What stops Sam and Diane from walking down the aisle tonight on Cheers?
Will your budget be able to stand yet another new gizmo?
How important is makeup in make-believe?
Would it have been the 60s without the Beatles?
Entertainment Tonight turns back the hands of time on Thursday, May 7, 1987.
Oh, I don't want those people in my house.
Hello again everybody, I'm Mary Hart.
And I'm John Tesh.
One of television's hottest romances ends tonight as Shelley Long makes her final appearance on the program Cheers.
Everyone has been trying to figure out how Sam Malone and Diane Chambers are going to wind up their five-year on-again, off-again love affair.
Today we're joined by Cheers producer David Lee.
He's going to decide just how much of tonight's episode we're going to be able to show you,
because he's brought a clip of the show along with him.
So David, is the romance on or off again?
Well, rather than me going into a long-winded explanation, perhaps it would just be better to take a look at what I brought along here.
Let's do it. Let's go get a justice of the piece.
Better yet, let's wed at Cheers.
The bar?
It's ideal. Right there in front of our dearest friends who've been witness to our love,
seen the good times and the bad times, shared our joys and sorrows.
How perfect. Those dear souls will share our moment of ultimate joy.
Better still, why don't we have them over right here.
We'll do it right here.
Oh, I don't want those people in my house.
I understand that this has been a long time in coming.
So without further delay, we'll get to the matter at hand.
You, Sam, and you, Diane, have complied with the general laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
And there are no apparent impediments to this marriage.
Therefore, do you, Sam Malone, take this woman, Diane Chambers, to be your lawfully wedded wife, till death do you part?
I do.
I think that's about enough. I really do. I don't think we need to go any further.
You're no fun, David. Come on, tell us what happens. Why the phone call?
I think it's a wrong number.
I hope you've got some protection when you leave this building, big guy.
Forearm guards.
Well, good luck, David, and we, of course, will be watching tonight.
Thank you. Thanks for joining us.
The hottest actress making headlines today is a woman who, until now, has only played bit parts.
Donna Rice has appeared in small roles on several TV shows.
Now, Rice has been catapulted to national prominence because of her alleged relationship with presidential hopeful Gary Hart.
The story is so hot, in fact, Hart has now put his campaign on hold.
But what about Rice, the actress? Well, here's what we've been able to find out.
She claims to have appeared on Dallas. When we contacted the show's producers, they said she hadn't.
She said she attended Actors Studio. The studio has no record that she attended.
She did appear on Miami Vice in a very short scene with no lines.
She may have appeared on the daytime soap, Texas, but they don't seem to remember when.
We do know that Rice was in Cannes in 1981.
Freelance photographer Peter Borsari took pictures of her there. Several months later, he photographed her in his Hollywood studio.
These black and white shots are part of that modeling session.
Rice is now such a hot property that she'll be on the cover of next week's People magazine.
And tomorrow, we're going to give you an exclusive preview of that cover.
We'll also have a first look at the pictures Borsari took of Donna Rice in Cannes.
Frank Sinatra is always hot news.
Sinatra is being taken to task by the anti-apartheid group Trans Africa for his 1981 concert in South Africa.
Mr. Sinatra has been the subject of criticism in the anti-apartheid community for the last seven years.
He was asked not to go. He was asked after he returned to apologize, to join the voluntary United Nations boycott
that's been in effect for 20 years.
He has expressed no regret, no remorse, and no commitment to support the anti-apartheid effort.
Trans Africa stirred up controversy two months ago when it began its media campaign Faces Behind Apartheid.
Tomorrow's national edition of the New York Times will feature the fourth ad in the series and the first entertainer.
The timing of the ad just happens to coincide with Sinatra's concert tomorrow night in the Washington area.
We would demand that Frank Sinatra publicly apologize for his appearance there and commit not to visit or perform in South Africa again
until apartheid has been totally dismantled.
While not responding specifically to the Trans Africa charges, Sinatra's attorney told Entertainment Tonight
that Mr. Sinatra has elected not to return to Sun City for many years and does not intend to appear there
as long as the U.S. government pursues its policy of economic sanctions against South Africa.
