We'll our nest bring law and order to TV west of the Pecos can a little town in Vermont find happiness on the big screen are the brothers smothers picking up where they left off in the 60s David Lee Roth caught the perfect wave entertainment tonight heads them off at the pass on Thursday January 7 1988.
I hope this works.
Hello everyone I'm John says and I'm Mary Hart Americans own more television sets than ever but according to a newly released Nielsen survey they are watching them less viewing time is down from a survey taken two years ago and the culprit may be found on the shelves of your local video store.
The survey concludes that because more than half of the nation's homes have VCR's people are running to their local video stores to purchase and rent the latest movie releases rather than sitting in front of the television set to watch prime time TV the number of viewing hours per family dropped dramatically over last year and one industry analyst believes the networks are at fault.
They're repeating programs more and so if you've seen it there's less of an opportunity to keep you in the audience a lot more channel switching zipping and zapping of the industry phrases that are used and people tuning out or tuning to alternative media's.
In addition to VCR use audiences have been switching their channels to cable stations more than 50 percent of American homes have cable and it's estimated that more than a third of all television households can receive 30 or more channels.
A lot of people who are just getting cable or just realizing hey I bought this VCR I can go out and rent a video cassette and watch it or I can tape a program and watch it at my own leisure and my own time think that what's also happening is that a lot of people are taking control of their viewing and are realizing that they're not slaves to network prime time anymore so that obviously has an impact.
Overall the network's share of viewing audience continues to be eroded by cable and home video dropping from just over 72 percent last year to 68 and a half percent in the latest tally.
The January 25th issue of Us Magazine is featuring its 10 most beautiful women in the world with a hot photo layout. Here's an exclusive first look.
From an initial list of more than 50 names Us Magazine picked these 10 as the world's most beautiful women.
Supermodel Paulina Porskova, actress Kim Basinger, fatal attraction co-star Anne Archer, the witches of East Wicks Michelle Pfeiffer who attributes her beauty to good lighting, French actress and ex-bowl of Warren Beatty Isabelle Ajanie who says about herself what's the fascination.
Ex-Max Headroom co-star Amanda Paiz who says my father fainted when I was born and 26 year old actress Virginia Madsen rounding out the list model Kelly Emberg, 22 year old French actress Emmanuelle Berte who says at most she's cute and charming and a woman who says quote I have what people call when they're being kind an offbeat look, Darrell Hannah.
All but one of the us most beautiful women have starred in movies and by the way back in October Entertainment Tonight picked Emmanuelle Berte as one of the hot young film actresses to watch.
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder but one of the top beauties of all time feels its only skin deep. Sophia Loren is more concerned about beautiful roles.
I never consider myself very beautiful so I always try to do things in my profession like I wanted to emphasize my acting most of it than my beauty because beauty if you have it anyway doesn't last very long.
So I mean I always try to do the best I could in choosing in my profession roles that could make me go forward instead of going backwards.
Loren will star in the upcoming NBC mini series The Fortunate Pilgrim as an unglamorous Italian immigrant struggling to keep her family together.
No one knew how they got away with it but for a few brief shining moments the Smothers Brothers tweaked the nose of the establishment and spun music, comedy and political satire into a hit series for CBS.
Then at the height of their popularity CBS lowered the boom. On CBS February 3rd at a 20 year reunion Tom and Dickie will exact their revenge. Eric Burns reports.
It was the Smothers Brothers social commentary that made CBS pull the plug on their show back in 1969 but sometimes even in television you can go home again.
The Smothers rehearsing for next month's special have assembled most of their original co-stars and writers including Steve Martin who was among their Emmy winning writing staff and later a cast member.
Times have changed and they want the excitement too just like we like the excitement. It works for both of us.
They're interested in a little bit of the conflict that people can remember 20 years ago. That adds to the spice of the mix.
I'm very excited to be here. 20 year reunion show with my close personal friends Tom and Dave Smothers.
For some of the old regulars getting back together was essential.
The reason I'm doing it is everybody thought I was dead so now I'm not okay.
It is just so much fun and from looking at the run through today it's something that Variety should be on television today I think.
I thought you said passed away.
The obvious thing that comes to mind about you doing a 20th anniversary show is the irony of doing it on the network.
Not the network you left but the network that kicked you off 20 years ago.
I think a lot of our audience feels the same way. It feels denied that the show was taken off in its prime and we do a few digs here and there.
Do you do everything CBS tells you to do?
Yep.
You do?
Yep.
You do?
Tell me would you jump off a bridge if CBS told you to do it?
Not again.
How do the masses feel about The Last Emperor? You'll find out next in our exclusive movie track.
