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Byline: - Compiled by Valerie Kuklenski

SAME ARGUMENTS, DIFFERENT NETWORK: Former CNN ``Crossfire'' combatants Pat Buchanan and Bill Press will reunite for a daytime talk show on MSNBC next month. The struggling cable network, which is following top-rated Fox News Channel's lead in booking talk programs, also is hiring talk radio team Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby for a daytime show. Buchanan was the original conservative host of ``Crossfire'' in 1982 and stayed with it through 1999, give or take his presidential campaigns. Press, a liberal voice on the CNN debate show, was let go earlier this year when it revamped the format. Their new daily show will premiere July 15. Guardian Angel founder Sliwa and Kuby, a liberal lawyer and associate to the late William Kunstler, will do a television version of their morning radio show. It begins Monday. MSNBC recently announced the revamp of its prime-time lineup, which will include Phil Donahue.

MADE IN THE SHADY: Rap fans took to Eminem's debut album, ``The Slim Shady LP,'' but it was his second release, 2000's ``The Marshall Mathers LP,'' that really blew them away, with rhymes that were praised as insightful and derided as inciteful. On Sunday, Eminem, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Big Boy and others talk about the making of the album and its remarkable success, selling 1.7 million copies its first week out. Eminem says he enjoys pushing the envelope of bad taste, but he and his label, Interscope, know where to draw the line. ``Marshall wants to push buttons but Marshall doesn't want to get his album taken off the shelf,'' the hip-hop star says.

ULTIMATE ALBUMS: THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP, 10 p.m. Sunday, VH1.