ALL TIMES ARE EST UNLESS NOTED CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS. - - - - - - - - - - - - RECENTLY IN BLUE GLOW "X-Files" hits the road (01/13/98) The Cure for "South Park" (01/12/98) - - - - - - - - - - - - ENTERTAINMENT THIS WEEK The Boxer Daniel Day-Lewis is magnetic as a former IRA prisoner Wag the Dog De Niro and Hoffman in wicked satire on politics as showbiz - - - - - - - - - - - - BROWSE THE MOVIE ARCHIVES TV ARCHIVES

SALON'S TV PICKS FOR WEDNESDAY, JAN. 14, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E R I E S Murphy joins a cancer support group on Murphy Brown (8:30 p.m., CBS). The catch: Real-life cancer survivors Marcia Wallace ("The Bob Newhart Show"), Tracy Nelson ("Father Dowling") and Wendie Jo Sperber ("Bosom Buddies") play the group members. Meanwhile, Charlie deals with his cancer on Party of Five (9 p.m., Fox) through meditation and herbal remedies. On Chicago Hope (10 p.m., CBS), a teenager seems to display religious stigmata. Wait a minute, didn't we just see this on Nothing Sacred? Foot Soldiers (10 p.m. EST/11 PST, A&E) looks at the armies of ancient Greece. PrimeTime Live (10 p.m., ABC) profiles NFL star turned sportscaster Tim Green, who has written a book about his search for his birth mother. S P O R T S College basketball: Duke at Wake Forest (7 p.m., ESPN); North Carolina at Maryland (9 p.m., ESPN). NBA: Spurs at Wizards (8 p.m., TBS). S P E C I A L S The new cable movie Atomic Dog (9 p.m., USA) -- not to be confused with the George Clinton song of the same name -- is a thriller (well, so the network says) about an evil stray who hangs out at an abandoned nuclear power plant and stalks the family who adopted his puppies. Isabella Hofmann and Cindy Pickett star. T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) welcomes Michael Beach and Linda Lavin; Martin Scorsese guests on David Letterman (CBS); a rerun of Jay Leno (NBC) features Goldie Hawn and Brett Favre; Wolf Blitzer is scheduled for Charlie Rose (PBS);Tom Snyder (CBS) talks with Pam Grier; Graham Nash and Mercedes Ruehl are panelists on Politically Incorrect (ABC); Marilu Henner and Kiss appear on a rerun of Conan O'Brien (NBC). E T C. Seinfeld dominates the nominees for the 1997 Writer's Guild of America awards, which will be presented in New York next month. Three "Seinfeld" scripts -- "The Bizarro Jerry," "The Fatigues" and "The Chicken Roaster" -- were nominated in the episodic comedy category, along with "The Puppy Episode" (the coming out episode) of Ellen, "The Impossible Dream" episode of Frasier and two episodes of The Larry Sanders Show, "Ellen or Isn't She?" (the episode featuring Ellen DeGeneres in a play on the pre-coming-out hype) and "The Book." The drama nominations include two for Law & Order ("Deadbeat," "Entrapment") and one for ER ("Whose Appy Now?"). SALON | Jan. 14, 1998 Blue Glow for < href="/ent/glow/1998/01/13glow.html">Tuesday, Jan. 13, 1998

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