Word: made-for-tv
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Call them the boys of Indian summer. Roy Scheider, 47, and Robert Redford, 46, have both donned pinstripes and taken the field in two new movies about the All-American pastime. In Tiger Town, the first made-for-TV feature for the new Disney cable channel, Scheider plays Billy Young, a fading 39-year-old baseball legend who is spurred on to win a pennant by the faith of an eleven-year-old fan, played by Justin Henry, 12 (Kramer vs. Kramer). Scheider, who broke his nose during an early "career" as a boxer, says that he has always wanted...
Melissa Sue Anderson, the 20-year-old star of "Little House on the Prairie" never went to Harvard. So CBS spent 20 days of shooting and $2 million creating a Harvard career for her. The product will be a made-for-TV movie entitled "Freshman Year," slated to air sometime this fall...
...they have found the way to do it "With cable TV, there's a whole new and very large American market out there for French films," says Toscan du Plantier. "The cable audience wants movies that are made for legitimate theater release and that are made with a quality that can't be found in the usual made-for-TV product. The cable networks need 1,000 movies a year. U.S. studios don't have the talent to satisfy such a vast demand...
...Even by made-for-TV movie standards, the plot for Paper Dolls looks anemic: two young beauties pitted against the vagaries of haute couture; one hustled into the business by an aggressive stage mom (sound familiar?), the other by the head of a modeling agency...
...real world, and an unspoken tenderness is exchanged between police and perpetrators because they both inhabit the same mean streets. But the cut of life examined in the film and its attitudes are not highly original, and are too close for comfort to the manner of made-for-TV movies...