WEST SIDE STORY (1961)

Monday, 8 p.m., TCM

The dancingest, singingest movie about racial hatred and gang warfare, based on Broadway musical. Natalie Wood is Maria, the sheltered sister of the head gang banger of the Sharks, who falls Tony, (Richard Beymer), the former head of the rival gang, the Jets. It’s Romeo & Juliet put to a glorious score by Leonard Bernstein. Winner of ten, count ’em ten, Oscars.

THE TOWERING INFERNO (1974)

Friday, 10: 15 p.m., AMC

An architect discovers that shoddy wiring has been used on his new 138 floor building on the night of its opening party. Floor by floor, subplot by subplot, the movie (and the building) start to burn, requiring increasingly more daring rescues. One of the primo disaster flicks of the 1970’s is made more enjoyable by the mere sight of macho eye candy, Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.

CLUELESS (1995)

Friday, 9 p.m., TBS

One of those really smart teen flicks that should have been just dumb. Alicia Silverstone is a pretty, popular and seemingly one-dimensional Valley Girl who, with her gal pal, plays matchmaker between two of her school’s teachers and then moves on to make over a new clueless girl in school.

FOUR BROTHERS (2005)

Saturday, 9 p.m., Showtime

Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin and Garrett Hedlund are adult white and black adoptees who try to avenge their mother’s murder in Detroit. Each has moved on but they come together and revert back to their old street ways. Inspired by the old western “The Sons of Katie Elder,” this movie stars men who are this generation’s macho eye candy.