FORGET the main movies, it's to Eye on Hongkong (Pearl, 7.20pm) you must look for stars. The show boasts interviews with no lesser personages than Sam Neill and Laura Dern, R&B singer James Ingram and . . . Josh.
On a recent trip to Beverly Hills, journalist John Dykes secured one-on-one interviews with Sam Neill (Dead Calm ) and Laura Dern (RamblingRose), two thespians whose bankability is set to rise considerably given the runaway success of their film JurassicPark.
James Ingram talks about his emergence in the 1980s, when he worked with people like Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson, and had his biggest hit Somewhere Out There.
And Josh? He is, of course, the newest star at the Botanical Gardens, an orphan baby orang-utan who was confiscated from a ship en route to Taiwan where he was to have been sold as a society pet.
AS a political drama set in Indonesia in 1965 just before Sukarno's fall, The Year of Living Dangerously (World, 9.30pm, Original Running Time 115 mins) should have been more gripping than it is - although some of pall may be due to the numerous timesit's been shown.
Mel Gibson plays the Aussie news journalist assigned to cover the events and to have an unconvincing romance with the assistant to the British military attache, (Sigourney Weaver with an even less convincing accent).
Director Peter Weir atmospherically recreates the confusion of a foreigner in Southeast Asia at the time, and Linda Hunt is mesmerising as the film's conscience, a Chinese-Australian cameraman (a role for which she won an Oscar).