From late-breaking laughs to the latest skipper gaffs, get set for all the news that's fit
to be funny on the best of not necessarily the news, next on HBO.
The best time on TV this weekend is on HBO.
The weekend starts off when double feature Friday sends home some U.S. mail.
Friday at 8, Matthew Modine stars in Stanley Kubrick's harrowing look at the Vietnam War,
full metal jacket.
At 10, Clint Eastwood's in search of a few good men in Heartbreak Ridge.
Saturday at 8, Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds and Christopher Reeve are caught up in a romantic
triangle.
Don't miss the premiere of Switching Channels.
And at 10, Martin Moll hosts HBO comedy hour Sally Field and Tom Hanks punchline party.
Sunday, it's back-to-back premier.
At 7, Molly Ringwald's teen passions become adult problems in the romantic comedy Burkeats.
And at 9, Richard Thomas and Ellen Green star in the greatest story ever told.
Sex, drugs, rock and roll and religion.
Don't miss part one of HBO's movie event, Glory Glory.
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's so good.
Is that what I'm praying?
Where's the ring?
The ring.
Love comes naturally to Oscar winner Sharon Olympia Dukakis.
I will marry you.
It's a prank, Yuri.
It's temporary.
But to Nicolas Cage.
Where's my wedding?
Wait a minute.
The year's biggest romantic comedy.
Kill Love Him.
Winner of three Academy Awards.
When you're back from the street.
Moonstrike.
Premiers Wednesday, March 1st on HBO, the best movie.
From the director of Terms of Endearment comes the smash hit broadcast news.
What do you do when your real life exceeds your dreams?
Keep it to yourself.
You have almost no experience.
And I'm making no fortune.
I am beginning to repel people I'm trying to seduce.
Wouldn't this be a great world of insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
William Hurt, Holly Hodder and Albert Brooks are making broadcast news.
Premiers Thursday, March 2nd on HBO, the best movie.
Sometimes it takes faith.
The latter will wake up, you'll see.
Sometimes it takes courage.
They want to buy it.
Sometimes it takes a little bit of a break.
And sometimes it takes a miracle.
Robert Redford spins the magical tale of the Milagro-Beanfield War.
Premiers Sunday, March 5th on HBO, the best movie.
You tell me how you reached someone over eight years.
I haven't been in the presence of another human being without iron on his wrists and
ankles.
My name is Alex.
I'm a doctor.
I'm here to help you.
Deadmaps!
Ben went in with the 38.
And I never heard you say once that you wished it would happen any different.
He's crazy.
It's because living on Death Row made him crazy.
We just need him well enough to go to a competency hearing.
On Death Row, there's a line between insanity and insanity.
I can't afford to have an abstract position on whether it's right or wrong for the state
to kill people.
And it's the same line between life and death.
You're the hammer they're gonna use to nail my ass with and you got no responsibility.
Danny Glover, Ruben Blades, Dead Man Out, the powerful and gripping drama from HBO Showcase,
coming in March.
It's about faith and financing.
It's about rock and roll and revival meetings.
It's about friendship.
And yes, it's about that, too.
No wonder sin is so hard to find.
Picture this, a televangelist ministry on the brink of financial ruin, a daring plan
to save the day, and a scandal that nearly breaks wide open.
Sound like something out of the headlines?
Well, actually, the HBO movie event Glory Glory was conceived eight years ago, long
before the word evangelist became synonymous with scandal.
And although it may be a comedy, it takes some things very seriously.
This is not some smug Hollywood attack on faith.
Faith is never an issue in this world.
I mean, religious faith and real spirituality are never at issue.
Richard Thomas plays the young televangelist whose sermons are driving his flock away.
Is it just me?
Am I just not good at communicating Christ's message?
You're a disaster at communicating Christ's message, Bobby Joe.
Here Ellen Green, a rock singer who can pack the house, and he figures the church.
Ruth may appear to have the morals of an alley cat and are leaning toward illegal substances,
but she's no fool.
Your car?
It was a gift to the church.
Never know what you find in the old collection box, right?
She does drugs.
She curses up stuff.
