Critics' Choice: Mar. 20, 1989

TELEVISION

STAND AND DELIVER (PBS, March 15, 8 p.m. on most stations). Edward James Olmos is up for an Academy Award for his performance as a dedicated inner-city math teacher in this fact-based film, produced for American Playhouse and now having its TV debut.

THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE (ABC, March 19 and 20, 9 p.m. EST). Oprah Winfrey, in the days before Optifast, plays one of seven women enduring the trials of tenement life in this two-part TV movie. The talk-show superstar was also co- executive producer.

BERNSTEIN AT 70 (PBS, March 19, 9 p.m. on most stations). A musical...

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