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Hello everyone. Welcome to Entertainment This Week.
I'm Rob Wellert.
And I'm Lisa Givens. Glad to have you along with us.
As usual, we'll be looking at the movies and music, but also a television mogul, the Big Daddy of Dallas, as well as the world's largest collection of 45s.
And we're going to find out what all the stars are talking about.
Let's go to our celebrity file and celebrity number one in this week's file.
It's been a number one celebrity most of her life.
Now that she's playing a gossip columnist, does Liz Taylor have a new perspective?
We apologize for this break to transmission.
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We regret this interruption to our program, ladies and gentlemen, but now return you to our program.
How does Chuck Norris kick back?
Does mogul Lee Rich have the right last name?
What kind of designs does Donna Mills have on life?
Is rock and roll old enough to have a history?
Why are all those big name actors on MTV?
Is the road ready for Emmylou Harris?
Entertainment This Week keeps on trucking over every obstacle to bring you a first rate show.
Oh, yeah.
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Entertainment This Week.
I'm Rob Wellert.
And I'm Lisa Gibbons. Glad to have you along with us.
As usual, we'll be looking at the movies and music, but also a television mogul, the big daddy of Dallas,
as well as the world's largest collection of forty fives.
And we're going to find out what all the stars are talking about.
Let's go to our celebrity file and celebrity number one in this week's file has been a number one celebrity most of her life.
Now that she's playing a gossip columnist, does Liz Taylor have a new perspective on the press?
No, no. I mean, they're bitches. And that's it.
I guess the single mindedness is the only thing one can understand.
Hmm. If you were a producer and wanted celebrity number two to play a part, how would you approach Jack Lemmon?
I would never do a film just because I thought it would be a hit. I really wouldn't.
I do a film to satisfy myself because I really love it and I, the actor, wanted to play that part desperately.
And then just pray to God that there's enough other people that agree with me.
Celebrity number three in this week's file will be the entire show on our next edition.
When she first saw Bye Bye Birdie on the stage, Liza Minnelli knew that she just had to be an actress.
I think some place within me when I was watching that show and all of those kids,
and they looked like they were having such a good time, and it looked like a community.
It looked like a, I don't know, a group. I wanted to be part of that group.
I didn't want to be out front. I wanted to be part of the group.
Remember our hour long visit with Liza Minnelli next weekend right here on ETW.
Chuck Norris is a guy who's made a very nice living with kicks, karate kicks.
What we wanted to find out were his kicks of another variety, as in how does he kick back on his time off.
Dick Shoemaker found out.
Chuck Norris, he's king of the low budget chop-em-sock-em action feature.
But how does the actor relax after a tough day at the office?
The former world karate champion relaxes by riding
on an 1800 acre ranch he and his partner own near Placerville, California.
It's my serenity. It's the peace I get when I'm not filming on tour. This is why I come.
What about the cattle?
Well, we've got about 200 head here.
They are skinnish.
Yeah, they are now because we haven't been up here in, we haven't banded in quite a while,
and they're scattered all over the country.
Do you get a chance to do much riding?
Not as much as I'd like to.
I've been real busy the last couple of years. I've been real busy.
I did three films last year and I'm doing three more this year.
His last film, Missing in Action, was about the rescue of American POWs in Vietnam,
and it grossed more than $22 million. Next month there'll be a sequel.
However, in the past, critics have been less than kind about Chuck's acting ability.
When the atrocities inflicted on the Vietnamese and American prisoners at this camp,
I sentence you to death.
Are you concerned at all that the critics don't seem to follow up the public's enthusiasm for your work?
Well, they don't pay to see my movies. The people do, and that's really who you're trying to satisfy.
See, I like action films. My movies are all action type films, which I enjoy seeing and I enjoy doing them.
But I've never wanted to do what you consider a karate film.
A karate film to me is a film that starts with fights and ends with fights with no rhyme or reason for it.
The karate or the fighting that I do is in there when it warrants it, like John Wayne.
Well, John Wayne in the 50s, you know, he'd always have that haymaker punch he'd use.
Well, the method of fighting is different in the 80s.
You know, I do my movies, but I'm not really involved in what you'd call the Hollywood scene.
I really don't go to Hollywood parties. I don't get in there where you get the write-ups in the People magazine and all that kind of stuff there.
I do my movies, I do my tours, and then when I'm not working, then I'm either here at the ranch or I'm racing or something like that.
