Is there TV movie gold at the bottom of the sea?
Will the latest Martian invasion be a runaway hit?
Are macho's moves all macho?
Is Bill Cosby cooking or what?
Which songs are tailor made for John?
Could John Phillips be free at last?
Did Arnold get stung in Mexico?
Entertainment this week rises to the occasion.
I'm not too sure if that's valid.
Hi everybody, glad to have you along with us.
I'm Lisa Given.
I'm Rob Weller and Lisa's got a big interview with Bill Cosby coming up later in the show.
Did he tell you anything, you know, off camera that he could share?
So much stuff I could write a book on what we couldn't use.
Well, just something.
I thought it was interesting though that he originally wanted to be a chauffeur on the
Cosby show instead of an obstetrician.
What?
Yeah.
And his wife said, no way, nobody's going to buy it, you need to be a professional.
So they changed it.
She saved the show.
He might argue that one, but she's got a lot of input into it.
More on Cosby coming up.
Movie makers are on an unending quest for a pot of gold at the box office.
Well, there's a TV movie coming your way about a man who found the gold before a foot of
film was shot.
And last week he added 2,184 emeralds to the bonanza.
Mel Fisher attracted me to the part of playing Mel Fisher, the treasure hunter.
Mel is a rare and wonderful breed of man that really you don't find much anymore today.
I was attracted to the way the script treated the relationship and also the adventure and
the American dream.
Mel and Dolores Fisher had an American dream.
They wanted to hunt for buried treasure.
Not only did their dream come true, they also found that treasure.
Filmed on location in St. Croix, Dreams of Gold, the Mel Fisher story, traces the real
life adventures of one man's quest for sunken treasure.
He's played by Cliff Robertson and ironically the two met in 1959 and almost became partners.
He was in an old pickup truck in Redondo Beach.
I had just gone out to California just starting movies and he said, come with me to the Keys.
I said, what's in the Keys?
He said, buried treasure.
I said, you buried your brains.
Loretta Switt, who plays Dio Fisher, found it valuable to have the real life character
she portrays on hand to offer some insight.
They supported each other through the years.
Every time one of them felt, I think we should quit, the other one came up and said, no,
one more dive, one more time, one more day.
They kept going and it was wonderful.
But all was not wonderful.
Their eldest son's boat, the North Wind, which was reconstructed for the movie, capsized
in 1975, killing him, his wife, and a diver.
That's when I was really frightened and discouraged and disheartened.
I didn't want any of my family to go out anymore.
I was in a down mood and I come there hanging it up and then I realized my son would have
wanted me to find it.
What they eventually found was an estimated $400 million in sunken treasure off the coast
of Florida.
Both the federal government and the state of Florida claimed possession, which led to
eight and a half years of court battles.
Mel Fisher was fighting not for the gold or the money aspect.
He was fighting for a principle there.
He felt that the government didn't have a right, because it was beyond the three mile
limit, to come in arbitrarily or the state of Florida or anybody else to come in arbitrarily
and say, this is mine, I want this.
After winning all 115 court hearings, Mel Fisher's treasure was finally his.
A happy ending to this CBS TV movie, but not an end for Fisher's search.
It's a great experience in life.
I'm probably going to keep on treasure hunting until I'm dead.
Old Mel Fisher looks a little bit like Mr. T. He was wearing a bit of that treasure.
Lots more treasures to come, not to mention a golden only or two when we continue on entertainment
this week.
Including Bill Cosby.
Lisa asked him why sponsors keep asking him to make their pitch.
That's because I'm very good.
And the reason why I'm very good is because I believe in it.
John Phillips of the mamas and the papas.
In the 70s, he had his family on drugs.
Why?
It was sort of like the domino period.
And the reason that they were all on drugs mostly was that I was on drugs.
And John Taylor, he's glad he's back with Duran Duran, but is it forever?
We have a very unnerving hierarchy in that we're all massive ego maniacs.
It's all coming up, all new on Entertainment This Week.
