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To a war back before the cameras in the Philippines.
From the monkeys back together in Atlantic City.
To the man of La Mancha back in jail in Massachusetts.
To reach the unreachable star.
And we're back for Monday, June 2nd, 1986 with Lonnie Anderson, Sally Field, Lily Tomlin, Joan Rivers and a lot more.
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Hello everyone, I'm Rob Weller.
And I'm Mary Hart.
The Tony Awards, Broadway's version of the Oscars, celebrated their 40th birthday last night, toasting the best of the season.
Lily Tomlin won the Best Actress in a Play award for her one-woman show, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.
Judd Hirsch was named Best Actor in a Play for I'm Not Rappaport, which also was named Best Play.
The Best Musical Tony went to the Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Barbara Hauer covered the awards last night and the galas that went on into the wee hours of today.
It looked like a high-profile casting call on Broadway last night, as the stars turned out for the 40th anniversary of the Tony Awards.
Most arrived elegantly attired to take their seats in the audience at the Minskoff Theater.
But many who were part of the televised ceremonies came decked out in tin pan alley casual,
as happy to hand it up for the crowds in the street as they were to entertain their peers inside.
I know, I overdrew it. I joked.
Despite Broadway's mediocre season, everyone turned into a fan.
But collecting current mementos gave way on stage to recalling the glorious past of Broadway.
The Best Actress of 1946-47 for the Play Happy Birthday, Miss Helen Hayes.
Hit shows from previous theater seasons definitely captured the spotlight,
relinquishing it only periodically to feature existing productions such as The Mystery of Edwin Drood that earned five awards,
and The House of Blue Leaves, whose loony character Bananas was the role that won Swoozie Kurtz her Tony.
See, I've been an actor for a long time, and it's taught me a great deal about mental illness.
Swoozie Kurtz's sanity has never been questioned,
but there's plenty of concern lately about the mood swing of the critics and economic stability at the box office.
Unless it's enormously successful and all the critics say this is the greatest thing that ever happened, everybody loses money.
Is it getting so you've priced yourself out of the market or musicals just too darned expensive?
I think they are too darn expensive, yeah.
And there must be some other way, some other way to do it, but I haven't found it, so.
In 1943, they must have had about 60 shows on Broadway, 50 or 60 shows on Broadway, and all kinds.
Not, you didn't have to make it as a certain kind of show.
But nostalgia for the past is only part of Broadway's temporary midlife crisis, and the Tony Awards are only 40 years old this season,
and we all know that's the age when things just start to get good.
I just get the feeling, and I think that it's a spirit that everybody else feels in the theater now, that it's on the way up again.
I think we're maybe hopefully getting through our famine and we'll have feast again.
There's just, there's nothing like it. When theater is right, there's nothing like it.
And even when it isn't perfect, it's pretty darn good. Barbara Hauer, Entertainment Tonight.
Sweet Charity won the Tony for Best Revival, Bernadette Peters was named Best Actress in a Musical for Song and Dance,
and Best Actor in a Musical went to George Rose for The Mystery of Edwin Drude.
Dreaming the Impossible Dream is the theme of Man of La Mancha.
Paula Childs has a report on where it came true in an implausible place.
To reach the unreachable star.
It is a scene from Man of La Mancha, but this is no ordinary rehearsal.
The actors are all convicts.
Their stage lies inside these walls. This is Norfolk Prison, a medium security facility outside Boston.
But for these budding actors, it might as well be Broadway, because Richard Kiley is here.
I'm you here. So it's, he comes around and he finally, ah, hail Knight of the Eniduses.
To see them blooming with this kind of joy and doing this material is terribly exciting.
So far, he's made me feel totally relaxed, other than how I felt before he came.
And, ah, he's bestowing a lot of confidence in me. He's a giver. He gives of himself.
Kiley, who starred in over 2,000 performances of Man of La Mancha, was invited here by Holly Sanborn Ward,
the director of this unique prison arts program.
But the production would not have been possible without the help of author Dale Wasserman,
who agreed to reduce the royalty fees so Norfolk Prison could produce his show.
