ALSO TODAY Nights of Cabiria Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek Giulietta Masina glows as a Chaplinesque prostitute in Fellini's newly restored classic The Decline of Western Civilization Part III Reviewed by Mark Athitakis Almost two decades after she documented the L.A. punk scene, Penelope Spheeris returns to find its legacy -- and finds no legacy at all RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT Sharps & Flats Reviews of new music from the Squirrel Nut Zippers, Tommy Womack, Rufus Wainwright, Alpha Blondy and Tiny Town (08/05/98) 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) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY BOB BECHTOL

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR THURSDAY, AUG. 6, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E R I E S On a rerun of Friends (8 p.m., NBC), Ross gets serious about Emily and Phoebe learns she's expecting triplets. The nighttime soap Push (8 p.m., ABC) returns to ABC's schedule to fill a hole until fall. This is the one about sexy young student-athletes training for the 2000 Olympics at a Southern California college. "Baywatch" on the quad. Fox Files (9 p.m., Fox) has segments on serial rapists, teen violence and that totally undiscovered trend (not!), the return of swing music. Seinfeld (9 p.m., NBC) reruns the one where Jerry tries to scare shoplifting Uncle Leo straight, George takes a book into the bathroom, Kramer and Newman buy a rickshaw and Elaine tries to erase her reputation as "the office skank." On a rerun of ER (10 p.m., NBC), Ross treats a boy who may have been poisoned by a family member. Ted Koppel makes it to the Big Show for the next five weeks with Nightline in Prime Time (10 p.m., ABC), a five-part report on America's prison system. On Celebrity Deathmatch (10 p.m., MTV) it's Bill Gates vs. Michael Flatley. I'm going to have to go with the Lord of the Dance in that one. S P O R T S Baseball: Reds at Braves (7:35 p.m., TBS) T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Calista Flockhart (rerun) David Letterman (CBS) Jerry Seinfeld Jay Leno (NBC) Gary Sinise, B52's Charlie Rose (PBS) Cast of "Twelfth Night"; Israeli opposition party leader Ehud Barak Politically Incorrect (ABC) Naomi Judd, Mark McGrath Conan O'Brien (NBC) French Stewart, Josie Bissett SALON | Aug. 6, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="http://www.salonmagazine.com/ent/glow/1998/08/05glow.html">Wednesday, Aug. 5, 1998

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