Posted on: Saturday, June 25, 2005
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By Mike Hughes, Gannett News Service and
Derek Paiva, Advertiser Staff Writer
Tonight's Must-See
Get the latest news and weather at 6 and 10 from KHNL News 8's Diane Ako and Paul Drewes, plus sports with Reid Shimizu. "Taste of Honolulu" 6:30 p.m., KHNL. Can't make it to the Honolulu Civic Center grounds for this annual Easter Seals Hawai'i fundraiser featuring gourmet grinds at value menu prices? These two-and-a-half hours of live entertainment, sights and sounds broadcast from Taste of Honolulu won't exactly sate your appetite. But, hey, that's what your car and free municipal building parking are for. "Phil of the Future" season-opener, 6:30 p.m., Disney Channel. You might have missed the fact that Teen Magazine recently named Ricky Ullman as No. 3 among "the hotties of summer," behind Jesse McCartney and Usher. Fortunately, Ullman also happens to be a decent-enough actor. Here, he is in a 22nd-century family, transplanted to nowadays. In this episode, he and his sister temporarily trade bodies. Disney has done this much better in "Freaky Friday." This episode is overwrought for a while then moderately entertaining. "Pocahontas" (1995), 7 p.m., ABC. Here's another chance to see this Disney cartoon, centering on the romance of the Indian princess (Irene Bedard) and John Smith (Mel Gibson). "Saturday Night Live," 10:30 p.m., NBC. Will Ferrell hosts with music by Queens of the Stone Age.
"The Girl in the Cafe," 5 p.m., HBO. Imagine you have strong views about the upcoming G8 Summit Meetings and the effort to fight world poverty. You want to write about it passionately — but in an entertaining movie. Somehow, Richard Curtis has pulled it off. Curtis is the witty writer of such Hugh Grant films — "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Notting Hill" and "Love Actually." This time, Bill Nighy plays a quiet bureaucrat. He accidentally meets a shy young woman at a cafe and the encounter gradually affects him — and others. Here is a warm and touching story that manages to include speeches about poverty and responsibility. It is skillfully played. Nighy, Kelly Macdonald and director David Yates previously worked together on a British series, "State of Play." Here they bring warmth and humanity to a story about bureaucrats at a conference.
Tonight on KHNL News 8
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