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18 THE BOSTON GLOBE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1997 TV Radio hands us a colicky 'Baby' 111 original cast members. (N.Y.) DAILY NEWS Rating corrected The November "sweeps" rating for WSBK-Ch. 38 was erroneously reported in the Globe Tuesday. Channel 38 received a 2.4 rating and a 4 share for its weekday 10 p.m. newscast.

When measured over seven days, the station received a 2.3 rating and a 4 share. "lnld Edition" at noon on WPIX. Scheduled: Reunion. (Closed-captioned) "Access Hollywood" at 12:30 p.m. on Channel 10.

Scheduled: Luke Perry. (Closed-captioned) "American Journal" at 12:30 p.m. on WPIX. Scheduled: Fugitive. (Closed-cap-; tioned) "Caraldo Riwra" at 3 p.m.

on Channel 7. Scheduled: Celebrity news. "Oprah Winfrey" at 4 p.m. on Channels 5 and 10. Scheduled: Young angels.

(Closed-captioned) "Hard Copy" at 4:30 p.m. on Channel 7. i Scheduled: Debbie Reynolds. (Closed-captioned) "EXTRA" at 7 p.m. on Channel 4, In Bte-reo.

(Closed-captioned) "Inside Edition" at 7 p.m. on Channels 5 and 10. Scheduled: Internet pedophiles. (Closed-captioned) "Dateline NBC" at 9 p.m. on Channels 7 and 10.

Scheduled: For Whom the Bell Tolls. A yearlong chronicle of the lives of three families affected by one of the largest corporate layoffs in America. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "2020" at 10 p.m. on Channels 5, 6, and 9.

Scheduled: Four years after her ex-husband kidnapped their daughter and took her to Lebanon, a mother de-. rides to risk everything to bring her 'i home; also, Deborah Roberts Reports on 1 Botox, a radical new wrinkle treatment1' (Closed-captioned) i "68 Sports Night" at 10:30 p.m. on Channel 68. Host Butch Stearns. "Vibe" at 11 p.m.

on Channel 64; at mid- NEWS TALK SHOWS "Greater Botton" at 6 a.m. on Channel 44; at 7 p.m. on Channel 2. (Closed-cap. tioned) "This Morning! Business" at 6:30 tun.

on Channel 68; at 7 a.m. on Channel 50. "Good Morning America" at 7 a.m. on Channels 5, 6, and 9. Scheduled: Eggnog and cookie recipes; the stock market; science toys; guilty pleasures (Part 5 of 6).

(Closed-captioned) "Today" at 7 am. on Channels 7 and 10. Scheduled: Robin Williams; personal finances; gift-wrapping. In stereo. (Gosed-captioned) "This Morning" at 7 a.m.

on Channel 12; at 8 a.m. on Channel 4. Scheduled: Celine Dion; Rhode Island Christmas tree farmer; Gene SLskel. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Martha Stewart living" at 9 a.m.

on Channel at 10 a.m. on Channel 12. Scheduled: Painting plates and jar lids; shortbread. (Closed-captioned) "Regis Kathie Leo" at 9 a.m. on Channels 7 and 10.

Scheduled: Alex Trebek; Mary Stuart Masterson; Usher. "Maury Povich" at 9 a.m. on Channel at 11 a.m. on Chanel 10; at 4 p.m. on Channel 4.

Scheduled: Amazing pets. (Repeat) (Closed-captioned) "Montel Wiliianw" at 9 a.m. on Channel 12; at 3 p.m. on Channel 4. Scheduled: Abusive parents.

(Repeat) (Closed-captioned) "Susan Wornick Consumer Show" at 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on NECN. "Gayle King" at 9:30 a.m. on Channel at 10:30 a.m.

on Channel 12. Scheduled: Gloria Gaynor, Deney Terrio. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Roste O'Donnell" at 10 a.m. on Channel at 5 pjn.

on Channel 6. Scheduled: Alec Baldwin; Russell Crowe; Jennifer Lopez; Chuck Jones. (Repeat) (Closed-captioned) "Sally Jessy Raphael" at 10 a.m. on Channel at 11 am. on Channel at 4 p.m.

on Channel 12. Scheduled: Griflers' victims. (Repeat) "The View" at 11 am. on Channels 6 and at 1:35 am on Channel 5. Scheduled: James Brolin; Pam Tillis; "Dr.

