ALSO TODAY Home Movies Base man. Tommy Lee Jones towers as the nasty, racist, hateful Ty Cobb Now Showing New video releases for May 12 RECENTLY IN BLUE GLOW Craig Kilborn gets promoted (05/11/98) RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT The best of friends By Daniel Mendelsohn Why straight women love gay men (05/11/98) Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell I Want My Camp TV (05/11/98) Not Wilde enough Reviewed by Carol Lloyd Two new portraits of Oscar Wilde miss the wickedness of his style (05/08/98) The Judas Kiss Reviewed by Dwight Garner Liam Neeson hangs fire as Oscar Wilde in David Hare's new play (05/08/98) Woo Reviewed by Mary Elizabeth Williams Jada Pinkett Smith stars in this sexy, sunny comedy (05/08/98) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY ALAN DINGMAN

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E R I E S Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB) begins a two-part season finale that flashes back to Buffy, Angel and Dru's formative years. Also, Kendra, the other Slayer, arrives with a plan to restore Angel's soul. In what may be a prophetic season finale for the (undeservedly) low-rated NewsRadio (8:30 p.m., NBC), the WNYX crew is aboard the Titanic, and no, it doesn't make sense, but neither did last year's WNYX-in-outer space finale. Roz goes into labor on Frasier (9 p.m., NBC). Jen encourages Joey to enter a beauty pageant on Dawson's Creek (9 p.m., WB). Pacey enters too, to make a point. Frontline (check local times, PBS) presents "Inside the Tobacco Deal," an examination of the government's case against the tobacco companies. Katie Couric interviews Jerry Seinfeld on Dateline NBC (10 p.m., NBC). On NYPD Blue (10 p.m., ABC), Sipowicz gets some unsettling medical news and Simone and Russell make a big decision. S P O R T S NHL Playoffs: Red Wings at Blues (7:30 p.m., ESPN) Sabres at Canadiens (7:30 p.m., ESPN2) NBA Playoffs: Spurs at Jazz (8 p.m., TNT) Lakers at Sonics (10:30 p.m., TNT) T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Celine Dion David Letterman (CBS) Christopher Reeve, Hanson Jay Leno (NBC) Paul Reiser, Olivia Newton-John Charlie Rose (PBS) John Irving, Shimon Peres Politically Incorrect (ABC) Jason Alexander, Judge Judy Sheindlin Conan O'Brien (NBC) Fran Drescher, Joe Rogan, Ray Davies E T C According to Variety, Norman Mailer will write the screenplay for an ABC TV movie based on "American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense," the critical account of O.J. Simpson's Dream Team's tactics by Lawrence Shiller and James Willwerth ... ABC has announced that Glenn Close will star in a TV movie remake of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, to air next season on the 50th anniversary of the musical's opening on Broadway ... And NBC is planning a 12-hour miniseries adaptation of the Bible, to be executive produced by Sir Richard Attenborough ("Gandhi"), that industry types are speculating will be the most expensive TV production ever. SALON | May 12, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="/ent/glow/1998/05/11glow.html">Monday May 11, 1998

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