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...ROOMS: TRIBUTE TO ELTON JOHN & BERNIE TAUPIN (ABC, Dec. 21, 9 p.m. EST). Rocket Man, Bennie and the Jets, Crocodile Rock and lots more John-Taupin hits are performed by Tina Turner, Sting, the Who, Elton himself and a galaxy of other rock stars in this salute to the two-decade career of the hugely successful songwriting team...
...Woody Allen. He has no auteurist ambitions. "It takes a lot of discipline and vision, and I am too lazy for that. I have never been able to really write." The only thing of which he's professionally certain is his feeling about network TV: never again. "This one ((ABC executive)) came up one day and said, 'I used to think Jack Carter was funny...
...documentary of the year. The old clips are irresistible and surprisingly fresh. In the very first sports telecast, a 1939 college baseball game between Columbia and Princeton, viewers couldn't even see the ball. Later came technical advances like the portable camera and the instant replay, and visionaries like ABC's Roone Arledge, who discovered that the thrill of victory could be the stuff of great drama. The program is packed with memorable highlights (Hank Aaron's 715th homer; Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10 at the 1976 Olympics), but it doesn't ignore the lowlights, from the rise of trash...
...ever quite gave up." Sutherland, who shared a cell with Anderson through most of his 2,353-day captivity until his release last month, revealed that he had attempted suicide three times. "I tried to pull a plastic bag over my head and suffocate myself," he said on ABC's Nightline. "But I found out on each try that it got very painful...
...VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS (ABC, Dec. 8, 9 p.m. EST). Charles Bronson, as a burned-out newspaper reporter, and Ed Asner, as his editor, compete for Most Crusty in this sentimental holiday movie, which dramatizes the events that led to Frank P. Church's famous editorial...