ALSO TODAY Armageddon Reviewed by Charles Taylor This summer's other meteor movie is so dumb and unimaginative, it would even embarrass NASA Road warrior The path to Lucinda Williams' "Car Wheels" was paved with good intentions RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT Home Movies By Charles Taylor "The Border": Jack Nicholson's broken promised land (06/30/98) American Squirm By Sarah Vowell Two offbeat TV talk shows reinvent the celebrity interview (06/29/98) Out of Sight Reviewed by Charles Taylor George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez sizzle with sexy confidence (06/26/98) Heroine chic By Lori Leibovich Ally Sheedy talks about the hard road to "High Art" (06/25/98) Doctor Dolittle Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek Eddie Murphy and talking critters have fun with barnyard humor (06/25/98) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY CATERINA FAKE

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E R I E S 100 Nights of 'The X-Files' (8 p.m., FX), which is airing the first 100 episodes of the series in order on weeknights, is up to episode No. 3, and it's a great one: "Squeeze," marking the first appearance of Eugene Tooms, the 100-year-old serial killer who stays fit and trim by eating human livers and can contort his body to fit into teeny, tiny spaces. On Public Eye (9 p.m., CBS), Bryant Gumbel interviews the man convicted in the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. Live from Lincoln Center (check local times, PBS) presents Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in a program saluting great moments in jazz. American Justice (9 p.m. EDT/10 PDT, A&E) debuts the episode "Dead Woman Walking: The Karla Faye Tucker Story." Ellen (9:30 p.m., ABC) reruns the one where Anne Heche guests as Laurie's weird ex-girlfriend, whom Ellen meets while both are waiting for news of Laurie's condition following a car crash. S P E C I A L S Fox reruns the 1997 miniseries Intensity (8 p.m., Fox), based on the Dean Koontz thriller. Molly Parker plays a woman who witnessed a multiple slaying as a child and is now victimized by the killer (played by John C. McGinley). S P O R T S Baseball: Indians at Brewers (7:30 p.m., ESPN) Giants at Angels (10:30 p.m., ESPN) Tennis: Wimbledon (Noon, NBC, HBO) T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Courteney Cox (rerun) David Letterman (CBS) Steve Zahn; performance by Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon with the Dixie Hummingbirds Jay Leno (NBC) John Travolta, Lacey Chabert (rerun) Charlie Rose (PBS) author Donna Shirely Politically Incorrect (ABC) Pat Boone, Monica Crowley Magic Johnson (syndicated) Little Richard Conan O'Brien (NBC) John Malkovich (rerun) E T C Bruce Springsteen is reportedly talking with HBO about an anthology series based on his 1995 folk album "The Ghost of Tom Joad." The series would dramatize songs from the album ... Kellie Martin, who starred in the family series Life Goes On and Christy, as well as the short-lived NBC drama Crisis Center, is joining the cast of ER. She'll play a third-year medical student. Martin fills the young female doctor void created by the departure of Maria Bello, who played Del Amico ... It has barely opened in theaters, but ABC has reportedly bought the broadcast rights to Armageddon for $30 million. It'll air in May 2001. SALON | July 1, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="http://www.salonmagazine.com/ent/glow/1998/06/30glow.html">Tuesday, June 30, 1998

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