Hello everyone, I'm John Tesch.
And I'm Mary Hart.
Hollywood got up at the crack of dawn this morning after a fitful night of tossing and turning.
It's Valentine's Day, but that had nothing to do with it.
It's Oscar nomination day as well, an event just as close to Hollywood's heart.
The Hollywood press corps was in media heaven this morning, spreading the news of the Oscar nominations around the globe.
Motion Picture Academy president Carl Malden and last year supporting actress winner Gina Davis announced the Best Picture nominees.
Are you gonna put them in a home, buddy?
And go in a coffin before any son of mine go in a home.
My Left Foot received a Best Picture nod along with four other nominations.
It's the story of real-life Irish artist Christy Brown, who despite crippling cerebral palsy, lived a rich and full life.
Hey, is this heaven?
No, it's Iowa.
Field of Dreams is up for Best Picture and two other awards.
Kevin Costner leads a strong cast in this tale of a baseball-loving farmer who pays attention to his dreams.
I hate being discussed behind my back in my own house.
The feisty relationship between matron and chauffeur made for first-rate filmmaking in Driving Miss Daisy.
The comedy-drama proved popular with the Academy.
It leads all nominees with nine nominations, including Best Picture.
Come on.
Rip it out.
Thank you, Mr. Dalton.
Robin Williams and the gang turned Dead Poet Society into a nominee in four categories.
Set in 1959, this prep school picture is now certified grade A.
I joined the Marines four years, so I go to Vietnam.
They say I'll probably go right on the front line.
The fifth Best Picture nominee is born on the 4th of July up for eight Oscars in all.
Tom Cruise is the Vietnam veteran in this Oliver Stone film.
It's a thrill. It's the recognition by people that you respect who work in the business.
There's so many great films this year, too, that it's nice.
We'll have the rest of the Oscar story, including nominations for Best Actor and Actress, later on in the show.
Don't believe the cynics? Hollywood gets just as misty-eyed on Valentine's Day as the rest of the country.
The celebrity couples are all smiles, walking hand in hand.
The only difference from your town is that here, some of the guys are pretty well along in years, and the gals are sometimes young.
Older men, younger women are inside story for today.
There are no strings tied to you. Not yet.
For years, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall set the standard for May-December romances in Hollywood.
When they married, he was 46 and she was 20. Since then, plenty of others have followed suit.
It had to be you
Cary Grant had two marriages to younger women. He was 33 years older than Diane Cannon, and 47 years the senior of fifth wife Barbara Harris.
When Fred Astaire married Jocky Robin Smith, he was 81 and she was just 35.
Today, everybody from Dudley Moore to Johnny Carson to Rolling Stone Bill Wyman have taken the plunge.
All with women some might mistake as their daughters.
At 66, Telly Savalas has fathered two children with 32-year-old wife Julie. He says robbing the cradle has its advantages.
It's like robbing from her in order to keep the fountain of youth going.
Julie for me has been a great experience in so many ways. As a mother, as a wife, as the children she's given me, I intend to live to be 100.
Sometimes there can be unexpected obstacles to overcome. For 53-year-old Dennis Hopper, one was his first meeting with the parents of his 23-year-old wife Catherine.
Her father and mother are younger than I am.
It was sort of difficult. Her father, who is a plastic surgeon in Baton Rouge, called me and said,
is it true that you're seeing my daughter and what are your intentions? And I said, how about if I marry her?
May the Lord bless them and keep them.
63-year-old Hugh Hefner, who a year ago married 26-year-old Playboy cover girl Kimberly Conrad,
says his 30 years as a divorcee prepared him for marriage the second time around.
I think that one of the problems with marriage is that people get married too quickly.
I wouldn't suggest that everybody wait till they're 62. It took me a long time to find the right woman.
But I do think that a person ought to find themselves.
For 81-year-old Buddy Ebsen, marrying 50-year-old wife Dorothy rekindled a passion for living.
Inspired by her to take up painting, his work is now shown in galleries. He says their years together have been precious.
It's only grown to be a more important and a more loving and a more, well, it's the reason for living, really.
Here he is, Kathie Lee's better half, Frank Gifford.
The marriage between 59-year-old sportscaster Frank Gifford and his 36-year-old talk show host wife Kathie Lee
is a relationship that both feel is enriched by their age difference.
She keeps life so absolutely fascinating. It's light, it's humorous.
