ALSO TODAY Middle-Age Riot By Mark Athitakis Punk veterans Shellac and Sonic Youth play art-rock for art's sake Sharps & Flats New CDs from Tricky, Natalie Merchant, Fugazi, and the "Godzilla" soundtrack RECENTLY IN BLUE GLOW Hartman leaves void on three sitcoms (06/01/98) RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT Home Movies By Charles Taylor Rock 'n' roll heaven: Walter Hill's trashy extravaganza "Streets of Fire" packs a bittersweet, youthful wallop (06/02/98) Where it's Art By Sarah Vowell Beck puts his collages onto canvas alongside those of his late grandfather, Fluxus artist Al Hansen (06/01/98) Lolita Reviewed by Charles Taylor Nymphet mania: Lyne's unprovocative film and America's sexual hysteria (05/29/98) When Garry met Larry By Joyce Millman "The Larry Sanders Show" signs off after six seasons, but creator Shandling and his alter ego remain inseparable (05/29/98) Phil Hartman, 1948 - 1998 By Joyce Millman With Phil Hartman's shocking death, we lose one of TV's most prolific and ubiquitous masters (05/28/98) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY CATERINA FAKE

SALON'S TV PICKS FOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S P E C I A L S The 1995 thriller The Net (8 p.m., Fox) has its first network TV airing. Sandra Bullock plays a computer geek whose identity gets erased. The new cable movie Meteorites! (9 p.m., USA), starring Roxanne Hart and Tom Wopat, joins the parade of disaster flicks about flaming chunks of death from the sky. Cosmic debris heads straight for a small Arizona town and there's nowhere to hide! S P O R T S NBA Finals: Bulls at Jazz, Game 1 (9 p.m., NBC) NHL Playoffs: Red Wings at Stars (7:30 p.m., ESPN) Baseball: Braves at Brewers (7:30 p.m., ESPN2) Cardinals at Dodgers (10:30 p.m., ESPN) S E R I E S The new sitcom The Simple Life (8:30 p.m., CBS) debuts. Judith Light stars as a Martha Stewart-esque authority on gracious living who leaves Manhattan to live on a farm in a small town. Hilarity ensues. Ellen (9:30 p.m., ABC) reruns the episode where Ellen and Laurie have their first real date. The last three episodes of The Larry Sanders Show (11 p.m., HBO) air consecutively; the one-hour series finale goes on at midnight. This was the best of the recent deluge of series ending episodes. It remained true to the hall-of-mirrors trickiness at the heart of the show, with celebrity guests from Jim Carrey (in a manic, powerhouse turn) to Carol Burnett to Ellen DeGeneres to Warren Beatty to Jerry Seinfeld keeping you guessing -- are they really this nasty and self-involved, or is this an act? Garry Shandling himself goes out on an emotional, though not sappy, high note. And David Duchovny adds another memorable performance to his comedic repertoire; as in his earlier "Sanders" appearance, he's got a crush on Larry and invites him to his suite at the Bel-Air Hotel while wife Tea Leoni is out golfing. He greets him dressed only in a bathrobe, sits down, crosses his legs and proceeds to act out a certain famous scene from a Sharon Stone movie. T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Gwyneth Paltrow David Letterman (CBS) Sarah Jessica Parker, Bill Bradley Jay Leno (NBC) Magic Johnson Charlie Rose (PBS) Tony nominees Politically Incorrect (ABC) Julia Sweeney, Calvin Trillin Conan O'Brien (NBC) Scott Wolf (rerun) SALON | June 3, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="/ent/glow/1998/06/02glow.html">Tuesday, June 2, 1998

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