ALSO TODAY Home Movies By Charles Taylor Matador: Almodóvar's paean to sex, violence, passion and death Now Showing New video releases for July 14 RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT American Squirm By Sarah Vowell Jennifer Lopez isn't the only one who thinks cruising criminals is fun (07/13/98) Small Soldiers Reviewed by Scott Rosenberg How much mayhem can a bunch of foot-high action figures incite? Plenty (07/10/98) Madeline Reviewed by Fiona Morgan The kid's got spunk (07/09/98) The son also rises By Dawn Eden After a lifetime of disappointments, Julian Lennon is finally doing it his way (07/08/98) Sharps & Flats Reviews of the latest recordings from the Cowboy Junkies, The B-52s, Calexico, Komeda, Patty Griffin and Alvin Youngblood Hart (07/08/98) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY KATHERINE STREETER

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E R I E S Nova (check local times, PBS) presents "Titanic's Lost Sister," oceanographer Robert Ballard's search for the Brittanic, sister ship of the Titanic, which was sunk by a torpedo or mine in the Aegean in 1916 while serving as a WWI hospital ship. On a rerun of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB), the school is haunted by the ghosts of a student and teacher who met a tragic fate in the 1950s. NewsRadio (8:30 p.m., NBC) reruns the one where Bill wants to adopt a baby. Dawson's Creek (9 p.m., WB) returns to the WB schedule with a rerun of the first episode. Dateline NBC (10 p.m., NBC) has a no doubt hard-hitting exposé of unscrupulous air-conditioner repairmen. AFI's 100 Years, 100 Films (10 p.m., TNT) looks at films about obsessive quests. P.O.V. (check local times, PBS) has reporter-filmmaker Susan Stern's documentary "Barbie Nation," about America's fascination with all things Barbie. And hasn't this been done before -- a lot? S P E C I A L S The 1994 installment Star Trek Generations (8 p.m., Fox) gets another airing. Capt. Kirk floats around in a time warp, joining forces with Capt. Picard and the crew from "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Starring William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes and Michael Dorn. In Part 3 of the endless miniseries Stephen King's 'The Stand' (9 p.m., ABC), the forces of Good send spies to Vegas, the headquarters of Evil. T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Lea Thompson, Peter Gallagher David Letterman (CBS) Matt Dillon, George Foreman Jay Leno (NBC) Richard Simmons Politically Incorrect (ABC) Arianna Huffington, Seth Green Conan O'Brien (NBC) Roger Daltrey E T C Chris Noth will return as his character, Detective Mike Logan, in a Law & Order TV movie called "Exiled," to air on NBC this fall. Noth was written out of the show (he asked for too much money) a few seasons ago; his character was supposedly transferred to a patrolman beat on Staten Island for punching out a corrupt political official. The movie will pick up with Logan trying to rebuild his career ... Another new cast member has been added to Homicide: Life on the Street. Michael Michele (that's a woman) will play Detective Rene Sheppard, a beauty pageant contestant turned cop who transfers to the homicide unit from the fugitive squad ... HBO has announced that Chris Rock will return for a third season of his talk show, beginning next month. HBO has also renewed the Bob Odenkirk-David Cross sketch comedy series Mr. Show with Bob and David for another season ... And ABC's Nightline will have a five-week prime time run at 10 p.m. Thursdays beginning Aug. 6. It will be a five-part series on the American prison system. SALON | July 14, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="http://www.salonmagazine.com/ent/glow/1998/07/13glow.html">Monday, July 13, 1998

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