You can't just go around just being a little vulnerable creature because vulnerable creatures
get eaten in the jungle.
Joan Collins is the queen of the Hollywood jungle and her new book is roaring through
the celebrity circles.
Here's her inside story for the second weekend in October 1988.
Hi everybody, Rob Waller is on vacation today.
You're stuck with me, I'm John Tesch.
Glad to have you John, I'm Lisa Gibbons, thanks for joining us.
Well, Joan Collins has written a fictional kiss and tell book and when Joan kisses and
tells the question on Hollywood's lips is, am I in it?
The publication of Prime Time has created excitement and shutters of nervous speculation.
Jean Wolf takes us inside the covers.
Joan Collins' first novel is a Hollywood event.
There's celebration.
Speculation about whether she can rival her best-selling sister's performance in the
bookstores.
I think that there's room for everybody, I think it's great fun that she's done it and
as soon as she gets back to dynasty the better.
And of course they're guessing about which stars Joan is really writing about.
The question is, are we in this?
No, I don't think so.
You don't think so?
I have no idea.
I am egotistical enough to think that I'm in this.
It's fiction and it's a romantic play, which means that there are characters in it that
you might recognize but they are mixed up with things that are a figment of my imagination.
Is her character Emerald really Elizabeth Taylor?
Some say the references to beauty, drugs and alcohol are too close.
The handsome gay actor who finds out he has AIDS, could it be anyone but Rock Hudson?
And is Chloe, the actress whose marriage is breaking up as she heads for stardom, Joan
herself?
In your first book, one of the main characters is always yourself.
However much you try not to make it yourself, it always comes out in some way as yourself.
The press, the public feel that they have a very clear picture of you.
But do they really know you?
You cannot let the public know everything about yourself.
So I have a certain persona that does cover up the real me because if you go around like
a bleeding heart, then you can get stabbed.
Dynasty viewers know Joan as Alexis, the scheming bitch.
You are a hateful man Blake.
But Joan's not worried that her sensitive side's been kept private.
You can't just go around just being a little vulnerable creature because vulnerable creatures
get eaten in the jungle.
Joan's rocky love life has been anything but private.
More parallels to Chloe in her book, the woman who seems to have everything but is still
looking for love?
Well obviously I wouldn't have got married four times if I didn't A, believe in marriage
or B, believe that people can live happily ever after.
Unfortunately I suppose that now I feel that that doesn't really work out that way.
Chloe always does have that in her mind but then she's only ever loved one man.
Like Alexis on Dynasty, steamy bedroom scenes play an important part in the lives of the
women in prime time.
Oh I love the way you touch me.
Joan's characters are obsessed with sex.
It seems to me that 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.
How is writing fictional sex scenes and letting your fantasies go?
Well it's not all fantasy after all.
I've got a good memory.
It was interesting.
I mean it was no different than sitting down describing a garden.
But I quite enjoyed writing those love scenes.
I think people will quite enjoy reading them.
Joan's not ready to give up acting for writing.
She's already thinking about portraying Chloe in a mini series based on the book, Jean Wolf
Entertainment This Week.
She began writing prime time in 1985.
She was vacationing with her children.
Now the book has debuted on the bestseller list at number 11.
So the question, how does prime time play with the stars and how will Joan Collins-Fair
as an author, will take you inside Hollywood now for some answers in today's Hot Quotes.
Joan is terrific and you know it's exciting for her to write a book because with her image
it should be like, oh, oh, oh, hold the chairs down.
A couple of the cast has been reading the book and they're having a good time.
You know that Joan put something down that paralleled all the stuff that's taken place.
So there's a lot of good support from us all.
Oh, it's going to be great because one thing about Joan is that she's incredibly candid
and she's got a great sense of humor and I expect it to be extremely entertaining.
I modeled for this cover.
Do you see the resemblance?
She's tried to look like me for many years.
But being that she's so much than me, she might never make it.
If Joan sees this, I'm dead.
Coming up next, the call of Hollywood reaches the wild as a real life animal tracker makes
tracks for the big screen and a happy ending.
