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Adam’s Rib (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.)...

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Adam’s Rib (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.) This 1949 classic is the best of all the Tracy-Hepburn comedies, with Spencer and Kate cast as warring--but married--attorneys, and one whose feminist screenplay becomes more contemporary with each passing year.

My Little Chickadee (KCET Saturday at 10 p.m.) In this 1940 release W.C. Fields and Mae West became one of Hollywood’s most bizarre teams, their styles so similar that neither could be the “straight man.” They also had such strange sexual chemistry that this film’s major erotic scene features a goat. It’s a historic confluence anyway, as the stars recognize when they trade tag lines at the climax (“Come up and see me some time.” “Yes, my little chickadee”).

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