I said they would love to do it, but they couldn't afford it.
And I said, fortunately, that's one thing I can handle. I will arrange that you can afford it.
And, ah, I did so arrange, and much to my surprise, they not only are doing it, but it seems to be a good production.
The first impression is one that it's extraordinary, and, and, and, ah, my second reaction is that I got so choked up,
I could hardly respond when people talk to me about it.
Man of La Mancha, the story of imprisonment and hope, is the first full-scale musical performed by convicts inside prison walls.
The impossible dream here has become reality. In Boston, Paula Childs, Entertainment Tonight.
Prince is getting ready for a possible summer rock tour by honing his act at a series of sneak concerts.
This weekend, he sneaked into Los Angeles. Bobby Columby reports.
Prince and the Revolution have taken their show on the road. This is the fourth in a series of surprise concerts.
I'm ready to play! I'm ready to fly, fly, fly! Walls to the surface, yeah! Show me seven times that it did like I can. Fly the picture, please. Y'all got it?
We've, ah, been itching to get on the road for a long time now, and we figured that the smaller venues would be a more intimate crowd.
I call this the hit and run tour. We really don't know where we're going to play until two or three days before the actual performance,
and what we've been doing is going on the radio simultaneously with all the major stations in our market at three o'clock in the afternoon, and about 3.03, ah, we're sold out.
How'd you get the tickets? By skipping work and coming down here and standing in line five hours.
How much would you be willing to pay for a pair of tickets? Well, maybe $100 or $200 maybe.
I fully love you, Prince, and if you hear this, call me or somebody.
Everybody, say it! Alright!
Bobby Columby, Entertainment Tonight.
Three-quarters of the 60s rock group The Monkees has gotten most of its act together and taken it on the road.
It must have seemed as if the clock had been rolled back 20 years for Peter Tork, Mickey Dolans, and Davy Jones, alias The Monkees, as they held a news conference to announce their 100-city summer tour.
Not bad for a group that hasn't played together since 1968.
It took me a few days to even come out from behind the drums. I was like, you know, hiding.
Take the last train to Clarksville. Take the last train to Clarksville. I need you at the station.
Many consider their hit television series of the 60s to have been the forerunner of today's music videos.
Last March, MTV ran 45 episodes of the show as part of a monkey marathon and got an overwhelming response from both old and new fans.
The kids that are watching it now don't feel its nostalgia. When their moms say to them, here, let me show you this 16 magazine, it's in the attic.
And they go, oh, mom, I can't believe it. You used to like them, too?
Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer.
They are performing minus the fourth monkey, Michael Nesmith, who opted out of the tour.
So it was a surprise when Nesmith showed up with Peter Tork.
He's got laryngitis and can't speak, but he wishes us well, don't you, Michael?
A decorated Vietnam Veteran and Academy Award-winning writer films his version of the war, that and more when we continue.
Cobra sold $7.6 million worth of tickets to lead the Entertainment Tonight estimated weekend movie grosses.
Top Gun remained strong at $6.9 million, and Poltergeist II dropped a third place with a weekend take of $5.9 million.
Short Circuit and Sweet Liberty rounded out the top five.
Jake Speed was the weekend's only new movie, and it was a box office disappointment, falling short of the million-dollar mark.
The most recent movies about Vietnam generally had one American whipping the entire country single-handedly.
A film being shot in the Philippines with British money and American stars whistles a different tune.
We'll get into this when we get back to the base camp, and I can promise you something.
If I find out there was an illegal killing, there will be a court-martial.
Academy Award-winning filmmaker and Vietnam vet Oliver Stone has brought his production of the platoon to the Philippines.
I had problems with the script. I wrote it in 76, and I couldn't sell it. I couldn't make any kind of deal really on it.
I couldn't get the movie made. I wrote three other Vietnam films that were totally ignored.
So I can say it's been a little frustrating because there's been no realistic assessment in movie terms of that war.
The platoon stars Francesco Quinn, Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, and Tom Berenger.
To ensure the accuracy which Stone demanded, each actor was forced to complete a rigorous training course under the watchful eye of military advisor Dale Dye.
