WEEKEND TV : THE ‘LIBERTY WEEKEND’ LINGERS ON
The Fourth of July is over, but “Liberty Weekend” lingers on.
Having paid $10 million for the rights, ABC will be televising entertainment specials that are being staged in New York tonight and Sunday as part of the celebration surrounding the rededication of the Statute of Liberty.
Tonight’s program, running from 8 to 10 p.m. on Channels 7, 3, 10 and 42, will spotlight an outdoor “Music Salute to Liberty” in Central Park, featuring Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic. Joining in the music-making will be Placido Domingo, Itzhak Perlman, Marilyn Horne, James Galway and Sherrill Milnes.
Sunday’s wrap-up will occupy all four hours of ABC’s prime-time schedule, from 7 to 11 p.m. The programming includes a liberty salute from the sports world, with Dorothy Hamill, Mary Lou Retton and the Harlem Globetrotters among the guests, and a show-biz extravaganza in Giants Stadium, with Frank Sinatra, Willie Nelson, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley MacLaine, Lionel Richie and Kenny Rogers heading the list of performers.
There will also be marching bands, laser displays and fireworks.
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