ALSO TODAY Heroine Chic By Lori Leibovich Ally Sheedy talks about the hard road to 'High Art' Doctor Dolittle Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek Animal crackers: Eddie Murphy's dumb, fun with the critters RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT The A-Team By Jonathan Curiel A tour of Africa's biggest pop stars becomes the biggest musical bargain in America (06/24/98) Sharps & Flats Reviews of new CDs by Billy Bragg and Wilco, Neil Finn, Spinanes, Ellis Marsalis, Robert Pollard and Genesis (06/24/98) Home Movies By Charles Taylor L.A. transcendental: The dark side of Hollywood's New Age (06/23/98) Confessions of a Box-Set Sucker By Eric Alterman A music collector thanks Rhino for repackaging his awful adolescence (06/22/98) The X-Files Reviewed by Joyce Millman The movie fans have been waiting for is just a big tease (06/19/98) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY CATERINA FAKE

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E R I E S Friends (8 p.m., NBC) reruns the one where Phoebe is asked to be a surrogate birth mother. The daytime soap One Life to Live (8 p.m., ABC) has a nighttime airing. Seinfeld (9 p.m., NBC) reruns the backwards episode about the gang's disastrous trip to India for Sue Ellen Mischke's wedding. 48 Hours (10 p.m., CBS) has another update on the "Class of 2000," in which Paula Zahn checks back with five teens who are facing uncertain futures. On a rerun of ER (10 p.m., NBC), Jeannie confronts Weaver over her firing and Hathaway's clinic is deluged with patients before it even opens. ABC News Thursday Night (10 p.m., ABC) has a Forrest Sawyer interview with Myles Connor, a Boston bar band singer and thief who confessed to the multimillion-dollar heist of artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. S P O R T S Baseball: Yankees at Braves (7:35 p.m., TBS) World Cup: Belgium vs. South Korea (9:30 a.m., ESPN2) Netherlands vs. Mexico (9:55 a.m., ESPN) Germany vs. Iran (2:30 p.m., ESPN2) U.S. vs. Yugoslavia (2:45 p.m., ABC) Tennis: Wimbledon, early round play (9 a.m., HBO) T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Mary Tyler Moore, Paul Rudd, Mandy Patinkin (rerun) David Letterman (CBS) Dennis Quaid, Grant Lee Buffalo Jay Leno (NBC) George Clooney, Ming-Na Wen, Sarah McLachlan Charlie Rose (PBS) Billy Bob Thornton Politically Incorrect (ABC) Brad Garrett, Jeff Greenfield Conan O'Brien (NBC) Connie Britton E T C Variety reports that the producers of NewsRadio are considering Jon Lovitz or Patrick Warburton (Puddy from "Seinfeld") to fill the void left on the show by the death of Phil Hartman ... Celebrity Deathmatches we'd like to see, Part One: Keith Olbermann vs. Matt Drudge. Sports guy turned MSNBC talking head Olbermann railed against Internet gossip turned Fox News Network talking head Drudge on the air Monday night, calling Drudge a rumor monger (I'm paraphrasing) who can't count. Olbermann was ticked off because Drudge said the Clinton sex scandal had been in the news for six months and it has actually been in the news for five. Drudge retaliated by calling Olbermann a guy with a hair piece who has never broken a news story (I'm paraphrasing, but I don't think Olbermann wears a hair piece). Part Two: Candice Bergen vs. Dan Quayle. The old combatants are at it again. On the June 12 New York Times opinion page, former Quayle speechwriter Lisa Schiffren wrote a piece defending Quayle's 1992 decrial of Bergen's "Murphy Brown" for glorifying unwed motherhood (I'm paraphrasing). The article went on to imply that Bergen actually agreed with Quayle's assessment that the story line was a bad idea. In an angry letter to the Times, published June 24, Bergen alleged that Schiffren had misquoted her in an interview and paraphrased her for nefarious Quayle-boosting purposes (I'm paraphrasing). SALON | June 25, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="http://www.salonmagazine.com/ent/glow/1998/06/24glow.html">Wednesday, June 24, 1998

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