"Lily Tomlin plays a middle-aged, married Malibu homemaker who meets a significantly younger, handsome man (John Travolta) on the beach. Bored with her upscale Southern California routine and her marriage, Trisha (Tomlin) pursues an affair with sexy "Strip" (Travolta)."
--AMC's own description of
"Moment By Moment," airing MONDAY. YES. TODAY. Catch it now...if you DARE! It may never show again! Warning: Tomlin + Travolta + 1978 + Nude In A Hottub = Projectile Nasal Vomiting. Songs include "Sometimes When We Touch" by Dan Hill; soundtrack by Lee "Riding With Death" Holdridge.
Say what you will about AMC, they'll show the truly awful, unwatchable crap not even Cinemax will foist on the world. "Can't Stop The Music," "Six Weeks," "Mommie Dearest," and now...this...THING. (Oh, and "Death Race 2000" is on this week, too. You're welcome.)
You gotta remember: this was released one year after "Saturday Night Fever." Travolta was a hot property. And people still stayed away in droves! This was the '70s' own version of Madonna's "Swept Away." "Sextette" was released the same year. Why isn't 1978 a year that will live in infamy?
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Meanwhile, our good friends at
PAX TV continue to scrape the bottom of the disaster-movie barrel. After serving up "Tornado Warning!," "Wildfire 7: The Inferno," "Lightning: Fire From The Sky," and "Killer Bees!," here comes..."Frozen Impact." If you thought "On Hostile Ground"'s sinkhole-scenario was silly, how about a killer hailstorm? PAX turns on the ice machines Friday evening.
Coming soon on PAX will be "Trapped," yet another avalanche movie. (I'm sorry, you just can't top Dan Cortese in
"Volcano: Fire On The Mountain" for stupid snow-related disaster movies. And Roger Corman's
"Avalanche" and
"Escape From Alaska"--the special effects of which have to been seen to be believed--easily have second and third place sewn up tight. But keep trying, PAX. I'm lovin' it.)
PAX's upcoming non-disaster movies include--I am not making this up--
"Ghost Dog." No, not the Jim Jarmusch/Forrest Whittaker movie--this is PAX. No, this is a fun and whimiscal movie combining the best elements of "Ghost Dad" and "K-9" (baaaaaaaaaarf). Too bad it's been done
before.