of a lucrative 10-picture deal with Disney.
It wasn't high culture, more high camp.
But if she wasn't winning Oscars, she was making big bucks for the studio.
More than $300 million, she had star power.
That enabled her to flex her muscles in more sensitive, dramatic films like Beaches.
But few films hit a sour note as her 1991 pet project, For the Boys.
Passed up by Disney, she did it herself.
Alone in the dark with thousands of men.
There is a God after all.
The picture bombed. She took it personally and withdrew.
We haven't really seen you on the big screen since For the Boys.
Oh, I can tell you're getting serious.
Not yet.
Oh, you're lowering your voice. You've just dropped a little, dropped a step and a half.
That was a big disappointment.
For the Boys.
It wasn't that big of a disappointment.
Okay, we haven't seen you since For the Boys.
That's what they usually do. We haven't seen you since For the Boys, that's right.
That was a big disappointment.
It was a big disappointment, but fortunately I got over it.
I'm much more sanguine than I used to be about these things.
In what way?
Well, I just feel like, well, you know, I mean, what can you do?
You win some and you lose some. The whole thing is a crap shoot.
And you don't know what the public is going to like.
The hurt and disappointment made her a bit camera shy.
I did turn down Sister Act and I'm terribly sorry I turned down Sister Act.
Are you?
I cannot describe how unhappy I am.
Hallelujah.
I turned down Sister Act because I didn't want to be in a wimple for two hours.
Now, I think about all the money that Whoopi Goldberg probably made wearing a wimple for two hours.
You want to kill yourself?
I do. I want to kill myself.
This summer she finally said yes to Hocus Pocus,
in which she plays a high-flying nasty witch with buck teeth and a seriously bad hair day.
Hello there. Let me see your driver's purse.
In fact, the reason I did this picture was because my husband said,
you know what your problem is? You are too vain.
I said, yes, you are right.
Hello.
If there's anyone who keeps her grounded, it's her husband of nine years,
Martin von Hasselberg, a commodities broker turned performance artist.
In 1985, the readers of People magazine voted your marriage the least likely to succeed.
I fooled them, huh?
Why do you think that's?
I stayed married just to screw them.
They have one daughter, six-year-old Sophie.
Do you want to have more kids?
Yes, I do. In fact, I think next year I'm going to try to have another baby.
Really?
Mm-hmm.
This is my last gasp.
This is important to me and I have a lot to say and I know that most women in America wish they had this.
That's greatest hit perhaps last year when as Johnny's final guest,
she said goodbye to the man who meant so much to her career.
The funny and heartfelt farewell earned her an Emmy.
You made me watch you.
I love the jokes you're flogging when you are monologuing.
I watched your hair turn slowly from dark to white.
And when I can't sleep, I count your wives at night.
No, I haven't seen it yet.
You haven't seen it?
No, I didn't see it.
Don't you want to?
No.
Why not?
Because the memory of it was so wonderful.
For all of the years, for the laughs, for the tears, for the class that you showed.
Make it one for my baby and one more for the road that long, long road.
Thank you.
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The results of the 1993 J.D. Power and Associates study on initial quality are in.
Among the top ten models in initial quality are Toyota Camry, Corolla, Tracell and Paseo.
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Forerunner ranked the best compact sport utility vehicle.
Previa, the best compact van, the best compact pickup Toyota, and the best full-size pickup, the T100.
It's Toyota at its best.
Before it became the number one movie, it was America's number one show.
The Bonds sought fugitive from justice.
In a special NBC event, see the most famous episodes of The Fugitive.
And what went on?
Did you kill Helen Kimball?
The original Fugitive, first episode next and last episode tomorrow at 10, 9 Central only on NBC.
Tomorrow morning on Today, we'll talk with Cecile Loren.
Plus Jim Fowler with some Gators and Superman returns to the comics.
So join us tomorrow morning.
And see what a difference today makes.
Hey, Katie and I have to go.
I feel like I live there in that studio.
In case this doesn't work out, we're going to work the night shift here at the Plaza Cafe.
But that's now for tonight.
We hope you'll join us now again next week.
And I'll see you tomorrow morning on Today.
And I'll see you tomorrow night on NBC Nightly News.
So we'll see you then and again then.
We'll see you everywhere.
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Now.
Just remember that.
Good night.
Good night.
That's right.
Valerie Bertinelli is back on NBC Saturday this fall.
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A kennel filled with animals left homeless by the flooding catches fire.
Dozens of cats and dogs died in a blaze at St. Louis County facility.
Workers did save more than 200 dogs, reuniting them with their owners.
An alarming number of Marines are accused of taking part in a pornography ring.
Tonight on our News at 10, find out what police and the military are doing about it.
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Whoa!
Law and order will not be seen tonight so that we can bring you the original television episode of the 1960s classic, The Fugitive.
Law and order will return next week at this time.