Friday, July 18-Monday, July 21, 1997_|_BY JOYCE MILLMAN
S P E C I A L S The 1993 film noir Red Rock West (8 p.m. Fri., USA) was an art-house hit. Nicolas Cage and Dennis Hopper star. The new made-for-cable sci-fi movie Tales from a Parallel Universe: I Worship His Shadow (9 p.m. Sat., The Movie Channel) is the first in a series about a band of rebels trying to unseat an intergalactic despot named His Shadow. It's supposed to be campy and very adult. Campy and very kiddie: Goosebumps: Night of the Living Dummy III (7 p.m. Sun., Fox). Tom Berenger stars as Theodore Roosevelt in the new cable miniseries Rough Riders (7 p.m. PDT/ 8 p.m. EDT Sun., Mon., TNT). Sam Elliott, Gary Busey and Chris Noth are along for the ride in this story of the charge up San Juan Hill, directed by John Milius, of course. In case you've never seen it: When Animals Attack II (8 p.m. Mon., Fox). Bon appétit. S P O R T S Baseball: Dodgers at Braves (7:35 p.m. Fri., TBS; 3 p.m. Sat., Fox); Yankees at Brewers (8 p.m. Sun., ESPN). WNBA basketball: Houston at Sacramento (6 p.m. Fri., Lifetime); Los Angeles at New York (4 p.m. Sat., NBC); Phoenix at Sacramento (8:30 p.m. Mon., ESPN). S E R I E S Dateline NBC (9 p.m. Fri., NBC) has more on the one-year anniversary of Flight 800. Beavis & Butt-head (10 p.m. Fri., MTV) kick off a new season. The new cable series The Hunger (9 p.m. Sun., Showtime) is an erotic, mature-audiences-only horror anthology from directors Ridley and Tony Scott ("Alien," "Top Gun," "Blade Runner"). The cast for the first show includes Balthazar Getty, Philip Casnoff and Karen Black, playing an invalid who likes to watch other people do it (now you know what Beavis and Butt-head are watching tonight). Yet another new cable series premiere: Mission Genesis (7:30 p.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. PDT Mon., Sci-Fi Channel) chronicles the adventures of a group of attractive young human clones on a mission to repopulate Earth in 2695. And on Oz (11 p.m. Mon., HBO), Keane converts to Islam, Beecher starts using drugs and the governor threatens an outside investigation into the two inmate deaths. T A L K Friday: Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen guest on a rerun of Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated); Robert Pastorelli visits David Letterman (CBS); Jay Leno (NBC) hosts Billy Connolly and Motley Crue; Tom Snyder (CBS) talks with Coolio; Fran Lebowitz and John Fogerty appear on Conan O'Brien (NBC). Monday: Leslie Mann and Puff Daddy guest on David Letterman
(CBS); Jay Leno (NBC) features Harrison Ford and John Leguizamo;
Jon Stewart fills in for Tom Snyder (CBS) and talks with Conan's
sidekick, Andy Richter. All times are EDT unless noted. Check local listings. BLUEGLOW FOR Thursday, July 17, 1997 Bookmark http://www.salonmagazine.com/media/blueglow.html |
