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blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E I N F E L D As you are no doubt aware if you've watched anything on NBC for the past week, there's a special early start time for the last Seinfeld (8 p.m., NBC). The two-hour finale begins with 45 minutes of highlights from the past nine years. The episode itself starts at 8:45, and goes until 10. And then, the greatest sitcom of all time is history. Well, except for the reruns. S P E C I A L S Say you're not one of the 70 million viewers expected to tune in for the "Seinfeld" finale. Say you never watched an episode of "Seinfeld" in your life and are not about to start now. Say you just don't care. What are the other networks doing for you tonight? ABC is running Clint Eastwood's 1992 Academy Award winner Unforgiven (8 p.m., ABC). There's also a rerun of the very first When Animals Attack! (9 p.m., Fox) special. And Promised Land (8 p.m., CBS) and Diagnosis Murder (9 p.m., CBS) have their season finales. In other words, the brass at ABC, CBS and Fox will be watching "Seinfeld" too. S E R I E S The clay-animated fantasy fight series Celebrity Deathmatch (7:30 p.m., MTV) begins a weekly run with Hillary Clinton taking on Monica Lewinsky. Xena (check local times, syndicated) has its season finale; Xena and Gabrielle must kill Gabrielle's evil daughter, Hope, except Hope has emerged fully grown from a cocoon looking just like Gabrielle. ER (10 p.m., NBC) has its season-ender, in which Ross and Hathaway face disciplinary action for their unapproved treatment of a heroin-addicted baby. S P O R T S NHL Playoffs: Red Wings at Blues (7:30 p.m., ESPN) Sabres at Canadiens (7:30 p.m., ESPN2) T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Mike Douglas, Hanson David Letterman (CBS) Tara Lipinski, Foo Fighters Jay Leno (NBC) Jerry Seinfeld Tom Snyder (CBS) Don Rickles Politically Incorrect (ABC) Ron Reagan, Christopher Buckley Conan O'Brien (NBC) Patrick "Puddy" Warburton E T C The Top Ten 1. "The Contest" (1992) 2. "The Pony Remark" (1991) 3. "The Puffy Shirt" (1993) 4. "The Chinese Restaurant" (1991) 5. "The Pen" (1991) 6. "The Pez Dispenser" (1992) 7. "The Bubble Boy" (1992) 8. "The Soup Nazi" (1995) 9. "The Rye" (1996) 10. "The Blood" (1997) SALON | May 14, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="/ent/glow/1998/05/13glow.html">Wednesday May 13, 1998

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