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SALON'S TV PICKS FOR MONDAY, NOV. 17, 1997 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S P E C I A L S Who's smarter, Oliver Stone or Oliver North? Tom Clancy or Wolf Blitzer? Arianna Huffington or Dee Dee Myers? Jeopardy! (check local times, syndicated) begins a week-long "Power Players Tournament" from Washington, D.C., with the aforementioned political animals playing for charity. Tonight's contestants are Myers, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Jesse Jackson Jr. And if that doesn't satisfy the curiosity seekers, there's always I Survived a Disaster 3 (8 p.m., ABC). S P O R T S Monday Night Football: Bills at Dolphins (9 p.m., ABC). S E R I E S Edward R. Murrow is profiled on a new Biography (8 p.m. EST/9 PST, A&E). Ally accepts a challenge to tell a dirty joke before an audience on Ally McBeal (9 p.m., Fox). Buffy the Vampire Slayer (9 p.m., WB) begins a two-part episode in which Buffy is hunted by a band of demon assassins. Former Internal Affairs lieutenant Stan Jonas (James B. Sikking) assumes command of the squad on Brooklyn South (10 p.m., CBS). This show gets better every week. Are you watching it? T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) welcomes Robin Williams; Richard Simmons and Wynonna appear on David Letterman (CBS); Jay Leno (NBC) features David Spade and magician Lance Burton; Tom Snyder (CBS) hosts Bonnie Hunt and Carl Hiaasen; Neil Patrick Harris and Rick "Super Freak" James are panelists on Politically Incorrect (ABC); a rerun of Conan O'Brien (NBC) features Garth Brooks. E T C. Our national pop culture czar, Oprah Winfrey, devoted her Nov. 13 show to the wicked little VH1 phenomenon Pop-Up Videos, and you know what that means -- "Pop-Up" is little no more. But the built-in coolness of the "Pop-Up" concept -- thought bubbles deconstructing what we're seeing onscreen -- just might withstand the onslaught of mainstream success. On "Oprah," the "Pop-Up" crew ran amuck with a long clip of the Bee Gees performing on a past "Oprah" show, and the thought bubbles spared no one, not even Oprah, who was shown in the clip bouncing up and down in the front row, pretending she knew the words to "Jive Talkin'" and "How Deep Is Your Love?" "When Oprah forgets the words to a song," the pop-up informed us, "she mouths 'oh, ah, ah, ah.'" SALON | Nov. 17, 1997

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