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SALON'S TV PICKS FOR
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 6, 1999
BY JOYCE MILLMAN

S P E C I A L S

Because there just aren't enough teenage girls with unearthly powers on TV these days, Fox presents the broadcast premiere of the 1996 thriller The Craft (8 p.m., Fox), in which Fairuza Balk, Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell and Rachel True play high schoolers who turn to sorcery to exact revenge on cruel classmates. The "American Masters" special The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (check local times, PBS) is a shortened version of the Academy Award-nominated 1996 documentary about the celebrity caricaturist.

S E R I E S

Biography (8 p.m. EST/9 PST, A&E) continues "Rat Pack Week" with a rerun of a show about Sammy Davis Jr. Dateline NBC (8 p.m., NBC) has a segment on Elvis Presley biographer Peter Guralnick. Not to be confused with "Dateline," Lateline (9 p.m., NBC), the Al Franken-produced satire of TV newsmagazines, returns with 13 new episodes. This week, Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter have cameos. Great Performances (check local times, PBS) presents "The Rodgers and Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty," a profile of the songwriting team, interspersed with performances of some of their best-known songs. On Law & Order (10 p.m., NBC), McCoy tries to nail a white supremacist leader for a murder committed by his followers. America Undercover (10:30 p.m., HBO) presents "Out at Work," a documentary about workplace discrimination against gays and lesbians at companies in Georgia, California and Michigan. Retired Army Col. Grethe Cammermeyer narrates.

S P O R T S

Hockey:
Sabres at Mighty Ducks (10:30 p.m., ESPN2)

T A L K

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Benjamin Bratt
David Letterman (CBS) Mira Sorvino
Jay Leno (NBC) Michael Caine, Cate Blanchett
Charlie Rose (PBS) Former Clinton Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Dee Dee Myers, Brad Keena
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Michael Madsen, Penn and Teller
SALON | Jan. 6, 1999

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