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VIDEO, Page 90BEST OF '88
BABY M (ABC) With an intelligent script, restrained direction
and riveting performances by JoBeth Williams and John Shea, this
docudrama about surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead became a stark
thirtysomething nightmare.
DEAF AND BLIND (PBS) Cinema verite specialist Frederick Wiseman
took his cameras to the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind and
came back with four enlightening, often heartrending documentaries.
HOLLYWOOD: THE GOLDEN YEARS (Arts & Entertainment) RKO, the
studio where King Kong, Fred Astaire and Orson Welles once roamed,
was celebrated in six beautifully crafted, impressively researched
episodes. Imported from the BBC, alas.
KENNEDY RETROSPECTIVES Twenty-five years after J.F.K.'s
assassination, specials on CBS, PBS and elsewhere reminded us
movingly -- if excessively -- of the days when Presidents, and
television, could be heroes.
LIP SERVICE (HBO) An old-school TV anchorman (Paul Dooley)
finds himself teamed with a shallow New Wave co-host (Griffin
Dunne). Howard Korder's script for this made-for-cable movie neatly
skewered television, but also located the tragedy beneath the
tackiness.
TANNER '88 (HBO) While voters slogged through an uninspired
presidential campaign, Robert Altman and Garry Trudeau invented
their own candidate (Michael Murphy) and fashioned, in this
eleven-part series, the year's definitive satire of media politics.
THE TENTH MAN (CBS) A rich lawyer imprisoned by the Nazis in
Paris bargains to save his life and later faces the consequences.
Anthony Hopkins made the viewer feel every moral pang in Graham
Greene's engrossing story.
VOICES & VISIONS (PBS) TV and poetry usually do not mix. But
in this series of 13 thoughtful and evocative essays on American
versifiers, the alchemy was just right.
WISEGUY (CBS) Ken Wahl is Vinnie Terranova, an undercover cop
sniffing out Mob bad guys, in TV's roughest, toughest, most
flamboyantly entertaining crime series.
THE WONDER YEARS (ABC) The nostalgia is ladled on a bit thick,
but this wry, affectionate comedy about a twelve-year-old's angst
in the late '60s has wit and insight -- and the most believable
family scenes on TV.