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SALON'S TV PICKS FOR
TUESDAY, FEB. 9, 1999
BY JOYCE MILLMAN

S P E C I A L S

The Academy Award nominations (8:30 a.m., ABC, NBC, CNN, E!) are unveiled, immediately followed by shock, disappointment and righteous indignation.

S E R I E S

Bobby and Luanne carry practical jokes too far on King of the Hill (8 p.m., Fox). Without Giles to keep her in line, Buffy adopts Faith's undisciplined ways on a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB). A school mural divides the student body along racial lines on a Very Special Black History Month Episode of Moesha (8 p.m., UPN). And on The PJs (8:30 p.m., Fox), where every month is Black History Month, Thurgood and Muriel move on up to the penthouse, but find all is not so great in that deluxe apartment in the sky. On The Hughleys (8:30 p.m., ABC), a neighborhood feud winds up in court, where Daryl represents himself against guest Johnnie Cochran. Just Shoot Me (9 p.m., NBC) begins a two-parter in which Finch's divorced father (guest Brian Dennehy) starts dating Nina. Felicity (9 p.m., WB) finally knows what it's like to be Ben when a boy she knew only slightly back home shows up in New York and pours out his feelings for her. Debbie Reynolds makes her first appearance as Grace's mother, a former showgirl, on Will & Grace (9:30 p.m., NBC). Frontline (check local times, PBS) presents "The Execution," Alan Austin's profile of a murderer who got the death penalty in Texas. Sorenson tries to defuse a hostage situation involving a depressed friend on a new NYPD Blue (10 p.m., ABC).

S P O R T S

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

T A L K

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow
David Letterman (CBS) Jeff Daniels
Jay Leno (NBC) Arsenio Hall; Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris
Politically Incorrect (ABC) John Waters, Rep. Steve Largent
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Stephen King, Gloria Reuben
SALON | Feb. 9, 1999

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