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.