I mean, I've prepared my own mother for this role because what it is, is you have to look
past Ruth.
You have to look, why is she the way she is?
These hands of flesh and bone, these hands you see are not mine alone.
The original music in Glory Glory gave Ellen Green a chance to show off the voice that
became famous in both the theater and film versions of Little Shop of Horrors.
The score is the work of Steve Turrell, whose Turrell Man Music Group won a Grammy for the
hit Somewhere Out There from the movie An American Tale.
For this score, he combined the best of rock and roll and the power of gospel.
James Whitmore is the church's savvy financial director, a man whose is adept at burying
scams.
James Whitmore is the church's savvy financial director, a man whose is adept at burying
scandal as he is at dodging taxes.
Lester's a genius in that regard and a totally untutored and uneducated genius.
He didn't go to school.
He's not very literate.
However, he can read figures.
A question you've got to ask yourself, boy, is it better to feel dirty and have a church
that's serving the glory of God or to feel squeaky clean and have diddly squat?
But there's one thing he can't dodge, the investigative reporter who developed an interest
in Ruth on several levels.
Ruth, I hope you realize that when we do that interview on healing, it'll be no holds barred.
Absolutely.
I think whatever you and I do should be no holds barred.
Canadian actor Winston Record, known to American audiences as TV's Adderley, plays Chet Madison.
Well, Chet is a nice guy and he's very straightforward.
He has his ethics and his, you know, what is right and what is wrong.
And he sees everything basically in black and white.
And his job is very important to him.
His only wrong with him probably is his head is bigger than his heart is.
Director Lindsay Anderson, known for films that combine social comment and biting satire,
felt that glory glory certainly qualified.
This script had a kind of humorous, satirical attitude towards certain American institutions,
which I found completely sympathetic and I completely understood.
I think the first professed duty of this particular author had been to do away with the stereotypes
right away so that we weren't dealing with a cartoon version of what's in the headlines
these days, but real people.
All that said, what is glory glory really about?
It's about losing faith.
The worst part of it is I still love her.
I still lust after her.
And it's about finding faith.
He's really out there with me.
I mean, he's really, really there.
And it's all seen through the sharp eye of satire.
The sister Ruth is so vivacious and exciting.
Reverend, you're so dull.
The HBO two part movie event, glory glory.
To know what it's all about, you're just going to have to see it for yourself.
This month on HBO.
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It's a love triangle that turns over a new leaf.
It's about a boy, a girl and a hungry plan.
What?
I make it worth your while.
I'm playing big.
Rick Moranis, Ellen Green, Steve Martin.
Comfy?
I think it's supper time.
Little shop of horror.
Today on HBO.
It's moving day for Hugh Cronin and Jessica Tandy.
The reality is land developers are on the move.
Somebody help us.
Steven Spielberg saves the day.
What is this?
A fantasy dream come true.
They're not toys.
You can't buy these things at Macy's.
You're invited to lunch with spaceships.
From a very small planet.
Grab a friend and have a grand time.
Welcome to America.
Batteries not included.
Monday on HBO.
Maybe this is all a dream.
For the best time on TV in the months ahead, catch the brightest leading ladies on HBO,
the best movies.
With Academy Award winners, Cher.
Snap out of it.
Olympia Dukakis and Meryl Streep.
And with Hollywood's busiest film stars, Whoopi Goldberg, Kelly McGillis and Holly Hunter.
They're some of the brightest and busiest leading ladies starring on HBO, the best movies.
Why don't you scoot down to the jail and relieve bloodlust?
I told you, Shelley, I'm quitting.
I'm tired of space shuttles and trips to Bopal and press conferences.
Sure.
I'd like to lead a nice, normal, relaxed kind of life.
Oh, one other thing.
I'm getting married.
Can't leave you alone for a minute.
Kathleen Turner, who along with Burt Reynolds and Christopher Reeve, stars in a new romantic
comedy from TriStar Pictures, Switching Channels.
Switching Channels has a speed, a verb that borders almost on particle that is a very
high style of comedy as opposed to what I would call a low style.
