Let's turn to music. Hank Williams Jr. is up for four Academy of Country Music
Awards and if he wins Monday night he'll have a place to keep the statuettes
other than his fireplace mantle. Elaine Gannick reports. Now that he's mellowed a
bit and finally come to grips with being the son of a country music legend, Hank
Williams Jr. has immortalized his family tradition not only with his songs,
but also with the opening of his new museum in Nashville. It's full of
memorabilia from his own career and that of his famous father. If there's anyone
that should definitely have a museum I think it would be Hank Williams a short
time that he was here. The impact that he had on all forms of music.
As a boy Hank Jr. was pressured into being a carbon copy of his dad and he
followed not only his father's musical footsteps but also his bouts with drugs
and booze.
I said this is it. You know it was fun to be Hank Williams Jr. for a kid but it's
hell for a man. This is no fun and I you know you sing some song and some honky
tonk club and some drunk while you little so-and-so you're a so-and-so and I
said I don't need that. I'm gonna go home and and live off of daddy's checks and
fishing on or I'm gonna make some of my own checks. Hank Jr. says he can now view
his father's musical legacy more objectively and he wants to share that
legacy with his friends and fans who visit the museum. On display are the
instruments his father used to compose some of his biggest hits. When I look at
this car or that guitar I can only relate to my memories of using them and
then I think gosh this piano over here that him and Fred Rose were on is no
telling how many million sellers are on that and this guitar here. Despite the
fact that he's been a major record seller for more than a decade Hank Jr.
only recently began to receive industry recognition. You have been voted the
best-selling country album by a male artist for 5-0, Hank Williams Jr. by NARM,
the National Association of Record Merchandisers. The bottom line. 50 albums. It
only takes 50 and you too can get one of them.
Hank Williams Jr. will take his act on the road Tuesday at the Universal
Amphitheater in Los Angeles. On the same night Mel Torme will be at Claremont
College in Claremont, California. Thursday Rush is top build at the Civic
Center in Baltimore. Saturday Stephanie Mills will headline the Miami Night
Center in Florida and on Sunday Stevie Nicks rocks the Bob Devaney Sports Center
in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Country music, the circus and the man of steel all part of your TV entertainment
next week. Monday Mac Davis, Reba McIntyre and John Schneider host the 21st annual
Academy of Country Music Awards on NBC. Wednesday Jim Dale hosts the Ringling
Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus on CBS and on PBS the same night.
Purnell Roberts hosts National Geographic's Realm of the Alligator.
Friday Stacey Keach stars in the return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer on CBS
and on Sunday night Christopher Reeve stars in the network premiere of Superman
3 on ABC. Some exciting news for you right now. Entertainment Tonight, our
daily show, will be on location in Europe for two weeks next month including a
week's stay in London. Now Entertainment Tonight recently added a London
correspondent and Selena Scott is here right now with Rob via satellite. It's a
good chance for us to get to know her a little bit better, preview our
Entertainment Tonight trip to London and talk about what's happening in
entertainment in the UK. How about it Rob? All right, thank you Lisa. For some
background on Selena Scott, she was born in northern England, started writing for
local newspapers at the age of 14, was a reporter on the Sunday Post and started
working in television in the late 70s. Selena joined the BBC in 1982 when she
helped pioneer Britain's first try at morning television, it's sort of England's
Today show if you will. It's called Breakfast Time and now she is with us
from London. Hello Selena, welcome. Hello Rob. Selena, you do a show there called
Breakfast Time which is the daily morning show as we mentioned. American
viewers here have developed a strong dependency on their morning television. I
know that when your program began a few years back it didn't get off to a really
terrific start. Has it improved? What's the status now? We haven't made it to the
same degree that you have in America because we haven't got the pull of the
main stories as you have right across the country. We're still waking up and
we're still trying to catch the news but nevertheless there's a great mix of
current affairs and news and and items of topical interest and the audience is
gradually building and we're pleased about it anyway. On a primetime program
there, the Wogan show, you interviewed Prince Andrew. What was he like? What
time did you have with him? He's a real honey. He was lovely. He came on
with all his minders and bodyguards and everyone was very nervous about it but
he walked in and he sat down and he just charmed everyone. Well he's a
handsome single fella although now he's engaged and you're single.
Was there any talk after the interview? Yes. I'm a bit too wily for that my dear.
What is successful on British television right now? Oh American soaps. Dynasty or
you call it dynasty. Dynasty yes indeed. Dallas of course, Miami Vice. We have a
lot of shows over here that are based in America that are influenced by America
which which we love and we've got four channels. Channel four is the latest
offering in the television area and and it takes a lot. Hill Street Blues of
course has come through and has a tremendous following as well but I think
that I think the soaps are the things that grab us. The beautiful dresses, the
handsome men you know. I mean I imagine LA to just filled with guys who look like
Tom Selleck and women who can afford to dress all the time like Linda Evans. I'd
like to move to the area of music Selena because since the Beatles revolution, the
English Revolution, we've looked to Britain a lot for a terrific music sound.
As a matter of fact this week I was just noticing on the Billboard top ten four
of the top songs are English groups. What is it what's happening in English music?
Are you spotting any hot trends that we should be aware of over here? We seem to
be into nostalgia here in a big way. The record that's leading the top 20 was in
the same position today 20 years ago. It's by Cliff Richard. It's called Living
Doll and it's he's got a new backing group called the Young Ones with him but
that's about the only difference. And then in the number four slot over here
it's Sam Cooke who died I think 20 years ago and of course there's Frank Sinatra
in there as well. Adding a bit of weight to the nostalgia theme so that's hot in
Britain. We're still very wrapped up though in our homegrown talent in people
like Annie Lennox, in Phil Collins, in Jim Diamond and groups like Six Six
Sputnik. I don't know whether you've heard of them but they're getting big here too.
