It is often the parchment on which the criminal unwittingly writes his autograph.
Now what do you read from these footprints here?
That they are twice as deep as the others, master.
Good answer. And thus we may conclude?
Well, that the man was very heavy.
Precisely. And why was he very heavy?
Because he was very fat.
Or because he was being burdened with the weight of another man.
Let us commit the autograph of this soul to our memory.
But the footprints lead away from the jar. In this direction.
Oh, you turnip, Adzo. You're discounting the possibility that the man was walking backwards,
dragging the body thus. Hence the furrows created by the heels.
Now where did the erudite Greek translator meet the anonymous author of his death?
Very effective as a monk. Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham of Amadeus co-stars with Connery
in The Name of the Rose, which begins a limited release this Wednesday.
Hot on a teals come three more new movies opening Friday.
Jack Liman and Julie Andrews star in Blake Edwards' That's Life, also in limited release.
Paul Hogan, star of those great Australian TV commercials, is the main attraction in Crocodile Dundee.
And Sigourney Weaver of Aliens comes back to Earth to co-star with Michael Caine in Half Moon Street.
Yeah, but if you just can't wait and you need a movie this very day,
well, Leonard Maltin has a few suggestions, plus and minus, about the current releases.
He begins with a big little movie playing in just two theaters.
You can only see Captain EO in 3D, oh, excuse me, at Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
But if you find yourself in one of those two places, you're in for a treat.
Captain EO is really nothing more than a high-tech rock video, but it's a lot of fun.
With great 3D effects, a lot of energy, Michael Jackson doing what Michael Jackson does best.
On my short subject scale, I give this film a 9.
Blue Velvet might be some people's idea of fun, but not mine.
This is giving me the creeps.
Me too. David Lynch's film is terminally weird, a foul-minded mystery with a lot of unpleasant people.
Mind you, it's also a highly original and audacious piece of work.
If it hadn't made me sick, I might like it better, but I'm giving it a 4.
Night Mother didn't make me sick, though it certainly is a downer.
Sissy Spasik is going to commit suicide.
She decides to tell her mother, Anne Bancroft, ahead of time.
I should have just left you a note, yes!
The problem with this well-made film is that it's hollow.
Another case of a stage play that doesn't make the transition to movies.
It's the acting that earns this a 5.
Still and all, the best film to see these days is Stand By Me.
If you haven't yet caught it, you owe yourself that experience.
It's a winner that captures boyhood with all its pains and pleasures, and it rates an 8.
And for a different view of life, I recommend a funny and funky new film called She's Gotta Have It,
written and directed by Spike Lee.
It's all about a sexy lady and the three men who want her all to themselves.
It's far from being a great movie, but there's something disarming about it that really gets to you,
and it earns a 7.
She's Gotta Have It has its faults, but it's still more interesting and enjoyable
than a lot of what Hollywood has to offer right now.
That's our weekend movie wrap-up.
I'm Leonard Maltin, Entertainment This Week.
We've had some movies on once taboo topics in recent years.
Billy Crystal got pregnant in rabbit test.
Burt Reynolds looked for the perfect woman to carry his child in paternity.
But now, as Gene Wolf reports, Paul Cervino might just have crossed the line.
Co-starring with Cassandra Edwards in a little number called Vesectomy, a delicate matter.
If you don't want any more children, why don't you investigate the other possibilities?
For instance, there is the pill, there is an IUD, there's the FBI,
there's the post office, there's all kinds of machinations you can involve.
The pill isn't safe, the IUD isn't safe, and the rest of those certainly don't work.
I'm not getting a vasectomy!
Okay, Vesectomy the Movie.
I mean, I want to know, have you no shame?
Will you just do anything for a laugh?
Will you stop at nothing?
I am ruthless when it comes to making people laugh, that's true.
And I know this is going to be surprising to a lot of people who know my work
and who say, what is he doing in this kind of movie?
But it's a very tasteful movie and a very funny romantic comedy.
Through these veins flows the blood of the conquerors.
The ancient Romans took over this entire world,
the women were lined up alongside the roadways just waiting to be taken by these great heroic men.
I'm Italian, I'm proud of my virility and my heritage.
