I think it's a great honor. I think it's, you know, it's a compliment. It's flattering.
It's here, the 25th annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue on the cover Kathy Ireland, right where every model in the world would like to be.
The cover story is our inside story for Monday, February 6th, 1989.
Hello again everybody, I'm Mary Hart. And I'm John Tesh.
Once it was every girl's dream to wear the crown when Burt Parks sang There She Is Miss America.
Now the most coveted beauty title is to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit issue.
Today, Kathy Ireland's picture is on two and one-half million Sports Illustrated covers on magazine racks across the country.
And this year, for the first time, there's a TV show based on the swimsuit issue.
Twenty-five-year-old Kathy Ireland may have the lead in the film Sports Illustrated, The Making of the Swimsuit Issue.
But how about this supporting cast? Cheryl Teagues in the Seychelles Islands off of Africa.
Elle McPherson at the Great Barrier Reef off Australia.
Christie Brinkley among the wild animals in Kenya.
Carol Ault on the Nepali coast of Kauai.
And many, many more of the most beautiful women in the world all in one program.
The one-hour documentary was produced for Home Box Office by Maisel's Films.
The co-producers of this unusual film are Albert Maisel's of Gimmie Shelter fame
and Susan Frommke, the producer of Grey Gardens, a film about two obscure relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Their impression of their new and very different film subjects?
You see these models and you think, oh, you know, they make so much money and they probably only have to work two or three hours a day.
But it's not true. What you see is that these are the hardest-working career women out there.
They're up at four in the morning. They don't get to bed until like eleven or twelve at night.
And they have to look beautiful the whole way through.
Was producer cameraman Albert Maisel's distracted by all the sun, sand and skin?
You're half way around the world. You're only there for a day and a half.
And you're so preoccupied by getting the film and the story that you're not thinking too much of anything else.
Somehow, Maisel's got through this very difficult assignment and captured the adventure and excitement of creating the photographs
that will fill Sports Illustrated's huge anniversary issue.
Catey Ireland's session took place in Cabo San Lucas and Maisel's camera dutifully recorded the techniques that sometimes are necessary to make a great picture.
And so it's this or this.
Cathy Ireland actually had two pictures that made it to the semi-finals for the cover before editors Mark Mulvoy and Julie Campbell picked the one that is on your newsstands today.
And in case the magazine and the television show haven't satiated your swimwear desires, there is more.
A video about all of this and music, too, is available for $19.99.
Advance orders have already topped $600,000, placing it in the top ten best-selling non-movie videos.
This is actually Cathy Ireland's sixth appearance in the magazine.
She joined such top model cover girls as Christie Brinkley, Cheryl Teagues.
But who she is and how she got there is a cover story in itself.
As a superstar swimsuit model, Cathy Ireland has traveled all over the world, not only for Sports Illustrated,
but for countless other publications who have used her stunning good looks to attract readers.
But this 25-year-old beauty has some surprisingly candid thoughts about the profession which has brought her worldwide fame.
I feel happy or honored or flattered when I get something good with work,
but it's not the type of thing that I feel real proud about myself or think that I've done something wonderful.
I mean, all I do is pose.
Cathy has been modeling since she was 17, but her first photos were taken on the beach in Santa Barbara where she grew up.
She had a paper route when she was 11, and when she went to this Dodger game in 1975,
there wasn't a clue she would become one of the top half-dozen models in the world.
Today, when not on assignment, Cathy and her husband Greg Olson make their home in Santa Barbara,
far from the pressure-packed world of big-time modeling.
But does Cathy get self-conscious when she is working and must give up so much of herself to the public?
I usually tend to turn off like half my brain when I'm working because I get a little uncomfortable.
You know, you see people watching you. I'm very fortunate I have bad eyesight, so I don't see them.
Otherwise, I think I'd get really nervous.
So now that Cathy is one of the very top models in the world, at least for the next year,
does she think the prestigious honor of gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated will change her life?