I put them through a real hell week. In fact, two hell weeks back to back.
And they lived in miserable conditions, snakes, spiders out in the banana plantations, falling down hills, being in danger for their health and welfare many times,
so that they could understand the utter exhaustion and the mentality of an infantry soldier.
Without Camp and Die, this film wouldn't be half the film I think it's going to be.
They keep calling it a landmark film, and I think, I hope, that that's what we're making.
The film is based on real characters who Stone encountered in Vietnam.
For example, Tom Berenger's character, Staff Sergeant Barnes, actually served four tours of duty and was wounded seven times.
What do you think there, Bob? An investigation of what?
Bob?
I'm the bad guy. I mean, Vietnamese aren't really the bad guys. I'm the bad guy. Elias is the good guy.
And Chris Taylor, Charlie Sheen's part, is the kid caught between wondering who's right, who's wrong.
Move it! Move it! Move it!
The importance of platoon is that there is very little hype.
There is a simple story of an infantry platoon and the adversity that they lived through in Vietnam,
the horrible things that happened to them, and some of the human heroics that emerge from the most uncommon people.
One thing that can be said is, there's something like 32 guys at the beginning, and there's only about six left at the end,
that says something about our involvement in Vietnam and says something about war.
This is going to be tough for people to watch. There's going to be a lot of weeping veterans in the audience, I think.
The platoon is scheduled for release this fall.
From People's Court to Center Court, Judge Wapner, Joan Rivers, and more when we return.
Coming up, tomorrow, Smokey Robinson. He likes his hits rockin'.
And an exclusive movie preview of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, starring Matthew Broderick.
Wednesday, Joe Beth Williams. Will there be a poltergeist three?
And Malton's Magnificent Movie Moment salutes the picture of Dorian Gray. All on entertainment tonight.
The United States Senate met the electronic age today as television cameras gave America its first look at gavel-to-gavel coverage.
C-SPAN, the cable satellite public affairs network which already covers the House of Representatives,
today added 100 senators to its TV lineup for a six-week trial run.
And in Russia Friday, the first ever rock benefit was held.
30,000 people attended the two-and-a-half-hour concert organized to raise money for victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
The amount expected to be raised could be up to $2 million.
It was game set and matched stars with stars. As Joan Rivers talked tennis for a good cause,
Dick Shoemaker was on the ball and filed this report.
Alan Thicke, star of TV's Growing Pains.
Renee Enriquez from Hill Street Blues.
From People's Court, Judge Joseph Waffner.
And actress Christy McNichol.
Just a few of the celebrities who play tennis Sunday to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation,
a charity tournament sponsored by Joan Rivers.
Do they play to win?
Oh, do they play to win. And they come over and they're upset if they don't win.
And they also come over and say thank you, which is wonderful.
Thank you for inviting me. And you go, you're doing this for charity.
How nice of you to be here.
How were you playing today?
I played good. But you know who beat me? That little Ricky Schroeder from Silver Spoons. He's good.
Judge Waffner. I'd never played with Judge Waffner before.
He gets everything back. He's not only good on that bench, he's good out here in the court.
The judge was good, but even his honor lost a few points now and then.
And it helped to have Cheri Belafonte Harper serve as a ball person.
Usually they call them ball boys or ball girls, but I think I'm at an age now where people need to come into their own.
I'm a ball person.
Do the celebrities who play in these tournaments really get into it and go all out and try and win?
Oh yeah. They're like the pros. They get attitudes and everything. Yeah, you've got to be really careful.
McNichol played well enough to make it to the finals. And what she lacked in finesse, the actress made up in fitness.
Dick Shoemaker, Entertainment Tonight.
59-year-old producer-director John Derrick entered a Santa Barbara hospital this weekend complaining of chest pains.
His wife, Bo Derrick, has been with him at the hospital.
He had a mild heart attack. Luckily it wasn't very big, and as I understand it was in the back.
And which is, if you have to have one, it's the best kind you can have like this.
John is doing very, very well. And he's very healthy. And he should be home in about a week.
And we're all very happy.
