...singled out for sheer annoyingness, where a couple stands in awe of a single grape nut.
Also making this year's baddies list, Guess Jeans.
Adweek says their ads can hardly be interpreted as anything other than sex relationships between
people.
And the Energizer Battery ads featuring Aussie spokesperson Jaco, who they claim looks like
a post-nuclear punk.
It's true.
Adweek also announced the Tin Trumpet Awards for those who have hit new low notes in advertising,
and included on that list, Capitol Records for allowing the Beatles song Revolution to
be used in a Nike commercial, American Express for depicting card carriers as fools constantly
losing their wallets, and Adidas for naming men's cologne after sneakers.
As the Winter Olympic Games sneak up on us, ABC is preparing to broadcast a hot event
on the ice for fans of grace under pressure.
America's finest amateur figure skaters will square off in Denver to decide who will be
representing the United States.
For the first time, ABC Sports will air the U.S. Figure Skating Championships live in
prime time.
Always one of the most popular of the Olympic contests, ABC is hoping that the evening exposure
will build interest in the upcoming games in Calgary, as well as creating new fans for
the sport.
It's a very entertaining sport, and to see it in the quiet of the evening when people
are really calm and ready to see good competition and an artistic competition as figure skating
is and can be, I think it's very good for our sport.
Many figure skating stars have gone on to careers in show business, and this year's
competition has some very strong athletes who could become household names in the future.
We have many stars already.
We have three wonderful women, Debbie Thomas, Jill Trenory, and Karen Kedavian.
One of them is going to emerge even more significantly as the Olympics come along.
ABC will telecast the championships tomorrow night and begins its coverage of the 15th
Winter Olympic Games on February 13th.
Fahid from the Untouchables movie has touched off a new NBC TV movie with a similar storyline
called Man Against the Mob.
It's billed as the struggle of a group of honest detectives who try to keep Los Angeles
free from organized crime.
LA could be the biggest prize of them all, but if we want it, we're going to go for
it now.
George Papard stars in his 40s drama as one of the few honest cops on the Los Angeles
police force.
Man Against the Mob finds him leading a special task force determined to run a gang of Chicago
mobsters out of town.
But Man Against the Mob is also a love story, says Papard, after his character meets Catherine
Harrold.
Man Against the Mob will air on NBC's Sunday night at the movies this weekend.
Bob Hope is back at home in Southern California after completing another in a long line of
whirlwind USO tours.
This tour was taped for an NBC special called Bob Hope's USO Christmas Show from the Persian
Gulf and has Hope doing what he's famous for in front of his favorite kind of audience.
I just want you boys to man your battle stations and back down the hatches.
Hope, who's been entertaining American troops for 46 years, took Barbara Eden, Connie Stevens,
and country singer Lee Greenwood along on this trip.
There's nothing like a good audience.
They're the best audience when they receive you.
And the treatment you get, you know, that's better than I get at home.
Now that special airs Saturday night.
And although Hope would not say he absolutely wouldn't tour for the troops again, he wishes
there isn't a need to next Christmas.
There's a hot new movie called Action Jackson due out early next month.
And to heat up the action even more, it's being accompanied by a new single from the
Pointer Sisters.
The song is He Turned Me Out and featured in the Pointer's video are Action Jackson
stars Carl Weathers and Vanity.
The hard driving music is accompanied by a storyline that has the sultry Vanity beating
her macho costar in a heated billiard match.
She comes in, does a job on me, and what can I say?
When a beautiful woman, which is what usually happens with a beautiful woman, you know,
they wipe the floor up with you and leave you there bleeding, figuratively speaking.
All you can do is smile and say, well, it was good while she was here.
And the Pointer Sisters jumped at the chance to participate in the videotaping.
You gotta be ready, you know.
That's part of the trouble.
That's part.
When they call you, you gotta be ready.
Say, let's do a video next week.
Okay.
Let's go.
Sort of like the Marines, you know.
Attacks.
Coming up next is America Ready for the EastEnders.