And ahead Clint Eastwood and technology combined for Bird with a soundtrack by the late Charlie
Parker.
How'd they do that?
Among the movies opening next week, Madame Suzatska, Shirley Maclean's tour de force
portrayal of an eccentric piano teacher.
It's rated PG-13.
Woody Allen's latest, another woman starring Mia Farrow, Jenna Rollins and Gene Hackman.
That movie is rated PG.
And the horror revenge tale called Pumpkin Head is rated R and stars Lance Henriksen
and Jeff East.
Also opening The Accused.
Now as you'll see in our exclusive movie preview, this gripping courtroom drama poses some very
real questions.
In an ugly case, she was gang raped on a pinball machine.
The Accused stars Kelly McGillis as assistant DA Catherine Murphy and Jodie Foster as Sarah
Tobias, a woman who's raped in a bar while customers did nothing to stop it.
Mr. Tobias, while you were on the pinball machine, did you at any time cry help or rape?
No, I tried that they were covering my mouth.
They were either kissing me or they had their hands all over my mouth.
I kept saying no.
No?
No, no.
The movie also seeks to address the often used excuse of she was asking for it.
How are you dressed?
What's that supposed to mean?
It means were you dressed provocatively?
Showing a lot of cleavage, see through blouse?
Difference doesn't matter how I was dressed.
They tore it off of me.
Sarah seeks justice and Murphy is the only person willing to help.
Together they bring to trial the bystanders who let it happen.
You want to spend my money to put a bunch of spectators on trial?
The trial you lose because you owe her.
No.
You don't get to use this office to pay your debts.
No.
I am going to try this case and you're not going to stop me.
You go try your case.
You have a good time because winner lose, you're through.
Despite similarities to a real life rape that happened in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the
producers of The Accused deny any connection between the two stories.
The movie opens Friday and is rated R.
That was a close race at the box office this week.
Die Hard finished fifth, Dead Ringer's fourth, A Fish Called Wanda was third, and Heartbreak
Hotel came in second.
Each film took in slightly more than two million bucks.
Gorillaz in the Mist ran away with first, bringing in three and a half million.
Gorillaz has also created an unlikely star.
A man who totally attended his first one didn't know what a movie premiere was.
What's your name?
Sembagare.
I am the finest tracker.
This man is not good as me.
When director Michael Apted went looking for someone to play the loyal guide to Sigourney
Weaver's Diane Fosse in Gorillaz in the Mist, he found real life wild animal tracker John
Malouwe.
And when Apted cast him, Malouwe had not only never been in a movie, he'd never seen one.
We don't have anything like movies and I work on the mountain, we don't have anything like
that.
This is my first time to see movies or TVs.
Well, I wanted to cast an authentic tracker because I wanted the real thing.
I didn't want to import an African actor into Africa.
I've never thought of it because I always, I live on the island and work on the mountain.
So how can I become an actor?
Hey!
What the hell have you been doing for the last five hours?
I've been waiting for you to show me.
But act he did, and according to his co-star, he did it well.
He was so caring and authentic as a person.
And it was also very interesting to watch the whole way he watched us, you know, sort
of see what he thought of it.
It was tough, very hard.
Because this was my first time to be in front of such a big camera, before many people.
And what you are doing, somebody's watching, everybody's watching.
Once you do it better, you find everybody laughing and clapping hands.
And the clamor didn't stop there.
When John came to Hollywood for the film's premiere, flash bulbs popped.
While in Tinseltown, John did some touring, and despite the fact that his job in Kenya
is often life-threatening, saw some things that opened his eyes.
Cheeseburger, fries, no onion, shake, 45 to go.
John says the film accurately depicts his line of work, but notes that tracking animals
is a cinch compared to making films.
Making this film is more difficult, very, very difficult.
It is tiresome, because you repeat many other things several times before the director says,
okay, this is good.
And in the event you're wondering if John would answer the call, should Hollywood ask
again, yes, but he won't be giving up his day job anytime soon.
What do you like to do?
Now I'm filming, you see, I'm an actor.