Invaders from Mars is our exclusive movie preview.
It's a remake of the 1953 sci-fi classic which scared quite a few people over the years.
Well now it's high tech and technicolor.
And the intention is to scare everybody even more.
A young boy, Hunter Carson, sees the creature's land.
Now at first, nobody believes him.
But then, among other things, the invaders snatch his parents.
He sets out to find them while Karen Black, a school nurse, tries to stop him.
David, over here.
Okay!
David, it'll be all right.
David, what's wrong?
No!
David!
David!
David!
David!
David!
David!
David!
David!
All right, let's go in.
Set the charges.
Let's do it!
The general, the woman and the child.
Just have to risk it.
There's no other way.
Oh, I love sci-fi.
Remember the days of the double features at your local movie house?
Well, we've got a double feature movie preview for you today.
Next on the bill, Labyrinth, a far out fantasy adventure.
Beautiful young girl, Jennifer Conley, sets out on a perilous journey through a maze, the Labyrinth, to rescue her baby brother.
On the way, she encounters the ruler of this strange land.
David Bowie, and he wants her for his own.
How you turned my world, you precious thing.
You starved and near exhaust me.
Everything I've done, I've done for you.
I moved the stars for no one.
You've run so long, you've run so far.
Your eyes can be so cruel.
David Bowie can do just about anything, huh?
Labyrinth arrives in theaters on June 27th.
Until then, movie addicts can choose from among many new films now in theaters.
And of course, Leonard Maltin has something to say about five of them.
There's one surefire way to get yourself a starring part in a movie.
Write and produce the movie yourself.
That's what Wayne Crawford did, and that's the only justification I can see for him playing an action adventure hero in the new movie, Jake Speed.
Jake Speed is a paperback hero who comes to life to rescue a young woman's kidnapped sister.
Though coming to life may be stretching the description a little.
Hi.
Look nice.
What he is is dull, and the film is incompetent.
A total loser that only rates a one.
Cobra is another story altogether.
This guy's the disease, Stallone is the cure.
The movie is exactly what you expect.
You've heard of junk food?
This is a junk movie.
If that's what you like, you're welcome to it.
I give it a three.
I can't say I'm a lot more enthusiastic about Top Gun, though I know I'm in the minority.
To me, it's strictly formula stuff with a high-tech look.
Young studs in the air, love story on the ground, nothing remotely convincing, but it sure is slick.
So is Tom Cruise.
It scores a six.
Poltergeist 2 is just like most other movie sequels, not as good as the original.
But it's watchable, mostly because the family in the film is so likable.
There's nothing to be afraid of.
As for the special effects, I'd call them overkill.
But they certainly hold your attention.
This gets a seven.
Finally, for a nice change of pace, let me recommend a new French comedy called Three Men and a Cradle.
It's a delight.
A simple, warm-hearted tale of three swinging bachelors who find themselves having to care for an infant full-time.
Forget the language barrier.
This is fun in any language, and I'm giving it an eight.
In fact, someone's going to remake Three Men and a Cradle here in Hollywood with the original director.
But you don't have to wait.
Just see the real thing.
That's our Weekend Movie Wrap-Up.
I'm Leonard Maltin.
Entertainment This Week.
Karate Kid 2, one of the most talked about summer movies, comes out swinging June 20th.
Ralph Macchio is once again the kid with the spunk and all the right moves.
And Noriuki Pat Morita is his coach.
This time, the Karate Kid goes to Japan.
But it's Hollywood, folks, so Hawaii is where it really happened.
The Karate Kid 2 continues the story of Miyagi, the teacher, and his student Daniel, and takes them back to Miyagi's homeland, Japan.
Much of the Karate Kid 2 was shot on location in Hawaii.
The story introduces a new love interest for Ralph Macchio, played by Tamlin Tomita, and hopes to capitalize on the huge success of the first Karate Kid.
I didn't expect it to be that big a money-making film as it was.
I mean, the first one was such a nice surprise.
You know, you just hope you can sustain at least that.