A low comedy to me is more based on a sense of failure.
A high comedy to my mind is more what we have in this film, which is a driving toward a
goal and the situations that arise out of that.
I have seen some lowlifes in my time in this business.
You meet them all.
The pimps.
The murderers, the hoodlums, the drug porters, the rapists, the child molesters, but you,
you are the worst.
You are a ruthless, amoral, manipulative, bullying asshole.
Good evening.
This is Christy Colloran with the SNN award winning Evening News.
And this is Frank Chapman.
I think Kathleen Turner is the kind of actor who is real and specific enough to satisfy
the modern day demands.
She looks great.
She's very sexy.
She's real attractive.
She's got an emotional core and she's funny.
You don't often get that on one package.
For Turner, the role of TV news anchor person Christy Colloran is a long way from her movie
debut in Body Heat.
The film made a great impact in the world of film, I think.
Not so much a commercial impact.
But I think that many producers perhaps were very assumptive that that was my field of
endeavor and that was it.
So it took a while to get the role.
Well, The Man with Two Brains was my second film, but it took me eight or nine months,
I think, to get it.
You've got to be able to show them something else for them to believe.
They don't go out on a limb and say, I believe in you, kid.
You know, you've really, you've got to demonstrate first.
Kathleen Turner channels.
This month on HBO.
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Get set for all the news that's fit to be funny on the best of not necessarily the news.
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Coming on HBO, we're not just talking serious comedy.
We're talking real serious comedy here.
You know, when we did the first Comic Relief, we didn't think we'd be here again.
And then we did Comic Relief 2 and we didn't think we'd be here again.
And now it's time for Comic Relief 3.
Guess what?
We're back.
March 18th, right here on HBO.
Live.
Lots of comedians, lots of fun.
We're talking serious comedy.
They're like Rambo movies without the weapons.
Comic Relief 3.
March 18th.
Live.
Comedy.
You know it when you see it.
And in one night stand, you're going to see it a lot.
There's only one comedian you can watch where you'll see something like this.
She knows what she wants.
I want to get tied to the stove and make pancakes for some plumber.
She knows what she needs.
Bring me up tired.
You're poor and you're dumb.
And keep their mouth wide open while I spit out my gum.
And she knows what she is.
I'm a perceived flower.
Fashion played saint.
Earth mother host, Cishasha girl, buffer of foreheads, healer of her amphetamines,
blesser of bunions, queen of candy pants, and empress of illness impersonator.
Who is she?
I'm Judy.
One Night Stand presents Judy Tenuta.
It's Pete's last party.
Tonight only on HBO.
One Night Stand, the most fun you can have with the TV on.
Ah, young love.
It can lead to so many wonderful things.
I'm pregnant.
Can you pass the turnips?
Like babies.
Oh my God, you are huge.
And married.
Excuse me, sir, are we married yet?
Nelly?
Yes, Nelly.
And divorce.
This is my house.
Get out of my house.
But where there's a baby, Molly Ringwald finds out it's for keeps.
Premieres Sunday on HBO.
Behold the face of a sinner, the singer who would sell her soul for rock and roll.
Or is it the preacher who yields to the ultimate temptation?
I just remembered something.
That you're a man of God?
No.
I forgot to feed the cat.
Or is it the TV newsman who would go anywhere for a good story?
I keep thinking there's some new angle I haven't tried.
Glory, glory.
Only HBO could do a story like this.
Premieres Sunday.
It'd be a sin to miss it.
Hello, I'm Yoko Ono, Chiyoko Okie.
You know what?
You know who my idol is?
Judy Tenuta.
Oh, she's so funny.
Oh, Sean, don't do that to Mommy.
Oh, I love Judy Tenuta.
You know, tonight I'm going to be a star.
I'm going to be a star.
I'm going to be a star tonight on HBO.
She kicks off the new series, One Night Stand.
Oh, I love that Judy.
She's the new Beatles.
I think I'll break her up too.
That's right.
Judy Tenuta's on at 10.
But first, you can't hurry love at 8 and HBO coming attractions at 930.
It's HBO.
The best time on TV tonight.