There's room for her in show business.
Plus Hollywood stunt woman settles for one million dollars.
Hollywood couples settle their differences together.
And Hollywood's wackiest comic never lets his audience settle down.
I'm Bagot turning a light on, plugging a socket in,
and holding on to door cells in a tub to correct my mind for the day.
As entertainment this week invites you to settle in for an hour of the top stories in show business
this second weekend in January 1983.
They say about the only constant in Hollywood is that things are constantly changing.
This week there was a major change for a studio executive,
and a famous talk show host left his show.
This week a surprise retirement was announced by veteran talk show host Mike Douglas.
His 20 year run on television made Douglas a household name and brought his show an Emmy in 1967,
the first ever for a syndicated series.
He moved to cable news network last year, but reached a parting of the ways before the end of his contract.
Well it all happened, I was on Florida over the holidays on a vacation.
And when the weather gets bad, I've made a lot of interesting decisions
when the weather's inclement and it was rainy one day,
and I was sitting there watching a lot of bad television,
and I just said to myself, this is wonderful to have a little bit of free time all of a sudden.
Now I've been at it for 21 years, and I was working five days a week,
and so I said, I think I'm going to try to break this contract.
I had four more months to run until the end of April.
And I made a few phone calls and started the procedure,
and we worked it out amicably and everybody's happy.
Another major Hollywood move brought Sherry Lansing,
the first woman president of a major motion picture studio from 20th Century Fox to Paramount,
where she will be a producing partner with Stanley Jaffe.
Stanley and I have worked together, as we said, on Kramer vs. Kramer Taps,
and a movie you're about to see called Without a Trace, which comes out February 4th.
And the idea that we are forming a partnership to make movies is really a dream come true.
Heidi Von Belz, a stuntwoman who was doubling for Farrah Fawcett
and was left a quadriplegic in an accident on the set,
was awarded over one million dollars by the state of California this week.
Scott Osborne has that story.
In the past three years, accidents on film sets have killed 11 people and left dozens injured.
Safety and movie production work is now a top priority.
It's likely Hollywood will pay even closer attention to film set safety
now that California's Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board
has awarded more than a million dollars to an injured stuntwoman.
Heidi Von Belz is paralyzed from the neck down after an accident in filming Cannonball Run.
A multi-car stunt went awry, and when the sports car in which she was riding crashed,
Heidi Von Belz was thrown through the windshield.
Fame trial attorney Melvin Belli secured what he says is the largest such Workmen's Compensation award ever.
I think it will do a lot of good to make stunts more careful than they have been in the past
because there's nothing that makes a man more careful than the threat of a good lawsuit.
The effect that I think it will have is it will make a lot more people in the business think before they do anything.
Either they put themselves in a position of getting hurt or hurting somebody.
They'll take a little bit more time.
Former stuntman Hal Needham, who directed Cannonball Run,
is named in a separate suit filed by attorney Belli on behalf of Heidi Von Belz.
That claim, which seeks 35 million dollars, is expected to go before a jury later this year.
Scott Osborne reporting for Entertainment Tonight.
Now some of the other top stories from this week's Entertainment Wire.
The Justice Department's Antitrust Division says it's conducting routine inquiries into two major new entertainment ventures.
One team will investigate the proposed plan of CBS, Columbia, and Home Box Office to form a $400 million movie studio.
The other inquiry concerns the joint venture of Paramount, MCA, and Warner Brothers to become partners in the pay TV movie channel.
The will of the late movie mogul Daryl Zanuck is being contested at a probate trial in Los Angeles.
This by a French model who claims to have been his mistress for eight years.
Francis Coppola's Zoetrope Studios are in financial trouble again with no takers at the asking price of $20 million.
Foreclosure could begin as early as next week.
And Fame, the NBC series, has had a fickle relationship with American viewers, but it's a big, big hit with the British.
Ian Johnstone reports from London.
We're at the Albert Hall in London.
This is usually the place where there are stayed orchestral concerts with men in bow ties.
It was built at the beginning of the century by Queen Victoria as a memorial to her husband, Prince Albert, to give him lasting fame.
Well, today it's been taken over by fame of a different sort, the kids from Fame.
I'm gonna live forever.
