ALSO TODAY Queertoons By Joyce Millman Gay-positive messages and campy humor find a TV home in "South Park" and other animated upstarts RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT Princess Charming By Charles Taylor After years of being the bad girl, Drew Barrymore finally gets the role she deserves (07/31/98) 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) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY CATERINA FAKE

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR MONDAY, AUG. 3, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E R I E S Nightly reruns of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (6 p.m., USA) and Xena: Warrior Princess (7 p.m., USA) debut in cable syndication. Xena every night -- please join me in a war whoop. Harrison Ford is the subject of a new Biography (8 p.m. EDT/9 PDT, A&E). Amanda doesn't see trouble coming on a new Melrose Place (8 p.m., Fox). On a rerun of Everybody Loves Raymond (8:30 p.m., CBS), Ray doesn't want to get involved when Debra has a beef with a fellow Little League parent. On the second Raymond rerun (9 p.m.), Ray learns that everyone thinks Robert is the handsome one in the family. Georgia makes Billy and Ally an indecent proposal on a rerun of Ally McBeal (9 p.m., Fox). Buffy the Vampire Slayer (9 p.m., WB) reruns the episode where Angel and Xander help Buffy face the Master's ultimate wrath. 48 Hours (10 p.m., CBS) updates a report from earlier this year on mothers who kill their newborns. S P O R T S WNBA: Washington Mystics at Los Angeles Sparks (9 p.m., ESPN). T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Neve Campbell (rerun) David Letterman (CBS) Drew Barrymore Jay Leno (NBC) Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Cryer Politically Incorrect (ABC) Eddie Izzard, Christine O'Donnell Conan O'Brien (NBC) Paige Turco, Regis Philbin (rerun) SALON | Aug. 3, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="http://www.salonmagazine.com/ent/glow/1998/07/31glow.html">Weekend, July 31-Aug. 2, 1998

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