I'm not planning on letting it change my life. I mean, I think I'm... I don't think I'll change.
I mean, if I do, I hope it's for the better.
With the prestige comes money, lots of it.
Cathy Ireland, who has been the cover girl on over 25 magazines, earns up to $10,000 a day as a model.
Our Inside Story for tomorrow, from swimsuits to wet t-shirts, home movies of Bo Derek shot on exotic locations for the movie
Ghosts Can't Do It by co-star Don Murray.
Bo Derek, as you have never seen her before, our Inside Story tomorrow on Entertainment Tonight.
Coming up next, Paul, George and Ringo remember the weekend 25 years ago when the Beatles invaded America.
And later, Ted Danson finally believes he can play a sexy leading man.
In 1963, the Beatles released three singles that American record buyers ignored.
But it was an altogether different story. In January of 1964, the song I Wanna Hold Your Hand
rocketed to the top of the American pop singles chart.
And that set the stage for a radical change that swept the country just a few weeks later.
Pat O'Brien looks at the Beatlemania invasion.
Nobody was ready for America's reaction when the Beatles arrived in New York City, February 7, 1964.
Just arriving at the airport, I've never seen so many fans screaming.
We thought it was the jet's engines screaming.
At the press conference that followed, they even felt they had to introduce themselves.
I'm bald. I'm all bald. Don't tell anyone, please.
But all that changed two nights later when millions of kids tuned into the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show.
The Beatles!
The show was the highest rated in television history to that point.
Then they were off to Washington, D.C. for their first public concert.
Oh yeah, I'll tell you something, I think you're on your side.
But despite this Beatlemania, they had been around long enough to know it might not last.
You can be big headed and say, yeah, we're going to last ten years, but as soon as you've said that, you think, you know,
well, look, it'll be nice three months.
I hope to have enough money to go into a business of my own by the time we do flop.
To say the least, on that weekend an interesting social phenomenon took place.
While on Friday most young people left school thinking about Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys, maybe the Four Seasons.
After the Ed Sullivan show on Sunday night, they came back to school on Monday with only four lads on their minds.
John, Paul, George and Ringo.
If anybody needed proof this was a real phenomenon, it came a week later on a second appearance of the Sullivan show.
As soon as they went off the second time, the phone started ringing and every kid called every kid to say, did you see that?
I can't imagine any more than you how big it was and you probably have a better idea because you were out there on that side of it all, you know.
But I was on the inside looking out.
Within two months of that first appearance in America, the top five singles on the U.S. charts were Beatle songs.
Even today, nobody has been able to equal that.
At first we set out to be Beatles and to try and be cute and make all these records and then it just got bigger than anybody ever thought.
We were very much a family and I don't think I appreciated it quite as much as when now I see old film, you know, of the Beatles and sort of see us going and doing that thing together.
You see how much we rely on each other.
Took my love away.
It was a time of change for kids all over the world and the Beatles were a big part of it.
I think it happened.
It took everyone completely by surprise and just went boom and the old values were just blown away.
As a group, I don't think there'll be another group of musicians that will have an effect on the public the Beatles did because it was the first.
It is nice to have the great memories of the Beatles from 25 years ago, but what's more important is we have the music and that's something that never seems to grow old.
Pat O'Brien, Entertainment Tonight.
So great was the impact of the Beatles that 60 percent of all 45 sold in the first six months of 64 were Beatles records.
Celebrities from England and Hollywood converged on New York City for a spectacular premiere.
And although the movie Lawrence of Arabia has been around for 27 years for everyone there, it was like seeing it for the first time.
The newly restored classic brought together stars Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif and director David Lean.
It's one that I set aside from everything else in my life.
Premier fans included Sylvester Stallone, Tom Brokaw, Cicely Tyson, Donald Sutherland, Brooke Shields and Steven Spielberg.
