ALSO TODAY Costello's 21-artist salute By David Handleman Rhino's new "Songwriting by Elvis Costello" is the cream of the compilation CD crop Sharps & Flats Mini-reviews of Sonic Youth, Tori Amos, Bill Laswell's Miles Davis remixes, The Loud Family and Massive Attack RECENTLY IN BLUE GLOW Mailer takes on O.J. (05/12/98) RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT Home Movies By Charles Taylor Base man. Tommy Lee Jones towers as the nasty, racist, hateful Ty Cobb (05/12/98) Now Showing New video releases for May 12 The best of friends By Daniel Mendelsohn Why straight women love gay men (05/11/98) Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell I Want My Camp TV (05/11/98) Not Wilde enough Reviewed by Carol Lloyd Two new portraits of Oscar Wilde miss the wickedness of his style (05/08/98) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY MICA FULGIUM

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S P E C I A L S Saturday Night Live Remembers Chris Farley (8 p.m., NBC) features clips of Farley's work on the show as well as dress rehearsal outtakes. S E R I E S Biography (8 p.m. EDT/9 PDT, A&E) has a new profile of Jonathan Winters. It's wedding bells for The Nanny (8 p.m., CBS) and Maxwell Sheffield in the season finale. Dharma and Greg (8:30 p.m., ABC) get into the "Seinfeld" spirit by making love in public places while the rest of the city watches the final episode. On the season ending Party of Five (9 p.m., Fox), Charlie, Bailey and Julia all forge ahead. The Solomons go on a camping trip on 3rd Rock from the Sun (9 p.m., NBC). The hour-long Ellen (9 p.m., ABC) finale is a strange and often hilarious mock-documentary looking back at Ellen DeGeneres' "75 years in show biz." Guests include Julianna Margulies, Woody Harrelson, Helen Hunt, Linda Ellerbee, Tim Conway, Glenn Close and Phil Donahue. The doctors clean up after a schoolyard shooting on the season finale of Chicago Hope (10 p.m., CBS). On Law & Order (10 p.m., NBC), a man claims a gossip column item led to the death of his wife. S P O R T S NBA Playoffs: Knicks at Pacers (8 p.m., TNT) NHL Playoffs: Capitols at Senators (7 p.m., ESPN2) Stars at Oilers (9:30 p.m., ESPN2) Baseball: Braves at Cardinals (7:30 p.m., ESPN) Mets at Padres (10:30 p.m., ESPN) T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Eileen Davidson, Faith Hill David Letterman (CBS) Warren Beatty, Wayne Knight, Bonnie Raitt Jay Leno (NBC) Candice Bergen, Sarah McLachlan Charlie Rose (PBS) Author Bill Bryson Politically Incorrect (ABC) Charlton Heston, Gail Sheehy Conan O'Brien (NBC) Halle Berry, Robert Urich E T C MTV announced its summer prime-time lineup Monday, featuring five new series. Celebrity Deathmatch, the animated series featuring fantasy fights between clay stand-ins for famous figures, debuts Thursday. BIOrhythm, debuting June 23, is a series of biographies told with no narration, only music. The subjects include Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur and Michael Jackson. On Fanatic, premiering June 29, a fan gets to interview his or her favorite music star. Sifl & Olly, beginning July 13, sounds like a low-tech cross between "South Park" and "Beavis and Butt-head": Two sock puppets parody popular music videos. Finally, Super Adventure Team, starting in August, is a spoof of '70s live-action Saturday morning superhero shows like "Isis" and "Shazam!" SALON | May 13, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="/ent/glow/1998/05/12glow.html">Tuesday May 12, 1998

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