50TH BARBARA WALTERS SPECIAL, THE (TV)
Summary
One in this occasional series of interview specials, hosted by Barbara Walters. This program is a retrospective of the past fifty shows, which includes comments from Walters and memorable interview clips with an array of celebrities and politicians. Highlights include: the first special Walters did which featured Barbra Streisand and President-elect Jimmy Carter as the guests; Paul Newman, Johnny Carson, and Mr. T relating their individual tales of dealing with success; a controversial statement from Sean Connery which could have cost the actor an Academy Award; the sexual exploits of Don Johnson's teenage years; interviewing Fidel Castro while crossing the Bay of Pigs; self-criticism by Laurence Olivier about his private life as well as his acting career; the show-business beginnings of entertainers such as Joan Rivers, Michael J. Fox, and Goldie Hawn; emotional moments with Patrick Swayze and Jane Fonda as they reluctantly talk about their fathers' deaths; why Robert Mitchum was the toughest, yet easiest interview she has ever done; the multiple interviews with Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Midler, Eddie Murphy, and one of her all-time favorite human beings, Richard Pryor; the Shah of Iran, Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi, talking on the subject of women's rights while his wife is sitting next to him; an interview with Bette Davis shortly after the actress suffered a stroke; comments on relationships by Jimmy Stewart, Alan Alda, Burt Reynolds, Glenn Close, and Sylvester Stallone; a guided tour through the homes of Farrah Fawcett, Redd Foxx, and Diana Ross, who changed her living room arrangement specifically for the interview; riding around with President Ronald Reagan on his ranch in California; taking a blindfolded drive with Steve Martin, who was also blindfolded behind the wheel; a word association experiment with Dudley Moore; singer Boy George's thoughts on whether he is totally comfortable being a bisexual and being in the spotlight almost all the time; Walters's favorite people to interview including Cher, Fonda, Streisand, Pryor, and Katharine Hepburn; Brooke Shields at the age of fifteen talking about who she is and where she wants to be; and interviews, which turned out to be the last, with two of the most celebrated actors ever, Bing Crosby and John Wayne. Includes commercials and promos. This program is closed-captioned.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by The Marc Haas and Helen Hotze Haas Foundation, 1996.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: November 29, 1988 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:55:38
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:16896
- GENRE: Talk/Interviews; Specials
- SUBJECT HEADING: Biography; Interviews; African-American Collection - Comedy
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1976-
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (feature film)
- TV - Commercials - "Rain Man" (feature film)
- TV - Commercials - "Tequila Sunrise" (feature film)
- TV - Commercials - Chanel No. 5 perfume
- TV - Commercials - Children's Panadol cold medicine
- TV - Commercials - Ernest & Julio Gallo wine
- TV - Commercials - Eveready flashlights
- TV - Commercials - Instant Cream of Wheat hot cereal
- TV - Commercials - Kinney shoe stores
- TV - Commercials - L'Oreal Preference hair products
- TV - Commercials - L'Oreal lash-out mascara
- TV - Commercials - Lincoln automobiles
- TV - Commercials - MCI fax machines
- TV - Commercials - Mercury automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Nabisco Shredded Wheat
- TV - Commercials - Nike Air sneakers
- TV - Commercials - Planters peanuts
- TV - Commercials - Sprint long distance phone service
- TV - Commercials - Stouffers assorted pastas
- TV - Commercials - Tott's Brut champagne
- TV - Commercials - U.S. Postal Service
- TV - Commercials - Vanderbilt perfume
- TV - Promos - "20/20"
- TV - Promos - "ABC News Brief"
- TV - Promos - "ABC World News Tonight"
- TV - Promos - "China Beach"
- TV - Promos - "Dynasty"
- TV - Promos - "Good Morning America"
- TV - Promos - "Growing Pains"
- TV - Promos - "Hooperman"
- TV - Promos - "Knightwatch"
- TV - Promos - "Moonlighting"
- TV - Promos - "Murphy's Law"
- TV - Promos - "My First Love"
- TV - Promos - "Police Story"
- TV - Promos - "The Business of Defense: Flaws in the Shield"
- TV - Promos - "The Wonder Years"
- TV - Promos - "thirtysomething"
CREDITS
- Wendy S. Roth … Coordinating Producer
- Bill Geddie … Producer, Director
- Jessica Stedman Guff … Associate Producer
- Barbara Walters … Host, Interviewer
- Joel Fabiani … Announcer
- Jed Rose … Reporter, For ABC News Brief promo
- Alan Alda
- Boy George (George O'Dowd)
- Christie Brinkley
- Carol Burnett
- George Burns
- Johnny Carson
- Jimmy Carter
- Johnny Cash
- Fidel Castro
- Cher
- Glenn Close
- Sean Connery
- Walter Cronkite
- Bing Crosby
- Bette Davis
- Bo Derek
- John Derek
- Neil Diamond
- Clint Eastwood
- Linda Evans
- Farrah Fawcett
- Jane Fonda
- Michael J. Fox
- Redd Foxx
- Goldie Hawn
- Katharine Hepburn
- Reggie Jackson
- Don Johnson
- Michael Landon
- Steve Martin
- Penny Marshall
- Walter Matthau
- Bette Midler
- Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud)
- Robert Mitchum
- Walter Mondale
- Dudley Moore
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Eddie Murphy
- Paul Newman
- Laurence Olivier
- Marie Osmond
- Donny Osmond
- Pahlevi, Muhammad Reza Shah
- Dolly Parton
- Richard Pryor
- Ronald Reagan
- Rob Reiner
- Burt Reynolds
- Lionel Richie
- Joan Rivers
- Diana Ross
- Tom Selleck
- Cybill Shepherd
- Brooke Shields
- Sylvester Stallone
- Ringo Starr
- Jimmy Stewart
- Barbra Streisand
- Patrick Swayze
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Grant Tinker
- John Wayne
- Stevie Wonder