FAIL SAFE LIVE: A MUST-MISS?

The "X" may largely have largely leaked out of "The X-Files," but the energy that's still there is in Gillian Anderson's Scully-- the skeptic clobbered by faith, the bureaucrat in search of autonomy, the girl with the great haircut and perfectly proportioned coat-dress. This Sunday night's episode of "The X-Files" was both written and directed by Anderson-- and we're planning our whole weekend around it. Compared to which, that over-hyped, live broadcast of George Clooney's black-and-white remake of '60s-brinkmanship thriller Fail Safe seems a little tepid, frankly. Can even the heft of a cast including Harvey Keitel and Brian Dennehy summon up the insanely stomach-knotting, nuclear paranoia of the Cold War's height? The whole premise of two, opposing superpowers seems dated and juvenile.

JUST SAY NO, LIKE BET DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE

What happened when the White House Office of Drug Control Policy offered BET $800,000 to run a year's worth of anti-drug advertising on its cable network? BET just said no. According to Advertising Age, "BET refuse to participate in the anti-drug program unless the buy for its TV network and associated magazine properties was raised... to $5 million." For the previous year, the White House's media buy at BET had been $750,000-- but BET executive Louis Carr claims that sums in this range were not "sufficient enough commitment to the network and to community that we serve." He also noted that the White House was spending more with Latino media outlets.

The $800,000 will now go to Black Pearl Entertainment (a joint venture with WB Network and Time Warner) and the African Heritage Network, where it will fund half a year's ads on each.

BAROQUE "COMEDIE-BALLET" NOT A TOTAL BORE!

Say you thought Rameau's 18th-century comedie-ballet Platee was a boring, elitist relic, powerless to make modern audiences laugh sagely at the petty meddling of jaded gods in earthly life. Well, we'd recommend you go over the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center and see madman/genius choreographer Mark Morris's production of this Baroque theater work, in which Zeus pretends to be in love with a vain frog queen. Set in a terrarium, this production of Platee is certainly no more boring and elitist than the most recent VH1 Vogue Fashion Awards show was-- and, with costumes by Isaac Mizrahi, the show is tons more stylish.

Platee is being presented only four more times during NYCO's spring season: April 14, 18, 20, and 22. For tickets, call 212-307-4100-- and say that Platform sent ya (like that'll mean anything to the zombies who staff those phones).