The hit British TV show Comes West.
And ahead, this American upholds law and order, but do you know the cartoon crime fighter
he played on television?
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If your image of England is upper crust, brace yourself for a big revelation.
The BBC series EastEnders premieres on many public broadcasting stations tonight.
What you'll see is the Cockney side of London.
We are having the baby.
We, not you.
Yeah.
Who do you think you're shouting at then?
You, you!
Well, just you remember all of ya.
This is my house, so.
Premiering with a two and a half hour episode and then airing every Monday through Friday,
the half hour long program centers on the lives of average working class people in London's
East End.
It's a far cry from life at Dallas' South Fork.
We do everyday life like rapes and muggings and single parent families and things like
that and drug abuse and that.
So that isn't always shown on those sort of soap pop frizz in America.
Do you think Chummy's behind this?
Cutting us out because he thinks we're in the fiddle, eh?
And with fast talking Cockney accents coming into American living rooms, will viewers be
able to get a hold of what's happening in Albert Square?
I think so and I think part of the fun is going to be getting familiar with Cockney
and having new, new words in your vocabulary.
We learnt to understand Brooklyn, so never underestimate Americans.
And just in case English doesn't sound like English, FOX TV's Tracy Ullman will be tutoring
those watching tonight's debut episode during its breaks.
When Mark Fowler greets someone he says, watcha, what he means is, hello?
Now I've got a flash for ya.
If we don't stop mucking about and bunking off, Auntie B will get in a proper old flat
full of aggro and give me the push.
And after they're educated properly, Ullman hopes that once and for all the Colonials
get the real picture of life in the UK.
So much of the stuff you get here is all about the upper classes and about Princess Diana
and Prince Charles and really they are like half percent of our population and not really
representative of Britain at all.
You know, anyone for tennis and jolly hockey sticks and all that sort of stuff, nobody
talks like that at all anymore, darling.
Only in sort of very bad BBC productions.
And so watch these tenders and see what people are really like in England now.
Get with the Times America.
These tenders will air five nights a week on most public TV stations.
What'd she say?
Phil Collins, also from Britain, is a risk taker.
As a child he gave up a promising career as a stage actor to become a drummer.
Then as a drummer he established a solo career as a singer.
And now singing is on the back burner as he pursues acting.
Conspiracy to obtain for sale a felony.
Post-carsports and an assortment of fraudulent schemes, right?
I'm a regular little ne'er-ever, aren't I?
Phil Collins' guest appearance on Miami Vice two years ago caused him to get bitten by
the acting bug.
And as a result he's now playing the title role in his first feature film, Buster.
When this opportunity came to do Miami Vice I took it because they were nice people and
very friendly.
So I did that and I enjoyed it and I was kind of, I thought I was okay in it.
So I said, you know, if there's any scripts come in, you know, I'll get my manager Tony
Smith reads them and he gives them to me if he thinks they're good.
And he gave me this one and I read it and loved it and I could see me doing it.
The whole world watched as the London police tried to solve one of Britain's most infamous
crimes, the Great Train Robbery.
Buster is the true story of one of the thieves, Buster Edwards, who flees to Mexico to escape
capture with his wife June, played by Julie Walters.
She eventually becomes homesick and returns to London without him.
It is a very romantic story and it's more about the romance than the robbery.
The robbery is just a small part of it.
He couldn't stand it out there without her.
And he knew when he came back that he was going to go to prison.
That was inevitable because there were, you know, the eyes of the world were basically
looking for these people.
And he came back for the love of his wife.
As soon as he came in the country, they knew that he was in the country and they found
him.
And he only had a couple of days with her before he went inside for nine years.
So is Phil Collins, the actor, going to continue his career as a musician?
I am going to do this, see how good it looks.
I'm enjoying it so there's no problem with that.
But just see how good I am at it.
And I won't know until I've seen it really.
And if I'm good at it, I'll do it again.
But I'm doing another album on my own so that will come out probably towards the end of
the year.
