Tonight on Access Hollywood, the new legend begins right here.
Hang on to your lightsaber, we have Star Wars.
Then is Will Smith serious?
You heard it here first.
He's plotting a move to a very prestigious address.
Kenneth Star is talking and Hollywood is watching.
That's how it is when you're on a witch hunt, you know.
You take a look and you keep on taking.
Plus, you may think this is a movie gadget.
Kyle 911.
Now see why this is an insight into the way Christopher Reed really lived.
Then, what Todd Hanks is doing to give the fans the same thing he wants.
I want to be surprised.
I want to think I know what I'm getting and then I want to be dazzled.
This Access Hollywood for Thursday, November 19th.
Will Smith is revealing his political plan.
Hi everybody, I'm Pat O'Brien.
Hello Pat, hello everyone.
I'm Tizel Fernandez and here is what's happening in Hollywood right now.
He is about to blast onto movie screens around the country as the enemy of the state.
Today, Will Smith tells us he has big plans to become the leader of the free world.
We grab Will on New York's Fame Broadway to hear his plan to take over Pennsylvania Avenue.
Will Smith the movie star.
Will Smith the TV star.
Will Smith the music star.
Will Smith the president.
I'd start out, I'd probably be the governor of Pennsylvania.
I'd win in Pennsylvania.
You know, I'm from Philly, you know.
So I'd go out, pick Pennsylvania and then I'd run for president.
You know, that's kind of a rough idea of what the plan would be.
That's right, Will Smith wants to run.
And guess what, Mr. Smith did go to Washington.
Just three days ago he was there for the first premiere of his new movie, Enemy of the State.
But it was his trip to the White House that inspired Will's political ambitions.
I actually stood, I didn't get to sit in the desk at the Oval Office,
but I actually stood in the Oval Office and I got my picture taken.
So, you know, I'm just feeling out my house for the future.
You know, I was just, I was just sizing to join up,
seeing some of the adjustments I'm going to make in a few years.
While Will is waiting to run for office,
you can catch him running to the streets of the nation's capital in his new movie.
Will plays a man who unknowingly possesses information that has government agents hunting him down.
And unwittingly he becomes a part of a conspiracy.
Last night at his New York premiere, Will told us he had some of his own conspiracy theories.
If you look at all of our change, OK, the change that we have,
all of the presidents are facing the same direction, except Abraham Lincoln.
That's punishment for freeing the slave.
The only brown money, the only brown money, I thought that was cool.
Cool is right. Will Smith and Jerry Bruckheimer's Enemy of the State opens tomorrow.
And there is more from Will as he graces the cover of Rolling Stone magazine,
where he reveals his thoughts on the presidential scandal.
And Will is ready to try something he hasn't done at the movies, a love story.
Smith and in talks were told to do a remake of the movie A Star is Born,
and boy, he's been born for a long time.
Well, another star was born, as we all know, on television today,
and he's the only show in that town.
Kenneth Starr took over the television airwaves,
and Hollywood hit the nation's capital for a bird's-eye view of Starr TV.
Washington took on a circus atmosphere as the real-life soap opera opened to a packed house.
But it wasn't long before the testimony turned toward Hollywood.
Political polling led to Hollywood staging.
The president's California friend and producer, Harry Thomason,
flew to Washington and advised the president that the president needed to be very forceful in denying the relationship.
Hollywood's Harry Thomason is best known as a producer of the television series Evening Shade,
a sitcom set in Arkansas and given its name by Hillary Clinton.
But Thomason wasn't the only Hollywood connection.
Cameras caught producer-director Michael Moore taking in the testimony.
Moore, best known for his documentary about General Motors titled Roger and Me,
told us he was there filming his new project that chronicles what he calls Ken Starr's witch hunt of Clinton.
See, that's how it is when you're on a witch hunt, you know?
You take a lick and you keep on ticking, you know,
because you've got $40 million dollars unlimited subpoena power in the FBI at your disposal.
So hey, it's party time for this guy.
Moore already shot some scenes in October.
Actors dressed as Puritans showed up at Starr's house causing a commotion.
