Tube Notes
By Mike Hughes
Gannett News Service
TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: All-Star Game, 2 p.m., FOX. Baseball's best players converge in Seattle for a game that's almost always fun. The National League has the home run firepower. Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa are in the outfield; Mark McGwire and Ken Griffey, Jr., both sidelined earlier this season by injuries, may be ready to play. The American League has the emotional power. With Cal Ripken Jr. ready to play for his final All-Star Game, this could be a fine showdown.
TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE II: "P.O.V.: Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story," 10 p.m., PBS. Back in 1942, a presidential order was sudden and unilateral: Americans of Japanese ancestry on the Mainland would be sent to internment camps in the desert. About 120,000 went but a few resisted. Fred Korematsu, a 23-year-old welder from Oakland, Calif., who didn't want to leave his non-Asian girlfriend, tried plastic surgery. Korematsu was arrested and lost a historic 1944 court case. Decades later, researchers accidentally found that information had been concealed and years later, the case was re-opened. This is a passionate and stirring story, beautifully told by filmmaker Eric Paul Fournier. The show ripples with the quiet agony of the elderly (including Korematsu) and the strident indignation of young Japanese-American lawyers.
"Secrets of the Dead: Death at Jamestown," 8 p.m., PBS. This hour tries to piece together clues as to what illness swept through the Jamestown colony in 1607.
"The African Queen" (1951), 2 p.m., AMC. Three powerful forces — Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn and director John Huston — combined in this story of mismatched people trying to avoid the Germans during World War I. Bogart won an Academy Award and the film became a classic.
"The Real World," 6 p.m., MTV. If you missed last week's premiere catch it today. You'll see seven young people settle into a beautiful Manhattan loft; soon, two are flirting furiously and two are sparring over a racial remark. Afterward, the new episode at 10 p.m. shows us whether any of that has changed.
"Judging Amy," 9 p.m., CBS. This reruns the episode in which Peter and Gillian are jolted to hear that Ned's biological father has been found.
"NYPD Blue," 9 p.m., ABC. A rerun has Danny doing some reflecting after a homeless man is killed.