And ahead James Arness climbs back into the saddle for a new TV western.
The League of Feminine Felines presents The Great Debate.
What's to debate? I'm finicky, he's not.
I suggest there is no difference in cat food. Take this bread.
Please do.
Seafood surprise.
Seafood? Wheatley looks inside.
Sort of looks like seafood.
Surprise.
Now Nine Lives Fisherman's Stew. What looks like nutritious stew with real delicious fish. I, I...
I rest my case.
Vote Nine Lives. A more satisfying choice.
A woman can learn a lot just by watching other women. A lot of ways to use Johnson's baby oil.
For shaving. Softening. As an eye makeup remover. Hmm.
So where will you use Johnson's baby oil?
Everywhere I want to feel beautiful.
Johnson's baby oil from Johnson & Johnson.
And now a new look. A new feel. Light and creamy. It's new Johnson's baby oil mousse from Johnson & Johnson.
Do you have a cold?
I have a cold and I feel lousy. Stuffy nose, runny nose, sore throat, cough.
Will you take two Comtrex tablets? I just want to feel back to normal.
The fact is not Alka-Seltzer Plus, not Contact. None of these can do what Comtrex multi-symptom cold reliever can.
Because all by itself it relieves every major cold symptom.
I feel great and I'm gonna go back to work again.
Darrell Larson has just found out what it means when we say Comtrex. That's all. Nothing else. From Bristol Myers.
Most coffees are a mixture of beans from just about everywhere.
And they generally include some very expensive Colombian beans.
The richest, most flavorful beans in the world.
But Yuba is made exclusively from fine gourmet Colombian beans.
Not a couple, not a handful, but completely 100% gourmet Colombian beans.
Yuba. Gourmet coffee that comes in a can.
The movies The Last Emperor and Empire of the Sun were released about the same time.
Although the titles are similar, moviegoers know the difference between the two and are casting a vote for their favorites with their ticket dollars.
Even though Emperor is in one seventh the number of theaters, it's earning almost half as much as Empire.
That's a remarkable performance.
You know what it means to be an Empress. You are an Empress.
The movie traces the life of the last Chinese Emperor, Pu Yi.
It begins when he took the throne at age three through his exile and imprisonments under Chinese Communist rule.
Our exclusive movie track survey gives a clue to the popularity of this film.
It finished in the top 20% of all film survey.
Viewers described it as informative, thought-provoking, perceptive, and intelligent.
A number of people said they were awed by the costumes.
Almost 90% of our audience rated The Last Emperor outstanding or above average.
Nearly 80% said they'd pay to see it again or tell their friends to see it.
So our movie track recommendation is to search out the movie if you're interested in an epic tale well told.
The Disney Company announced that Three Men and a Baby has become its all-time top-grossing movie.
It's earned over $85 million in its initial release, beating out previous record holder Ruthless People.
Disney also reportedly has plans for a sequel with Ted Danson, Steve Guttenberg, and Tom Selleck starring,
and Leonard Nimoy directing once again.
And the producers of a movie set in a small New England town are hoping their story will capture some of those ticket dollars.
Bristol, Vermont. Classic small town New England, the kind of place where just about everyone knows everyone else.
The kind of town where it isn't too hard to imagine what it looked like almost half a century ago during World War II.
And Bristol, Vermont proved to be a perfect location for a film called The Wizard of Loneliness.
The Wizard of Loneliness stars Leah Thompson and 11-year-old Lucas Haas who made his mark in Witness.
The movie is about a boy who comes to live with his grandparents after his mother dies and his father goes off to war.
I'm kind of sad and mad at my mom and my dad for letting me go and being kind of mean to me.
It is pretty challenging actually. I've never been in a movie quite like it.
Leah Thompson plays Lucas's aunt.
He sees all these tragic things happen to me and he sees how vulnerable I am and I think he learns through my character to open up his heart.
For the people of Bristol, turning back the clock to the 40s has meant an influx of 1980s dollars.
We've heard some suggestions that a million to a million and a half dollars is being left here.
They changed the window around to make it look a little more like the 1940s which is the time of the movie
but did not impair our business at all and for the most part it's helped our business because there's 70 more people in town.
The Wizard of Loneliness is scheduled for release in July.
Shooting in a small town created some interesting situations for the producers.
They had to convert the local barber shop into a drug store but then had to shoot around people getting their hair cut
and when they asked the Bristol townspeople to bake a few pies for a Thanksgiving dinner, they wound up with 46 of them.
Whatever happened to this masked crime fighter and his sidekick Kato?
Go find out tomorrow in Where Are They Now?