And that is why Rome fell!
90% of those men were in bed with women!
As an actor, when you prepare for a role, you have to dig in, you have to learn about yourself.
What did you learn about yourself preparing for this movie?
You ask yourself questions about your masculinity,
and you say, will this affect my masculinity in any way?
I don't think anything will affect my masculinity, I think it's all in here and in here, you know.
And that's why I think it's a very provocative subject and a very good idea
to make a movie out of it, because nobody's done it.
I guess you could have a movie, you know, called, uh,
Appendectomy, the final solution, you know, I don't know.
I don't know if many people would go to see that, or, you know, resetting the broken leg.
You know, I don't know, but I know that if you say vasectomy, all the men go,
ooh, first of all, it's gonna be the wrist response, oh, and, uh, why not?
Vasectomy is foolproof.
That's what I'm afraid of, I'm scared to death of this thing.
Of what? We're gonna do it right here, Gino, in my office.
Gonna take 15, 20 minutes, I'm gonna cut one little tube.
What if you slip and cut one big one?
You've had this fantastic career, producer, writer, actor,
but you understand that the thing you may end up being remembered for
is playing Bruce Willis's father in Moonlighting.
That's right. I mean, that, of all the things I've ever done,
that may become my, uh, epitaph, I'd say.
He was, here lies Bruce Willis's father in Moonlighting.
David!
Ooh.
Yeah, I put on a couple of gallons of aftershave, did I put too much?
No, you just smell like a giant stick of juicy fruit.
Oh, I think he smells lovely.
Have you two met?
Matt, how well do you know this woman?
I'm not well enough.
Good, give me a hug.
How'd you feel when they picked you
to be the personification of where David got his charm and charisma?
I just, like a duck in water, I just, uh, took right to it.
No, it was, that's flattering, of course.
I'm so nervous, I'm so scared.
I'm so...
Can I stay here with you the rest of my life?
He's a Sunshine Boy, an Academy Award-winning actor,
a champion wisecracker, and horse player, and a personal friend of Jack Lemmon.
One-on-one with Lisa Gibbons, Walter Mathau.
Walter had quite a career, I know, but didn't he really hit stardom kind of late in life?
Yeah, he's been acting since he was in his early teens.
He didn't really become a star rob, though, until The Odd Couple hit Broadway,
and Mathau was 45 at the time.
He wanted to play the part of Felix Unger.
Wrong.
Yeah, because it's true.
I mean, with his cauliflower nose and sad eyes, he was the perfect Oscar Madison.
Gruff, sloppy, and lovable.
And like Oscar, Walter Mathau always has something to say or a story to tell,
and among the glib gabbers of Tinseltown, he is a great storyteller.
For me, talking with him is like a reward for all the teeth-pulling trials that come with this job.
He is bright, charming, funny, and unpredictable.
At least that's how I see him.
I asked him how he sees himself.
How do you think of yourself?
I don't think of myself.
I just wake up in the morning, I wash my face, take a shower, and I go to the track.
Or I take a walk, or I listen to Mozart, or I read Shakespeare,
or I fool around with my wife.
You know, whatever is right for the day.
Depends if it's raining, you know.
Now talk about reading Shakespeare.
Yeah.
That's a passion that you developed as really a young boy.
I was never a young boy.
You were born old?
I was always awkward, even as a young gale.
No kidding.
Groucho Marx.
Isn't that a good line?
Let me do some word associations with you, if you don't mind.
One word, one sentence.
Real brief immediate thoughts on these people that you've worked with.
Roman Polanski.
Brilliant.
Barbara Stryson.
Extraordinarily unusual.
Jack Lemon.
Terrific fella.
Elvis Presley.
Shakes a lot.
George Burns.
Burns?
He's still got his vaudeville trunk.
Walter Mathau.
Walter Mathau, lucky.
Do you think so?
Sure.
And how?
Wow.
Wowee.
99% luck.
Let's talk for a minute about what is perhaps the definitive Walter Mathau trademark.
Yeah.
Your face.
You like it?
Do I like my face?
Yeah.
Not particularly, no.
Did you?
I wish I was more handsome.
You don't think you're handsome?
No, no.
My nose is too fat.
