These peculiar looking little people came in and dragged me out.
He claims he was kidnapped by aliens.
His detractors say he's an outright fraud.
But fraud or real, his story has become a major motion picture.
And Communion is our inside story for the first weekend in October 1988.
Hello everyone and welcome to Entertainment This Week.
I'm Rob Weller.
And I'm Lisa Gibbons.
Thanks for being along with us.
The movie is called Communion and it's either a fascinating tale of contact with another
race or an elaborate hoax designed to bilk the public out of millions.
Or is it the diluted product of a sick mind?
Whatever its basis, Communion is rolling up converts and skeptics into a controversial
inside story.
Christopher Walken plays the role of Whitley Strieber, a husband, father and novelist who's
kidnapped by alien creatures.
The bizarre thing is that Strieber, who can be seen in the background on the set with
his real wife and son, says that his experiences with non-human visitors actually happened.
You know the funny thing about Whitley is that the longer you get to know him, the more
you think that they're serious.
Strieber is deadly serious and has pegged the time and place, December 85 in upstate
New York.
And these peculiar looking little people came in and dragged me out.
I was under some sort of sedation.
Some bad dream, I'll tell you.
I had a bad dream too.
But it gets even more complicated.
Andrew Strieber, played by Joel Carlson in the movie, says it happened to him too.
It was real, Dad.
I saw a face on the cover of Communion, which is a kind of round triangle shaped in the
way I was taken up onto a cart in a way.
There's a skull staring at me with huge eyes.
I can see it in my head.
I was not hurt and nothing happened to me and it would seem scary sometimes.
I keep thinking that about this subject, that it would be great if it was so.
Apparently, Strieber felt a responsibility to tell the world it is so.
There are intelligent aliens out there.
This is a more taboo thing than kinky sex in our society and there's a very simple
reason for it.
It is so overwhelmingly powerful.
It implies that there is something tremendous about our universe and our own backyards that
we do not understand at all.
That is threatening and scary.
Strieber's story certainly isn't new.
In Close Encounters, Richard Dreyfuss certainly had some interesting visions.
And a little boy is abducted.
But nobody said it was true.
That's where Communion is different.
I did not hallucinate this.
I had a needle mark behind my ear after this happened and you don't get a needle mark from
a hallucination.
Another major consideration, Close Encounters made $116 million.
Critics claim that all Strieber wants is to ride the same box office bandwagon while deceiving
a gullible public.
Philip Klass has been researching and debunking UFOs for over 20 years.
Strieber owes it to the American public to stop bilking us, to stop misleading and creating
a cult.
UFO sightings are nothing new.
Most have been honest mistakes, scientists say.
Airplanes, weather balloons, ionized gases, and most often, the bright planet Venus have
all been misidentified.
Other UFOs have been downright hoaxes.
However, there are a lot of people who believe in alien abduction for whom this is more than
an innocent prank.
These are largely people who should be going to a trained, experienced psychotherapist.
Instead of getting good therapy, they're getting fantasy and nonsense.
I don't want to convince people that it's real.
I want them to open their minds.
In my opinion, he is a mentally disturbed person.
Two psychologists and one psychiatrist and two neurologists and none of them thought
I was mentally unstable.
Philip Klass is a magazine writer.
Strieber says there were times during all this that he did question his sanity and that
almost ended his marriage.
Quite a price to pay for a hoax.
This is no good.
I can't do this.
Tell me what you see.
So the bottom line is you can believe Strieber is lying or that he isn't lying but just suffers
from delusions.
Or, like Whitley Strieber, you can believe that they are out there.
Psychologists say it comes from inside the head.
My answer is it comes from somewhere.
I don't know where.
It comes from the dark.
Communion was the number one bestseller last year and sold over a quarter million hardback
copies.
The movie version is due in March of next year.
Alright, well we'll be waiting.
It's fascinating.
Do you believe, Lisa?
Hold that answer.
Well, Us Magazine is about to release its list of the ten sexiest men and women.
We have an inside scoop and there are some surprises on the list.
When Us Magazine readers picked their ten sexiest men and women, they fell head over
heels for raw sexuality and a more mature look.