She knows all the parameters of my emotions and she's always right there.
And for Kathie Lee, who is expecting the couple's first child next month, the joys of life with an older man are numerous.
He has been through so much, known so much, experienced so much in this world.
And I grow from being near him all the time. I learn so much. It's like really fascinating.
And he has great buns, I told you. He's a sweetie.
A sweetie with great buns and great moves.
Of course, prior to moving to the announce booth on Monday Night Football, Gifford was a running back with the New York Giants
and is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
On our Inside Story tomorrow, actresses who got their name in lights playing ladies of the night.
The thing that was so amazing to me is that it's a job for them. And I've never thought of sex as a job.
Bad Girls of the Movies, the Inside Story tomorrow on Entertainment Tonight.
Coming up next, more on the Oscars with the favorites in the acting categories, plus some surprises you'll have to see to believe.
And later, accusations, denials, rumors of infidelity. The Trump divorce takes on a nasty life of its own.
Speculation in Hollywood has been fast and furious for weeks over who would receive nominations for the Academy Awards.
This morning, the speculation ended and the anticipation began for nominees in the best supporting actress and best actress categories.
What are you doing?
Jessica Tandy led the list of best actress nominees as the stubborn southern gentlewoman in the title role of Driving Miss Daisy.
Another Jessica, Jessica Lange, was nominated for her role in Music Box. She plays a lawyer defending her own father against Nazi war crimes.
French actress Isabella Jani carved out a nomination for her performance as sculptress Camille Claudel in the foreign language film of the same name.
Pauline Collins got a nod for Shirley Valentine, a middle-aged British woman who discovers herself on a trip abroad.
And Michelle Pfeiffer rounds out the best actress nominees as a sultry lounge singer in the Fabulous Baker Boys.
In the best supporting actress category, My Left Foot's Brenda Fricker earned a nomination as the mother who believed in her son despite the odds.
Of course it is an accolade for an actress to be nominated for an Oscar because Oscars are things that I've watched on television, like while eating fish and chips at a newspaper, you know, and being on the dole and things like that.
And suddenly you're part of that machine.
And Steel Magnolias provided a significant supporting actress nomination for Julia Roberts, who triumphed over her better known co-stars.
Parenthood received its only acting nomination for former Oscar winner Diane Weist, who plays a single mother trying to raise her kids the best she can.
We got married a couple of days ago.
Are you out of your mind?
And Enemy's A Love Story follows a man married to three wives, and two of them received best supporting actress nominations.
First-time nominee Lena Olin and previous Oscar winner Angelica Huston.
I'm sure he slept with you before me.
I came to him a virgin.
Oh, congratulations.
By the way, Michelle Pfeiffer is the only woman to be a repeat nominee in these categories from last year.
One year ago, she received the best supporting actress nomination for Dangerous Liaison.
We know John, like Michelle Pfeiffer, Martin Landau received nominations last year and then again this morning.
He's the only man in the acting categories to get nominations back to back.
This year, the trend in nominations in the Best Actor race was founded in real life, and three of the five nominees play men whose stories have made it to the movies.
One, two, three.
Tom Cruise received his first nomination ever for his role as the wounded Vietnam vet, who experienced another side of the war when he returned home in Born on the Fourth of July.
Daniel Day-Lewis was nominated for his depiction of Christie Brown in My Left Foot as a man who triumphed over his handicap to become a recognized painter and writer.
What say you?
Kenneth Branagh's role as Henry V garnered him a nomination just as it did for the man he's most often compared to, Lawrence Olivier, when he played Henry in 1946.
Morgan Freeman's second nomination came for his role as the driver who forms a special relationship with the woman he drives for in Driving Miss Daisy.
Why do I stand up here?
And Robin Williams got his second nomination for his part as the unconventional schoolteacher in Dead Poet Society, and the recognition made his day.
It's wonderful. It's a great thing. I was a great Valentine's Day present. It's a great way to start the day, I'm telling you right now. Boom!
In the Supporting Actor category, there are two first-time nominees, Danny Aiello, who plays a pizza parlor owner in Do the Right Thing.
You're gonna pay now, you're gonna pay on layaway.
And Dan Aykroyd, Miss Daisy's son in Driving Miss Daisy.
Every insurance company in America's out there waving their fountain pens trying to get you to sign up.
Marlon Brando has won Best Actor twice, but this is his first Supporting Actor nomination for portraying an anti-apartheid attorney in a dry white season.
