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Strangers cannot be found on the Playboy channel--you will find it instead on HBO, one of more than half a dozen or so "adult" anthology series offering soft-core sexual adventure that have been appearing late at night on the various paycable networks. Of course, the ability to show bare female nipples--and to get endless mileage out of low-budget R-rated movies--has been one of the prime attractions of pay cable ever since its birth in the 1970s. But it wasn't until just a few years ago that programmers began rolling out their own regularly...
They're wearing black, so you know they're serious. CHER, DEMI MOORE and SISSY SPACEK have just wrapped HBO's three-part drama If These Walls Could Talk, the story of unplanned pregnancies in the 1950s, '70s and '90s. Moore produced the series, and Cher's episode is her directorial debut. "I loved it. It was the coolest thing since men," says Cher. "But it was much more exhausting than I thought. I had to sneak away to pee." Cher also plays a doctor who gets shot, which she didn't like as much. "I was afraid...
...this is not a picture of MIRA SORVINO accepting her Best Supporting Actress Oscar, although she did wear almost that much ice on the big night. This is Mira playing the big M.M. in Norma Jean & Marilyn on HBO. Sorvino is an odd casting choice; rarely have two blonds had less in common. Marilyn never finished high school, while Mira not only has a Harvard degree but also got a Ford Foundation grant to write her thesis in Beijing. But don't call Marilyn a bimbo around Mira. "You can't become a superstar like that without having a brain...
NETWORK EXECUTIVES ARE USED to being the butt of jokes, but few have endured the sort of abuse Warren Littlefield has. David Letterman loved to flash photos of the NBC programming chief on his show and make cruel remarks. In The Late Shift, HBO's recent movie about the late-night battle, Littlefield comes across as the arch network dunderhead, the guy who lost Letterman to CBS. In one scene, Littlefield (played as a smarmy nebbish by Bob Balaban) is so surprised by a phone call from Jay Leno that he races out of the toilet in his boxers, with...
...Late Shift, a new HBO movie about the network battle over Leno and Letterman, arrives looking like something of a period piece. It is based on Bill Carter's 1994 book, which was essentially the story of Letterman's victory: how he outsmarted the network suits and became the most sought-after personality in television. The movie, even more than the book, pokes fun at the ineptitude of the NBC executives who let Letterman get away and ends with CBS's triumphal press conference welcoming Dave to the network. There's a postscript acknowledging that the ratings have since turned...