The countdown starts with perfect ten Demi Moore, a girl who won't do anything half-white.
Just ask Bruce Willis.
And number ten of the men is the Quaid with more mischief in his eyes than Dennis the
Menace.
Easy does it, Dennis.
Dressed to the nines is Jennifer Grey.
Daddy's little girl has grown up and there's nothing subtle about George Michael's sexuality.
Speaking of stubble, Don Johnson has been around the block a few times, but this rough
and tumble bad boy has a way with women.
Meg Ryan made the list along with boyfriend Dennis Quaid.
That makes them the sexiest couple.
I can only smile about that.
What would pretty boy Rob Lowe give for a more macho look?
A lot.
He's one of the sexiest anyway, tied with Donna Mills who made a happy landing at number
seven.
I just want to be good at that song.
Madonna's sowing the seeds of respectability, but so far the only thing that's grown out
are her roots.
Craggy-faced daddy-to-be Tom Selleck takes a bow at number six.
Mel Gibson's piercing blue eyes make him the sexiest man from Down Under, and that's no
croc.
And Sassy Sybil Shepherd was one of the few blondes to make the list.
Readers thought she looked sexy even when pregnant with twins.
Great.
I'm thrilled.
And Kathleen Turner was also a top 10 mommy, but the rabbit is still alive and well.
And Mark Harmon's little boy smile makes women want to mother him.
Despite hitting in the number three spot, Kevin Costner is cleaning up.
Alongside him is the untouchable Jacqueline Smith, whose classic good looks make her an
angel among men.
Taking the checkered flag at number two is hard-driving Tom Cruise.
Can't beat that smile.
Jane Seymour has wide eyes, a shapely figure, and a thick head of hair.
All this in an accent, too.
At number one is Patrick Swayze, a brown dirt cowboy who also looks good in tights.
And the woman with one name who turns back the clock in the standards of style to do
things her way.
And the magazine's gonna be on newsstands Monday, Liz.
Once again, Robbo, you came in 11th.
When we come back, John Lennon's lover, May Pang, reveals a secret even his wife, Yoko
Ono, didn't know.
And later, find out why Carol O'Connor threatened to quit his new TV series before it went on
the air.
Much is being made about John Lennon's personal life, from gossip to cold cash.
His unauthorized biography by Albert Goldman is number two on the bestseller list.
And imagine, a candid documentary on Lennon will be released this week.
How the former Beatle lived and who he loved is filling volumes.
And the main character from one bizarre chapter, a young woman named May Pang, gave Geraldo
Rivera the shocking inside details.
May Pang was just 22 years old, a personal assistant to John and Yoko.
Their marriage was on the rocks.
And as she tells it in her 1983 book, Loving John, Yoko had a startling proposition for
her.
In fact, more of a demand.
Become John's mistress.
And I just had this look on my face and said, well, I'm not interested in your husband.
And she says, well, I know you're not after him, but I know that he likes you and you
will treat him right.
So you should go out with him.
She ordered you to have an affair with her husband.
Yeah, she thought it was the best thing since I didn't have a boyfriend.
May fell in love with John.
And it wasn't long after that that Lennon moved out of the Dakota and lived with Pang
in Los Angeles and New York.
Yoko's official comment, she's thrown John out of the house.
Did John tell you that he was going to leave Yoko?
They were talking about it?
Yes, we talked about that in 74.
Did you think that he was going to divorce Yoko to be with you?
I let's put it this way.
I don't think at the time I even considered anything of that.
Did he fool around on you?
Did he date other women?
He did that once or twice on me.
I don't remember John as ever being a kind of sexual Rover.
Well he used to tell me he was.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Beneath all the laughter and fun, May became acquainted with John's darker side.
His violent bouts with alcohol.
Did he become physically abusive to you?
He did a couple of times, yeah.
Knock you around a bit?
He knocked, he threw me against the wall.
Sure.
Didn't he become a blackout drunk?
I mean, and not remember those things.
Right, he did that a couple of times.
He couldn't remember.
But that didn't happen every night.
John would always take himself to the brink for anything.
