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Hearst/ABC 's ARTS is devoting 75 minutes to a leisurely documentary on Caravaggio. HBO and Showtime make capital out of new movies, and the nationwide "superstations" beam Greta Garbo and John Wayne to more than 25 million homes. The local independent channels thrive on TV reruns: you can catch Mary Tyler Moore every night and M-A-S-H ten times a week. On the 24-hr. Cable Health Network, a psychiatrist is either preventing or precipitating a woman's emotional collapse. On an ad hoc network formed by Mobil Oil, the Royal Shakespeare Company revives Nicholas Nickleby...
...lure of the legit is strong enough to have attracted star actors who might otherwise be making much more money in Hollywood movies. Tommy Lee Jones and Tuesday Weld tap the dignity of N. Richard Nash's prairie romance, The Rainmaker (next month on HBO). Faye Dunaway and Dick Van Dyke made for a moving odd couple in The Country Girl (Showtime). And Malcolm McDowell captured the fury, if not the poetry, of angry young Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger (Showtime...
...losing only the extreme sides of the frame. This technique reasonably preserves the director's original compositions. European television has been using such masking for years, but American television has remained leery. "It's dreadful," says a Cinemax executive. In 1981, according to the executive, when HBO acceded to Woody Allen's request that it show his Manhattan masked, viewer response was negative: "You just can't laugh at Woody Allen when he's only 1½ inches tall...
With both NBC and HBO paying more than $10 million for television rights, with guarantees from theater owners nearing $25 million, and millions more in licensing fees for Annie dolls, dresses, books, crayons, etc., Ray Stark may already be close to breaking even. But Stark wants more: a megahit success for his baby. "I can only hope," he told the New York Times, "that on my tombstone are the words: 'Annie, she is the one I was looking for.' " Funeral services may be held starting this week at a theater near you. -By Richard Corliss
There are other communications satellites now in orbit (Westar 1, Comstar D2), but cable programmers like Warner Amex and HBO regard the Satcoms as particularly desirable. Reason: their customers, the cable operators around the country, have antennas that can pick up signals from only one satellite at a time. Naturally, the cable operators would rather invest in a single antenna and still receive the widest possible variety of programs to pass on to home subscribers. Since the Satcoms carry almost nothing but cable signals, they offer such a variety. Thus for programmers, leasing a transponder on a Satcom is like...