ALL TIMES ARE EST UNLESS NOTED CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS. - - - - - - - - - - - - RECENTLY IN BLUE GLOW No soup for you -- unless you watch the Home Shopping Network (03/26/98) A titanic rating for the Oscars (03/25/98) - - - - - - - - - - - - ENTERTAINMENT THIS WEEK A Price Above Rubies A sensual young wife rebels against the constraints of Orthodox Jewish life The Newton Boys Richard Linklater takes a stab at a stale genre - - - - - - - - - - - - BROWSE THE ARCHIVES MOVIES TELEVISION INTERVIEWS FEATURES

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR WEEKEND, MARCH 27-29, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S P E C I A L S Fans do the judging in the figure skating exhibition The Great Skate Debate (9 p.m. Fri., CBS). Skaters include Scott Hamilton, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Kristi Yamaguchi, Kurt Browning and most of the other usual suspects. Dustin Hoffman hosts The Warner Bros. Story: 75 Years of Winners (8 p.m. EST/8:30 PST, Sun., TNT), a clip-filled history of the movie studio on its 75th anniversary. Capitalizing on the recent asteroid scare story in the news, NBC reruns last year's cheesy miniseries Asteroid! (7 p.m. Sun., NBC) in one four-hour sitting. Lots of stuff blows up -- including the city of Dallas -- while a no-star-studded cast strikes disaster movie poses. The five-part series Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home (check local times Sun., PBS) looks at substance abuse and recovery. The new TV movie The Ebb-Tide (8 p.m. EST/9 PST Sun., A&E) is an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel about a sea captain with a scandalous past who seeks to redeem himself through a nightmarish voyage to Australia. Robbie Coltrane stars. The 1995 drama Dangerous Minds (9 p.m. Sun., ABC) stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a former Marine who whips kids into shape at a troubled high school. S P O R T S College basketball: NCAA Women's Tournament (7 p.m. Fri., 8:30 p.m. Sun., ESPN); NCAA Men's Tournament (5:30 p.m. Sat., CBS). NBA: Rockets at Magic (8 p.m. Fri., TNT); Spurs at Pacers (12:30 p.m. Sun., NBC). Exhibition baseball: Braves at Devil Rays (7 p.m. Fri., TBS); Red Sox at Braves (1 p.m. Sun., TBS). NHL: Sharks at Stars (3 p.m. Sat., Fox); Devils at Coyotes (9 p.m. Sun., ESPN2). S E R I E S Confucius is profiled on a new Biography (8 p.m. EST/9 PST, Fri., A&E). The detectives race to find an abducted boy on Homicide (10 p.m. Fri., NBC). Sylvester Stallone hosts a rerun of Saturday Night Live (11:30 p.m. Sat., NBC). Homer joins the Naval reserve and is put in charge of a nuclear sub on The Simpsons (8 p.m. Sun., Fox). Nature (check local times Sun., PBS) looks at "The Secret Garden" -- what really goes on in your backyard. On a new X-Files (9 p.m. Sun., Fox), Darren McGavin plays an ex-agent who knows some secrets about Mulder's father. For some reason, this episode is set in 1990. Larry and Hank contemplate the future without a show on The Larry Sanders Show (10 p.m. Sun., HBO). T A L K Friday: Jeremy Irons and Paula Poundstone visit Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated); Gary Oldman, Al Franken and Ani DiFranco appear on David Letterman (CBS); a rerun of Jay Leno (NBC) features Robin Williams and Tracey Ullman; Tom Snyder (CBS) talks to Bob Hoskins; Variety editor Peter Bart is scheduled for Charlie Rose (PBS); Penn Jillette and Neil Patrick Harris are panelists on Politically Incorrect (ABC); Michael Keaton and Angelina Jolie guest on a rerun of Conan O'Brien (NBC). SALON | March 27, 1998 Blue Glow for < href="/ent/glow/1998/03/26glow.html">Thursday March 26, 1998

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