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blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR WEEKEND, MAY 1-3, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E R I E S Homicide (10 p.m. Fri., NBC) begins a two-part season finale that will end with some major plot and cast shake-ups. And that's all I'm saying. Barbara Walters interviews Christopher Reeve (again) on 20/20 (10 p.m. Fri., ABC). David Boreanaz (Angel on "Buffy") guests on Mad TV (11 p.m. Sat., Fox). Matthew Broderick hosts Saturday Night Live (11:30 p.m. Sat., NBC), with music from Natalie Merchant. Homer goes on a mountain climbing expedition as the spokesman for an energy snack on The Simpsons (8 p.m. Sun., Fox). On King of the Hill (8:30 p.m. Sun., Fox), Bobby gets a job selling soda at the raceway but his boss turns out to be a slave driver. Mulder is suspected of aiding a bio-terrorist on a new episode of The X-Files (9 p.m. Sun., Fox). S P O R T S NBA Playoffs: Hornets at Hawks (7 p.m. Fri., TNT) Jazz at Rockets (9:30 p.m. Fri., TNT) TBA (3:30 p.m. Sat., NBC) TBA (12:30 p.m. Sun., NBC) TBA (3 p.m. Sun., NBC) TBA (5:30 p.m. Sun., NBC) NHL Playoffs: Sabres at Flyers (7:30 p.m. Fri., ESPN) Canadiens at Penguins (7:30 p.m. Fri., ESPN2) TBA (7:30 p.m. Sat., ESPN2) Red Wings at Coyotes (9 p.m. Sat., ESPN) TBA (2 p.m. Sun., Fox) Penguins at Canadiens (7:30 p.m. Sun., ESPN2) Baseball: Giants at Braves (7:05 p.m. Sat., 1:05 p.m. Sun., TBS) Tigers at Mariners (9 p.m. Sat., FX) White Sox at Angels (8 p.m. Sun., ESPN) S P E C I A L S The National Geographic special (8 p.m. Fri., NBC) "Dragons of the Galapagos" gets personal with the big iguanas of those volcanic islands. In case you missed it last weekend, ABC is repeating Apollo 13 (8 p.m. Sat., ABC), Ron Howard's 1995 drama about the crippled moon mission starring Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise and Bill Paxton. Another blockbuster, Babe (7 p.m. Sun., ABC), the 1995 Oscar nominee about the talking pig who wants to be a sheep herder, makes its small-screen debut. The two-hour documentary The Lusitania: Murder on the Atlantic (8 p.m. EDT/9 PDT Sun., A&E) chronicles the 1915 sinking of the luxury passenger ship by a German submarine's torpedo while on a voyage from New York to Liverpool. The new TV movie The Long Island Incident (9 p.m. Sun., NBC) is the true story of Carolyn McCarthy (Laurie Metcalf), a New York woman who is spurred to campaign for federal gun-control legislation after her husband is killed and her son is wounded by a deranged gunman on a Long Island commuter train. The campy Mario Puzo's 'The Last Don II' (9 p.m. Sun., CBS) picks up where last May's florid Mafia miniseries left off. Jason Gedrick repeats his role as mob prince Cross de Lena; Kirstie Alley, Danny Aiello, Joe Mantegna and Patsy Kensit round out the cast. Concludes Tuesday. Waiting to Exhale (9 p.m. Sun., ABC), the 1995 box-office hit based on Terry McMillan's bestseller, has its first network showing. Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Lela Rochon and Loretta Devine star as the girlfriends who can't seem to find any good men. T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) George Clooney, Ving Rhames, Jennifer Lopez David Letterman (CBS) Salma Hayek, Pearl Jam Jay Leno (NBC) Yasmine Bleeth, Marcy Playground Charlie Rose (PBS) FCC chairman William Kennard, David Halberstam Politically Incorrect (ABC) Kathy Ireland, Joy Behar Conan O'Brien (NBC) Patrick Swayze SALON | May 1, 1998 Blue Glow for < href="/ent/glow/1998/04/30glow.html">Thursday, April 30, 1998

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