Katz: Professional Therapist" (Closed-captioned) "Rlcki Lake" at 11 a.m. on Channel 64, at 5 p.m. on Channel 25. Scheduled: Crushes. "Jerry Springer" at 11 a.m.

on WPIX; at noon on Channel 56. Scheduled: Man-stealing niece. The always great Vincent D'Onofrio guest stars as a commuter trapped between a subway and a platform on the always great "Homicide," at 10 p.m. on Ch. 7.

The episode, directed by Gary Fledcr of "Kiss the Girls" and "Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead," takes place in real time. Bobcat Goldthwait plays Merlin the Magician on "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" at 9 on Ch. 5. A repeat episode of "Sabrina" airs at 8. The holiday cartoon specials continue with "Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too" at 8 on Ch.

4 and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" at 8:05 on "Biography" at 8 looks at the creation of the Neiman Marcus stores On the History Channel at 9, "The Fifties" looks at the influence of Elvis Presley and Jack Kerouac. God, love, madness, and glitter rock commingle in "Breaking the Waves," a jittery art film featuring the fearless Emily Watson. Will the hand-held camera and pale cinematography work on the small screen? Cinemax airs the 1996 Oscar nominee at 10.... "High School High," Jon Lovitz's flat parody of teacher movies like "Dangerous Minds," shows up at 8 on Showtime. A bionic man searches Moscow for his killer Rutger Hauer stars.

MATTHEW GILBERT Win By John Koch GLOBE STAFF emember the World War II movies featuring a melting pot of enlisted men invariably in cluding an ethnic soldier from Brooklyn hooked on the Dodgers? Usually there was an Irish-American chaplain somewhere in the mix, with a plummy brogue, and the movie's recipe was thick with sentimentality as well as stereotypes. "A Thousand Men and a Baby the CBS Sunday Movie (at 9 p.m. on WBZ-Ch. 4), set during the Korean War and involving the Navy, is a throwback to those days. Based on i the true story of the recovery of an abandoned Amerasian infant, it takes place largely on board a US aircraft carrier shortly after the I "signing of the truce with North Ko-j rea.

The rescued baby is treated With TLC not only by the ship's doc-! tofr (Richard "John Boy" Thomas) p4byt also by the universally smitten crew. In the forefront is Joey Ca-j nierini (Keith McKechnie), a home-' 6ick Brooklyn-born Italian American often seen donning his Dodgers cap as the '53 World Series begins, The doc and the war-weary sail- bis coo over the kid and labor to spirit him from Korea -where mixed-race war babies were appar-i ently unwelcome -to the United, i States, with the help of the carrier's tough-but-tender captain (Gerald McRaney). His most reliable accom-- plice is the ship's tender-but-tough Father O'Reilly (Jonathan Banks), i whose eyes mist up whenever he surveys the doting men and the jbaby. But don't sell the priest short: If a five-card-stud stud is needed to win the baby a passport in an all-flight game, he's your best bet. Jay Carr's Here are capsule reviews of the latest video releases and weekend movies scheduled for the three major 'premium cable services.

AH reviews are by Jay Carr unless otherwise credited "A Thousand Men" is turgidly predictable and sorrily secondhand, right down to its treacly score, more often than not a poor imitation of Aaron Copland. The telemovie's subject matter is not without interest and some dramatic potential, but the script is a cloudy, amateurish piece of work featuring neither a fresh idea nor an original line of dialogue. (And it's shamefully short of context. Despite the movie's happy Christmas Day conclusion, there's nothing about the fate of other, less fortunate Korean-, American children.) Although an extreme example of the networks' depressing moviemaking tendencies, "A Thousand Men" is yet another reminder that for the occasional quality telemovie today, you have to click to the cable channels. Tatty Duke Show to return as a movie More than three decades after her '60s series left the air, Patty Duke will reprise the dual role of Patty and Cathy Lane of "The Patty Duke Show" in a reunion movie for CBS.

