OCR Text |
Show imiw, Ift 30 OUy , BEST AVAILABLE COPY MOO T tan Huut 37 Lateuight Programmingo Movie "Two (Mon) fMxi Movie (Fri) Girls and a Guy" "Losing Control' (MSB) Time & Edition (Mm (Tue); (3:40) "Under Pressure" (Thu); (3:45) Movie "Eftndom Encounter" (Fri) CHID Movie "Predator" (Tue) (HE) Laverne and Shirley (Mon); The Jeffersons (Tue-Fri- ) (HED (3:50) Movie "Agatha Again (Mon); Special (Tue-Fri- ) Amp (Mon) (HE) Happy Days (Mon); All in the Family (Tue-Fri- ) "Susan Slade" Outfit" (Tue); "Riders of the Timberline" (Wed); (Mon); "The Michelle's Third Novel (Thu); Twisted (Fri); (3:10) Movie "The Tanks Are Coming" (Thu); (3:25) Twisted (Fri) (SHED Movies "Body Heat" (Mon); "The Journey: Absolution" (Fri) (SPEED Internet Viewer's Choice (Mon); Classic Baseball (Tue); Sugar Ray's Hit Parade (Wed); College Football (Thu); NFL Films Theater (Fri) OED Good Times UMCJ Movies "Permanent (SUED (4:20) Movie "At Close Range" (Mon) Coach QIEl Mother Nature (THD Movie "Rocket Gibraltar" (Thu); (4:20) Movie "Error in Judgment" (Wed); (4:25) Movie "The Human Shield" (Fri) QHD Wild, Wild West Mid- (Tue); "Kickboxing Academy" (Fri); (3:20) Movie "Terminal Bliss" (Mon) CUD The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Tue); Gilligan's Island (Wed); (3:15) Our Gang (Fri) (BSD Bloomberg Information Television CSHD Insomniac Music Theatre (Tue) OHSH) Matlock night" SEED The Twilight Zone (Mon) CSfflEQ (3:45) Movies "Twist of Fate" (Tue); (3:45) "Amazon" (Thu) ISPflfUSJ NFL Films Theater (Fri) (USED Movie "State of Grace" (Thu); (3:45) Movie "Grind" (Tue) (IBS) Coach (Mon); Gilligan's Island (3SD Gilligan's Island (Mon, "Guns of Hate" (Wed); "Show Business" (Fri) IAEJ Once Upon a Hamster Saturday Night Live (Tue-Fri- ) (ESPAk) Booknotes (Mon); Public Affairs (Tue-Fri- ) (ESB) (4:20) Disneyland. U.S.A. (Tue); (4:20) Ferdinand the Bull and Mickey (Wed) CEHD Movies "The Outfit" (Tue); "Firestarter" (Wed); (4:10) Movie "Reckless" (Thu) World News Now 0Q Meet the Press (Mon) (Tue-Fri- ) MotorWeek (Fri) (3:45) Three's Company (Joined in progress) (Tue-Fri- ) CXRE) Hollywood Backstage (Mon, CD O Wed) Aquanauts (Mon); Twisted Tales (Tue); Emergency Vets (Wed); Champions of the Wild (Thu); Wild Rescues (Fri) (CARXJ Scooby-DoWhere Are You? (Mon); Gumby (Tue-Fri- ) CEHO Permission (Tue); (3:40) Movie "One Down, Two to Go" (Fri); (3:50) Movie "So Fine" (Mon) SportsFigures (Mon) L&PJ o (FEUD Movie "Last to Surrender" (Thu); (3:40) Movies "Standoff" O O (ESPJD SportsCenter if iti Aerobic Conditioning dSS) Formula One Highlights (Fri) (MAD Movie "Testing the Limits" (Wed); (4:05) Passion Cove (Mon); (4:15) Movie "Judgment Night" (Thu) CH5H)Imus After Hours (Mon) CHE) I Love Lucy (HEX) Movie "Sagebrush Law" (Wed) fWTYl MTV Early Today Between the Lions The Dating Game (Tue-Fri- ) EE) Shepherd's Chapel UMCJ Movie "Variety Time" (Thu) fSP) Once Upon a Hamster (ESB) Disney Family Album (Wed); (4:40) Mouseterpiece Theater (Mon); (4:50) Playful Pluto (Fri) LESPM2J Ultimate Outdoors (Mon) rFlTl Gilad's Bodies in Motion CHHB) (4:50) Movie "Sunset Heat" (Wed); (4:55) Movie "The Shadow Men" (Mon) (HnTtfl Hands On MID Movie "Soldier" (Mon); (4:35) Movie "Natural Enemy" (Fri) (HE) The Mary Tyler Moore Show CHQ5D Key of David (Mon); The Bible Answers (Tue); Sacred Name (Wed); American Religious Town Hall (Thu); William Crews (Fri) (HEX) (4:45) Movies "The Boat-nik(Tue); (4:45) "Appleseed" (Thu) CSHD2) Movie "Mikey" (Wed); (4:35) Movie "Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms" (Fri) (SUED (4:40) Movies "Act of War" (Wed); (4:40) "The Break" (Fri) OBS) Family Ties (ILCJ Salty's Lighthouse UMCJ Movie "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World" (Tue); (4:55) Movie "Whatever It Takes" (Mon) (MSB) Life in the Word CD . 4:00 Q (4:05) Up to the Minute (Tue-Fri- ) O (4:05) Headline News' (Tue-Fri- ) O Bloomberg Money CD Sesame Street (Mon); The New- sHour With Jim Lehrer (Tue-Fri- ) CO Jenny Jones (Tue-Fri- ) CO The Newlywed Game (Tue-Fri- ) CXEE) Simon & Simon UMCJ Movies "The Day the Bookies Wept" (Afonj; "She" (Tue); CEfflB) (Tue-Fri- ) 4:30 Wed-Fr- i) CESED Acme Hour 3:30 Q (3:35) Entertainment Tonight aHDCardioVideo UKuMJ Garner Ted Armstrong (Mon); Feed the Children (Tue, Fri); Greg , Powe Ministries (Thu) (Tue-Fri- ) . OOQ CD dm Christie's The Man in the Brown Suit" (Fri) (PEED Movies O First Business O Arthur (5EES3S) Tonight at the Fights (Wed); NFL Films Theater (Fri) s" 