ALSO TODAY The Truman Show Reviewed by Charles Taylor Jim Carrey busts out of the comedy bubble Big Foot: An interview with Terry Gilliam By David Wallis The "Fear and Loathing" director stomps on Hollywood and American literalism RECENTLY IN BLUE GLOW Hartman leaves void on three sitcoms (06/01/98) RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT A Perfect Murder Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek Gwyneth Paltrow's clothes almost save a dreary thriller (06/04/98) Middle-Age Riot By Mark Athitakis Punk veterans Shellac and Sonic Youth play art-rock for art's sake (06/03/98) Sharps & Flats New CDs from Tricky, Natalie Merchant, Fugazi, and the "Godzilla" soundtrack (06/03/98) 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) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY ALAN DINGMAN

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR WEEKEND, JUNE 5-7, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S P E C I A L S A restored version of director Lewis Milestone's 1930 anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front (9:30 p.m. Fri., American Movie Classics) airs as part of the channel's annual Film Preservation Festival. John Fogerty: Premonition Concert (9 p.m. Sat., VH1) is the first airing of a December 1997 concert by the former Creedence Clearwater Revival member, featuring material from his new album as well as old favorites. The best of Broadway take home the hardware in the 52nd annual Tony Awards (8 p.m. Sun., PBS; 9 p.m. Sun., CBS). The telecast begins on PBS at 8, with one hour of coverage, then CBS takes over at 9 for the rest of the show. Rosie O'Donnell hosts. Robert F. Kennedy: A Memoir (8 p.m. Sun., Discovery) looks back at his life and career on the 30th anniversary of his assassination. Mario Cuomo, Glenn Close and Ving Rhames narrate the three-hour documentary. The new cable miniseries Armistead Maupin's "More Tales of the City" (9 p.m. Sun., Showtime) picks up where the 1994 PBS predecessor left off. Mrs. Madrigal (Olympia Dukakis) is the pot-smoking, wisdom dispensing landlady of a 1970s San Francisco apartment house. Her tenants, including sweet Midwesterner Mary Ann (Laura Linney), free-spirit Mona (Nina Siemaszko) and gay Michael (Paul Hopkins), are looking for love in all the wrong places. The comedy-drama retains the no-holds-barred gay love scenes (and drug-imbibing scenes) that caused PBS to pass on funding a sequel. Two and one-half hours air Sunday and Monday. S P O R T S NBA Final: Bulls at Jazz, Game 2 (9 p.m. Fri., NBC) Jazz at Bulls, Game 3 (7:30 p.m. Sun., NBC) NHL Playoffs: Stars at Red Wings (7:30 p.m. Fri., ESPN; 2:30 p.m. Sun., Fox, if necessary) Baseball: Braves at Orioles (7:30 p.m. Fri., 1:30 p.m. Sun., TBS) Padres at Rangers (8:30 p.m. Sat., FX) Mets at Red Sox (8 p.m. Sun., ESPN) French Open tennis: Women's final (3 p.m. Sat., NBC) Men's final (9 a.m. Sun., NBC) S E R I E S The new cable series Sex and the City (9:45 p.m. Sat., 9 p.m. Sun., HBO) premieres. This half-hour comedy is based on Candace Bushnell's "sexual anthropology" columns in the New York Observer. Sarah Jessica Parker is quite fetching as writer Carrie Bradshaw, who prowls the New York dating scene and gabs a lot with her unhappily single girlfriends about why good men are so hard to find. It's like "Ally McBeal" without any pretense of intelligence -- all these women talk about is men, all they want to do is get married. The show is airy, fluffy emotional (and, yes, sexual) voyeurism served straight up. You'll enjoy it, but you'll hate yourself in the morning. Co-starring Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Chris Noth as Mr. Right. The Simpsons (8 p.m. Sun., Fox) reruns the episode where Homer gets brainwashed into joining a cult. In the conclusion of the three-part X-Files rerun (9 p.m. Sun., Fox), Scully is near death and Cancer Man asks Mulder to come over to the dark side. David Cassidy is the subject of a new Behind the Music (9 p.m. Sun., VH1). The sitcom Arliss (9:30 p.m. Sun., HBO), starring Robert Wuhl as a sports superagent, begins a new season. T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Best of Broadway David Letterman (CBS) George Carlin, Evander Holyfield Jay Leno (NBC) Jonathan Winters, Natalie Imbruglia Charlie Rose (PBS) Robert F. Kennedy remembered Politically Incorrect (ABC) Adam West, John Fugelsang Conan O'Brien (NBC) Sylvester Stallone, Loretta Lynn (rerun) SALON | June 5, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="/ent/glow/1998/06/04glow.html">Thursday, June 4, 1998

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