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SALON'S TV PICKS FOR
TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1999
BY JOYCE MILLMAN

S E R I E S

John Steinbeck is profiled on Biography (8 p.m. EST/9 PST, A&E). On a new King of the Hill (8 p.m., Fox), Bobby's deli food binge leads to gout, just when he's supposed to take Connie to the school dance. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB) reruns the one where a lovelorn Spike returns to Sunnydale. Also, Willow and Xander hurt the ones they love. NBC finally put Lateline out of its misery. Never as funny as it wanted to be, the Al Franken sitcom is history, replaced for the short term by a Just Shoot Me rerun (8:30 p.m., NBC). Will, Grace and Jack spend an eventful weekend in Vermont on a new Will & Grace (9:30 p.m., NBC). After just three episodes, Strange World is gone from ABC's schedule. But if you saw this dull "X-Files" wannabe, that's no surprise. It's replaced tonight and for the rest of the month by an NYPD Blue rerun (10 p.m., ABC). (Don't worry, "NYPD" is coming back.) Fast Food Films (10 p.m., FX), which usually airs on Saturday nights, has a special prime time showcase. "Fast Food" takes little-known B movies and edits them down to six-minute featurettes, radically changing the story line in the process. So the TV movie "The Best Little Girl in the World," about teenage girls (Jennifer Jason Leigh and Ally Sheedy) with eating disorders, becomes a horror flick called "The Anorexorcist," while "Jack-O," about a killer pumpkin-head, becomes an episode of "The Wonder Years." Get it?

S P O R T S

Basketball:
Heat at Jazz (8 p.m., TNT)

Hockey:
Sabres at Devils (7:30 p.m., ESPN2)

T A L K

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) TBA
David Letterman (CBS) Elizabeth Hurley, Katie Holmes, Cake
Jay Leno (NBC) Christina Applegate, Mavis Leno
Charlie Rose (PBS) Yahoo CEO Tim Koogle
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Larry Klayman, Tavis Smiley
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Jennifer Grey, Dave Foley
SALON | March 23, 1999

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