ALSO TODAY Home Movies By Charles Taylor Depp impact: A former teen idol has become Hollywood's most versatile and moving actor Now Showing New video releases for May 26 RECENTLY IN BLUE GLOW CBS, ABC reveal 1998-99 lineups (05/21/98) NBC makes changes for Fall '98 (05/19/98) RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Reviewed by Cintra Wilson Terry Gilliam captures the crazy soul of Hunter Thompson's twisted masterpiece The Opposite of Sex Reviewed by Cynthia Joyce For all its clever twists, "The Opposite of Sex" turns a pretty cheap trick Sex and the single songwriter By Jennie Yabroff Lyle Lovett on music, movies and the creative spark Godzilla Reviewed by Gary Kamiya IQ does matter (05/21/98) Under the Skin Reviewed by Charles Taylor Two sisters deal with the loss of their mother in Carine Adler's powerful debut film (05/21/98) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY BOB BECHTOL

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S P E C I A L S Bob Hope: The Road to the Top (10 p.m., American Movie Classics) looks back at the life and career of Hope, who turns 95 on May 29. David Hasselhoff leaves the beach for a futuristic comic-book hero universe in the TV movie Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (8 p.m., Fox). Hasselhoff sports an eye patch and leather as the Marvel comics vigilante spy called into action to stop an attack by terrorists armed with a deadly virus. Yes, we are officially into what is charitably known as TV's "slow period." The 1996 miniseries Titanic (9 p.m., CBS) concludes. I hear the ship sinks. John Stossel reports on the tension between individual freedom and morality-governing laws in the ABC News special Sex, Drugs and Consenting Adults (10 p.m., ABC). S P O R T S NHL Playoffs: Red Wings at Stars (8 p.m., ESPN) S E R I E S Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB) has a double-header of reruns. The first episode reveals a hairy secret about Willow's boyfriend, Oz; in the second, Angel begins stalking Buffy's friends and family, while Jenny races to find a spell to restore his soul. Frontline (check local times, PBS) presents "The World's Most Wanted Man," a profile of former Bosnian Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic. T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Matthew Perry David Letterman (CBS) Nicole Kidman, Jose Carreras (rerun) Jay Leno (NBC) Roma Downey, Kenny G. (rerun) Politically Incorrect (ABC) Arsenio Hall, Katrina vanden Heuvel (rerun) Conan O'Brien (NBC) Fran Drescher, William Shatner (rerun) E T C Fox is moving its hit King of the Hill to Tuesdays at 8 next fall, where it will compete with NBC's Mad About You, ABC's Home Improvement and WB's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Among the new sitcoms on Fox's 1998-99 schedule are Costello, which unfortunately isn't about Elvis, but rather a wisecracking South Boston waitress (played by comedian Sue Murphy); Living in Captivity, about a black family that moves into a wealthy white neighborhood; and Teenage Wasteland, about teens in Wisconsin during the 1970s, from the creators of 3rd Rock from the Sun. Among Fox's new dramas is a sci-fi show called Brimstone starring Peter Horton ("thirtysomething") as a "tortured cop sent to capture escapees from hell." SALON | May 26, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="/ent/glow/1998/05/22glow.html">Holiday Weekend, Friday-Monday, May 22-25, 1998

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