ALSO TODAY 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 Hollywood squared By Tim Cavanaugh Pithemovie.com puts Hollywood's uninspired Web sites to shame RECENTLY IN ENTERTAINMENT "At some point you gotta be strong" By Bob Cannon Trisha Yearwood talks about her reluctant reign as queen of country music (07/29/98) Sharps & Flats Reviews of new CDs by Nina Simone, Marshall Crenshaw, Christian McBride and Gillian Welch (07/29/98) Home Movies By Charles Taylor Love hurts: the exquisite agony of Bertrand Blier's romantic dramas (07/28/98) American Squirm By Sarah Vowell Kevin Spacey's je ne sais quoi (07/27/98) Saving Private Ryan Reviewed by Gary Kamiya Steven Spielberg brings hell to a theater near you (07/24/98) BROWSE THE TV ARCHIVES COLUMNS FEATURES ILLUSTRATION BY CATERINA FAKE

blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1998 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S P E C I A L S Melissa Joan Hart (aka Sabrina the Teenage Witch) hosts America's Teenagers: Growing Up on Television (8 p.m., ABC), a 90-minute retrospective of how TV has portrayed adolescents over the years. Peter Jennings Reporting: The American Game (9:30 p.m., ABC) looks at Little League baseball. The Scoop: some adults push kids too hard. Duh. S E R I E S Fox Files (9 p.m., Fox) (place whooshing sound effect here) has a report on one Illinois family's battle with the neighbor from hell! Seinfeld (9 p.m., NBC) reruns the one where Elaine learns that Puddy is religious, George discovers the value of a good exit and Kramer acts out the symptoms of gonorrhea for medical students. A great episode. And just as funny the seventh time around. Greene goes home to deal with his ailing mother and emotionally distant father on a rerun of ER (10 p.m., NBC). 48 Hours (10 p.m., CBS) reports on issues involved in caring for the elderly. On the demented puppet show Super Adventure Team (10:30 p.m., MTV), the team springs into action when terrorists demand to meet KISS. S P O R T S Goodwill Games (8:05 p.m., TBS) T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Hillary Rodham Clinton (rerun) David Letterman (CBS) Samuel L. Jackson, Smashing Pumpkins Jay Leno (NBC) Isaac Mizrahi Charlie Rose (PBS) Catherine Deneuve, Rick Bass Politically Incorrect (ABC) Faye Wattleton, Robert Vaughn Conan O'Brien (NBC) David Hasselhoff, Molly Shannon (rerun) SALON | July 30, 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blue Glow for < href="http://www.salonmagazine.com/ent/glow/1998/07/29glow.html">Wednesday, July 29, 1998

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