We brought a group of Puritans out there to show them how to conduct a real witch hunt
with stockades and whipping posts and, you know, false accusations that really don't matter.
Michael Moore pokes fun at Ken Starr in his new 12-part TV special,
The Awful Truth, airing in April on the Bravo Channel.
That is real life right there.
Rosie O'Donnell threw a party in New York City last night to celebrate her favorite group, Kids.
Rosie premiered her brand new special, which lets youngsters show their funny bones
and tell everyone what they find punny about life.
Why do you all regret?
Always a kid at heart, Rosie was right at home hosting the ultimate kids' fest,
the premiere party for her upcoming HBO special, Kids Are Punny,
and some lucky New York children got to revel with Rosie.
Everybody stick your tongue out.
Everybody make silly faces.
After all, it was youngsters like this who inspired Rosie to do a show on kids and humor,
something she first put in her Kids Are Punny book and now in this TV special.
Why are police men so stinky?
Because they're always on duty.
I go to the mall and used to be their parents coming over talking.
I mean, now it's like an eight-year-old going,
did you hear the one about the two berries and the pie?
Besides kids jokes, also listen for a few of Rosie's famous friends like Madonna.
Again and again she practiced her pirouettes.
Kids Are Punny airs December 6th on HBO.
She loves those kids.
Now here's something Rosie might not find punny, or funny for that matter, losing $100,000.
It's been reported that Rosie was planning on buying a home in Miami
and put down the 100 grand as a deposit,
but when she changed her mind about buying the home just two weeks before closing,
she lost her deposit.
Whoops.
Now Rosie is reportedly planning on buying Pal Madonna's Miami mansion for $6.8 million.
Giselle.
Those girls have, but I have to tell you something,
we see just about everything here at Access Hollywood from movies to TV to music,
but this Star Wars, it has electrified this place.
Coming up later we're going to show you exactly two minutes' worth
of what's supposed to be the biggest movie of the year.
Jonathan Skywalker meets Obi-Wan Kenobi.
I sense much fear in you.
The boy is dangerous.
They all sense it.
Why can't you?
Stay right there for the whole Star Wars preview later.
Plus, what star can do this?
There's the UV, just the yo-yo, and then the helicopter.
That's next.
Also, Cameron Diaz unveiled as the bride you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy.
She's coming up on Access Hollywood.
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His new movie You've Got Mail hasn't even blinked into screens yet,
and Tom Hanks is already finishing up work on another film, The Busy Guy.
This superstar is known for playing the nice guy, right?
But all that is about to change.
Our cameras followed Tom around the set of The Green Mile
for a revealing look at this actor's darker side.
Believe it or not, it's about death row guards in 1935
and what their world was like and how it's perceived.
It's going to be an interesting ride.
It's No More Mr. Nice Guy for Tom Hanks.
He stars as a hardcore prison guard in Stephen King's The Green Mile.
On set we saw for the first time the menacing side of Hanks.
Gordon.
He didn't hesitate to pull out his gun or stuff an inmate into the electric chair.
Hanks even demonstrates to Stephen King how guards use their clubs.
How long have you been practicing that?
Oh, this started the very first day.
We all are like addicted to our clubs.
Stephen King goes off and writes these things that get under your skin.
Sometimes I'm not a big Stephen King aficionado,
but the times I have read them it's like almost giving me the creeps.
Hanks isn't worried about shedding his good guy image.
In fact, he thinks fans will be thrilled.
I mean, I as a moviegoer, a guy who pays my money to go to things,
I want to be surprised.
I want to think I know what I'm getting and then I want to be dazzled
by what happens up there.
I don't need to be shocked necessarily, but I do want to be surprised.
From Mr. Nice Guy to Mr. Bad Guy, we buy it Mr. Hanks.
He's the man's actor.
The Green Mile opens in the fall of 1999.
With Hanks' fourth come co-star, by the way, Gary Sinise, in a cameo role.
You've Got Mail opens December 18th with Meg Ryan,
and Meg's career is on the move today.
