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...TRAGEDY OF FLIGHT 103: THE INSIDE STORY (HBO, Dec. 9, 9 p.m. EST). The events leading up to the Lockerbie crash are recounted in this docudrama, a co-production with Britain's Granada TV, which presents a strong indictment of the security precautions taken by Pan Am and the Federal Aviation Administration...
JUDGMENT (HBO, Oct. 17, 21, 25). A kindly parish priest turns out to be a child molester in this provocative if predictable cable movie written and directed by Tom Topor (The Accused...
...HBO's Women & Men: Stories of Seduction goes heavily Hollywood -- marquee- worthy directors, proven scriptwriters, a cast of (mostly) stars -- in its rather literal rendering of three modern classics. In Mary McCarthy's The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt (adapted and directed by Frederic Raphael), a radical journalist (Elizabeth McGovern) meets a crass business executive (Beau Bridges) who makes use of his booze and her boredom to lure her into a one- night stand during a transcontinental railroad trip. (Those were the days!) Owlish and pudgy, Bridges is right for his role, but pillow-soft McGovern is wrong...
Overall, Showtime's trio of adaptations packs some emotional punch, but there is a slick professional sameness to the stories that suggests production by committee. Meanwhile, HBO's Hills Like White Elephants, a haunting brief encounter frozen in time by good acting and writing, shows how it can and ought to be done...
Anthologies have become something of a rarity, but two 90-minute offerings are coming: HBO's version of three modern classics; and Showtime's trio of first films from new directors...