Reel Good - Linda Stasi Previews This Week's Best Movies

JACKIE BROWN (1997) Sunday, 10 a.m., TNT Quentin Tarantino revived 1970's blaxploitation sexpot, Pam Grier's acting career - not to mention her profi le - with this wacky spoof from an Elmore Leonard novel. Flight attendant Jackie (Grier) is busted for working as a mule for a ruthless arms dealer (Samuel L. Jackson). What's a girl to do to save herself? With Robert De Niro, Michael Keaton, and Chris Tucker. A NIGHT IN CASABLANCA (1946) Monday, 5 p.m., TCM Only the Marx Brothers could have spoofed both "Casablanca," and "The Maltese Falcon," and lived to work another day in Hollywood - you may die from laughing yourself. Here, Groucho, Harpo and Chico are brothers hired to run a hotel in post-WWII Casablanca, only to discover that ex-Nazis have secreted away bazillions in stolen art inside the joint. Absurdly wonderful. Co-starring Lisette Verea. BEETLEJUICE (1988) Wednesday, 8 p.m., ABC Family My personal favorite Tim Burton comedy, about dead people who refuse to die. Here, a couple (Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis) who've died in a car crash but still inhabit their house, decide to scare the bejesus out of the new owners by hiring Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), a freelance (also dead) "bio-exorcist," and professional demon. Hilarious and scary at the same time. THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985) Thursday, 10 p.m., TCM Woody Allen's satire of 1930's movies stars Mia Farrow as a depression-era waitress whose only excitement comes from the movies. Dull turns to wild when Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels), a dashing archeologist character in her favorite movie, walks off the screen and into her life. But wait - Tom Baxters, it turns out, are walking off screens all over the country.

Originally published by Linda Stasi.

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