Standing there, 10,000 people jamming London's Wembley Arena Friday night for an all-star
rock concert featuring Paul McCartney, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Phil Collins, Tina Turner,
Sting, many other rock superstars, as well as the future king and queen of England.
Selena Scott filed this exclusive report for Entertainment Tonight.
The Prince and Princess of Wales wanted to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Princess
Trust charity, so they threw a birthday party and invited a few friends along to perform
and raise money for disadvantaged children.
And when the stars lined up for a Terry O'Neill portrait, it was obvious this birthday party
was going to make rock history.
A roll call of rock's royalty formed a supergroup for the occasion, and the Prince's all-stars
played all hits all night long, all for charity.
I mean, ultimately, you should, I suppose, do everything for charity.
You know, once you've done one, then it's like difficult to take any wages for yourself.
But, I don't know, you know, I think if they're good shows and if you enjoy doing it and people
keep coming, then, you know, it's fun enough to continue, you know.
It just felt good, we sort of laughed all the way through, we had a really good time.
We've all enjoyed ourselves, because I've never played with Eric before, never played
with Phil Collins, never played with Paul Young.
So, I mean, it's great, Mark Knopfler, all those guys.
So, we've really enjoyed it.
If you had told me 10 years ago that I was going to be on stage with Elton John, Eric
Clatchen and Paul McCartney, I'd have laughed at you.
But, it's a great thrill tonight.
They're all my heroes, you know, and it's amazing to be on the same stage as your heroes,
and I think that's one of the great things about my life, now, I can work with people
I admire.
For me, it's good fun.
Some of these great stars I've never met before, you know.
But despite all the magical moments on stage, the euphoric atmosphere behind the scenes
and visits from a few unexpected guests, everyone tried to maintain some sense of British decor.
Excuse me for a moment.
Come on, Selena, she's standing up, it's all right.
How dare we talk through this tune?
I didn't write it.
I feel the dance with another, since I saw her stand.
In London, Selena Scott, Entertainment Tonight.
More on this historic concert from London, plus the annual return of the Trekkies, a
weekend wedding, Jane Fonda and Daniel J. Travatti.
It's Monday, June 23rd, 1986, and this is Entertainment Tonight.
Hello, I'm Al Owen, sitting in for the vacationing, Rob Weller.
And I'm Mary Hart.
Don Johnson returned to work on Miami Vice today, his one-week salary holdout at an end.
Entertainment Tonight sources indicate Johnson's new salary calls for between $50,000 and $65,000
per episode, plus perks.
Among the perks, a starring role in a Universal feature film.
Johnson's previous salary was $30,000 per episode.
This fall, Miami Vice on NBC will be going head-to-head with Dallas on CBS in a battle
of the ratings goliaths.
Dallas star Larry Hagman was a big man in Texas over the weekend, but not Dallas, Fort Worth.
Meet the home folks, Larry.
Hi home folks, how you doing?
The home folk were from Weatherford, Texas, where Larry Hagman grew up.
The gathering was a fundraiser for the Weatherford Public Library, but it was also a chance for
Hagman to see some of his old high school chums.
Now luckily none of us has aged.
We're all exactly like we were when we graduated high school.
He's still the same old Larry.
It's not anything like JR is today.
He was very quiet.
I was his boxing coach.
You want to know who taught JR to be mean?
JR's hat was auctioned off and brought in an additional $1,000.
Published reports are claiming actress Pam Dauber married actor Mark Harmon late last
week in a secret ceremony.
Not so according to spokesmen for both Dauber and Harmon.
It was definitely so this weekend for actor Stacey Keach and actress Malgosia Tomasi.
They were married in a ceremony that was anything but secret.
Following a ceremony at a San Fernando Valley church, the wedding reception was held in
the mountains above Malibu.
The 250 invited guests were all asked to dress in their best summer whites.
The actor and his new bride, Polish actress Malgosia Tomasi, who met on the set of Mike
Hammer a year and a half ago, faced the press for the first time as man and wife.
My knees are shaking.
I can't say anything.
They trekked from near and far, who knows, perhaps from other planets, to convene over
the weekend at the Disneyland Hotel.
Eric Burns reports.
Captain's Log, Star Date 1986.
Thousands of people gathered at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California to celebrate
the 20th anniversary of a television show.
A television show which has affected them so much they can easily recall their favorite
lines.
Beam me up, Scotty.
I've come a long way for the power of Genesis.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
He's dead, Jim.
And they can tell you with a remarkable degree of consistency why it is that Star Trek has
affected them so.
Star Trek offers a hope for the future.
Mr. Spock here.
We're intercepting a follow-up message, sir.
There are crash survivors on TELUS.
Highlights of the convention included this from the past.
A showing of the first television episode of Star Trek ever filmed.
And the auctioning for $350 of the ears Leonard Nimoy wears in the yet-to-be-released movie,
Star Trek IV.
Speaking of Nimoy, Nimoy spoke.
Nobody would have known that 20 years later we would still be here, Bible and Roman, as
an element of science fiction and entertainment world.
And speaking of ears.