Airwolf star Jan-Michael Vincent is jail hunting.
Vincent was sentenced to 30 days in jail Friday for violating probation on a 1983 drunk driving conviction.
He was given until June 25th to find a jail so he wouldn't have to serve his sentence in the crowded Los Angeles county facility.
Vincent also faces a June 6th trial on a felony battery charge for allegedly punching a woman in the face.
It was a power lunch of the most powerful kind as an actress, a songwriter, a casting agent,
and one of the men behind the color purple were honored at this weekend's Women in Film luncheon.
Jean Wolf has more.
It's an inspiration to all of us. It's the wind at our backs as we pursue what we wish to do.
Valerie Harper was mistress of ceremonies at Women in Film's 10th annual Crystal Awards.
This year's honorees were lyricist Marilyn Bergman, casting director Marianne Daugherty, and actress Sally Field.
The Norma Zarky Humanitarian Award was given to Quincy Jones.
The Crystal Awards are a celebration of the professional accomplishments of women in the media
and a reminder for many that success brings with it responsibility.
Responsibility is a key to everything. Not guilt, blame, or a burden. It's just I'm responsible.
I am my sister's keeper.
Once you get inside the system, as you get more powerful, is it harder to speak out against injustices?
No, I think it's easier. I think you have a form, people listen more, and I also think you have the luxury of unity.
Well, first of all, I don't think I could ever be in the system. I don't think I could ever be what you would call mainstream.
I think my power comes from being an outsider, which I expect to be all my life.
And I do believe that we as women have a responsibility to get better, so that our influence can be felt, not only in film, but all over.
I thank you very, very much for this award.
Jean Wohl, Entertainment Tonight.
It's situation comedy and situation romance for Lonnie Anderson.
That story and more when Entertainment Tonight returns.
Celebrating birthdays today, Jerry Mathers, the Beeve is 38. Marvin Hamlisch, 42. Charles Haid, 43. Stacy Keach is 45.
The Rolling Stones' Charlie Watts, also 45. And Sally Kellerman is 49.
She'll be stranded on a tropical island for an NBC TV movie and living on Easy Street in an NBC sitcom.
Those projects, plus boyfriend Burt Reynolds, are uppermost on the mind of actress Lonnie Anderson.
A career update from Jean Wolf.
I wanted to do a romantic comedy because I just don't think they're being done anymore.
And I think people really still enjoy that kind of thing.
Lonnie Anderson is co-starring with Perry King in the NBC movie Stranded.
They're two competing executives who eventually wind up stranded on a South Pacific island.
Well, I'm going to ask you the fun question. Who, what would you like to take if you were on a deserted island?
Oh, let's see. I think I'd have to take some Cary Grant movies and Burt Reynolds.
Aha. Would he like the Cary Grant movies?
He'd love them.
Does he like the idea that you're going away?
Um, he'd never like that idea, I think, if you're together.
No.
Come the new TV season in September, NBC also has Lonnie as the star of a new series, Easy Street.
Well, I was a blackjack dealer at a Las Vegas casino.
And then, before that, I was a showgirl.
She's a widow, and she doesn't have children.
She has people in her family she doesn't like, and she thinks she's alone,
and then finds that she does have someone to care about,
and an old man who really needs her as much as she needs him, her uncle.
Now, this is what uncles are for, right here.
And I want to thank you for giving me and Ricardo a weekend we ain't never going to forget.
What's the challenge for you in a series this time?
I like what I do. I like going out there. I like rehearsing all week.
I like being involved with the other actors. I like watching the other actors.
I just like the whole process, and I wouldn't choose any other kind of work.
Boy, she looks great.
I think she always does.
Wow.
And Ernie Kovacs' tribute, and the latest in technology from the Consumer Electronics Show,
also Smokey Robinson, and an exclusive movie preview of Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
That's starring Matthew Broderick. That's all tomorrow on Entertainment Tonight.
Ferris Bueller, eh? The Karate Kid 2 opens June 20th, but the music video is already here.
It's Peter Satira, formerly of Chicago, with the movie's theme song, The Glory of Love.
See you tomorrow.
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