The story of Clint Eastwood, his career and personal life, is spliced into the 90-minute original documentary "Eastwood on Eastwood," debuting on TNT Sunday at 7 p.m. The 90-minute special, covering the triumphs and disappointments of a very private person, includes footage from television appearances, home movies and clips from many of his films. John Cusack, who stars in Eastwood's latest film, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," narrates the show, which is based on Richard Schickel's book, "Clint Eastwood: A Biography." In 1992, Eastwood won an Academy Award as best director and his "Unforgiven" was named best picture. In talking about his directing skills and style, Eastwood makes an interesting point: "All you really do is try to set an atmosphere that you would like to have had constantly through your career, so you do your very best work in that scene. And that's the thing I try to bring to other actors. I like to bring them the atmosphere that I've always desired myself. That's my strongest point I think -- keeping everybody comfortable." Repeats at 11 p.m. and 12:30 a.m., Thursday at 11 p.m., Nov. 9 at noon, and Nov. 28 at 11 p.m.
* Sunday on A&E Network at 11 a.m., the first show in the new "Biography International" series is "Mahatma Gandhi: Pilgrim of Peace." Gandhi, a man of contrasts and paradoxes, was one of the century's most influential people and was once called "a dozen men in one small body."
* Sunday on TBS at 7 p.m., "National Geographic Explorer" premieres "Explorer Journal: Tiger's Eye," using remote cameras that are triggered when the animal breaks an infrared beam -- for example when carrying a recent kill. Other segments are "Tiger Crisis," "Spell of the Tiger" and "Born Wild." Repeats: 11 p.m. and Saturday at 10:05 a.m. The four-hour tiger event continues at 9 p.m. with "Wild! Life Adventures: Tiger," and at 10 with "TOPX."
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* Sunday on Discovery Channel at 8 p.m., "Wild Discovery" debuts "Great Siberian Grizzly," a look at these bears, up to 800 pounds, as they roam around Russia's Kamchatka Sanctuary. Repeats at 11 p.m.
* Monday on A&E Network at 9 p.m., "Dalziel & Pascoe: Deadheads" features a story in which the two detectives unscramble a spate of deaths that occur around a local businessman. Repeats at 1 a.m.
Share this articleShare* Tuesday on History Channel at 9 p.m., "Modern Marvels" looks at the effort to build 800 miles of the Alaskan Pipeline, a rough struggle with nature, wild rivers, impenetrable mountain ranges and a tundra where the temperature plunges to 75 degrees below zero. The challenge included the battle to protect nature from humankind. Repeats at 1 a.m.
* Tuesday on HBO at 10:30 p.m., "Calling Dr. Kevorkian: A Date With Dr. Death," a special focusing on several of Kevorkian's cases in the days and hours before death. Repeats Saturday at 2 p.m.
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* Wednesday on USA Network at 9 p.m., "Heartless," with Madchen Amick as a sheltered librarian who, after a heart transplant, assumes much of the lifestyle of her organ donor. In addition, she falls in love with the donor's husband, who may be a ruthless killer. Repeats: Saturday at 10 p.m. and Nov. 15 at 2 p.m.
* Thursday on Cinemax at 8 p.m., "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly." This half-hour documentary chronicles Jean-Dominique Bauby's extraordinary feat of writing a memoir despite a paralyzing stroke that left him able to communicate solely through blinking his eyes. Bauby died two days after the book was published. Narrated by Charlie Rose.
* Saturday on A&E Network at 10 p.m., "The Girl in the Photograph," a one-hour presentation about a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl who was photographed during the Vietnam War as she ran toward the camera naked and screaming from napalm burns. The subject of those famous pictures, Kim Phuc, is now 33 and living in Canada with her husband and young son. Repeats at 2 a.m. CAPTION: Clint Eastwood talks about his career on TNT's "Eastwood on Eastwood," Sunday at 7 p.m.
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