As an actor, Chuck Norris continues to beat the odds.
So in the future, expect to see him rise to just about every occasion to give movie audiences what they want to see.
Dick Shoemaker, Entertainment This Week.
He's got more on the way, too, doesn't he?
That guy is tough.
Yeah, very, very tough.
We're not kidding around.
Here, are you ready for a question of the week?
Why not? Let's do it.
Here we go. Big stars. What stars have been commercial spokesmen?
You know, stars that go out and do ads.
Lots of them have.
We've got a lot for you today. Let's start with James Garner right now.
Garner, as we know, has done Polaroid commercials with Mariette Hartley.
Tremendously successful.
What product did he sell in magazines back in 1947?
That was before Polaroids were invented.
What did he do back in 47?
Jansen bathing suits. There he is. Look at that.
Look at that body. Look at that bathing suit.
I'm getting dizzy.
It makes your eyes cross, doesn't it?
Yeah, well, at least he could model them, though, back in those days.
It is really fun to look at what some of the stars have endorsed, and we're going to do just that later on in our show.
So we hope you'll stay with us for that and a whole lot more.
Just ahead, all new on Entertainment This Week,
Double Suicide is the subject of a TV movie starring Zach Galligan and Molly Ringwald,
and Zach wants to spread a helpful message.
It's really an act of desperation as opposed to an act of romance.
Former Eagle Glenn Fry says the music matters most, not the video.
I would rather see a bad video of a good song than a good video of a bad song.
And Donna Mills fixed up her own house from the start. It was a big challenge.
This house, I describe it as sort of tobacco road.
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Oh, damn. The train's late again.
Yeah, I wonder where it is today.
7.49 from Pappa to Cancel.
Would you like for people who cancel this train to run your workers' compensation?
That's the third time this week.
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The government running workers' compensation?
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Mention Sam Goldwyn or Louis B. Mayer and movie mogul comes to mind.
Mention Laura Mars, Lee Rich, and TV mogul should come to mind.
Gene Wolfe profiles the man behind some of primetime's hottest soaps.
I think that if I made automobiles,
I don't think the conversations would start with people saying,
Hey, tell me about your new Chrysler.
My conversations start, Hey, tell me.
What's going to happen next week with JR?
Or what's going to happen on Knott's Landing?
Or what's going to happen on Falcon Crest?
That's how my conversations start.
That's because Lee Rich makes television shows.
He's president of Loramore,
the company that produces Dallas, Knott's Landing, Falcon Crest,
and a host of new series and specials.
It's also the company that produced the Emmy Award-winning series, The Waltons,
and 112 episodes of 8 is enough.
Lee Rich is a man who certainly knows what the public wants.
I believe, very honestly, that it's an instinct.
It's nothing more than that.
I don't think I'm any brighter or better.
I just have an instinct that this is what will happen.
Let's talk about individual shows.
Dallas may be the most watched, perhaps the most influential television program in the world.
What's the key to its success?
I think the basic reason for the success of Dallas has been the story,
the characterizations, and the fact that we don't take ourselves seriously.
It's a joke. Everybody's having a good time.
Listen to me, Minowhe.
I may not have been the perfect husband,
but there are times you haven't been the perfect wife either.
Nots Landing is a very good example of keeping the show alive.
You can keep it alive easier than anything else by adding a new character,
by adding a new plot line, by doing all kinds of things to give it a goose, to give it a joke.
It's not just Paul Galveston I'm after.
I'm after the whole organization, the people who fix things without being asked,
and after the people that are doing the killing.
Falcon Crest is tougher.
In that kind of form, you have to keep personal stories going.
The basic reason that Falcon Crest works so well is how deeply we delve into the personal lives of those people,
much more so than the other series.
Well, I'm going to bankrupt him and get my land back so you file that suit.
Behringer's is the newest Lorimar serial,
and Lee Rich is giving it all the care and attention of a newborn child.
When a new series starts, I am deeply, deeply involved.
I'm involved in the selling of it, sometimes in the creation of it,
and I'm totally involved in the production of it at the beginning.
Once a series gets going, I then step back from it.
Give me an idea for a typical day of yours.
Well, I'm in here anywhere between 8.30 and 9 o'clock.
The phone then starts to ring. I read my ratings.
Meetings start about 9 or 9.30 in the morning.
The meetings then go on in the afternoon.
