ALSO TODAY Snake Eyes Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek Cage and Sinise come up cold in De Palma's aloof thriller Acting weird By Elgy Gillespie Nicholas Cage talks about selling imperfection RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT Nights of Cabiria Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek Giulietta Masina glows as a Chaplinesque prostitute in Fellini's newly restored classic (08/06/98) 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 (08/06/98) 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) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY KATHERINE STREETER

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR WEEKEND, AUG. 7-9, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S P E C I A L S CBS has had the TV rights to Philadelphia (9 p.m. Sun., CBS) for a while now, but has thus far not aired Jonathan Demme's 1993 drama about a gay lawyer with AIDS who sues his firm for discrimination. But Tom Hanks is currently so hot, the Eye is apparently no longer seeing the film as a scheduling headache (difficult subject matter). Hanks won his first best actor Academy Award for his work here. Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas and Jason Robards co-star. In his live (on the East Coast, anyway) Broadway performance Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time (9 p.m. Sun., HBO), Seinfeld returns to stand-up with a show that also includes an audience question-and-answer session. There's a rumor that Jason Alexander will do a walk-on. S P O R T S Baseball: Braves at Giants (10:30 p.m. Fri., TBS; 8 p.m. Sun., ESPN) Red Sox at Rangers (8:30 p.m. Sat., FX) WNBA: Houston Comets at Detroit Shock (8 p.m. Fri., Lifetime) Los Angeles Sparks at New York Liberty (4 p.m. Sat., NBC) Los Angeles Sparks at Washington Mystics (4 p.m. Sun., NBC) S E R I E S The weekly game show Rock & Roll Jeopardy! (8 p.m. Sat., VH1) debuts. Jeff Probst hosts this all-music, all-the-time version of the show that made Alex Trebek famous. Scott Wolf is the host for a rerun of Saturday Night Live (11:30 p.m. Sat., NBC), with music from Natalie Imbruglia. On the first of two Simpsons reruns (8 p.m. Sun., Fox), Homer, Moe and Barney join the Naval Reserve. Nuclear war is narrowly averted. In the second episode (8:30 p.m.), the Simpsons go to New York City, where Homer's car gets impounded and Marge and the kids take in a musical about the Betty Ford Center. The X-Files (9 p.m. Sun., Fox) reruns the episode written by Stephen King (and re-written by Chris Carter) in which Scully, on vacation in Maine, comes upon a doll that instructs people to kill. The Practice (9 p.m. Sun., ABC) moves into its new time slot -- yes, it's going to be on Sundays instead of the ABC movie -- with a two-hour "movie" made up of back-to-back rerun episodes. Bobby and Helen oppose each other in court at the trial of a surgeon accused of murdering his lover. T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Heather Locklear (rerun) David Letterman (CBS) Doris Roberts, Blues Traveler Jay Leno (NBC) Nicolas Cage, Squirrel Nut Zippers Politically Incorrect (ABC) Stanley Crouch, Bob Odenkirk Conan O'Brien (NBC) Adam Arkin, Tori Amos SALON | Aug. 7, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="http://www.salonmagazine.com/ent/glow/1998/08/06glow.html">Thursday, Aug. 6, 1998

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