“Great Journeys'’ F'oIMows
Historical Highways
Great Journeys will embark
on eight dynamic treks along
the world’s trade routes on
Wednesdays at 9 p.m.,
beginning July 18, on the 10-
channel network of North
Carolina Public Television
(NCPT).
Eight distinguished writers
take the viewer down the great
historic highways of the world,
across formidable mountain
ranges, through deserts and
along treacherous waterways.
Whether buried under asphalt or
bypassed by technological and
political boundaries, all hold the
promise of adventure and
insight.
The journeys start with The
Silk Road as Colin Thubron
travels through a China that is
mostly unknown in the West.
He discovers a people who are
not native Chinese but Muslim
Turcomen — farmers and
traders whose culture is almost
Middle Eastern.
In Russia’s Road West, airing
July 25, Norman Stone travels
through the Soviet Union, from
Leningrad to the Baltic states of
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania,
and views their painful struggle
‘The Brain’ Reveals
Mysteries of the Mind
Viewers can explore the
awesome structure and all of
the known functions of nature’s
,nost mysterious creation — the
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Barnett and Allison Chase of
Pilobolus, Carolyn Carlson,
Eroni^ava Nijinska, David
Parses and Glen Tetley.
‘S* *ven-show season tickets
are $95 for the general public,
$90 for senior citizens and
Union Privilege Card holders,
and $57 for UNC students. Six-
and five-show season tickets are
available and priced according
to the shows selected. Shows
and dates are subject to change.
Tickets are on sale at the
Union Box Office. For
information, call 962-1449.
'A special bonus show, the
play "Sisters," will be presented
April 4. The show brings
together two black women with
differing outlooks on life:
Olivia is an advertising
executive who just found out
that regardless of how hard she
woiks she will probably never
reach the top, while Cassie is
the night-shift cleaning woman
_who has little patience for
uptight executives. Their
antagonism is heightened when
they are trapped in Olivia’s
office by a snowstorm that
causes a power failure in the
building. The play reveals
insight about women -
especially black women in the
corporate white male world.
Bonus show tickets are $10
for the general public, $8 for
senior citizens and Privilege
Card holders, and $3 for UNC
students when com'Dined with a
season subscription.
Author, journalist and
musician Miles Kington sets out
to find the old road that links
Burma to China across a
torturous mountain route in The
Burma Road on Aug. 1.
William Shaweross travels
in search of the Taureg in The
Sail Road, airing Aug. 8. These
the historic salt routes of the
East, have lost their status and
have become just another ethnic
minority struggling to carve out
an existence.
The Ho Chi Minh Trail, on
Philip Jones Oriffichs sees tlow
the trail was conceived and
constructed. Vietnamese Army
officers and engineers re-enact
some of the exercises and
techniques they used during the
war.
Billy Bragg and Andy
Kershaw travel the 17th centi!>7
route used to carry Bolivian
silver by llama train across the
Andes Mountains and the
Atacama desert in Silver
Tracks, airing Aug. 22.
On Aug. 29, Hugo Williams
journeys from Laredo on the
Psnsma City in 7'/ie F‘an
American Highway. The
highway, developed to link the
Americas, has a history of
conquest, political intrigue and
repressive economic
transactions.
Across the South Pacific,
airing Sept. 5, records the
adventures of Dame Naomi
james, the first woman to sail
around the world alone via
Cape Horn. James travels 5,000
miles across the South Seas in
search of the tme Polynesian
culture.
human brain — when The Brain
airs Thursdays, July 12, at 8
p.m. This eight-part series is
being offered on the 10-channel
network of North Carolina
Public Television (NCPT).
The Enlightened Machine
will open the series by using
models, micrographs, computer
animation and people in action
to explore what the brain does
and how it works.
On July 19, Olympic-
champion diver Greg Louganis
and Nobel Prize-winners Hubei
and Wiesel help explain how
people perceive the world and
move within it on Vision and
Movement.
Rhythms and Drives, airing
July 26, uses vignettes from the
animal world and human
society to investigate
instinctive, subconscious
rhythms and drives, and the
workings of the "primitive"
brain.
Theories about brain
organization help to unravel the
mystery of memory on
Learning and Memory, airing
Aug. 9.
Drawing on work with split-
brain patients. The Two Brains,
airing Aug. 16, explores the
cortical hemispheres, the
relation of thought and
language, and sex differences of
the human brain.
On Aug. 23, Madness offers
compelling portraits of
schizophrenics and their
families to underscore how
much brain research has
uncovered and what it has yet to
accomplish
States of Mind concludes this
series on Aug. 30 with a survey
of today’s science of the brain
and a look at its future in
medicine, artificial intelligence
and awareness.
