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## HEADING: HISTORICAL ## LEFT COLUMN 1287. REVOLUTION. (1985) HOME AT LAST. Orphan Train. 1/10/88 THE FAR HORIZONS. (1955) (Lewis Mark) w/Charlton Heston; Fred MacMurray & Donna Reed. WORK CE. (2nd half only) LAKE POWELL: Heart of the Grand Canyon. AMERICA: Decl. of Ind. & events thereto. 1288. STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY: Host: Patrick Watson. GENESIS. (Debut) 7/11/89 REBORN IN AMERICA. 7/13/89 CHIEFS and STRONGMEN. 7/23/89 GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE. 8/1/89 THE RULE OF LAW. 8/8/89 THE LAST CITIZENS. 8/15/89 THE PRICE OF DEMOCRACY. 8/29/89 A SOLDIER'S DUTY. 9/5/89 (Concluded next tape) 1289. STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY: A SOLDIER'S DUTY (Concluded) THE FIRST FREEDOM. 8/22/89 WHITHER DEMOCRACY. 9/12/89 1290. AMERICA'S CENTURY: Host: Lewis Lapham. COMING OF AGE. (Debut) 11/7/89 FAMILIAR ENEMIES. 11/14/89 THE LIMITS OF POWER. 11/21/89 BLOWING THE FORTUNE. 11/25/89 THE NEXT CENTURY. 12/16/89 IMPERIAL MASQUERADE. 11/18/89 OUR GANG. Extra Big Circus. (BW) 1935 ## RIGHT COLUMN 1291. FORD: THE MAN & THE MACHINE. w/Cliff Robertson. Mini-series & Hope Lange. 4/2/89 TUCKER, THE MAN & HIS DREAM w/Jeff Bridges L. Bridges & M. Landau. TUCKER: THE MAN AND HIS DREAM Martin Landau and Jeff Bridges Francis Ford Coppola's bright, shiny film about an automobile visionary is a vehicle that Frank Capra might have driven. According to Coppola, Tucker was a man who battled the system, trying to come out with a new idea. It's about technological innovation, teamwork and struggling against a bureaucracy. The fact-based 1988 movie begins in 1945 in Ypsilanti, Mich., where family man and inventor Preston Tucker (portrayed by Jeff Bridges) dearistically promotes his concept of tomorrow's car today. The futuristic auto he envisions will boast such innovations as seat belts, fuel injection, disc brakes, a rear engine, a pop-out windshield and an additional center headlight—all to sell for under $2500. Eventually, production begins in a Chicago plant. But Tucker hasn't bargained on opposition from Detroit's powerful auto-makers and their friends in Washington. Nor does he foresee stock-fraud charges and an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Rated PG; strong language. Vera Joan Allen Abe Mann Landau (Oscar nominee) Eddie Frederic Forrest Jimmy Mark Alex Chas Kloss Junior Christian Slater Bennington Dean Goodman Howard Hughes Dean Stockwell Ferguson Lloyd Bridges (1 hr. 55 min.) Commitment figures as the central theme in the week's major pay movies. 1988's Tucker: The Man and His Dream ★★★ (HBO, MAX), from executive producer George Lucas and director Francis Ford Coppola, stars Jeff Bridges as visionary Preston Tucker, a Michigan inventor who in 1946 set out to "design and manufacture the finest auto ever made." The Tucker was quite a car: disc brakes, padded dash, 20 miles to the gallon, shatterproof glass, twin carburetors and fuel injection—but it was not the car Detroit was building just after WWII. To get it built, the exuberant Tucker will have to take on the Big Three automakers, an influential U.S. senator (played by Jeff's dad, Lloyd Bridges) and even his own board of directors. Does he win? Well, put it this way: how many Tuckers do you see on the road these days? Win or lose, Tucker is clearly vindicated by Coppola, whose beautifully and imaginatively filmed movie is so upbeat and so gosh-darn all-American that Frank Capra could have directed it. Coppola is obviously working from the heart here. He, like Tucker, is a maverick who fought the establishment and tried to build his own, better mousetrap. Tucker's car and Coppola's Zoetrope Studios suffered similar fates. CENTENARY OF THE MOTOR CAR. Biography: Henry Ford. (1969)