My eyes are too small.
My chin goes back.
My ears are too big.
I got too many pimples on my face.
I understand you told Jack Lemon at one time that you thought about changing your face in some way.
Oh yeah.
I've been thinking of having nose jobs and eye jobs and ear jobs for the last 40 years.
And thinking about it all the time.
Why haven't you ever done it?
I don't know.
Yellow.
I guess I'm yellow.
And I'm afraid.
Afraid to get cut with a knife.
But I wanted to be very beautiful.
I wanted women to swoon, faint, to jump on me, to tear my clothes off and kiss me.
How has your face, the way you look, helped define your acting career, the path that you've taken?
Well, I guess, you know, I used to go up and look for work.
And the people, secretaries, would say to me, what's your name?
I said, Walter Mathau.
I said, oh, you one of the writers?
I said, no, no, no, not a writer.
I'm an actor.
They said, an actor?
Okay.
When you sit down, I'll tell Mr. Schmiercase that you're here.
And you know, an actor.
You're this guy.
He's an actor.
The way he looks, he's an actor.
Everybody wants to be an actor.
Why don't you go home and learn to trade for a second?
I mean, learn, you know, learn how to make a package.
Learn how to run a camera.
Get him back in the camera.
You don't want to be in front of the camera and make people nervous and make them throw up and everything.
You got to be a guy, you know, in some place in a small office, away from people.
Your kids, you have really encouraged them to get into the business, which is something that a lot of actors wouldn't do.
Well, I told them what the odds are against making a living in this business.
I told them what the odds are about them ever getting to be known.
And the odds are tremendously against them.
They realize it.
But I said, it's also a wonderful business.
It's the best business I can think of to get into.
You go all over the world.
You become different people.
You become, you get inside of a bank president.
You get inside of a desperate killer.
You become a world famous doctor.
And you meet all these people who are in reality.
And it's a fascinating, stimulating, and necessary business for the survival of the dream of a country.
Art is the only thing that makes a country survive.
Nobody will ever remember the businessmen of our country.
The politicians will become faded items after a while.
But the artists will live on forever.
And if they want to get into that particular field, no matter what it is in the form of art, then God bless them.
You wanted to be an athlete, did you not?
I was an athlete. What do you mean I wanted to be an athlete?
Professionally.
No, I couldn't be a professional athlete. I wasn't good enough.
I wasn't strong enough. I wasn't good enough.
Was that a dream that was more powerful than acting?
Yeah, yeah. I always dream.
All my dreams are of exploits in the athletic field.
I'm either hitting a home run with the bases loaded or catching the ball.
My team is behind by six points.
I get the ball on one yard line.
I run 99 yards through everybody, running over everybody.
Nobody lays a hand on me.
And I make a touchdown.
That's all my dreams.
Basketball. 40-foot shot to tie the game in overtime, into overtime.
Do terrific pivots, dribbles.
I'm down on the floor.
My left leg is killing me.
I make a shot with my left hand and it goes into the basket.
And 35,000 people go crazy.
They scream.
Athletics. I love it.
Those are the dreams.
What about reality?
Reality?
I'm nothing but a schnook.
A schnook actor.
That's reality.
But I have such a beautiful, magnificent, lovely, sweet wife
who put up with all my nonsense, with all my madness.
And I've been with her for 30 years and I'm madly in love with her.
And I'm crazy about her.
I'm thinking about her even now as I'm talking to you.
I think I'll go home.
["Disco Music"]
In our music section, the most popular dance music of the 70s was disco.
But rock fans rose up against the sound and started a death to disco movement.
Disco didn't die though, even though it all but disappeared until recently.
Bobby Columby has more on the new, old dance craze.
["Macho Macho Man"]
By the mid-70s, disco was going strong with groups like the Village People
building their entire career on disco music.
["Royalty Free"]
Saturday Night Fever went on to become the best-selling soundtrack of all time.
["Royalty Free"]
All in all, disco was noted more for its beat than its artists.
And although Donna Summer survived, most did not.
By 1980, disco was on its last legs.
["Las Vegas"]
A lot of people think disco is dead, but actually it's alive and well in dance clubs across the country.
