WEEKEND TV : Stars Are Out for Specials

A glut of year-end specials converges on the last weekend of 1990.

The annual “Lou Rawls Parade of Stars” tops off the weekend, beginning today at 6 p.m. on Channels 13 and 10 and at 5 p.m. on cable’s WGN. Among Rawls’ co-hosts for this year’s seven-hour benefit for the United Negro College Fund are Marilyn McCoo, Ann Jillian, Ed McMahon and Nancy Wilson.

“Time Man of the Year” profiles Time magazine’s pick for the year’s most influential person today at 6 p.m. on CNN.

Tonight at 7 on Channel 4, “Mother Earth: The Fight for Life,” reports on the environmental news of the past year and how it will affect the future.

Finally, NBC’s big guns, Tom Brokaw, Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley, present a year-end retrospective called “1990: Living on the Edge” Sunday at 8 p.m. (4)(36)(39). The hourlong special includes a myriad of video montages of the year’s top headlines, including a look the crisis in the Middle East, recession, crime, drugs, censorship, the savings and loan scandal, abortion, frozen embryos, taxes and the environment.

Other weekend shows include:

TODAY Zalman Shoval, Israeli ambassador to the United States, is interviewed on “Evans & Novak,” 9:30 a.m. and 9:30 p.m.CNN. . . .

Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Missouri) appears on “Newsmaker Saturday,” 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. CNN. . . .

“The West” checks out inventors, children’s views of the future and car designers, 3 p.m. (4). . . .

Political satirist Mark Russell joins “The Capital Gang” in handing out awards for 1990 and predictions for 1991, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. CNN. . . .

“John McLaughlin’s One on One” looks at worship services in the Persian Gulf,4 p.m. (28).

SUNDAY “Sunday Today” replays segments from the past year and some of Al Roker’s 1990 interviews, 7 a.m. (4)(36)(39). . . .

“Newsmaker Sunday” examines religion and the gulf crisis, 7:30 a.m. CNN. . . .

“Sunday Morning” reports on cultural figures who died in 1990, the 100th anniversary of the battle at Wounded Knee and a program that teaches children to shoot photographs instead of drugs, 8 a.m.(2). . . .

Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.) discusses the Persian Gulf crisis, the economy, and what lies ahead for Congress on “Meet the Press,” 8:30 a.m. (4)(36)(39). . . .

“The McLaughlin Group” talks about the gulf crisis and the 1992 presidential field, 9 a.m (4), 5:30 p.m. (50). . . .

“Face the Nation” airs at 10 a.m. (2), 11:30 p.m. (8). . . .

“Newsmakers” discusses the role the news media would play if war breaks out in the Middle East, 10:30 a.m. (2). . . .

“Business World” airs at 11 a.m. (7)(3)(42). . . .

“This Week With David Brinkley” follows at 11:30 a.m. (7)(3)(42), 10:30 a.m. (10). . . .

“Midday Sunday” recaps the top news events of 1990, 11 a.m. (11). . . .

“Signs of the Time” examines how children learn racism, 11:30 a.m. (11). . . .

“60 Minutes” reports on a botched mob hit that made targets of a New Jersey widow and her son, a new scientific study on acid rain and problems with polybutylene pipes, 7 p.m. (2)(8).