THE NATURAL
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Usually, when I point out this 1984 movie, it’s to praise the supporting performances around Robert Redford, playing an overage rookie baseball phenom. Glenn Close, Wilford Brimley, Robert Duvall and others. And this time, I’d be happy to single out Kim Basinger, who plays the tempting bad girl to Close’s angelic good one. But since Randy Newman just got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, let’s single him out, because he wrote this movie score. And it’s a wonderful one, too – proving that he too, at this particular venture, was a natural.