Posted on: Saturday, October 16, 2004
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By Mike Hughes
Gannett News Service
Tonight's Must-See
"Growing Pains: Return to the Seavers," 7 p.m., ABC. A month into the new season, ABC finally gets around to putting something new on Saturdays. This movie brings back the clan from the "Growing Pain" series. The parents (Joanna Kerns, who directed, and Alan Thicke) have retirement plans; some of their kids disapprove. Baseball, 1:30 p.m., Fox. It's the fourth game of the American League Championship Series, another classic confrontation between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. "Survivor: Vanuatu," 7 p.m., CBS. Here is a quick rerun of Thursday's episode. "Brighton Beach Memoirs" (1986), 7 Pax TV. On stage, this offered a well-crafted mixture of comedy, drama and warmth as playwright Neil Simon described growing up as a Jewish kid in Brooklyn in 1937. This movie version has Jonathan Silverman starring, with Blythe Danner, Judith Ivey and Bob Dishy as the key grown-ups. "Cold Case," 8 p.m., CBS. In this rerun, Lily reopens the case of a woman killed while leaving a political event in 1992. "Desperate Housewives," 9 p.m., ABC. Here is a rerun of last Sunday's episode, the second for this comedy-drama that's become a quick ratings hit. Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) takes extreme means to hide her affair with the lawn boy.
"Waiting to Exhale" (1995), 5, 8:30 p.m., Bravo. On one level this might seem like just another guys-as-scum story. Good women (played by Angela Bassett, Whitney Houston, Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon) meet bad men before finding revenge. Still, there's much more to it. Adapted from Terry McMillan's novel, this gives the women a saucy, sassy attitude that the actresses — especially Bassett — savor. The music score, supervised by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, is beautiful, and Forest Whitaker's direction is first-rate. McMillan wrote and set her novel in Arizona, which is where Whitaker shot the film. He has an eye for the long spaces and soft colors that contrast neatly with confined lives.
Tonight on KHNL News 8
You can have onion rings and bacon snacks right from the microwave. But are they delicious? Lyle Galdeira shows us in "Does It Work?" at 5Êand 10.
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