Level 42 is another one to whack you with at the moment. But the music scene
is very vibrant indeed and we're delighted that these groups and these
pop stars are coming over to America and taking money away from you bringing you
back to this country. Selena we're very much looking forward to coming over and
being with you in London in May. What types of stories are we going to have
set up? Well the excitement is building in London because Prince Andrew of
course is getting married in July so we'll be looking ahead I think to that.
There'll be also stories on music, on the press, on theatre, also on fashion for you
Rob. Selena thank you very much for spending this late nighttime. I know
you're an early morning person. We look forward to seeing you in London in May
and Selena I do have to say I'm picking up a bit of an accent now after talking
to you. It was enjoyable though thank you. Thank you very much Rob. Take care. Bye bye.
And that's Selena Scott in London and we'll be right back with more on
entertainment this week. Coming up next week on entertainment tonight, Monday
Emilio Estevez, the popular young actor tries his hand at writing and directing.
Tuesday Sissy Spacek, her new film Violets are Blue is opening and there
are two more on the way. Wednesday Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, two veteran
actors star in Tough Guys. Thursday Amy Grant, she began as a gospel singer but
now she's invading the pop charts. Friday Judge Reinhold for Offbeat his comedy
choice is definitely Offbeat. It's all next week on entertainment tonight.
Here are the stories that made last week's entertainment headlines. Actress
Lana Turner and her daughter Cheryl Crane found a 101 million dollar libel
suit against TV Guide. The heavily promoted anti-drug concert that counts
was canceled for lack of ticket sales. Guy McElwain resigned as chairman and
chief executive officer of Columbia Pictures and former actor John Gavin
resigned his post as US ambassador to Mexico. Those were the entertainment
stories told in headlines. Now for a day-by-day review of the entertainment
stories told in pictures. Monday John Johnson turned up in basic black to
accept an award from the American College Theatre Festival in Washington,
DC. I only hope for the actors and actresses here tonight that they someday
stand before you as I am and feel the sense of honor and appreciation that I
do. And stars hit the bowling lanes to raise money for cancer research. Yeah I'm
here to win. I'm a bowling fool. I'm having a good time and I can't wait to
can't wait to show these people who's who's uh who's gonna win here. I'm ready.
Tuesday ET is on hand in Washington DC for the Human Spirit Awards. I only
represent so many thousands of people and so many ladies and their families
who also have had to deal with breast cancer and who also violently fought to
come back and you can. And it should be very inspiring to everybody in America
to you know to not quit no matter what. And we're ringside for all the action in
and out of the ring at WrestleMania 2. It's the ultimate in entertainment.
Is this wonderful? It's just incredible. Wednesday ET has the election results from Carmel,
California. Clint Eastwood is mayor by a landslide. The campaigning is very
difficult I must say it's much more difficult than making a movie. And the
landslide in South Africa is the number of viewers tuned into the Cosby show.
It's number one there also. I think it shows people in South Africa that black
people do have the qualities that white people here tribute only to white people.
That show cannot turn a nation around. It can make an awful lot of people happy
and perhaps give them a good feeling which is what I've wanted many times.
Thursday ET moses down George Burns Road in Los Angeles. Well I'm gonna help them
raise 90. They're letting me help them raise 90 million dollars and to show you
how nice they are. They said if we only raise 88 million they're gonna let me
throw in the other two million. They're nice people. Friday ET covers big news on
the rock circuit. Bob Dylan and Tom Petty long on music but short on words
announce a nationwide summer tour. Are you writing songs together? Yes.
Is any of that gonna be on the tour? Could be. And that's a quick picture
review of the week's entertainment news stories. Movie technology has done it
again. Like popcorn at the movie theater, scary critters now come in three sizes.
Small, medium, and large. How else to put all of them into focus than with a
Shoemaker report? Creepy crawly creatures that go bump in the night. That's what a
lot of movies are made of these days. The latest one is out this weekend. It's
called Critters. You know the kind of film we mean. The father figure, alone in the
basement. He hears something. He reaches out. Then scary? Sure it was. But it took a
lot of hard work to make those creatures look real. Much of the movie was shot on
location here in New Hall, California. And as you can see from the condition of
the set, the critters did a lot of damage. Actress Dee Wallis Stone is in the film.
She was the mom in ET. So what about co-starring with another alien creature?
Let me tell you, if this alien creature goes as far as the last one I worked
with, it'll be okay with me. So here are the critters revealed. Not so frightening
when you know how they work. I guess the trickiest parts of the things are radio
controlled eye blink and eye rotation. We have front snarl and side snarl. And as
they eat they grow. We have the 13 inch variety. We have a 26 inch one. And then
we made a four foot one, a costume. So if you see a spaceship resting in some field
somewhere, not to worry. The critters inside may be only movie puppets sprayed
with slime to look menacing. All the movements courtesy of special effects and
the men who run them. That's it boys, you're on TV.
Now I don't know where you buy that slime but it seemed to work for these guys.
Did you just notice Dee Wallis had blood on her shoulder? What was the large-sized critter that got after her, obviously.
Well she'd love to work with those puppets. I'll be here with Rob on Monday for
entertainment tonight. We'll visit with Joe Piscopo and Emilio Estevez. And join
us here next weekend to meet John Cougar-Mellencamp, Suzanne Plachette and a
special Rona Barrett interview with Oscar winner Geraldine Page. Have a good weekend.
We'll see you Monday. Bye bye.