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Show Ryan ONeal stars Uproarious comedy of Americas 30s Tatum O'Neal and her father, Ryan O'Neal, the uproarious comedy of Americans 30s, Paper Moon," which will be rebroadcast as a special film 0 p.m.), on the presentation on Sunday, May 15 CBS Television Network. Miss O'Neal won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her work in Paper Moon," her screen debut. Madeline Kahn, who was nominated for the same award, also stars in the film, as well as John Hillerman and P.J. Johnson. In the midst of the Great Depression, Moses Pray, a two-b- it g con man, is when he falls prey to the innocent charms of the Addie Loggins. Addie blackmails Moses by publicly and loudly insisting that he is her father. Moses, who cant be sure that it's not true, has no recourse but to take her along with him as he plies his "trade" fleecing widows by selling them Bibles supposedly ordered by their late husbands. Quickly proving herself more adept at the con game than Moses yet displaying a sense of conscience that he lacks Addie begins engineering new schemes and they form an unlikely but highly profitable alliance. They set out on a series of madcap confidence games, but its not long before their bunco ploys land them in hot water with both sides of the law. "Paper Moon" was produced and directed by Peter Bogdanovich and written by Alvin Sargent, whose screenplay, based on the novel "Addie Pray" by Joe David Oscar-winn- star in (8:00-10:0- Bible-sellin- out-conn- nin4-year-ol- d TATUM O'NEAL AND FATHER RYAN STAR IN PAPER MOON Brown, was nominated for an Academy Award. The film was a 1973 Paramount Pictures release. Moses Pray Ryan O'Neal Tatum O'Neal Addie Loggins Trixie Delight Madeline Kahn John Hillerman Deputy Hardin P.J. Johnson Imogene Floyd Leroy Burton Gilliam Randy Quaid Suspense drama of threatened nuclear holocaust Ralph Waite, playing Henry Stone, is known to millions as the father on the Network series The Waltons," and was recently heralded for his role in the television special, Roots. Michael Brandon, playing Carl Wyche, Brolens partner, has numerous credits, ranging from "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom" and "Lovers and Other Strangers" to The Red Badge of Courage and "James Dean Portrait of a Friend." Adrienne Barbeau, best known to viewers as Maudes Night Movies," Wednesday, May 18 (8:00-10:0- 0 daughter, Carol, on the "Maude series, was a Tony Award p.m.), on the CBS In the Television Network. nominee for her work in the hit Broadway musical, "Grease." film are David Hayward and M. Emmet Red Alert" was filmed entirely on location near Houston, WILLIAM DEVANE Walsh. Texas. Director Hale staged the principal story action in the famed Mission Control Center of the Lyndon B. Johnson When a mysterious breakdown occurs in a nuclear-powe- r station in Minnesota, the giant Proteus computer in Space Center (NASA) and in the awesome Space EnColorado, which monitors a nationwide complex of 64 vironment Simulation Laboratory, also located in the plants, erroneously detects escaped radiation and seals off sprawling NASA complex. the building, trapping 14 technicians inside. "Red Alert" was produced by Barry Goldberg for Jozak Frank Brolen, an investigator for the Department of ProductionsParamount Pictures, with Gerald Isenberg and Nuclear Energy, immediately begins an probe into Gerald Abrams as executive producers. The film was the crisis, but his superior in Colorado, Henry Stone, going directed by William Hale and written by Sandor Stern, based by the book, refuses to countermand the computer-ordere- d on the novel Paradigm Red by Harold King. shutdown. Frank Brolen William Devane Meanwhile, Proteus has calculated three possibilities for Henry Stone Ralph Waite the accident: human error, defective equipment, or Carol Wyche Michael Brandon Adrienne Barbeau sabotage. As Brolens investigation quickens, it begins to Judy Wyche look like sabotage, but the more fundamental question is Larry Cadwell David Hayward raised: Who is in control of this dread nuclear complex, man Sheriff Sweeney M. Emmet Walsh or machine? Lou Banducci Malcolm Wittman William Devane, Don Wiseman playing Brolen, has twice been Bill Yancy nominated for an Emmy Award for his portrayals of John Harry Holland Howard Finch F. Kennedy in The Missiles of October" and John Henry Stover Charles Krohn Faulk in Fear on Trial." Mrs. Kerwin Dixie Taylor Red Alert, a suspense thriller about an accident at a nuclear power plant which raises the horrifying specter of atomic stars William annihilation, Devane, Michael Brandon and Adrienne Barbeau, with special guest star Ralph Waite, and will have its world television premiere on "The CBS Wednesday on-si- te PAGE 6 THIS WEEK |