It's just been reported that she'll co-star with Diane Keaton
in a new movie about network news.
But can they get Monica Lewinsky?
Anyway, Tom Hanks isn't the only star trying something new.
Just wait until we show you Cameron Diaz in the film Very Bad Things.
Cameron helped break in almost $300 million at the box office,
playing it sweet in both My Best Friend's Wedding
and There's Something About Mary.
Now she's turning down the charm and turning up the heat.
I've never played a bride quite like this.
You have to pick up the cake.
Don't we have somebody to do that for?
Not you.
Cameron Diaz in another Goody Two Shoes role.
This isn't.
Say hello to the new Cameron, an annoying, tough-as-nails,
self-proclaimed bride from hell.
In her latest film, Very Bad Things.
My nails are filthy.
I don't care, like, just for the day.
All I ask is that they're clean for the day.
After that, I don't care what happens, okay?
Okay.
Total bride from hell.
Everything that comes out of her mouth,
first thing is, did you do this? Did you take care of this?
Have you, you know, we're down to the wire.
I have done absolutely everything, everything, everything, everything,
everything by myself, okay?
I know, I know.
Everything has been on my own, okay?
I've been doing it all.
In this very dark comedy, the directorial debut of Chicago Hopes Peter Berg,
Cameron joins Christian Slater, Daniel Stern, and John Fabro
in the twisted tale of a bachelor party that goes horribly wrong.
He left a dead prostitute in the desert, a hundred and five pound problem.
Cameron plays Fabro's controlling bride,
and in this scene shows just how needy she can be.
You understood that we were supposed to have gold trend padded seats, right?
And now they're trying to tell me that there's some sort of misunderstanding.
And that now we can't have padded ones.
Okay, so what kind of seats can we have then?
Not padded ones!
So what do we do about it?
Well, you're going to go down there.
Go down to where?
You're going to go down and you're going to straighten out those chair people.
Wait, I'm going to Vegas in three hours.
I need your help!
Very Bad Things opens November 25th.
Up next, she'll co-star with Al Pacino and Dennis Quaid in the Oliver Stone film
on any given Sunday.
MUSIC
First case scenario?
The Earth's gravity will gradually pull us closer and closer
until we fall into the atmosphere on Earth.
Something has gone horribly wrong aboard the space shuttle,
and the disabled ship is left floating perilously in space.
Airing tonight on ABC, Max Q is from Jerry Bruckheimer,
the same producer who brought the summer blockbuster Armageddon to the big screen.
Though they appear similar, the two projects are separate and quite unique.
This picture really came before Armageddon.
This is something we've been developing within our company for a number of years,
and it was going to be a feature initially.
And then Apollo came out and some other pictures came out
that kind of took the wind out of its sail.
Instead of letting it die, the outer space adventure starring Bill Campbell
was brought to television where it was made for less than a tenth
of the $100 million Armageddon budget.
It's good to be under some constraints and rather than making these huge $100 million movies,
you can show the world and the community that you have the restraining,
you can make pictures for a real price.
MUSIC
Coming up...
When the light goes on, the energy goes up.
His body hasn't healed, but his spirit is alive.
We're going to work with Christopher Reeve coming up.
Plus heroes, villains, creatures and legends.
Stick around for Star Wars later.
MUSIC
Welcome back, everybody.
On the set of ER, they are saying, is there a president in the house?
And the answer, my friends, yes, there is.
All for a very important cause.
APPLAUSE
Dr. Carter meets President Carter.
ER's resident hot doc Noah Wiley gets the chance of a lifetime
to work with former President Jimmy Carter.
I'm completely overwhelmed and thoroughly honored to be included in this presentation.
President Carter visited the ER set to shoot a public service announcement
that hopes to educate people about Guinea worm disease.
And action note.
I learned that modern medicine's victories aren't always won in hospitals.
In fact, in many parts of the world, there are no hospitals or even doctors.
ER was brought to his attention when the show did a story about the disease
last year.
It's native to North Africa and the Middle East.
You get it from drinking contaminated water.
It moves through your system for months and then lays its eggs below your skin there.