5:00 Morning News Q CBS O News This Morning Bloomberg Money (B Divorce Court; (5:25) News (HE) The New Explorers (Mon); Christa McAuliffe: Teacher in Space (Tue); Can We Still Trust NASA? (Wed); John Glenn: The Hero (Thu); Bringing UFOs Down to Earth (Fri) 0190(5:15) Movie "Blondie Plays Cupid" (Wed) Mother Nature , (EABJJ Dexter's Laboratory CUD Squawk Box (HHDEarly Edition Washington Journal (ESB) Walt Disney Presents (ED Vogue Takes Aspen (Mon); L.A. City Style (Tue); Model (Wed); Mommy Chic (Thu); Homes With Style (Fri) (EE) (5:10) The Lump (Fri); (5:25) Dizzy Horse (Mon); (5:25) Movie "Nickelodeon" (Fri) ICHBCJ CEEBD SportsCenter News Zoboomafoo CD BYU Devotional CD Extreme Ghostbusters 60 Joyce Meyer dSE) Movies "Blondie" in Society" (Thu); (5:45) Movies "Blondie Takes a Vacation" (Tue); (5:45) "Blondie's Blessed Event" (Fri) UEJ Jim Henson's Animal Show Q . (Afon;,-"Blondi- With Stinky & Jake Bugs & Daffy (ED Shabby Chic (Mon); Model (Wed); Homes With Style (Fri) (HE) (5:45) Movie "The Boatniks" (Tue); (5:45) Louisville (Thu) tlSSkl) Baseball Tonight (Mon) (ED Yoga Zone CUBED Movie "Campfire Tales" CESED (Wed) (BIOD New Yankee Workshop Denise Austin's Daily Workout (BHD (5:45) Movie "For Which He (HP The Method UJEJ (5:10) Movie (Thu); (5:15) Movie "Cocktail" (Tue); (5:20) Movie "Ed Wood" (Fri) (BBS) This Old House Classics UJfJ Denise Austin's Fit & Lite (5:20) Movie "Judicial Consent" (Tue) (HTD Choose or Lose: Where Were You at 22? (Mon) (HE) Bewitched (HED Creflo A. Dollar (HED Movies "Forever Amber" (Mon); "Law of the Lawless" Stands" (Wed) CfXm MTV After Hours (Mon) (HEED Movies "Fortress" (Thu); "Prizzi's Honor" mm . (Wed) (SHED Monster Rancher (Mon-ThuDouble Dragon (Fri) (SSSHB Movie "Taxman" (Mon); (5:15) Movie "Iron Heart" (Thu) ispnRTSi Classic Sports Legends (US) Saved by the Bell (TIE) Pappyland QHD CHiPs gflP Back to Back Videos (SDH) Feed the Children (Mon); Ed Young (Tue); Dr. James Scudder (Wed); Adrian Rogers (Thu); Jack Van Impe (Fri) 5:30 (HE) WKRP in Cincinnati (Mon); Taxi (Tue-Fri- ) (HED Movie "The Operation" (Fri); (5:55) Movie "Vertical Reality" (Thu) ISCIEJJ Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Rambo (Fri) (SHDJ) Movie "Synapse" (Tue) ispnRTSi Classic Sports Legends (SEED Movie "An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood,' Burn" (Tue); (5:45) Movie "The Care Bears Movie II: A New Genera-- , tion" (Thu) CJED Saved by the Bell (Mon-ThuSaved by the Bell: The College ' Years (Fri) CUE) Rory's Place QBE) (5:40) Movie "Air Bud: Golden Receiver" (Thu); (5:55) Movie "Old Gringo" (Wed) LHQMJ Kenneth Copeland (Mon-Thu- ); ); Spinning a tale of "Arabian Nights" for ABC By Kate O'Hara, Tritwne Media Services ((I was deeply moved," says Israeli-boractress Mili Avital. "I cried at the end of the story when I first read the script. "For a long time, I wasn't really sure why I was affected so profoundly. But I've since come to realize it's because my character, Scheherazade, believes so completely in the power of love. Because of that unshakable belief, she's able to free her husband from the darkness within him. " 'Arabian Nights' is also testament to the power of storytelling. I get to tell five incredible stories in this miniseries, and they explore every emotion known to humankind. There's great humor, and sadness. There's good, there's evil. There's great adventure, and great philoson phy." On April 30 p.m. Eastern) and May 1 p.m. Eastern) on ABC, producer Robert Halmi Sr. and his Hallmark Entertainment continue working their way through the world's great literature with "Arabian Nights" (following closely after TNTs "Don Quixote and just before next week's "Jason and the Argonauts" on NBC). Steve Barron (Hallmark's "Merlin") directs from a screenplay by Peter Barnes (Hallmark's "Merlin," "Noah's Ark" and "Alice in Wonderland," (9-1- 1 (8-1- 0 along with "Enchanted April"). Also known as The Arabian Nights' Entertainments" and "A Thousand and One Nights," the collection of tales was originally written in Arabic, and arranged in its present form about 1450, probably in Cairo. In the original tales, as in the miniseries, Scheherazade, wed to a mad sultan, forestalls her execution by telling him a different story each night, leaving each with a cliffhanger ending, to be revealed the following evening. "I'd say to the audience," says Scottish actor Dougray Scott ("Ever After"), who plays the sultan, Schari-ar- , "be prepared for