Hit Me
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Noir way out

Antz
Reviewed by Janelle Brown
Woody Allen is the voice of anxious and whiny worker ant "Z" in Dreamworks' charmingly hokey "Antz"

Clay Pigeons
Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
Vince Vaughn is irresistible as the psycho villain in an otherwise empty comedy

A match made in pop heaven
By Stephanie Zacharek
Elvis Costello's words and Burt Bacharach's music were meant to be together
(10/01/98)

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

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WEEKEND, OCT. 2-4, 1998
BY JOYCE MILLMAN

S E R I E S

Millennium (9 p.m. Fri., Fox) begins its third season with some big changes. Frank Black is now a widowed dad (his wife committed suicide in last season's apocalyptic finale) working for the FBI in Washington, D.C.; he's teamed with a young female agent (new co-star Klea Scott, who played Nona on "Brooklyn South"). On Buddy Faro (9 p.m. Fri., CBS), Buddy and Bob reopen Buddy's old Sunset Strip detective agency and get their first client: George Hamilton. This is actually a pretty cool show; last week's pilot, in which swinging '70s private eye Faro (Dennis Farina) -- a former Rat Pack cat -- entered the '90s after 20 years of laying low, was a fizzy cocktail of breezy '70s gumshoe attitude (think "Rockford Files") and '90s retro-noir style. But if you really want to feel like you've time-traveled back to 1972, check out Martial Law (9 p.m. Sat., CBS), a campfest if there ever was one. Buddha-bellied non-actor Sammo Hung plays a Chinese cop on loan to the LAPD, represented here by one of the interchangeable Mandylor brothers and a blond actress named Tammy. There's a kung fu fight approximately every four minutes. It's not to be missed. This week's celebrities shipwrecked on Fantasy Island (9 p.m. Sat., ABC): Alyssa Milano, James McDaniel ("NYPD Blue"). On Cupid (10 p.m. Sat., ABC), Claire and Trevor compete to see who can find the better mate for a geeky professor. Kelsey Grammer hosts Saturday Night Live (11:30 p.m. Sat., NBC), with music from Sheryl Crow. On The Practice (10 p.m. Sun., ABC), Lindsay's old Harvard law professor is arrested for murder.

S P E C I A L S

The new TV movie Sabrina Goes to Rome (7 p.m. Sun., ABC) finds the Teenage Witch (Melissa Joan Hart) traveling to Rome to help her aunt (also played by Hart) regain her powers. Shot Through the Heart (8 p.m. Sun., HBO), a new cable movie, stars Linus Roache and Vincent Perez as friends in the former Yugoslavia (one's a Serb, one's a Croat) who are pitted against one another when they're forced to work as snipers. The new TV movie Legalese (8 p.m. Sun., TNT) is a satire of justice in a tabloid culture. James Garner stars as a high-powered Hollywood attorney using sleazy tactics to defend his guilty client, an actress (Gina Gershon) who murdered her brother-in-law. The 1995 epic Rob Roy (8 p.m. Sun., NBC) stars Liam Neeson as the 18th century outlaw hero. Tim Roth and Jessica Lange co-star.

S P O R T S

Baseball playoffs:
Indians at Red Sox, Game 3 (4 p.m. Fri., ESPN); Game 4 (4 p.m. Sat., Fox); Game 5 (TBA)
Yankees at Rangers, Game 3 (8 p.m. Fri., NBC); Games 4 and 5 (TBA)
Braves at Cubs, Game 3 (TBA)
Astros at Padres, Game 3 (8 p.m. Sat., ESPN)

Football:
Dolphins at Jets; Patriots at Saints; Chargers at Colts (1 p.m. Sun., CBS)
49ers at Bills; Panthers at Falcons; Cowboys at Redskins; Lions at Bears (1 p.m. Sun., Fox)
Raiders at Cardinals (4 p.m. Sun., CBS)
Eagles at Broncos; Giants at Buccaneers (4:15 p.m. Sun., Fox)
Seahawks at Chiefs (8:15 p.m. Sun., ESPN)

T A L K

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Judge Judy, Alice Walker
David Letterman (CBS) Steve Martin, Cokie Roberts
Jay Leno (NBC) Cuba Gooding Jr., Christina Ricci, Bonnie Raitt
Charlie Rose (PBS) TBA
Chris Rock (HBO) Wynton Marsalis
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Pamela Anderson Lee, Marilyn Manson
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Gina Gershon, Squirrel Nut Zippers
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