And then when he realizes that he didn't like the way things looked, he would just back
off.
About a year and a half after the start of this unique relationship, Lenin started backing
off.
Yoko, the woman he often called Mother, was calling him home.
You couldn't compete with Yoko?
I couldn't compete with Yoko.
Absolutely not.
I was too young.
You couldn't be a mother to John?
Uh-uh.
I didn't want to be.
And that's more important.
But we never lost our love for each other.
And that was important to me.
How do you know?
Did you communicate with John after he went home?
Yes.
We did a lot.
Were you still lovers?
Yes.
Did Yoko know about it?
No.
May lives in New York now, diligently pursuing an acting career.
She says John kept in touch with her until a few months before his tragic death, eight
years ago.
And if she had to do it all over again, she would.
Imagine opens Friday, one day before what would have been Lenin's 48th birthday.
U2 has its own documentary ready for release early next month called U2 Rattle in Hope.
And Hum.
It shows a unique inside peek at the rock and roll lifestyle.
The first single from the soundtrack has been made into a video.
And entertainment this week has the world broadcast premiere of Desire.
In 1987, U2 gained mainstream attention when Time magazine put them on its cover.
The group was singled out for its social conscience.
U2 has supported causes as diverse as Amnesty International and a movement to recall the
governor of Arizona.
The group's members willingly take to any podium for their beliefs, but their songs,
like Desire, make their statements best.
We need a needle and a spoon Over the counter, we'll have shot gold Pretty soon, everybody
getting ready?
All right!
Eh-oh, we need a needle!
Desire, Desire, Burning.
She's the dollies, she's my potential Yeah, she's the promise in the year of election
Oh sister, I can't let you go Like a preacher stealing hearts at a Trevorian show
For a lover money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money
They can feel it, get higher Desire, desire, desire, desire
They can feel it, get higher Desire, desire
You too, Rattle and Hum includes songs with B.B. King and an emotional rendition of I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, which is backed by a Harlem church choir.
Now, Desire is not in the movie, but it is on the soundtrack, and that will be out October 11th.
Alrighty, now we're going to be right back first. Mary Hart's going to tell us what's coming up Monday on Entertainment Tonight.
Thanks, Rob. Monday on Entertainment Tonight, you won't want to miss our highly unauthorized look inside Don Johnson's life.
We talked to the people who know him best, including his sister. What she says about him he doesn't like.
The guys that came into the room to do a large cocaine deal, and it went badly. They brought guns in, and they basically held everybody at gunpoint saying, you don't move, you stick your head out this door, we'll blow it off.
That's the inside story on a Don Johnson you haven't seen before, and it's Monday on Entertainment Tonight.
Next weekend on Entertainment This Week, the inside story on Joan Collins' hot new novel. Is it fiction or a thinly disguised tell-all autobiography? What about all the sex?
It's sort of hypocritical of people to say, oh, she's got so much sex in this, and yet, it seems to be on everybody's mind.
It's an inside story you won't want to miss as we read between the lines on this startling new book.
Cocktail was fifth in our weekly movie box office tally. Who Framed Roger Rabbit came in fourth. The movie has earned almost $140 million in 14 weeks.
Die Hard was third. A Fish Called Wanda came in second, and Dead Ringers opened at number one, the only new film in the top five.
And although the film did well at the box office, it finished almost dead last in our exclusive movie track poll.
You haven't had any experience until I've had it too.
In Dead Ringers, Jeremy Irons plays twins who are gynecologists. The brothers are vying for the love of one of their patients with deadly results.
I've been around a bit, you know, and I thought I'd seen some creepy things go on in the movie business, but I really have to say that this is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.
Only five out of ten moviegoers we surveyed rated the movie outstanding or above average.
Only a third said they'd pay to see it again or tell their friends to see it.
Among the comments, audience members said they were confused, disgusted. One called the film garbage, sick, perverted.
The other said, I will never go to another male gynecologist again.
Get him out of here!
Welcome. You're now Tanya, the guerrilla fighter in the Symbionese Liberation Army.
We also surveyed audiences who went to see Patty Hearst.