VIDEOVIEW
By Jay Bobbin
(Ratings for each film begin
with an “asterisk” rating — one
meaning “poor,” four meaning
“excellent” — followed by the
Motion Picture Association of
America rating, and then by a
family-viewing guide, the key for
which appears below.)
STARTING THIS WEEK;
ENEMIES, A LOVE STORT'
(Media, $89.98): Ron (“Blue
Steel”) Silver won critical raves
and co-stars Anjelica Huston and
Lena Olin earned Oscar nomina
tions for director Paul (“Down
and Out in Beverly Hills”) Ma-
zursky’s comedy-drama of a big
amist — married to three women
(Margaret Sophie Stein is the
third) — who is haunted by the
lingering effects of World War II.
*** (R: AS, P, V)
‘ ^FAMIL Y BUSINESS' ’
(RCA/Columbia, $89.95): Direc
tor Sidney (“Network,” “Q &
A”) Lumet draws together three
estimable talents in this comedy-
drama about three generations of
a crime-involved family. Sean
Connery is the ex-con patriarch
who inspires his grandson (Mat
thew Broderick), much to the cha
grin of the latter’s father (Dustin
Hoffman), to join him in a heist.
*** (R: AS, P, V)
* 'INTERNAL AFFAIRS' ’
(Paramount, VHS price unlisted.
Beta $29.95): Though he would
score a much bigger hit with
“Pretty Woman,” Richard Gere
began his screen comeback with a
solid performance in this melo
drama about a veteran police offi
cer being investigated by another
cop (Andy Garcia, also excellent)
for crooked activities. Their ulti
mate showdown is worth the wait.
*** (R: AS, P, V)
"TREMORS" (MCA/Univer-
sal, retail price unlisted): An ef
fective spoof of horror films while
offering its own thrills, this saga
puts a Nevada town at the mercy
of man-eating creatures that bur
row up from beneath the ground.
Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward are
the heroes, and Michael (“Family
Ties”) Gross and country singer
Reba McEntire are fine as fanatic
survivalisls. *** (PG-13: P, V)
HELD OVER: "GROSS
ANATOMY" (Touchstone,
$89.95): An engaging perfor
mance by the offbeat Matthew
Mocline does much to enliven this
medical .school comedy. He plays
an unconventional student who
challenges his instructor (Chris
tine Lahti) while he pursues an
attractive classmate (Daphne
Zuniga), and even if the result is
rather predictable, it’s still con
siderable fun to get to. ** (PG-
13: AS, P)
"MACK THE KNIFE" (RCA-
/Columbia, $89.95): Those who
know the Bobby Darin song, but
not the originating play known as
“The Threepenny Opera,”
should get an education from this
revised version. Raul Julia plays
the title character, a crook whose
marriage into a thieving family
inspires rivalry and conspiracy;
Richard Harris and opera star Ju
lia Migenes also appear. ** (PG-
13: AS, P, V)
"SAVAGE BEACH" (RCA-
/Columbia, $79.95): Ex-Playboy
centerfolds Dona Speir and Hope
Marie Carlton, who have ap
peared in such past action films as
“Picasso Trigger” and “Hard
Ticket to Hawaii,” team again
with director Andy Sidaris for this
saga of lovely Drug Enforcement
Agency operatives who cross
paths with well-armed comman
dos seeking a hidden fortune. **
(R: AS, N, P, V)
"SHE-DEVIL" (Orion,
$89.98): They barely share any
time on screen, but Meryl Streep
and Roseanne Barr certainly re
main one of the more unusual
movie pairings of recent times in
director Susan Seidelman’^s come
dy. Barr plays a frumpy house
wife whose husband (Ed Begley
Jr.) is stolen by romance novelist
Streep ... inspiring her to design
an elaborate revenge. ** (PG-13;
AS, P, V)
COMING SOON: "MEN
DONH LEAVE" (Warner, July
18): In this comedy-drama, Jessi
ca Lange stars as a newly wid
owed woman who struggles to
start her life anew. (PG-13)
"HARD TO KILL" (Warner,
July 25): A huge box-office hit
early in the year, this drama casts
Steven Seagal as an agent deter
mined to find old enemies. (R)
"EVERYBODY WINS' (Ori
on, July 26): “Cannery Row”
stars Nick Nolle and Debra Wing
er are re- 'amed in playwright
Arthur Mi s small-town mys
tery. (R)
FAMILY VIEWING GUIDE
KEY: /45, adult situations; N^ nu
dity; P, profanity; V, violence;
GV, particularly graphic violence.
1990. Tribune Media Services