ALSO TODAY Princess Charming By Charles Taylor After years of being the bad girl, Drew Barrymore finally gets the role she deserves RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT The Negotiator Reviewed by Charles Taylor This cop flick may be big and noisy, but it plods along too slowly to be called an action movie (07/30/98) Hollywood squared By Tim Cavanaugh Pithemovie.com puts Hollywood's uninspired Web sites to shame (07/30/98) "At some point you gotta be strong" By Bob Cannon Trisha Yearwood talks about her reluctant reign as queen of country music (07/29/98) Sharps & Flats Reviews of new CDs by Nina Simone, Marshall Crenshaw, Christian McBride and Gillian Welch (07/29/98) Home Movies By Charles Taylor Love hurts: the exquisite agony of Bertrand Blier's romantic dramas (07/28/98) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY IAN WALSH

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR WEEKEND, JULY 31-AUG. 2, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S P E C I A L S Steven Spielberg is profiled on a special two-hour edition of Biography (8 p.m. EDT/9 PDT Sun., A&E). The 1995 miniseries adaptation of Larry McMurtrey's Buffalo Girls (9 p.m. Sun., CBS) stars Anjelica Huston as Calamity Jane and Sam Elliott as Wild Bill Hickock. Adrian Lyne's controversial adaptation of Lolita (9 p.m. Sun., Showtime) finally has its American premiere. Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain and Melanie Griffith star. The eight-part series War and Civilization (9 p.m. Sun., Learning Channel) chronicles armed conflict from the beginning of civilization to the present. Walter Cronkite narrates. S E R I E S The sitcom Getting Personal (8 p.m. Fri., Fox) moves to a new night. Vivica A. Fox and Jon Cryer star in this workplace/romantic comedy. Millennium (9 p.m. Fri., Fox) repeats its gruesome first episode. The new cable comedy/drama series Linc's (10:05 p.m. Sat., Showtime) debuts. Pam Grier, Georg Stanford Brown and Steven Williams (Mr. X of "The X-Files") star as friends who hold forth on topical issues in a tavern in Washington, D.C. The night's other new cable series, Rude Awakening (11 p.m. Sat., Showtime), is a sitcom starring Sherilyn Fenn (Audrey from "Twin Peaks") as a woman behaving badly; she's a former child star turned alcoholic trying to get her life together. Richard Lewis and Lynn Redgrave co-star. Claire Danes hosts a rerun of Saturday Night Live (11:30 p.m. Sat., NBC), with music from Mariah Carey. The Simpsons (8 p.m. Sun., Fox) reruns two great episodes. The first is the Emmy-nominated show from this past season in which Homer declares war on garbage collectors, then runs for sanitation commissioner. Steve Martin and U2 guest. The second (8:30) is a classic from last season in which Lisa strikes a lonely blow for scientific rationalism when the town goes nuts over the unearthed bones of an "angel." Stephen Jay Gould is the guest. The X-Files (9 p.m. Sun., Fox) reruns the one about the killer trees. Masterpiece Theatre (9 p.m. Sun., PBS) has a repeat of "Rebecca," starring Emilia Fox as the very young bride of widower Max de Winter (Charles Dance). Diana Rigg is Mrs. Danvers. S P O R T S Baseball: Dodgers at Mets (7 p.m. Sat., FX) Cardinals at Braves (1:05 p.m. Sun., TBS) Yankees at Mariners (4 p.m. Sat, Fox; 8 p.m. Sun., ESPN) WNBA: Phoenix Mercury at Houston Comets (9 p.m. Fri., Lifetime) Cleveland Rockers at Houston Comets (4 p.m. Sat., NBC) Goodwill Games: (8:05 p.m. Fri., Sat., Sun., TBS; 2 p.m. Sat., Sun, CBS) Exhibition football: Steelers at Buccaneers (7 p.m. Sat., ABC) Packers vs. Chiefs in Tokyo (10:15 p.m. Sat., ESPN) T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Rod Stewart (rerun) David Letterman (CBS) Jamie Lee Curtis, Jenni of Jennicam Jay Leno (NBC) TBA Charlie Rose (PBS) TBA Conan O'Brien (NBC) Patrick Swayze (rerun) SALON | July 31, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="http://www.salonmagazine.com/ent/glow/1998/07/30glow.html">Thursday, July 30, 1998

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