ALL TIMES ARE EST UNLESS NOTED CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS. - - - - - - - - - - - - RECENTLY IN BLUE GLOW "Cracker" crumbles (01/28/98) "Hollywood Squares" '98 (01/26/98) - - - - - - - - - - - - ENTERTAINMENT THIS WEEK Great Expectations Dickens' masterpiece shines on the screen The Apostle Coming Monday - - - - - - - - - - - - ENTERTAINMENT LAST WEEK Oscar and Lucinda A shimmering romance starring Ralph Fiennes as a misfit Australian gambler Spice World The Spice Girls' tasteless debut - - - - - - - - - - - - BROWSE THE MOVIE ARCHIVES TV ARCHIVES

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR WEEKEND, JAN. 30-FEB. 1, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E R I E S Homicide (9 p.m. Fri., NBC) has a two-hour episode (note the time change) in which the cops pursue two Guatemalan political refugees suspected of murdering a priest. Also, Lewis disappears after being suspended. Barbara Walters talks with Bill Gates on 20/20 (10 p.m. Fri., ABC). Baba's in action again on ABC News Saturday Night (10 p.m. Sat., ABC) with a profile of former President Ronald Reagan on the eve of his 87th birthday. Saturday Night Live (11:30 p.m. Sat., NBC) has a best-of-the-current season clip show. It's a half-hour long. Only joking. On a new King of the Hill (8:30 p.m. Sun., Fox), Hank suffers many indignities as the result of a snowstorm. Meat Loaf is the subject of a new Behind the Music (9 p.m. Sun., VH1). S P E C I A L S The new cable movie Gia (9 p.m. Sat., HBO) is the tragic bio of supermodel-turned-junkie Gia Carangi, who was the girl of the moment in the early '80s fashion world. Angelina Jolie is electrifying in the title role. The documentary The Martial Arts (8 p.m. EST/9 PST Sun., A&E) chronicles the martial arts from ancient times to the present. George Takei hosts. Courtney B. Vance and Charles Dutton star in the new cable movie Blind Faith (8 p.m. Sun., Showtime), a drama about an alleged race crime in 1950s New York City. The X-Files takes another week off; in its place is the special Inside the X-Files (9 p.m. Sun., Fox), which features interviews with the usual suspects and a none-too-subtle pitch for the upcoming movie. Yasmine Bleeth plays a woman who comes home to care for her dying father and finds her town has undergone some weird changes in the made-for-TV thriller The Lake (9 p.m. Sun., NBC). The Hallmark Hall of Fame movie The Love Letter (9 p.m. Sun., CBS) stars Campbell Scott as a lonely man who finds a love letter from 1863 in an antique desk, answers it and receives a reply from Jennifer Jason Leigh in the Great Beyond. Ah, the old lovers who transcend time and space plot ... A remake of the 1974 thriller The Taking of Pelham 123 (9 p.m. Sun., ABC) stars Edward James Olmos and Lorraine Bracco as cops negotiating with hijackers who hold a New York subway train hostage. Vincent D'Onofrio and Donnie Wahlberg co-star. S P O R T S NBC: Wizards at Pistons (8 p.m. Fri., TNT); Heat at Knicks (1 p.m. Sun., NBC); Bulls at Lakers (3:30 p.m. Sun., NBC). Hockey: Avalanche at Sharks (3 p.m. Sat., Fox); Blackhawks at Mighty Ducks (8 p.m. Sun., ESPN). T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) reruns clips from past episodes; Ethan Hawke guests on David Letterman (CBS); Jay Leno (NBC) hosts Kelsey Grammar and Sarah McLachlan; Dennis Miller (HBO) features Rosie O'Donnell; Alex Kingston and Scott Thompson are panelists on Politically Incorrect (ABC); Dan Cortese and the college band search winner appear on Conan O'Brien (NBC). SALON | Jan. 30, 1998 Blue Glow for < href="/ent/glow/1998/01/29glow.html">Thursday, Jan.29, 1998

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