ALSO TODAY Small Soldiers Reviewed by Scott Rosenberg How much mayhem can a bunch of foot-high action figures incite? Plenty RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT Madeline Reviewed by Fiona Morgan "Madeline": The kid's got spunk (07/09/98) The son also rises By Dawn Eden After a lifetime of disappointments, Julian Lennon is finally doing it his way (07/08/98) Sharps & Flats Reviews of the latest recordings from the Cowboy Junkies, The B-52s, Calexico, Komeda, Patty Griffin and Alvin Youngblood Hart (07/08/98) Home Movies By Charles Taylor Summery, sensuous fun: "High Season" and "Rough Magic" (07/07/98) Dig his mood By John Milward Putting the "roll" back into rock 'n' roll: An interview with Nick Lowe (07/03/98) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY HENRIK DRESCHER

SALON'S TV PICKS FOR WEEKEND, JULY 10-12, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E R I E S The Pretenders perform in the second-season opener of Hard Rock Live (7 p.m. Fri., VH1). Goodnight, Sweet Urkel: Family Matters (8 p.m. Fri., CBS) checks out with a two-part series finale. The Barry Levinson-Tom Fontana prison drama Oz (10:15 p.m. Sat., HBO) begins a new season of in-your-face mayhem. Not for the faint of heart, or stomach. On a rerun of The Simpsons (8 p.m. Sun., Fox), Homer agrees to take part in an FBI sting operation against embezzler Monty Burns. The X-Files (9 p.m. Sun., Fox) reruns the episode where Darren McGavin guests as an old colleague of Mulder's father who fills in some of the blanks in the alien/human hybrid story. Bonnie Raitt's long climb to overnight success is the subject of Behind the Music (9 p.m. Sun., VH1). Then, Raitt performs on Storytellers (10 p.m. Sun., VH1). S P E C I A L S The Three Tenors Live in Concert -- Paris 1998 (check local times, Fri., PBS) finds Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti (and conductor James Levine) performing live in front of the Eiffel Tower to celebrate the closing weekend of World Cup play. The 1996 Emmy-winning miniseries Gulliver's Travels (9 p.m. Fri., Sat., NBC) stars Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Peter O'Toole, a cast of thousands and a whole lot of cool special effects. Sandra Bernhard is her inimitable diva self in the cable special I'm Still Here ... Damn It! (midnight, Fri., HBO), featuring highlights from her one-woman show of the same name. Dennis Quaid directs and stars in the new cable movie Everything That Rises (8 p.m. Sun., TNT), a drama about a Montana ranch family coping with the aftermath of a tragic accident. Mare Winningham co-stars. In an all-out effort to get summering Americans back indoors where they belong, NBC reruns the blockbuster, special-effects driven 1997 miniseries The Odyssey (9 p.m. Sun., NBC), with Armand Assante as Odysseus, and ABC counters with its 1994 mega-mini Stephen King's 'The Stand' (9 p.m. Sun., ABC), starring Gary Sinise and Molly Ringwald as the forces of Good and Jamey Sheridan as a very amusing Satan. S P O R T S World Cup: Netherlands vs. Croatia, third-place game (3 p.m. Sat., ABC) Brazil vs. France, championship (3 p.m. Sun., ABC) Baseball: Braves at Marlins (7 p.m. Fri., Sat.; 4:30 p.m. Sun., TBS) Padres at Dodgers (10 p.m. Sat., FX) Giants at Rockies (8 p.m. Sun., ESPN) WNBA: Cleveland Rockers at Phoenix Mercury (9 p.m. Fri., Lifetime) Detroit Shock at Washington Mystics (2 p.m. Sat., NBC) T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Dennis Quaid, Cameron Diaz David Letterman (CBS) Uma Thurman, Mark Wahlberg (rerun) Jay Leno (NBC) Alicia Silverstone, Catherine Zeta Jones Politically Incorrect (ABC) Peter Coyote, Georgette Mosbacher (rerun) Tom Snyder (CBS) Ben Stiller Conan O'Brien (NBC) Chris Rock, Lucinda Williams SALON | July 10, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="http://www.salonmagazine.com/ent/glow/1998/07/09glow.html">Thursday, July 9, 1998

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