The Daily Telegraph - Saturday - Review
PLAY MISTY FOR ME
TCM Movies, 11.05pm
Clint Eastwood’s directorial debut served as a precursor to the likes of Fatal Attraction. Eastwood plays a DJ in California who
gives perhaps his finest performance, playing the reprogrammed Terminator sent to protect a teenage John Connor (Edward Furlong), while the liquid T-1000 antagonist (Robert Patrick) – “death rendered in steel” – is still among the best creations of director James Cameron’s career. foolishly becomes involved with an obsessed fan
(Jessica Walter); she stalks him and becomes dangerous after he decides to call things off. The titular Erroll Garner ballad gets its fair share of creepy airplay as Walter’s character grows more and more troublingly unhinged.
The most gruesomely difficult major sporting event in the world gets under way in Nice, leaving behind the glamour of the Côte d’Azur for the brutal mountain passes of the
Alps and Pyrenees. Former winners Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas, who helped Team Sky dominate the Tour for close to a decade, have been dropped as the newly dubbed
“Team Ineos” aim to build a new dynasty, with last year’s winner Colombian Egan Bernal leading the team. Elsewhere, cycling’s greatest ever road sprinter Mark Cavendish misses out through a lack of race fitness. Of the first week, Sunday’s stage two looks the most exciting, with arguably the toughest opening weekend stage in history, including two lung-busting firstcategory climbs. Allez! in the Champions League final. After nearly a full week off, the curtain is raised on the 2020/21 season, with FA Cup winners Arsenal and Premier League champions Liverpool battling it out for the Community Shield, and Chelsea taking on Man City in the women’s competition (BBC One, 12.15pm). On Sunday, it’s the women’s Champions
League final, with Wolfsburg the favourites (BT Sport 1, 6.30pm), and, in the Nation’s League, Wales play Finland (Thursday) and Scotland face Israel (Friday, both Sky Football, 7.00pm). its notorious Eau Rouge corner, plays host to the seventh Grand Prix of the season. Lewis Hamilton is well ahead at the top and is on course for a recordequalling seventh title.
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