
Reel good
Down And Out In Beverly Hills, 1986
Sunday, 4 p.m., Showtime 2
A very funny movie made in the era when Richard Dreyfuss, Bette Midler and Nick Nolte were movie stars. Dreyfuss is a coat-hanger entrepreneur who lives in a Beverly Hills mansion. Midler is his wife, a glossy, frightening yenta who drives to stores and shops. One day, a homeless man (Nolte) tries to drown himself in their swimming pool. Dreyfuss saves his life and the guy becomes part of the family. Big, hilarious mistake. Little Richard contributes a classic cameo as an irate neighbor.
Bull Durham, 1987
Monday, 3:30 p.m., CINEMAX
Three unlikely characters find themselves embroiled in a romantic triangle that involves fast-balls, chakras and the poetry of Walt Whitman. Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) is a minor league catcher hired to train Nuke LaLoosh (Tim Robbins), a pitcher with “a million-dollar arm and a five-cent head” for the big-time. Enter Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon), English teacher and baseball groupie who selects one player per season to “educate.” The leads hit several grand slams.
Suddenly Last Summer, 1959
Tuesday, 5:30 a.m., TCM
If you crave outrageous camp, you’ll be up to your elbows in it with “Suddenly Last Summer.” Elizabeth Taylor plays the niece of Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn), a twisted dowager hell-bent on wiping out Taylor’s memories of her son, Sebastian, who was eaten by cannibals. Venable hires Montgomery Clift, a surgeon at the local looney bin, to cut out part of her brain. The ladies have the best lines in this deeply, deeply crazy movie from Tennessee Williams. “Give her a lo-bo-to-my!” Hepburn thunders about Taylor. “And they devoured him!” Taylor shrieks about Sebastian.
Dead Ringer, 1964
Thursday, 2 a.m., TCM
Bette Davis plays not one but two roles in this crime drama about a woman who murders her rich twin sister and tries to take her place. The two men in their lives (Karl Malden, an earnest cop who loved the poor twin, and Peter Lawford, an aging gigolo who tumbled the rich twin) know something is up! Classic scenes include poor Davis pushing rich Davis into a chair and bellowing “Sit down!” before she shoots her. Lawford also has a nasty close-up with a great Dane.

