BARBARA WALTERS SPECIAL, THE {ELTON JOHN, MEG RYAN, STEVEN SPIELBERG} (TV)
Summary
One in this occasional series of interview specials, hosted by Barbara Walters. The guests for this show are singer Elton John, actress Meg Ryan, and filmmaker Steven Spielberg. In the first segment, Elton John discusses the following topics, among others: when he started playing the piano, how his writing partner Bernie Taupin became associated with him, whether the outrageousness of his stage presence has faded, why he got married in the 1980s, how his drug and alcohol abuse destroyed everything but his career, if he is comfortable with his homosexuality, the efforts he made to help Michael Jackson with some recent problems. He then plays the songs which remind him of the different stages in his life. In the next segment, Meg Ryan talks about the recent earthquake that hit Los Angeles, her boxoffice smash "Sleepless in Seattle," whether her husband Dennis Quaid is her destiny, her parents divorce when she was fifteen years old, why she turned down a number of roles in what turned out to be successful films and instead chose roles in films that bombed, and how she views her life up to this point. In the final segment, Steven Spielberg discusses the following topics, among others: how characters in his movies are often his alter-ego, why he made the Oscar-nominated "Schindler's List" for his mother, how it feels to finally have the critics praise him, whether or not he thinks he deserves the Oscar for directing "Schindler's List," what it meant being Jewish when he was a child, the anti-Semitism he encountered after he moved to California in his teenage years, the effect the divorce of his parents has had on his work, what the best and worst times of his life have been, and exactly what the next movie project will be for him. 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: March 21, 1994 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:56:54
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:32681
- GENRE: Talk/Interviews; Specials
- SUBJECT HEADING: Actors; Alcohol abuse; Anti-Semitism; Biography; Composers; Drug abuse; Films - Production and direction; Gays; Music
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1976-
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - "The Flinstones" (feature film)
- TV - Commercials - "The Paper" (feature film)
- TV - Commercials - L'Oreal Hydravive shampoo/conditioner
- TV - Commercials - L'Oreal Plenitude wrinkle cream
- TV - Commercials - L'Oreal hair products
- TV - Commercials - Lincoln automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Sears stores
- TV - Commercials - Tylenol pain reliever
- TV - Commercials - Visa credit cards
- TV - Promos - "20/20"
- TV - Promos - "ABC World News Tonight"
- TV - Promos - "Coach"
- TV - Promos - "Day One"
- TV - Promos - "Home Improvement"
- TV - Promos - "Roseanne"
- TV - Promos - "The 66th Annual Academy Awards"
- TV - Promos - "The Yarn Princess"
- TV - Promos - "Thunder Alley"
CREDITS
- Bill Geddie … Producer, Writer
- Jessica Stedman Guff … Associate Producer
- Brad LaRosa … Associate Producer
- Russ Petranto … Director
- Barbara Walters … Writer
- Patrick O'Hearn … Theme Music by
- Joel Fabiani … Announcer
- Barbara Walters … Host, Interviewer
- Elton John … Guest
- Meg Ryan … Guest
- Steven Spielberg … Guest
- Michael Jackson
- Dennis Quaid
- Bernie Taupin