Repeat nominees are Denzel Washington, who's a soldier in the Civil War's first black regiment in glory.
And Martin Landau, who plays a respected doctor trapped in an affair in Crimes and Misdemeanors.
I'm excited and thrilled. I mean, I've gotta keep doing this every year, I guess.
There were some important omissions from this year's nominees. Batman, the year's biggest moneymaker, received only one in that for art direction.
And the much-talked-about film Roger and Me about the hard times in Flint, Michigan was shut out completely.
There were other surprises as well, but it is no surprise that Leonard Malton is here now with us and raring to go with an inside look at how the nominations reflect on the past year in the movies. Leonard?
Well, John, I would say that 1989 was not a banner year for movies, and I don't think the Academy voters had that much to choose from, which makes some of their selections and some of their omissions all the more surprising.
Come on!
Denzel Washington is great in his supporting role, and I'm happy he got nominated. But what about the writer, the director, the picture itself?
Some other directors have reason to feel left out. Phil Alden Robinson made the magic happen in Field of Dreams, and his film got nominated for Best Picture. So why leave him on the bench?
Paul Mazursky created one of the year's finest film experiences in Enemies, a love story. But he, too, was overlooked.
Currently, both men have been nominated for their screenplays, as has another overlooked director, Spike Lee. Do the Right Thing got him his first Oscar mention for Best Original Screenplay, as well as an acting nomination for his co-star, Danny Aiello.
Do the Right Thing was my third film. I'll be making films the rest of my life, and maybe, you know, Nature will take its course, and the younger members will move into the Academy, or maybe I'll get one of them on my deathbed like they usually do. Before you croak, they will you out.
And then there are the usual Oscar curiosities. Now, how on earth is Martin Landau a supporting actor in Crimes and Misdemeanors? He's got the leading role in the picture.
Go figure, right? The thing I really feel most annoyed about is Glory. I thought it was a great movie, and I'm sorry that it didn't get more major recognition besides Denzel Washington. But then if there weren't oddities, they wouldn't be the Oscars.
I'm sure a lot of moviegoers right now are puzzled because they haven't even had the chance to see some of these nominated movies or performances. But if you're skeptical about Pauline Collins as Shirley Valentine, or Kenneth Branagh as Henry V, or Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot, don't be.
Those are great performances and movies you really ought to see, or else you will have missed some of the best of 1989, just as the Oscar voters seem to think.
Thank you, Leonard. We'll be right back with the Oscar nominee in the best divorce category, Trump vs. Trump.
There will be no valentines, no boxes of candy, no long-stemmed red roses at the Trump House.
The divorce between Donald and Ivana is taking on a bitter quality, not just between the Trumps, but among the gossip columnists as well. Garrett Glaser reports.
This was the scene as Ivana Trump arrived at a luncheon in her honor.
Guests were supposed to bring her heart-shaped gifts, but that valentine spirit was not to be found on the street.
The chaos on Ivana's arrival was expected. Hundreds of photographers, reporters, news technicians, and hangers-on fighting for a glimpse. Unexpected were some of the guests.
Having in-laws at the party fueled rumors of a possible reconciliation, all this while columnists and newspaper reporters battled for stories of their own.
One columnist described Ivana as afraid. Another quoted Donald as saying the decision to leave was the hardest one of his life.
Other papers focused on Donald Trump's alleged roving eye. The suspected other woman, Marla Maples, got plenty of ink, too. New York columnist Cindy Adams spoke with Donald Trump.
He's very strong. The man wants to play. He needs a new toy. And so he's about to go and find a new Barbie doll.
The Trumps lived their life together amid hype and hoopla. It looks like their divorce will play out the same way.
Garrett Glaser, Entertainment Tonight.
A lot has been said about this pending divorce. One columnist called the $25 million prenuptial agreement chump change and claimed that Donald Trump's casinos alone bring in $50 million each week.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is no chump, of course, and to prove it, he's branching out into another area of show business just in case the old acting career goes south.
Arnie, always a man of action, now gets to call the shots. And Lisa Gibbons has the story for us.
He's the reigning wise guy of action films. Conan. Commando. Terminator. Predator. He's even made a splash with the comedy Twins.
But now Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking on a new role behind the camera as director of an episode of the HBO series Tales from the Crypt.
Arnold Schwarzenegger directs The Switch.
I wouldn't be caught dead anywhere else.
