Switch to Desktop Site  Weekend TV promises lots of laughs. CBS
movie finds humor in criminal capers in international art world
About these ads  Hot Paint ``CBS Sunday Movie,'' 9-11 p.m.
Comedy starring Gregory Harrison and John Larroquette.
``Everybody freeze, or the fat babe gets it,'' shouts Gus to the
police massed outside a Boston art gallery, as he points a
pistol at his hostage.  Even this early in the made-for-TV
comedy, it's no shock to learn who the hostage is - not a real
person, but a plump nude figure in the multimillion-dollar
Renoir painting Gus is clutching. And the effete gallery-owner
is much too concerned about the canvas to let the police act.
The scene is typical of this gleeful, featherweight farce, which
manages to mock - often entertainingly - every target of
opportunity in its bizarre journey through the international art
world. In Gus's comic escape, for instance, there are lots of
direct and indirect hits, like oddball gallery types who don't
bother distinguishing people from pain