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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (KNBC Sunday...

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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (KNBC Sunday at 8:30 p.m.), a 1993 bio-pic of Bruce Lee introduces the magnetic new actor Jason Scott Lee (no relation) in the title role. He’s a more flamboyant and balletic martial artist than Bruce Lee and the dramatization of Lee’s life is heavy on the corn and the uplift but still entertaining.

Quigley Down Under (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.) is a 1990 revisionist western, with Australian aborigines replacing Native Americans. Quigley Down Under has the panoramic scope of a big-screen epic but the soul of a TV movie. It has an interesting premise: A sharpshooter from Wyoming (Tom Selleck) hires himself out to a slimy cattle baron (Alan Rickman) in western Australia only to discover his job entails picking off aborigines.

In the 1985 The Legend of Billie Jean (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.), Helen Slater and Christian Slater (no relation) become a pint-sized, MTV-generation version of Bonnie and Clyde with a few deft strokes. However, it’s not the dark, horrific shocker it could have been.

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In Roman Polanski’s elegant, icy 1988 Hitchcockian thriller Frantic (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.), an American doctor (Harrison Ford) pursues his wife’s kidnappers through the deadlier byways of Paris. Ford is excellent and Emmanuelle Seigner is woundingly sexy as his unwilling guide.

After Hours (KCOP Saturday at 8 p.m.) finds Martin Scorsese in a lighter mood--though the fumes of his special hell still seep up from the streets. It’s a nightmare chase comedy aboutthe curious nocturnal events that befall a hapless, meek Upper East Sider who blunders into Manhattan’s gloriously seedy and wacko artists’ district, SoHo, after midnight. With Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette.

The light comic wit of the 1990 Quick Change (KABC Saturday at 9 p.m.) has a lovely premise: a trio of disillusioned New Yorkers, a city planner (Bill Murray), his sweetheart (Geena Davis) and Murray’s goofy, longtime friend and liability (Randy Quaid), execute a brilliantly clever bank holdup, exiting with $1 million. Now all they have to do to be home free is to get out of New York, an urban obstacle course of unmarked streets, wayward subway entrances and unfriendly natives.

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