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blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S P E C I A L S Kelsey Grammer is host for the 40th annual Grammy Awards (8 p.m., CBS), held at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Among the performers and presenters: Sting, Chris Rock, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan and a diva double-dip of Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion singing their nominated song, "Tell Him." And if that doesn't do it for you, there's the National Geographic special Sea Monsters: Search for the Giant Squid (8 p.m., NBC), a look at fact and fantasy surrounding the creature of the deep that has never been seen alive in its natural surroundings. S P O R T S NBA: Lakers at Pacers (8 p.m., TBS). S E R I E S Dick and Mary are locked in the school library overnight on 3rd Rock From the Sun (9 p.m., NBC). Anne Francis, the once and always "Honey West," plays Drew's prospective mother-in-law on a new Drew Carey Show (9 p.m., ABC). On Ellen (9:30 p.m., ABC), Spence gets goofy on bug spray and hallucinates a world where straight is gay and gay is straight. Harvey Fierstein guests. All those who abandoned the Olympics last week to watch Ellen in a chicken costume doing Lucy schtick raise your hands. That's not many ... Well, you missed a good time. On Law & Order (10 p.m., NBC), the district attorneys cross swords with a lawyer who insists his mob boss client is mentally unfit to stand trial. T A L K Susan Sarandon and Aretha Franklin appear on David Letterman (CBS); Jay Leno (NBC) hosts Noah Wyle, Jenna Elfman and Ben Folds Five; playwright August Wilson is scheduled for Charlie Rose (PBS); Mimi Rogers is a panelist on Politically Incorrect (ABC); Conan O'Brien (NBC) features Robert Duvall. SALON | Feb. 25, 1998 Blue Glow for < href="/ent/glow/1998/02/24glow.html">Tuesday Feb. 24, 1998

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