Aside from it being a real masterwork, it's the single movie, the single event that really made me want to be a filmmaker.
Come on then!
Lawrence of Arabia won seven Academy Awards in 1962, but surviving prints were in bad condition and drastically edited.
Now the movie has been restored to its original three and a half hour length with vast improvements to picture and sound.
Yes sir, that's my baby.
They've done a fabulous job and it looks better than it did, believe it or not.
The restored version of Lawrence of Arabia will be shown in selected theaters around the country.
On television last night, Lonesome Dove won the night by a wide margin,
beating NBC's The Sex Tape Scandal and ABC's network premiere of Ruthless People.
Three Fugitives is the new number one movie in the country, replacing Rain Man after five weeks in first place.
According to our Entertainment Tonight estimates, her alibi opened in third, Beaches was fourth and Who Is Harry Crumb opened in fifth place.
Ted Danson is starring in a new movie that promises to showcase him as his fans have never seen him before.
Lisa Gibbons has the story.
Audiences have come to know Ted Danson best as the glib ladies man of course from Cheers,
but now in his latest film, Cousins, Danson finally shows what he can do as a romantic leading man.
I blush in that I'm going to agree with you. I really, for me, walked out of the film going, great.
Good for you. You finally had the guts to do it and it turned out well.
In Cousins, Danson plays a married dance instructor who unexpectedly falls in love with Isabella Rossellini, but she's married too.
Have you ever cheated on Tish?
Once. In Monopoly. I stole all her good properties while she was doing her nails.
Okay, maybe it's not body heat, but there are some very provocative love scenes. How do you handle those?
It's very, the fear of it I think was more than the actual doing. The doing of it was a very relaxed, easy day.
And it was a shot at the end of the film. So we knew each other and trusted each other and it was very simple.
Carrie Cousinski would love to dance with you.
I wanted to see more of the dancing.
That was another hard part of the film because the ballroom dancing, the man has to lead. The man has to be very assertive.
Nowhere around to dance.
And as you have the woman in your arms, you can just tell she's looking at you going, boy if you lead this badly I bet you're not that good and bad.
But the role also gave him some serious insights.
You do walk away learning things about yourself if you've invested something.
Sometimes painful, sometimes great discoveries.
Yeah, this one was me in intimacy. Surprised me.
What's not surprising is dancing feels Cousins could be a hit, the same hunch he had with Three Men and a Baby.
Lisa Gibbons, Entertainment Tonight.
Cousins opens in limited release on Friday. It'll be in theaters nationwide on March 3rd.
Harold Lloyd once rivaled Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton for box office appeal.
Now although his movies are remembered, the man has become a bit of a mystery.
But Leonard Malton is here to clear things up for us. Leonard.
Well John, for several years Americans have been wowed by a series of British made documentaries about silent movie greats which have aired here on PBS.
Unknown Chaplin and Buster Keaton, a hard act to follow, earned Emmy Awards here in this country.
And the two men responsible for those outstanding shows are working on another right now about a man who's sort of the forgotten hero of silent comedy, Harold Lloyd.
This is how movie buffs remember Harold Lloyd, the king of thrill comedy, who did these stunts with three fingers missing from his right hand.
Lloyd was a master of silent comedy and that's why Kevin Brownlow and David Gill want to tell his story and want to find people to help them do it.
Just how popular was Lloyd?
By the end of the 20s he was probably the most popular comedian in the world, certainly in the States I would say.
More than Chaplin, more than Keaton.
Certainly in terms of box office success and anticipation to the next one.
And he worked hard for his success. That go-getting all-American boy he played on screen was very much the man in real life.
After he lost those fingers in an accident with a prop bomb, he wore a prosthetic device and a glove and simply went on with his life.
Brownlow and Gill have access to the entire Harold Lloyd archive, including rare family home movies that the comedian had professionally filmed with sound in the early 1930s.
Shall we give daddy a kiss? Oh my goodness. Now I'll give you one.