You know, it's difficult.
Hopefully what we can do is keep the charm that has been found between Miyagi and Daniel.
We fortunately enough came up with two characters that had a great chemistry and then made all the situations seem like new.
I'll be willing and willing only, willing, proud. Yeah, yeah.
Macchio's recent movie, Crossroads, about a blues guitar player, got only a lukewarm reception from critics and audiences, but Macchio's got high hopes for Karate Kid 2.
I'm sure with the followers that we have that this movie will come out of the gate like a bullet, you know.
And I just, like I said before, if we could keep the charm and the Daniel Miyagi characters that worked so well the first time,
if we could keep that going, you know, hopefully we'll make a nice movie.
MUSIC
Coming up next, Bill Cosby.
He's on the top of TV, the top of the bestseller list, and he's at the top of the next segment of entertainment this week.
Stay with us.
MUSIC
He is the king of prime time television, and judging by his lock on the number one spot, you could call him the once and future king of TV.
You'd think that'd be enough, but not for Bill Cosby.
One on one with Lisa, the man who heads the Huxtable Empire.
Lisa?
Rob, he's sure on a winning streak, and Bill Cosby is a man who wins by breaking the rules.
At the height of his success as a comedian, he moved his family to New England.
He dropped out of the business to go back to school and study for a Ph.D.
Over 20 years ago, Bill Cosby broke the color barrier on television when he became the first black man to be an equal partner with a white man,
co-starring with Robert Culp in I Spy.
No, it doesn't rub off. It's not warping. What's your name?
Lee Ho.
Today, Cosby has once again set the standard on TV with The Cosby Show.
It is very much based on his own family experience.
His bestselling book, Fatherhood, also puts the spotlight on Cosby in the role he knows best, Dad.
How do you feel about your success in relation to your kids?
Do you ever think that perhaps they miss out on something by not knowing what you knew growing up in the projects in Philadelphia,
that having to struggle and toil and that feeling of really wanting for something?
I've thought about that, and it's a bunch of hooey.
I think what they get, which I never had, and I mean to the extent that it really meant something to me,
is that my wife and I have had the money and the time.
My mother worked sometimes 12 hours, 16 hours a day.
My mother didn't know what I was doing in school. I just told her everything is fine.
My wife and I know exactly what these kids are doing in school.
The children have a support system of love, wisdom, education,
and I think that this thing of coming up in a lower economic situation
and perhaps that feeling of knowing how to fight and dig down, I think that's very, very individual.
I want to read a portion from the book, if I may.
Are you good at reading? Are you funny?
I'll let you tell me. I don't think I'm funny, but the words are.
Not this particular paragraph.
You say, no matter how hopeless or copeless a father may be, his role is simply to be there, sharing all the chores with his wife,
let her have the babies, but after that, try to share every job around.
How well are we doing as a society at turning out that kind of a father who is pretty liberal thinking?
I mean, there are a lot of guys out there who still think it's man's work, it's woman's work.
I don't think we ever will reach that point where there's a 50-50 equal sharing.
Some men are very, very threatened by a professional woman, even though he married the woman, even though she is someone he loves.
I think what happens is the void for whatever it is that he wants is if I want you because of your looks,
want you because I think you're intelligent, want you because of your personality, that's what I want,
but that's not necessarily anything more than selfishness.
So now after that void is filled and you represent the picture of what he wants,
then comes he wants his food, his house taken care of, and he wants you there,
even if it means that you have to have your own Mercedes and your own card to the country club,
and you can shop and buy whatever you want as long as you are there.
Is your show changing the attitudes that we have about a relationship?
I mean, here's a professional woman who does have her own life, she does have her own career.
We assume they make pretty much nearly the same amount of money.
Yes, and we try to put that across.
Thank goodness for Elvin, because Elvin comes in and has the values of the fellow that we just finished discussing,
so that makes it very, very nice.
Would you and Dr. Huxtable like some coffee?
Coffee?
Yeah, coffee.
