Tube Notes
By Mike Hughes
Gannett News Service
TODAY'S MUST-SEE (cable): "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967), 2 and 8 p.m., and "It Conquered Hollywood," 4 p.m.; AMC. Here's a joyride through the extremes of 1960s Hollywood: a great movie, portraying real-life bank-robbers, then a profile of the studio that made hundreds of awful movies. Talented people writers Robert Benton and David Newman, director Arthur Penn, actors Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway proved that fun movies like "Bonnie and Clyde" could also be a high art form. "It Conquered Hollywood" tells of American International Pictures, which churned out cheapies. This delightful documentary including frank comments from 80-year-old co-founder Sam Arkoff makes it clear that the goal was always commerce, not art.
"That '70s Show," 7 and 7:30 p.m., Fox. There's a Teflon quality here. Even when "That '70s Show" has a silly plot or a cheap line, which is often, it remains fun. In the first, Fez needs to discourage a stalking ex-girlfriend. The solution is to have Donna pretend to date him. In the second, Eric reads Donna's diary, learning she wishes he were edgier.
"JAG," 7 p.m., CBS. Country star Trisha Yearwood returns to her guest role. This time, Cmdr. Harmon Rabb is a murder suspect.
"Frasier," 8 p.m., NBC. Daphne is back from the fat farm (she was missing because actress Jane Leeves was having a baby). Now she's back, spinning Niles into a tizzy.