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A rare chat with Sean Penn and Madonna.
Two private minutes with Judge Reinhold and four public minutes with Masterpiece Theatre.
For Friday, April 18th, 1986, this is Entertainment Tonight.
Hello everyone, I'm Rob Weller.
And I'm Mary Hart.
There was a movie premiere in Los Angeles last night and the burning question was would
they or wouldn't they show up?
A lot of stars were there, a lot of fans were there and a lot of the media was there.
So was Lisa Gibbons.
These stars don't show their faces for just any event, but when Mr. and Mrs. Sean Penn
headline a premiere, it's not just any event.
Who knows if they're even here tonight?
Who knows if they're even going to be here?
I don't know.
I couldn't see the movie.
Are they coming?
Oh yeah.
I expect they'll come and they'll talk to you if they feel like it.
They'll never talk to you.
Only I talk to you.
No, no, I just think that when he's proud of a movie that he's really involved in, he'll
talk about it and maybe if he doesn't feel he's involved enough, he doesn't think he has
anything to say.
Oh wait, don't go.
I gotta go.
Bye.
The couple is notoriously media shy, so even the announcement by a publicist that Sean
Penn and his wife Madonna would make an appearance at the premiere was met with some skepticism.
But they did show up.
This time they weren't even hiding from cameras and they even stopped to say a few words to
entertainment tonight.
Hi.
Why break the silence tonight?
Why decide to come out and meet the press?
We came to see a great movie.
What was it like working together?
You finally, you've got Shanghai Surprise coming out.
What was it like on this film?
We didn't work together on this movie.
You were on the soundtrack.
Yeah.
It was fun.
Did you feel Sean that you had more control over this film, more collaborative effort?
I had a director who listened.
You have said that you want to make giant commercial hits.
Will this be one?
Lisa Gibbons, Entertainment Tonight.
Cheetah Rivera's broken leg has forced the producers to post the closing notice for the
Broadway musical Jerry's Girls.
The final performance will be Sunday night.
And last night was opening night on Broadway for Social Security.
Its producers were crossing their fingers hoping for no broken bones and good reviews.
Kathleen Turner turned up despite dreary weather.
So did Shirley MacLaine, Allie McGraw, Paul Simon, Neil Simon, Carly Simon, Candice Bergen,
and Phil Donahue.
The magnetic name on the marquee was Mike Nichols who directed the new comedy Social
Security.
When she calls her friends in Manhattan, Mrs. Hirsch and Mrs. Lander, she dials 213 instead
of 212.
213 is Los Angeles.
Our phone bill last month was over $500.
Marlo Thomas and Ron Silver star as an upwardly mobile couple.
They are suddenly confronted with the prospect of caring for her elderly mother.
So for a half hour at day rate she's conversing with some static in Beverly Hills.
Oh Trudy I feel so bad for you.
You know maybe if you knew where the calls were going to.
Of course we got the phone statement.
First thing we tracked down the number.
Who's she been calling?
20th Century Fox.
See that's absurd.
She should have her agent do that.
I loved laughing and the play made me laugh from the beginning.
Maybe laugh while we were working on it and maybe laugh tonight like it made the audience
laugh.
Mike Nichols has won six Tony's as well as an Oscar and few performers would turn down
a chance to work with him.
I think we work well together because it's got a lot of love in it for all of us.
I think that's the way Mike directs with love.
He used everybody's contribution very well which he always does.
Scott Osborne, Entertainment Tonight.
The New York Post thought Social Security was very funny indeed.
The New York Times, the Daily News and USA Today were somewhat less amused.
He was America's most infamous gangster and stories about him abound.
Now some of his secrets may be revealed.
At least that's the hope of the producers of a live two hour TV show airing Monday night.
Mike Liederman has more on the heavily secured vaults that are believed to have once belonged
to Al Capone.
The vaults were discovered under this abandoned Chicago hotel.
During Prohibition, the hotel known as the Lexington served as headquarters for Al Capone
and his gang.
Secret passageways ran under Chicago streets into nearby buildings including, it is said,
City Hall.
And in the basement were these huge sealed vaults believed to belong to Capone.
We don't know what's going to be in that vault anymore than you do or any more that the viewers
do out there but what we're going to show you in two hours is the adventure of how we
got there.
The idea certainly makes for intriguing television.
Hosting the special will be former ABC reporter Geraldo Rivera.
I generally have gone by the rule that if I'm a pretty normal average person and if
I'm interested in something generally the audience is also and you know we're just going
to take a trip together.
What used to be here?
Do you remember?
The climax of the program will be the opening of the vaults and producers are planning for
all sorts of endings.
What do you think is in there?
If I was going to use my best speculation I would probably say bones.
People are already lining up to claim any valuables that may turn up in the vault from
the city of Chicago to those who say they're relatives of Al Capone.
The first claim though will go to the IRS.
They've already filed a lien on the vault to the tune of more than $800,000 in back taxes.
In Chicago, Mike Liederman, Entertainment Tonight.
Next can a Beverly Hills cop named Judge make it as a dancer?
