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Show j TV tattle! Hack plays an ambitious but inexperienced television reporter. Her estranged husband, played by George Hamilton, is the anchorman for a rival television news network, and he's convinced his wife cannot succeed without with-out him. With the police discounting her theory, and no -support from her husband. Hack goes out alone to find the deranged driver. Frank Gorshin, -Peter Graves, Harriet Nelson, Barbara Bar-bara Rush, Dinah Shore and Abe Vigoda all have cameo roles in the drama. Horse story Movie makeup artist David Forrest has worked on some Cretty strange clients before, ut the most recent ones attracted flies and swished their tails. Forrest worked with a stableful of whinnying horses for the TV movie, "My Old Man," airing Tuesday, July 21 on CBS. "I treated them just as I would any actor or actress," says Forrest, "although I've never been known to tell a person, 'Easy, boy!' while applying makeup. 'I'd lust look them in the eye and talk to them to make them relax, and except for those flies, I really had no problems. Best of all, horses can't talk back." Dance on PBS There'll be lots of dancing feet on PBS this week. On Monday, July 20, "Great Performances, Dance in America" will present Pilo-bolus Pilo-bolus Dance Theater in Performance Per-formance at the American Dance Festival," a production that was taped at the 1980 Dance Festival in Durham, N.C. The work of choreographers choreogra-phers Moses Pendleton and Jonathan Wolken will be featured. Also on Monday, "A Dance of Two Countries: China and America," will air. In March of last year, Ben Stevenson, artistic director of the Houston Hous-ton Ballet, brought Western dance techniques to the People's Republic of China to instruct students at the Peking Dance Academy. This film chronicles a month of friendship, sharing and learning learn-ing between Stevenson and his students. Ron Howard New Mexico tale Ron Howard takes the side ! of the underdog in a new J world premiere movie to air i next season on NBC, now in R reduction in the Angeles, ational Forest. j Howard joins Buddy Ebsen , in "Fire on the Mountain," a story based on Edward Abbey's novel about an aging 1 New Mexico rancher who is determined to fight local, state and federal authoritiM Freeway maniac There's marital tension and dramatic suspense on CBS when Shelley Hack tries to search for a maniac who's threatening women on the L.A. freeway in "Death Car on the Freeway," to air Saturday, Satur-day, July 25. seeking to take over his property prop-erty for the expansion of a missile base. Ebsen portrays the rancher and Howard plays a young man whose goal of making a financial killing in real estate is sidetracked when he begins to take the side of the elderly rebel. |