ALSO TODAY Home Movies By Charles Taylor Isn't it romantic? Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn bring a dash of style to Stanley Donen's caper in Paris Now Showing New video releases for May 17 RECENTLY IN BLUE GLOW Last "Seinfeld" episode post-mortem (05/15/98) RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT You go, girls By Joyce Millman Time's up for "Murphy Brown" and "Ellen," but they were once TV's women of the hour Bulworth Reviewed by Charles Taylor Warren Beatty runs amok as a politician in South Central Art amnesia? By Alyssa Katz Was it rape or was it love? Feminists quarrel with a dreamy French film about a woman painter's life The Horse Whisperer Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek Robert Redford's latest is destined for the glue factory (05/14/98) Costello's 21-artist salute By David Handleman Rhino's new "Songwriting by Elvis Costello" is the cream of the compilation CD crop (05/13/98) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY IAN WALSH

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E R I E S Buffy makes a surprising alliance in order to save the world on the season finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB). Mad About You (8 p.m., NBC) ends its season with back-to-back episodes. Ellen DeGeneres and James Cameron guest in the latter. Frasier (9 p.m., NBC) also goes out for the season with two episodes. The second one is a cliffhanger involving Frasier's refusal to read a new sponsor's ad copy on the air. On the finale of Dawson's Creek (9 p.m., WB), Jen and Joey both turn to Dawson when family crises strike. Frontline (check local times, PBS) presents "Secrets of the Independent Counsel." Alas, it's not that independent counsel. It's an interview with Donald Smaltz, prosecutor in the probe of former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, and a behind-the-scenes look at the independent counsel process. Simone and Russell may or may not get married on the 90-minute season finale of NYPD Blue (9:30 p.m., ABC). S P O R T S NHL Playoffs: Red Wings at Blues (7:30 p.m., ESPN) NBA Playoffs: Pacers at Bulls (8:30 p.m., TNT) S P E C I A L S "Godzilla" opens tomorrow, but tonight there's Gargantua (8 p.m., Fox), a TV movie about giant ocean monsters in the South Pacific. Hang in there, May sweeps is almost over. T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Paul Reiser David Letterman (CBS) Sandra Bullock, Jeff Foxworthy Jay Leno (NBC) Cher, Bob Costas, Dave Matthews Band Politically Incorrect (ABC) Amnesty International's William Schulz Tom Snyder (CBS) John Irving Conan O'Brien (NBC) Barbara Walters, Scott Thompson, Link Wray E T C Variety reports that NBC has given the coveted "Seinfeld" time slot to Frasier, with Just Shoot Me taking over the 9 p.m. Tuesday "Frasier" slot. NBC has also reportedly renewed the struggling NewsRadio for another season and will add a fifth night of Dateline NBC on Wednesdays next fall. Among the other shows added to NBC's 1998-99 schedule are Encore!, a sitcom starring Nathan Lane as a retired opera star turned vintner, Will & Grace, a sitcom about a gay man and his female best friend, and Trinity, a drama from John Wells ("ER") about a large Irish family in New York's Hell's Kitchen ... ABC's fall schedule, which will be announced on Tuesday, is expected to include a remake of Fantasy Island and a full-season order of Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place. SALON | May 19, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="/ent/glow/1998/05/18glow.html">Monday May 18, 1998

ALL TIMES ARE EDT UNLESS NOTED. CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS.