Murder in paradise in 'Sea Will Tell'
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It's a double murder case that begins on Palmyra, an exotic island 100 miles from civilization. An older couple who took trips to the island suddenly disappears, and the Bugliosi figure (well-played by Richard Crenna) gets involved in the case. If the island beauty isn't enough for you, there's always Rachel Ward to gaze upon. In the same general category, there's Hart Bochner, though his character is so unstable you'll quickly dislike him.
For a while, the miniseries seems to be about trying to figure out whether the Ward and Bochner characters committed the murders, or if it was the Bochner character alone. But keep in mind that Bugliosi co-wrote the book on which the miniseries is based. He gives himself all the good on and on, pausing for his glorious summation to the jury.
• In the salty little baseball romp, "Bull Durham" (ABC, Feb. 24), Susan Sarandon plays a team follower who picks one player to cavort with each season - luring him into her lair, where Edith Piaf records play and a candlelit shrine marks the "church of baseball."
Despite its jock predilections, Ron Shelton's script is literary with a vengeance: When's the last time you heard an athlete in a movie mention that the novels of Susan Sontag are overrated?
In the three years since the movie was first released, one of its other stars has become very big himself: Kevin Costner, who plays an aging minor-league catcher. • An uneducated man struggles to support his family during the Great Depression in "Long Road Home" (NBC, Feb. 24), a drama that, with our own current economic problems, one can only call "timely." Mark Harmon plays the loyal, hardworking father, and Lee Purcell is his wife. • The original "Dirty Harry" was a high-style law-and-order thriller - the movie that made Clint Eastwood a vigilante hero and signaled a societal swing to the right. Successive "Harry" movies have grown increasingly formulaic, and "The Dead Pool" (ABC, Feb. 25) is a pretty skimpy affair.
The movie's big action sequence involves a remote-control, bomb-carrying toy car that tears up and down San Francisco's precipitous streets in pursuit of a real vehicle carrying Harry and his partner.
