Ann Murray previews her new single Wednesday at 4 on Our Magazine.
I hate the damn things that always happen in this world.
It's like kids playing cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians.
Good Guys and Bad Guys open up Tuesday, February 11th, 1986 on Entertainment Tonight.
Hello again everybody, I'm Mary Hart.
And I'm Rob Weller.
American rock stars Bruce Springsteen and Huey Lewis received top honors last night in London at the British Record Industry Awards.
Springsteen was named Best International Artist and Huey Lewis in the news was named Best International Group.
Gene Wolfe was on the scene in London for Entertainment Tonight.
This was the fifth annual ceremony conducted by the British Phonographic Institute.
The awards recognized Britain's leading bands and the importance of the record industry.
The BPI Awards are kind of a cousin to the Grammys since all of these artists are truly international.
But the performers did acknowledge some difference between British audiences and American audiences.
I have to say that when I'm in the States the audiences are definitely much looser.
And because of that they're a pleasure to play to.
In America they're actually a bit more lively I think.
But they're just as young here.
You know they think about it a little bit more I think.
Whereas the Americans sort of feel it a little bit more if that makes any sense at all.
In Britain you know they're very, very critical.
And in America they are critical but they tend to want to have a good time you know.
The tastes are more similar than they ever have been before.
And both are just as important to us I think.
His praise, applause, awards, is that the same in any country, any accent?
As long as they shout and scream and have a good smile on their face that's good enough for me.
In London, Jean Wolf for Entertainment Tonight.
Alright some other winners last night.
Phil Collins, British Male Artist of the Year.
Annie Lennox of Eurythmics, British Female Artist.
Dire Straits, Britain's best group.
Top single, Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears.
Top album, No Jacket Required by Phil Collins.
And Bob Geldof was presented a special award for his efforts to help victims of African famine.
Dynasty star Joan Collins was also making headlines in London yesterday.
Collins and her partners including her sister author Jackie Collins
collected an out of court settlement of over $200,000.
The partial settlement, a payment of royalties, was from a 1978 movie called The Stud.
There's more money to come.
Collins charged the film-made millions at the box office
but that she only received a salary of about $20,000 for her role.
And back in the United States, Elizabeth Taylor was presiding
at a star studded affair last night in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Taylor led a list of luminaries to the Grand Canyon State
for a black tie gift of life fundraiser to combat the deadly disease AIDS.
I feel emotionally involved very deeply.
I was involved, however, before anyone I knew was stricken.
This is my first participation in anything for the AIDS program.
It's on account of this lady right alongside of me.
She asked me to be here tonight to help with this whole program.
And I'd do almost anything for Elizabeth Taylor.
Bob Hope served as emcee for the fundraiser, which included songs by Melissa Manchester
and an auction of 11 Arabian horses.
Sovereign sire Aladdin.
Proceeds from the benefit, which exceeded a half million dollars,
will be split between the American Foundation for AIDS Research
and the Arizona AIDS Fund Trust.
Artworks valued at a reported $10 million are providing an expensive backdrop
for a new Robert Redford-Deborah Winger movie.
Scott Osborne has that story.
The forthcoming film Legal Eagles is about murder and art fraud.
And while Robert Redford, Deborah Winger and Darrell Hannah occupy the foreground,
the background will feature $10 million worth of art by such 20th century masters
as Picasso, Calder and Miro.
Universal Soundstage looks like a genuine gallery.
One of the sub-themes of our film is that art has real power.
And the power comes from its beauty and from the emotionally way that it moves people.
Legal Eagles won't finish shooting until March, but the film set is already a work of art.
Scott Osborne, Entertainment Tonight.
If you're counting, Down and Out in Beverly Hills is the number one movie in the country,
according to the latest weekend film box office report.
And that isn't all.
Down and Out gave Leonard Maltin a case of deja vu.
There's no question that Down and Out in Beverly Hills is a hit,
but I wonder how many people going to see it realize that it's a remake of a French movie
that was done more than half a century ago.
Hey!
Boudou Saved from Drowning is the title and the story of the 1932 film
made by the great Jean Renoir.