"We've been talking for what seems like 50 years," Duke said. "We probably won't shoot until May or June, with a November kind of In 1963, Duke, then a teenage Oscar winner for "The Miracle Worker," top-lined the family comedy in which she played Patty, a perky teenager, and Cathy, Patty's Scottish, intellectual and identical cousin. The series aired on ABC until 1966. According to Duke, she's just started making calls to all of the Video and Cable On premium cable tonight and tomorrow: "Airplane II: The Sequel" A few laughs before it crash-lands on a slippery runway of stale gags, bad puns, and redundancy. (PG) (Michael Blowen) On HBO tonight.

lA "Solo" This action-hero adventure starring Mario Van Peebles is so lame it's funny. Van Peebles plays a computerized government warrior who goes AWOL and develops feelings for the lovable denizens of a small village in Latin America. Watch only if you're in a patient and absurdist mood. (PG-13) (Matthew Gilbert) On HBO tonight. "Zeus and Roxanne" A movie that will bore the whole family.

A marine biologist and single mom (Kathleen Quinlan) gets involved with the single dad across the street (Steve Gut-tenberg), who's writing a rock opera. The dolphin she's studying saves his dog from sharks; it's an awfully long 75 minutes before the dog returns 9 a Comfortably ill Ox l' i ri i yJi -Wi a in video stores this week: of the Jungle" Sweet, j-- bright, and goofy, this is an endear-t jng live-action spinoff of the old TV fc3rtoons about the klutzy would-be "Tarzan. A buff Brendan Fraser gets the tone just right. So does Leslie Mann, as the socialite who falls for him. But the film is stolen by the ani-fTndls, especially an elephant who acts ke a puppy.

(PG) 'm "Speed 2: Cruise Control" A hec-i lie but empty attempt to repeat the fiiret film, this time on a cruise liner in Jthe Caribbean. It doesn't even use I Bullock's sweet goofiness, turning her into a largely in-I competent victim of Willem Dafoe's i mad bomber, who singlehandedly 10 a.m. WBUIt (90.9 FM) The Connection with Christopher Lydon. At 11 a.m., guests are Oren Rudavsky and Pearl Gluck on Hasidism in America. Noon.

WMSX (1410 AM) That's Life with Mark Snyder. Guest: Craig Chaquieo, formerly of Jefferson Starship, with songs from his new CD, "Once in a Blue Universe." 2 p.m. Talk of the Nation Science Friday with Ira Flatow. Topics: global warming and greenhouse gases; science books. 9 p.m.

WBZ (1030 AM) The David Brudnoy Show. Guest: Gerald Bracey of American Heritage magazine on the dumbing of America. 7:30 a-m. WCRB (102.5 FM) J. C.

Bach's Overture No. 6, Dvorak's "Vanda" Overture, Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5. 8 a.nu WGBH (89.7 FM) Classics in the Morning. Bach's "Brandenburg" Concerto No.

4, Bottensini's Gran Duo Concertante, Bizet's "L'Arlesienne" Suite No. 2. 1:30 p.m. WGBH (89.7 FM) The Boston Symphony Orchestra live. Seiji Ozawa, conductor; Joshua Bell, violin.

Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 in "Death and the Corigliano's "The Red Violin Ravel's "Valses nobles et senti-mentales." 7 p.ra. WCRB (102.5 FM) Beethoven's Symphony No. Brahms's Clarinet Sonata No. Saint-Saens's Symphony No.

3, with organ. p.m. WGBH (89.7 FM) Blues After Hours. At midnight, Playback. John Lee Hooker: The Real Folk Blues.

TV Tips the favor. (PG) (Betsy Sherman) On HBO tomorrow night. "Star Trek: First Contact" Lots of oomph and savvy here, assuring Trekkies that the franchise will live long and prosper with the New Generation, led by Patrick Stewart, on the job. Their mission here is to put the brakes on evil Borg zombies, led by Alice Krige's scheming queen, who wants to go back in time to put the kibosh on the Federation. (PG-.

13) On HBO tomorrow night. "Harriet the Spy" Refreshing adaptation of the classic book about sixth grader learning that growth is painful and that artists pay a price in popularity for remaining true to themselves. Michelle Trachtenberg is the self-possessed Harriet, and Rosie O'Donnell updates Mary Pop-pins as her idealized nanny. (PG) On Cinemax tonight. "Top Gun" Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis aren't as hot as the jet engines in director Tony Scott's recruiting film for the US Navy.