You mean you're going to get it?
Yes, you're surprised?
I'm sorry, Mrs. Huxtable, I didn't think you did that kind of thing.
What kind of thing?
You know, serve.
Let me tell you something, Elvin.
You see, I am not serving Dr. Huxtable, okay?
Okay.
That's the kind of thing that goes on in a restaurant.
Now, I'm going to bring him a cup of coffee, just like he brought me a cup of coffee this morning,
and that, young man, is what marriage is made of.
It is give and take 50-50.
And if you don't get it together and drop these macho attitudes,
you are never going to have anybody bringing you anything, anywhere, any place, anytime, ever.
You and your wife Camille have been married for 21 years,
and you have said about that old cliché of behind every good man there's a woman, uh-uh.
Three miles ahead of every good man there's a woman.
Yeah, yeah.
She's so far ahead.
Uh, it's, uh, I never, you know, I heard that statement and I believed it,
and now living it, no, no, it's not true at all.
Here you sit, Bill Cosby, Mr. Fatherhood,
and you say several times in the book, I am not the boss in my house.
Well, that's another thing, uh, you begin to wonder, where is this thing,
where is this thing somebody said to me about I'm the boss?
Well, if I'm the boss, then how come people take my clothes and give them away?
And I look for them and they say, that's the worst jacket we've ever seen in our lives,
and I say to them, I like this jacket, it's comfortable,
and they say, well, you're not wearing it anymore.
Well, that to me is not the boss.
Well, now your wife Camille will not send the kids out of town with you,
I understand, without including a note of what they were to wear with what,
so maybe you have some problems with your clothes.
No, it's not problems, the way wives, the wives and mothers, they do things,
they think that we have this, uh, this whole different way of doing things,
so when they send the children with you, you open up,
and there's a note of how they want you to dress them,
so the notes come, and they're cute.
I mean, you look and please make sure that so-and-so has this,
and the father says, okay, shower and get, the mother's note says,
has to put the whatever cream on the thing,
make sure that the hair is done in the way, and you know,
and get with the nails and the, you know, the old man has, uh,
has this way of doing things, so he has to be checked.
I don't have time to sit around and think about,
well, what else can I do, and who else can I move out,
and who don't I like, and what do I want to tell Brandon Tartikoff
where he should go with whatever, whatever, and that's the beauty of it.
But the perception is that you are incredibly powerful,
beyond the realm of the Cosby show.
That's, that's not true at all.
You don't carry a big stick in Hollywood?
I don't carry a big stick in Hollywood at all.
I'm telling you that I am one person who was allowed to do something
that he believed in, but don't ever believe for one second
that if I went to NBC and said,
I got an idea for a series about a chimpanzee that drives a jeep,
and his friend is a sea lion, and they have a girlfriend who is a human being,
and whatever, whatever, you know, something silly that these people would say,
well, the guy's got the number one show, let him go ahead and do it.
Let's say that one of you became pregnant.
Yeah!
No, no, I'm serious.
I know it's not me.
Along with the tremendous success of the show, especially when it was just beginning,
came some criticisms that the show was simply not black enough,
that there was not enough time spent on social issues,
that the family was too affluent,
there was nothing addressing problems like interracial dating.
How did you respond to that, and did it annoy you
that people could not see beyond the concept?
It annoyed me plenty, because the people who were saying these things
had to but realize that their own racism was shining through.
My answer, of course, to interracial dating is that
if one of my children on the show dated,
and I guess they're talking about a white person,
my question to them is where did the white kid come from?
And then, if it is a white kid with a white family,
then why not let it happen on Bob Newhart's show?
He's been on much longer than I.
Why not have Mary Tyler Moore, who is single,
meet a very handsome, well-to-do black man?
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Why is it that the Huxtables have to carry this whole burden and this whole cross?
When you realized that the Cosby show was number one in South Africa,
did that give you some kind of vindication?
Did you feel some sort of exoneration?
You can't get that.