He's ahead 15 years of public television's best masterpiece theater.
Judge Reinhold played a fast food employee with dreams of becoming manager and designs
on Phoebe Cates in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and he was the bumbling Beverly Hills
cop in Beverly Hills Cop.
Those supporting roles in two hit comedies have led to starring roles in two new comedies.
Eric Burns has more on an offbeat Judge Reinhold.
Everybody watch this.
Make them stop dancing.
I hate that.
Judge Reinhold's new film is Offbeat and you can take that either way.
He plays a librarian who poses as a cop trying to be a dancer who falls in love with Meg
Tilly.
What were the filmmakers out to achieve in Offbeat?
Making what kind of movie?
What we went for was kind of a charming modern day 40s picture with romance and warmth and
comedy and the structure and the kind of film it is kind of resembles the romantic comedies
in the 40s and I'm very fond of that.
Did you end up being a wonderfully graceful dancer?
Every once in a while I resembled Ray Balger but those were just fleeting moments.
Reinhold's also made another movie, Ruthless People, in which he stars with Danny DeVito
and Bette Midler.
It'll be released in June if they finish editing it in time but there were some delays
in shooting because of fog.
When you make a movie there's so much waiting.
How do you manage to stay bright and up and ready to be funny?
I wear rubber underwear and I sit there and I know I'm wearing it and nobody else does
and it kind of keeps me going.
Do you feel now that you've mentioned it that you've lost something?
Yeah, gee, I hadn't thought of that.
It's out.
In the wake of his past successes, Reinhold's career now feels a little like a car chase.
Undeniably exciting but also a little out of control.
What are your thoughts about the ascent of Judge Reinhold in the last few years?
Oh, hey, any day I could turn around and find myself on Hollywood Square it would be Judge
Reinhold the block, you know?
Judge Reinhold the block.
Four films open and limited release today and two open wide across the country.
The four limited releases are Torment starring Taylor Gilbert, Water with Michael Caine,
Absolute Beginners featuring David Bowie, Sade and the King's Ray Davies and At Close
Range co-starring Sean Penn and Christopher Walken.
The two movies opening wide today are Legend with Tom Cruise, Mia Sarah and Tim Curry and
Murphy's Law with Charles Bronson.
As Leonard Maltin points out in his review of Murphy's Law, this film is anything but
a sequel to Murphy's Romance.
I know you have a lot of questions about the new Charles Bronson picture, Murphy's Law,
and I'll try to answer them all.
The first thing I'm sure you want to know is, is there a title song?
The answer is yes.
I was just humming it to myself this morning.
Next, I have a question.
Does this man look like somebody named Murphy?
No.
Okay, are 11 people graphically murdered in the course of this film?
No.
But that was really a trick question.
Only 15 people are shot, stabbed, drowned, impaled on shards of glass, that kind of thing.
Next, is this a typical Bronson movie, vulgar and unpleasant, where everybody's stupid
except him?
I'm afraid so.
And finally, am I going to give this movie a two?
You bet.
I'm Leonard Maltin, Entertainment Tonight.
Still to come on Entertainment Tonight, 20 shows that change TV looks at Masterpiece
Theater and a first look at the Hands Across America video.
Check your local listings for the correct time this weekend as Entertainment This Week
turns the spotlight on...
Suzanne Plachette.
John Cougar-Mellencamp.
And Rona Barrett asks Geraldine Page how her unconventional marriage to Rip Torn endures.
I wouldn't get married.
Anybody I've met so far, who knows what the future might bring.
This weekend on Entertainment This Week.
A bill was introduced into the United States Senate yesterday urging the television industry
to clean up violence and programming.
The bill, co-sponsored by Democratic Senator Paul Simon from Illinois and Republican Senator
Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, is not supported by TV industry representatives.
Senator Simon said, we're seeing too much violence on TV for our own mental health.
He was prompted into action after watching the film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre on a
motel room TV set.
A TV program rarely criticized for its violence, in fact rarely criticized at all, is public
television's widely respected, award-winning Masterpiece Theater.
The weekly production contains lavish English dramas from the BBC and independent British
TV.
In a survey of TV critics in the United States and Canada, it was cited as one of 20 shows
that changed television.
Our series continues as host Peter Strauss examines a masterpiece.
One of the only places where classical literature is brought to life is on public television's
highly acclaimed Masterpiece Theater, hosted by the distinguished Alastair Cook.
Masterpiece Theater has introduced the television generation to the world's finest writers.
We've watched works by Henry James, Balzac, Dickens and Tolstoy, and Masterpiece Theater
has also created some literature of its own, including the engrossing drama Upstairs, Downstairs.
If Masterpiece Theater is a tradition on television today, it had to earn it.
It had a rather undramatic start.
It all began in January 1971, when WGBH Boston had the idea for it.
Good evening.
I'm Alastair Cook.
We opened tonight a new television theater, which in the next year will show you plays
adapted.
I thought it would collapse after the first series, which was, I thought, the least distinguished
thing we did.
It was called the first Churchill's.
