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E8 THE BOSTON GLOBE THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1997 TV Radio Ch. 4 overhauls afternoon news ny Flint on US public health advocates' rejection of a major part of the proposed tobacco deal. Noon: Top stories Sports editor Don Skwar on how the Celtics fared in the NBA draft. 4 p.m.: Talk Gardening writer Carol Stocker takes your questions on the best garden tools. Call 244-3344.

6 p.m.: Tomorrow's paper. NEWS TALK SHOWS "In Person With Maureen O'Boyle" at 9 a.m. on Channel 6 and at 3 p.m. on Channel 4. Scheduled: Feuding neighbors.

"Regis Kathie Lee" at 9 a.m. on Channels 7 and 10. Scheduled: Jonathan Taylor Thomas; Dennis Franz. "After Breakfast" at 9 a.m. on Channel 25 and at 10 a.m.

on Channel 64. Sched-uled: Peter Fonda; Kathy Griffin; music group Hanson; guest cohost John Salley. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) s- Jessy Raphael" at 10 a.m. on Channel 9, at 11 a.m.

on Channel 5, and at 4 p.m. on Channel 12. Scheduled: Surgical nightmares. "Jerry Springer" at 11 a.m. on WPIX and at noon on Channel 56.

Scheduled: Exotic dancers. "Geraldo Rivera" at 3 p.m. on Channel 7. i Scheduled: Divorce. "Greater Boston" at 7 p.m.

on Channels 2, at 11 p.m. on Channel 44. Scheduled: Gay and lesbian life in Boston. (CC) "Chronicle" at 7:30 p.m. on Channel 5.

Scheduled: The Disappearance of Patricia Minassian. (CC) "48 Hours" at 10 p.m. on Channels 4 and 12. Scheduled: Army soldier stands trial for a racially motivated murder. In stereo.

(CC) "late Show With David Letterman" at 11:35 p.m. on Channels4and 12. Scheduled: Anchor Brian Williams; violinist Gil Shaham. In stereo. (CC) "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" at 11:35 p.m.

on Channels 7 and 10. Scheduled: Will Smith; Tom Jones. In stereo. (CC) "Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher" at 12:05 a.m. on Channels 6 and 6 and 9.

Scheduled: Hunter S. Thompson; Andy Dick; Edie McClurg; Larry Elder. In stereo. (CC) The Late Late Show With Tom Snyder" at 12:35 a.m. on Channels 4 and 12.

Scheduled: Gina Gershon; former FBI agent Robert Ressler. In stereo. (CC) "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" at 12:35 a.m. on Channels 7 and 10, Scheduled: Will Ferrell; band Del Amitri. In stereo.

(CC) MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS The Virgin Queen 7 p.m. (AMC). Bette Davis, Richard Todd. Elizabeth I loves and loses Sir Walter Kaleigh to a maid of honor after backing his New World dream. (1955) The Beguiled 8 p.m.

(38). Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page. Southern girls and their headmistress punish a sly, wounded Union soldier. Directed by Don Siegel. (1971) In the Mood 8 p.m.

(56). Patrick Dompsey, Beverly D'Angelo. Teenage Ellsworth "Sonny" Wisecarver becomes a 1940s media hero for his affairs with women. (1987) A Taxing Woman's Return 8 p.m. (BRV).

Nobuko Miyamoto, Rentaro Mi- kuni. A tax investigator targets bankers, mobsters, and land speculators seeking to get rich in a shady Tokyo real-estate Scheme. (1988) Mary Beilly 8 p.m. (SHO). Julia Roberts, John Malkovich.

Gentle Dr. Je- kyll confides in a young chambermaid and transforms into evil Mr. Hyde in London. From Valerie Martin's novel. (1996) All About Eve 10:30 p.m.

and 4:30 a.m, (AMC). Bette Davis Anne Baxter. Young actress Eve flatters a star and takes her place on Broadway. Oscars for best picture, director Joseph L. Mankjewicz, supporting actor George Sanders.

(1950) Tampopo 11 p.m. (BRV). Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto. Two Jap- anese milk-truck drivers help a restaurant owner learn how to cook great noodles. Directed by Juzo Itami.

(1986) A Room With a View p.m. (ENCORE). Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith. An English miss tours 1907 Florence with her cousin and meets a man to love. Directed by James Ivory.

