Today, we join the first American rock group to tour China.
From Vienna, we watch as Amy Irving plays the ill-fated Anastasia.
Toronto was where Richard Gere and Julie Christie honored director John Schlesinger.
And from Hollywood, Gene Wolfe's Inside Entertainment Report has the latest on that scorching new Sinatra book.
We have searched the world for today's stories on entertainment tonight.
For this Tuesday, the 16th of September, 1986.
[♪upbeat music playing.♪
Hello again everybody. I'm Mary Hart.
And I'm John Tesch.
Kipling said, east is east, west is west, and never the twain shall meet.
An all-girl American rock band has changed all that.
It isn't uncommon to see a number of Western tourists taking in the sights in the People's Republic of China.
From a leisurely stroll along the Yangtze River to watching performing pandas at the circus.
[♪applause and cheering.♪
These five American women don't have much time for touring or tea.
They're on a working holiday.
[♪music playing.♪
They're called She Rock.
And they have the distinction of being the first American rock group invited to tour the mainland.
Although this is their first major concert appearance together, and they're virtually unknown in the U.S.,
their 19-day three-city tour has been a complete sellout.
It's like a dream come true.
We were unknown in America.
And only started getting publicity because we're coming to China.
And we come here and we're like, we're famous, really.
And it's unbelievable because we're a very new group.
[♪music playing.♪
As word of mouth about this rock group spread, the usually dignified and polite Chinese audiences loosened up considerably.
In Shanghai, it was slow, slower start.
And then Hangzhou's a little quicker, you know, energy rise.
Our first concert last night was immediate screaming right when we got on stage
because I guess the publicity is getting to the towns and the hype is there now.
[♪music playing.♪
She Rock has returned to the United States.
And now they'll try to generate here the excitement they created in China.
But that aside, what an experience for them.
Yeah, it's been happening in Japan for a long time, American groups going over there and breaking.
And it is exciting, very much so.
On to another continent.
In 1956, Ingrid Bergman won an Oscar for playing the title role in Anastasia, which is now Anastasia.
NBC is bringing the story back as a mini-series being filmed in Vienna, Austria.
[♪music playing.♪
Amy Irving has the title role in the NBC mini-series.
It's based on the true story of Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be Anastasia.
The surviving daughter of the last Russian Tsar.
You can't defy the family.
No. Just watch me.
As soon as they said Anastasia, it was such a tempting role to take on.
She has so many complexities.
It's such a wonderful mystery.
And for an actress to bite into this, it's quite a task.
History had stated that Russia's entire imperial family had been murdered in 1918 during the Russian Revolution.
But seven years later, Anna Anderson emerged claiming to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia.
There's absolutely no way that this woman could have been anybody else but Anastasia Romanoff.
I don't really understand the opposition, but there were enough people, the royal family themselves, came out and said it was not her.
She isn't worth it.
How dare you?
In my presence.
The family denies you.
And you still continue with this little game.
You are disgusting.
I am who I am.
I don't care what the family says.
Disgusting.
They came down to a court decision and in the court they only proved that it is possible that Anastasia Romanoff did not die,
but they could not prove that this particular woman was she.
Amy Irving, the actress, may be enjoying her role as Anastasia, but she's also enjoying another role, namely that of mother to 15-month-old son Max Spielberg.
I'm very lucky that I get to have him here with me.
Stephen was more than fair to allow him to come to Vienna with me.
And he'll be visiting me as well because we don't like our family to be apart for too long.
But it's hard when I'm in costume and he wants to hold me and he's got banana on his fingers.
I have to say I'm sorry.
I can't pick you up until we clean your hands off.
And it's a discipline that he shouldn't have to understand yet.
Well, we've shown you rock and roll in China, gone behind the scenes of a mini-series in Austria.
Now to Canada where Jeanne Becker reports the curtain rang down on the Toronto Film Festival with a tribute to British director John Schlesinger.
This kind of evening, when you look back on all those years, is faintly embarrassing, but brings back a lot of happy memories.
