Tavis Smiley interview
Piven discusses his career and his new title role in the PBS Masterpiece Classic series, Mr. Selfridge, in this interview for PBS. On the Chicago department store Marshall Field’s being an inspiration:
He came up with this bargain basement sale. He just transformed shopping in Chicago. Thought if we have these enormous windows and we treat it like a play and we depict a scene, then people will come in. That was his theater.