Blue Glow

Salon's TV picks for
Monday, June 7, 1999

Published June 7, 1999 4:00PM (EDT)

Series

Cosmetics queen Estee Lauder is profiled on a new Biography (8 p.m. ET/9 PDT, A&E). Doug makes last-minute plans to celebrate Carrie's 30th birthday on a very funny rerun of The King of Queens (8:30 p.m., CBS). And Robert turns pretty fly for a white guy when he starts hanging out with his African-American partner on a rerun of Everybody Loves Raymond (9 p.m., CBS). Buffy the Vampire Slayer (9 p.m., WB) repeats the one where Spike comes back to town, pining for Dru, who dumped him. M.C. Hammer gets nailed on a repeat of Behind the Music (9 p.m., VH1). Dateline NBC (8 p.m. EDT/10 PDT, NBC) has a segment on some teens who were recruited to sell magazine subscriptions and wound up dead. 48 Hours (10 p.m., CBS) kicks off its "Monday Mysteries" installment with an update about a man who disappeared in 1983 after leaving a suicide note, but who was spotted alive a decade later. The documentary series Crime Stories (10 p.m., Court TV) recalls the O.J. Simpson saga, five years after that fateful night in Brentwood.

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Sports

Baseball:

Devil Rays at Braves (7:35 p.m., TBS)

NBA Playoffs:

Pacers at Knicks, Game 4 (9 p.m., NBC)

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Talk

Roseanne (syndicated) William Shatner, Kennedy

David Letterman (CBS) Dan Rather, Citadel graduate Nancy Mace

Jay Leno (NBC) James Woods, Laura San Giacomo

Politically Incorrect (ABC) Germaine Greer, Ben Folds

Conan O'Brien (NBC) Josh Charles, Kevin Pollack (rerun)


By Joyce Millman

Joyce Millman is a writer living in the Bay Area.

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