THE HYPE ENTERING 2001 A TV ODYSSEY VARIETY OF FARE AVAILABLE FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE COUCH POTATOES.To some, it's New Year's Eve. To others, it's Amateur Night on the freeways. For those who choose to mark the passage of another year from the relative safety of their own couches, there's a lot to choose from on television. Dick Clark will rock once again on 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. , this year starting at 10 p.m., while MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. 2 joins him in Times Square with its ``New Year's Eve Party.'' Fox offers ``Billboard's Rock 'n' Roll rock 'n' roll: see rock music. New Year's Eve'' at 11, and for young sleepyheads, the party begins at 6 on the Disney Channel with its viewer favorites package, ``Zoogin' New Year's Eve Party.'' Movie fans may want to lay in jumbo packages of microwave popcorn and Milk Duds to prepare for all the film festivals. TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. has a wide variety of offerings - ``Crocodile Dundee'' at 6, ``Dirty Dancing'' at 8, ``Footloose foot·loose adj. Having no attachments or ties; free to do as one pleases. footloose Adjective free to go or do as one wishes Adj. 1. !'' at 10 and ``Airplane!'' at midnight, among them - although its ``New Classics'' label may be a tad generous. USA is being run by the Mob this weekend, with ``The Godfather'' trio beginning at 11 a.m. and ``Carlito's Way '' at midnight. American Movie Classics kicks off its Abbott and Costello Abbott and Costello (kŏstĕl`ō), American comedy team of William Alexander "Bud" Abbott, 1895–1974, b. Asbury Park, N.J., and Lou Costello, 1906–59, b. Paterson, N.J., as Louis Francis Cristillo. festival at midnight. Cartoon Network is playing up the bad guys with its ``New Year's Eve- il Marathon,'' and TV Land is marathoning episodes of ``Alfred Hitchcock Presents.'' And the Fox Movie Channel will show ``The Poseidon Adventure'' so many times that there will be no excuse for forgetting the lyrics to ``The Morning After'' on karaoke night. And to get you in the right mood for the new year, Turner Classic Movies blasts off with Stanley Kubrick's ``2001: A Space Odyssey'' at midnight. Check the TV Book for all the details. - Valerie Kuklenski ``The Rock has one focus; it is to entertain the fans. The character of The Rock is as loud as he can be, as charismatic as he can be - but he's still very vulnerable. He loses, he gets his butt kicked.'' - WWF See Windows Workflow Foundation. behemoth behemoth (bē`hĭmŏth, bĭhē`–) [Heb.,=plural of beast], large, fanciful primeval monster, like Leviathan, evoking the hippopotamus mentioned in the Book of Job. Dwayne Johnson, a k a The Rock, to People magazine, which named him one of Most Intriguing People of 2000 < NOW WE'VE SEEN EVERYTHING ... ALMOST: On ``CBS News Sunday Morning'' this weekend, correspondent Bill Geist (that's him on the right, without the magazine) will present a segment wrapping up the year 2000, noting the wacky events that made the past 12 months so much fun. Part of that segment will be the naming of Geist's ``Man of the Year'': Richard Hatch, the shy, retiring winner of the network's reality-based endurance event ``Survivor.'' Hatch's fashion accessory is, appropriately enough, the Playboy issue featuring nude pictures of another ordinary person caught in the crushing grip of a reality-based TV show: Darva Conger of Fox's ``Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?'' - Rodney Richey CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- 3) ``2001: A Space Odyssey,'' top, heralds in its self-titled year at midnight on Turner Classic Movies; ``Dirty Dancing,'' above, will play at 8 p.m. on TNT; and Wayne Brady, far right, will host the music segments on ``Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve is a television program, which airs every New Year's Eve on ABC. It has been hosted by American television legend Dick Clark since its first airing on December 31, 1972. 2001'' on ABC. (4) no caption (Bill Geist and Richard Hatch) |
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