Television
Mimi Kuzyk plays housemother to eight student nurses in “Nightingales,” a TV movie for NBC about young women training for a career in health care.
June 12, 1988
Movies
“The Kiss” (citywide) is the “Cat People” for the late ‘80s--and a much more effective film than Paul Schrader’s 1982 remake of Jacques Tourneur’s 1942 classic.
Oct. 14, 1988
A press release describes the plot of “Stormy Weathers,” a vehicle for Cybill Shepherd to return to the private-eye business, as being “in the hard-boiled tradition of film noir.”
May 4, 1992
German film maker Volker Schlondorff has been tabbed by Paul Newman to direct the adaptation of Glendon Swarthout’s “The Homesman” at Columbia.
Oct. 16, 1988
It’s easy to be blase about TV’s multitude of private eyes, but at least CBS gets credit for originality.
Sept. 13, 1989
Robin Williams’ tormented character splices memories into videos. But the thriller with a promising premise fails to deliver.
Oct. 15, 2004
Academy Award-winner James Stewart will make a guest appearance in an episode of “Remington Steele” that NBC plans to broadcast in February.
Dec. 22, 1985
Can a bewildered outer space alien find happiness--and Nielsens--at 10 p.m.
Sept. 19, 1986
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 23 - 29, 2014 in PDF format This week’s TV Movies SERIES Ripper Street Investigation into the brutal slaying of a newspaper boy leads Inspector Reid (Matthew MacFadyen) to one of the city’s most eminent financial institutions in this new episode. 9 p.m.
March 21, 2014
Reports a few months back that NBC’s multi-award-winning cop show, “Hill Street Blues,” would be simplified next season may have been premature.
June 22, 1985