The bookseller saves a bum from a watery death, but the rescued soul is far from grateful.
Oh, God!
What's more, Boudou completely disrupts the bookseller's household
and his sexual relations with both his housemaid and his wife.
Paul Mazursky's movie is quite different in tone and style,
even though it does draw on the basic story of Boudou.
Boudou is more droll.
It's lighter in tone. It's more of a fairy tale.
Boudou is more poetic, but I make no attempt to compare myself to Jean Renoir,
who is, you know, one of the masters.
My hat off to him. Thank you, Jean.
Leonard Maltin, Entertainment Tonight.
Oh, baby!
Next, do guns on TV mean bang-up ratings?
Part two of a special report.
And ahead, Michael Landon.
My Way to Heaven travels a painful road from Vietnam to memory lane.
Action-adventure movies are as old as Hollywood.
However, today's action-adventure films, such as Rambo and Commando,
have come under fire from maybe having too much action.
And what about the small screen?
Does firepower translate into star power and explosive ratings on television?
That's the subject of part two in our series, The Guns of Hollywood.
The A-Team spends $45,000 an episode on guns and stunts.
Still not enough firepower in the ratings war.
The regulars of Magnum P.I. regularly engage in gunfire.
However, they've been shot down by the Cosby Show.
I think you're going to make something happen.
But if you spot a trend away from guns and violence, forget it,
because designer weapons like Uzis are as important to Crockett and Tubbs as designer suits.
I love this. This is fun.
Television shows are under more pressure from lobbyist groups because movies have a rating system.
There usually is no advance warning for what violence may be coming across your television screen.
It's not that you have to use violence, you have to use action.
And action tends to be violent.
Don Belisario's production company is responsible for both Magnum P.I. and Airwolf.
I think if you're going to use violence in a show, you should really show it.
You don't have to see head splitting open and blood squirting all over the place.
I'm not an advocate of that, but I think it should be more realistic.
It seems like people are turning their backs on that kind of humor.
David Gerber should know. His new entry, Lady Blue, got blown away by ABC.
We get into a conveyor belt of a style or of a cycle.
And sometimes we get on a belt and it carries us further than we realize before we get off.
And we're all into that right now.
And we've just got to get off the conveyor belt and realize that perhaps we've gone a little too far.
I find myself in a very strange and difficult and ambivalent situation.
Personally, I hate the damn things and always have and always will.
And yet I realize that they are an essential part of the props.
Dating is simply a reflection of American society, really.
It's just that we are a bit of a...we're almost a cartoon. We're not really.
We use blanks. Nobody ever gets shot.
So it's like kids playing cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians.
So they're an integral part of our show.
It's done for drama. It's done to make a point.
I mean, we developed a weapon for me this year that has a pump shotgun.
You know, when that bad boy comes out, it's like, whoa, doves, you know.
And on the pilot, I had a sawed-off shotgun.
They're talking about developing some other weapons.
I mean, yeah, it's done for dramatic flair.
As we reported yesterday, federal agents are now seizing more exotic weapons,
such as those seen on Miami Vice. They play down the connection.
The kinds of people that we arrest and that the local police arrest
that are in possession of these type firearms,
I don't care if they watch Lassie or Miami Vice,
they're going to go get these kind of guns because they need them
for the kind of business they're involved in.
Tomorrow, the movie's macho men.
It's fun watching them blow everybody away.
That's all it's good for.
And the effect they have on America's youth.
Is there more high-velocity action ahead for moviegoers?
You bet. Chuck Norris and Canon Films today announced an exclusive seven-year contract.
Canon's press release calls it the largest multiple-picture deal in the history of cinema.
What the enthusiastic press release neglects to mention is that the budget for explosives
may well be the biggest in the history of the motion picture industry as well.
The Cosby Show, as usual, was the most-watched television show in America last week,
according to the latest Nielsen ratings.
It was followed by Family Ties, Murder, She Wrote, 60 Minutes, Cheers,
Highway to Heaven, Child's Cry, the CBS Sunday Night Movie, and Dallas.