And there are his scrapbooks, crammed with wonderful clippings, photos, advertisements and even get well notes at the time of his bomb accident, like this one from fellow comedy star Fatty Arbuckle.
But there is one ingredient still lacking.
The most important thing for a program like this is eyewitnesses, the people that were there.
And that you cannot duplicate however much you put in the narration, however much you show on the screen.
And we're desperately looking for people who worked with Lloyd in any capacity whatsoever during the 1920s.
Even if you were just a kid extra who watched him at work from a distance, it would be extremely valuable to hear from you.
Well, Kevin Brownlow and David Gill make some of the best documentaries, I think, in the world, the best that have ever been made about movie history.
So if you can help them, if you have something to contribute about Harold Lloyd, contact me here at ET.
I'll put you in touch with them and next year we'll be watching another great documentary on public broadcasting.
Is this where we give Leonard's home phone number?
Be careful, Leonard. Thanks.
When we come back, the insider has the details on a yard sale where something is selling for $1,000 a square foot.
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Celebrating birthdays today, actress Megan Gallagher is 29.
Actor Robert Townsend, 32.
Singer Natalie Cole is 39.
Fabian is 46.
Anger man Tom Brokaw is 49.
Actor Mike Farrell is 50.
Actress Mamie Van Doren, 56.
Actor Rip Torn is 58.
Actor Patrick McNeese is 67.
Jean-Jacques Gabor is 70.
And Ronald Reagan is 78.
The ET insider is tiring of his somewhat modest digs, so he spent the weekend house hunting.
Three celebrity casas came to his attention.
Roger Moore has several homes in Europe, so he's put his Beverly Hills two-acre spread on the market for a mere $4.9 million.
Ricky Schroeder's folks are selling their 9,000-square-foot house in suburban Calabasas Park for $3.3 million.
That includes the furniture.
The insider is also considering Joan Collins Mansion in Beverly Hills, which was once owned by the late British actor Lawrence Harvey.
Joan will part with the property for a cool $6 million.
Since Paul Crocodile Dundee Hogan rented this place for three months last year at $50,000 a month,
the ET insider could buy it and invite him back in case the insider's day job goes south.
When it rains on their parade in most cities, organizers and marchers alike cry salty tears.
But when the parade is in New Orleans and it's Mardi Gras, they just soma down Bourbon Street without missing a beat.
In New Orleans this weekend, Mardi Gras kicked off, and who better to rain over Sunday night's King Bacchus Parade?
A marvelous-looking Billy Crystal.
If you can't run away with the circus, you might as well be the king of Mardi Gras.
In Los Angeles, the AIDS Action Coalition, known as Being Alive, presented the survivors,
a tribute to people living with AIDS, lending support to Anne Francis, Sally Kellerman, and Belinda Carlisle.
I just think it's a real important evening, and I wanted to be a part of it.
On the opposite coast, TV dad Alan Thicke was honored for his real-life role as a father to a diabetic son.
It was a fundraiser for the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
I think it's great to get involved, and it makes me feel better. You have to do something. You're family.
And back in LA, an art contest with a twist.
A Norman Rockwell painting came to life with Red Skelton and Phyllis Diller posing for a classic scene of Americana.
Well, it was easy for me. I just pulled off two layers and there I was.
Well, we are now happening in Europa.
We'd like to welcome our European audience to entertainment tonight. Beginning this evening, ET is being satellite across the Atlantic.
So leave those satellite dishes pointed right where they are tomorrow for a very personal visit with Bo Derek.
And to close our show today, we're sending back to you the simply fabulous borsam you sent to us in 1964.
Here are The Beatles once again with one of their classics, Twist and Shout.
Take care, everybody. Bye-bye.
Coming up at eight on the comedy heat wave, Anthony Edwards wages a war on campus in revenge of the nerds on Prime Movie 25.
But right now, stay tuned for a current affair next on Fox 25.