Tommy

Critic's Pick -- Colleen blames Tommy (Denis Leary) for her failed relationships in the season finale of Rescue Me (10 p.m., FX).

SINCE the last week of May, a 14-year-old Savannah, Ga., boy, Tommy McCoy, has received some unwanted notoriety.On May 26, he threw out the first pitch at the Class A Savannah Cardinal's game; the team's game on May 28 was named "save Tommy's job night."This may seem odd, but not as bizarre as what the U.S. Department of Labor did -- it got Tommy fired. He lost his job as the Cardinal's batboy for violating child-labor laws, which prohibit 14- and 15-year-olds from working past 7 o'clock in the evening during the school year, and 9 o'clock in the summer.

TOKYO -- Andre Agassi overpowered fellow American Tommy Ho, 6-3, 6-2, in his first match as No. 1 in the world and advanced to the third round.

Tommy HannanMt. St. Joseph boys swimmingHannan swept the 50- and 100-meter freestyle sprints at the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association Championships, setting meet records of 21.45 and 46.95 seconds, respectively.

A slick new urban thriller from music video director Hype Williams, "Belly" looks great, sounds good and will probably make pots and pots of money at the box office. Whether or not it has any merit as a movie is another question.Part "Boyz N the Hood" and part "GoodFellas," the film tells the story of Sincere (played by Nasir Jones, a.k.a rapper Nas), a young fella who has moved out of New York City projects to quaint Queens home on money he "earns" by pulling heists on other drug dealers and selling dope himself.

Editor's note: Having learned to be creative in drawing pictures at home, young Tommy is dismayed when he goes to school and finds the art lessons there much more regimented. Tommy knew that the art teacher came to the school every other Wednesday. He could tell she was an artist because she wore a blue smock over her dress and she always carried a big box of thick colored chalks.Once, Tommy and Jeannie looked at the drawings that were hung up in the hallway. They were done by the first graders.

Lerner and Loewe's Brigadoon describes a mythical village in which 18th-century folks wake up for only one day after sleeping 100 years. Reckoning in performing arts time, one might say nine years between performances in Annapolis equals a "Brigadoon" century. In February 2000, Annapolis Chorale music director J. Ernest Green brought Brigadoon to Maryland Hall's stage in what he recalls as "only the second musical in our 'Broadway in Annapolis' series." When Brigadoon debuted on Broadway in 1947, it marked musical team Lerner and Loewe's first success and was followed by blockbusters My Fair Lady in 1956 and Camelot in 1960.

Tommy's Lounge in Highlandtown will be one of the few area places to catch World Cup spirit.The bar is fully decorated, and the big-screen television is fired up for the World Cup, which began yesterday."

Tommy Paul, a seventh-grader who is taught at home by his mother, was awarded first prize and a $100 savings bond yesterday in an art contest sponsored by Project PUNCH, the Junior League of Baltimore and the Carroll Park Foundation.Tommy's pastel, representing what Carroll Park might have looked like in the past, will be used to create a logo for both Project PUNCH -- Partners United for a New Carroll's Hundred -- and for a banner that will be on permanent display at the park.More than 60 entries were submitted.

Then it's "Tommy this," an' "Tommy that," an' "Tommy 'ows your soul?"But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes," when the drums begin to roll.The thin red line is stretched thinner yet. Tommy Atkins, the quintessential British solder, is needed not only in Northern Ireland ("Tommy this") but now in Bosnia ("Tommy that") because the British government of John Major favors a large European peace-keeping force to protect supposedly safe zones for Muslims that are yet to be agreed upon. The Coldstream Guards get their turn at the duty Britain has already undertaken protecting convoys and such in Bosnia.