So I can act at the same time when there's nothing, I go back to tracking.
John is back in Kenya with his family, living on a small farm near Nairobi, and suffering
the actor's fate, waiting for the next part.
Good luck to him.
Well, for Clint Eastwood, making his latest movie, Bird, Jazz Man Charlie Parker's life
story was labor of love.
For the people who made the soundtrack, it was a miracle of electronics.
Leonard Maltin has the story.
Bird is the story of Charlie Parker, one of the true legends in jazz history, a man who
single-handedly changed the course of jazz music with his innovative playing.
Clint Eastwood has always been a fan of Bird's, and to supervise the music in his screen biography,
he turned to another longtime admirer of Parker's, composer Lenny Niehaus.
For the last 30 years, I've been listening to Charlie Parker and trying to play like
him like hundreds of other alpha players.
I've always been a fan of Bird's.
Did you ever dream you'd be able to work with his music so intimately?
Never did, but I went through the whole process of transcribing his solos to learn how he
played way back then, and I have a closet full of his solos, and I never thought that
I would be doing this 30 years later.
My musical career went full circle.
This was no ordinary assignment for Niehaus or for leading actor Forrest Whitaker, who
never played a saxophone in his life, let alone the complex riffs associated with Bird.
But under Niehaus' tutelage, the actor worked a minor miracle on screen.
Playing the horn took a lot of work months before in preparation to make it precise,
to have the finger incorrect.
I mean, it was very important.
If you ever doubt that I don't play the horn, then you will lose the whole point.
You will lose Charlie Parker.
Another key decision had to do with the authenticity of the music itself.
People have asked me, who's playing Charlie Parker?
Not the actor at the playing.
I said, Charlie Parker's playing Charlie Parker.
And they go, well, how, what, you know?
And we didn't talk about it too much at first.
We sort of kept it, we didn't, we wanted to keep people guessing.
A more common way to do it would have been to try to get a sound alike and start from
scratch and build the tracks with modern day recording and have the tracks super clean
and nice, but you still wouldn't have the spirit that you would with the real Charlie
Parker playing.
Ah, but easier said than done.
After all, Parker died in 1955.
Even his best commercial recordings wouldn't hold up to today's standards of sound in a
movie theater.
Many of his best tracks were made privately or by amateurs with primitive tape machines.
So that's when Lenny Niehaus and recording engineer Bob Fernandez went to work.
They actually isolated Parker's playing from the ensemble recordings, souped them up with
state of the art technology and then re-recorded them in 1987 with top jazz musicians providing
accompaniment.
I asked these two wizards to give me a demonstration.
This is the original recording you got.
Right.
This was done in the early fifties, probably, right?
Early fifties.
What happened next?
Then we isolated Bird's solo.
This is the treatise track, we call it the treatise track.
You removed his playing from the background.
Right.
Okay.
And then you brought in your own strings.
I brought in my own strings and rearranged it and...
And it sounds like this.
It sounds like this.
It's amazing.
And that's how 30 to 40 year old recordings are used in the new movie, keeping the actual
playing as well as the spirit of Bird alive.
Maybe one of the real results of this will be you'll turn on a whole new flock of people
to Bird.
Oh, I hope so.
I hope so.
And with a soundtrack album out in the stores, Charlie Parker might even find himself back
on the charts.
Leonard Malton, Entertainment This Week.
The Bird soundtrack album also includes such Charlie Parker classics as cool blues, cocoa,
and ornithology.
And on the liner notes, Parker is credited for playing alto sax.
As he should be.
Yeah, indeed.
We'll be right back.
Monday on Entertainment Tonight, the showdown of the Collins sisters.
Jackie and Joan get candid about their relationship.
It's not all peaches and cream, but could it end up in another book?
And next weekend on Entertainment This Week, Jack the Ripper.
The legend hits the century mark and experts are closing in on Jack's identity.
We'll release the list of suspects for you.
Great news for James Caan fans.
He's starring with Mandy Patinkin in a new movie called Alien Nation.
Now, it's a science fiction thriller set in the streets of Los Angeles, crowded with 300,000
newcomers from another planet.