Almost half the people who went were attracted to the story, but only four out of ten rated it outstanding or above average.
Fewer than a third of the people in the audience said they'd see it again.
One moviegoer commented, reality can be ugly entertainment.
This is Patricia Hearst. Tanya, I'm Tanya.
This is not funny!
This is funny.
By contrast, Sweetheart's Dance, starring Don Johnson, was popular with our survey audiences.
Seven out of ten rated it outstanding or above average.
Johnson and his co-star Susan Sarandon also got high marks from our audiences.
Comments included unusual handling of material and very realistic. Ouch.
Yeah, no kidding. The movie's doing really well.
In its first week out, it came in number 11 at the box office.
Well, that's good. Certainly better than 12th.
Indeed. Alien Nation opens this Friday, and this is one movie that has something for everyone.
It has aliens, cops, a mystery, and a love story all wrapped up in a science fiction adventure.
Get out of there! I'm scared!
The science fiction thriller Alien Nation, starring James Kahn and Mandy Patinkin,
is set in Los Angeles in the very near future,
after 300,000 alien newcomers from another planet are accidentally stranded on Earth.
You humans are very curious to us.
You invite us to live among you in an atmosphere of equality that we've never known before.
You give us ownership of our own lives for the first time, and you ask no more of us than you do of yourselves.
I hope you understand how special your world is.
Genetically bred to be slaves on their home planet, the newcomers not only differ in appearance,
but their appetite for spoiled milk and other odd foods takes some getting used to.
I got yours.
What is that? Roll what? What kind is that?
This? Yeah.
This is beaver.
What?
Beaver. It's tasty.
I'm sure. Would you like to try some?
None of the best.
And like any immigrant group, the newcomers have their criminal element.
Alien Nation focuses on two police detectives, the human psychs, played by Kahn,
and the alien George, played by Patinkin, who are forced to put aside their differences to solve a murder.
The charge is murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Hubely, Porter, Strader.
You killed Strader! No!
No!
Kill them both!
Here?
Do this!
Kill them!
Hmm, whoa. Well, Alien Nation is rated R and it opens nationwide on Friday.
Also opening Friday, but in limited release, Clara's Heart, starring Whoopi Goldberg.
For his legion of fans, Elvis was and remains the king of rock and roll,
but others feel that when he put on the spangled trappings of Las Vegas, he lost touch with his musical roots.
The new movie, Heartbreak Hotel, speculates what might have happened if Elvis got back on track.
We take you behind the scenes for the inside story on how the movie came to be.
Elvis Presley!
Believe it or not, the king is back.
David Keith portrays the ruler of rock and roll in the new motion picture, Heartbreak Hotel.
Written and directed by 29-year-old Chris Columbus,
the story follows a teenager who kidnaps the king to cheer up his mother.
It's a fantasy in the respect that it never happened, but it's not really, it's more of a character story of these three people.
To play Presley, Columbus tapped the talents of Keith,
who makes a big stretch from his Academy Award nominated performance in An Officer and a Gentleman.
Anytime you play someone who really existed and was in such high visibility, everybody knows what they're like, that's a big risk.
Then of course, before I did this picture, I had an intense injection of Elvis.
I mean, I saw every movie, I listened to every record, I, you know, I heard him so much.
And I'm kind of a natural mimic, chameleon type mimic anyway, and it just crept in and there it was.
Keith not only portrayed Presley physically, but he also did his own singing.
And he wasn't the only one, Keith's co-star Charlie Shatter also braved his way to the microphone.
Every actor's dream, I think, is to just be on, be in a movie where you can just rock and roll, you know,
and just live out your childhood fantasies on stage in front of 300 extras, you know, who don't know, you know.
But the audience was more than just extras.
Many were bell-bottomed members of the Elvis fan club who came dressed in period costume.
Polyester was the order of the day.
But for most, Keith's Elvis impersonation was the main topic of conversation.
I was really surprised when I saw him on stage, how much he resembled Elvis.
He sounds like Elvis, he looks like Elvis, as far as I'm concerned, he is Elvis.
Those comments are music to Keith's ears.
The film is one of the few projects to get the okay from the Presley estate.