["Starlight"]
Since 1980, the only major artist to come out of the dance clubs is Madonna.
And even though she hit big, she did not bring disco along with her.
["Two Hearts"]
1986 has been an exceptional year for dance music.
Several artists whose songs broke first in the discos crossed over to the pop charts.
Stacey Q's Two of Hearts is a top ten dance hit and currently is number eight on the Hot 100.
["Hot 100"]
It's fun to go dancing and the people on the street have brought it back.
You know, rather than people in record companies dictating what's going to happen here
and what's going to happen there, the people are saying, we want to go out dancing.
["Time to Leave the World Behind"]
Baby Love made it to the top five on the dance chart and the top ten on the pop chart.
People will hear it in the dance club and then start buying it.
And then when the sales go up, then the radio stations look at that and say,
hmm, maybe we should check this out.
["I Can't Wait"]
New Shoe's first number one dance single climbed all the way to number three on the pop chart.
["I Have a Point of No Return"]
And their second, Point of No Return, is in the top 40 and climbing.
["I Have a Point of No Return"]
We were disco when disco wasn't cool.
There you go.
Now it's cool again, so we're pretty happy about it.
And our second record will be a country-western record.
Yeah.
Country disco.
Crisco music.
["I Have a Point of No Return"]
Ready, so full.
["All I Want Is A Little Reaction"]
It's hard to look at Tina Turner now and imagine
Anna Mae Bullock, a child who grew up feeling alone and unloved.
["I Have a Point of No Return"]
They took care of me, but you know, it just wasn't that other feeling there that was for
the other daughter because she was the first one and the first child is always very special.
So I didn't have that affection.
I was cared for, but I saw love and I imagined what it could possibly be like, but I didn't have it.
I guess in a strange kind of way I just felt like they liked my sister better and it was all right
because that was how it was.
You see, I think I've always had that thing, well, this is how it is, and so since that's how it is,
then what am I going to do about it?
Well, I'm going to go and find something else to do.
So I wasn't sad about it.
I didn't have that many very sad moments about it, you know, but at times I did as a little girl.
I yearned for my mother to be with me as she was with my older sister, you know.
Do you think your singing from the very beginning was a way for you to say,
hey, hey, pay attention to me?
Ever since I was a little tot, I've been singing.
So I came here with that tool and I've used it and I still use it.
That's my weapon.
It was her relationship with Ike Turner that finally brought Tina the public attention
she had craved as a child.
Although things looked all right on stage, behind the scenes there were problems.
According to her book, Ike was a womanizer, heavily into drugs,
and he used violence to keep Tina under control.
I can just tell you that the early stages of my relationship with Ike before we became involved
emotionally with a marriage and a relationship, he was a very special, very loving person.
It only started much later in Ike's life that he became, he was always at a mean streak,
in a fighting streak from the early days.
None of what you're reading in the book was just brand new.
He was always that way.
You can accept people when they are that way.
I think people accepted him because that was his personality.
He was that way from the beginning.
But people loved Ike.
He had friends, he had people that loved him, and that hopefully I hope still do.
But you see, they didn't perceive his treatment as...
I don't know what those spells are, Bubby.
I know about power.
Whatever his power was, I don't know.
I didn't have that one.
I had another one.
Mine was friendly with a smile and with laughter.
His was with a fist, you know.
And he still held people with that.
I held people with, held my friends and my life together with happiness.
And he was angry.
He were hit with wire hangers, shoe trees, boiling water, punched broken ribs.
He made you perform with tuberculosis.
It, I mean, I have to say that people that are going to read this book are going to say,
Tina, why didn't you get out of there?
Why didn't you just get out of there?
Smack him one side the head in the knee.
He wouldn't have to smack him.
He'd have to shoot that one.
I tried to get out a few times and I didn't succeed.
And then I became afraid that if I tried to get out and I got caught, the same thing would happen again.
Right?
So you see, I felt trapped.
And so then I began to realize that, well, that's in the book where I explain that I tried to take my life because I didn't see a way out.
Why don't you walk out?
You can't walk out until you're truly ready.
And until you're truly ready, I mean, not just angry.
Because when you're angry, then you cool off and then it's different.