And there is a film on the vague horizon which I would love to do because of the people involved
in it.
So yes, I'll try and fit this in amongst all the other things I do.
What was the number one song of 1987?
You'll find out the startling answer this weekend as Entertainment This Week looks back
at 1987.
Robin Williams makes laughs, not war, in his new movie Good Morning Vietnam.
But will it be a hit?
Find out Monday on Entertainment Tonight.
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America's talking about Corolla, a one name phenomenon.
Mary Beth Whitehead, the issue, should surrogate motherhood be outlawed?
Corolla Rivera is hot.
But I'm rather glad I represent Joan.
Seedy, sleazy, you name it.
Successive Corolla is welcome news.
Rivera is a natural.
The victims did do, wait a minute, you got used, let me get mine.
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There's a circular logic to it.
A businessman who moonlights as a real life cop got his professional start as a TV crime
fighter.
The story behind this transformation unfolds in Where Are They Now?
What actor played the role of Ken Madison on both Surfside 6 and Bourbon Street Beat?
Who later co-starred with Walter Brennan in the comedy series The Tycoon?
Who nine years after his biggest TV success returned to television with the Saturday morning
show Westwind.
Van Williams was Britt Reid, editor and publisher of the Daily Sentinel, but better known as
the crime fighter The Green Hornet.
The 1966 series lasted just one season, but it made an impression on viewers that for
many fans has hardly diminished.
I still get quite a bit of fan mail.
I understand there's kind of a Green Hornet cult out there.
What's amazing to me is they still recognize my voice.
Suppose I set up a demonstration, just the three of us, Trump, you and me, open and above
board.
I can always tell when I'm on the phone that all of a sudden there's a big dead pause there
and they said, you sound like the Green Hornet.
Williams and his servant Cato, played by the late Bruce Lee, were popular, but just as
he'd foreseen, Williams was typecast.
Private eyes have come a long way in 20 years.
Tom Selleck is a friend of mine and Tom is playing himself and he's no mask, no nothing
and he's Tom Selleck.
That's what he really is.
I never had a chance to do that on that show.
I always kind of looked at it as a business and I think that was primarily the reason
when I was doing the Green Hornet I decided to get out of it because it was not a good
business.
In the late 60s, after a decade as an actor, Williams shifted careers.
Today he's a successful businessman running a home security company, but no doubt his
greatest satisfaction comes from his work as a reserve officer with the Malibu Sheriff's
Department.
Tom Williams has managed to turn his TV crime fighter role into a real life passion.
I really enjoy it.
People have asked me a lot why I got involved with it and why I still do it and everything
else and I really don't have an answer for that.
Maybe it's part of doing a little civic duty, it might be part of it.
There's a real need out there I think for an auxiliary or reserve corps of people to
get involved in this.
Well Mary, it's hard to believe it's Friday and that means it's time to check it out.
Control ourselves.
Okay.
Well we just introduced you to the star of the Green Hornet TV series.
The Green Hornet was also a comic book hero, one of a number of popular characters of the
1930s and 40s which included Batman and Captain Marvel.
Now interestingly enough at least one reference book claims that Captain Marvel is modeled
after a well known actor so we decided to check it out.
The books claim Marvel was drawn to resemble Fred McMurray and as you can see there is
a strong similarity.
The company that owns the Captain Marvel rights says the story is true.
He does look like him.
That was Fred McMurray pumping iron.
Really?
Did he know anything about that?
We know when we called McMurray's office they said they'd never heard this story before
but anyway Fred congratulations for earning a place in comic book history.
Now this weekend most Americans are going to be glued to their TV sets for the latest
round in the NFL playoffs.
One viewer asked a football trivia question that was just too good to pass up.
He wanted to know what the little label on the back of all football helmets says so we
checked it out.
This is the label and it's on every pro and college helmet.
It says do not use this helmet to butt, ram or spear an opposing player and it warns of
the ramifications including injury and penalties.
And I'm sure everyone in both leagues completely abides by that little rule.