Well, honey, here we are in London.
It's fabulous. Everyone seems to love us. We're very excited. We're open today in London.
I don't know, the crowds, look at them lined up already down the street.
You can't even get down the street. They mob us when we come up.
It's very exciting.
Look at that whole crowd.
Oh, yeah.
We're getting ready to get attacked again.
The television series took Britain by storm in 1982.
It was the most popular program on the television, and their records, records like Fame and High Fidelity, soared to the top of the charts here, unlike in America.
I'm gonna live forever.
So they've come here en masse for a concert, especially for the British.
As you can see, they're packing them in.
I wish you all the best.
Yay, fame!
While we're on the subject of Great Britain, Anthony Newley, who is from England, hopes to be on Broadway later this year in a musical based on the life of Charlie Chaplin.
This week, he'll audition young tap dancers.
Our own Barbara Howe tapped down the Great White Way for this report.
Thank you for the walking papers, lady with a torch.
It was a chance to hear one of the new songs Anthony Newley has written for Chaplin, but for a dozen youngsters, it was a chance to become a star on Broadway.
Oh, a boy, this wonderful feeling.
I'm so high, I swear I can fly.
Why am I me, why am I me, why am I me?
Ever thought the art of tap dancing was dying?
Well, fear no more, and take a look at this.
What do you think your chances are?
This is my first callback.
Are you excited?
Yes.
How much do you want the job?
A whole bunch.
Is it going to break your heart to have to tell all these kids what one of them know?
I'll tell you something, Barbara.
They are already pros, and disappointment is part of their cornflakes.
I mean, I remember I started when I was 14, and auditions and losing parts and gaining parts becomes, you know, a part of the process.
Have you ever considered auditioning an over 30-year-old woman who considers herself something of a tap dancer?
I think there is room for her in show business.
Not in this show, Barbara, but perhaps in another show.
Oh, Anthony Newley, what do you know anyhow?
I'm Barbara Hauer. Entertainment Tonight.
Go Barbara.
Well, now that you've gotten the bills for Christmas 1982, do you want to see what you'll be buying for Christmas 1983?
Scott Osborne went to Las Vegas for the biggest consumer electronics crapshoot of them all.
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas looks like 70,000 people pouring over thousands of electronic gizmos and gym cracks.
But it's the first place to see what people are going to buy to entertain themselves at home in the coming year.
And surveys show that purchases for home entertainment are growing as the depressed economy squeezes dollars that might be spent on other kinds of amusement.
Electronic sales reportedly grew by 30 percent last year.
But buying patterns indicate that consumers are choosing much more carefully from among the myriad of consumer electronics on the market.
This is going to be another strong year for video games.
Certainly, as in the disc business or in the tape business, people will be more selective on the games that they buy.
So there may be mounting inventories of certain types of games as the new ones come out.
I would imagine some consumers might well ask, why should I buy this expensive piece of equipment now when I know very well that the price is bound to come down?
That's been the history of our business.
Price erosion over a period of time.
You buy the product, you enjoy it, and then as the price comes down, you probably buy a second or third generation in two or three years.
Among the field's giants, the emphasis is on surefire sellers.
Atari displays home versions of its arcade game hits like Centipede and introduces its new line of home computers.
Mattel shows a reduced-priced version of its Intellivision, along with its home computers.
Several companies showed the machinery they hope will revive the sagging audio market, the digital disc player.
It's expected in the stores later this year.
Among exceptional new products, computers which respond to voice command and speak back to the operator.
And a new super portable TV whose picture is formed by Liquid Crystal.
Casio expects to have it in the stores this year.
To some people, like comic Jonathan Winters, it's all amazing.
I am brand new at this. I failed. I was tutored in algebra. Look, I'm catching things there. There, missed them.
Catching what?
Well, I'll be catching a lot of things here if this thing doesn't. I forget there. I can move the dish. Oh, look at this. There we go. Neat.
Electronics makers are hoping all consumers will respond with the delight of Jonathan Winters.
But they expect most people to consider electronics purchases carefully.
So it seems to be the industry's feeling that people are willing to spend money for home entertainment, despite or perhaps because of a woeful economy.
