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blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR MONDAY APRIL 27, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S P E C I A L S A bound man dangles upside down over the Hoover Dam! A woman escapes a coffin of snakes! A man survives a guillotine of spikes! No it's not "Jerry Springer" -- it's The World's Most Dangerous Magic (8 p.m., NBC), and note that it's not a Fox show. More magic: the miniseries Merlin (9 p.m., NBC) concludes. Sam Neill and Miranda Richardson star. S P O R T S NBA playoffs: Pacers at Cavs (7 p.m., TNT) Suns at Spurs (9:30 p.m., TNT) NHL playoffs: Flyers at Sabres (7:30 p.m., ESPN) Penguins at Canadiens (7:30 p.m., ESPN2) Blues at Kings (10:30 p.m., ESPN2) Baseball: Braves at Diamondbacks (7 p.m., TBS) S E R I E S Jeopardy! (check local times, syndicated) begins its celebrity tournament, complete with dumbed-down questions. Tonight's panelists are Cheech Marin, Jerry Orbach and Mark McEwan. Hank Williams is profiled on a new Biography (8 p.m. EDT/9 PDT, A&E). Lisa Nicole Carson, who plays Ally McBeal's roommate (and her sly smile is the best thing about the show), appears all over the Fox lineup tonight -- she's on Damon (8 p.m.), Getting Personal (8:30 p.m.) and, of course, Ally McBeal (9 p.m.). Speaking of Ally McBeal, tonight it's the David E. Kelley crossover extravaganza. Dylan McDermott guests on "Ally" as his Bobby Donnell character from Kelley's other Boston courtroom drama, "The Practice," then Calista Flockhart and Gil Bellows appear in a continuation of the story on The Practice (10 p.m., ABC). Unjustly getting lost in all of this is the season finale of Brooklyn South (10 p.m., CBS), which proved to be the snappiest and most absorbing cop drama of the year. No word yet on whether it will be renewed, but it should be. T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Randy Travis David Letterman (CBS) Marisa Tomei, singer Alana Davis Jay Leno (NBC) Sarah Ferguson, Peter MacNichol Tom Snyder (CBS) Gloria Steinem, Alan Alda Politically Incorrect (ABC) Elizabeth Wurtzel, Al Franken Conan O'Brien (NBC) Bob Costas (rerun) E T C "Look for me in my new sitcom 'Two Girls, a Horse and Some Wine Coolers.'" -- Ellen DeGeneres, as quoted in Variety in response to ABC's cancellation of "Ellen" and renewal of its replacement, "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place." SALON | April 27, 1998 Blue Glow for < href="/ent/glow/1998/04/24glow.html">Weekend, April 24-26, 1998

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