Word: este
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...documentary re-creates the sad final chapter of Monroe's career: her work on Something's Got to Give, the 20th Century Fox film left uncompleted when she died in August 1962. The hourlong special (Thursday, Dec. 13, 9 p.m. EST, the Fox network) unveils raw footage that had been thought lost until it was discovered in a warehouse on the Fox lot in 1982. Written and narrated with nicely understated affection by producer Henry Schipper, the documentary gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse of a Hollywood star -- and a Hollywood studio -- in extremis...
ABORTION DENIED: SHATTERING YOUNG WOMEN'S LIVES (TBS, Dec. 7, 10:05 p.m. EST). Ted Turner, who has enraged antiabortionists before (he once called them "bozos"), courts another outcry with this pro-choice documentary focusing on the issue of parental consent...
COLUMBO GOES TO COLLEGE (ABC, Dec. 9, 9 p.m. EST). Peter Falk, a new Best Actor Emmy on his mantel, returns as the rumpled...
...TRAGEDY OF FLIGHT 103: THE INSIDE STORY (HBO, Dec. 9, 9 p.m. EST). The events leading up to the Lockerbie crash are recounted in this docudrama, a co-production with Britain's Granada TV, which presents a strong indictment of the security precautions taken by Pan Am and the Federal Aviation Administration...
TWIN PEAKS (ABC, Saturdays, 10 p.m. EST). Who killed Laura Palmer? Viewers who had grown sick of the question were, if nothing else, relieved when it was apparently laid to rest two weeks ago, as Laura's father (animated by the evil spirit known as Bob) stepped forward and took the rap. Is there life after Laura for Peaks freaks? This season's inert, slowly paced premiere (directed with an uncharacteristic lack of flair by creator David Lynch) almost sank the ship before it left port. But things have picked up since then. Among the high points: Lynch himself...