ALSO TODAY Invitation to a lynching By Charles Taylor The trial that ended capital punishment in England RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT Women are from Venus, men are from Vegas By Joyce Millman ABC's girl-talk show "The View" and HBO's "Rat Pack" movie have more in common than you think Mrs. Peel, we're needed Reviewed by Charles Taylor Remembering the real "Avengers" 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 Nights of Cabiria Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek Giulietta Masina glows as a Chaplinesque prostitute in Fellini's newly restored classic (08/06/98) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY ERIC WHITE

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR TUESDAY, AUG. 18, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S E R I E S On the first of two reruns of King of the Hill (8 p.m., Fox), Hank fights to clear his name when an unreturned video rental destroys his credit rating. On the second episode (8:30), Hank's new employee is a drug addict. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB) reruns the second part of last season's pivotal Buffy-sleeps-with-Angel cliffhanger. It's the morning after, and Angel isn't the man Buffy thought he was. Lifetime, the cable network devoted to women's programming, debuts three new series, just for us gals. Any Day Now (9 p.m., Lifetime) is an hour-long drama about the friendship between a black woman (Lorraine Toussaint) and a white woman (Annie Potts) in Birmingham, Ala. Maggie (10 p.m., Lifetime) is a sitcom starring Ann Cusack (not to be confused with Joan Cusack) as a 40-year-old woman rethinking her life. And in the sitcom Oh Baby (10:30 p.m., Lifetime), Cynthia Stevenson plays a single working woman who decides to have a baby by artificial insemination. S P O R T S Baseball: Giants at Braves (7:30 p.m., TBS) T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Wesley Snipes David Letterman (CBS) Jennifer Aniston, William Macy Jay Leno (NBC) Joe Mantegna, Luther Vandross Charlie Rose (PBS) TBA Politically Incorrect (ABC) Jay Thomas, Star Parker Conan O'Brien (NBC) Don Rickles, Traci Lords, Emmylou Harris SALON | Aug. 18, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="http://www.salonmagazine.com/ent/glow/1998/08/17glow.html">Monday, Aug. 17, 1998

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