ALSO TODAY Without reservations By Mary Elizabeth Williams A conversation with "Smoke Signals'" Sherman Alexie Sharps & Flats By Bill C. Malone Everything old is young again: A look at new music from the veterans of Old Country RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT Armageddon Reviewed by Charles Taylor This summer's other meteor movie is so dumb and unimaginative, it would even embarrass NASA (07/01/98) Road warrior By David Bowman The path to Lucinda Williams' "Car Wheels" was paved with good intentions (07/01/98) 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) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY CY DE GROAT

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E R I E S Friends (8 p.m., NBC) reruns the episode where Monica and Rachel think they know more about Chandler and Joey than they know about them. Shawn Colvin appears as herself on a repeat of Suddenly Susan (8:30 p.m., NBC) (I know, I know, but I really like Shawn Colvin). Then, "Susan" co-star Kathy Griffin mounts a one-woman show all about how "Jerry Seinfeld is the Devil" on a rerun of Seinfeld (9 p.m., NBC). 48 Hours (10 p.m., CBS) updates a 1997 report on Christopher Reeve and spinal cord injury research. On a rerun of ER (10 p.m., NBC), Jeannie gets her job back by putting the pressure on Weaver. ABC News Thursday Night (10 p.m., ABC) reruns a 1997 "Turning Point" program about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. S P O R T S Tennis: Wimbledon (3 p.m., NBC) S P E C I A L S NASCAR: 50 Years on the Fast Track with Brooks & Dunn (8 p.m., CBS) is the country duo's musical salute to fast cars, with a video history of stock-car racing and interviews with Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty and Jeff Gordon thrown in. On a related note, a recent Michigan State University study of seat belt use by TV characters found that on Nash Bridges, nobody ever buckles up. T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Kristen Johnston, Scott Wolf (rerun) David Letterman (CBS) Ben Stiller, Spice Girls (minus Ginger) Jay Leno (NBC) Meg Ryan, Gary Oldman (rerun) Politically Incorrect (ABC) John Henson, Nancy Friday Magic Johnson (syndicated) Howard Stern Conan O'Brien (NBC) Julianna Margulies (rerun) SALON | July 2, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="http://www.salonmagazine.com/ent/glow/1998/07/01glow.html">Wednesday, July 1, 1998

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