I'm constantly watching on my cassette machine the dailies of the shows the previous night or the rough cuts.
It's a constant day, generally spent here, unless I have a meeting outside the office.
At home, Lee Rich is not a workaholic.
According to his wife, Angela, Lee is able to leave most of the pressures of TV at the office.
Most people are fascinated by what makes someone a success.
From a close observer, how would you define the elements that make him a success?
His drive. He's extremely intelligent. He's extremely creative.
He has tremendous instincts, and he doesn't let his ego become overly involved
in what he wants to do and his ultimate goals.
Lee Rich is a man who has his goals firmly in mind and has attained most of them.
If you're going to succeed, you've got to know what you want.
One of the major problems in life is saying, hey, what do you want?
And sure, they'll give you the normal thing about health and happiness. I don't mean that.
What do you want, and what are you willing to pay for it? Because you get nothing for nothing.
Right now, what do you want?
I just want a lot of years, and I want to continue and be successful and happy.
Now that you know what the boss of Knott's Landing does in his spare time,
how about a peek into the off hours of one of his employees, Donna Mills?
Dick Shoemaker has the story.
Donna Mills plays Abby Cunningham on TV's Knott's Landing, a character who's strong, aggressive, and ruthless.
Why didn't you at least tell me beforehand? You're the one who said you wanted this marriage to work. Is this how?
There was nothing to discuss.
Why did you take me back? Do you want to punish me? Do you want to rub my nose in it and then gloat?
Because that's the kind of marriage you want. You can divorce me.
She's strong, and playing her all the time helps me to be strong.
Helps me to sort of go get what I want.
What about the ruthless part, though?
Oh, well, I've found in my own life that luckily, I guess I don't think I've had to be ruthless.
When she's not working, Donna likes to redecorate.
For example, change anything in the living room?
Everything, actually. There were walls around, little short funny walls.
I had those torn out, all the French doors and everything I put in, the bookcases I put in.
I redid the fireplace because I didn't like the bricks in it, and it only went up to the mantle. It didn't go all the way up.
What about the coffee table?
It's an old animal mover, chicken coop, something like that. But I put little piggies in it instead.
The kitchen, before you redid it, looked rather awful.
You saw that, huh? Yeah. This house, I described it as sort of tobacco road before I moved in.
The kitchen, yeah, it was a disaster. So I tore everything out.
I put in the French doors, I put in the greenhouse window, I put in the light colored cabinets, the white walls, the light floor, the light pine floor.
Brought everything really up and cheery.
When I put in the pool, friends of mine said, where did you put it? There's no room.
I said, hmm, it's a small pool and a small spa, but it sort of fits right in the corner, and it's very private.
And I tried to make it very pretty and very pleasant and intimate.
The latest addition, an office and dance studio built over the garage, a place where the former dancer can work out.
Donna Mills definitely is into fitness. She works hard at it, along with her career, and she's not upset when people label her ambitious.
I don't think that's a bad word. It's sort of, you know, somebody says, well, she's so ambitious.
They say that about women, ooh, that's terrible. They don't say that about men.
It's an attractive attribute for a man, usually, and I don't see why it shouldn't be the same for a woman.
It doesn't mean that she's cold or unfeminine or ruthless, any of that. But ambition is the way you achieve.
They called him a legend. Elvis Presley. He was the king of rock and roll.
Now, for the first time on television, Channel 10 presents a never-before-seen special of the king at his powerful best.
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Then Priscilla Presley takes you on an intimate tour of Elvis's home, Graceland.
Elvis, One Night With You, 8.30 Monday on 10.
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Five new movies in theaters around the country this week, and here's Leonard Maltin to review them.
If there's one thing I admire in a film, it's originality.
And Witness takes a fresh approach to the cop movie and to romance.
Harrison Ford plays a Philadelphia cop who becomes involved with a young Amish widow and her son.
You have no right to keep us here.
Uh, yes I do. Your son's a material witness to a homicide.
It's an intriguing premise that doesn't completely pan out, but it's definitely entertaining,
despite a resolution that's really out of whack.
I'm giving this film a seven.
Mass Appeal is based on the Broadway play about a popular parish priest whose young protege has a knack for stirring up trouble.
They stopped coughing, they also stopped breathing.
The film is glib and theatrical, but it won me over just like a good play.
And it has a fine cast led by the always reliable Jack Lemmon, so it rates an eight.
