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blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR MONDAY, FEB. 23, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S P E C I A L S Spike Lee's Academy Award-nominated 1997 documentary 4 Little Girls (9 p.m., HBO) debuts on premium cable. The story of the 1963 bombing of a black church in Birmingham, Ala., "4 Little Girls" features interviews with relatives of the four title victims as well as with political leaders and civil rights activists. Among those offering recollections are then-Alabama Gov. George Wallace, Bill Cosby and Walter Cronkite. S E R I E S Skater Peggy Fleming, who recently underwent surgery for breast cancer, is profiled on a new Biography (8 p.m. EST/9 PST, A&E). David Letterman and Paul Shaffer appear as themselves on Cosby (8 p.m., CBS). If you watched even five minutes of the Olympics, you know that Tom Selleck has a new sitcom, The Closer (9 p.m., CBS). In the premiere episode, Selleck's character, hot-shot ad exec Jack McLaren, loses a major client and is fired, then opens up an agency of his own. Selleck is Mr. Charm, but the writers are going to have to do better. Ed Asner and Penelope Ann Miller co-star. The American Experience (check local times, PBS) has a new biography of Ronald Reagan. The miniseries Oprah Winfrey Presents The Wedding (9 p.m., ABC) concludes. Halle Berry stars as a woman torn between two suitors, one black and one white. On Ally McBeal (9 p.m., Fox), Ally and Billy have that old feeling (again). Julia Sweeney, Pat of "Saturday Night Live," joins the cast of the Bob Newhart-Judd Hirsch sitcom George & Leo (9:30 p.m., CBS). She does not play Pat. Everybody's true feelings finally come out in the Clem-Nona-Jack triangle on Brooklyn South (10 p.m., CBS). T A L K Paul Newman and John Fogerty guest on David Letterman (CBS); Al Franken and Hector Elizondo are panelists on Politically Incorrect (ABC); Conan O'Brien (NBC) has a rerun with Matt Lauer. E T C. Coming soon to a TV near you, the "Afterschool Special" Miracle on Ice 2. Plucky 15-year-old Tara Lipinski (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson) stuns the world when she defeats the favored Michelle Kwan (Ming-Na Wen) and becomes the youngest female skater to ever win an Olympic gold medal. But Tara's happiness is all for show: She's in love with Todd Eldredge (Tom Hanks), but he calls her "Peanut" and treats her like his kid sister. With Fred Savage as Elvis Stojko, Elizabeth Berkley as Pasha Grishuk, Kristen Johnston as Picabo Street and Chow Yun-Fat as Happy Harada. SALON | Feb. 23, 1998 Blue Glow for < href="/ent/glow/1998/02/20glow.html">Friday Feb. 20, 1998

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