Seinfeld

Personally, I think it's enough already with Seinfeld. He's taking way too long to say goodbye. But for those who disagree, there's "Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time" tonight at 9 on HBO. It's Seinfeld live on Broadway at the end of his world tour performing his current crop of stand-up material for what he promises will be the last time. He does plan to return to stand-up, but not until he has a new act.I'll watch, but only because the brittle "Seinfeld" finale left me with such a bad taste in my mouth.

It takes a violent assault on a shrine of American democracy to bring about a modicum of national unity, however brief.Q. How is Monicagate like Seinfeld? A. It goes on forever, is not really funny and is about nothing.What's an Arkansas chicken company doing polluting Maryland? @Let's go pollute Ark.Civil rights and the equal protection of the law are for Koreans, too.Pub Date: 7/28/98

Floyd TurnerPosition: Wide receiverHeight: 5-11Weight: 199Age: 32College: NW LouisianaSeason: NinthHighlights: After catching 38 passes for 461 yards and two TDs in Baltimore in 1996, he sat out the 1997 season. Played two seasons, 1994 and 1995, in Indianapolis with new Ravens quarterback Jim Harbaugh. Grabbed nine passes in the 1995 postseason, including a 47-yard TD strike from Harbaugh in AFC title game. Has 249 career receptions for 3,293 yards and 26 TDs.Favorite food: Prime ribFavorite TV shows: "Martin" and "Seinfeld"Favorite movie: "Braveheart"Memorable pro moment: He calls it "the catch that started my career."

A STUDENT, a career-changer who appears to be in her 40s, raises her hand. From the distraught, twisted look on her face, I can tell she has a disturbing question to raise. When called on, she stammers, "What are we going to do about class next Thursday? It's the last 'Seinfeld' episode."The woman in my class lives a fragmented life, as do most Americans. She holds down a part-time job, attends school part-time, has kids whom she sees only on a part-time basis, and a husband who probably falls at the bottom rung of the part-time ladder.

Radio call-in host Frasier Crane got the big call from NBC yesterday to replace Jerry Seinfeld, as the top-rated network announced its new fall shows and schedule in New York."

When Pakistan blows up The Bomb we will clap on sanctions, which they won't notice since we already did.There's just a hint of inflation in the air. Watch the Fed jack up those interest rates first chance it gets.Frank is welcome at the Pearly Gates, but some of his friends must stay behind.Cheer up. "Seinfeld" is history, over, done, pfft.Pub Date: 5/18/98

It may be small consolation to thousands of Baltimore "Seinfeld" fans who missed Thursday's final episode because of a freak power outage, but in a rare broadcast double-dip, NBC will replay it nationally Wednesday.Just as the widely hyped special began Thursday night, at least 17,000 homes in the northern half of the city were plunged into darkness.Perhaps even angrier than viewers huddled around blank television screens were officials at TCI Communications of Baltimore, whose cable transmissions were knocked out to an still-undetermined number of customers -- including many who not been affected by the power outage.

Based on overnight ratings from major cities, NBC is estimating that 76 million people watched the final episode of "Seinfeld."The "Seinfeld" finale had a 43.2 rating and 57 share in Nielsen Media Research's overnight ratings of 39 major markets, NBC said yesterday.The final episode of "Cheers" in 1993 had a 45.9 rating and 72 share in the national ratings, with an estimated 80 million viewers.The all-time champ of final series episodes is M*A*S*H, which had a 60.2 rating and 77 share, with an estimated 105 million viewers, when it went off the air in 1983.

Thousands of Baltimore residents who were just settling down to watch the grand finale of "Seinfeld" last night ended up pointing their clickers at blank television screens, incredulous and infuriated, as a power outage struck the city at the worst possible moment.Some 17,000 utility customers in North, Northeast and Northwest Baltimore lost power about 6 p.m. -- then lost it again after televisions flickered to life for a 20-minute tease from about 8: 20 p.m. to 8: 40 p.m.The special 75-minute "Seinfeld" started at 8: 45 p.m.An unknown number of Baltimore residents retained their electric power but lost their cable service and, with it, their plans to watch the much-ballyhooed program.

It was a based on a clever concept. But, in the end, the final episode of "Seinfeld" last night was mainly for die-hard fans. By no standard could you call it great.The concept involved putting Jerry, Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George (Jason Alexander) and Kramer (Michael Richards) on trial for "criminal indifference," the very charge real-life critics of the series are making against the characters as "Seinfeld" ends its popular nine-year run.The finale started out promising enough, neatly resurrecting the fictional sitcom, "Jerry," that Jerry and George had created and tried to sell to NBC five years ago. A new NBC president, played by Peter Riegert, stumbles upon the pilot and offers them a contract for 13 episodes and the use of the company jet.The four decide to have a "fling in Paris" at NBC's expense before Jerry and George move to Los Angeles.