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NEW YORK -- New Year's Eve parties include:
-- MTV reviews the top 100 music videos of 1998 on "Total Live by Request" beginning at 12:30 p.m.
-- Bette Midler, Whitney Houston, Garth Brooks, Mariah Carey and Shania Twain are among the performers on "Billboard's Musical New Year's Eve Live" (10 p.m., Fox, TV-PG).
-- Backstreet Boys, Monica, and Barenaked Ladies are scheduled to perform on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve '99" (10:35 p.m., ABC). D.L. Hughley and Elise Neal of "The Hughleys" preside over the festivities from Las Vegas.
-- Gospel music stars Jake Hess, Jessy Dixon, The Martins, Carman and Kathy Troccoli are featured on "New Year's Eve Live with Bill Gaither" (10 p.m., TNN).
-- Jennifer Love Hewitt and Carson Daly host "MTV's New Year's Eve Live" from New York's Time Square beginning at 10 p.m. Aaliyah, Green Day, Limp Bizkit and Method Man are scheduled to perform.
-- Jay Leno's guests include singer Tom Jones, comic Carrot Top and the cast of "Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk" on a live telecast of "The Tonight Show" (10:35 p.m., NBC). Jay's wife, Mavis, joins him in a toast to the new year.
Tonight's other highlights
-- Scheduled on "Fox Files" (8 p.m., Fox): an investigation of teen-age clubs and their dangerous initiation rites.
-- A bumbling policeman (Leslie Nielsen) tries to thwart a terror attack on the Oscars in the 1994 comedy "Naked Gun 33 -1/3 : The Final Insult" (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG, D, S).
-- Lucy still lacks confidence; Dr. Greene loses a patient to a karate blow; and a gang war heats up when their girlfriends show up in the emergency room on a repeat of "ER" (9 p.m., NBC, TV-PG).
Cult choice
-- Rebecca De Mornay and William H. Macy star in the amusing and intelligent 1997 cable drama "The Con" (10 p.m., USA) about a grifter on the run. Co-written by Macy.
Series notes
-- All are repeats... Russell's boss gets a surprise visit on on "Promised Land" (7 p.m., CBS, TV-G)... Rachel and Phoebe catch Chandler and Monica kissing on "Friends" (7 p.m., NBC, TV-PG)... A rap star on the lam wrecks his car on "World's Wildest Police Videos" (7 p.m., Fox, TV-14, V)... Mr. Chapel takes on a killer and the sleazy lawyer who got him off on "Vengeance Unlimited" (7 p.m., ABC, TV-14, V).
-- Jesse spies on a potential rival on "Jesse" (7:30 p.m., NBC, TV-14).
-- Caterers fight a deadly turf war on "Diagnosis Murder" (8 p.m., CBS, TV-PG)... Frasier fears looking like a loser at his reunion on "Frasier" (8 p.m., NBC, TV-PG).
-- Ronnie gets a new business partner on "Veronica's Closet" (8:30 p.m., NBC, TV-PG).
Late night
-- "The Late, Late Show" is a repeat; "Politically Incorrect" will not be seen... Actor Nathan Lane, Stupid Human Tricks and the St. Luke's Bottle Band appear on "Late Show With David Letterman" (10:35 p.m., CBS)... Actor James Woods, entertainer Wayne Newton and comedian Brian Kiley are booked on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" (11:35 p.m., NBC)... Radio scold Dr. Laura Schlessinger is scheduled on "The Late, Late Show With Tom Snyder" (12:35 a.m., CBS).
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