But they're being very selective about just what they buy.
Scott Osborne reporting for Entertainment Tonight.
Ahead on entertainment this week, Jackie Vissot tries on a new character.
I play one who's described as a wild woman.
Kenny Loggins worries.
Well, I think that there's always a little bit of a fight going on inside of me.
And Linda Lavin, she's ready for anything.
It's an exciting time in my life.
This week, every one of the top five movies did significantly better business than the week before.
Leading the pack, Tootsie put 50 percent more into its purse, which rose to the $40 million mark.
When it came to increases, Dark Crystal was the brightest movie of them all, up 60 percent to the number two slot.
The toy reversed its previous slide, earned itself another $5.1 million and took third place.
Best Friends was up 36 percent to hold on to fourth place.
And a new entry, Paul Newman and the Verdict, opened wide, took in $4.7 million and made the top five list with room to spare.
New York City has been the setting for many a blockbuster movie.
And as Barbara Hauer tells us, the Big Apple continues to challenge the Big Orange for the title of movie capital of the world.
Sidney Poitier did it with Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder.
Paul Mazursky does it too, and so does Sidney LeMeth.
He does it all the time.
More and more directors are doing it in New York.
Over the last five years, filmmaking here has tripled, becoming one of the city's fastest-growing industries.
Everything from Sophie's Choice to Kramer vs. Kramer owes a part of their bite to the Big Apple.
It used to be that a film company would come into New York and shoot just the backgrounds.
And then rush back to California and do everything else there on the huge sets.
Over the last four or five, six years, what they've been doing is they've been shooting more and more features in their entirety here.
The most significant symbol of moviemaking's return to New York City was the official groundbreaking at the Astoria Studios in Queens.
Although the studios were built in 1919, they're being renovated and expanded to the tune of $50 million.
Most of those involved believe that the future of filmmaking in New York depends largely upon the success of this facility.
Welcome to the old and the new Astoria Studios.
The financing of Astoria came from public and private sources. Investors include Johnny Carson, Neil Simon and Alan King.
We are not competing with California. In fact, we're going to make it easy for California.
I know on several occasions I came here to make pictures. I shot the streets of New York, which is the best back lot in the world.
And then I had to go to California to complete them. The post facilities didn't exist in New York, or they were just minimal.
What we're building here is a complete unit where you can come here from post pre-production, shoot your picture, edit, screen and then do everything, including score it.
But if things will be easier for Los Angeles, why are they getting nervous?
The politicians in California really were taking the industry very much for granted for a very long period of time.
They think it's the home of the industry. It's always going to be there, and it's not.
We have to really concern ourselves with upgrading our own studios.
Fill it in even a little more, please. Drop another ten feet.
One director who uses New York almost exclusively is Sidney Lomet.
Out of his 31 films, 22 were done here. That includes his most recent release, The Verdict, and his current production, The Book of Daniel.
Action! Must act! Must act!
Actors in Hollywood tend to learn acting from other actors. New York actors tend to learn acting from the streets.
And for the kinds of pictures I do, that's irreplaceable.
I don't think we'll ever be able to really compete with California, and I don't think we'll ever be the capital of movie making.
But I looked at the sheets last year, and there was a period there where we were filming more pictures in New York than California was.
Are they threatened out there by Hollywood on the Hudson here?
I don't want to use the word threatened.
I think that they are surprised that we have done as well as we have done, and I think that they are certainly taking notice of what's happening, yes.
Jacqueline Bissett knows what it's like to make movies in New York, and Paris, and Hollywood, and all the other major movie cities of the world.
In fact, as we found out, keeping active is one of the basic rules of her successful career.
This is Jacqueline Bissett in Francois Truffaut's 1973 classic Day for Night.
That was 30 pictures and 10 years ago, and she is now one of Hollywood's more bankable female leads.
Class is her latest film. It just finished shooting, and she co-stars with Cliff Robertson.
Good roles are hard to find, but she has high hopes for class.
I play what the lady described as a wild woman.
I don't want to go into too much of it, because I'd blow the plot, but I'd rather put the front there, a wild woman.
Oh, that's wonderful.
Novice actor Rob Lowe and veteran Cliff Robertson both give her high marks.