Mischief relies on cliches and formulas for its tale of teenagers in the fabulous 50.
Where'd you get those jeans?
My mom got them. Shrink them.
They might have shrunk the script, too.
It goes on far too long, but the kids are cute and they earn this forgettable film a five.
Heaven Help Us breaks the mold of stupid teen comedies and gets its laughs the old fashioned way.
It earns them.
There is a beast living within each and every one of you.
A filthy beast whose name is...
Us.
Yes, it's Catholic school in the 1960s and a film that manages to be both funny and true.
A far cry from Porky's, though it's far from squeaky clean itself.
I laughed a lot at this one, so I'm giving it an eight.
Finally, there's Mrs. Soful, an intriguing story about the wife of a prison warden who becomes involved with a man on death row.
Didn't you pray for us?
Yes.
Well, tell me, why does God want us to die, Kate? Tell me the reason why.
Diane Keaton and Mel Gibson are first raised, but the film is gloomy and depressive, like the prison it depicts.
A tough film to review, interesting but not terribly satisfying, so it scores a five.
That's our weekend movie wrap-up. I'm Leonard Maltin, Entertainment This Week.
What did moviegoers in Los Angeles think of Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson and Mrs. Soful?
Well, let's have a look.
Mrs. Soful was a great movie. It was provocative in some points.
I would see it again. I'd pay money to see the movie again.
It was too simple, just a plain movie. I wasn't too excited by it.
Very sad picture, but very, very well done. Excellent. Superb.
It was very strong. Really enjoyed the whole thing. Fantastic parts, played by everybody I saw.
Diane Keaton and Mel Gibson were excellent. The photography was excellent.
The storyline was kind of slow at times, but then you take into consideration it's a true story.
I thought it was terrific. It was a fantastic movie.
We took a break in the middle of the afternoon, and this is a real awesome break. I'll tell you, it was fabulous.
This weekend on Movie Preview, an exclusive look at The Breakfast Club.
A group of high school students is serving time in detention, and not exactly behaving.
A teacher catches them at their game.
MUSIC
WHISTLING
WHISTLING
Alright girls, that's thirty minutes for lunch.
Here?
Here.
Well I think the cafeteria would be a more suitable place for us to eat lunch in, sir.
Well I don't care what you think, Andrew.
Uh, Dick. Excuse me, Rich. Will milk be made available to us?
We're extremely thirsty, sir.
I have a really low tolerance for dehydration.
I've seen her dehydrate, sir. It's pretty gross.
Relax, I'll get it.
Ah, ah, ah! Grab some wood there, bub.
Molly Ringwald is not only starring on the big screen, she can be seen this weekend on the small screen as well.
But as Dixie Watley reports, this film is of a far more serious nature.
I think your little sister's afraid I'm going to take you away from her.
Yeah, well, you better watch it.
No, you better watch it.
Zach Galligan and Molly Ringwald play a pair of troubled teenage lovers whose inability to communicate with their families leads to a double suicide.
But surviving is not an updated Shakespearean tragedy romanticizing young love.
It's a serious fictionalized account of the very real pain and despair experienced by a growing number of adolescents and their families.
I think any time any two people commit suicide, then I think you're always kind of setting yourself up for the possibility of kind of a Romeo and Juliet effect.
But I think we diminished as much of that as possible because they really seem so upset by what they're going through that it's really an act of desperation as opposed to an act of romance.
That was an important thing is it couldn't look like it was something that was neat to do.
It had to we had to stress the point that it was not romantic and it just was very hurtful.
And I think that we did get that point across, but it was hard.
It was a lot of hard work.
Both sets of parents in the TV drama share the burden of grief and guilt over the suicides.
Ellen Burston and Lynn Cariou star as the ambitious parents of Rick, who at 16 is already an overachiever.
Marcia Mason and Paul Sorvino play their best friends and the parents of Lonnie, a troubled young girl who feels completely alienated from her world.
Daddy, please be on my side.
Molly and I both kind of agreed that when we did this that we felt that we were sort of doing it almost like a public service in a way.
And, you know, I'm just glad that it will be able to show some kids certain things that I think, especially when they're an adolescence, they're not so cognizant of,
especially just the reality of death, the finality, the waste, the fact that there isn't any romance associated with it,
that they won't be able to hear all the wonderful things said about them at their funeral and that it's really just an end.
I want another chance to be a good mother.
Coming up next, 45's, LPs, EPs, and hit-pocket singles are in a place in history books.