And Keith hopes his performance and the movie will do justice to Presley's memory.
It's great to hit a home run for the king. I hope I have.
Alright, Heartbreak Hotel, it opened this weekend.
Think someone will do a movie like that about us someday, Lee?
Someone who came in 11th on the Sexy Men list? No.
Alright, when we come back, Carol O'Connor heads south.
Welcome back to Entertainment This Week. Glad you're along with us. I'm Lisa Gibbons.
And I'm Rob Weller.
Carol O'Connor earned loyal fans playing the lovable bigot Archie Bunker in the hit series All in the Family.
Now he returns to series television as a Southern sheriff.
And that's about as far from a New York state of mind as you can get.
Well, Virgil Tibbs, I don't suppose I have to tell you that this appointment of yours came to me as a big surprise.
It came as something of a surprise to me too.
The biggest surprise may be seeing Carol O'Connor starring in a new weekly TV series in the heat of the night.
Here's a man who's had his share of long running TV success and the hard work and grueling hours that go with it.
So why do it again?
Grueling is not grueling if you're enjoying yourself.
If you enjoy the material and the people you work with.
And the money coming in is no small factor.
So it is that O'Connor is back in a regular series, taking on the role that won Rod Steiger an Oscar some 20 years ago.
Though this version of the redneck sheriff Gillespie is considerably tamer than the original.
Even if he does still parry with his partner and nemesis, played by Howard Rollins.
You are not to do a thing in this department without you chatting with me first.
Damn, I didn't think I had to tell you that.
If you'd let me know you're going over there to see Bridges, maybe I could have gone with you.
Maybe help keep your lid screwed down.
O'Connor is known to be a stickler for good scripts.
And he has strong feelings about what this series ought to represent.
We don't want it to be a strictly a police crime chase show.
It should be about character.
It should be about southern character, the American character.
And about things that mean something to everybody.
I always like a show to have what they call a snapper.
When people turn it off they say, you know, that was right on.
The series spent a lot of time on location down south during its first season and plans to return there this year.
O'Connor feels that being there adds something special to the show.
Actors get an indefinable feeling about where they are.
And it comes out in the work, no question about it.
When he isn't working in front of the cameras, Carroll O'Connor keeps busy with his other main pursuit,
that of restaurateur, or saloonkeeper if you prefer, at Beverly Hills Ginger Man restaurant.
He's a hands-on proprietor, not just a name on the door.
And as you can see, he takes an active interest in the menu as well.
How are you?
Terrific.
Look at this.
Very, very thick.
This product can eat with the fingers of my finger.
That's what you can eat.
On the walls of the Ginger Man are reminders of O'Connor's past successes, as if we could ever forget.
But if he has his way, the sheriff and in the heat of the night will leave just as big an impression on audiences in the years to come.
All in due time.
Leonard Maltin, Entertainment This Week.
O'Connor reportedly threatened to leave the series.
He wasn't happy with the quality of the scripts.
But the producers made adjustments, and the series will premiere as planned on November 29.
This week's new video releases include a movie that sheds light on the darkest secrets of voodoo cults,
and an animated fairy tale that's been a classic since it was released 38 years ago.
Salagadoola, mentigaboola, bibbidi-bobbidi-boo.
Put them together and what have you got? Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo.
In Walt Disney's romantic animated classic, Cinderella, fairy tales do come true, and in grand Disney fashion.
Just leave it to me. What a gown this will be.
And in the animated feature for kids of all ages, Cinderella is a scullery maid who becomes the belle of the ball
and meets her prince charming with the aid of some resourceful mice, a frumpy fairy godmother, and a little bibbidi-bobbidi-boo.
Put them together and what have you got? Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo.
Another big budget movie that premieres on video next week is Rambo III,
starring Sylvester Stallone as the moody, troubled Vietnam vet John Rambo, who goes on a rescue mission in Afghanistan
to bring back his friend and mentor Colonel Sam Troutman, played by Richard Krena.
In the process, Rambo single-handedly manages to annihilate most of the Russian army.
Who are you?
Your worst nightmare.
Objection, your honor. Overruled.