Did you see this movie?
I saw it a couple of weeks ago with a couple of people.
But you can't really be objective.
You know, you're looking at it.
You know, you're looking at yourself is really what I'm trying to say.
You don't know you look at the pictures.
I don't look so good over there.
That's not so good.
You know, that's that's the truth.
So sometime I'll see the picture.
For Caan, Alien Nation is the most commercial role he's had in years.
And it's opposite another fine actor, Mandy Patinkin.
So few of you seem capable of living up to the ideals you set for yourselves.
Don't count on me, George.
I never had any ideas.
Is it fair to say that this is your kind of movie?
Anything you say is fair to say.
Yeah, it's fair.
It was fun.
I mean, the idea of Mandy, who's just, you know, he's great.
He's just like that character.
You know, it's just a great kid.
But so I had a lot of fun with him calling him spuzz, potato head and all that.
But that guy had to go through three and a half to four hours of makeup every day.
And I would give him some aesthetic nonsense like, well, I don't think my character should
wear makeup because, you know, like he's out in the streets.
And the truth of the matter is I could sleep a half hour longer in the morning.
Since his Oscar nominated Sonny Corleone in The Godfather, James Kahn has been established
as a leading man drawn to strong parts.
In terms of subject matter, you really tend to do movies that have something to say and
that are powerful about it.
Well, no, you know, that's not to say that, you know, like Mad Men, Mad World or whatever.
I think if you do a picture, that's just sheer entertainment.
That's great.
I mean, I'm just supposed to do trying to do two pictures in one, you know, like gratuitous
stuff that doesn't belong in the picture.
But I'm for a picture that let's say, you don't like I said, you don't know what you
saw in the morning, but you knew you had a good time the night before.
That's okay.
So I'm not into like heavy messages or anything like that.
I mean, I like to do things that are good.
Tell me the truth.
Have you ever made it with one of us?
There's lots of things I haven't done.
It's not real high on my list.
What about it?
Do you believe in this alien stuff?
I believe in music.
I believe in love.
Oh, that's so sweet.
Don't cry.
It'll be okay.
Do I believe in it?
No, no, not for a second.
You don't think that there are beings from other planets that visit?
I don't think anybody lives across the street.
What do you think about that?
Oh, he's funny.
We had a good time.
The movie opens across the country this weekend.
It's set just a couple of years in the future.
1990.
It's a rough time of it after his glory days of Godfather.
Took some time off.
Definitely, we didn't see him on the big screen.
A disappointment with what was to have been his comeback film, Gardens of Stone.
No secret that James Kahn lived the high life for a while there and was in some trouble.
But I asked him how he thought of himself now.
And during those years when we didn't see him in movies, he was raising a son who's
now 13, Scott.
And he said he'd just like to be thought of as Mother of the Year.
Oh, we'll give him that one.
Isn't that nice?
He's a good guy.
Danny Glover's new movie, Bat 21, is set in Vietnam where the aliens are Americans.
Glover plays a pilot and for him the choice to do it was easy.
If you tell me I want you to be, I have two roles for you.
One is to be a pilot and one is to be a garbage man.
Which one are you going to take?
He took the pilot, be assured, and it seems he's making all the right choices lately from
the color purple to lethal weapon.
This one is called Bat 21 and he plays a man different than himself.
He's a man that's a dreamer.
I mean he hasn't fulfilled his dreams, his dreams, you know.
One of those to be a fighter pilot.
Which is far from anything Glover wanted to be, especially in the dark light of Vietnam
where this film takes place.
He plays a radio pilot who is a trapped American soldier's only line of communication.
In his real life at the time of Vietnam he walked a different line.
That way.
The point in time when Vietnam's situation was occurring I was protesting against the
war.
It's a war zone, damn it, what do you expect?
We like Bat 21, we'll get you out of first light.
And no, his participation in this is not evidence of a change in his personal viewpoint.
We know what happens in a war, that the people who have no options often, the people in rural
areas and city urban areas and most of those people are black, who have basically few options,
you know, are caught up in that situation.