In ninth place, Part 2 of Sins, the only episode of the two big miniseries to make it into the top ten.
And finally, New Heart and Night Court tied for tenth place.
CBS won the week, but NBC still leads the season's ratings race.
Last week in New York, the three network programming chiefs sat down for lunch together,
and CBS programming boss Bud Grant says the race isn't over yet.
At the moment, we are in second.
We have not thrown the ball yet.
It is still in the corner, and therefore...
That's cute, Brandon. He's so adorable.
An Angel is co-pilot.
Michael Landon talks about a special episode of Highway to Heaven when we return.
Coming up on Entertainment Tonight...
Tomorrow, Kevin Bacon takes off on his 10-speed bike for Quicksilver.
And Sally Field joins the parade to accept Harvard's Hasty Pudding Award.
Thursday, a new series, 20 shows that change TV,
and an exclusive preview of The Hitcher starring Rutger Hauer.
All on Entertainment Tonight.
Feature films and TV movies often tackle real-life subjects affecting our day-to-day lives.
Occasionally, a TV series does the same.
Michael Landon.
Who produces and stars as an angel in his series, Highway to Heaven,
uses MIAs and the wounds that refuse to heal from Vietnam as the theme for next week's episode.
Gene Wolfe reports.
I'd like to know before I die that someone remembered him.
That it wasn't all just in vain.
Michael Landon is taking a risk in an upcoming episode of Highway to Heaven called To Bind the Wounds.
He has Eli Wallach playing a father whose son's body is returned from Vietnam 15 years later,
and no one seems to care.
Whether the war was popular or not really isn't the point.
The point is that he was called and he went.
And nobody gave a damn.
As the show becomes more successful, do you feel more responsibility to deal with issues?
We do deal with political subjects,
and we do deal with subjects that aren't controversial.
The fact that we do it on an intimate basis with people is probably the difference.
He was a fine-looking boy.
He was bigger than me by the time he was 14.
I should have been killed a hundred times over in the war, but I wasn't.
It's a draw of the cards, I guess.
I think America is waking up to what happened,
to a whole guilt about the way we treated the boys who came home from the war.
The moral seems to be we're all on this planet together.
We're all tied together.
We should help one another.
We should care about one another.
And that's not political.
I wish you could come over just for a little while.
I need to talk about him.
Is there a message in this show that concerns your feelings about the apathy about Vietnam?
Only that apathy is apathy, and not caring is not caring.
And turning away because something bothers you.
And if it bothers you, therefore don't deal with it at all.
That's really what it's about.
This is great, Jonathan.
So plain to be had like this.
I mean, this old cradon.
Oh, yeah.
I guess I've got to go the rest of the way all alone.
Kenny Rogers will undergo surgery to remove a cyst from his vocal cords,
forcing postponement of 16 concerts over the next six weeks.
Rogers is still expected to host the upcoming Grammy Awards,
but will not perform as scheduled.
And veteran British actor Brian Ahern,
a leading man in the movies in the 1930s and 40s,
and one-time Academy Award nominee, died yesterday.
He was 83.
Anyway, why do you come and worry me after lunch?
I've always had the greatest admiration for you, Inspector.
You have in the past been faced with tremendously difficult cases,
all of which you have solved with remarkable skill.
Brian Ahern had come to Hollywood via Broadway.
His stage performances, like his screen roles, were generally upscale.
Classy gentlemen, men of honor.
Ahern married actress Joan Fontaine in 1939.
They divorced five years later.
He often appeared opposite some of Hollywood's leading ladies,
including Joan Crawford.
But he also turned in memorable gritty performances,
such as Emperor Maximilian in Juarez.
The streets seem to be empty except for the soldiers.
Why are there no townspeople here to greet us?
Because of the plague, Your Majesty.
What plague? Black plague, Your Majesty.
His last film was Rosie in 1967.
Although Ahern spent more than four decades on stage and screen,
he said he never was all that impressed with the glamour of it.
Actor Brian Ahern, dead at 83.
Bogart and Bacall, John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe, Valentine's Day,
and a How to Strip video.
That and more when we come back.
Here's the ET Digest for Tuesday, the 11th of February.
New in the record store, Fundamental from Mental as Anything.
In concert today, The Grateful Dead at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center
in Oakland, California.
And celebrating birthdays today, Sergio Mendez is 45, Burt Reynolds is 50,
Conrad Janis is 58, Leslie Nielsen is 60, Kim Stanley is 61, and Ava Gabor, 65.
The Grateful Dead at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland, California.
Flowers, a box of candy, a night on the town.
Ah, yes, the old traditional way of spending Valentine's Day.
In this week's video preview, Eric Burns may have the most unusual
and most non-traditional gift of all.
I know it sounds immodest to say so, but I think you're really going to enjoy
this segment today for two reasons.
First, some good movies are out on cassette this week.
Second, the last cassette we're going to show you a clip of is called
How to Strip for Your Lover.
Let's start working our way toward it.
I know some pretty big men around here that might not be averse to a deal like this
if they're properly approached.
The Asphalt Jungle is available this week, a gritty masterpiece
about a jewel heist that goes wrong.
Among the stars, young Marilyn Monroe.
I'm hot to get, Steve. All you have to do is ask me.
And even younger, Lauren Bacall made her movie debut in To Have and Have Not.
Humphrey Bogart stars, William Faulkner wrote the screenplay,
Ernest Hemingway wrote the novel it's based on.
Half a dozen vintage Westerns are out this week, starring such cowboys as
James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Rock Hudson, and John Wayne.
Well, science, since you haven't learned to respect your elders,
it's time you learned to respect your betters.
Among the week's less successful releases is Ordeal by Innocence,
an adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel.
Have you ever wondered what it must be like to be on the receiving end
of one of these little beauties, Doctor?
The week's oldest new release is The Hurricane,
a classic from almost half a century ago in which the title character
tries to blow the sarong off Dorothy Lamour.
An easier way to accomplish the same thing, however,
is to buy the Dorothy Lamour in your life,
the Valentine's Day release How to Strip for Your Lover.
There are two ways to take off a skirt, the boring way and the sexy way.
Unfortunately, she chose the sexy way, so that's right,
you have to look at me again and I'm remaining fully clothed.
And, recommending that you remain fully clothed too,
so that you can go down to your video store and either buy or rent
the week's two best releases, The Asphalt Jungle, and To Have and Have Not.
Eric Burns, Entertainment Tonight.
Thank you, Eric. Today, as we mentioned, it's Burt Reynolds' 50th birthday.
And if you recall 14 years ago,
Reynolds' career was given a big boost when he appeared nude in the pages of Cosmo.
Well now, in the new issue of Mademoiselle on sale today,
there's a list of what Mademoiselle is proclaiming as the world's 14 most sinfully sexy men.
And among them, gymnast Mitch Gaylord, TV's Pierce Brosnan,
pop music's favorite son Julian Lennon, the marvelous one Billy Crystal,
actors Tyrone Power Jr. and Rutger Hauer, and the high-flying record-setting test pilot Chuck Yeager.
Incidentally, Burt Reynolds is not on Mademoiselle's list.
Uh-oh.
But remains on ours, right?
He should do one of those how to strip videos that Eric was telling us about.
You get right back on that list.
We are going to be covering it all tomorrow, no pun intended, on Entertainment Tonight.
From Las Vegas, the studios bring on the big stars.
From Boston, Sally Field receives an award from Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club.
And from Hollywood, Kevin Bacon tells how it all comes together in his new film, Quicksilver.
Last night in London at the British Record Industry Awards,
one of the standout performances was Kate Bush, who sang Hounds of Love.
And here it is, as it was seen in England on Channel 10, the Entertainment Network.
We'll see you tomorrow.
Bye-bye.
I don't know what's good for me, I don't know what's good for me.
On tomorrow's Hour magazine, singer Anne Murray looks back at a successful career
and started with the hit song, Snowbird.
Plus good news for cold sufferers and diabetics.
Tomorrow at 4 on Hour magazine.
Now stay tuned for the 18th, here on WJR-TV 10.
What it means to worry, yeah, yeah.