Shakedown stars Peter Weller as a legal aid attorney and Sam Elliott as a renegade detective
who team up to find the truth behind the fatal shooting of an undercover cop by a drug dealer.
I'm going to take this case, Richie. I'm good for you, Kelsher.
In The Serpent and the Rainbow, Bill Pullman plays Dennis Allen, a scientist who visits Haiti
in hopes of learning the secrets of zombification and gets more than he bargained for.
Directed by Nightmare on Elm Street's Wes Craven, The Serpent and the Rainbow also stars Kathy Tyson
and Paul Winfield and centers on the mysterious world of voodoo in pre-revolutionary Haiti.
Uh-uh. Back now to Cinderella.
Disney is offering a special price for people who want to buy Cinderella.
The cassette will sell for $27 until December 1st, when the price will be raised to $30.
Highway to Heaven was on the fast track to cancellation, a victim of sagging ratings,
but NBC has a long-standing relationship with Michael Landon, the show's producer and star.
So he gets a second chance, sort of. Gene Wolfe has the story.
Ask for one favor, one lousy favor. Turn off the television.
Mark, you were closer to the set than I was.
This lousy motel doesn't have remote control. You do.
Michael Landon is truly both creator and star of Highway to Heaven.
He has a lot of emotion invested in his show.
Nevertheless, he's trying to be philosophical about his one-season reprieve.
I've been doing it for 30 years, and I know, regardless of what a creative kind of business is,
that it's a business, and that if I don't have a high number, I'm not going to be on the air.
So if I'm going to worry about that all the time and take it personally and be hurt by it,
then it's, I mean, it wouldn't be worth being in the business, be very upsetting.
With all your practicality about the business, is part of you hoping that more people will discover the show,
that we'll have a new life?
I suppose I would feel very gratified if that were to happen.
But along with everything else, I'm a realist, and I have never seen a show whose ratings declined
that didn't receive a slightly better time slot than I'm going to get.
All of a sudden, some giant resurgence. I just, I personally don't believe that's going to happen.
I just hope that the 12 people who do watch my show really like it.
Michael plans to go out with a bang, which means some controversial programs.
Oh, come on. Mark, there's a lot of good, honest politicians.
In this last 13, I had the opportunity to hit some issues, some of which may be offensive to people,
but that people should think about.
What issues are on your mind that you want to put on our minds?
One of the things that we're going to be discussing is the effects of negative campaigning,
which is the most popular way to campaign in this country now.
We no longer are concerned with what's right with anybody.
We're only concerned with what is wrong with everybody else.
Who was it? Who planted the stuff? It was Osborne, wasn't it?
I can't tell you who it was.
What do you mean you can't tell me? You don't tell me? Then Pete loses the election.
Not to mention what's going to happen to Jeff.
Mark, I can't tell you who it was because I don't know, and even if I did know, we couldn't prove it.
Although Michael likes to use his show to get his views across, he doesn't plan to go on the campaign trail.
No, I don't campaign for people.
I, you know, if I did something else for a living, I think I would.
But I have a very funny feeling about that.
I played little Joe Cartwright, one of the honorable Cartwrights.
I've been Pa Ingalls. Now I'm an angel. Would I lie to you?
With all the opportunity that you've had, are there professional fires that haven't been fed? Things you're still itching to do?
I still love this business. But there's always some kind of a voice in my head saying, there's something else.
Something else I'm supposed to do.
Any inklings of what that voice is leading you to?
No, but it made it specific. It had nothing to do with politics.
Michael isn't sure the direction his career will take or even how he'll write the end of the series.
But he's determined not to be bitter if it's the end of a great experience. Gene Wolf Entertainment this week.
As it stands now, this season's first episode of Highway to Heaven will air on NBC October 12th,
with the rest of the shows held until later in the season.
Okay, when we come back, find out if a top pop singer really ran away from fame.
Chaudet came out on the music scene in 1985 with a soft voice and loud impact on record sales.
Her first two albums have sold over two million copies each, both going multi-platinum.
Now she's ready for the hat trick.
Will you keep bringing out the best in me? You're giving me, you're giving me the sweetest taboo.