From the E. M. Forster novel. (1986) Night and the City 11:50 p.m. (MAX).

Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange. A shady New York lawyer turns boxing i promoter and hustles bis desperate dream to the end. (1992) Belle de Jour 2 a.m. (MC). Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Genevieve Page.

A secret day job as a prostitute allows a French surgeon's bored wife to out her fantasies. Directed by Luis BumieL (1967) The Man Who Knew Too Much 2 a.m. (L'SA). James Stewart, Doris Day. Plotters kidnap a US couple's son to -4 hide an assassination at Royal Albert Hall.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, (1956) i The Garden of Redemption 3:30 a.m. (SHO). Anthony LaPaglia, Embeth Da- vidtz. Cowardice hinders an Italian priest's efforts to combat occupying Ger- man forces in World War II, (1997) Ch. 56: Robert D.

Gluck, now general manager of Fox affiliate WTIC, in Hartford. WAAF suspends drive-time deejays Opie and Anthony, the two evening drive-time personalities on Worcester's WAAF-FM, were suspended for two weeks, beginning yesterday. Simultaneously, the station has discontinued their WOW campaign. WOW, or Whip 'em. Out Wednesdays, solicited male motorists to display the letters WOW in their car windows to encourage female motorists to reveal their breasts.

According to WAAF vice president and general manager Bruce Mittman, the two events are "unrelated." The reason for the two-week suspension, the pair's fourth, is an "internal matter," said Mittman, who also refused to specify whether the two employees would be paid during the suspension. "We've discontinued WOW because we believe it's run its course," said Mittman, who also refused to verify whether political pressure, specifically an outraged call from Mayor Tom Menino's office, led to the end of WOW. "And it became a public safety issue." Opie and Anthony are scheduled to return to the air on July 9. Until then, Rocko will fill their slot. MICHAEL BLOWEN 'Around the Globe' Here's what's happening on "Around the Globe" today on New England Cable News: 10 a.m.: Today's paper Antho By Frederic M.

Biddle 0LOBE STAFF expected, WBZ (Ch. 4) yes-. terday overhauled its after- noon schedule. Beginning July 7, the station's 6:30 weeknight newscast will be dropped in favor of "The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather," which now airs at 7. From 5 to 6:30 p.m., WBZ will air three half-hour newscasts, with anchor stalwarts Liz Walker and Jack Williams replacing Sean Mooney and Virginia Cha at 5 p.m.

Mooney and Cha will now anchor the 5:30 p.m. newscast; Williams and Walker will anchor the 6 o'clock news. Instead of Dan Rather, WBZ will air "Extra," the infotainment magazine show, at 7. General manager Ed Goldman called the switch an opportunity "for three faster-paced, vital newscasts." As reported, Goldman also plans to experiment with Williams andor Walker anchoring the 11 p.m. or 6 p.m.

news solo later this summer. "Look, I'm willing to do whatever it takes, but this game is hardly over," Williams said yesterday. "It's just begining." Competitors reacted cautiously. WHDH (Ch. 7) executives declined to comment.

At ratings leader WCVB (Ch. 5), general manager Paul LaCamera said that since 4, 5, and 7 will soon be airing three half-hour newscasts between 5 and 6:30, Ch. 4's move "just adds to the absence of differentiation among stations and their product, which makes the time period more competitive." At WLVI (Ch. 56), meanwhile, general manager John J. Vitanovec leaves effective July 21, to become a vice president at parent Tribune Broadcasting Co.

Replacing him at Meditations on beauty, minimalist messages, elegant lines Bored silly? Well, "Odd-ville" is nothing if not silly, given the "Stupid Human Tricks" aesthetic that drives the whole of its schmoozy talk-show format. Donald Faison is among tonight's guests, at 7 on MTV. "Mystery!" airs "Maigret and the Minister," in which our hero investigates a building collapse, at 9 on Ch. 2 "Peter Jennings Reporting" investigates a foiled CIA plot to overthrow the ever-elusive Saddam Hussein, at 10 on Ch. 5....

"48 Hours" exposes the Army's and FBI's foreknowledge of the volatile personality that led James Bur-meister to kill a black North Carolina couple as part of a racist, terrorist campaign by white supremacist soldiers based at Fort Bragg, at 10 on Ch. Hunter S. Thompson holds court on "Politically Incorrect," at 12:05 a.m. on Ch. 5.