What you get from the Huxtable show is that you look at this family,
regardless of what you are, if you are an American,
and now it's proven that if you are a human being anyplace in the world,
you get a good feeling from it, because the human beings are dealing
with old, old traditional values, respect of elders, respect of parents,
parents who decide, look, when I say, I mean, and their intentions are good.
Denise told you, right?
Told me what?
About this.
Is that a decal?
No.
Have you been tagged by the Wildlife Society?
How have you garnered such credibility, not only as a father and a role model
in that area, but as a spokesperson for Coke, for Jell-O, for EF Hutton?
What makes Bill Cosby so believable?
Because I use those things, so to speak.
But what makes you a good pitch man?
Now you are getting into another area.
That's because I am very good, and the reason why I am very good is because I believe in it.
And a great deal of it also has to do with journalism.
So I have to go back to Temple University and some of the professors I had.
You learn how to write, and then there is a difference between the written word and what is said.
What about people who say Cosby is a huge star, he doesn't need to sell out
and do commercial endorsements?
I don't understand why doing an interesting commercial and selling a product is selling out.
I remember something that Muhammad Ali said one day.
He was going to fight again, and some sports writer said,
why are you fighting again? You already have enough money.
And Muhammad Ali said, they never said that about J. Paul Getty.
They never said that to Rockefeller.
Touche.
Yeah.
Music
Star Wars, A Stakes Run, and Swan Lake are all a part of your television entertainment next week.
Tuesday, Jane Paulie hosts an NBC News white paper report, Divorce is Changing America.
Wednesday, David Hartman hosts There's Gotta Be a Better Way,
a look at getting around in America, that's on ABC.
Saturday, R2-D2 and C3PO star in an ABC animated special, The Great Heap.
Also on Saturday, the 118th running of the Belmont Stakes, ABC sportscaster Jim McKay hosts.
Again on Saturday, Wolf Trap presents the Kirov Ballet performing Swan Lake on public television.
The man who made millions of Americans laugh at his sitcoms is having the same kind of success with his movies.
He's Gary Marshall, and he's the subject of this report from Gene Wolf.
It's part of our year-long tribute to the Directors Guild of America on its 50th anniversary.
Ready and action.
Gary Marshall could be called a new film director. He's just finishing his third movie.
But 20 years of TV makes him a very experienced newcomer.
He brings to the set and to the editing room a background of television shows he created,
including Happy Days, LaVernon Shirley and Mork and Mindy.
You were pretty used to being in charge, but can you remember how you felt the first day on the set as a film director?
Petrified. I think that's the basic emotion of film directing, is fear.
That's what drives you, because it's so frightening. Everybody's looking at you, everybody says,
what should we do? Men with equipment and wardrobe, and everybody has things in their hands
that they won't do anything with until you say something.
Directors talk about all kinds of ways of getting people to do what they want.
Marshall describes his technique.
I beg. I say, please, I want to go home. I'm so tired. Please do the scene.
Please don't make a mistake. Please get the mic boom out of the shot. I'm so sick.
I'm begging you to take it out. Please say this line or else I'll be out of work. I'll never work again.
And they seemed to respond. I tried the other. Get over there now!
Nobody laughed at me. And then I tried the cuddling part.
That worked okay. Mostly begging works for me.
Okay, just give me one more.
Jackie, please, it was wonderful. I said, Jackie, I'll never work again. Please come and do that.
And he said, don't worry, I'll be fine. I'll take care of it. And it worked out good.
Marshall's first film, the comedy Young Doctors in Love, worked out good.
Attention, starting Monday, all nurses must wear underwear.
The success of that led to another success, The Flamingo Kid.
Both are now on Vestron Home Video.
Jeffrey, please, I want you to have it, all right? You're going to love this shirt. I don't have to do it. I don't have to do anything.
Now Marshall hopes nothing in common with Jackie Gleason and Tom Hanks works out good.
It's his first serious film and a new test of his talents.
It's the middle of the afternoon, Jack. I work here.
