SMALL SCREEN THE BUZZ ON TELEVISION.Byline: - Compiled by Valerie Kuklenski 'BARE NAKED' LOVE: Now that we have your attention ... Jennifer Love Hewitt tonight hosts the third annual ``Women Rock! Girls & Guitars'' concert special on Lifetime, aimed at raising awareness about breast cancer and benefiting several breast-cancer charities. In the special taped two weeks ago at the Kodak Theatre Hewitt also sings a track from her new ``Bare Naked'' CD. Also on the bill: Michelle Branch, Gloria Estefan, Chaka Khan and the Pretenders. WOMEN ROCK! GIRLS & GUITARS, 10 tonight, Lifetime. GOURD gourd (gôrd, g  rd), common name for some members of the Cucurbitaceae, a family of plants whose range includes all tropical and subtropical areas and extends into the temperate zones. ALMIGHTY: The cash registers are ringing in the temporary Halloween stores, the smell of miniature chocolate bars wafts through groceries, and the frost is on the pumpkin - somewhere. It must be time for the perennial TV special ``It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a critically-acclaimed and very popular animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. .'' The 1966 animated classic harkens back to a time when most kids wore homemade costumes and everybody felt safe trick-or-treating without parents close by. Don't dig too deep into analyzing whether Linus' fixation on a visit from the Great Pumpkin alludes to pagan worship or Old Testament stories. Just enjoy it. IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN, 8 tonight, ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , Channel 7. MEET MORE FOLKS: NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. will be bringing back one of its summer hits, ``Meet My Folks  This article or section contains information about a scheduled .It may contain non-definitive information based on commercials, a website or interviews. ,'' and producers are looking for singles on the prowl and a few families who are game to go through the whole torturous (and on this show, contrived) process of winning over the date's parents on national television. A casting call is set for noon to 4 p.m. on Nov. 2 at the Sunset-Gower Studios in Hollywood. Prospective contestants (``personable PERSONABLE. Having the capacities of a person; for example, the defendant was judged personable to maintain this action. Old Nat. Brev. 142. This word is obsolete. and attractive,'' please) should be single and ages 18 to 30, and the families with a single son or daughter would be asked to entertain three possible dates in their home over a weekend. Everybody bring photo identification and family shots if you have them. If you really can't find nice people to date or get them past the front door by any other means, call (323) 682-4144 or see www.nbc.com for the details. SPOOK-A-THONS: AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) See AdvancedTCA. and IFC (Internet Foundation Classes) A class library from Netscape that provides an application framework and graphical user interface (GUI) routines for Java programmers. IFC was later made part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). See JFC, AFC and AWT. See also ICF. get creepy starting tonight with movie marathons: AMC's seven-day, 154-hour Monsterfest and IFC's Indie Screams International. IFC's offering opens at 8 p.m. with Britain's ``The Company of Wolves'' and continues through Halloween night with a worldwide assortment of stories that go bump in the night. AMC launches at the same time with ``Predator 2'' and later in the week digs into the vaults for classics such as ``Frankenstein'' and ``Dracula'' (1931), ``The Mummy'' (1932) and ``The Wolf Man'' (1941). Get the IFC schedule details at www.ifctv.com, and AMC's at www.amctv.com. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) no caption (scene from ``IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN'') (2) no caption (``Meet My Folks'' logo) |
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