(PG) (Michael Blowen) On Cinemax tonight Vfc "Breaking the Waves" Lars von Trier's neo-primitive love story is breathtaking in the raw purity of its emotions. Emily Watson is the woman of intense religious faith who must react to her oil-rig worker husband's incapacitating injury in their punishing community in a remote Scottish coastal town. (R) On Cinemax tonight "Coneheads" Dan Aykroyd's Bel-dar and Jane Curtin's Prymaat, back from the planet Remulak and "Saturday Night Live," seem awfully overextended. The script's virtual nonexistence turns the spacy robotic humor from a giddy exercise in winging it to a ponderous exercise in marketing, with newer "SNL" regulars inserted to appeal to today's demographics. (PG) On Cinemax tomorrow night Vi "Twelfth Night" Imogen Stubbs is a refreshing, convincing Viola; Nigel Hawthorne's gravely pompous Malvolio is amusing; and Helena Bonham Carter's Olivia makes an impression fighting her own emotions.

Otherwise, though, Trevor Nunn's way of neutralizing emotions and making the play a meditation on loss robs it of sparkle, despite gorgeously autumnal Cornish settings and a late-Victorian ambience. On Cinemax tomorrow night "High School High" The makers of this pulseless comedy only wish it were as memorably abrasive as fingernails on a chalkboard. Movies like "Dangerous Minds" and "Stand and Deliver" are weakly parodied, with the uncharismatic Jon Lovitz as the naive teacher who wants to make a (Eftey Sherman) On Showtime tonight' mgni on nannei as. scneuuiea: Kevin i Bacon and the Bacon Brothers; Elise Neal. late Show With David Letterman" at 11:35 p.m.

on Channels 4 and 12. Sched-. uled: Billy Crystal; actor Cuba Gooding singer Darlene Love. (Repeat) In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" at 11:35 p.m.

on Channel 7 and 10. Sched- uled: Neve Campbell; actor Ben Affleck; Spice Girls. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Keenea Ivory Wayans" at midnight on Channel 25. Scheduled: Duane Martin; Angelica Bridges; K-Ci JoJo.

In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Politically Incorrect With Bill Matter" at 12:05 am on Channels 5, 6, and 9. Scheduled: John Stossel; Janeane Garo-falo; Kevin Anderson; Tony Compolo. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "The Late Late Show With Tom Snyder" at 12:35 a.m.

on Channels 4 and 12. Scheduled: Sinatra biographer Bill Zehme, In stereo. (Closed-captioned) dumb PHOTO MICHAEL QUAJ features their favorite radio bits. everything we stand for, OK? Tht general manager and program director issued us a memo saying if yon mention it again you'll be suspended or if you use this memo on the au youU be suspended. I knew tha.

would stop the whole promotion ant me and Ant won't look like bad guys I said, 'I'm reading this And that's what we did, and that's hones; to God why we got suspended." Of course, everyone made nice the name of good ratings, the quest for which has led to Opie and Anthony's well-documented war of words with WBCN's Nik Carter. "I dont care what they throw at us as ind-viduals or a radio station. Eventualy it's gonna come down to talent anl, not to sound cocky, he's not in oir league," Opie says of Carter. What about the racial slurs? "That's coning from their side," Anthony sajs. Opie: "They're just trying to creite talk for their guy, a Howard Stan wannabe with no talent to back wlat he does." I Opie is quick to point out tiat Stern, whom he and Anthony sem to be trying to emulate as well, has a copy of "Demented World" (the three-cut promo disc was recently sent to 850 morning shows).

"I listened to Howard every day, because I was convinced it was the last day he would be on the radio. You jist had that mentality, and that waj a big influence on what I've been doing" Comedy hurts, Opie and Anthony readily acknowledge. Every time they turn on the mike they're angering somebody. Any regrets? "You can't really feel guilty about it I don't know, you live by the swerd, you die by the sword," says Opie. "I was picked on because I was 5 foot 2, 91 pounds, in 10th grade, and I never minded it I alway liked the attention, good or bad.

I don't care what people th.Vk about me. So rg-ative, positive attention, who cares?" seizes the ship. (PG-13) 4i This year, the deadline for all requests from families seeking Globe Santa aid be Friday, Oecemlier 5. Tasteless humor and pranks from WAAF shock jocks By Joan Anderman GLOBE CORRESPONDENT Their debut CD is No. 21 on Soundscan's CD sales chart for Boston, nestled comfortably between the Rolling Stones and Janet Jackson.