I know. Aren't you going to introduce me around? No.
All right, they give you a megaphone, a director's chair, a jacket.
But when did you truly feel, yeah, I'm the director?
I just think I'm getting the hang of it, but I still am not totally comfortable.
And I don't think you should ever be totally comfortable. I still think you should be a little frightened.
That's one of the reasons I left television. I wasn't scared anymore.
And in films I'm petrified. So that was a good place to go.
Now for our music section.
For three years in the mid-sixties, the psychedelic folk sounds of the mamas and the papas dominated the pop music scene.
As the sixties came to a close, so did the group.
Enough has happened since to fill a book, which is exactly what Papa John Phillips has done.
Phillips talked with Scott Osborne about some of the scarier chapters in his life.
Monday, Monday.
In the 1960s, John Phillips founded the mamas and the papas, and the music he wrote for the group then echoes today.
It was all I hoped it would be.
But his dabbling in drugs then developed into complete addiction to heroin, cocaine, and alcohol by the mid-seventies.
In 1980, he was convicted on federal drug conspiracy charges.
It's funny, but when you use a lot of drugs and you perform and you write on the drugs, a strange illusion starts to happen to you.
You're not really sure who's playing that guitar, who's singing that song. Is it the cocaine doing it that the audience is responding to,
or is it John Phillips doing it, or is it the person who's actually doing the performing?
And you wonder if you can actually do it without it.
But John Phillips wasn't the only victim of his addiction. Drugs infected his family, including daughter Mackenzie Phillips.
It was sort of like the domino theory, and the reason that they were all on drugs mostly was that I was on drugs,
and this was a way for them to communicate with me and just emulate my behavior.
Do you carry around a lot of guilt?
Not anymore. I did for a long time. You can't change it. I can't make up for what happened.
I do have these young children, and it's like having a chance to raise another family,
and the chance to experience fathering in the proper way, rather than the way I did it the first time.
And when Mackenzie saw me giving Biju, Biju is my six-year-old daughter, a bath, you know,
she couldn't believe that it was actually me doing it. She said, gee, you're actually a dad, you know.
That's an interesting moment you picked. It occurred to me because it contrasted so strongly with that moment
when you were injecting your own daughter with cocaine. How did you feel at that moment?
I didn't feel any emotion about it at all. That's one of the problems with drugs.
Drugs are so insidious that your sense of priorities are completely turned around.
John Phillips has reorganized the mamas and the papas.
Daughter Mackenzie sings the part of Phillips' former wife Michelle.
It's the same 60s music, but John Phillips claims he is a changed man.
His five-year parole on drug charges was lifted in early May.
I think the real test sort of actually begins now because I'm not regulated.
You know, when you're on federal probation you have to give urine samples all the time
and you have to, they're allowed to come to your door 24 hours a day and knock on it and ask for blood samples.
I don't know what they want actually. It would be easier for me in that respect as far as the logistics
of not having to do all those things. But as far as staying drug-free, I guess that,
this is sort of when the real test starts.
In the 60s, a rock group's bread and butter was the hit single and successful tour.
Today, it's a hit single, a hit tour and a hit video.
Barbara Hauer talked with one pop star well acquainted with present-day success,
Duran Duran's John Taylor.
Music
Members of the internationally popular rock group Duran Duran temporarily separated from one another in 1985.
Actually, they splintered into two separate bands called Power Station and Arcadia.
Ostensibly, the reshuffling was to allow everyone an artistic stretch.
And bass guitarist John Taylor stretched himself right into a big solo hit with
I Do What I Do, the theme he wrote and sang for the movie Nine and a Half Weeks.
Six months ago, if I thought that there was going to be a John Taylor record on the market,
I wouldn't have believed it. I didn't have any intentions of that happening.
I mean, I'm not really competing for the throne by doing this record.
I have no desire to go out on stage, center and pick up the microphone.
Music
However, as the song goes, I Do What I Do, and Taylor did.