Nigerian-born and London-raised, Chaudet's diverse background has allowed her to embrace a variety of musical styles.
Her unique sound was welcomed immediately by critics and music fans far quicker than she ever imagined.
I wasn't expecting such commercial success, and none of us were. We never planned that.
Obviously we wanted our music to reach as many people as possible because that way you continue what you're doing.
You don't have to do a day job. It's your life. The music is your life and you can concentrate on it.
No need to ask, he's a spoon operator.
All the attention and acclaim turned out to be double-edged.
No sooner had Chaudet shot to the top than she disappeared.
Although newspaper articles in 1987 had her married, divorced, drug addicted and even buying a soccer team,
she had actually retreated to the studio to concentrate on her third album, Stronger Than Pride.
It's about faith. It's about trust.
People like to think that I sort of go underground like some sort of vampire or something, I think.
It's sort of more pared down. It's more simple. It's less embellished.
And I don't think that the themes are particularly different. They're about people and about life.
And I don't think that will ever change, as far as we're concerned.
Chaudet is serious about her music and music lovers are serious about her, to the tune of 20 million records sold worldwide.
And these days there practically seems to be a Chaudet fan on every street corner.
It was a very cold day in winter and I put on a sort of Russian fur hat with ear flaps.
I was totally disguised. All you could see were my eyes, more or less, and my nose.
And I went to the shop and said, could I have a few? I said, barados, please.
And the man behind the counter, he was about 50, so he wasn't the sort of person I would have expected to recognise.
He said, Chaudet, you have what you want. And I thought, this is just too much.
Chaudet's latest album, which we mentioned, Stronger Than Pride, has already gone platinum.
It's number 34 on the Billboard charts after 19 weeks.
Jazz fans around the world have reason to smile this week.
The piano artist for you, the late Errol Garner, the man who wrote Misty, is back.
Record producers have gone through the archives and found a wealth of previously unreleased material.
There never was another pianist quite like Errol Garner.
He couldn't read a note, but he wrote one of the great standards, Misty,
and he created memorable music every time he sat down at the piano.
He was a crossover performer before the term existed, enjoying popularity, rare for any jazz musician.
His albums have been consistent sellers over the years, even since his death in 1977.
And now there's a new Errol Garner album and compact disc made up of numbers never before released to the public.
The album also features liner notes by Garner's number one fan, Dudley Moore.
He was very influenced by him, probably more than by anything else in my life, certainly musically.
He played in a way that I'd never heard the piano played before, in a very sensual, very happy way.
And these are all cliches about him, that he is the most happy piano, you know.
But I think the most important thing about him was the sensuality he brought apart from this extraordinary sense of rhythm that he had.
With new Garner recordings being found and released, there's no question that his vibrant and personal style of jazz will live on,
as it does in the hearts of all of his fans.
Errol Garner was just the most gorgeous player I've ever heard.
Albums and compact discs of the new Errol Garner Magic are already in stores from coast to coast,
and producers say they have enough material for five more albums.
Air transportation furnished and a promotional fee paid by Delta Airlines.
Where the sun goes, so does Delta, to Florida, the Bahamas, California, Mexico and Hawaii.
At Delta, we love to fly in its shows.
Celebrating a birthday on Saturday, actor Randy Quaid is 38, actress Julie Andrews is 53, actor Tom Bosley's Happy Day is 61, actor James Whitmore is 67,
actor Walter Mathau is 68, and classical pianist Gladymor Horowitz is 84.
Sunday's birthdays include pop singer Tiffany, she's 17, rock star Sting is 37, film critic Rex Reed is 50, and our gang Spanky McFarland is 60.
Another birthday being commemorated this weekend, the late Groucho Marx was born on October the 2nd, 1890.
Gone but certainly not forgotten, he left us words of wisdom to live by.
Very few people tell the truth. Most people are afraid.
But if you're getting on in years, which is a euphemism for getting old,
and you don't enjoy the luxury of telling the truth, what's the good of getting old or saving your money?
So from now on, I'm always going to tell the truth, Lisa, you look marvelous, alright.
Yogi Bear is smarter than your average bear.