a magical and extraordinary journey with lots of wonderful characters that you've known about since your childhood. Now that you're adults, you can look at them anew. You'll be excited - and, I hope, intrigued and moved - by these extraordinary characters in these extraordinary stories. "YouH be taken on a wonderful magic carpet rider While some people may not be familiar with the framing story of "Arabian Nights" - the sultan being driven into paranoia by the treachery of his brother (played here by James Frain) and first wife, and threatening to murder his new wife on the day after their wedding many of the "Arabian Nights" tales are familiar and popu-- . n lar in their own right. Of the five ptories. chosen for the miniseries, "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba" have been the subject of many films themselves. This time around, "Aladdin," often set in Persia, returns to its original setting of China, with Jason Scott Lee in the title role, and John Leguizamo as both the terrifying, tattooed Lamp Genie and the rotund, cowardly Ring Genie. British actor Rufus Sewell plays the thief "Ali Baba," leader of the Forty Thieves, with Turkish-bor- n French film star Tcheky Karyo playing the evil thief Black Coda. The huge cast also includes Alan Bates as the Storyteller, to whom Scheherazade turns for advice; Jim Carter as the Vizier Ja'Far; and Hugh Quarshie ("Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace") as Aladdin's nemesis, the African magician Mustappa. Rather than just use a studio back-loHalmi went to Turkey and Africa to shoot his tale. Much of the filming was done in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, 400 miles southeast of Istanbul, a harsh landscape of volcanic rock (where cast and crew were billeted in caves for $19 a night, including breakfast). After filming in Cappadocia, the company moved to the newly built Antalya Studios, near Antalya, Turkey, where the production was the facility's first tenant, utilizing 48 good-hearte- d t, n sets over a shoot. Additional scenes were shot on the of Desert in souththe Sahara edge eastern Morocco, where 150 camels were drafted for use. "I think it's better than 'Merlin'," says Halmi of "Arabian Nights." "It's wonderful storytelling. It's almost storytelling at its best. Of course, the original material lends itself to that." For Leguizamo, who grew up on the streets of New York, the landscape of "Arabian Nights" was already familiar. "The 'Arabian Nights' was huge when I was growing up. I read about it all the time. It was in the cartoons, there was always a little bit of 'Arabian Nights' thrown in there. And you had all these movies from Hollywood at that time that came out, with the flying horses and all the evil genies. That always grabbed my imagination. "It was something that I always really wanted to be a part of. When this opportunity came, it was like 'Wow!' And I could be the genie. I could be two genies. I could fight against myself and hate myself. It was a beautiful thing." Along with sumptuous costumes and the lion's share of the dialogue, Avital also got to play that rarest of fairy-talcreatures - a woman who survives on her wits and her heart, not just her beauty. "Absolutely," says the actress. "Besides the fact that it's e almost a mythological character which was such a great thrill for me, is the fact that she's so wise. "When the sultan finally faces his last battle, and she gives him those last words of wisdom, it's really beautiful." "These tales aren't told just for the sake of telling tales," says director Barron. They're told in the service of saving a kingdom, saving a life, saving a love. These tales have to be told, and they have to be told right. "We decided early on to make this about something. Underneath it all, 'Arabian Nights' is about the telling of stories. It's about storytelling. That's what weaves the whole tapes- try together. " 'Arabian Nights' is similar in a way to "Merlin': the stories were handed down - at first verbally, then in rtrint - from generation to generation, and they changed as they were handed down. We're just another link in the chain of storytellers. We're telling our version of these Persian. Indian and Arabian folktales; "Every storyteller, when he comes to tell a story, wants to entertain, but he also wants to add a little sprinkle of magic in there as well. "Hopefully, we've contributed some magic with this version." |