How Soukous Took Over the Popular Music Scene Throughout Africa.

Playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein (pronounced fire-steen). He's one of Broadway's leading playwrights. His hit play "Torch Song Trilogy," was adapted into a film, starring Matthew Broderick and Anne Bancroft. It's now out on home video cassette. Fierstein also wrote the plays "La Cage Aux Folles," and "Safe Sex." (Rebroadcast. Original date December 27, 1988).

Indian film director Mira Nair. Her first feature film, "Salaam Bombay!" is the story of Bombay's child beggars. It was filmed in the chaos of Bombay's red-light district with street children who were trained in a seven-week crash course. The film won the Golden Camera prize for best feature film at the Cannes Film Festival and the top honors at the Montreal Film Festival. (Rebroadcast. Original date March 7, 1989).

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews the theatrical re-release of "Tom Jones." The 1963 film adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel of a bawdy 18th century playboy won Oscars for best picture, director, screenplay, and score. It stars Albert Finney and Susannah York.