ALSO TODAY Sharps & Flats Reviews of new music from the Squirrel Nut Zippers, Tommy Womack, Rufus Wainwright, Alpha Blondy and Tiny Town RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT Home Movies By Charles Taylor Tiara trials: "Roman Holiday" and "Princess Caraboo" (08/04/98) 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) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY HENRIK DRESCHER

SALON'S TV PICKS FOR WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S P E C I A L S Reba McEntire and Neal McCoy host Countryfest '98 (9 p.m., CBS), an annual Nashville concert spotlighting country chart-toppers. Performers include Wynonna, Brooks & Dunn, the Kinleys and Clint Black. S P O R T S Baseball: Giants at Mets (7:30 p.m., ESPN) Yankees at Athletics (10:30 p.m., ESPN) S E R I E S It's a rerun, but the Biography (8 p.m. EDT/9 PDT, A&E) profile of Tom Hanks is still timely. Drew Carey hosts the new ABC summer series Whose Line Is It Anyway? (9:30 p.m., ABC), an Americanized version of the British TV game show where comedians have to improvise lines and situations thrown at them by audience members. Ryan Stiles ("The Drew Carey Show") and Colin Mochrie, who both starred on the original British version, are regulars here. Nova (check local times, PBS) presents "Super Bridge," a look at the building of the Clark Bridge across the Mississippi River at Alton, Ill. Jill Clayburgh and Tony Roberts guest as attorneys on a rerun of Law & Order (10 p.m., NBC) that involves annulments and the Catholic church. PrimeTime Live (10 p.m., ABC) has a segment on doctors' efforts to treat a comatose boy; it contains footage that originally aired on a PBS "Nova." T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Whitney Houston, Kate Mulgrew (rerun) David Letterman (CBS) Penn & Teller, French Stewart, Wynton Marsalis Jay Leno (NBC) Jenny McCarthy, Tom Sizemore, Farrelly Brothers Charlie Rose (PBS) Black Entertainment Television president Robert L. Johnson Politically Incorrect (ABC) Rod Steiger, Ted Nugent, Stephanie Miller Conan O'Brien (NBC) Joseph Gordon-Levitt SALON | Aug. 5, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="http://www.salonmagazine.com/ent/glow/1998/08/04glow.html">Tuesday, Aug. 4, 1998

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