Movies: "The Virgin Queen" (1955), which I'm always confusing with "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex," also starring Bette Davis (alas, Errol Flynn makes the sexy difference in the latter), at 7 on AMC Juzo Kami's clever "A Taxing Woman's Return" (1988) is paired with his "Tampopo" (1987) at 8 and 11, respectively, on Bravo "All About Eve" (1950) dishes again, at 10:30 on "Smash Up, The Story of a Woman" (1947) was Susan Hayward's first smash, in what is, perhaps, the archetypal drunk performance. 4 a.m., FREDERIC M. BIDDLE Lines" at the Kingslon (iallerv. -A-v-a S. it 1 Gretchen Ewert's kudu bowl at Art Horizons in Westborough.

curve. In larger pieces, the artist puts blocks of color together, and each block reads like a chapter in a novel. One 4-foot-square canvas features a column on the left of pink horizontal bars. The middle section is a depths-of-the-sea green cut with razor-thin vertical stripes of pale green. On the right, thick horizontal bands climb the canvas in granny-apple and for- est greens.

The pink section, airy at the top and more certain at the bottom, feels naive and opejti, until the curtain of fate falls upon it in the 10 a.m. WBUR (90.9 FM) The Connection with Christopher Lydon. Guest: architect Ada Louise Huxtable. Noon. WMSX (1410 AM) That's Life with Mark Snyder.

Guest is Felix Zajdan, author of "Schemes, Scams and Swindles." 1 p.m. WMSX (1410 AM) The Mindy Jackson Show. Guest is Dr. Martin Schwartz discussing techniques he developed to help stutterers. 8 p.m.

WBUR (90.9 FM) Anniversary of Watergate, narrated by NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr. The series continues through tomorrow. 8 p.m. WBZ (1030 AM) The David Brudnoy Show. Guests are labor law expert Kay Hodge on non-compete contracts, and Phil Duncan on "Politics in America 1988." 7 a.m.

WCRB (102.5 FM) Benda's Sinfo-nia No. Respighi's "Ancient Airs and Dances," Suite No. Mozart's Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter." 8 a.m. WGBH (89.7 FM) Classics in the Morning.

Kozeluh's Missa Pastoralis; Mozart's Symphony No. 35, Wien-iawski's Violin Concerto No. 2. Noon. WUMB (91.9 FM) Folk radio host Marilyn Rea Beyer interviews singer-songwriter Vance Gilbert.

7 p.m. WGBH (89.7 FM) Jazz with Eric in the Evening. At 10:05 p.m., Homegrown-Jazz New England! features pianist Joe Mulholland. 7 p.m. WCRB (102.5 FM) Schubert's Symphony No.

6, Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, Schubert's Piano Quintet in "Trout." 7 p.m. WD1S (1170 AM) Sundown with Ed Nielson. Handel's Water Music. with dark green, from "Between the LLOYD GUNTHER DALLETT: GARDEN NEW PAINTINGS At: Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, 38 Newbury St, through June 28 LIZ MARRAN: BETWEEN THE LINES At: Kingston Gallery, 129 Kingston St, through July 3 NEW VISIONS At: Art Horizons, 3 Unum St, Westbtmmgli, through July 3 flat planes filled with blocks and bars of color gives way to sensual delight in her materials. The sheer messiness of these paintings gives these basic geometries an almost narrative element.

It's not all about surface and form. Marran is a disciple of Barnett Newman, who didn't want his colorful geometric paintings to be read as objects, but as experiences. Marran's show is aptly titled; there is something "Between the Lines." It appears in a smaller, 13-inch-square painting made up of vertical red and yellow stripes, each about a half-inch wide. Marran builds her paint up. She colors outside the lines in little smears and scrapes, so the stripes waver, giving the piece a careworn feeling.

An almost invisible horizontal line cuts the picture plane in half. The paint application changes subtly; it's darker and more scuffed up just below the line on the left, and again risingf above the line on the right, like the dream of a sine jl fc. 1 'V "it 5 1 1 I I 1 i 9 isgstmm $,. wsmmMmmtmtM sipilliiiif siiiisi faiiiiiii- iymMtlSKMS90ik IlliSilllSllliiSipt I 'lilljSiil' S-- Illlliiifililli IflPJplll jplllililliBISi llllliSillpS i Sm. ililiBiBlW GALLERIES Continued from Page El paintings now at Andrea Marquit Fine Arts rise blossom and stem above the rest.