And ahead, Emmylou Harris on the road for a tour of America.
What's happened? Tuesday on Prisoner.
Pixie's been attacked by Len Murphy.
Oh, Adelaide, this blows over.
My God, I'll nail you, Ferguson.
You won't get a chance, Murphy, because this won't blow over.
Matt, I don't want to be the one to tell you this. Pixie, she got raped.
Bennett Edwin Murphy, I arrest you for the rape of Sandra Mason and the assault of Myra Desmond.
Can Murphy talk his way out of this one? Prisoner, 8.30 Tuesday on 10.
TV Beauty Debbie Newsom is in paradise after a daring and romantic South Seas romp with her fiance.
Don't miss the photo exclusive only in this week's TV Week.
There's a revealing look at life backstage with supergroup Wham!
Details of a shock new role for Gremlin's girl Phoebe Hates.
And a scoop report on singing star Marcia Hines' secret divorce only in TV Week.
Find out about fiery dynasty super bitch Joan Collins and her tropical love storm.
Meet TV's newest young superstar Michael J. Fox of Family Ties.
And as a bumper cricket souvenir pinup, it's all in this week's TV Week, packed with great family entertainment.
It all started in the U.S. of A. Rock and roll, the music of a generation. Rockin' the U.S.L.
Thirty-two rock classics by the original artists.
Fleetwood Mac, America, Steppenwolf, and there's heaps more on Rockin' the U.S.A.
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This next guy coming up is so big, so big that he's demanding a live band be on the set to play during his introduction.
Just like on the Tonight Show.
Well, the band hasn't shown up, however, so we'll use the old fallback intro.
Here is Bill Harris with Inside Entertainment. Bill.
Thank you, Lisa.
Look for word that Steven Spielberg will direct his first music video.
The lucky artist will be Cyndi Lauper.
Not too coincidentally, Cyndi will write and record the main song for Spielberg's upcoming film Goonies.
You heard it here first.
We've also learned David Bowie was rocked when a fan mailed him a manuscript and what appeared to be a bomb.
The bomb proved to be a dummy, but the real dummy appears to be the fan.
He's now been booked on a felony charge in Los Angeles.
Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal have decided to head off rumored tabloid offers of as much as $50,000 for a single smuggled photo of mother and newborn son.
The world gets its first look at one week old Redmond James Fawcett hyphen O'Neal when the parents unveil the picture themselves this Monday.
Pioneering rock legend Little Richard will have his life story told on the big screen.
Richard explains why he wants Michael Jackson to play that part because, quote,
he's a real nice guy, a man who loves God, and he also loves his mother.
David Hasselhoff's Knight Rider series just told casting agents all actresses opposite David must be at least five feet seven inches tall.
That's at work. At home, wife Catherine Hicklin stacks up to five foot five.
After the Jackson, Richie, Springsteen, etc. single, to benefit Ethiopian famine victims, is released next month,
an album of previously unreleased material by the top pop stars will be put together.
The first to turn in a tune? None other than Prince, who missed the all night recording session.
New on TV, Howard Rollins Jr. will star in his own series for Disney, A New Western.
Rollins first caught America's eye in an Eastern called Ragtime and back to TV after 25 years.
As ET reported, Loretta Young will star as the matriarch in a sort of gothic dynasty like series pilot for ABC called Dark Mansions.
Will she be a good person? Oh, yes, reports the 72 year old Miss Young. Quote,
I played a wicked woman only once in a film called Born to be Bad, and the critics agreed with that title.
Bill Harris, Inside Entertainment, will talk again. Rob?
Well, the biggest news from Hollywood this week, and no doubt about it, the Oscar nominations.
For Best Actor, Tom Holtz, Mozart in Amadeus. F. Murray Abraham, Salieri, also Amadeus.
Albert Finney, the disenchanted diplomat under the volcano.
Sam Waterston, the reporter in The Killing Fields. And Jeff Bridges, the alien in Starman.
And the nominations for Best Actress, Sally Field, the farm widow in Places in the Heart.
Jessica Lang, modern day farmwife in Country. Sissy Spacek, battling the elements in the river.
Judy Davis, the English woman who found trouble in a passage to India.
And Vanessa Redgrave, a campaigning feminist in The Bostonians.
And now here's a look at the five nominated movies.
Nominated for Best Picture, Amadeus, the fictionalized life of Mozart and his nemesis.