She's a delight. She's a beautiful girl, a woman, and an excellent actress.
Very, very serious. And I've enjoyed it. It's been very nice.
She's very special because she does have that sexiness about her, but yet she's a very fine actress.
And I don't know, it's an English charm, I guess. What can I say?
Missett seems to be able to do no wrong, even though some of her past films have been critical and or financial flops.
The reviewers and the public have forgiven her for such bombs as Inshan Airport and the Greek Tycoon.
Few who saw her will forget her wet look in the deep.
It was the lack of good roles which prompted her to co-produce her last film, Rich and Famous.
In the process, she learned a great deal about the rigors of life on the other side of the camera.
The difference is attention level, really. I mean, I get bad enough when I'm acting.
There's a lot of pressure.
But when you get that added dimension of responsibility for other people as well, it's pretty hair-raising at times.
And people get passionate and angry and they feel they're not being listened to, including at times oneself or whatever it may be.
And it's like business. It really goes back into big business rather than creative feeling.
It takes such a long time. It's awful.
You just talk about it for six months, fuss about it for another six months, and finally shoot it in ten weeks or something.
And then you have a... it's endless.
Nevertheless, she's optioned properties and will produce again. That is, if she can find the financing.
Which could always be a problem.
Our viewer Leonard Maltin was busy on the movie beat this week, and he found this million-dollar baby in the five-and-ten-cent store.
When I first heard that Robert Altman was going to direct Sandy Dennis, Karen Black and Cher in a Broadway play called
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, I was certainly intrigued.
But Ed Grassick's play didn't last very long in New York, and now that I've seen the movie version, I can understand why.
The setting is a 20-year reunion of girlfriends who formed a James Dean fan club in their small Texas town when the actor was filming his movie Giant nearby.
Sandy Dennis is perfectly cast as the club leader who has blinded herself from reality and the glare of hero worship.
Twenty years ago tonight, my God, it just seems just like yesterday, don't it? When that fatal crash took away his life.
Aha!
Director Altman has drawn exceptional performances from his cast who work together as a real ensemble,
and he's used a combination of movie, stage and television camera techniques to keep this from becoming just a photograph stage play.
Cher proves the real surprise in a winning performance as an age-and-good-time girl,
but she and her colleagues have put a lot of effort into a play that isn't all that good.
It's like second-rate Tennessee Williams, a character study where the so-called revelations are neither surprising nor terribly interesting.
If you like the cast or admire Robert Altman, you might find this film worth watching, but the end result is a matter of style over substance.
On our scale of one to ten, I'm giving Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, a five.
I'm Leonard Maltin for Entertainment Tonight.
Thank you, Leonard, and what better way to round off our movie coverage than with this story, all about a little boy who wants to be Vincent Price.
Hewell Hauser unravels the mystery.
If your idea of a Disney cartoon is a film like Peter Pan, you're only half right.
While Disney re-released this traditional film over Christmas, they're also making big changes with a little film.
Vincent Malloy is seven years old. He's always polite and does what he's told.
It's a six-minute short called Vincent, about a young boy who longs to be just like Vincent Price.
Created by two new generation Disney animators, Tim Burton and Rick Heinrichs,
it's a macabre tale where the boy dreams of performing fiendish experiments on his dog,
dipping his aunt in hot wax, and being kept prisoner in his dark and danked tower bedroom.
It's narrated by the king of horror himself.
It's taken, I think, from a lot of different kinds of characters that I have played, all of which have had a kind of tongue-in-cheek quality about them.
Disney's first attempt at revitalizing their animation was with Tron, a $20 million project which will barely break even.
At a cost of $60,000, Vincent is experimentation on a smaller level,
but it's already in contention for an Oscar nomination, giving Disney assurance that they're headed in the right direction.
So it looks like Mickey and his friends won't have the Disney turf all to themselves much longer.
In fact, the creators of Vincent are already working on an animated television special whose characters are definitely out of the ordinary.
Hewellhouser Entertainment Tonight.
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Coming up next, Kenny Loggins talks about going it alone.
While John Bowser Bowerman of Sean Anah reveals the music he really likes.
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Nobody's worrying about Kenny Loggins' career right now.