All I'm glad about is the fact that you're holding that thing.
It weighs a ton.
That's right Mary I want you to wear that the rest of the show.
I wore it for the morning and it was just too much for breakfast.
Anyway we want to thank the Denver Broncos for loaning us this helmet.
It's got to be FedExed immediately.
They needed something for a game on Sunday.
I think so that's what they're saying right.
Yeah well anyway when we come back Jack Klugman he doesn't get the helmet but he gets star
treatment.
No I can't this thing won't.
It began as pure research.
Going into another person's dreams.
We've done it Dennis.
Not once but three times.
It soon became a living nightmare.
Dennis Quaid and Kate Capshaw.
You just keep yourself alive.
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Enter the world of show business at its best on the next Entertainment This Week.
It's a special encore look at the year's blockbuster movies from Fatal Attraction to Beverly Hills
Cup Two.
The hottest music from the superstars of rock and pop.
Television's biggest hits from your old favorites and some new stars in the making.
And the celebrities who made the headlines that made 1987 a year to remember on the next
Entertainment This Week.
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In today's People Post script, Jack Klugman joined 1,862 other stars on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame.
I thought I would be blase but I'm not.
It's a humbling experience.
It just is and I can't explain why.
Maybe because it's in concrete.
Maybe because it says I love you.
I don't know but I just love it.
I don't get excited about awards.
I get excited about work but this I am excited about.
Well Dolly Parton has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame but something much bigger than
that.
She has a special high kicking guest star on her show this weekend.
Someone we all know and love.
It's our own Mary Hart and she gives Dolly a little dance lesson.
You take your heels out twice and take two steps.
So it's sort of like out in, out in, step, step.
And then it's Mary's turn to show off her fancy footwork.
Wow look at her go.
You can catch Mary on Dolly's Sunday night.
Now was that really you or were you lip syncing?
I was the little guy with a hat.
Come on, Marnie Nixon does your backups for you.
No, that was singing and dancing.
You can see the whole thing.
Do you want to learn to dance?
Have we got time?
No, we don't.
I'm sorry.
We're just about out of time.
Shoot, I was really looking forward to it.
Who else is on the show with you this week?
Merle Haggard is on and Holly Dunn and a wonderful comedian.
Lots of fun.
So it was, Dolly was a hoot.
Wait until you see her get into the action.
I mean she was a riot.
Yeah, the two of you.
She really was.
Well good.
Nice job there.
Thanks.
We'll look for it on Sunday night.
Thanks, let's.
Alright and this weekend, entertainment this week shows you the stars who made 1987 a record
year at the box office and Monday on Entertainment Tonight you'll go behind the scenes at Frank
Sinatra's Million Dollar Concert.
And we're going to leave you with Rob dancing.
Merle singing footments.
No, we can't do that yet.
Anyway, from Action Jacks and the Pointer Sisters singing He Turned Me Out, have a great
weekend.
Bye bye.
He turned me, turned me, turned me, turned me, turned me out.
He turned me, turned me, turned me, turned me out.
He turned me, turned me, turned me, turned me, turned me out.
He turned me, turned me, turned me, turned me out.
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Danny Parker Jr., Ron VMC, Natalie Cole, Richard Belzer, Stephanie Mills, Breakfast Club, Al
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There's amateur night with exciting young stars.
All of the showtime at the Apollo so don't miss it.
America's talking about corona, a one-name phenomenon.
Mary Beth Whitehead.
The issue, should surrogate motherhood be outlawed?
Geraldo Rivera is hot, but I'm rather glad I represent Joe.
Seedy, sleazy, you name it.
Successive Geraldo is welcome news.
Rivera is a natural.
The victims did do, wait a minute, you got used, let me get mine, okay?
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Chris, we're having a slumber party.
There's a party at the Foley's tonight.
Party, party, party, party, party.
It's for early.
Early for what?
Just a bunch of boys in the sun room.
It's hell for them.
They're destroying this house.
Nick, he's early.
What are we going to do with this mess?