ALL TIMES ARE EST UNLESS NOTED CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS. - - - - - - - - - - - - RECENTLY IN BLUE GLOW Up the "Creek" (01/22/98) First Seinfeld, now Shandling (01/21/98) - - - - - - - - - - - - ENTERTAINMENT THIS WEEK Oscar and Lucinda A shimmering romance starring Ralph Fiennes as a misfit Australian gambler Spice World The Spice Girls' tasteless debut - - - - - - - - - - - - ENTERTAINMENT LAST WEEK The family values of "NYPD Blue" By Joyce Millman The most pro-family show on television Deconstructing Harry Yucky Woody gives his hard-core fans the final finger Kundun Scorsese's exquisite Dalai Lama biopic - - - - - - - - - - - - BROWSE THE MOVIE ARCHIVES TV ARCHIVES

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR MONDAY, JAN. 26, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S P E C I A L S Drew Carey is the host for the American Music Awards (8 p.m., ABC), the music industry's version of the Golden Globes. Performers include Puff Daddy, Garth Brooks, Janet Jackson, Spice Girls, Reba McEntire and Michael Bolton. There's also a tribute to Frank Sinatra. The three-part documentary series The Irish in America: Long Journey Home (check local times, PBS) begins. Michael Murphy narrates this history of the Irish experience in America, starting with the Potato Famine of 1845, which resulted in an influx of Irish refugees into the United States. Among those interviewed are authors William Kennedy and John Gregory Dunne. S E R I E S Circus aerialists the Flying Wallendas are the subject of a new Biography (8 p.m. EST/9 PST, A&E). Caroline in the City (9 p.m., NBC) has an episode where Caroline and Julia undergo a mysterious switch of identities. In case you missed it last week, there's a rerun of the pilot of Dawson's Creek (9 p.m., WB), the teen soap from Kevin Williamson ("Scream," "Scream 2"). Jean Stapleton guests as a Julia Child-ish cooking legend on Style and Substance (9:30 p.m., CBS). On Brooklyn South (10 p.m., CBS), Doyle gets a new partner, a depressed veteran cop. S P O R T S College hoops: Syracuse at Georgetown (7:30 p.m., ESPN); Oklahoma State at Oklahoma (9:30 p.m., ESPN). T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) welcomes James Van Der Beek ("Dawson's Creek"); Farrah Fawcett and Sarah Ferguson guest on David Letterman (CBS); Jay Leno (NBC) features Rupert Everett and Bryan Adams; Tom Snyder (CBS) talks with author Mikal Gilmore; Charlie Rose (PBS) has more White House sex scandal coverage; a rerun of Conan O'Brien (NBC) features Steven Wright. E T C. Whoopi Goldberg will produce and star in a new syndicated version of Hollywood Squares, it was announced last week. Whoopi will occupy the center square, which was the home of legendary gay comedian Paul Lynde during the run of the original series. But which downwardly mobile stars will fill the other eight cubes? A wish list: John Ratzenberger (in the Charley Weaver square), Sarah Ferguson, William Shatner, O.J. Simpson, Macaulay Culkin, the Judds and, in the Wally Cox square, David Lee Roth. The moderator? Marv Albert, of course. SALON | Jan. 26, 1998 Blue Glow for < href="/ent/glow/1998/01/23glow.html">Weekend, Jan.23-25, 1998

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