

Yet it was easy to predict that it would make Bruce Willis a star, cast as a New York police detective with a sense of humor who takes on a bunch of terrorists who have occupied a Century City skyscraper. As a human drama it is disgusting and silly, a mindless depiction of carnage on an epic scale.

In the early 1990s, Harmon starred in the TV shows Reasonable Doubts and. The 1988 Die Hard (Channel 11 Monday at 8 p.m.) is the archetypal big-deal Hollywood exploitation picture, like a giant war toy that is a triumph of well-oiled mechanical precision that performs miracles of destruction. In 1986, Harmon starred in the hit movie The Deliberate Stranger, in which. This third exploit of one-man attack squad John Rambo-spreading his worldwide vendetta to Afghanistan-may never be surpassed for sheer self-regard. With the 1988 Rambo III (ABC tonight at 9 p.m.), Sylvester Stallone made what may be a $60-million monument to himself, an awe-struck memorial to his musculature, a would-be pop “Iliad” loony with self-love-a carnival of carnage that reduces history, politics and warfare to foils for the greater glory of Sly. Mark Harmon and Margaret Welsh take over roles created by Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright. Shadow of a Doubt (CBS tonight at 9 p.m.) is a new TV movie remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite among his own movies, a 1943 classic.