You've got to cool off and still feel the same way.
That's when you really fat up and when you know that the way out is through the door because nothing is more important than your own life.
Help me if you can.
I'm feeling down.
And I do appreciate you being alive.
How did you get the courage to write this book?
It wasn't about courage.
Some people went ahead and started writing things that was not true.
Then came the management that something had been released that when I said I left with 36 cents that I was searching for sympathy and that's how I got my success or what's love got to do with it.
And that is what really sparked me to really write the book just to let people know that I'm not asking for sympathy and I never asked.
I mean, how dare you?
You don't even know me to make a statement like that.
It was a bit of anger and feeling that it's time.
But you're not bitter.
Yeah.
I laughed about my life while I was there in it.
I had to to stay sane.
I laugh about it now as tragic as it was.
I have forgiven.
I have forgiven and I have gone on with my life.
Everything that was done to me, I received it.
I accepted it and I have gone past it.
And I don't hold any grudges from anyone that what was done because obviously there must have been some reason for them and for me to have to have gone through something that dramatic.
I've been taking on a new direction.
But I have said.
Tina Turner has gone on with her life.
In 1984, she won three Grammys.
Her private dancer album went multi platinum and her latest break every rule debuted on the charts this week.
For a woman who seems on top of the world, there is one thing missing.
I'm looking for love.
I'm not looking for a companionship.
I mean, now that I have secured myself financially, I'm not looking for a man to take care of me.
I'm looking for a man to love me and a man that I can love and that we can both love enough that we don't have to deal with any securities.
It's a man.
Funny.
I'm not going to pull up with.
That's like.
I'm making a line up now.
But that's the truth.
But I'm not rushing it because I don't have to rush it.
I'm busy.
I'm successful.
My marriage is my work right now in my home and again my family.
And I think that if that man entered my life right now, someone would be forgotten.
And I think there's things to be taken care of before that happens because when it happens, forget it.
I'm gone.
Tina Turner's in Europe now, but there's plenty of live music across the country.
Wednesday, Genesis opens a four-night stand at the Spectrum in Philadelphia.
Thursday, Anita Baker cooks at the Front Row Theater in Cleveland.
Friday, Huey Lewis and the News headline the Convention Center in San Antonio.
Saturday, Ashford and Simpson finish a two-night stand at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
And on Sunday, Lee Greenwood plays the Civic Center in Oklahoma City.
With new TV series and specials popping up like weeds next week, here are a few possible gladiolas to look out for.
On Monday, Lonnie Anderson and Perry King wind up on the beach in an NBC TV movie called Stranded.
Tuesday is Tony Dans' turn to howl in another NBC TV movie, Doing Life.
Sophia Loren and Billy Dee Williams star in the TV movie version of a true story, Courage, Wednesday on CBS.
And the mystery of Bobby Ewing's showery return gets solved in the Dallas two-hour season premiere on CBS Friday.
Mary Steenburgen's movies have been on television a lot.
Gems like Melvin and Howard, Cross Creek, Time After Time.
But what do you really know about Mary Steenburgen?
Do you know how to pronounce her name?
Lisa's over here saying yes, Mary. Good.
Do you know that her daddy was a railroad man back home in her native Little Rock?
Well, Elaine Gannick found out all that when she watched Mary produce and star in a new movie in her hometown.
Action.
Academy Award-winning actress Mary Steenburgen is living out a career-long fantasy with her latest film, End of the Line.
It's a dream come true.
It's the reason why we're doing it, because the hometown did affect us, you know,
so that J. Russell was so affected by it that he went away and wrote a screenplay about it.
And I was so affected by it that I have always dreamt of coming back here and working and talking about the people and the place that I grew up in.
It is a rare moment in my life, and I know it's here once, and I am savoring every single second of it.
And I cry about five times a day.
Everybody's used to it because I'm moved by something or can't believe the feeling of deja vu.
End of the Line marks a beginning in a couple of ways.
It's the first professional directing job for playwright J. Russell, and it's Mary Steenburgen's initial attempt at producing.
And Steenburgen is making this film a real family affair.
Today my mother, my Aunt Frida, and my Uncle Grover are extras.