Green Day and Oasis are eating their dust. Local airwaves are saturated daily with the duo's edgy, im-provisational rap. Salt-N-Pepa? Puff Daddy and Sting? Try Opie and Anthony. They don't carry much of a tune, but they make a gnarly prank phone call. The afternoon drive-time guys at WAAF (107.3 FM) released their debut CD, "Opie and Anthony's Demented World," several months ago on New Jersey-based Restaurant Records, and the throngs of (predominantly) men, ages 18-34, who've catapulted the duo to the top-rated spot in the 3-7 p.m.

time slot are shelling out for 24-hour access to humor breaks of questionable taste, such as "Babes Auto Villa," "Green Poopie," and "Evil Barney Babysits." The CD, which has sold more than 20,000 copies regionally so far and was released nationally last week, includes reams of prank calls, a handful of song parodies (such as "Marsha Brady," a musical explication of a boy's first sexual arousal), and random extended sexually oriented riffs on pop-culture figures like Captain Kirk and Dr. Smith a pedophile lost in space, Is there, perchance, a narrative theme to Opie and Anthony's come-dic vision? "We try to tie in to current events, and bring in some observational humor," muses Opie, the "Tiger Beat" blond as he's called by the swarthy, wild-haired Anthony. Anthony was recruited 316 years ago by Opie, -then a night-show jock on WBAB on Long Island, N.Y., after his band, Rottgutt, turned in a winning O. J. Simpson parody.

"And then we get into some of that edgy stuff that sort of leaves a bruise. We like to call it cringe radio." "Cringe" will be the title of their next CD, already being planned. Both are 34 and hail from Huntington, N.Y. "There's a bunch of those on the CD," adds Anthony, kicking back in his office chair. For example, the bit "Hi, Mom, I'm in Porno." "It's brutal," he says.

"You listen to it and you can't look anybody in the eye 'cause you're so embarrassed, or feel pain for the poor tmotherT The "Hi, Letters will be accepted starting Octolx-r 2 through December 5. Any letters received after the deadline will not be honored. The requirements to qualify for Globe .1 Santa are as follows: Each family requesting aid must write their own letter explaining the need, giving the name, address, apart Opie (left) and Anthony's album Mom series features taped phone conversations between willing young Opie and Anthony fans and their mothers, in which the offspring confess to sundry activities certain to blow Mom's mind. "Honestly, when that phone call from the "Porno" bit was coming in, IU never forget, I actually left the studio," Opie confesses. "We couldn't listen.

We couldn't stop it It was horrible. We were just praying that it was gonna work out OK." Has it ever not worked out OK? "Uh, yeah, yeah," they concur. Opie, between bursts of laughter, talks about a woman who had dialed the wrong number and accidentally reached the WAAF studio. She was told that the man she was trying to reach had died. When it became clear that she was severely traumatized, Opie wriggled out with a mistaken-identity defense.

"I don't think we aired it, though," says Anthony. Plenty of the material used on the air and included on the CD is certain to anger and offend people -those who question, for example, the comedy value of Alzheimer's disease or emphysema, or who take issue with the sexual objectification of women that forms the basis of much of Opie and Anthony's humor. Case in point: the W.O.W. (Whip 'Em Out Wednesday) fiasco of last spring and summer, the pair's "good-natured" campaign to solicit female flashers on the highway, which became a phenomenon and subsequently the object of much criticism from women's groups, the media, and in a final blow Mayor Menino's office. As to the report that W.O.W.

was killed in phenomenally coincidental conjunction with Opie and Anthony's weeklong suspension for according to WAAF management an unrelated offense? "Me and Ant felt like we didn't want to be the ones to jitop it, you know, 'cause it would jifefgo against I i i ment number, zip code, telephone number, ages and sex of each child 14 years old and under. WfJf The letter must be countersigned by a licensed social worker who has knowledge of die family and documented evidence or records of their need; or countersigned by a clergvperson who has up-to-date con it gregation census records andor documentation of the families' need. Gmntersigners may be called to attest that the need tmly exists. All letters must contain both the signature and office stampor Church Seal. Letters not containing either of these requirements will not be honored.

Letters received from Agencies or clergy not registered with Globe Santa office will not be honored. Mail requests tic Globe Santa, P.O. Box 1525, Boston, MA 02104 Final date for family requests, Friday, December 5. Dic Boston f3lobc 1 1.