Sharps & Flats
Reviews of new CDs by Jerry Seinfeld, Joni Mitchell, Renée Fleming, Robbie Fulks and Soul Coughing

"Is This Desire" -- or just bad performance art?
By Bill Wyman
In her first release in three years, Polly Jean Harvey offers sops to a self-consciously hip underground

Home Movies
By Charles Taylor
Prince's unfairly maligned second film mixes swank screwball comedy with uptown sass
(09/29/98)

Escape from the planet of the tapes
By Joyce Millman
After being inundated with Lewinsky scandal, it's a relief to get back to TV that doesn't matter
(09/28/98)

Date night, ABC
By Joyce Millman
Two new shows, "Cupid" and the updated "Fantasy Island," remind us of why Saturday night is the loneliest night
(09/25/98)

Peckerhead
By Laura Miller
Gleeful depravity: An interview with John Waters
(09/24/98)

The Shadow sheds light
By Adam Heimlich
Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow, goes on the record about the evolution of hip-hop and his latest project, "Psyence Fiction," the debut album from UNKLE
(09/23/98)

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SALON'S TV PICKS FOR
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30, 1998
BY JOYCE MILLMAN

N E W    S H O W S

Faith Ford is rewarded with a sitcom of her own, Maggie Winters (8:30 p.m., CBS), after toiling all those years in the supporting cast of "Murphy Brown." She plays a woman who moves back to her hometown after her marriage fails. The cast includes Shirley Knight as her mother and Clea Lewis ("Ellen") as her new boss. The romantic comedy-drama To Have and to Hold (9 p.m., CBS) stars Moira Kelly as a feminist public defender married to a conservative cop (Jason Beghe). In case you missed it last night, WB is repeating the premiere of Felicity (9 p.m., WB). The Secret Lives of Men (9:30 p.m., ABC) is a sitcom (created by Susan Harris of "Golden Girls" fame) about three divorced guys trying to get over their women problems. Peter Gallagher, Bradley Whitford and Mitch Rouse star.

S P E C I A L S

Great Performances (check local times, PBS) presents "Carnegie Hall Opening Night 1998," featuring Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in a George Gershwin 100th birthday program.

S E R I E S

The Nanny (8 p.m., CBS) has its season premiere; so does Dharma & Greg (8 p.m., ABC). On Party of Five (9 p.m., Fox), Charlie finds out the sex of the baby, Julia finds social life at Stanford difficult and Sarah tries to reconnect with her birth mother. The doctors deal with the casualties of a terrorist nerve gas attack on the season opener of Chicago Hope (10 p.m., CBS).

S P O R T S

Baseball playoffs:
Red Sox at Indians, Game 2 (1 p.m., ESPN)
Cubs at Braves, Game 1 (4 p.m., ESPN)
Rangers at Yankees, Game 2 (8 p.m., NBC)

T A L K

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Fran Drescher
David Letterman (CBS) Kelsey Grammer, Tony Bennett
Jay Leno (NBC) Kirstie Alley, Liz Phair
Charlie Rose (PBS) Egyptian Foreign Minister Amre Moussa
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Scott Thompson
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Billy Bragg and Wilco
SALON | Sept. 30, 1998

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