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Third Rock stars John Lithgow as the head of an alien quartet sent from another planet to study earthling behavior. With no knowledge of human mating rituals, the visitors are astonished by every discovery. When Lithgow, in the guise of a university professor, is invited to his first wedding, he tells his alien friend Sally that "the ceremony begins with the bride being given away." "Excuse me," she says. "Given away? Like an object? As in, free girl with every large fries?" The show is packed with many such consciousness-raising insights-insights that may have been trenchant back when...
...what went wrong. Landing in a loony bin, he is aided by a nice doctor (Madeleine Stowe) and beset by a canny inmate (Brad Pitt, in a funny turn full of wild hand gestures, as if shaking off imaginary water). Can Cole fulfill his mission and save the planet...
...Space Telescope produced astonishing pictures of cosmic clouds, stellar nurseries and galactic collisions. The space shuttle executed a flawless linkup with the Russian space station Mir--twice. And a probe from the intrepid spacecraft Galileo became the first man-made object to plunge through the upper atmosphere of the planet Jupiter...
...renewed sight of Jordan--tongue and all--in a Bulls uniform was the most welcome. He gave the team a boost, unslumped the big shoulders of Chicago and demonstrated that even when rusty, he's still His Airness. The White Sox may have lost a fifth outfielder, but the planet regained its best basketball player...
...PLANET OF THE YEAR: Jupiter, probed by Galileo. Runner-up: GL229B, superplanet/ proto-star eyed by Hubble telescope...