They become the people, the 18 year olds, the 19 year olds, the expendables.
For Danny Glover however, life has been a series of options.
He's created, making choices difficult.
As a black film actor who works regularly, he sees himself as an exception.
Well, I need to overturn.
The exception being that Dick Donner and Joe Silver and the people involved in Leather
Weapons says, hey, we want an actor, an actor, not a black or white actor, but an actor who
we think could pull this off.
How then would he rate Hollywood's efforts at racial equity?
An E for exceptions.
Maybe Danny Glover's an exception, maybe Eddie Murphy's an exception, you know, and maybe
Bill Cosby's exception and a few others and Whoopi's an exception, you know.
Often you cannot give him an A for effort.
Glover's efforts in this film however, were higher rated.
It was a difficult task, says he, mostly because he had no one to relate to.
Most of Gene's scenes were shot before I got up into the plane.
Nonetheless, the chemistry was there and it will be there with Mel Gibson in the upcoming
Lethal Weapon 2, says the ever frank actor.
Why you ask?
Because we get paid to do it.
That's why it's so good.
That is the best reason I can think of, Danny.
The opening of Vat 21 is easy to remember.
It's October 21.
Well, if leaving the house to take in a movie this weekend isn't exactly your cup of tea,
leave the house and rent a new video.
Here's the cream of the crop, starting with a decided Latin beat.
It's the event of the year and I'm gonna be the king of salsa.
Salsa is the story of two friends, Rico, a young Latino who lives for salsa dancing,
and Ken, a young Anglo whom Rico's known since childhood.
And how their relationship is tested when Ken falls in love with Rico's sister, threatening
not only their friendship but also Rico's dream of becoming the king of the salsa.
All the time we've been married, you just think about it.
You never ever wanted me when I wanted you that whole time.
Think about it.
Also premiering on video next week is the romantic comedy A New Life starring Alan Alda
and Anne Margaret as a newly separated couple who suddenly finds themselves in the frightening
but funny world of blind dates and new relationships.
Why didn't you tell me you were a man?
Please leave me alone.
You're dead.
You're in Dean's Grange in a box six feet under with her.
I carried you.
It's over.
So get out of my head.
Da starring Martin Sheen and Bernard Hughes is a poignant and humorous drama about family,
home, and the consistently inconsistent relationships between parents and children.
Set in Ireland, Da focuses on middle-aged Charlie, played by Sheen, and his recently
deceased eccentric father, Da, played by Hughes.
But it's actually the story of every man's relationship with his father.
Okay, you big hunk of a man, come and get me.
Deep emotional relationships have never been a strong point for our guide Jason, and in
Friday the 13th, part seven, Jason continues to be on the cutting edge of the bloody and
gruesome.
There goes the neighborhood.
Well, just in case you dropped out of the Olympics audience because you're tired of
watching commercials instead of the Olympics, you're in luck.
A 90-minute highlight video will be in stores near you by the end of the month.
It's a big week ahead for country music with everybody who's anybody in the She's Cryin'
Cause He Done Her Wrong tune biz headed to Nashville for Monday night's Country Music
Awards, one of the main attractions newcomer Ricky Van Shelton, 10-gallon hat and all.
He's the latest young star on the country music scene today, and although singer-songwriter
Ricky Van Shelton considers himself a country music traditionalist, his gospel, rock and
roll and rhythm and blues influence music has already drawn comparisons to many of the
greats in those fields.
If you took gospel music and old rock and roll and country and bluegrass and Otis Redden
and shook them up along with Hank Williams and poured them out, you'd probably get me.
In fact, that musical mix plus Van Shelton's own original style has proven so successful
that his first album titled Wild Eye Dream easily went gold.
And the winner is...
Ricky Van Shelton!
The success of that album has also resulted in his being named best new male artist by
the Academy of Country Music.
And a year and a half later, Ricky Van Shelton's debut album is still high on the music charts.
Not bad for a guy who only came to Nashville at the insistence of his girlfriend, who he
later married.
She worked and all I did was I took care of the house and the yard and I scrubbed floors
and I washed dishes and I vacuumed twice a week.
While he worked around the house and in their garden, he would also practice his music over
and over again.
And when that big break finally came, he was so ready that his whole album was recorded
on the first take.
At the time, see, I wasn't working, you know, I was staying home taking care of the house
so I had a lot of time to rehearse.
When I went into the studio, I knew those songs like they're back in my hand.
So what does Van Shelton think of his newly found fame?
It's not as easy as I thought it was going to be, you know, I thought you'd just get
up there and sing, you know, and glamorous, but it's a lot of travel and you don't have
a lot of time to sleep anymore.
But it's all good.
I wouldn't trade it for nothing.
Ricky's up for three awards, best male vocal, best newcomer and best single of the year.
Gospel music star Amy Grant will have an easy commute to the country music awards.
She lives right down the road apiece.
Amy Grant is in a good place and that doesn't just mean the pastoral settings she shared
with her husband, songwriter Gary Chapman.
It really means that she's been able to sing music she believes in, Christian music, and
still sell millions of albums.
I can look back over the last 10 years and feel so incredibly supported, but it doesn't
necessarily mean that there's a guarantee 10 years from now.
And that's the fun and challenge of it.
But so far, so good.
Amy's won four Grammys and was the first solo gospel artist to have a gold record.
She's been writing songs since the age of 14 and now is starting to show quite a bit
of pop crossover appeal, singing the praises of Jesus with a trendy touch.
My perspective on life changes with every year and with every event.
If there were a message in my music, it would be life from a Christian perspective.
I feel like that's been consistent, but it also has changed as I have changed over the
last 10 years.
Goodness, I'd hate to be 27 with a 15-year-old brain still.
One major change of late was the birth of Amy and Gary's first child, Matt, last year.
That's a huge experience to share with somebody and it's ongoing.
And there was the moment of first seeing Matt's face and thinking, Gary Chapman, we've produced
a lot of things together, records, songs, but this makes everything else pale.
I don't know how long my singing career can last.
I don't know how long I'm going to be mom singer, mom singer, mom singer.
There is one very special aspect to a relationship like that, however.
Amy the mother can talk to her child with song.
There's not the same emotional drive to explain something to somebody else's child as you
experience when suddenly you think, this is my child.
Nice story.
Amy and her husband are in the midst of a 58-city tour and son Matthew goes right along
for the ride.
In fact, last month he celebrated his first birthday on the road.
The humorous side of country music got its start on radio with the Grand Ole Opry.
To bring funny country right up to the minute, we turn to a man who calls himself Killer
Bees.
My real name is Truett S. Beasley Jr.
Thanks, dad.
His face contorts like it's molded with silly putty and his voice twangs like a D string
off a Hank Williams guitar.
That's fine for the Killer Bees, thank you.
He's knocking them out in Nashville with his down home country sincerity.
Trying to make people happy inspires me.
I see folks every single day that will not smile, that just walk around like they have
the weight of the world on their shoulders and I hate to see it.
Tobacco spitting women in competition, hold me back.
I try to talk about stuff we all go through.
People are going to laugh whether it's a man from the South saying the words or whether
it's a woman from the North or whatever.
If it's truly funny and has that human element, it'll work and it can be a fun thing.
I want a girl that spits good.
The 34 year old Bees has been taking his act throughout the small clubs of the South, an
area famous for its singers, not stand up comedians.
The problem was we had no comedy clubs and I actually had no professional comics to go
to for guidance.
I just had that belief in myself that I could be funny and do it.
If you haven't been to Mississippi lately, y'all, save up.
Our guy Bees is now betting his catchphrase save up will be a hit nationwide, as it is
with the folks down South.
Save up, that's the fun.
We can identify with that, especially where I came from.
Anything we wanted, it was save up.
Mom, can I have toast?
Save up.
I'm thinking two girls want to give me a body wave.
I better save up.
Not a bad ID, killer.
Sock it away for a rainy day in case you might like to contribute to killer Bees' savings
account.
He starts a two stop tour of the Southeastern US Tuesday night in Mobile, Alabama, winds
it up in Knoxville, Tennessee.
John.
How'd you like that?
Radio, radio vibes.
Not a bad ID?
ID, ID, there it is.
Coming up, Murph Griffin's million dollar all star soiree.
No future for me in this business.
There's a mouse in NBC's kitchen, but nobody's chasing it out.
Hi everybody, welcome back.
I'm John Tesch.
Rob Weller is probably in Hawaii sipping on a tropical drink right now, but I'm happy
to be here.
We hope Rob's having a good time.
I'm Lisa Gibbons, by the way.
Murph Griffin's nearly completed $1.75 million estate under construction near Palm Springs
burned this week.
Suffering an estimated $1 million in damages, Griffin was not on the grounds at the time.
Cause of the fire was electrical and is still under investigation.
Don't fret that Murph has no place to sleep at night.
He can always check into his hotel.
In fact, Murph's so proud of his newly refurbished property, he threw a party for all the major
Hollywood somebody's.
When Murph Griffin bought the Beverly Hilton back in November, the first thing he wanted
to do was glitz it up, bring back a little old fashioned glamour to Hollywood.
This is thrilling, you know, because I love this hotel.
This was the unveiling of the refurbished international ballroom and all of Hollywood
was on the guest list.
I think we need the fun and the glamour and the getting together.
You know, business is so tough today, everyone sort of goes their separate ways, but this
would bring a lot of folks together and have a good time.
The glamour's going on in the town and I think it's high time someone brought it back.
It'd be nice to see people dress a little more when they go out and have some, a little
more elegance in town.
I mean, tennis shoes are great in the daytime, but it's nice to switch around.
Murph was definitely the man of the hour with as much respect paid to him as his pet project.
I did his show when he first went on the air with the first edition and he was always very
special to us.
He always treated us right and treated us with respect actually before we ever had hits.
So that's the kind of guy he is and that's why it carries on.
It's great to see people having fun with what they do because some of us take it much too
seriously and Murph has fun and that's catching, you know.
And the remodeled ballroom, part of a $25 million facelift, seemed to be money well
spent.
I think everybody agrees that it's something that we have here in Beverly Hills that we
can all be proud of.
He has made the room extremely elegant and yet very simple and very warm.
I am absolutely enchanted with it.
Murph is a perfectionist.
Anything he touches has to be perfect.
The ballroom has been the scene of the post-Oscar Awards ball and the Golden Globe Awards and
is already booked with entertainment acts a year in advance.
Sunday night, two old television buddies are reunited.
NBC and Disney are teaming up to present a special one-hour preview of the new series
called The Magic World of Disney with plenty of nostalgia from the past.
Walt Disney presents...
When The Magic World of Disney makes its debut on NBC, it will be celebrating a 38-year association
with the Peacock Network, which began in 1950 with Walt Disney's first TV production, One
Hour in Wonderland.
You kids help me with the magic word.
Zippity, zippity, zippity-ay, my oh my, what a wonderful day.
And the real stars of the network special will be the vintage film clips of some of
Walt Disney's favorite creations.
NBC, color TV.
It will also show the 1955 opening of Disneyland.
To all who come to this happy place, welcome.
Disneyland is dedicated to the young and the young in heart, to those who believe that
when you wish upon a star, your dreams do come true.
We are the merry Musketeers.
Musketeers!
We've got a lot of love out of our ears.
Hi, Musketeers.
Hi, Biggie.
Betty White and Harry Anderson will act as celebrity guides through the hour with a preview
of the new Disney Fair, including updated Davy Crockett episodes and a new absent-minded
professor starring Harry Anderson.
So Ed lost Beatles audition tapes restored by loving fans.
And instant karma's gonna get you.
The American premiere of John Lennon's classic, when we return.
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 and it shows.
Celebrating a birthday on Saturday, actress Stephanie Zimbalist is 32.
Sigourney Weaver, 39.
Chevy Chase hits 45 and Paul Hogan turns 49.
And birthday wishes for Sunday, Sean Lennon turns 13.
Singer Jackson Brown hits the big 4-0.
Singer Nona Hendrix, 44.
And John N. Twissell of the Who celebrates number 46.
Sunday is also the anniversary of John Lennon's birthday.
He would have been 48.
Lennon's life story is being told and retold in books and now a film.
It's called Imagine.
The movie is culled from hundreds of hours of interviews and performances shot over a
20-year period.
But perhaps one of the most remarkable scenes wound up on the cutting room floor.
In 1970, Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band played the song Instant Karma on the BBC equivalent
of American Bandstand.
Now that performance hasn't been broadcast since until now.
3, 4.
One of the words you're thinking of
Laughing in the face of the love
One of the words you're trying to do
It's up to you, yeah you
If your heart is gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
You better get yourself together darling
Join the human race
I'm the one you're gonna see
Laughing fools like me
I will hurt if you are
A superstar of what you are
When we all shine on
Like the moon and the star and the sun
When we all shine on
Everyone, come on
If your heart is gonna get you
Gonna knock you off your feet
Better recognize your brother
If you want to leave
Why are we here
Sure enough, live it in fear
Why let the user
When you're everywhere
Come and get your share
When we all shine on
Like the moon and the star and the sun
When we all shine on
On and on and on and on
Yeah, yeah
Alright
Uh-huh
When we all shine on
Like the moon and the star and the sun
When we all shine on
On and on and on and on
When we all shine on
Like the moon and the star and the sun
When we all shine on
Like the moon and the star and the sun
When we all shine on
Like the moon and the star and the sun
Let the old light shine on
Let the moon and the stars come
Let the old light shine on
Let the moon and the stars come
One instant karma hit the pop charts in 1970 and went to number three and was competing against the Beatles song Let It Be.
In the early 60s, the British national radio network, the BBC, hired an unknown band to play in a series of rock music shows.
After they ran, the original audio tapes were scrapped. The group was the Beatles.
Years later, the BBC realized it had made a very big mistake.
But thanks to the work of one producer and the fact that people at home had taped some of the shows, 14 half hours have been restored.
You're looking at an audition report dated the 10th of January, 1962. It shows what the BBC thinks of the vocal talents of the Beatles.
John Lennon, yes. Paul McCartney, no.
Lay down your own problem and surrender to me
A year later, and despite their original opinion, BBC executives agreed to give the boys their own show.
They would play original material live on the radio, allowing Londoners to meet the Beatles, launching the careers of the Fab Four.
It's the Beatles.
Most of the tapes were lost until BBC producer Kevin Howlett began the search as a pet project.
The thing about the BBC is it's great at keeping the paperwork, they just didn't keep the tapes.
And there's one program in the BBC archives that the Beatles did in the 60s.
So what I had to do was a little bit of detective work, try and track down these tapes of these wonderful programs.
The good news is that now after 25 years, people can finally hear those programs again.
And as for the Beatles, they'll get a whopping $90 per show as a residual.
I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, I hope we pass the audition.
That's fascinating. How do you think Paul McCartney feels about being told he basically had no vocal talent?
I know, Paul McCartney, no. Thank you very much.
We hope you'll be back here next weekend. Jodie Foster is back in The Accused.
She'll take us behind the scenes to describe the grueling ordeal of playing a rape victim.
And join Mary Hartmey for entertainment tonight on Monday.
The Collins sisters square off for a battle of the best sellers.
Today we're going to bow out with more of the Beatles for you.
The first authorized version of the Magical Mystery Tour is due out on video in about two weeks.
From that video here's I Am The Walrus. Take care.
See you next week.
I Am The Walrus
I'm crying
Sitting on a cornflake
Waiting for the vines to come
Corporation t-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday man
You've been a naughty boy, you let your pace grow long
I am the Eggman
They are the Eggman
I am the Walrus
Mr. City policeman sitting pretty little policeman in a row
See how they fly like Lucy in the sky, see how they run
I'm crying
Yellow man accustomed
Dripping from a dead dog's eye
Clabberlocked fishwife, pornographic priestess
Boy you've been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down
I am the Eggman
They are the Eggman
I am the Walrus