WEEKEND TV : Interviews and a Little Bit of Soul
Interviews and music will sound the end of the first half of 1991.
Sunday at 6 p.m., Channel 28 will repeat, “. . . Talking With David Frost,” an interview with former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher aired Wednesday night on PBS. Nearly a year after leaving her post, Thatcher discusses her political career, her relationships with Presidents Reagan and Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, and her views on the Persian Gulf War.
“Champlin on Film,” airing today at 4:30 p.m. on Bravo, features Kevin Costner talking about the making of his Academy Award-winning film, “Dances With Wolves.” Along with the triumphs of the film, the first-time director also reveals the trials involved in making a film with subtitles and a herd of 3,500 buffalo.
“First Person with Maria Shriver” returns tonight at 10 (4)(36)(39), featuring interviews with Los Angeles Kings owner Bruce McNall, Danny DeVito, Priscilla Presley, Olga Korbut and Lyle Alzado.
Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Etta James, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Charlie Pride, The Shirelles and the Dells will all be honored tonight at 8 on Channel 5 in “Celebrate the Soul of American Music.” Dionne Warwick, Philip Michael Thomas and Diahann Carroll host this benefit for the Thurgood Marshall scholarship fund.
And in an effort to raise money to combat substance abuse, the fourth annual “S.A.N.E. Say No to Drugs Telethon” begins today at 5 p.m. on Channel 9.
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