Word: esteli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DINNER AT EIGHT (TNT, Dec. 11, 8 p.m. EST). Ted Turner isn't content with resurrecting old MGM classics on his newest cable channel; he is remaking them as well. Lauren Bacall, Ellen Greene and Harry Hamlin dine at the table where Marie Dressler, Jean Harlow and John Barrymore once...
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (CBS, Dec. 12, 9 p.m. EST). This literate fantasy series about a sensitive monster living beneath the streets of New York City was scuttled by low ratings. But it is back with a twist: the eponymous beauty, played by Linda Hamilton, is kidnaped and killed. Anyone got a new title...
...scene is the beginning of a "crisis game" depicting what might happen in a superpower confrontation. Conceived, produced and anchored by Nightline's Ted Koppel, the one-hour program, The Koppel Report: The Blue X Conspiracy, will be broadcast by ABC on Thursday (Dec. 7) at 10 p.m. (EST). It is the first time that such a televised exercise has featured actual U.S. and Soviet foreign policy and military officials playing the roles of government figures. "I've played simulations against 'red' teams all my professional life," says retired Army Chief of Staff Edward Meyer, who acts as Deputy Secretary...
...show on public radio told tales of gentle eccentricity in a hard-to-find Midwestern hamlet called Lake Wobegon, says he has put shyness behind him. Just as well. Keillor, whose new American Radio Company of the Air fills the old P.H.C. Saturday-evening slot (6 to 8 p.m. EST), is now a New Yorker himself, an unstrained and wildly germinating seed in the Big Applesauce. Like all Gotham residents, he told listeners on A.R.C.'s first broadcast, he tries to project an image of aggressive lunacy as he walks the streets, by muttering constantly to himself...
FIFTY YEARS OF TELEVISION: A GOLDEN CELEBRATION (CBS, Nov. 26, 9 p.m. EST). Stop us before we kill: yet another survey of "classic moments" from TV's past. Hosts include Walter Cronkite, Carl Reiner and Miss Piggy...