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Show .JL y TV Fare HBO Film Hits High Ground By Ed Bark Dallas Morning News Until The Guardian," Home Box Office has been promising and seldom delivering with its Premiere Films. Some starkly terrifying scenes ever played on the small screen. Will there be a big Mack attack in the nick of time? Watch and see. "The Guardian was written by Richard Levinson and William Link, the minds behind the CBS series and a number of distinguished made-for-Tmovies, including "The Execution of Private Slovik" and "That Certain Summer," in which Sheen also starred. Link says, in a HBO press release, that - "The Terry Fox Story" and Draw have been all right Too many The Cold Room." Right of Way, "To Catch A King," "Countdown To Looking Glass" -would have been better left out of sight. "Co-lumb- - "The Guardian" (Saturday, 9 several studios "inevitably got pm. scared of 'The Guardian because of its rather uncompromising material and a climax that's rather shocking " The film is no "Death Wish," but there is the definite message that Hyatt and his fellow tenants are better off in the hands of a guardian who takes justice into his own hands. And what a guardian Mack is. After a career in the military (was he discharged from "An Officer and a Gentleman?"), Mack is making a living as a lean, maximally efficient Superman dressed in tightly-tailoresuits. Is he too high a price to pay for security? Levinson and Link want viewers to decide, but a bit too theyve stacked the cards in their favor. high Missing, probably for the better, are any clues as to why Mack is so obsessive. It would have been easy, and too pat, to include a scene in which he reveals that his parents, or some other loved ones, were killed by a junkie. Levinson and Link, playing on fears, get away with too much murder in "The Guardian. But that's a petty crime when measured against the strong pull of this film and the superb performances by Sheen and Gossett. on Cable Channel 6) is the first Premiere Film to play on h h ground. Starring Lou Gossett Jr. and Martin Sheen, it is a taut, terrifically involving movie with a conclusion. My notepad says "Whew! Sheen, a constantly working actor who moves easily between the big and small screens, plays Charlie Hyatt, soap opera director and conscientious resident of a New York apartment building where a murder has just been committed by a petty thief. A friend of Hyatt's recommends that the tenants hire John Mack (Gossett), a crimestopper who lays down some strict security rules and installs a closed-circuTV monitoring system. But is Mack a guardian angel or a guard-do- g of a man with a vicious vigilante streak? 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Mayor Shields' trip to the league convention last year in New Orleans has been a central part of the testimony in a preliminary hearing of another Layton official, City Recorder Rar iall Heaps. Heaps, who has been suspended with pay, is charged with five felony counts of misusing public funds, at least one of which involves the trip to New Orleans and a side trip Cancun, Mexico. . 2KUTV NEWS with John Stehr and ' was fairly common in the city and money was repaid each time, but Hood said he should not have borrowed it and should pay interest on the money he has used Her petition, she said, will be West). News Movie: "My Favorite Brunette. CL Lost X H Journal 51 OF (L World Tony Brown's CL Special to The Tribune A Layton woman LAYTON will she begin circulating a says petition Monday that will ask for the resignation of Mayor Lewis G. Shields. 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