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blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR TUESDAY, NOV. 18, 1997 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E R I E S Lili Taylor ("I Shot Andy Warhol") guests as little Mabel's first baby sitter on Mad About You (8 p.m., NBC). Frasier (9 p.m., NBC) sets sail as a celebrity guest on a cruise ship. Frontline (check local times, PBS) presents "The Princess and the Press," a shortened version of a British documentary about the ill-fated relationship between Princess Diana and the media. Woody Allen makes a rare TV appearance -- OK, it's just his voice, but it's still him -- on Just Shoot Me (9:30 p.m., NBC). Simone and Sipowicz investigate the murder of stripper roommates on a new NYPD Blue (10 p.m., ABC). S P O R T S Hockey: Rangers at Panthers (7:30 p.m., ESPN). Basketball: Knicks at Rockets (8 p.m., TNT). S P E C I A L S The 1994 film Star Trek Generations (8 p.m., Fox) has its TV premiere. Picard seeks help from Kirk, who's lost in a time warp (and how), to contend with an evil physicist (Malcolm McDowell) planning to destroy a bunch of heavily populated planets. T A L K Celine Dion guests on Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated); David Letterman (CBS) hosts Elvis Costello; John Cusack and Traci Lords appear on Jay Leno (NBC); Charlie Rose (PBS) continues a week of shows from London; Tom Snyder (CBS) talks with Seymour Hersh ("The Dark Side of Camelot"); Politically Incorrect (ABC) features Jason Alexander and Laura Ingraham; Conan O'Brien (NBC) hosts Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts and Jackson Browne. E T C. ABC announced last week that cult hit Nothing Sacred has been renewed for another season and David E. Kelley's courtroom drama The Practice has received an order for two more seasons. Kelley is the Jekyll and Hyde of TV. His other show about Boston lawyers, Ally McBeal, is a pseudo-comic mess. But The Practice has quietly become one of the best dramas on TV -- quietly because it's currently stuck in the black hole of time slots, 10 p.m. Saturday. "The Practice" is gratifyingly free of Kelleyisms: It's not preachy (like "Picket Fences" and occasionally "Chicago Hope") and it's not precious (like "Ally McBeal" and occasionally "Chicago Hope"). Set in a struggling law firm, "The Practice" is distinguishing itself with thoughtful legal-dilemma stories told in the meat-and-potatoes manner of "Law & Order." It's got some terrific and unusual characters, too. Dylan McDermott is idealistic and pragmatic as the head of the firm -- and his JFK Jr. studliness is undercut by rare shyness and reserve. And Kelli Williams' Lindsay Dole, a brilliant Harvard grad who has reluctantly become the drug dealers' lawyer of choice due to her passion when arguing civil liberties cases, is one of the most complicated female characters on TV. SALON | Nov. 18, 1997

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