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Show pfpgffn Video j " By James Smethurst The Movie Channel will present on July 21 Federico Fellini's Academy Award-winning film, "Amarcord." The I film, which many critics consider consid-er Fellini's best movie, is set in 1932 in the city of his childhood child-hood and follows the escapades esca-pades of a young man who was similar to the director at the same age. "Amarcord" is nostalgic, bawdy, frightening, funny and sorrowful. It describes the hopes and fears of a young man who has reached adulthood adult-hood in the uncertainties of Mussolini's Italy and the fondness fond-ness and embarrassment of an older man looking back at his youth. The July 19 offering of HBO's "Flashback" will spotlight spot-light the Wall Street crash of 1929. The show will combine newsreels with the dramatized stories of four people who "survived" the crash a flapper, shoeshine boy, sales- Jack Nlcklaus hopes to capture the 1982 British Brit-ish Open. man and heiress. It's an unusual unusu-al account of the personal effects of the crash described in human forms rather the usual usu-al statistics. Golf fans will want to catch ESPN's special presentation of the final round of the 1982 British Open from Troon, Scotland Scot-land when it airs July 20. On the July 21 edition of SPN's "Twice A Woman," Sunny Griffin discusses preparation prepa-ration for job hunting with a career counselors; Dr. Shirley Potter provides remedies for nervousness; Formfit Rogers previews what's new in lingerie; linge-rie; and Aquathenics, a water exercise program for losing weight is demonstrated. For those of you who are following fol-lowing Nickelodeon's "The Tomorrow People," you can catch the saga of the Doomsday Dooms-day Men on July 18 and 19. The Doomsday Men have taken tak-en over the spaceship of the Tomorrow People and are threatening the world with nuclear destruction. The Tomorrow People, who are pledged to prevent war and to turn mankind into a peaceful race, must stop them. On July 18, USA's "The Fifth Estate" will feature a look by two Napoleonic scholars at evidence that Napoleon did not die of cancer while in exile as has been claimed, but was murdered. The two scholars attempt to solve this real life whodunit with a combination of old records and the latest technology. 1982 Compulog |