When we do this shot now, the 360 shot, and you pick up the frame. After you pick up the frame, then we come to the front here.
Every time we interview you, you're always the jokester and causing pranks on the set. Now you're the guy in charge. Is it different?
First of all, I'm always in charge anyway, so it doesn't make any difference.
Oh, sorry.
No, just joking.
Directing is a whole different challenge because it's a challenge and because it's kind of scary to do because you're in charge now of everything.
A thousand people come to you for questions about wardrobe and makeup and hair, so I like that.
I like the challenge and I like the risks that are involved in it and so on, so I think that's what it is.
On top of his directing debut, Schwarzenegger recently made his debut as a daddy.
He's seen here leaving the hospital with wife Maria Schreiver and baby Catherine, now nine weeks old.
The most exciting thing that has ever happened to me is having this new little baby and being a girl on top of it, you know how you spoil little girls.
I have such a wonderful time playing with it every morning when I get up and when I come home at night, you know, to hang out with it and sitting there in my arms and just watching it.
It is just really absolutely fantastic.
But the most admirable thing of all is obviously the woman about this whole thing because I mean it's really great being part of a delivery because you really respect a woman much more after that.
I mean what they go through and the pain and hours and hours of just pure torture, you know, it's hell.
And I think that it really brought Maria and me even closer together than we were before.
Life is sweet these days for Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Lisa Gibbons, Entertainment Tonight.
Thanks Lisa. Arnold's directing debut will premiere on HBO on April the 21st.
Pardon me, but wasn't that Arnie a moment ago?
Arnie. My guy Arnie. Love those films, Arnie. Keep making them. I'll go see him. You make them, I'll see them.
Accent and all.
Seriously.
And nothing new here. The insider digs up some personal dirt just for Valentine's Day when we come back.
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Celebrating birthdays today, actress Meg Tilley turns 30, actor Gregory Hines is 44, actress Florence Henderson turns 56,
2020's Hugh Downs is 69, and sportscaster Mel Allen is 77.
Don't you know most days the ET Insider scans the classified section of the papers looking for work,
but every February the 14th he strays over to the Personals column to check out the Valentine messages.
In the Los Angeles Times he finds the message, the warrior loves flipper lips, and this unsigned message,
Polish queen in court, much love on your special day, new nose and sayonara.
The insider will not attempt to decode these messages, he will merely report them to you.
Now from Hilo and the island of Hawaii, Tribune Herald newspaper, to my darling, be my sweet Hawaiian pineapple, aloha, your hot lava.
From Kansas the message is a bit more staid in the Topeka Capital Journal, muffin butt, you truly are delish,
your lips are not like fish, so slide on over here and give me a kish.
That was enough for the insider, he then switched back over to the help wanted ads.
She started such Hollywood hits as Fatal Attraction, The Big Chill, and Dangerous Liaisons,
so what could Glenn Close possibly do to further her acting career?
How about a one night stand in Cambridge, Massachusetts?
In Cambridge Glenn Close was welcomed with a parade as she received Harvard University's KC Pudding Award for Woman of the Year.
Very very honored that you considered my work worthy of Woman of the Year, I actually take it quite seriously.
In Springfield, Missouri, Ocal Cutta was performed untraditionally, with Close to comply with the law
prohibiting new dancing in a place with a liquor license. Still, the audience got what it expected.
A spicy show, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for that.
And in New York, 12 brides and grooms did the Lombada Down the Isle for an unusual Valentine's Day wedding.
We've been waiting to get married for five years and this just seemed like the right way to do it.
I guess so.
A number of famous actresses studied long and hard to achieve good standing in Hollywood only to wind up playing bad girls in the movies.
We're going to have that story for you tomorrow.
And to say goodbye on this Valentine's Day, one of the five songs nominated for an Oscar, here is Kissed a Girl.
Enjoy it, we'll see you tomorrow.
Bye bye.
Don't say a word until you kiss the girl. Shalalalalala, don't be scared, you got the moods prepared, go on and kiss the girl.
Tomorrow, does Norm have the ambition to be a high-powered executive? It's bland ambition on Cheers! Tomorrow at 5.
But now stay tuned for Growing Pains, next, here on WTAE-TV.
Kissed a girl, shalalalalala, the music play, the one that music say, you gotta kiss the girl.
Kissed a girl, kiss the girl. Kissed a girl, kiss the girl.
Go on and kiss the girl.