ALL TIMES ARE EST UNLESS NOTED CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS. - - - - - - - - - - - - RECENTLY IN BLUE GLOW "Homicide's" Detective Munch visits "The X-Files" (10/23/97) - - - - - - - - - - - - ENTERTAINMENT THIS WEEK A Life Less Ordinary A girl, a guy, a gun -- and a glorious movie Gattaca Future imperfect - - - - - - - - - - - - LAST WEEK MOVIES Boogie Nights The Ice Storm Playing God Devil's Advocate INTERVIEWS Ang Lee "The Ice Storm" director on fathers, innocence and the '70s Mark Waters "The House of Yes" director on his perfect Sundance experience TELEVISION Ally McBeal America loves a retro babe - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow DAILY TV PICKS - - - - - - - - - - - - MOVIE ARCHIVES TV ARCHIVES

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR MONDAY, OCT. 27, 1997 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E R I E S Gloria Vanderbilt is profiled on a new Biography (8 p.m. EST/9 PST, A&E). Every day is Halloween on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (9 p.m., WB), but this week is the official Halloween episode. An ancient curse causes Buffy's powers to be wiped out, her friends to take on the identities of their Halloween costumes and Giles to be reminded of his secret past. Dateline NBC (10 p.m., NBC) has an interview with gymnast Kerri Strug -- remember her? S P E C I A L S Strug sounds like a good candidate for a future edition of Where Are They Now? (10 p.m., CBS), one of CBS's periodic specials unearthing newsmakers and celebrities of the past. Tonight: What ever happened to Christopher Cross? And do we really need to know? Parodying all of these celebrity bio documentaries is the special Unauthorized Biography: Milo, Death of a Supermodel (10 p.m., Comedy Central), starring Lizz Winstead as the (fictional) Milo, the world's first supermodel. The mock-umentary features comments from Cyndi Lauper, Deborah Harry and Buster Poindexter. S P O R T S Monday Night Football: Packers at Patriots (9 p.m., ABC). T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) welcomes Patrick Stewart; Mariah Carey and Anthony Clark guest on David Letterman (CBS); Jay Leno (NBC) hosts Cameron Diaz; Tom Snyder (CBS) talks with George Segal; a rerun of Politically Incorrect (ABC) features Rod Steiger and Christopher Buckley; Mira Sorvino appears on a rerun of Conan O'Brien (NBC); Keenen Ivory Wayans (syndicated) features Bill Bellamy. SALON | Oct. 27, 1997

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