"Fox Files" examines teen drinking and driving (9 p.m., Fox). If necessary, NBC will broadcast Game Seven of the NBA finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks (9 p.m.). On back-to-back repeat episodes of "Felicity" (WB), an admirer travels to Manhattan to be close to Felicity (8 p.m., TV-14, D, L, V), and Felicity is torn between medicine and art (9 p.m., TV-PG). Like the septuagenarian Arfons, the film has an original, deliberate, old-fashioned charm.Tonight's other highlights Arfons' jet-fueled, homemade vehicles have reached speeds of up to 611 m.p.h., and he has walked away from more than one wreck. The documentary, "The Green Monster" on "P.O.V." (10 p.m., PBS, check local listings, TV-PG, L) looks at racer Art Arfons' four-decade effort to set the land speed record on Utah's Bonneville flats. As one blithely observes, "it's baked into the cake." Yikes. How shaky are the world's markets? It seems that the certainty of another major crash is the only thing most economists can agree on. Sachs calls the IMF the "typhoid Mary" of emerging markets, and cautions that the stark measures dictated to poorer countries by the agency is driving a cultural and political wedge between America and the rest of the world. Featuring interviews with currency trader George Soros, author William Greider and International Monetary Fund critic Jeffrey Sachs and others, the film explains how the collapse of Thailand's currency led to the devastation of Asia's economy to the battering of the Russian ruble and in turn to an assault on Brazil's currency. This look at the stock market's August 1998 stumble spends most of the hour explaining the volatile world of global capitalism, where speculators can target, and even destroy a country's currency in a matter of days, if not hours. One financial analyst likens the sky-high Dow Jones average to Nero fiddling while Rome burned. "Frontline" (9 p.m., PBS, check local listings) presents a sobering look at the world's financial markets. The scenes of Bobby's last dying thoughts are a visually ambitious departure for this gritty station-house drama. ![]() It gives both Dennis Franz and Kim Delaney a lot of room to express their very different style of shock and grief as Bobby lays helpless in his hospital bed. If you missed this 90-minute episode, don't make the same mistake twice. But of the two departures, Bobby Simone's death was the more moving. The night of Clooney's exit was the highest-rated hour of TV this past season. If 1998 was the year of the Seinfeld sign-off, 1999 was the year of the long goodbye for George Clooney ("ER") and Jimmy Smits on "NYPD Blue" (930 p.m., ABC, TV-14, L). Sometimes it seems that reviewing network TV is one big bon voyage party.
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