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Everything you need to know about what's going on 11/14-11/20. MOVIES OPENING (Friday; Subject to change) Being Elmo  Happy Feet 2 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 NOTABLE TV MONDAY Basketball Wives L.A. (season finale; 8 p.m.; VH1) Clue (miniseries premiere; 8 p.m.; The Hub) The Bad Girls Club: Reunion, Part 2 (special; 9 p.m.; Oxygen) Love & Hip Hop (season premiere; 9 p.m,; VH1) Diane Sawyer interview with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (special; 10 p.m.; ABC)

Like platform shoes and bellbottoms, Tom Jones has come full circle.The pelvis-thrusting, 53-year-old Welsh soulster, who was red hot in the '60s and early '70s before fading into a decade or so of obscurity, is the current high priest of hip.Don't believe it? Check out his still steamy, high-energy act at the Merriweather Post Pavilion tomorrow night.Mr. Jones has shed his skin-tight, lounge-lizard get-ups in favor of stylish turtlenecks and Italian suits. His hair is cut short and looks natural.

Close your eyes and think "fossil." What did you see -- images of prehistoric remains or hip clothing? If Fossil -- formerly just a watch and accessory company -- has its way, the latter will soon outshadow the former. The company has launched a modern clothing line described by spokeswoman Jennifer Pucci as "the love child" of two well-known labels. "Fossil has got all the basics of the Gap," she explains, "along with the punch that Diesel [clothing] gives you." That means the line has both button-down styles and funky fabrics like faux suede.

Their show is called "Mama Drama," but Gina Obrien and her daughter, Marcella Peters, don't quite act like drama queens. Unless you consider the clothes. You're pretty much forced to consider the clothes, which cry out for attention. The two wear matching outfits. All the time. Head to toe. From the artificial hibiscus flowers in their hair to their orange sandals (they have 225 matching pairs of shoes). And their matching mani-pedis. Pajamas? "Matchy-matchy," Obrien says Thursday afternoon in their Parkville home.

DirecTV subscribers have lost"SpongeBob SquarePants," "The Daily Show" and "Mob Wives. " Unable to reach a deal with Viacom, parent of several popular cable channels, including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and VH1, DirecTV is no longer carrying the media giant's networks. DirecTV has almost 20 million subscribers around the nation. Both sides blamed each other for the channels coming off of the satellite broadcaster on Tuesday evening. Viacom said DirecTV dropped the channels without warning.

Most Thomas Jefferson Elementary School pupils may not grow up to be famous musicians, but officials at VH1 music television and TCI Communications of Baltimore want them to at least have a chance.In an hourlong program yesterday that featured a local jazz artist, Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and a fifth-grader who played "Hot Cross Buns," VH1 and TCI officials donated equipment worth $25,000 to the western Baltimore school and announced a total of $75,000 in contributions to three other city schools.

On the outside, Scott Baio looks like he has it all. Good looks, money, friends, a pretty blond girlfriend. On the inside, he's one screwed-up dude. And for viewers of VH1, that's going to make for a lot of fun in the coming weeks. Baio is the centerpiece in the reality show Scott Baio is 45 ... and Single, making its premiere tonight. It's an entertaining, emotional hour built around the one-time Hollywood hunk's quest to find out why he's still single. Oh, how we love to watch stars struggle!

Is Billie Holiday one of the 100 greatest women of rock and roll?What about Mahalia Jackson? Tammy Wy-nette? Ella Fitzgerald?Not rock and rollers, you say? Well, what do you know? Because each of these legendary singers has a place in VH1's "100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll," a five-part series airing on the cable channel this week.Jazz singer Holiday, in fact, is No. 6 on the list, perched right between singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell (No. 5) and Pretenders leader Chrissie Hynde (No. 7)

Like any list-driven series, VH1's five-part "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock" is a mixture of the obvious and the appalling. With Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath in the two top spots, most of the list will likely leave fans pumping their fists in the classic heavy metal salute (with index and little fingers extended to make tiny horns). Among the list's big winners are AC / DC (No. 4), Metallica (No. 5), Van Halen (No. 7), KISS (No. 10) and Ozzy Osbourne (No. 18). Even influential but uncommercial acts are acknowledged, with Motorhead (No. 26)

Brigitte Nielsen, who has made a second career out of third and fourth careers, puts it this way: "People who don't have a heart are going to find it entertaining, but really it's educational and it should be looked at in that way." The Danish-born actress is referring to her earnest participation in VH1's Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew, which premieres at 10 tonight and co-stars eight other low-rung celebrities battling for sobriety. Some, such as Nielsen, who had to drink half a bottle of vodka to make the initial phone call for rehab, are still winning: Almost six months after taping the program, she said, she hasn't had a drink.