After a successful six-year partnership with Jim Messina, Loggins' solo act is stronger than ever.
Although he's enjoyed almost non-stop success since his recording career began in 1970,
it is surprising that Loggins still considers himself a basically shy person.
Well, I think that there's always a little bit of a fight going on inside of me.
I don't consider myself an extremely gregarious individual with other people.
So it's always a little bit like I feel myself kicking myself out the door, you know.
This will be good for you. You get out there and meet those people. Talk to them.
And so there's always that little conflict, that little fight going on.
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Little of Loggins' admitted shyness was visible recently when he stepped in front of the cameras
to make his first videos for his new album, High Adventure.
Loggins approaches his work now with an inner confidence,
stemming partially from an experience he went through after completing his first album.
I had fulfilled a lifelong goal and all of a sudden I had no more goals.
And I didn't know what I was going to do with myself and I had no idea what to do next.
It was like this complete, it's just everything went out into space.
I had, you know, your hands are going like this and you're like, whoa, what's happening here?
You know, it was very strange and very scary.
And it was a period where I stayed in bed and didn't talk to anyone or answer the phone for about two weeks
and I stayed in my room collecting myself and eating when I'm hungry and sleeping when I'm tired.
And gradually I came back.
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I learned a lot from that and it has been a source of a lot of my music
has come from those three weeks of hitting bottom and finding a way out.
And I think possibly through the years that has been a continuous message in my music.
This is it. Things like that that are saying, okay, you know, come on, it's okay.
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Kenny Loggins may be singing about love, but gone are the days when pop music only sang of love and romance.
Rock songs these days are about hard economic times like Billy Joel's Allentown,
Paul McCartney's The Pound is Sinking, Jeff Rotel's Fallen on Hard Times,
and the group Dire Straits' Industrial Disease.
Experts are predicting a lot more of these kinds of songs will be making the charts.
In fact, the business-oriented Wall Street Journal has already coined a new name for this newest of musical waves,
Recession Rock. Somewhere, someone is no doubt working on an electronic update of that 1932 hit, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
The musical group Sha Na Na is a long way from Recession Rock, more like 50s Flash.
A leading member of the group is John Bowser Bauman, who proved to us that when it comes to musical taste,
his bark is worse than his bite.
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A sharp contrast between mild-mannered actor-singer-musician John Bauman and his alter ego, Bowser,
would surely amaze most fans of Sha Na Na.
I thought it was great that people thought that Bowser was, there was some guy in Brooklyn who really walked around and looked like that.
You know, and people really believed this, and to me that was a great compliment.
Wall off!
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Beneath the pomade, leather jacket, and tough guy posturing of Bowser lies a thoughtful, talented man.
I was never supposed to do anything that might injure my hands because I was supposed to go to Juilliard and become a child prodigy.
When I was a kid, I didn't dream about being in show business. I mean, I didn't have an act.
The law of Greece has gone down the drain since then.
Sha Na Na's performing career has been a blazing success.
They were the first major 50s revival act, predating the stage show, Grease, by two years.
Here we are 13 years later, and I think we are an institution, and we should be in an institution.
As much as I'd like to avoid the classic trap, which is comedians wanting to be serious,
I would like to do some serious dramatic acting as well.
There's no telling where a versatile performer like John Balman will turn up next.
The one thing's for sure, he intends to be a major force in the entertainment world for a long time to come.
Who could ask for anything more?
MUSIC
Here's Buddy and T.J. Hooker.
I'd like to do it all. I mean, I want to go back to Broadway and do Broadway again.
I want to do television. I like doing television also. I want to do film. I really would like to do it all.
That was Adrian Zmed when Entertainment Tonight interviewed him on the set of Grease 2 just one year ago.
And he has done it all. He played Danny Zuko in the Broadway production of Grease,
and in the national touring company. Then he created the second lead in the film Grease 2.
That's a lot for a 28-year-old minister's son who flirted with acting in high school,
then went on to the University of Illinois to study architecture.
But not for long. The lure of show business was too strong.
Now he's playing William Shatner's sidekick in T.J. Hooker.
It was a story in the series which dealt with teenage alcoholism that has given Zmed his first big cause.
