JFK (1991)
Monday, 1 a.m., TNT
Kevin Costner stars as crusading New
Orleans D.A.Jim Garrison who tried to prove
that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone.
Duh.A great Oliver Stone film despite
some revisionist history.The superb cast
includes Donald Sutherland .
THE WOMEN (1939)
Wednesday, 11;15 a.m., TCM
The movie that put the “lite” in socialite..
This witty,clever,catty Clare Boothe Luce film stars Norma Shearer as the too-nice socialite who loses her husband to conniving shop girl Joan Crawford. Rosalind Russell,Paulette Goddard,Joan Fontaine round out the pajama party.
MILDRED PIERCE (1945)
Wednesday, 1:30 p.m., TCM
Ambitious Mildred (Joan Crawford) works day and night to give her ungrateful daughter (Ann Blyth) everything she wants.Vile child pays her back by not only sleeping with Mom ‘s new hubby,but by telling her that she hates her because she smells of chickens!Crawford won the Oscar.
MYSTIC RIVER (2003)
Saturday, 10 p.m., Cinemax
In a blue-collar town,old friends reunite as one (Sean Penn )buries his daughter, another (Kevin Bacon)tries to find her killer,and a third (Tim Robbins)tries to appear innocent.Another tear-your-heart out drama by Clint Eastwood,
Oscar winner for “Million Dollar Baby.”