TUESDAY

APRIL 24

2012

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Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

It’s official: Glee did not learn its lesson about Very Special Episodes, which pretty much derailed the show, or at least the momentum of its primary plot lines, in Season 2. Last week, the music of Saturday Night Fever. This week, the songs sung by Whitney Houston.

MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN

IFC, 8:00 p.m. ET

Some people, when they watch this 1979 Monty Python comedy and view the climactic crucifixion sing-along, get a little cross. Not I. (I don’t even throw toast when I watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show.) Then again, there are those (and again, I do not count myself among them) who, as the song goes, “Always Look on at the Bright Side of Life.”

THE VOICE

NBC, 9:00 p.m. ET

Last week, Blake Shelton and Christina Aguilera had to prune back their teams. This week, fellow judges and team leaders Cee Lo Green and Adam Lambert are doing the same – but can these two judges match last week’s honesty (from Blake) and theatricality (from Christina)? Let’s hope so, in the first case – and hope not, in the second.

FUNNY GIRL

TCM, 10:15 p.m. ET

Today is Barbra Streisand’s 70^th birthday, and TCM is celebrating by presenting six of her movies in a mini-Babsathon. The salute begins at 8 p.m. ET with 1973’s The Way We Were, starring Robert Redford, but I have a soft spot for this 1968 movie version of the Broadway musical. The story of follies comic and singer Fanny Brice, It’s one of the high school stage musicals for which I designed the lighting, back when Richard Nixon was President. All these years later, I’m still friends many of the folks who put on that show – and am collaborating, right now, with one of the members of that stage crew.

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT

TCM, 3:30 a.m. ET

Here’s another Barbra Streisand movie, but one’s that not televised as often. This 1970 movie is based on Bill Manhoff’s Broadway comedy about a bookstore employee and aspiring novelist who falls for a prostitute and aspiring actress. On stage, the roles in this offbeat interracial romance were played by Alan Alda, pre-M*A*S*H, and Diana Sands. But for this movie, the leads were filled by George Segal and Barbra Streisand, eliminating the racial element entirely. A lot remains, however, including the comic outrageousness of the costuming.

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