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CHECK LISTINGS FOR EXACT TIME (e) 1904 Computog 2:30 AM © Newlywed Game © MOVIE: 'A Lion Is In the Streets' A Southern peddler marries a school teacher, then starts on a whirlwind rise politi­ cally, using hysteria among cot­ ton pickers and small town folk. James Cagney, Barbara Hale, Anne Francis. 1953. © Auto Racing '84: SCCA Super Vaos © Tennis Magazine CD Past Forward © MOVIE: 'Raggody Man' © MOVIE: 'A Matter of Cunning' © Nows Q) Mora Raal People fril (58) Nancy Harmon's Lava Special The BOX SEAT The tube has transformed sports By Adam Bockerman If read before bowl time. Benjamin G. Rader's "In Its Own Image: How Television Has Transformed Sports" might produce in a tubesports viewer the moti­ vation necessary to begin examination of his own per­ sonal relationship with the small screen. Rader argues that by saturating our sens­ es with contests routinely hyped to spectacle status, and by relentlessly micro- analyzing the successes and failures of the perform­ er and his performances, television has not only trivi­ alized the experience of watching sports, but has "diminished the capacity of sports to furnish heroes, build communities and to enact the rituals that con­ tain and exhalt traditional values." An historian at the Uni­ versity of Nebraska, Rader vividly traces the evolution of sports reportage in America, from the folklorist myths concerning the pre- technoiogical era's base­ ball players, to the net­ works getting up-close and all-too personal with Olym­ pic athletes. He superim­ poses the coverage onto a report of the shifting demo­ graphics in post-World War II America to demonstrate how the "privatization of leisure" fostered a new generation of fans whose viewing paradigms were generated on the sofa. Why support the minor league dub in Utica by visiting the old ballpark when the Yanks are on a supersta­ te? In describing why a sport such as hockey is virtually untranslatable to the cool medium while football seems inherently suited, Rader engages in keen Crit­ icism. In documenting the glory of Pete Rozelle. the commissioner who brought pro football billions, Rader is respectfully ironic by quoting legendary Coach Vince Lombardi, who said: "What Rozelle did with television receipts probably saved football at Green Bay." There are many who still believe that it was Lom­ bardi himself who saved the game in Green Bay. Neither football nor baseball nor certainly hockey in its desperation for a national contract were the first sports to tinker with their aesthetic in search of a better fit with the medium. Rather, it was that morality actor himself, the professional wrestler, who realized that a flying- scissor kick read better than a standing full-nelson. Rader appreciates that pre­ cedent as much as he bemoans the recognition that this generation of col­ lege administrators is not the first to outsmart them­ selves by unwittingly flood­ ing the market with their product. Unfortunately, he sug­ gests no solutions. Televi­ sion's nurturing of sports both professional and ama­ teur creates for the cod medium a substantial rat­ ings generator and a lever with which to reinforce net­ work loyalties. 3:00 AM O Today in Chicago © Dating Game © MOVIE: Toss Of the Storm Country' Upon their arri­ val in America, a young girl and her uncle find themselves in the middle of a feud between a Mennonite family and the town­ speople. Diane Baker, Lee Phi­ lips, Jack Ging. 1960. © Dentistry Today © CBS Nows Nightwatch JIP © Groan Acres ©3® Gary Graanwald 3:30 AM O Meditations "O Treasure Hunt © Auto Racing 'B4: World Rally Championship CD Coping © MOVIE: Orphans' Si) Nostalgia Theatre ©3® Kay Arthur 4KK) AM © Gong Show © Prog Cont'd CD It) Movie Cont'd © Salute to the Eldorly © Johnny Cash's Amarica - A Special Bonafit Perform­ ance © Playboy Vidoo Maga- line © Nows © (3® Gad's Nows Behind Nows © CNN Hoadlino Nows 0̂I0I0I0I0I0I0I0J0I0I0T0T0T0I0J0̂ (G-MGM/UA Entertainment Co.) Starring Roy SchetOer. Helen Mirren and Bob Balaban. * * , By J.T. YURKO When the final credits rolled for Stanley Kubrick's "2001 -- A Space Odyssey" (1968), audiences the world over mut­ ter od a collective "What?" Perhaps no tHm in recent mem­ ory instigated more discus­ sions at late-night diners than the brilliant but elusive sci-fi epic. What was the monolith? What happened on that final approach to Jupiter? What happened to astronaut Bow­ man (Keir OuDea) ? And after that last verse of his swan song. "Daisy." what happened to HAL. the soft-spoken but malevolent super-computer? If such questions have kept you awake the past 15 years, you'll be pleased with "2010." As the sequel begins, both the United States and Russia want to know more about the Jupi­ ter mission. An uneasy alliance is formed between the two countries. The United States hes the knowledge and techni­ cal data on the mission, but Russia has a rocket ready to go. Time is critical, because the original ship is quickly going out ot orbit. This new film has no real antagonist, except for the revived HAL computer. St*, writer-producer-director Peter Hyams keeps the film moving along at a brisk pace, if not the warp speed of the "Star Trek" movies or any George Lucas or Steven Spielberg adventure. Hyams is also no Kubrick. The man who directed "Capri­ corn One" and "Outtand" ("High Noon" in outer space) has presented a sequel more akin to prose than poetry, more in line with Hollywood scenarios than futuristic philos­ ophy Roy Scheider is. as usual, excellent as the mission designer and prime riddle- solver. John Lithgow plays the engineer of the original space­ ship "Discovery" sent along to bring her home. But Bob Bala­ ban almost steels the tHm as Dr. Chadra. the creator of the HAL 9000. who seems more at home with computers than human companions "2010" is a fine Christmas movie, featuring an idealistic ending and superb visual effects. StM. there won't be quite as many diner discus­ sions on this one.