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JANUARY 29,1999
8 pan. ABC
TWO OF A KIND
In “My Boyfriend’s Back,” Carrie
(Sally Wheeler) wants to impress an
old flame and persuades Kevin
(Christopher Sieber) to pose as her
fiance. While the adults are out, the
twins (Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley .
Olsen) decide it’s time to throw their :
first teen-age party. But they soon
realize they’re in over their heads
when the soiree starts spinning out of
control.
♦
8 pan. CBS
KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST
THINGS
A 9-year-old named Tzu Ting Tam
explains the process of becoming a
U.S. citizen. It helps to have a cool
American nickname; he’s dubbed 1
himself Triple T. Other segments
include a performance by a 4-year
old violinist, an attempt by art stu
dents to make clay likenesses of host
History and A&E Channel
This Week In History
On February 6,1778, France signed
a treaty of aid with the United States ...
February 3, 1917, the U.S. cut diplo
matic ties with Germany... February 5,
1917, American forces were withdrawn
from Mexico ... February 6, 1922, the
Limitation of Armament Conference,
having convened in Washington, D.C.,
ended with major powers agreeing to
curtail naval construction, outlaw poi
son gas, restrict submarine attacks on
merchant vessels, and respect the
integrity of China ... February 4,1945,
the Yalta Conference was convened in
the Crimea, U.S.S.R., with President
Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet
leader Joseph Stalin in attendance ...
February 1, 1960, sit-ins began when
four black college students in
Greensboro, N.C., refused to move
from a Woolworth’s lunch counter
when denied service ... February 3,
1984, the space shuttle Challenger was
launched on its fourth trip into space...
February 7, 1984, Navy Capt. Bruce
McCandless, followed by Army Lt
Colonel Robert Stewart, became the
first humans to fly free of a spacecraft
... February 5, 1994, Byron De La
Beckwith was convicted of the 1963
murder of civil rights leader Medgar
Evans ... February 2,1998, for the first
time in nearly three decades, a U.S.
president submitted a balanced federal
budget. ... February 2, 1998,
Congressional Republicans announced
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Bill Cosby and a discussion of what
noses are for.
8 pan, NBC
PROVIDENCE
Howie Mandel guest stars in
“Sisters” as the star of a video valen
tine from Sydney’s (Melina
Kanakaredes) ex-boyfriend in
California. But work has Sydney dis
tracted; she’s trying to treat a drug
addicted, possibly HIV-positive
woman (Alanna Übach) who’s resist
ing her help. Jim (Mike Farrell) risks
his career to kidnap an ailing chim
panzee from the city zoo when he
believes the animal’s illness has been
misdiagnosed.
9pjn. FOX
MILLENNIUM
Life imitates art imitating life as
Frank (Lance Henriksen) investigates
a series of murders linked to a horror
movie based on an earlier serial mur
der case. The members of the music
group KISS - Gene Simmons, Paul
Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss -
- guest star as themselves in “ ...
Thirteen Years Later.” Klea Scott also
stars.
9pjn.UPN
LOVE BOAT: THE NEXT
WAVE
Capt. Kennedy (Robert Urich) gets
a pleasant blast from the past when a
their opposition to President Clinton’s
plan to spend money in new areas of
social programs ... February 3,1998, in
a controversial case, the state of Texas
executed its first female convict in 135
years; Karla Faye Tucker, 38, had con
fessed to committing two pickax mur
ders with her boyfriend, Daniel Ryan
Garrett, in 1983 ... February 3, 1998,
The New York Times reported that for
mer White House intern Monica
Lewinsky had been cleared to enter the
White House 37 times after leaving her
job there in April, 1996. © 1999 King
Features Synd., Inc.
A&E Network: Biography
STEVEN SPIELBERG: MAGI
CAL FANTASIES AND RIVETING
REALITIES
Steven Spielberg directed five of the
world’s 25 highest grossing movies. Yet,
the Academy snubbed him until his first
serious work, “Schindler’s List,” swept
seven Oscars, including Best Director
and Best Picture.
This year, he’ll probably add to his
Oscar collection with “Saving Private
Ryan,” the searing WWII epic that
reconfigured how Hollywood portrays
war, eschewing previous sanitized or
sentimentalized versions for a more
realistic portrayal. March’s Biography
magazine recounts Spielberg's obses
sive eye for detail. For example, since
many D-Day survivors remembered
dead fish washing ashore, Spielberg had
dead fish strewn along the beach for the
woman he knew years ago comes
aboard to find out whether there’s still
a spark between them. A soap-opera
shoot on the ship turns into a real-life
drama as the star fights to keep her
character from being written out. C.
Thomas Howell, Fmola Hughes and
Vicki Lawrence guest star in “Affairs
to Remember.”
TRIVIA
William "Pudge"
Heffelfinger became
the first pro football
player in 1892 when
the Allegheny Athletic
Association paid him
SSOO for one game.
Olympian Jim Thorpe
was the first president
of the NFL In 1950,
sportswriters named
him the greatest athlete
of the first half of the
20th century.
The first person to fly
a plane in Australia
was Budapest-born
illusionist Harry
Houdini. He made the
pioneering flight March
16, 1910.
film’s harrowing opening.
He and wife Kate Capshaw, who
met when he cast her in “Indiana Jones
and the Temple of Doom,” have seven
kids, ranging from three to 22 - Jessica
(from Capshaw’s first marriage), fol
lowed by Max (his only child from his
10-year marriage to Amy Irving) and
five younger siblings, including two
adopted black children. Every morning,
doting dad makes pancakes, cavorts
with the kids and transports them to
school, making sure to always be home
for dinner.
His parents’ marriage was not so
idyllic. Filmmaking provided him an
escape early on and then into college. A
Universal TV exec discovered him at a
film festival and hired the 21-year-old to
direct a Joan Crawford movie. He went
on to helm other TV shows and movies
until his talent for creating nail-biting
action sequences catapulted him to
fame with “Jaws.” Then came “Close
Encounters...,” the “Indiana Jones” tril
ogy, “E.T.,” “The Color Purple,”
“Jurassic Park,” “Lost World” and
“...Private Ryan,” not only revealing
Spielberg's hi-tech fix wizardry but also
his talent at coaxing memorable perfor
mances from actors.
Other upcoming projects include a
film about Charles Lindbergh and an
adaptation of “The Cat in the Hat.” As
he said, “I dream for a living.” And he
enables millions to dream along.
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All Rights Reserved
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struggles with inner demons and outside influences, in Homicide: Life on
the Street.
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