There's nothing preachy or politically correct about Dallett's work. It's not nostalgic, but contemporary and fresh in its concern with the painting's built-up surface. All told, these pieces join the elegant, formal beauty of a traditional botanical image with a painterly chaos. To boot, the artist sprinkles in a little fantastic realism in the form of text. Dallett starts with a wood panel, which she builds up with layers of gouache and paper and then covers with spackle and acrylic before she paints.

The result is richly textured, but remarkably light. In "Variegated Tulip: The Spell Is Broken," the picture plane is a cloud of pale earth tones. Watery red circles cluster in the bottom left like "a collection of hard candies. On the right, the slender stem of a tulip arcs upward to delicately painted red petals, a trifle folded and frayed. In places, Dallett has applied tacky 'white paint.

Spindles of the dried paint vine over the surface like a -delicate root system, and even cloud and obscure the flower itself -breaking the spell of the tulip's per- fept beauty. The numeral "2," in florid calligraphy, flies like a toward the flower. Beneath, has been scratched in the surface. The lines of the letters are haloed, like an infection swelling around a cut. Look out, the painting seems to say: Romance isn't all it's cracked up to be.

"Black Hellebore: To Purge the Sfleen of Baleful Humors" puts the plant in the center of the painting, its root system drooping gracefully below. A second flower hovers to the Concert f. The show must go on, Louisiana style. This weekend's Big Easy Stepping Stone Ranch in' Escoheag. R.L, was canceled last wpek by the promoter due to poor ticket sales, but, with the assistance of ranch owner Brian Bishop, some of the performers are refusing to let itldie.

The two leading young Cajun bands, Steve Riley and the Mamou Piayboys and Balfa Toujours, are in New England anyway for the wedding of Playboy fiddler Peter Suhwartz, and they have decided to Vplly Saturday's how despite the cancellation. They will be joined by Liz Marran's untitled pink stripes left; a seed pod and sprout hover to the right. The images drift over what appears to be a paint-splattered ledger, with penciled-in figures and words implying the faint outline of a grid. The words of the title float in arch, quirky letters over the painting, like an invocation or a spell, purging this accountant's book of its baleful humors. Dallett's work is clever, but it's also layered as much in meaning as it is in spackle, wax, and paint.

These aren't just visual jokes; they are meditations on beauty and the fragility of life. Call Liz Marran a minimalist working in fingerpaints. In her show at the Kingston Gallery, the austerity of her minimalist format it's all Update Mem Shannon and an array of local artists, most as yet undetermined, and intend to let the good times roll for whatever proceeds they can take i at the gate. It all begins at 11 a.m. For more information, call (401) 392-0212.

Reba McEntire and Brooks Dunn have teamed up for the biggest country tour of the year. The two mega-acts are coming to the Worcester Centrum on Aug. 8. Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaswir.

Leonard Urso's copper figures morph into women in his new works that are part of the group show, "New Visions," at Art Horizons. long mouth rimmed in gold leaf, lidded with a seated ibis. The piece is a harmony of shapes, tones, and color, and has the sense of peaceful conw pleteness that all of Ewert's objects have here. Urso sculpts proud figures from narrow bands of metal. They look like shifting reeds morphing into women, swelling to form hips and bust.

A whole being bursts miracu lously from a single line, dappled and mottled with lush patinas. There is other fine work in the show Thomas Dorsey's praying mantis coffee table and Joy Raskin's woven silver flatware come to mind -but Ewert and? Urso are the one. to see. shape of the dark, irrevocable middle column. The clear rhythm and sharp color of the third section reads more definitively, as if a lesson has been learned.

"New Visions," the group show Nancy Sitta has curated at Art Horizons in Westborough, is dominated by two powerhouses of elegant line, Gretchen Ewert and Leopard Urso. Ewert's masks and vessels are sinu-ous and taut. Theyare grounded in nature, invoking animal spirits like totemsJIheeramic "Ibis Perfume Jar" is large indeed it could probably hold a liter of perfume. A slender, dark necl rises from a copper-colored spherical bulb at the base. At the top, the neck splays into an ob.