When I talked with Burt Reynolds in Florida, he told me he had mixed feelings about his new movie Malone.
Well, we talk to moviegoers. When we come back, we'll tell you what they agree.
And ahead, 1967 was a time of incredible change and even more incredible music.
Travel back 20 years to the making of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with Paul Ringo and George.
Burt Reynolds' new movie Malone opened last weekend and is playing in cities around the country.
It's also the subject of today's exclusive Entertainment Tonight movie track survey.
Malone has all the ingredients of a Reynolds action film, shootouts and car chases.
The film also has a foe for Reynolds and Cliff Robertson, who plays a fanatical super patriot gone over the edge.
I came here to kill me. Right?
In speaking with Reynolds recently, he said he was ambivalent about Malone.
Well, apparently moviegoers are as well.
The majority of people we surveyed said that they might tell their friends about the film.
A few folks felt Malone was outstanding. A few would warn their friends away.
And most felt the movie was just satisfactory.
So what did movie track audiences like best? Burt Reynolds. But nothing else really stood out.
The film even ranked smack in the middle of our movie track list of films.
So our recommendation based on your response to Burt Reynolds' Malone?
Well, if you really like Reynolds, you may like the film.
Otherwise, you could probably find better things to do.
Incidentally, Reynolds' next film is one he does feel very strongly about.
It's Renacop with Liza Minnelli.
And he's also just snatched a role from the jaws of actor Michael Caine.
Reynolds will replace Caine in switching channels.
Caine was unable to take the role due to scheduling problems with Jaws 4.
Ever wonder why your favorite stars look so great in close-ups?
Why you never see blemishes or dark circles or puffy eyes on camera?
Well, in today's final installment of our special series on the health and beauty secrets of the stars,
guest host Connie Selica finds good looks are based on a good foundation.
Television and movie makeup is a lot different from the makeup anyone would want to wear on the street.
The camera sees things differently.
But there are some movie tricks that just might work for you.
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It's the Entertainment Tonight collection of beauty secrets.
Watch closely.
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Actress Morgan Brittney.
The best way to apply your foundation, whether it's liquid or cream, is with a damp sponge.
It makes your makeup go on a lot easier, a lot smoother,
and you don't get the pressure from your fingertips to cause those little lines that none of us want.
Academy Award-winning makeup artist Michael Westman.
This is a cream blush. One of the old Hollywood secrets to make the makeup last throughout the day
was to use a cream blush under the makeup, powder it in, and then use your dry blush over the top of it.
And you don't need expensive powder.
Knott's Landing star Donna Mills.
I use, believe it or not, talcum powder.
It really doesn't come out too white. It's kind of translucent.
It seems to absorb the oil a lot better than other powders.
And besides, it smells great.
Cheryl Lee Rau from It's a Living felt there was a need for a makeup video aimed directly at black women.
When highlighting cheekbones for the glamorous look, here's one of my favorite tips.
Use gold powder instead of regular highlighter.
But when you highlight the nose and jaw, use regular highlighter to avoid that theatrical look.
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One of the ways to make your eyelashes look thicker is to put a layer of powder on top of your eyelashes
and then take your mascara wand and do a coat of mascara.
Do it all over again. Put another layer of powder, translucent powder, and then another layer of mascara.
Keep doing that until you get them as thick as you want and then you don't have to wear false eyelashes
and you'll have beautiful eyes.
Feathering your eyeliner is probably one of the most important things you can do in your makeup.
If you soften the lines, keep everything soft and colorful, vibrant, but soft,
you'll achieve a sensual effect, an intriguing effect, without coming on too strong.
I'm using the second color now on the bone just under the eyebrow to help bring this out.
It gives a little movement back and forth to the eye.
The lighter colors, of course, bring the bones out.
Deeper colors inset the eye.
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Don't get frustrated if you try some of these and they don't work right away.
Every face is different. You just have to find what works best for you.