And so I thank you very, very deeply.
After the festival's tribute, Orion Pictures threw an intimate party for John Schlesinger and friends, and everyone was only too eager to sing the director praises.
I love John's films. I love his, as he said, his concentration with the bizarre aspect of human life.
And they're so full of humor and love and action.
He creates an atmosphere around the shoot that allows for everybody to make a contribution.
And that's what's so rewarding.
I love about John, well, he has the best beard I have ever seen in my life. He's maintained it for years. This is incredible.
He's impeccably dressed. His manners are impeccable. He's the wickedest man I ever met in my life.
Look at these eyes. Turn it around. Look at the eyes.
Jeanne Becker in Toronto Entertainment Tonight.
Ahead, an exclusive preview of Kathleen Turner's soon-to-be-released movie.
That's my father.
Two years ago, a miniseries based on the life of George Washington got big ratings and took home several prestigious awards.
Sunday and Monday, CBS presents the sequel with Barry Bostwick once again stepping into George Washington's shoes.
It's very complicated. Just George Washington is, I think, going to force people to listen to television again, not just watch it.
We've been so happy here since the war.
The two-part miniseries George Washington, The Forging of a Nation, will air on CBS next Sunday and Monday.
Virginia has ratified. We have a constitution.
It's about heart. It's about accomplishment. It's about very strong spiritual lives of these people.
And it's about emotion.
Barry Bostwick played the role of George Washington in an eight-hour miniseries in 1984.
Now he's been re-elected for the sequel, which shows an older founding father.
By the time we got to the later years, in his fifties, I was totally at ease with him.
And so this one, where I play him from mid-fifties to mid-sixties, I was just waiting for the chance.
The man was, I think, the greatest American hero.
And I think that he was more than all of the clichés, and he was more than that painting and that portrait.
I mean, he was a finished human being.
I've led men in battle to be the chief executive of a new form of government.
I'm not sure I'm the man.
Oh, you are.
It was such a surprise to everybody that we made a sequel a year and a half later, you know.
And that's never done, hardly, with a serious subject like this.
They figured they did George Washington, we got him through the war.
Okay, that's enough of George Washington. No.
There's eight more years. Eight of the most exciting years, I think, of his life, actually.
Earlier this year, Rock and Roll did its part for the human rights organization Amnesty International,
and the Six City Tour featuring Sting, U2, and others raised more than $2 million.
Last night, music still played a major role as Hollywood touched base with Amnesty International at an all-star fundraiser.
Scott Osborne has more.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Chris Christopherson's old song acquired new meaning at this celebration for Amnesty International.
Amnesty International is celebrating its 25th anniversary, but not until recently has it become a Hollywood-caused celeb.
I was connected with the organization in England years ago,
and I think the attraction is just that it would be horrifying for oneself to find oneself in a similar situation
where you could not really speak your mind.
It's up to us who have such good fortune to try and share some with others in any way that we can.
Well, Amnesty represents really the best that's in us, I think.
I would go almost any length to support them.
The only thing I'm surprised at is that Hollywood got it a little late, really,
but I think that they're very well organized here now, and I do think that it's so important.
It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give.
And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live.
Scott Osborne, Entertainment Tonight.
The wonderful voice of Amanda McBroom.
Who we're going to see later on in the show.
Hollywood loves things that are new. New cars, new wave, new talent, new money.
And as Jean Wolf reports, especially high on the list, nouvelle cuisine.
The great chefs of America displayed their wares for the hungry hordes in Hollywood this weekend.
The occasion, the fourth annual American Wine and Food Festival,
where some of the dishes not only boggled the mind, but also the digestive tract.
For example, Jimmy Schmidt of Denver's Rattlesnake Club prepared a scallop of salmon with Ashoti peppers.
And Jean-Marie Jocelyn of Dallas grilled up some Texas deer with black beans and mango chutney,
while Jeremiah Tower of Star's Restaurant in San Francisco roasted a whole fish on a spiff
and served it with mango chili salsa.