Last night, Aunt Lillian played a part, but I had nothing to do with that.
I know nobody believes me, but in fact, I was going to have her be an extra, and they saw her,
and they said, would you please audition for this part that six other people had already auditioned for, and she blew the competition away.
When Mary was a little girl, did you have any idea that she might one day end up winning an Academy Award?
Never entered my mind that she was going to be an actress, famous actress. She stunned us.
To me, back in the 1920s and 30s, the movie stars were just a thing to dream about.
You never got to see them. You just saw them on the big screen and dreamed that someday you'd be one.
So she's fulfilling my dreams.
Budgeted for $2.8 million, the movie was on a tight six-weeks shooting schedule.
But Steenburgen still found time to visit some of her favorite places from her childhood.
I sometimes go out with my children to places that I visited when I was a little girl growing up.
And we go to this place called the Old Mill, which is a place that I always love to go.
The people around are people I grew up with, teachers, aunts and uncles, children and friends, and things like that.
And that's who's in this movie. And yet, at the same time, it's a wonderful movie with a wonderful cast of actors.
So it's this combination of Hollywood, if you want to call it that.
And my hometown together. It's like a very lavish home movie.
Coming up next week on Entertainment Tonight, Monday, we cover TV's big night.
38th Annual Emmy Awards. The winners, the losers, the parties, the pomp.
Tuesday, Sherry Belafonte Harper, a hotel star, makes the move upstairs.
Wednesday, Paul Simon, singer-songwriter with a hit, You Can Call Me Al.
Thursday, Brooke Shields, on location with Brenda Starr, Ace Reporter.
Friday, Crystal Gale, Brown Eyes Still Blue, and Life on the Road with Baby.
That's all next week, all on Entertainment Tonight.
Here are some of the stories that made entertainment headlines last week.
Madonna's new song about a pregnant teenager, Papa Don't Preach, continues to stir up controversy.
Gloria Allred of the Women's Equal Rights Legal Defense wants the singer to do a sequel where the teenager decides to have an abortion.
And Paul Newman donated $4 million to fund a camp in Connecticut for children with light-threatening diseases.
Now let's take a look at last week's top entertainment news stories told in pictures.
Monday, E.T. is on hand at Disneyland for the star-studded premiere of Captain EO.
It was very exciting. It's a unique piece of entertainment.
Lasers come out at you and everything, right?
All that in 3D too? Coming at you!
And we talked to Bubba Smith about his decision to quit doing beer commercials.
I was seeing different kids and they could quote those commercials, verbatim.
I started to get a real nauseating feeling that I was contributing to the kids that are killing themselves.
Tuesday, E.T. checks out what's cooking on the front burner in Hollywood among the celebrity chefs.
Is there anything you wouldn't try?
In the beginning, when sushi first came out, I thought I would never eat that.
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.
When it comes to fancy food, I tend to regress to a meat and potato stage.
Wednesday, E.T. is on hand as Essence Magazine celebrates the third season of its syndicated TV show.
There need to be shows that show all of America.
And to the extent that Essence does that, I'm very proud to be a part of Essence.
And we talk music with Benny King, who 25 years ago recorded a song that's the hit tune in this year's big summer movie, Stand By Me.
Stand by me, stand by me.
No one anticipated what's going on now, especially myself.
I mean, this year's insanity, what's going on with me now, I mean, unbelievable, yeah.
I won't cry, I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear.
Thursday, E.T. goes dancing on the ceiling with Lionel Richie as he kicks off his U.S. tour in Phoenix.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, right.
We are going to pull off dancing on the ceiling, believe it or not.
And English pop stars band together to sing out against the dangers of heroin.
It's a living world, it's a living world.
It's a good life without drugs, people will listen to that, it's great.
It seemed a really good opportunity to be part of something that was positive and contributed something to our society.
Friday, E.T. talks to Bud Grant of CBS about his outlook for the fall TV season.
I think the margin between us and NBC will probably be reduced with a little bit of luck.
And if we happen to find a show that breaks out, we could even turn it around this season.
The fall TV season was also the chief topic of conversation at a party tossed by ABC.
I think you can expect better quality than what we had last year.
There's Alexis who's become much more manipulative.