Best-bets for Jan. 1: no parade, but Dionne, Elvis and Strauss
1) “Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over,” 9 p.m. and midnight ET, CNN. Warwick (shown here) has had plenty of hits – a dozen in the top-10, 56 on Billboard charts, with 100 million records sold. We hear pieces of 40 songs here. But she did much more, this terrific film says. She confronted racists. She sang the anthem of HIV awareness … and nudged Ronald Reagan to finally say “AIDS.” She told “gangster rappers” to arrive at 7 a.m., for a lecture on misogyny; they were there at 6:52. Read more…