Most of these dishes were unheard of just a few years ago.
And while the star chefs continue to titillate the palates of their star patrons,
nouvelle cuisine seems to know no limits.
There's a lot of unusual combinations here tonight. Is there anything you wouldn't try?
You know, in the beginning, when sushi first came out, I thought I will never eat that.
I mean, raw fish, we haven't even cooked it, it's sort of cruel.
And now I go twice a week to a sushi bar.
So I've had to learn to overcome being squirmish about things
and to really take a taste and see if I like it.
There was at one point I went to certain restaurants that I thought it was all baby food.
I mean, it was things that my son would eat. It was all mashed up.
And I thought that was sort of nice.
When it comes to fancy food, I tend to regress to a meat and potato stage.
The festival raised close to $100,000 for Meals on Wheels,
a charity which feeds homebound residents less opulent fare.
Jean Wolfe, Entertainment Tonight.
Stay with us. When we return, Jean Wolfe moves from new cuisine to a new feature.
Namely, the premiere of Inside Entertainment.
Tomorrow on Entertainment Tonight, Art Garfunkel tells about life after Paul Simon.
Travel arrangements made by Pan American World Airways,
which flies to more places in Europe than all other U.S. airlines combined.
Pan Am, you can't beat the experience.
Welcome back. Jean Wolfe is with us on the set,
ready with the first edition of a new feature here on Entertainment Tonight
called Inside Entertainment. Jean?
John, Mary, everyone's talking about Frank Sinatra and the alleged loves of his life,
except Frank Sinatra and the alleged loves of his life.
For the second week, People Magazine's cover story is the unauthorized biography of Frank Sinatra by Kitty Kelly.
Kelly's scorecard journalism focuses on the subject hardest to verify and certain to sell books.
Sinatra's supposed sexual escapades with Elizabeth Taylor, Victoria Principal, Lauren Bacall, Marlena Dietrich,
and a 16-year-old girl fresh from a convent.
Kelly also includes details mostly unpleasant of Sinatra's marriages to first wife Nancy,
second wife Ava, third wife Mia, and present wife Barbara.
Sinatra seldom replies or denies anything, so the fascination and question marks remain.
From what I've read, it's an exploitive listing of alleged affairs with some of the world's most beautiful women,
with no attempt to explain this complex man.
If you were typecasting for the part of a network executive,
you might look for a heartless guy who cancels shows with a callous eye.
Well, CBS programming head Bud Grant proved that's outmoded when he showed his romantic side at his engagement party.
My toast would be Linda, thank you, be just the way you are.
Some of Grant's famous friends had loving thoughts for the man who decides their place on this schedule.
Here's to Bud and Linda, may they have as much happiness as I have had.
It's a joyous occasion and I wish them all the happiness that life can offer.
I want to wish Bud and Linda the most happiness in the whole world, they deserve it.
As our camera roamed for two shots, I wondered if Kate Jackson knew Linda Carter and her current husband would be at the party,
because Kate's date was Linda's ex-husband Ron Samuels.
In Hollywood, the roles are always changing.
Hold the lights for the next two shot.
Melanie Griffith and Stephen Bauer are facing the difficulties of show business marriage and are separated.
Melanie was once married to Don Johnson, but a few years ago she told me it was Stephen who helped veer her away from alcohol and drugs.
But Melanie still has lots to grin about.
Something wild, a soon to be released film with fabulous advanced buzz.
I'm Jean Wolf, Inside Entertainment, and that's a wrap.
Not quite, we have to say thanks and looking forward to more of your Inside Entertainment reports, Jean.
Got lots of good stuff.
Thanks, Jean.
The Cosby Show for the fourth consecutive week is number one in the Nielsens.
Our House was second in last week's primetime numbers,
followed by Easy Street, The Golden Girls and The Miss America Pageant.
Night Court was sixth, then Monday Night Football, 60 Minutes, the last days of Patton and 227.
NBC won the week with an average rating of 15.7.