And we were completely amazed at the exact medical accuracy of what ER presented about this
very strange and very slightly known disease in this country.
So just how big a deal was it over on the ER set for President Carter to visit?
Well, even George Clooney and Juliana Margulies wouldn't miss a chance for a meeting.
It really is something I'll remember for the rest of my life.
Carter meets Carter.
Pretty cool.
Tonight it's back to other business, however, for NBC's ER.
As the show goes on location in Chicago, Pat, I sure hope it does something to
find a cure for that worm disease.
The essence of dignity, Mr. Carter.
Speaking of dignity, Gisele, Christopher Reeve returns to acting for the first time
since his accident and his performance is amazing in the television movie Rear Window.
Not only does Christopher give a new twist to this Hitchcock classic,
he actually lets you in on his real life struggles as a quadriplegic.
It's the latest insight into this inspirational man.
Christopher Reeve is today's Inside Story.
Next time, do us all a favor and don't call 911.
I'm not sure there's going to be a next time.
I think he killed her last night.
How good are you in this?
Oh, come on.
You know what I mean.
This is kind of a leading question here, Pat.
I'm so wonderful. It's totally amazing.
I can't believe how brilliant I am. Thank you very much.
That's the answer I was looking for.
Turn off the light. Turn off the light.
Christopher Reeve is brilliant in Rear Window.
Don't think of this as a remake of the Hitchcock classic.
It's really more of an update.
In the original, Jimmy Stewart only had a broken leg to deal with
while trying to solve a murder.
He believes his neighbor committed.
Christopher obviously has much more to overcome.
This is something I felt was a role that would put a severely disabled person
front and center and show them in a competent and in fact heroic light.
So it also, you know, you see a lot of state-of-the-art technology
that people may not be aware of.
Bring up telephone.
Kyle 911.
We were on the set with Reeve, who was never supposed to work
more than eight hours a day to protect his health.
But Christopher became so energized by the shoot
that he routinely clocked up to 15 hours.
You know, I knew it was fine.
It's like we ought to have a permanent movie camera in the house.
Keep you working.
That's right. When the light goes on, the energy goes up.
You really think he killed his wife?
Co-star Darryl Hannah says Chris' presence raised the level of everybody's work.
He actually mesmerizes you with his sparkle and his charm
and he never screws up because he's just so there.
I want to make you pay for what you've done.
Among the technology on display, there are scenes which mirror
what Chris has accomplished in his real-life rehab,
including the remarkable one we brought you earlier this week.
It's Chris actually walking on a treadmill with the aid of a harness.
But above all, this thriller aims to entertain.
There's a couple of scary parts.
You're going to want to, you know, clutch somebody.
Profile encourage there, Christopher Reeve and Darryl Hannah
starring Rear Window Sunday night on ABC.
Giselle?
He's amazing.
All right, Pat, thank you. No more waiting.
We're launching Star Wars. It's next.
Tomorrow on Access Hollywood, Will Smith, close call.
The one that wasn't in the script.
He didn't.
Guess that's a wrap, eh, man?
He's there right as a wrap for the night, buddy.
And what he's not the least bit shy about.
Oh, I have a wonderful body.
A lot of times I'll be in the shower and I'll just say, damn.
That's tomorrow on Access Hollywood.
Welcome back, everyone.
The countdown to Star Wars Episode I is now 183 days,
but today we present the movie trailer in full.
Put down that remote control.
You don't want to miss a second of this.
It's our very special one-of-a-kind moment of the day.
The one who will bring balance to the Force.
You believe it's this boy?
He can see things before they happen.
He can't help you.
The Force is unusually strong with him.
It was Mom who helped you.
Anakin!
Come on, take off!
Why, I see you again.
What have they heard from you?
Are you sure about this?
Testing our fate to a boy we hardly know?
Anakin Skywalker, meet Obi-Wan Kenobi.
I sense much fear in you.
The boy is dangerous.
They all sense it.
Why can't you?
Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate is just suffering.
Unbelievable.
They've done it again.
Good night, everybody.
This is the Force 1999.