Show John Glover is a 44 Money” man in TNT suspense-dram- a Bf Jay 8oC&nT'ane Med a Smtee For an actor who claims to be per- petually worried about landing his next job John Glover hasn't had rr xh of a problem Lately as an Twice an Emmy nominee AIDS patient in the 1985 drama "An Early Frost” and an accessory to patricide in the 1987 mimsenes "Nutcracker Money Madness and Murder” the wiry and intense actor has had a steady stream of roles in the past scar Among high-profi- le them the business tscoon whose headquarters are o emin by the title characters in the theatrical film ‘‘Gremlins 2 The New Batch” (currently making the rounds on HBO and Cinemax) the doctor passionately arguing for health safely in PBS ‘‘American Pla house” production of Ibsen’s “An Enemv of the People” a man of the Old West in HBO's ‘E1 Diablo” Leonardo da Vinci in TNT’s “A Season of Giants” a hustling promoter in ABC’s remake of ‘‘Wh3t Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” and a physician afflicted with disfiguring neurofibromatoses or ‘‘Elephant Man’s disease” in an episode of NBC’s “LA Law” As it turns out one of that latter show’s pay-cab- regulars is among Glover’s for the second time -- - le co-sta- with yet - in another relearning on the way his latest project to reach the airwaves In Monday’s new TNT suspense-dram- a “Dead on the Money” ' Glover plays a wealthy alleged murderer w ho is the apparent cousin of a charismatic man (Corbin Bernsen w iih w horn he worked two years ago in TNT’s “Breaking Point” and will be partnered with again in NBC’s fall miniseries “Grass Roots”) trying to convince a young actress (Amanda Pays Bernsen’s real-lif- e wife w she is a ho appeared in CBS’ “The Flash”) that now-cancell- look-alik- e for his former girlfriend who supposedly was killed by the rich relative The Bernsen character then manipulates her into marrying the other man asking her to get evidence that will prove the latter but as responsible for the death this twisty and turny might suggest not everything is what it set-u- p might seem in the story which was adapted by veteran screenwriter Gavin (“Sons and Lovers” “Inside Daisy Clover”) Lambert from a 24 Corbin Bernsen Amanda Pays and John Glover star in "Dead on the “ Money filmed exclusively for TNT It will air four times on Monday starting at 6 pm Tuesday at 2 pm and Wednesday at 10 am Rachel Ingalls short story ‘‘We set out to do a ‘Double Indemnity type of movie” Glover explains “and Gavin had all those kinds of films in mind those stylish film-nopictures You can’t tip the audience off to too much because you have to keep them guessing all the time” Glover adds that he was spared the potential challenge posed by performing with two actors as ir personally close as Bernsen and Pays though “It had crossed my mind before we started filming The way the script is structured though it’s mostly Amanda and me playing scenes together and Amanda and Corbin playing scenes together There’s only one section toward the end in w hich all three of us are together” Since “Dead on the Money” was filmed last summer and ‘‘Grass Roots” is just being completed in Atlanta Glover reflects that “This is the third year in a row” that he and Bernsen have worked together “and he says he’s got a script for us for next year at this time in which we would play brothers I think we want to make it an annual thing I try to kill him in ‘Grass Roots’ but I try to kill EVERYBODY in it” That tale is a political thriller written by novelist Stuart Woods as a sequel to “Chiefs” which was made into a CBS miniseries in 1983 that also includes Mel (“thirtysomething”) Harris Reginald (“Family Matters”) VelJohnson and Raymond Burr in its cast However Glover gets to switch back into a groove in “The Drug Wars: Colomless-ev- il bia” another upcoming NBC drama that serves as executive producer Michael (“Miami Vice”) Mann’s follow-u- p to the Wars: The Camarena “Drug Emmy-winnin- g Story” after playing many people in other ventures suchas the “David" (as a father who tried to bum his son to death) and Indeed fact-inspir- Standard-Examine- r TV-mov- ie Ogden Utah |