And there are simply too many notes. That's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect.
Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?
A soldier's story, a murder mystery with racial overtones.
Then you shot him. He was alive when we left.
Who gave you the right to judge?
Places in the Heart, hardship on the farm in the 30s.
A passage to India, the fading of British colonial rule.
Look! I am Douglas Fairbanks!
And the killing fields, the last days of Cambodia before the communist takeover.
Whatever's going on now! There's no time!
Those Oscar nominated films and the Oscar nominated stars
will be the subject next month of two special editions of entertainment this week.
Now from news of the Oscars to news of the week in pictures.
Monday, ET takes in Hollywood's salute to stars with no faces, no names, no billing. The Stuntmen.
The Stuntmen is really a very important factor in making emotion pictures.
They could get along without them, but I don't think they get along too long without them.
It's really very difficult stuff to do. It takes a certain kind of a person to do it.
It would be a little crazy to do it, I think.
And Too Close for Comfort, the series that got a second life in syndication after being cancelled by ABC,
has wrapped up production and will exist only in reruns.
Well, what are your feelings about the show ending?
Ambivalent. I feel happy that it's over. I'm looking forward to the rest.
But also I feel richly rewarded because we fulfilled an ambition.
Tuesday, ET goes behind the scenes on Reverend Jerry Falwell's new live TV telephone talk show.
Usually I have generally a hostile audience, usually a hostile host,
and the phones are rigged so that most of the callers are hostile, which is the way I enjoy doing it.
The only difference with this one is at least the host is not hostile.
And then for a change of pace, we take in the world premiere of Lust in the Dust in San Francisco.
This film was brought in at a very realistic price and it has a very good look to it.
And I think that's what you've got to do is put it all up on the screen there for the public to enjoy.
When I'm finished with you, honey, you're going to look like a plate of freeholest.
Oh yeah?
Wednesday, ET goes to Washington, D.C. for the Religious Broadcasting Convention.
I like to know what the other person is doing and how they're doing it,
and then we meet people that can help us to do more.
Thursday, ET goes behind the scenes during February Sweeps,
one of TV's all-important ratings periods when every number counts big.
I would think sure, you'd put the better shows on when it's supposed to make a significant difference.
Don't you all do that?
And good news for Honeymooners fans, it's official, they're coming back with more episodes.
And co-stars feel Jackie Gleason had much to do with the show's continuing success.
He had to be born a genius. It's born in him.
He is one of the most brilliantly talented men I've ever worked with in my life.
Friday, ET airs round one as the U.S. Senate looks into the battle against beer and wine commercials on TV.
The overall effect of the ads is to glamorize alcohol and foster the notion that drinking is the key to achieving personal goals.
And if you got through the week with a spare 20 grand, pick up a pair of dynasty dolls for the kids.
At my age to start playing with dolls, that was something else.
The demands were rigorous. The dynasty people have a lot of ego.
And that's a look at the week's entertainment news in pictures.
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What do Mick Jagger, Milton Berle and Rob Lowe have in common?
Same agent?
No sir.
They've all made cameo appearances in someone else's music videos.
Oh, what's a little publicity?
I can't stand publicity.
After aiding and abetting Bette Midler, Mick Jagger welcomed Sultry Anita Morris into his
own video.
But few videos have featured as many cameos as Ghostbusters.
There's a whole bunch of people in this video.
Some of my friends.
And it came out really nice.
Most star cameos come about when a friend stops by for some fun like Christie Brinkley,
Billy Joel's.
And Joe Piscopo.
Keep the faith, kid.
Rodney Dangerfield got no respect even when he starred in his own video.
And was joined by Pat Benatar.
We're called, you know, friends that we've known for a long time.
Luckily, everybody came, you know.
Some artists just can't help showing off their mother, their daughter, their wife, their
sister, their director, and their boss as Bruce Springsteen lends a hand in his band
member's video.
Videos often include clips of feature films with actors recreating their roles.
But in Thief of Hearts, singer Melissa Manchester took over for the leading lady but retained
star Stephen Bauer.
She wants to do some acting.
And so she was very thrilled and very, very excited about being involved in it.
She was very passionate about it.
Music videos are becoming a virtual who's who of entertainment.
I've been here 42 years.
More people say, hey, I saw you on video.
I saw you at Rod Stewart.
More people remember me from that than the other pictures I've made, believe it or not.