In fact, he is so intelligent that Yogi has found himself a way to get back on TV, picked up a new voice in the deal.
Yogi Bear is smarter than the average bear.
That fun-loving bear is back with his own syndicated television show.
But now there's something new about Yogi.
Dawes Butler, who was the original voice, passed away earlier this year.
So now there's a new man behind the bear.
What did I say? What did I say?
Greg Burson was a student of Dawes Butler.
What he taught was to believe enough in the character that you're portraying, or yourself, or whatever, to make the audience believe it.
Hold it, Mr. Mummy.
Not all the voices are new on the show.
Don Messick has played Boo-Boo in Ranger Smith for 30 years, and he wasn't sure they could find someone to replace the original Yogi.
Dawes and I have been friends not only professionally, but very close personally from the time I first came to Hollywood in 1946.
So it was quite a challenge for them to find someone who could be another Yogi.
Hanna Barbero auditioned over 300 people before deciding on Burson, and he is having a great time.
Sometimes I come in here after a whole, it seems like weeks of traffic to get into the building, and then you do Yogi Bear,
and he's ebullient, and he's so big, and he's so happy, and he looks at the picnic basket as half full rather than half empty,
and you just lose all that. It just all falls by the wayside.
Yeah, hey, Boo-Boo Boy! It's a beautiful day, and we're on our way!
That it is, Yogi, and that we are.
Yogi is celebrating his 30th birthday this year. He still makes his home in Jellystone National Park, Boo-Boo.
Okay, please, thank you. We'll be right back.
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As we've mentioned, in celebration of Spanky McFarland's birthday, we took some liberties with those little rascals.
Trust me, get rid of the hat.
I don't remember his name, but his face rings a bell.
Julie is Caesar. I thought you said fake is seizure.
Honest Mr. Hefner, I really enjoy the articles.
You'll see, they also laughed at the hula hoop.
Don't you just hate birthdays?
The residents of a certain street in Brooklyn felt like they'd been blasted back to the 1950s.
No, they weren't caught in the Twilight Zone. A movie company was just working its magic.
This is the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, 1988.
This is the same street, done 1950s style.
Burgers are still a quarter, but you won't find any here because this is the movie location for the last exit to Brooklyn.
You can see the streets. This is all our building. They put the facade up on all these buildings.
You won't even know what they've done. They've turned Red Hook into a complete studio.
David Chapman is the production designer of the film.
It took him, along with 60 workers, two months and $900,000 to convert three city blocks into a 1950s set.
It's a picture about despair and desperation and really the gritty side of the world right after the Second World War.
We desperately did not want to do a picture of nostalgia of clean streets and polished clothes and perfect people.
And it's not a pretty sight. All the rubble is imported from outside the neighborhood.
The Greeks' diner was built from scratch, costing more than the actual store would have in the 50s.
The diner is nothing more than a life-size mock-up, as are these factory walls, overhead walkway and Union Strike headquarters.
It's great because this is my neighborhood now. You come here and everything is here.
My bar and my diner and the Army base, my dock where I screw these guys over and the strike office.
It's great. You walk around and it's home.
What's not so great is when the filming is done, there goes the neighborhood. Everything comes down.
It is as much a part of the process of returning this neighborhood to the people it belongs to as, in a way, taking it from them in the first place.
Most of this stuff will wind up as landfill, some in people's homes, but all of it will wind up on the big screen sometime next year.
Well, I'm glad we got to do a story on a production designer.
Yeah, it's fascinating. Great flavor to that, too.
It's wonderful. We see that around a lot here every now and then.
Mm-hmm.
Next week, Joan Collins tells the real dirt behind her fictional book.
And Monday on Entertainment Tonight, a family feud in Don Johnson's life, Lisa.
Okay, we're going to say goodbye with the latest from Sade. It's called Nothing Can Come Between Us.
We'll see you again in a week's time. Bye-bye.
Bye.
So it truly is a good thing.
And I always wanted you to know.
There is always this and this is everlasting.
Hold on.
It's about faith.
It's about trust.
Yeah, yeah.
It's about faith.
It's about trust.