Posted on: Saturday, October 4, 2003
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By Mike Hughes
Gannett News Service
Tonight's Must-See
"Saturday Night Live" 10:30 p.m., NBC. As the season starts, movie star Jack Black hosts with John Mayer as the musical guest. A week later, Justin Timberlake does both and on Oct. 11 Oscar-winner Halle Berry hosts and Britney Spears sings. Kenan Thompson, of Nickelodeon's "Kenan and Kel," and Finesse Mitchell of BET's "Comic View" join the cast as regulars.
Of Note
"Real Women Have Curves" (2002), 5 p.m., HBO. This movie won three Sundance Film Festival awards but perhaps for its good intentions. The script — about a smart and slightly chubby Mexican-American teenager who is verbally harassed by her mother — is blunt and heavy-handed.
"Las Vegas" 7 and 8 p.m., NBC. Two reruns of the so-so series. In the pilot, casino security guy Danny (Josh Duhamel) is found in bed with his boss' daughter. In the second hour, Danny investigates the death of his buddy.
"Lilo & Stitch" (2002), 7 p.m., ABC. This sweet-spirited animated film is a about an impish alien who befriends a lonely girl.
"L.A. Dragnet" 9 p.m., ABC. This hour begins with a grotesque scene — a horribly burned teenager, believed to be dead, begins to stir. That starts the season for this show, which was supposed to be an improvement on last season's awful "Dragnet." The name and the co-stars have changed, but the rest is the same: inept, vile and clumsy.
"The Blues: Piano Blues" 9 p.m., PBS. Although this is the weakest of the seven "Blues" films in Martin Scorsese's documentary, which began last weekend, this last installment is very thorough. Clint Eastwood directed it; he simply sat at the piano with the greats and asked them to talk and play. We see Ray Charles, Dave Brubeck, Pinetop Perkins, Marcia Ball, Dr. John and more. But Eastwood's slow style never allows anything to build. So while there are many good moments, there are few great ones.
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