His theme for Nine and a Half Weeks not only made the charts, but did so well,
it outlasted the movie, which almost didn't survive the number of weeks in its title.
Still, the steamy performances of Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger made a sufficiently lasting
impression to inspire Taylor's video, if in a roundabout sort of way.
I'd seen the film so many times, I'm getting so bored with it.
I started to watch the audience. It was in one of these small screening rooms.
And, you know, it is so provocative, the film, at times, especially to women.
I started to watch the way the audience was reacting, you know, the man.
And it was actually quite an entertainment in itself,
was watching the people and the way they reacted to it.
How was it to do a song without the support of Duran Duran?
Was it like riding a bicycle without the training wheels?
After doing the power station and Duran and working, doing like two years of big bands,
you know, working with a lot of musicians, it was nice to do something that was all at our fingertips.
I didn't feel I had to prove any level of independence to anybody, but myself, really.
And I feel I've done that.
So now it's back to the old drawing board as Duran Duran tune up again in unison
for a new album scheduled for recording in June.
Despite his successful burst of independence,
Taylor feels there's a certain comfort in running with the pack.
I'm looking forward to working with them again.
I mean, Duran Duran has always been a fairly volatile situation because we've never had...
We have a very unnerving hierarchy in that we're all massive egomaniacs.
Six months ago, I was telling people, no, I'm not...
I'm not sure I'm interested, but now I'm really excited about it.
The success of Duran Duran was so big and so fast.
Did you have trouble handling the fame?
I certainly feel a lot better having taken a breath.
You know, you get to spend five years on the road in a pop group like that
and you get your backside wiped for it, you know, and it's...
You get everything done and it's no... you lose all reality.
Fortune. Have you been smart enough with your money so that you can afford to do what you want to do?
Well, it's all relative, isn't it?
I wanted to go back to Birmingham and, you know, go and live with my mom and dad again.
Yeah, I would never have to work again, but the lifestyle I quite enjoy now.
There seems much more to do now. It seems much more can be achieved.
An achiever he is, especially considering he's only 25 years old.
And the vagabond lifestyle does indeed suit him, allowing him to go the distance
and volunteer his talents, promoting the cause of Amnesty International.
A long way for a middle-class boy from Birmingham, England to wander.
But for Taylor and his childhood friend Nick Rhodes,
there was never any doubt they'd arrive at their destination.
With me and Nick, it was like the egg before the chicken.
We sat around, we used to sit around in Birmingham, we'd go to nightclubs and see bands and stuff,
and after about two years of being trainee pop stars, we couldn't figure out why we weren't getting anywhere.
So that was when we both decided to take up musical instruments.
Coming up next week on Entertainment Tonight,
Monday Lonnie Anderson gets shipwrecked in Tahiti for Stranded.
Tuesday, Smokey Robinson shares the secret behind eight top ten pop hits.
Wednesday, JoBeth Williams from the big-budget Poltergeist 2
to the low-budget independent film Desert Bloom.
Thursday, Pam Dauber. Will her new TV series, Taking the Town, shoot to the top of the ratings?
And Friday, William Devane.
When it isn't Knott's landing time, it's off to his Utah ranch to breed Arabian horses.
It's all next week on Entertainment Tonight.
Here are some of last week's entertainment headlines.
Russian musicians played a Moscow benefit for the Chernobyl nuclear disaster fund.
Miami Vice star Don Johnson was named emcee of Willie Nelson's July 4th Farm Aid 2 concert in Austin, Texas.
And actor Jan Michael Vincent, star of Air Wolf, was sentenced to 30 days in jail
for violating the terms of his parole from a drunken driving conviction.
Prosecutors said Vincent had violated his parole when he was arrested on May 15th on suspicion of drunk driving.
Those were the stories that made entertainment headlines last week.
Now for the pictures that told the stories.
Monday, ET covers celebrities coast to coast and hands across America.
I think it's a kind of event that symbolically just really inspires people
and gives them a real sense of purpose and contribution.
People are always ready to help if they can see how.
