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e-mail: [email protected] Moonlight And Valentino Pearl, 9.35pm This is not a movie that men can readily appreciate, since it is about a group of women who discover sisterhood is all they really need - though if Jon Bon Jovi happens to paint their house under the moonlight they might make an exception. Elizabeth Perkins (above) plays a widow coming to terms with the accidental death of her husband, helped by her neurotic virgin sister (Gwyneth Paltrow), her eccentric best friend (Whoopi Goldberg) - whose own marriage is crumbling - and her divorced ex-stepmother (Kathleen Turner). They reveal, through long conversations, their feelings about life, love, sex, men and friendship. Therapy is mixed up with film, and overlong at that, though the real therapy must be pop singer Bon Jovi's brief appearance. (1995) The Treasure Of Sierra Madre TCM, 9pm TCM continues to focus on star of the month Humphrey Bogart, starting the night with John Huston's gripping tale of greed, fear and murder in Mexico. Bogart gives possibly the finest performance of his career as he heads into the mountains with the director's father, Walter Huston, and Tim Holt, in a search for gold. Once they find it, greed sets in, prompting a startling metamorphosis in Bogart. This 1948 movie is followed by the chilling thriller The Two Mrs Carrolls (11.20pm), in which Bogart plays a psychotic painter who has a penchant for poisoning his wives. For the remainder of the night the great actor returns to the gangster genre for the entertaining satire The Amazing Dr Clitterhouse (1.30pm) and the melodramatic crime vehicle Bullets Or Ballots (3.30pm).
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Fletch HBO, 9pm Chevy Chase, of Saturday Night Live fame, plays a wisecracking investigative journalist who disguises himself as a beach bum in order to expose the drug dealing conducted on the beach. But he gets caught up in a bigger story, and adopts many more disguises, when a tycoon claiming to have terminal cancer invites him to break into his mansion and put him out of his misery. (1985)
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