A match made in pop heaven
By Stephanie Zacharek
Elvis Costello's words and Burt Bacharach's music were meant to be together

The Impostors
Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Stanley Tucci's farce about two unemployed Depression-era actors sinks beneath its own vanity

Sharps & Flats
Reviews of new CDs by Jerry Seinfeld, Joni Mitchell, Renée Fleming, Robbie Fulks and Soul Coughing
(09/30/98)

"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
(09/30/98)

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)

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SALON'S TV PICKS FOR
THURSDAY, OCT. 1, 1998
BY JOYCE MILLMAN

S E R I E S

On Friends (8 p.m., NBC), Chandler goes to great lengths to devise a cover-up when he and secret girlfriend Monica are caught kissing. Still unemployed Frasier attends his high school reunion on Frasier (9 p.m., NBC). Mystery! (check local times, PBS) begins the five-part series "Touching Evil," starring Robson Green as Dave Creegan, a hard-nosed detective with London's special crime unit. Corday receives an offer to join her father's practice in England and Benton thinks Reese may have a hearing impairment on ER (10 p.m., NBC). Putting up a bold fight against its time-slot rival, 48 Hours (10 p.m., CBS) puts its cameras inside the real emergency room at Cincinnati's Children's Hospital.

S P E C I A L S

Phil Collins Live ... By Request (9 p.m. EDT/10 PDT, A&E) finds the '80s icon in concert with a song list determined by fan phone and e-mail requests. "Sussudio"! "You Can't Hurry Love"! "Mama"! OK, I'll stop.

S P O R T S

Baseball playoffs:
Padres at Astros, Game 2 (4 p.m., ESPN)
Cubs at Braves, Game 2 (8 p.m., Fox)

T A L K

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Breast Cancer Awareness Month
David Letterman (CBS) Drew Carey
Jay Leno (NBC) Gina Gershon, Lucinda Williams
Charlie Rose (PBS) New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Mare Winningham, Rick Nielsen
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Kelsey Grammer, Chastity Bono
SALON | Oct. 1, 1998

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