For Entertainment Tonight, I'm Connie Salica.
Thank you, Connie. If you're looking for more inside tips from the stars,
Donna Mills has a new makeup video and Cheryl Lee Ralph's makeup video,
the first one for black women, will be out tomorrow.
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Tomorrow, actress, singer, and trendsetter Cher says she's not at peace in her own body
and she was scared to death tackling her new role as a lawyer.
Coming up this week on Entertainment This Week, a celebration of the year 1957,
the movies, the music, the television hits, and those fashions we miss.
It's a special edition, a fun trip back to the time when rock and roll was first rocking.
Almost every car was a classic.
That's this week as Entertainment This Week presents 1957.
Ring!
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Travel arrangements furnished by Pan American World Airways.
Pan Am flies to more places in Europe than all other U.S. airlines combined.
Expect more from Pan Am.
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Compact discs are the hit of the music business.
They're racking up millions in sales and compact disc players are selling as fast as they can make them.
The only limitation with CDs is no picture to go along with the sound, but now that's been fixed.
There's a new system on the horizon called CDV and it promises to deliver more and cost less.
Nina Blackwood has the story for us in our music report today.
Thanks John.
L.P., CD, D.A.T. is like alphabet soup when you shop for music.
Soon we'll have CDV, compact disc video.
It's the latest in laser digital technology.
And the basic unit is a five inch disc that looks just like a regular CD except for its gold color.
The difference is that this disc plays pictures and sound.
Each disc can hold up to five minutes of music video with an additional 20 minutes of sound,
while a regular CD holds up to 70 minutes of music only.
The good news is that CDVs will likely be priced under $7 rather than the $10 plus cost of CDs.
The bad news is they will not play back on a regular CD player.
Later this year, new players which will play both types of discs will be available.
Almost 17 years after his death, Jimi Hendrix still has legions of fans.
And soon they'll be able to listen to some vintage Hendrix recorded from a 1968 concert called Live at Winterland.
Four of the 11 tracks on the album have never been released before.
The Hendrix album is out on compact disc only.
Whitney Houston's new single, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, debuted yesterday at number 38 on the pop charts.
It's the highest debuting single of the year.
The album is out June 2nd and we've learned that our U.S. tour will kick off in Tampa Stadium July 4th.
The group U2 has the number one album and the number one single in the country.
The chances are most fans of the Irish rock group don't know about a new album which features two of the band's members.
Guitarist The Edge wrote the music for a film called Captive and is performed by him and bassist Michael Brooke.
The movie is in limited release.
The Doors charted their first single 20 years ago this June.
Their leader Jim Morrison outraged proper society with his onstage antics and sexually explicit lyrics.
When he died in 1971, the Doors became cult heroes and their popularity grew.
Now the group is being honored by mainstream America.
The Doors are going to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
That is good. I wonder what his reaction to that would be.
Thanks, Nina.
Twenty years ago, The Beatles recorded an album that radically changed rock music.
Technologically and creatively, Sgt. Pepper was light years ahead of its time.
And it established The Beatles as the most innovative as well as the most popular rock group of the period.
David Frost went to the studio where the album was recorded and he has the behind the scenes story on the making of this landmark album.
Love, love me too, you know I love you.
By 1967, The Beatles had already been the most popular group in the world for four years.
With a continuous string of number one singles and albums.
This was the scene back in the 60s as The Beatles arrived at the most famous recording studios in the world, Abbey Road, where Sgt. Pepper was made.
This rather unprepossessing room is studio two, where the actual work was done.
Here we go.
Ringo's drums were back there in the corner and the vocals were all recorded right here.
Upstairs in the control room was George Martin, the man who produced all of The Beatles albums, including Sgt. Pepper.
Sgt. Pepper really started with Strawberry Fields.
Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane should have been on Sgt. Pepper.
And the only reason they weren't, I mean I still wish they had been because they were great songs.
The only reason they weren't was that we needed a single.
And in those high ethical days, Brian Epstein and I thought that people should be given really good value for money and shouldn't have to have the single on the album.
