Part of the considerable appeal of the...

Part of the considerable appeal of the 1991 Oscar-nominated Bugsy (NBC Sunday at 8 p.m.) is the fact that both gangster extraordinaire Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel and Warren Beatty, who plays him, appear to be charmers for whom the ordinary rules of life don’t apply. Beatty, writer James Toback and director Barry Levinson each brought markedly different sensibilities to the project. Overall, the result of their collaboration--though not without its flaws--is a satisfying film that delivers a full measure of stylish entertainment. Key developments are Siegel’s growing infatuation with good-time girl Virginia Hill (Annette Bening) and his dream of turning Las Vegas into a gambling mecca.

In the well-plotted 1993 TV movie There Was a Little Boy (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.), Cybill Shepherd and John Heard portray a successful couple expecting a new baby but awash in recrimination and guilt over the kidnaping of their first child 15 years earlier. With dynamic young Canadian actor Scott Bairstow.

Born in East L.A. (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.), Cheech Marin’s exuberant but undersold 1987 comedy, is at once satirical and Chaplinesque. Marin casts himself as a third-generation Mexican American mistakenly deported as an illegal immigrant.

The 1993 TV movie A Family Torn Apart (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.) is a moderately engaging drama involving fiercely conservative parents (John M. Jackson and Linda Kelsey) who are murdered by one of their two adopted teen-age sons.

The 1984 No Small Affair (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) is better than you might think: It’s about a racy San Francisco romance between a youthful would-be paparazzi (Jon Cryer) and the rock-star goddess of his dreams (Demi Moore).

Loosely based on real-life episodes, Tim Hunter’s 1986 youth film River’s Edge (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.) shows some pot-smoking kids trapped in a twisted legacy of the ‘60s: inheriting their parents’ rebelliousness but not their causes. They are simply too apathetic to react positively or morally when one of them commits a murder. It’s a rich scene, loosely based on fact, though parts don’t always jell. And in its great moments (Dennis Hopper’s scenes) passion boils over the edges. With Crispin Glover, Ione Skye and Keanu Reeves.