SMALL SCREEN THE BUZZ ON TELEVISION.Byline: - Compiled by Valerie Kuklenski HOMES, SWEET HOMES: In honor of Independence Day, HGTV HGTV Home and Garden Television celebrates the homesteads of great Americans with a ``Homes of Our Heritage'' series. The first episode, ``Homes of the Revolution'' at 2 p.m., examines George Washington's Mount Vernon Mount Vernon, estate, United States Mount Vernon, NE Va., overlooking the Potomac River near Alexandria, S of Washington, D.C.; home of George Washington from 1747 until his death in 1799. , Patrick Henry's Virginia farmhouse, John Adams' Massachusetts saltbox saltbox Clapboard house of the original New England settlers having two stories in front, a single story in the rear, and a double-sloped roof that is longer over the rear section. and the homes of Paul Revere Revere, city (1990 pop. 42,786), Suffolk co., E Mass., a residential suburb of Boston, on Massachusetts Bay; settled c.1630, set off from Chelsea and named for Paul Revere 1871, inc. as a city 1914. and Betsy Ross. ``American Tycoons'' follows at 3 with the estates of Frederick Vanderbilt, Alfred I. duPont, John D. Rockefeller and others. There are two more installments at the same times Sunday: ``American Trailblazers'' and ``American Heroes.'' HOMES OF OUR HERITAGE, 2 p.m. today, HGTV. PASSIONATE PERFORMANCE: The love lighting the eyes of this Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers die as teenagers. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet] See : Death, Premature Romeo and Juliet archetypal star-crossed lovers. [Br. Lit. is real. Tonight's ``Great Performances'' has tenor Roberto Alagna and his wife, soprano Angela Gheorghiu, as Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in Charles Gounod's ``Romeo & Juliet.'' Director Barbara Willis Sweete probably should have asked Alagna to shave his beard, the better to convincingly portray the youthful Romeo in this production, sung in French with English subtitles. But the rustic 13th-century Royal Castle in the Czech Republic makes a wonderful setting for this story that lends itself so well to musical adaptation. After all, it has the two key ingredients of great operas: amour and morte. ROMEO & JULIET, 9 tonight, KCET KCET Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo (Japan) KCET Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology . POP QUIZ, HOTSHOT!: They call it American Movie Classics, but the cable channel is skimming the surface of the classic film pool for the premiere of ``Speed.'' Nevertheless, the 1994 action thriller that had Sandra Bullock putting the pedal to the metal as she and Keanu Reeves tried to figure out how to keep their bomb-rigged city bus from exploding is a heck of a joy ride. It shows there's no harm in dubbing a recent film a ``classic,'' as long as it's not ``Speed 2.'' SPEED, 5:10 p.m. today, AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) See AdvancedTCA. . CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) no caption (Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu) (2) no caption (scene from the movie ``Speed'') |
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