In the evening news ratings race, CBS won the closest race ever with ABC and NBC tied for second one-tenth of a point behind.
Meantime, as Al Owens tells us, a news program of a different sort has come to the nation from syndication.
I always wanted to do a show about rock and roll and I thought there was a need for a show
and room for a show that addressed rock and roll, you know, serious way every week.
Andy Friendly's wish came true last weekend when the rock and roll evening news rolled out across 130 stations.
The show features performances, interviews,
If anything worked out it was The Beatles.
We'd come full circle.
It would have really been very difficult to think of anything else to do, should we have done it all?
and critical reviews of the latest releases from the world of rock and roll music.
To have people believe what you're doing, you're going to have to criticize some of these bands.
That's going to be shocking. It's going to be shocking for the record companies.
It's going to be shocking for the bands themselves, but it's going to be really delightful for the audience.
You know that rock and roll is now the music of America and it fuels Masson Avenue and primetime TV with Miami Vice
and just about every movie that's out has a rock and roll soundtrack and it really is the music of America.
Peggy Sue Got Married starring Kathleen Turner opens across the country next month
and in this exclusive movie preview, Peggy Sue has magically returned to 1960 to re-examine her relationship with Charlie,
her high school sweetheart she's now divorcing.
As you might imagine, Charlie, played by Nicolas Cage, is somewhat confused by her behavior as we join them parked on Lovers Lane.
You really love me, don't you?
You know I do. I even wrote you into my will.
Charlie, let's make love.
What? You mean sex?
Intercourse.
You want to have intercourse?
Last weekend you said...
What time is it? Holy cow! It's late. Real late!
Come on! What is this? What the hell is going on, Peggy Sue?
One week you say if you love me you won't. The next week you say if you love me you will. That's a guy's line.
It is, isn't it?
I guess. Say if you thought Bette Midler did a great job with the rose, wait until you hear the woman who wrote it. You will when we return.
Celebrating her birthday today, Shalane McCall of Dallas is 14, Ed Begley Jr. 37, The Who's Kenny Jones is also 37,
George Zakiris is 53, Anne Francis 54, Peter Falk is 59, B.B. King 61 today, Lauren Bacall 62, and Alan Funt is 72.
Today in our People Postscript file, some fallout from the Miss America pageant.
23-year-old Miss Florida, Molly Pesque, says the new Miss America, Kelly Cash, was unpopular, arrogant, and used her famous name.
Pesque told the Orlando Sentinel that the grand niece of Johnny Cash handed out autographed pictures of herself while others gave out mementos from their states,
quoting Pesque now,
Honey, between you and me, that girl was the least like girl around. She acted like she knew she was going to win. End quote.
Miss Cash said she didn't think she was the least like, that she made a lot of friends at the pageant, and her relationship with her great uncle had nothing to do with winning.
Said Miss Cash, quote, I wasn't Johnny in the swimsuit who won, it was me. He didn't get up on the stage, I did. End quote.
Imagine if he had. And former Beatle Ringo star and wife Barbara Bach will announce plans next month to open an upscale restaurant next year in downtown Atlanta.
It will be called The Brasserie. On our menu tomorrow, we have Billy Dee Williams and Art Garfunkel.
But you're going to have to miss it. We'll miss you.
I'll be heading off to Boston and then New York.
We'll hold the fort for a couple of days.
Alright.
Thanks, Mary.
Songwriter Amanda McBroom had a chance to sing her biggest hit at last night's Amnesty International Gala, the theme song from the 1979 film, The Rose.
Take care.
Bye-bye.
That never learns to live.
Tomorrow at four on our magazine, Sydney Biddlebarrow's The Mayflower Madam tells why she couldn't resist running a prostitution ring.
Plus a visit by Bert Convy, tips on buying pets, and much more.
Now stay tuned for Remington Steel next, here on Channel 10.
That love is only for the lucky and the strong.
Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow,
Lies the seed that with the sun's love in the spring,
Becomes rose.