He's a non-drinker, non-smoker and anti-drugs, a guy who actually married his high school sweetheart.
He wants life to turn out that way for others too.
And he's active in the crusade of the National Council of Alcoholism, where he's just joined the board of directors.
I knew nothing really about it. I didn't even know the term existed, teenage alcoholism.
So I did some research on it. And I was shocked at so many of the facts and figures that I saw.
And I said to myself, boy, I get a lot of fan mail from teenagers. And I'm in teeny bopper magazines.
I go on a lot of talk shows. I think that I can educate people to it.
I can educate the teenagers to it that they may have a problem.
Have you ever had a problem with alcohol?
No, I haven't.
How do you deal with the pressures of your career in show business?
I have discovered that the last place you should go to is in abusing your body.
Where do you go?
You go to the sun, getting the vitamins from the sun, getting into your body and doing healthy things for it.
That's in my opinion where you go.
Although Adrian is of Romanian descent, he's usually cast to play roles of Italian characters.
Nobody has ever looked at me as a Romanian in this business. Everybody has always looked at me as an Italian.
I've been playing Italians since I came to Los Angeles. Even before. Even on Broadway I was playing Italians.
I've never played a Romanian.
Do you think anybody knows what a Romanian looks like over here?
No. Everybody thinks that a Romanian looks like Dracula because he's from Transylvania.
Like Bela Lugosi, who was actually Hungarian.
I'm what a Romanian looks like folks. If anybody ever wants to know, this is it.
The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times are reporting there will be a major executive change at ABC on Monday.
Fred Pierce, now executive vice president, is expected to be named president of ABC Inc.
He'll succeed Elton Rule, who is said to be moving up to the post of vice chairman.
New Year's week with its bowl games and specials brought changes in the top five TV ratings.
In the number one slot was 60 Minutes, no surprise there, but ABC captured number two by the simple trick
of showing Penn State winning the top collegiate ranking in the sugar bowl.
Heart to Heart vaulted into the third position while One Day at a Time was in the fourth spot.
And the Jeffersons moved up a few notches to finish in fifth place.
The ratings for Alice have not been good, and star Linda Lavin talks about the show,
the Equal Rights Amendment, and a whole lot more with Paul Ryan.
Linda Lavin, as television's most famous waitress, Alice, is supposed to be a widow who remains unmarried
and struggles to bring up an only son.
See you next week, young mom.
Tommy, how's your life? You married yet? Got any kids?
Look, mom, I'm late. Can we talk about this next week?
Sure.
I'll see you later.
These mother-son talks are so rewarding.
Linda Lavin, the actress, recently got remarried and became an instant stepmother to two children,
which happens to be the subject of her new TV movie, Another Woman's Child.
Not my child. She's your child. Not a very friendly child, and one who was handed to me.
To me, too.
Oh, no, my dear. You had your fun.
It's an exciting time in my life, and provocative, and challenging, and scary.
And this movie has in it all the elements of what I've learned, of the truth of my own life,
of how terrifying this major a change is to anybody out there.
A lot of people say there ought to be schools. Well, there are, in a way there are.
How do you cope, Linda?
With therapy, with help. And there are really trained people and intelligent people out there who can help us.
And so we get help, all together, as a family.
Her long-running series has recently hit the rating skids, going from number 8 to a dismal number 70 for the year.
However, CBS is bringing it back, and she feels that that is good news for the cause of Working Women.
This is a show about working people. It's essentially one of the few shows on television about working women, about pink-collar women.
There are maybe one or two others in all of television now, and that's what works.
Linda, you worked very hard for the passage of the ERA, which died last summer.
Where does the campaign stand now? Will the amendment ever be successful?
It's a time of reconstruction, reevaluation, and recommitment.
And it will happen in our lifetime as soon as we learn that equality is economics.
It's not about, wouldn't it be cute if I could get some daycare for my kid? Wouldn't it be cute if I could get a job?
Wouldn't it be cute if I could get some Social Security after my husband dies?
It's about real, honest-to-God economic necessity.
Even with all those new video systems we were showing you earlier,
there is still the old problem with squeezing those widescreen movie epics into the home screen.
Well, that problem has been solved, as Dick Shoemaker reports.
Glorious Panavision, the only problem. Widescreen movies don't fit on TV.
If you simply enlarge the picture, well, that doesn't work.
Horses and wagons start looking ten feet tall.
The problem? Too much picture to the left and to the right of center screen in a widescreen production.
So to the rescue, the Oxbury Optical Printer.
Film distributors use this machine to scan widescreen movies,
re-photograph the negative frame by frame, and make a TV size.
This is actually the original, and we're actually unsqueezed for TV.
On a ten-reel picture, I would say it would average from 12 to $15,000.
So the next time you see a widescreen extravaganza on TV, hopefully,
the station has seen fit to give you all the...
...news this week. Paul Newman, tipped by Vegas bookies, has even money to win the Oscar for The Verdict.
Elizabeth Taylor, cutting short her mid-east tour after suffering torn ligaments in an automobile accident in Israel.
Burt Reynolds being named the number one box office attraction five years in a row, time being Crosby's record.
Janet Gaynor finally being released from the hospital after that taxi crash in San Francisco.
And Loretta Lynn, named the first female chairperson of National Wildlife Week.
Another kind of style, Grace Under Pressure, is exhibited in our next story
as we find out how three top acting couples survive the double whammy of living and working together.
Veteran actors Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, married for over 34 years,
are performing on Broadway this season in their 20th production.
I got a witness something the minute I walked in here. What was it?
Grace?
John Taylor.
Nice wind that you have there.
Anne Archer, with her husband Terry Jastrow, have completed their first feature film together.
While Suzanne Summers and Alan Hamill seem to have survived the lean years together,
this after a much publicized salary dispute with the producers of Three's Company,
which some say was Hamill's doing.
She's not a dope. She's a bright woman. And she has her own mind.
And she ultimately makes the decision because it's her fanny out there.
She's the one that's got to go out and do it. I can make all the decisions I want.
I can decide she's going to do this film and play this casino and that theater.
But she's got to go out and do it. And if she decides she doesn't want to do it, she won't do it.
He has to take a lot of flack that he is not deserving of.
He is a very qualified businessman, entrepreneur and showman.
He is a showman. And he's a creative person also.
And he understands what I'm selling. And he can sell me.
I can't sell myself. I don't know what I'm worth.
But he, standing back, knows what I'm worth and he knows how to sell me.
Do you sense that the loving is more precious because of the business relationship
as well as the personal relationship? Does it make the marriage stronger?
You better say yes or I'll punch you in the mouth.
Film actress Anne Archer has teamed up in business and in life with a three-time Emmy Award winner.
But her husband, Terry Jasper, won those awards as one of the youngest and most successful producer directors at ABC Sports.
He made the switch to acting. And together they went into producing their own independent feature, entitled Waltz Across Texas.
I don't think that there are a lot of couples that can do it, frankly. I think it rarely works.
The downside is that when you both want to succeed in the business, you become so caught up in the business part of it
that you have no romantic relationship in your life.
I have to tell you that it is so difficult that if you have a rule that you can't talk business after 8 o'clock,
to talk business up to 7.59 and at 8 o'clock like a kickoff in a football game,
pour a glass of wine and start stroking each other, I'm sorry, that doesn't work very well.
Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach may be the most successful working couple around today.
They met on stage back in 1946 and continued to play together in both movies and the theater.
Now on Broadway and Murray Shiskols' Twice Around the Park, they claim that acting is a form of therapy for their successful marriage.
We're able to air out all our grievances on the stage and get paid for it.
I think it's great fun to exercise all the demons that go on between us.
I want it all and I loved being a mother and an actress and a wife and your lover and your adversary at times.
This is my actor's ring. You see this ring? That's tragedy and that's comedy. So life is a spin, right?
Well, we've seen Barbara Hauer trying to tap dance her way into a Broadway show.
Now here's Barbara again with a special report on some of the current hit shows helping the Broadway season stay afloat.
As the curtain of Annie came down for the last time, Broadway put to rest its seventh longest running musical ever.
It was as much a symbol of the staying power of a hit show as it was a reminder of how many other curtains have been tumbling down.
Out of the 21 new shows this season, more than half have been flops. Musicals alone have been disastrous.
Five out of seven closed within a week of opening night. Only one made it and made it big, Cats.
One reason for the success of Cats is this song, Memory, performed by Betty Buckley.
Another has to do with the look of the show. The costumes are the Cats meow.
If the Tony Awards were to be held tomorrow, Cats would have to be voted Best Musical.
But that seemed to be the case last year with Dreamgirls, till Tommy Toon came around and stole the show and the award with nine.
He could do it again this year with a new musical called My One and Only.
Do you love me? It looks that way. Cute.
Tommy teams up with Twiggy in this new play set to Gershwin Music.
Instead of staying behind the scenes as he did in nine, Tommy will be singing and dancing center stage where many people feel he belongs.
He's become famous in the last four or five years for his choreography and direction, deservedly so.
But you wait till they see him come out and dance and they're going to go berserk.
Other highlights of the new Broadway season were the stars who took over for the stars.
Diane Cowell substituted in Agnes of God. Andy Gibb became Joseph in his amazing Technicolor dreamcoat.
And in the flashiest entrance of them all, Raquel Welch took over from Lauren Bacall in Woman of the Year.
Raquel Welch comes to Broadway, I mean instant hatchet job, that's what I saw.
It was a performance which could have lasted her a long time.
But motherhood came first and Raquel took off to have a baby.
Debbie Reynolds takes her place as Broadway's third Woman of the Year.
And I'm going to stand there very dominating and tell him what to do.
The best of Broadway is not always the most famous.
The British import Steaming features a dynamic performance by Judith Ivy as a woman who frequents a steam bath and ends up with her self-respect.
And after all that, we'll have it.
Torch Song Trilogy introduces playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein as a homosexual drag queen
trying to put his mixed up life into order.
An ugly person who goes after a pretty person gets nothing but trouble.
But a pretty person who goes after an ugly person gets at least carefare.
All in all, this season's lullaby of Broadway sounds something like a funeral march.
With more and more shows closing, total attendance is down from last year.
Still, there's hope. We can expect something new from Neil Simon.
And Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton will be reunited in Noel Coward's private lives.
And those are just some of the names and faces we'll be following down the Great White Way.
I'm Barbara Hauer for Entertainment Tonight.
Samoy the whole must be romance Samoy it wins you at a glance Samoy gives happy feet a chance to dance Your bones just like a clean line Your lips so warm and sweet as wine Your cheeks so soft and close to mine Divine
Now my heart is singing While the band is swinging
On Monday's show, what makes all my children sizzle.
Something with you at the Samoy what your heart is saying
And Peter Allen goes by Costco to get the hit.
We can glide and sway
Yes, large. Very large.
I think you could have at least a decent model airplane meet in here and never lose a plane.
I have never been to anything this big or this electronic.
I'm big at turning a light on, plugging a socket in and holding on to door cells in a tub to correct my mind for the day.
I am not an intellectual, but I'm trying.
You step into this much water. I hope he's getting that.
That's about three inches.
I don't have a slide rule on me.
Most of my life has been this.
What's always about that much? Yeah.
About that high? About right.
Go with it.
That's a perfect size for a bullet. That'll get him.
But, at any rate, you stand in your tub.
I assume you have one. You're doing well.
Fine. Sometimes.
You dress well and you have a microphone in your hand.
You're getting money for this.
And I'm getting nothing but I'm getting exposure.
And I'm very thankful to the man with so much stuff on him.
Imagine how tired he is going, get over it.
Get rid of him. Let's move on to someone else.
I know how cameraman are.
And they carry all the gear. You walk to a stunning lady.
He gets in the car and says,
I'll see an LA man.
Oh, my, gee. This is an incredible thing.
I know how cameraman are.
But they date, too. Remember that.
They date, too. They just date this way.
That's right.
But, at any rate, thank you so much.
You think you're going to be here?
The cameraman loved him, obviously.
They do date.
I think they do.
Well, that's our present to you for this week.
But join Ron Hindert and Mary Hart on Monday
as they take you behind the scenes to see why All My Children is such a hot show.
And a big welcome to the latest edition to our Entertainment This Week family,
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Next week, Fran Tarkenton, Crosby, Stills and Nash.