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...remake of John Cleese's classic '70s British sitcom, Fawlty Towers, Payne (Wednesday, 8 p.m. E.T., CBS) stars Larroquette as a cranky, stingy hotelier undermined by his dominating wife (JoBeth Williams) and his own incompetence. If Payne serves any purpose at all, it's to show what a genius Cleese is. In the wrong hands the characters are badly drawn cartoons, the jokes offensive stereotypes and the plots a bad cross of the Keystone Kops and Three's Company. Sure, Fawlty Towers was also based on silly misunderstandings and coincidences, but it carefully built toward a manic, slapstick conclusion...
...film, directed by veteran TV producer Linda Yellen, grew out of improvisations at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, so a wary male critic is at least prepared for the film's politically correct earnestness. One of the group, Natalie (JoBeth Williams), is a movie critic who raises money to make a film about homeless women. Another, Maggie (Talia Shire), is a nun who faces a spiritual crisis after she helps a woman get an abortion. There are lesbian revelations, a discussion of the Anita Hill hearings and rampant man bashing. Rheza (Lindsay Crouse) has been dumped by her husband...
BABY M (ABC) With an intelligent script, restrained direction and riveting performances by JoBeth Williams and John Shea, this docudrama about surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead became a stark thirtysomething nightmare...
...Pennsylvania 23-17 Yale 6-3 Lehigh 14-8 Lafayette 26-18 Cincinnati 31-27 5-1 23-13. 639 Julio R. Varela Asst. Sports Editor Harvard 28-12 Princeton 17-16 Dartmouth 21-17 Lehigh 17-14 Lafayette 35-17 Cleveland 13-10 4-2 20-16. 556 JoBeth Williams Actress Brown Alumnus Brown 21-18 Pennsylvania 21-7 Yale 48-21 Lehigh 14-7 Lafayette 7-3 Cleveland 10-3 Julie L. Belcove Guest Selector Executive Editor A Walter Payton Fan Harvard 28-24 Pennsylvania 35-10 Dartmouth 17-14 Columbia 28-27 Cornell 21-14 Cincinnati...
BABY M (ABC, May 22 and 23, 9 p.m. EDT). Fresh off the front page: JoBeth Williams portrays Mary Beth Whitehead, the surrogate mother who launched the famous custody battle...