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Diane Keaton directed “The Girl With the Crazy Brother,” a “CBS Schoolbreak Special” about a teen-age girl (Patricia Arquette) who must come to terms with the onset of schizophrenia in her brother (Billy Jayne). The daytime program will be shown Jan. 30.

Michael Damian, Dion, Expose, Martika, Stephanie Mills and The Temptations will try to liven up the New Year on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve ‘90,” airing New Year’s Eve on ABC beginning at 11:30 p.m.

When Elliot Gould’s age hits the half-century mark, he tries to turn his back on Valerie Harper, his wife of 25 years. But she won’t let him get away with it, in “I Want Him Back,” a new CBS movie.

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A deadly love triangle evolves when Jennifer Jason Leigh poisons husband Tim Matheson in order to make a permanent appointment with her doctor and lover, played by William Atherton, in “Till Death Do Us Part.” The USA Network cable movie is scheduled to air sometime next year.

Production is under way in France on “Perry Mason: The Case of the Paris Paradox.” The NBC TV movie’s extensive cast includes Yvette Mimieux, Marcy Walker, Ian McShane, Teresa Wright and, of course, Raymond Burr.

Steve Reeves is the chief of the Secret Service during the Civil War whose obsession with duty threatens to destroy lady love Madolyn Smith, a beautiful aristocrat passing information to the Confederate Army, in “The Rose and the Jackal.” The TNT cable movie is now filming in Georgia.

The Arts & Entertainment cable network is expanding its late-night comedy lineup next year with “Caroline’s Comedy Hour,” a new series taped at New York City’s comedy hot spot, Caroline’s at the Seaport. The one-hour show featuring comic sketches and young comedians premieres Jan. 7.

Powers Boothe and Lesley Ann Warren star in “Family of Spies: The Walker Spy Ring,” a five-hour CBS drama about the true story of John Walker Jr.’s life as a master spy for the Soviet Union, the espionage ring he created and the family it destroyed. The two-part movie airs Feb. 4 and Feb. 6.

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