ALSO TODAY Home Movies By Charles Taylor Tiara trials: "Roman Holiday" and "Princess Caraboo" Now Showing New video releases for Aug. 4 RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT Queertoons By Joyce Millman Gay-positive messages and campy humor find a TV home in "South Park" and other animated upstarts (08/03/98) 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) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY CATERINA FAKE

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR TUESDAY, AUG. 4, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E R I E S Denzel Washington is the subject of a new Biography (8 p.m. EDT/9 PDT, A&E). On the first of two King of the Hill reruns (8 p.m., Fox), Peg substitutes as Bobby and Connie's gym teacher. The second episode (8:30 p.m.) is the one where Hank gets Bobby a job that turns out to be child labor. On a rerun of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB), Angel helps Buffy face her nightmares. NewsRadio (8:30 p.m., NBC) reruns the one where Bill gets a role on a commercial and Dave is driven over the edge by the new security system. On a rerun of Dawson's Creek (9 p.m., WB), Dawson learns something he doesn't like about Jen's past. The summer series Maximum Bob (10 p.m., ABC) premieres. Barry Sonnenfeld ("Men in Black," "Get Shorty") produced and directed this off-kilter comedy-drama, which is based on one of Elmore Leonard's strangest novels. Beau Bridges plays "Maximum" Bob Gibbs, a corrupt judge in Deep Water, Fla., who showboats for the cameras and delights in sentencing offenders to fry. Liz Vassey co-stars as a sassy new public defender who goes head to head with him. The show's stylized small-town weirdness recalls "American Gothic" or "Picket Fences," except with broad comedy. Bridges is amusingly over-the top as the despicable Bob. The townspeople are almost uniformly characterized as half-wits. This may be endorsement enough for you, but I couldn't take more than one and a half episodes of it. It's quirky and nasty, but pointless. S P O R T S Baseball: Reds at Braves (7:35 p.m., TBS) T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Cast of "ER" (rerun) David Letterman (CBS) Nathan Lane, Culture Club Jay Leno (NBC) Drew Carey, Carla Gugino Charlie Rose (PBS) Tom Clancy, Bob Guccione Jr. Politically Incorrect (ABC) Larry Flynt, Florence Henderson Conan O'Brien (NBC) Jamie Lee Curtis, Dana Gould, Widespread Panic SALON | Aug. 4, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="http://www.salonmagazine.com/ent/glow/1998/08/03glow.html">Monday, Aug. 3, 1998

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