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PACE 22 FRIDAY. MAR. 25 © Tim* Out Theater CD Human Sexuality © Strippers (D MOVIE: Cat People' CD © Bare Essence Sean is ac- _ cepted into the Marshall clan. (60 min.) Qj) MOVIE: 'Erotica' Brigitte is sent to London to photograph the swing­ ing clubs of the '80's. Brigitte lahaie, Diana Cochran. © (26) Vanessa Rfcl CNN Headline News 01 (H) 700 Club 9:30 PM O Yesteryear in Nashville © Crisis Counselor €D(S) 700 Club LOVESICK, A Laad Company release through Warner Bros., Directed and written by Marshall Brickman. Starring Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guiness. Rated 'PG' * * By J.T. YURK0 In "Sleeper," co-written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman, Allen wakes up hun­ dreds of years in the future. When he discovers how.-long he has been asleep he responds, "Gee, I was making progress with my therapist. I could have been nearly cured by now." That one line probably got more laughs at the expense of the fietd^of psychiatry/psy­ chology than ihis entire movie. "Lovesick" is a film that had a lot going for it. Dudley Moore is a superb actor/comedian, co- star Elizabeth McGovern has made only two films but is an Academy Award nominee for her performance in "Ragtime," and Marshall Brickman has excellent writing credentials. But little of this ample supply of talent ever makes it to the screen here "Lovesick" pokes fun at psychiatrists, but the film isn't really a comedy. Moore plays a shrink who falls head over heels in love with one of his patients, played by Miss McGovern. He reverts to act­ ing like an adolescent school­ boy smitten by the girl in the @ Hugh Downs' Spotlight © TBS Evening Now* Kiil New York Report 10:00PM o O O ® © CD © © © News Q Nashville After Hours ©Soap © Business Report © Night Flight © Nature of Things Q MOVIE: 'Choech and Cheng's Nice Dreams' © m Independent Network I Information next row in class. The stage is set for Moore to do some slap­ stick scenes of him pursuing his love, similar to how he tracked Bo Derek in "10." "Lovesick" does not rate a "10." As a comedy spoofing the fertile ground of therapy, the film isn't funny. Brickman even goes as far as to bring in the ghost of Sigmund Freud to comment on the proceedings, but with little comedic payoff. This also wastes the talent of Alec Guiness who plays Freud as the dullest person you'd ever want to meet. As love stories go. this one is predictable and decidedly une'otic. Plot proceedings are strained and obvious. Miss McGovern is certainly someone who could give any­ one a case of lovesickness. With sparkling blue eyes and little-girl looks, she stands next to the diminutive Dudley and makes you wish you were short. She makes an average film worth watching. Without her the film wouldn't measure up to an episode of the old "Bob Newhart Show." ©1983 Compulog [ Soop Beat ] The name's the game with soap characters By Connie Passalacqua Langley Wallingford. Foxy Humdinger. Clint Buchanan. Helena Manzini. Blackie Parrish. What's in a soap opera character's name? The appellations of the people on all 12 soaps is a fascinating science in itself. Most often a first name will be a key to the kind of personality a character possesses. Jenny, for example, usually is a sweet heroine harassed by the world. "One Life to Live's" Jenny Janssen (Brynn Thayer) is a saintly young nurse, who has been wid­ owed twice and even had the misfortune to discover that she was not the actual mother of her baby daugh­ ter. "All My Children's" Jen­ ny Gardner (Kim Delaney), a teen from the wrong side of the tracks is having her engagement to wealthy Greg Nelson sabotaged by the scheming ways of both a jealous debutante, Liza Colby, and Greg's med­ dling mother, Enid Nelson. "Guiding Light's" pregnant Jennifer Evans, fled Spring­ field last month after find­ ing out her husband Mark had an affair with her daughter Amanda Wexler. "Amanda" seems to connotate a wealthy, mani­ pulative woman. There's "GL's" Amanda (Kathleen Cullen); troubled aristo­ cratic teen Amanda Kirk- land (Mary Page Keller) on "Ryan's Hope"; and stuck- up college student Amanda Cousins (Amanda Bearce) on "AMC." John Stamos Obviously, soap opera writers share a fondness for giving the same kind of character the same name. But occasionally, a flash of real inspiration will go into naming a character. Blackie Parrish (John Stamos) is "General Hospital's" resident Dead End Kid. "Search for Tomorrow's" Sunny McClure (Marcia Macabe) is an ever-optimistic report­ er. And yes, Foxy Humd­ inger (Diane McBain) is "Days of Our Lives' " resi­ dent madam. However the names (and most often the char­ acters) invented by "Edge of Night's" headwriter Hen­ ry Slesar really outdo those on other soaps. Monticello residents include and have included, Draper Scott, Logan Swift and Raven Alexander. Slesar's latest delightful invention is Preacher (Charles Flohe), who is not a man of the cloth, but rather a leather- and-studs punk who runs the town's video disco. ©1M3 Compulog