I think we have to keep this up more than just today though, right? Right.
This is wonderful and the cause, God bless America, I love it.
This is a dream come true because the whole idea was to get everybody to get to participate in helping one another in the United States.
And lately people aren't talking too much to one another and this is why this is such a great event.
We are the world, world, world. We are the children, we are the ones who make a better day.
So let's not give in and let's not give in.
And let's try to make things, we'll see it in our lives.
We'll make a better day, let's do what we can.
Tuesday ET finds the American Booksellers Convention in New Orleans teaming with celebrity authors.
I got so excited when I saw the cover. I think I blanked out for about two seconds and I didn't recognize my name.
Wednesday ET is in New York as the stars turn out to honor 92-year-old Martha Graham's 60-year-old dance company.
Martha is obviously still creating new pieces and finding new things to use in her dances.
Because of Martha Graham, my company, the New York City Ballet, all of us exist because of her influence.
Thursday ET reports on two winners of ASCAP's Pop Music Awards in Beverly Hills.
I'm very, very happy to know that the feelings that I have inside me come through and to know that they are felt by many, many people.
It really means that radio is interested in what you do because you have to get through radio to get to the public.
And then the compliment of life is that you finally get it to the public and the public says we like it.
Friday, ET and the nation's first family took in opening night of the Cane Mutiny Court Martial starring Charlton Heston.
Now here's the story on that particular slander. I started to make a turn.
I didn't quite see him. I didn't see him at all as this squat, pot-bellied, neurotic Captain Queeg.
And when I finally did see the show, I was enormously impressed with what he did.
And that's a quick review in pictures of the week's top entertainment stories.
When you're watching a Saturday matinee at your local bijou, now the thought often crosses your mind,
wow, an actor's life, what an easy way to make a living.
Not so, as we learn in this week's Shoemaker Report, it's a jungle out there.
Making an action adventure movie in the jungles of Mexico isn't easy, especially when you have to supply your own smoke and sweat and scorpions.
What makes the shooting of Predator very tough is just as you see the area here, we are right in the middle of the jungle,
and it's very hot down here, and you always have to hike up steep hills and there are flies around, there are scorpions around, there are snakes around,
there's all kinds of weird things that we are not used to in Los Angeles, so you deal with all those kind of things.
For example, in this scene, Schwarzenegger and friends have just taken an enemy village.
Actor Carl Weathers is attacked by a scorpion, but the director decided the local scorpions were just too small to do the job properly,
so the animal handler brought out the really big stuff, a scorpion from Africa who fitted the bill perfectly.
Only one problem, the part didn't last very long.
Smoke for the movie was generated by burning old automobile tires.
The fire kept alive by prop men tossing plastic bags filled with gasoline onto the flames.
Now you'd think this would make shooting the scene extremely hot. Wrong.
The actors had to be sprayed with simulated sweat before every take.
I'd tell you, in about an hour and a half, not only will we not need spray on sweat, we'll need somebody to right wipe us down, it gets pretty warm.
Weathers got his share of sweat, but maybe you can carry a good thing too far.
Do I have too much here, Scott?
Not to worry, at the end of the day, all the actors look forward to leaving the jungle and returning to the beach only a few miles away.
Dick Shoemaker, Entertainment This Week.
That's exactly what Lise and I go through before every show.
It's a jungle in here, too.
It is, it is absolutely a jungle. Well, that is it for this weekend.
Please join yours truly in Mary Hart Monday on Entertainment Tonight.
We'll have reports from backstage at the Tony Awards, onstage at the Prince Concert in Los Angeles, and we'll learn where Loni Anderson is stranded in her new TV movie, Lise.
Hopefully she's not in that jungle. With the scorpion.
Yeah, and come right back here next week. Same time, same station.
We'll introduce you to Diane Carroll, John Lithgow, check out Nancy McKeon's hot role as a firefighter, plus Belinda Carlisle, Michael Caine, and Pierce Brosnan.
All right. See you then. Bye bye.
We'll be right back.
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