We are gathered here together in the sight of God and in the presence of Starfleet and
this gathering.
Two Star Trek fans got married at this convention and their kiss was so passionate the bride's
ears grew.
Very few old television shows affect people like this.
Eric Burns, Entertainment Tonight.
Coming up next, Jane Fonda.
Doctors in a sweat about aerobics, but not Jane.
And ahead, Daniel J. Trevante.
A role which meant so much to him is a role worth repeating.
Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines play cops in a movie called Running Scared which opens
this Friday.
Over the weekend, the Chicago Police Department awarded them honorary cop status and real
life Billy Clubs.
We had so much fun working in this beautiful city.
I think that's what you're going to see on the screen.
Show us your thoughts.
I feel the same way.
This is very nice.
I feel the same way.
I know I can speak for Billy.
We have very warm memories of Chicago even though we were here in December.
It was the first weekend of summer and the biggest movie box office weekend in a long,
long time.
The movie, The Karate Kid Part II, had a sensational opening weekend taking in $12.5 million according
to Entertainment Tonight's box office estimates.
Legal Eagles did $8.2 million at the ticket window.
Robert Redford's biggest opening ever, Back to School, according to ET estimates, took
in $7.8 million.
And Top Gun and Ferris Bueller's day off were in a close race for fourth place.
Our estimates put Top Gun at $5.8 million, Ferris Bueller at $5.7 million.
Movie Track surveyed ticket buyers as they exited theaters on both coasts this weekend.
They gave The Karate Kid Part II its top accolade with four stars.
The Karate Kid's ad campaign brought in the right crowd and Movie Track says it will be
one of the summer's big hits, giving Top Gun a run for the money.
Legal Eagles received two and a half stars.
Almost two-thirds of the audience surveyed were women, attesting to the pull of Robert
Redford.
His drawing power will keep the movie around for the best part of the summer, according
to Movie Track.
Jane Fonda, already number one on the videocassette sales charts, once again has her eye on the
bestseller book list.
Jean Wolf reports.
Jane Fonda, fitness guru to millions of American women, has come out with a brand new workout
book, which also includes a low-fat, high-fiber diet and weight loss program.
The new book updates Fonda's original workout book, which has sold more than two million
copies.
You've written a new book because you've learned a lot.
Are there things you wish you hadn't said in the old book?
No, I don't think there's... There's nothing that I said wrong in the first book.
I just didn't say enough.
I barely talked about... I touched on nutrition, didn't go into any detail, didn't talk about
dieting.
I barely talked about aerobics because I didn't understand.
And now it's the cornerstone of what we're doing.
Fonda's program, however, does conflict with some recent medical guidelines, which recommend
no more than 30 minutes of aerobic dancing three times a week.
Three times a week for 30 minutes is the minimum that you should do to attain minimum health
and fitness.
I'm afraid that this kind of a report, which is not backed up by data, will frighten many
women away from doing perhaps the only form of exercise that they will find that they
actually enjoy.
24 million Americans are doing aerobics and liking it.
And it's for most of them the only thing they do, and it's the first thing they found that
they enjoy.
I don't want to scare them away because while there are always risks when you increase your
physical activity, the risk of not doing it are far greater in terms of obesity and heart
disease and things like that.
You're almost a symbol of fitness in this country.
Have you ever had a feeling that that interferes with the audience's ability to accept you
as a different character?
It concerned me in the beginning.
I know that it shocked some people in Agnes of God that I was smoking cigarettes.
They weren't real cigarettes.
They were horrible, foul smelling, but tobacco-less, harmless cigarettes was what I was smoking.
You know, I've only made two feature films and then a movie for television, The Dollmaker,
that I won an Emmy for.
Since I started the workout business, it remains to be seen how people will respond.
I'm sure, just judging from a lot of other things that have gone on, that people can
separate me, Jane Fonda, from the roles that I play.
I hope so.
What does ABC's top programming chief have to say about his network's chances to move
out of third place this fall?
The surprising answer when we come back.
Coming up tomorrow, Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul, invades Detroit.
And Sally Kellerman plays a sexy professor in Back to School.
Wednesday, Ted Shackelford from Notch Landing to Manila for a big screen starring role.
And a tribute to a great actress in a great movie, Bette Davis and Jezebel.
All on Entertainment Tonight.
Here's the ET Digest for Monday, June 23rd.
New in the book store, Sunday in the Park with George.
The lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim, booked by James Lapine.
And Starstruck, the wonderful world of movie memorabilia by Robert Heide and John Gilman.
The press tour where the nation's TV and entertainment reporters talk to the three networks, PBS
and cable executives, came to an end in Los Angeles over the weekend.
Last on the agenda, ABC, a network running third in prime time, but trying harder than
ever.
Dick Shoemaker has that story.
Brandon Stoddard is the man in charge of entertainment programming at ABC.
During this weekend's TV Critics press tour, I asked Stoddard, will his new fall schedule
get ABC out of third place?
No.
Why?
Oh.
You know, because there's NBC, there's CBS, and then there's ABC.
The spread between us and the other networks is quite a lot.
One new show that may help, Head of the Class, a series about gifted high school students.
