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BEST
SUNDAY
FEBRUARY 8,
1998
6:30 pun. NBC
NBA BASKETBALL _____
From New York’s Madison Square
Garden, the 48th annual NBA All-Star
Game features the league’s top players,
including Michael Jordan of the
Chicago Bulls, Grant Hill of the
Detroit Pistons and Shaquille O’Neal
of the Los Angeles Lakers. Bob Costas
calls the play-by-play with Isiah
Thomas and Bill Walton providing
analysis.
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MOVIE: ALADDIN AND THE
KING OF THIEVES
Aladdin and Princess Jasmine have
set their wedding date, and the Genie is
Ttumpet Award
winners expected
to point the way
By Suzanne Gill
©TVData Features Syndicate
Award ceremonies by definition are
intended to remember and honor past
achievement. The Trumpet Awards,
airing this year on Sunday, Feb. 8, on
TBS, has an eye on the future as well.
The mission of the 6-year-old
awards is “to inspire, educate, stimu
late and enlighten human minds” so
people can see success as colorblind.
Honorees must be “viewed not only for
what they have individually achieved,
but for the achievement they inspire in
others.”
Hosts Robert Guillaume and Gladys
Knight are scheduled to preside over a
ceremony honoring the sheriff of
Fulton County, Ga.; the executive edi
tor of Ebony magazine; a nuclear engi
neer; an award-winning R&B artist;
and the first black player in Major
League Baseball’s American League.
Also honored is Major League
pitcher Don Newcombe, the only play
er in baseball history to win the Cy
Young Award, the National League
Rookie of the Year Award and the MVP
Award. A posthumous honor goes to*
Reginald F. Lewis, a corporate CEO
and philanthropist. Lewis’ simple
motto was “Keep going, no matter
what” Before his death in 1993 at age
50, Lewis aboift SIQ hjiUjon, .
His $3 million gift,*»-
in charge of all the preparations. Alas,
the unexpected appearance of the leg
endary Forty Thieves may put a hitch
in the couple’s plans. Robin Williams
returns as the voice of the Genie in the
final installment of Disney’s animated
Aladdin trilogy.
8 pan. CBS
OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES
In the second evening of competi
tion from Nagano, Japan, CBS features
the pairs figure skating short program,
the men’s combined downhill event in
alpine skiing, men’s cross-country ski
ing and men’s giant slalom snow
boarding.
9 pan. ABC
MOVIE: BAD AS I WANNA BE:
THE DENNIS RODMAN STORY
Dwayne Adway stars as NBA bad
boy Dennis Rodman in a sympathetic
story that covers more than a dozen
years of the basketball star’s life.
Rodman appears in a variety of cos
tumes to narrate the drama, which
recounts his teen years in a Dallas
housing project, his relationship with
Madonna and the emergence of his
flamboyant public persona. Daniel
Hugh Kelly and Dee Wallace Stone
also star.
Sunday on TBS, Gladys Knight (pictured) co-hosts the 1998 Trumpet
Awards, saluting African-American achievement. Retired Gen. Colin Powell
and singer Whitney Houston are among the honorees.
University was the largest grant in its
history.
Two women prominent in law
enforcement in the South are designat
ed honorees. Jacquelyn H. Barrett is
the Fulton County sheriff and is
responsible for a $45 million budget
Beverly J. Harvard, chief of police in
Atlanta, is the first African-American
woman in the nation to run a major
.metropolitan police department. • - z -» ’-
this year is the Family} Spirit
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9 pjn. FOX
X-FILES
Master of horror Stephen King col
laborates with series creator Chris
Carter on this episode set, not surpris
ingly, in Maine. While on vacation,
Scully (Gillian Anderson) comes
across a strange case in which a myste
rious girl apparently convinces people
to inflict wounds upon themselves.
SPORTS BEST BETS
11:00 AM (S3D Auto Racing NASCAR Bud
Shootout Last Chance Qualifier (Live)
12:00 PM EQ® Auto Racing NASCAR Bud
Shootout (Live)
12:30 PM liaaj Women’s College Basketball
Florida State at Wake Forest (Live)
1:00 PM BQ(jg) College Basketball North
Carolina at Georgia Tech (Live)
EQ® College Basketball Kentucky at
Villanova (Live)
College Basketball North Carolina
at Georgia Tech (Subject to Blackout) (Live)
1:30 PM man Auto Racing ARCA Bondo
Mar-Hyde Daytona 200 (Live)
2:30 PM (0 (n) PGA Golf Buick Invitational
Final Round (Live)
3:00 PM KS3 Women's College Basketball
Auburn at Arkansas (Live)
3:30 PM O® College Basketball Regional
Coverage Duke at North Carolina State.
Massachusetts at Xavier or Oklahoma at Texas
(Live)
4:30 PM Women's College
Basketball Georgia at Alabama (Live)
6:30 PM (non NBA Basketball All-Star
Game (Live)
7:00 PM rim ABL Basketball Colorado
Xplosion at San Jose Lasers (Live)
9:00 PM Boxing Rafael del Valle vs.
Enrique Sanchez (Live)
10:00 PM College Basketball
Memphis at Alabama-Birmingham (Live)
10:40 PM Instant Replay (Live)
11:35 PM Q® Sports Final (Live)
Award, which goes to five individuals.
Other special honorees include
retired Gen. Colin Powell, who
receives the Living Legend Award;
Whitney Houston, selected for the
Pinnacle Award; and Wynton Marsalis,
winner of the Young Star Award.
The award presenters include
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dick Gregory,
Jane Fonda and May May Ali, the
daughter* of boxdr MUhammad Ali,.a.f
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Sunday, PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre takes flight with The Wingless Bird, a
story about an intelligent and spirited young woman (Claire Skinner) who
runs her family’s candy store (check local listings).
IN FOCUS
Dwayne Adway
Dwayne Adway shoots and
scores as the talented and outra
geous Chicago Bulls basketball star
in Bad as I Wanna Be: The Dennis
Rodman Story, premiering Sunday,
Feb. 8, on ABC.
Based on the book by Rodman
with Tim Keown, the movie follows
the athlete’s rise from his youth in
the Dallas projects through his col
lege years playing basketball to his
success in the NBA.
Daniel Hugh Kelly and Dee
Wallace Stone also star. Rodman
offers commentary throughout the
film.
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