ALL TIMES ARE EST UNLESS NOTED CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS. - - - - - - - - - - - - RECENTLY IN BLUE GLOW Are you watching "The Practice"? (11/18/97) - - - - - - - - - - - - ENTERTAINMENT THIS WEEK Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Clint's cement garden John Grisham's The Rainmaker Coppola hits predictable -- and surprising -- notes - - - - - - - - - - - - LAST WEEK TELEVISION Lives 'R' us A&E's "Biography" is the People magazine of famous lives By Joyce Millman (11/19/97) MOVIES The Wings of the Dove A gorgeous tale of wicked people and sexual intrigue The Man Who Knew Too Little Saved by Bill Murray's prickly charm One Night Stand Adultery and its long-term consequences - - - - - - - - - - - - BROWSE THE MOVIE ARCHIVES TV ARCHIVES

SALON'S TV PICKS FOR WEEKEND, NOV. 21-23, 1997 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S P E C I A L S Weight Watchers spokeswoman Sarah Ferguson continues her strenuous pursuit of a TV career in Adventures with the Duchess (8 p.m. Sat., ABC). Fergie rock climbs with a blind climber, feeds sharks with Jacques Cousteau's son and swings from a trapeze. She's a modern and accessible royal person! A seat on the new "Hollywood Squares" awaits her. And speaking of British nobles, Sir Paul McCartney's new classical composition is the focus of Paul McCartney's "Standing Stone" (10 p.m. EST/11 PST Sun., A&E), a two-hour special featuring the former Beatle discussing his work, which is based on Celtic mythology, and a concert performance of it by the London Symphony Orchestra. The six-part series Liberty! The American Revolution (9 p.m. Sun., PBS) chronicles the origins of the colonists' revolt through comments from historians and readings by actors in period garb. Matthew Modine stars in the new TV movie What the Deaf Man Heard (9 p.m. Sun., CBS), a "Hallmark Hall of Fame"-er about a man abandoned as a child who grows up using silence as a defense. Prepare to weep. The night's other new TV movie, Dead by Midnight (9 p.m. Sun., ABC), stars Timothy Hutton as a bionic man who rebels against the secret government organization training him to be a killer. S P O R T S Basketball: Nets at Celtics (8 p.m. Fri., TNT). Football: Dolphins at Patriots or regional action (1 p.m. Sun., NBC); Cowboys at Packers or regional action (1 p.m. Sun., Fox); Chargers at 49ers or regional action (4 p.m. Sun., NBC); Giants at Redskins (8 p.m. Sun., ESPN). S E R I E S Oliver Stone, Arianna Huffington and Wolf Blitzer square off in the last round of "Power Players Week" on Jeopardy! (check local times, Fri., syndicated). Millennium (9 p.m. Fri., Fox) tries to lighten up with a kooky episode written by Darin Morgan ("The X-Files") and featuring Charles Nelson Reilly as Jose Chung, the Truman Capote-ish writer who first appeared on "The X-Files" a couple of seasons ago. This is the episode that got Scientologists upset. On Homicide (10 p.m. Fri., NBC), Pembleton and Lewis investigate a dirty cop. New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani hosts Saturday Night Live (11:30 p.m. Sat., NBC), with music from Sarah McLachlan. The Simpsons (8 p.m. Sun., Fox) sends up the angel phenomenon in an episode where Lisa is the lone unbeliever when a human skeleton is found with what looks like vestigial wings. Stephen Jay Gould (!) has a cameo. On King of the Hill (8:30 p.m. Sun., Fox), Bobby and Connie Khan are caught at the town make-out place. It's back to business for Mulder and Scully on The X-Files (9 p.m. Sun., Fox); they're lost in the woods with a predator of an unknown species. T A L K Friday: Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) scores another guest list coup with a visit from Barbra Streisand; David Letterman (CBS) welcomes Kirstie Alley; Dana Carvey and Garth Brooks guest on Jay Leno (NBC); Tom Snyder (CBS) talks with "Hot Zone" author Richard Preston; Naomi Judd and Gloria Allred are panelists on Politically Incorrect (ABC); Conan O'Brien (NBC) features Matthew Modine. SALON | Nov. 21, 1997

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