Also Shelly Hack and Tom Mason as a fun couple in a show called Our Kind of Town.
And Sledgehammer, a comedy cop series that supposedly turns Dirty Harry into a kind of
Pee-wee Herman.
The miniseries America has generated headlines because Soviet officials were unhappy ABC
would show what life in the US would be like after a Russian takeover.
ABC is generating interest by insisting the cast and crew not talk about the program.
Each cast member was asked to please not do so and have cooperated fully.
Last year, none of ABC's TV movies finished in the top 20.
This year, the network would like to turn that around with two made-for-television movies
based on fact.
Easy Prey.
Gerald McCraney stars in Easy Prey, the real-life story of a Florida millionaire who goes on
a murder and rape rampage involving young girls.
And Farrah Fawcett stars in this TV movie about a naive German girl who learns about the Nazi
death camps from her Jewish husband.
Why didn't you tell me the truth about the Jews?
ABC hopes TV movies like these will at least help generate a little excitement about the
network's new season.
Dick Shoemaker, Entertainment Tonight.
Take heart, insomniacs.
If you still can't sleep after Ted Koppel signs off, this week stay tuned because Noel
Edmonds will be signing on.
Eric Burns tells us about that.
In England, Noel Edmonds' show is called The Late Late Breakfast Show and it's on at 6
o'clock.
In America, it's the Noel Edmonds show.
It's on at midnight for a week's trial run and here is his goal.
Hopefully even the most serious guest, even the most potentially serious conversation,
will be totally ruined by the environment in which it's occurring.
Hence, I'll be interviewing Roger Daltrey while sitting in a bath.
In addition to bathtub interviews, there are hard-hitting sofa interviews.
Have you got a favorite scar?
Yes, but I'm not showing you.
Who taught you to play the drums?
Yes.
The last time I came on the show, some people said, Noel didn't ask very good questions,
did he?
I think it's going to happen again, Noel.
Do you find that the fact that you have a successful career in another country takes
some of the pressure off this attempt to make it in the United States?
No.
If he doesn't make it in the United States?
If it all goes wrong, I suppose I can go and sit in the tub and think to myself, well,
I was great, but the show was crap.
Or you can think in the tub with Roger Daltrey, I was great, but the show was...
Very good.
Now you see already this is having an impact on you.
Eric Burns, Entertainment Tonight.
The Noel Edmonds show is on a one-week trial run this week on ABC.
On the daytime side of ABC's TV schedule, another trial run is now in the midst of a
second week after a successful first week run.
Fame, fortune, and romance.
Inspiring secrets from life's winners.
The name is different, the theme virtually the same.
Fame, fortune, and romance really goes beneath the surface to get at the real private lives
of the public figures.
Pia Zadora, now she's a wife and a mother.
It's where we learn the hush-hush secrets of the heart.
It's the intimate stories, the promise is meant to last a lifetime.
And I gotta tell you, it's a lot easier for people to talk about what goes on in the bedroom
than what goes on in their wallet.
The show is ABC's and Leach's answer to the standard daytime fare of game shows and soap
operas.
On a soap opera, the love stories that are created by script writers in Hollywood are
make-believe.
And there is nothing better than a real life love story.
In a business where nothing lasts forever, Robin Leach remains a man with a philosophical
point of view.
On the day that the cancellation notice comes and they say there will be no more lifestyles,
I want to be the closing subject on the last show so that I can say, thank you for making
me rich and famous.
More from London with Paul McCartney, Tina Turner, and Elton John when we come back.
Announcing birthdays today are Ted Shackelford, he's 40.
Metropolitan opera conductor James Levine is 43.
June Carter Cash, 57.
Director Bob Fosse, 59.
And actress Irene Worth is 70.
In television, woe betide an actor who risks another movie playing a role in which he's
already been successful.
Not Daniel J. Trabanti though, he has reasons for wanting to play it again.
Damn world.
The film was Adam and it provoked a strong response about the plight of missing children.
It also had a professional and personal impact on the life of its co-star, Daniel J. Trabanti.
It's enriched me.
The whole experience has enriched me.
And of course, the issue itself has made me a better person because I'm a more concerned
man.
He has agreed to recreate his role for a sequel, Adam, his story continues.
It was a decision which didn't come easily.
Because I was afraid that we might fail, that we might not be able to live up to that high
standard, that we might even in fact end up undermining the impact of the first one should
we fall greatly short of that high achievement.
Adam too begins with a family viewing the first movie.
Audience participation is our concern to the extent that we wish millions, we wish everybody
on earth really, especially in America of course, to see this for their own sake, for
the sake of the children.
Aretha Franklin, Sally Kellerman, the latest in new video equipment and an exclusive movie
preview of Club Paradise starring Robin Williams and Peter O'Toole.
All that and more tomorrow on Entertainment Tonight.
It was the summit meeting of Rock and Roll Friday night in London.
HBO taped it all for a special later on this year.
With its royal patrons moving to the beat, the big charity concert closed with the Beatles'
Get Back.
On stage among others, Paul McCartney, Tina Turner and Elton John.
Enjoy it.
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged.