noon (1982) Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy. An unorthodox police detective teams with a released convict to find the fugitives who murdered his partner. 'R' (1:37) HBO Sun.

8 p.m., Wed. 11:30 p.m., Sat. 1:30 a.m. "A Free Soul" (1931) Norma Shearer, Lionel Barrymore. The daughter of an alcoholic attorney becomes romantically involved with a gangster.

(1:31) SHOW Fri. 10 a.m. "The Freshman" (1990) Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick. A naive film student stumbles into the world of organized crime. 'PG' (1:42) HB02 Wed.

2 p.m., Fri. 4 p.m.; HB03 Sat. 1:05 a.m. "Fun With Dick and Jane" (1977) George Segal, Jane Fonda. A married couple use crime as a way back to financial prosperity.

'PG' (1:35) HBO Mon. 2 p.m., Sat. 6:20 a.m.; HBO3 Fri. 4:45 p.m. (1990) Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore.

A murder victim calls on a storefront psychic to help save his fiancee from the thugs who killed him. 'PG-13' (2:07) HBO Thu. 9 a.m., 5:45 p.m.; HB03 Tue. 6:15 a.m., 5:45 p.m., Sat. 8 a.m., 9 p.m.

"Ghosts Can't Do It" (1990) Bo Derek, Anthony Quinn. The spirit of a man returns in search of a way to remain at his wife's side. 'R' (1:35) SHOW Tue. 2:15 a.m., Sat. 11 p.m.

"Gibbsville: The Turning Point of Jim (1975) John Savage, Biff McGuire. A young journalist gets his chance when the star reporter goes on a drunken binge. (1:18) SHOW Fri. 11:35 a.m.; SHOW2 Fri. 6 p.m.

(1959) Sandra Dee, Cliff Robertson. A summer vacation on the beach leads to romance for a teen-age girl. (1:35) TMC Sat. 1:35 p.m. "The Glass (1935) George Raft, Edward Arnold.

Based on the story by Dashiell Hammett. Crooked politics and gangsters make a dangerous mixture for a tough private eye. (1:17) TMC Thu. 8:05 a.m. "Gold" (1974) Roger Moore, Susannah York.

An enterprising Englishman devises a scheme to jack up world gold prices by flooding a South American mine. 'PG' (1:58) HB02 Tue. 6 p.m. "The Golden Child" (1986) Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance. A social worker who specializes in missing children is recruited to rescue a mystical Tibetan child from evil forces.

'PG-13' (1:31) TMC Thu. 9:30 a.m., 8 p.m. "The Good Mother" (1988) Diane Keaton, Liam Neeson. A liberal relationship with a new lover thrusts a 40-year-old divorcee into a bitter legal battle for custody of her young daughter. 'R' (1:44) SHOW2 Tue.

noon, 9:30 p.m.; TMC Thu. 4:30 p.m. (1990) Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta. Rased on "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi. A Brooklynite takes the gangland route to fame and fortune.

'R' (2:26) HBO Thu. 2:45 a.m.; HB02 Tue. 2 a.m., Sat. 2:50 a.m. "Grand (1932) Greta Garbo, Lionel Barrymore.

A star-studded look behind the closed doors of several guests at Berlin's most luxurious hotel. (1:55) SHOW Sat. 10 a.m. "Great (1946) John Mills, Valeric Hobson. Based on the story by Charles Dickens.

A young boy's life is deeply influenced by a chance encounter with an escaped prisoner. (1:58) MAX2 Thu. 2:35 a.m. "The Greatest" (1977) Muhammad Ali, Ernest Borgnine. A controversial heavyweight boxing champion tries to gain respect as a fighter and as a man.

'PG' (1:41) MAX Sun. 6 a.m., Fri. 12:45 p.m. "Green (1990) Gerard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell. An American woman and the French husband she barely knows take a crash course in getting acquainted when immigration officials investigate their marriage.

'PG-13' (1:48) TMC Sun. 2:30 p.m. "Gremlins" (1984) Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates. A picturesque community is overrun by a lovable little creature's evil brood. 'PG' (1:46) MAX2 Mon.

10:30 p.m., Thu. 7 a.m. "The (1990) Anjelica Huston, John Cusack. A trio of con artists is ensnared by their own greedy backstabbing. 'R' (1:53) HBO2 Thu.

10:30 p.m.; HB03 Mon. 11:15 p.m. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967) Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn. A young woman returns to her upper-middle-class parents' home with a guest, her black fiance. (1:48) SHOW Fri.

6 p.m.; SHOW2 Fri. 8:30 a.m. "Hamburger Hill" (1987) Anthony Barrile, Michael Patrick Boatman. 101st Airborne Division's 10-day struggle to secure a strategic mountainside in South Vietnam. 'R' (1:50) MAX2 Wed.

3 p.m. "Hanky Panky" (1982) Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner. An architect who was framed for murder and a woman whose brother committed suicide meet. 'PG' (1:45) HB02 Sun. 4:30 p.m.

"llarley" (1986) Lou Diamond Phillips, Herta Ware. Arebellious teen-ager comes of age on a Texas thoroughbred farm. 'PG' (1:36) HB02 Mon. 10 a.m.; SHOW Thu. 4:30 p.m.; SHOW2 Thu.

10 a.In. "He Said, She Said" (1991) Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Perkins. The long- running romantic debate between two newspaper columnists boosts their careers. 'PG-13' (1:55) MAX2 Tue. 2 p.m., Wed.

midnight "Heart Condition" (1990) Bob Hoskins, Denzel Washington. A racist policeman receives a heart transplant from a black. 'R' (1:40) SHOW2 Mon. 4 p.m. "Hero and the (1988) Chuck Norris, Brynn Thayer.

A Los Angeles cop launches an ohsessive search for a serial killer preying on local women. 'R' (1:36) TMC Wed. 3 p.m., 11 p.m. "High Anxiety" (1977) Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn. The new director of an asylum for "The Very, Very Nervous" discovers a plot to convince wealthy patients they are insane.

'PG' (1:34) HBO Mon. 11 a.m.; HB02 Sat. 3 p.m.; HB03 Wed. 9 a.m. "Hired (1940) lind Russell, Brian Aherne.

When a boss marries his secretary for business reasons, he finds himself with more than a wife on his hands. (1:33) TMC Wed. 9 a.m. "Hollywood Hot Tubs 2: Educating Crystal" (1989) Jewel Shepard, Patrick Day. An associate attempts to sabotage a valley girl's business education.

'R' (1:43) Thu. 11:15 p.m.; lIB02 Tue. 12:15 a.m.; SHIOW2 Wed. 3 a.m. "Hometown Boy Makes (1990) Anthony Fdwards, Cynthia Bain.

A medical school dropout's charade as a psy- chiatrist backfires when he attempts to solve some of his hometown's probleins. (1:25) HBO Mon. 12:30 p.m.; HB02 Wed. 7:30 a.m.: HBO3 Fri. 9:30 a.m..

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