Over men and horses, hoops and garters, lastly through a hogshead of real fire.
In this way, Mr. K will challenge the world.
Somehow the album seemed to grow by itself once I got into the compilation stage, when I started putting the songs together and making them flow into each other.
By the time of this album in 1967, was there a sort of quantum leap in what they were doing?
Yes, there was a kind of gestation of creation somehow.
They come to grips with the fact that they were capable of writing great songs.
When I first met them, they weren't, you know. I mean they were bottom songwriters to begin with.
And it's extraordinary how that hot house atmosphere developed their talent.
When you think that Love Me Do really was the best song I could find in 1962, and it really wasn't all that good.
I mean it's OK, but it was nothing like the songs they came to write later.
And their development was amazing.
Tell a fainty flower of yellow and green.
By the time we came to make Sergeant Pepper, we were getting a lot more freedom, artistic freedom.
So we started to incorporate more of the kind of crazy life that we were living at the time into the music.
A crazy life may be, but not, says George Martin, drug-oriented lyrics.
The absurd implications that Lucy and the Sky were Dumb and Stood for LSD, you know, and all those kind of things upset me rather.
Everybody said this is the album of the year then.
It's 20 years later and they're still saying it's the album of the last 20 years.
All there is, ever, is the now.
And we can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it.
And we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
Beatles fans will be able to see a lot of the group over the next months.
The Granada TV special will run on PBS and excerpts from it will run on ABC's 20-20 June 4th.
And the complete Beatles documentary is available from MGM Home Video.
Celebrating a birthday today, actress Robin Strasser is 42, singer Teresa Brewer is 56, and actor Darren McGavin is 65.
In today's People Post scripts, for Telly Savalas, the answer to the question, who loves you baby, is Lady Luck.
The actor placed fifth in the World Series of Poker.
He took home $11,650.
He'll buy a lot of lollipops.
Dolly Parton is a big winner as well.
Her Tennessee amusement park is now one year old.
Tennessee's Sevier County really made it quite a week for Parton.
What with Dollywood birthday cakes of all shapes and sizes at the theme park,
followed just down the road a piece by the unveiling of a seven-foot high bronze statue of Dolly at age 16.
At least I think it'll keep the pigeons off the courthouse.
Last year, more than 1.3 million people visited Dollywood.
That's more than double the attendance they anticipated.
Well, you've seen it in the movies.
The big star drives up to the studio gate in his status car, and the security guard waves him into his reserved parking spot.
In today's Hollywood memory, William Shatner relates an incident that didn't go according to the script that was written.
Who raped Hollywood?
I recall vividly going to MGM for my first film called The Brothers Karamazov.
And there was, you went to the main gate, I drove to the main gate,
and there was a guy who was a guard whose name was Ken Hollywood.
That was his name.
And it sounds apocryphal, but it isn't.
He died recently after 50 years, 40 years of being a guard at MGM.
And he said, yes, can I help you?
I said, well, I'm in this picture that's starting today.
He said, have you got a pass?
I said, no.
He said, I'm sorry, I can't let you in.
And I went all the way around.
I was late.
I mean, I was now late.
I was desperate.
And finally, I went home.
I called the studio and I said, I'm supposed to be on the set an hour ago,
and they won't let me in.
And all hell broke loose, and they sent something for me.
But I couldn't get on the set for my first day in Hollywood.
Bribes, William, bribes.
Say, if you were with us last Friday, you saw our new feature Check It Out.
Every week, our crack research department is going to track down the burning questions,
the rumors, and kind of fun trivia.
We're going to bring you all the answers.
Tomorrow, we're going to find out if it's true that one Hollywood star's memoirs are so sexy
that even the National Enquirer will not publish them.
I want to know if that's true.
And did you know that the animated character of Gumby made his debut on a classic 50s television show?
Check it out tomorrow.
Did you want to know?
Today, we're going to leave you with the number one song in the country from the number one album,
U2's With or Without You.
We'll see you tomorrow.
Take care.
Bye-bye.
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