I was very worried about it, but then we did Balzac and we did Jewett the Obscure, and
then eventually along came Upstairs, Downstairs, Planted It.
Your Majesty, I am Rose, head house parlor maid, and I think it's very mean of you not
to let us female servants wait at table.
I always thought you rather liked having women around.
People always say, why was it a success?
I just think it was well done, and I know everybody wants to do everything well, but
it doesn't always work out like that.
Everything was good, the writing, the acting, and so on.
Financing the series Mobile Oil, to date spending an estimated $75 million, and the man approving
the checks, the vice president of public affairs.
I think it's the only ongoing home for quality drama, historical drama, really fine acting,
week in and week out, terrific stories, great scripts, all the ingredients of really high
quality first class television.
We do good stories, we do them well.
I mean the production values are very good.
Money is spent on costumes and care is taken with sets, and these days maybe that's a
bit rare, you know.
When they set out to do a play or a book or whatever they do it, with the highest possible
artistic standards in mind.
And that you can't always say about television productions, can you?
This television that makes you kind of think more, and television that kind of sort of
stops you thinking, and I hope that ours provokes thought.
Because it does seem to be about on a certainly a weekly basis, the best theatre around, it's
dependable.
I mean some is good, some is not so good, some is very good, but for 52 weeks of the
year I think it's pretty remarkable.
Alastair Cook, Masterpiece Theatre, good night.
Having some experience in miniseries over the last ten years, I can tell you that public
television's Masterpiece Theatre has had a profound effect on commercial programming.
The success of Upstairs, Downstairs proved that audiences would follow a continuing saga
returning episode after episode.
That not only introduced a new form to television, it set the standard.
We have a long show, and I'm sure that you're really going to enjoy it.
Next week, television's first great comedy hit, the Texaco Star Theatre starring Mr.
Television himself, Milton Burrow.
With 20 shows that change TV, I'm Peter Strach.
And when we return, Jack Lemmon in Washington, a 60th anniversary party for the Book of the
Month Club, and a first look at the Hands Across America video.
This is the E.T. Digest for Friday, the 18th of April, new in the bookstore, Best W. Truman
by Margaret Truman.
New on home video, the Smothers Brothers show you how to gamble and win.
And Something of Value, starring Rock Hudson.
New in the record store, Mars Needs Guitars from Hoodoo Gurus.
Celebrating birthdays today, John James is 30, Skip Stephenson, 38, Dorothy Lyman, 39,
Haley Mills, 40, Robert Hooks, 49, and Barbara Hale is 64.
Politicians don't spend all their time giving speeches and introducing bills.
They also watch television, go to the movies, and attend plays.
And if they can vote for a favorite actor, it might just be Jack Lemmon.
Congressmen lined up to shake hands with Jack Lemmon, who came to Capitol Hill to accept
Congress's top arts honor.
The two-time Academy Award winner, currently on stage in the nation's Capitol in a revival
of Long Day's Journey in Tonight, accepted the award from his old buddy, House Speaker
Tip O'Neill.
You know, Jack's an institution in America.
He's loved by so many people.
And he's a kind of a man's man.
And the caucus is a kind of an organization where they appreciate the arts, they appreciate
the classics.
They truly love the theater.
And this is the type of man who really appeals to them.
The event also served as a rallying point for the caucus, which is working to save arts
funding from heavy budget cuts.
That's an effort applauded by Lemmon.
We sort of accept the arts and culture as something that's there.
And too many of us think of it as just entertainment.
You know, the paintings and writing and films and the theater and opera are entertainment.
And we just stop at it there.
And it's not.
It is far more than that because it's enlightening.
It really teaches us the human condition.
Robert Ludlam's The Bourne Supremacy is the number one fiction book of the week, according
to the New York Times.
And Your Only Old Once by Dr. Seuss is the number one nonfiction book of the week.
Book of the Month?
Well, that's another story, another party.
Peter Kwinhackas reports.
The guest list?
Like a who's who of the literary world.
On the occasion, the 60th anniversary of the Book of the Month Club.
The club has distributed 440 million books in its six decades.
That's five for every American household.
And it's helped some of those authors become household names.
It does certain things.
It gives you instant fame.
It gives you an instant audience.
What it means is popularity, free advertising, recognition, and an achievement equal to one's
friends and competitors as novelists.
And the other big advantage is that you get to have a little picture of your book in the
ad, which was a childhood dream of mine.
It's a distinction, and it means that your book will get around more.
After all, what do we all care about but that people read our books?
The club's expanded from its original single monthly pick to a variety of selections.
And if they expand further, that might make room for some notables who haven't yet made
the list.
My books sell like poisoned hotcakes.
Yeah, so they've never been a section.
They're wise enough not to choose them.
Peter Kwinhakis, Entertainment Tonight.
And your book is coming out when?
Monday.
Monday.
I'll be here this weekend with Lisa Gibbons for Entertainment This Week.
On tap, Grammy winner Cleo Lane and Academy Award winner Geraldine Page.
And Monday on Entertainment Tonight, we begin a new six-part special series called TV's
Funniest Moments.
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