ALSO TODAY "At some point you gotta be strong" By Bob Cannon Trisha Yearwood talks about her reluctant reign as queen of country music Sharps & Flats Reviews of new CDs by Nina Simone, Marshall Crenshaw, Christian McBride and Gillian Welch RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT Home Movies By Charles Taylor Love hurts: the exquisite agony of Bertrand Blier's romantic dramas (07/28/98) American Squirm By Sarah Vowell Kevin Spacey's je ne sais quoi (07/27/98) Saving Private Ryan Reviewed by Gary Kamiya Steven Spielberg brings hell to a theater near you (07/24/98) Pearl Jam in Sacramento By Christopher Hawthorne Channeling the inner idiot at a stirring, but unimaginative, show (07/24/98) An audience with the queen By Fiona Morgan Scott Thompson goes solo with a sissy-proud satire (07/23/98) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY CY DE GROAT

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E R I E S Emma Thompson guests as herself, more or less, on a rerun of Ellen (9:30 p.m., ABC). Thompson is a scream as she reveals two secrets to Ellen. And Sean Penn's cameo is pretty funny too. Law & Order (10 p.m., NBC) reruns an episode about McCoy's strategy to get a conviction in the case of two thrill-killing teens. And, no, it's not your imagination -- between NBC's three-a-week reruns and the nightly A&E syndicated repeats, "Law & Order" is on all the time. On a rerun of South Park (10 p.m., Comedy Central), the kids go to China to compete in a dodge-ball match. Austin and McNeil face a mid-air medical crisis on a rerun of Chicago Hope (10 p.m., CBS) S P O R T S Baseball: Padres at Mets (7:30 p.m., ESPN) Yankees at Angels (10:30 p.m., ESPN) Goodwill Games (8:05 p.m., TBS) S P E C I A L S In the new TV movie Terror in the Mall (8 p.m., Fox), a group of shoppers are trapped in a mall by a raging flood and deadly gas leak. Oh, yeah -- and one of them's an escaped murderer. Starring Rob Estes, Shannon Sturges, David Soul and Gene Hackman as the doubting priest. Oh, OK, Hackman's not in it. But I'm not kidding about the Soul Man. T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Hanson (rerun) David Letterman (CBS) Yasmine Bleeth, Barenaked Ladies Jay Leno (NBC) Joan Embery and animals Charlie Rose (PBS) U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Politically Incorrect (ABC) Mariel Hemingway, Dinesh D'Souza Conan O'Brien (NBC) Mark Wahlberg, Chris Kattan (rerun) E T C Klea Scott, who played Officer Nona Valentine on the canceled Brooklyn South, has been added to the cast of Millennium for the coming season ... CBS will begin airing Howard Stern's late-night show on Saturday, Aug. 22, opposite Saturday Night Live. The weekly hour-long show will feature the best of Stern's radio show (broadcast nightly on cable's E! Network) and animated clips. SALON | July 29, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="http://www.salonmagazine.com/ent/glow/1998/07/28glow.html">Tuesday, July 28, 1998

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