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Series The Chopping Block: : Each team has to create a dish using only ingredients found in Central Park. Jim and Nina Zagat guest star. (8 p.m., WBAL-Channel 11) American Idol: : The remaining finalists perform classic Motown songs, and Smokey Robinson and Berry Gordy help pay tribute to the Motown sound. (8 p.m., WBFF-Channel 45) South Park: : Everyone in town starts pointing fingers when it comes to who is responsible for the state of the economy. (10 p.m., Comedy Central) Movies Vertical Limit: : Chris O'Donnell plays a former mountain-climbing expert who returns to the Himalayas to try to rescue his sister (Robin Tunney)

Whether the entry is good, great or (in this case) indifferent, it's always stimulating to return to the high-flying X-Men series. In the opening minutes of X-Men: The Last Stand, we witness mutant Warren Worthington III shearing off his new-grown wings to the horror of his billionaire father, Warren Worthington Jr. (Michael Murphy), who sets out to find a cure for the mutant gene. When he locates it in another mutant who can leech fellow super-beings of their powers, that cure becomes the pivot for the latest and final chapter in the big-screen X-Men saga.

The latest news from Nielsen is that CBS has the miniseries hit of the TV season in "Queen."The complete, national ratings show Sunday's Part 1 of the miniseries which stars Halle Berry as Alex Haley's grandmother, was watched by an estimated 70 million people.That makes it the highest-rated movie on any network in four years and the highest on CBS since "Lonesome Dove." Those ratings carried CBS to an important victory for last week over ABC, despite the huge audience for Oprah Winfrey's interview with Michael Jackson.

LOS ANGELES -- Judging from this year's Academy Award nominees, you would think all of the male members of the academy had been knocked unconscious and locked in a basement. The contenders for Best Picture are A Beautiful Mind, Gosford Park, In the Bedroom, The Lord of the Rings and Moulin Rouge. Oprah Winfrey's book club could have made these choices. Not one movie about soldiers, gladiators or cowboys. Perhaps after decades of critics bemoaning the lack of quality small films being nominated, this is a makeup year.

Forty years. Twenty films. Five 007s. And still, somehow, Bond, James Bond, retains his slick mystique. In five days -- 40 years after Dr. No, the first film to feature the perpetually cool secret agent -- the newest Bond movie will open. As we wait for Die Another Day, starring four-time Bond Pierce Brosnan and Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry to hit the screens, here's one fan's highly personal list of favorite moments and most interesting trivia: Best local connection George Lazenby.

"The Rich Man's Wife" is nasty, brutish and, best of all, short. But that's not bad, that's good. Here's a wallow, a pulp fiction that is as enjoyable as it is preposterous. What do you expect from the director of "Slumber Party Massacre"?Written and directed by that same Amy Holden Jones, who has a very nasty imagination, the film follows the adventures of Josie Portenza (Halle Berry), a seemingly overmatched young beauty who finds herself in the middle of a Hitchcock film being played out for real.

LOS ANGELES - Matt Damon's The Bourne Supremacy, the sequel about the amnesiac assassin he played in The Bourne Identity, debuted as the top weekend movie with ticket sales of $53.5 million, according to studio estimates yesterday. That was nearly double the opening weekend take of $27.1 million for Identity in summer 2002. Halle Berry's critically derided comic-book adaptation Catwoman opened a distant third with $17.16 million, behind I, Robot, which took in $22.05 million to lift its 10-day total to $95.4 million.

NOW OR NEVER Instead of heading "downy ocean" this weekend, why not consider a trip down Southern Maryland? Tomorrow in St. Mary's City, the imaginative and popular River Concert Series, presented by St. Mary's College of Maryland, presents the starry finale of its sixth season of outdoor performances. Jeffrey Silberschlag will conduct the Chesapeake Orchestra in music associated with the heavens, including Gustav Holst's The Planets, Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra (forever linked to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey)

WASHINGTON - Oscar winner Halle Berry walks into a flashy restaurant with two friends. The well-dressed group is directed to the dingy rear of the eatery. The camera pans past Berry to a sign that reads "colored section." The scene is just one from a parade of thought-provoking ads unveiled yesterday that will hit television, radio, newspapers and the Internet this week. They promote a memorial to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. planned in Washington. The public service announcements are designed to drum up financial and emotional support for the sculpture and exhibit by picturing the world as it might be without King's dream of equality.