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rrcr sr daily Wews rWXVns 3S2 Mew word to describe 'Twin Peaks': Boring! Katherine Martell and Josie Packard have been missing since the sawmill fire. And on it went with only a clue about who might have killed Laura Palmer. A name "Bob" pops up in her diary and there's a flashback scene showing a wild-haired man attacking Ronette Pulaski and Laura. Frankly, at this point, I'm not sure I care who the murderer is, "Mairzy Doats" to you, too, David Lynch and" Mark Frost It not only was a confusing outing, it was boring! welcomed. While the show has some die-hard fans who remember every detail, not everybody does and it's presumptuous to assume they do.

We now know for sure Agent Dale Cooper was a bulletproof vest when he got shot in last season's finale. Seems he had rolled up his vest to catch a tick. In a bizarre scene Sunday night, he's seen lying on the floor bleeding. While in this state, he was visited by a vision of a giant man who gave him three clues, including one to watch for "the man in the smiling bag." All this time the town went on its murdering way while he lay injured. Shelly Johnson's brutal husband, Leo, was shot, but remains in a coma.

Nadine Hurley, who tried to kill herself, is in a coma. By KAY GARDELLA Daily News TV Critic AFTER ALL THAT hullabaloo over the return of "Twin Peaks" Sunday night, I confess I felt had. Talk about boring! Just as Nadine Hurley lay comatose in the drama, I felt that way watching it Is it possible this was the same series I was such a big fan of last season? It was all too obvious to me creators David Lynch and Mark Forst were having problems stretching the story and used every trick in the book, including one character singing "Mairzy Doats" and another tap dancing, to pad it A short recap at the opening would have been In refasims air oassis sit By SCOTT WILLIAMS 7:30 p.m. (9) "Baseball." Mets-Pirates. 9:00 (13) "Frontline." "Global Dumping Ground" examines the export of toxic waste to Third World nations.

10:00 (4) The Story Behind the Story." New information on the night John Lennon died; Bob. Hope entertains troops. 11:30 (4) 'Tonight." Guest host: Jay Leno. Peggy Lipton, Paul Sorvino, singer John Hiatt, Nicollette Sheridan. 11:30 (7) "Nightline." Interview with Vice President Quayle.

11:30 (9) "Arsenio Hall." Rue McClanahan; Robert Wuhl; Crosby, Stills Nash. 12:30 a.m. (4) "Late Night." David Letterman with Teri Garr, Bo Schembechler. HANKS TO Steve Allen, a generation soon will learn that the idea of hot, young comedians doing live, hip, sketch comedy on a TV variety show is older than NBC's "Saturday Night Live." At last, another generation can wonder whether ness and creativity that first made our work pleasurable and, secondly, very effective," Allen said. The show was a jumping-off point for pop culture.

Allen's wordplay with the band Smock! and the cast's doubletalk your on Sunday night would echo in schools and businesses on Monday. For the record, Allen said, he does not have a fern in his creel. "Well, I had it removed several years ago," Allen said, "but it didn't hurt much." Barump-bump! "When the Sunday show started, there were just three of us writing it: Stan Burns, Herb Sargent and myself," Allen said. "Today, a show like that would have literally 22 or 23 writers. "In four or five days, we were putting together each week something that was literally on the level of a Broadway musical comedy revue," he said.

"And yet we were so young and energetic and having such great fun, we never even thought to complain about it "Believe it or not, we were having such fun with it, we never looked upon it as a burden. It was hard work, oh yeah, but we loved it" Allen, 67, is the author of 35 books three of them coming out this year and he's still one of America's most prolific popular music composers. AP there a fern in its creel. Ha! the TV Comedy Network, yesterday debuted the first of 100 half-hours from "The Steve Allen Show," a live, weekly va-riety show that ran against 'The Ed Sullivan Show" on Sunday nights from 1956 to 1959. Elvis Presley made his TV debut on the Allen show, but the program was known more for its daft, inspired comedy by a troupe of brilliant comics that included Don Stave Alien (in 1957) Knotts, Louis Nye, Tom Poston, Pat Harrington and Allen himself.

"We all had a kind of vibration of mutual crazi- A SELECTIVE GUIDE TO TODAY'S MOVIES 8:00 p.m. (5) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1967). Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach, Rada Rasimov, Mario Brega. Third instalment in Sergio Leone's "Dollars" trilogy is probably the best spaghetti Western yet made. During the Civil War, three no-goods search for stash of Confederate gold.

Celebrated score by Ennio Morricone (Concludes tomorrow, same time). 8:00 (TNT) The Assassination Bureau" (1969). Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curt Jurgens, Clive Revill. Enjoyable thrillersatire involving private club that hires itself out to kill people who deserve it for profit Cast members seem to be enjoying themselves. Based on Jack London story! 9:00 (2) "Angel of Death" (new, made for TV).

Gregory Harrison as psycho-escaped prisoner who menaces an artist (Jane Seymour) and her family. 9:00 (LIFE) "Witness for the Prosecution" (1982). Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Beau Bridges, Donald Pleasence, Wendy Hiller, Diana Rigg. Second film version of Agatha Christie's twist-ridden courtroom whodunit is entertaining with a good cast However, if you remember well the 1957 version directed by Billy Wilder and starring Charles Laughton, forget the remake. 10:25 (TNT) The Liquidator" (1966).

Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St John, Wilfred Hyde-White. Rather tepid political thriller involving the adventures of an international hit man. 12:40 a.m. (TNT) "Johnny Angel" (1945). George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso, Lowell Gilmore, Hoagy Carmichael, Marvin Miller, Margaret Wycherly, J.

Farrell MacDonald. Fine cast definite asset in this absorbing, fast-moving B-movie that has Raft searching the ocean for the mob members who murdered his father. 1:00 (7) Trail of the Pink Panther" (1982). Peter Sellers, David Niven, Herbert Lorn, Robert Wagner. A first-rate cast and a couple of sidesplitting scenes cant save this misbegotten attempt to keep the series going after Sellers' death by stringing together a haphazard sequence of unused footage.

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