Is rock and roll really old enough to have a history?
You bet.
In fact, as Bobby Columby reports, there's enough history for at least two guys to make
a living at it.
What did music videos look like 20 years ago?
Who was putting out picture discs 50 years ago?
What's the only British invasion band of the 60s still going strong?
Who was the beach boy who got left off the bandwagon?
What was the Beatles most controversial album cover?
There are people who make it their business to know the answers to that sort of rock and
roll history.
Rock and roll didn't come around until 1955.
This record is regarded by most rock historians as the first rock and roll record, Rock Around
the Clock by Bill Hale.
One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock rock.
Steve Resnick is the national promotion director for A&M Records and his private record collection
is one of a kind.
This collection or library, as I like to think of it, is all encompassing every single that
ever charted, Billboard's Hot 100 from November of 1955 when the Hot 100 began till present
day.
If it entered the chart at 99 and fell off and was only on one given week at 98 and only
got played in two cities in Alabama, that would enable that record to be in this collection.
Resnick says he's been offered a million dollars for the entire collection of more than 50,000
records.
This house in Venice, California was once the home of Charlie Chaplin, but now it contains
one of the most complete rock archives ever collected.
When I first started collecting the stuff, I didn't realize how important it was and
it wasn't until 1977 that I gave up all my day jobs and this became full time.
Michael Oakes, author of the book Rock Archives, has a collection that includes rare, historic
footage, hundreds of thousands of photographs, and bits and pieces of just about everything
that has to do with rock and roll.
Are you running out of room?
This is actually a four bedroom house.
I get one room.
All the rest is just crammed full of records, sheet music, program books, all kinds of memorabilia.
This is one of my favorite things.
These are called hip pocket records and what they are, this is sort of, they were manufactured
by Ford and this is like the etzel of the record business.
They put out these records that were very small and they were designed for the kids
to carry in their hip pockets, but the one thing they didn't think about before they
put it on the market was most people have automatic turntables and they would eject
when this was so close to the center so they were unplayable.
This was on the market for a good two weeks.
This is probably the rarest of the Beatles albums.
This came out at their peak and they thought they could get away with anything and it turns
out they couldn't get away with this.
The public found it so outrageous that within weeks they had to put on a different cover
because the public found it just too offensive.
The problem is like a lot of the stuff gets thrown away on a daily basis and people don't
even sell it or donate it to a library at a university and the stuff is actually trashed
and destroyed and that's been the problem throughout the whole history of rock is that
nobody looked at the long range picture.
That is incredible that they've saved all that.
And they said it wouldn't last.
No.
You know it's a good thing they've done that because not even all the record companies
have saved all of their masters.
Exactly right.
Incredible.
Former Eagle Glenn Fry is flying high on TV, radio and in the biggest movie of the year.
I'm really very pleased right now with the way things have been going.
I couldn't be happier.
I've had Smuggler's Blues was a big video for MTV.
You know I'm here I'm getting a chance to act on the best new drama series in television
and I have a hit record in the biggest movie of the year so I'm one lucky dog folks.
That song, The Heat is On from Beverly Hills Cop is the first top ten hit of Glenn Fry's
solo career and it was easier than he could have imagined.
Irv Azov, the president of MCA called me up and said I've just seen the funniest movie
I've seen in a couple years and it's going to need some music.
Come down to this screening.
You should get a song in a soundtrack album.
So I went to the screening of Beverly Hills Cop and all of a sudden I see George Duke
and Stevie Wonder and Bobby Womack and Richard Perry and the guys in these other bands and
stuff and I looked at Irving and said you know what the heck you got me down here for?
You got all these other guys you know and we watched the movie and I kind of left and
figured well there's no way I'm going to get anything in this you know in this film.
Three weeks later they called me up and said we have a song that's already written.
They think you're the one to sing it.
This will take two days.
Bang.
Sort of funny you know because you can spend a year and a half laboring over an album you
know and working and you know work your knuckles to the bone and then you can go in and kind
of do something sort of like well okay I'll do this too you know what the heck right and
something you spend two days on I'll shoot through the roof for you.
Frye's career continues to expand.
TV's Miami Vice based last week's episode on his song Smuggler's Blues.
Though he was cast in the show on the strength of his performance in the video, Frye is not
a big proponent of music television.
Music video business is just like any other art form.
20% of it is junk and about 10% of it's good.
They're used to cover up poorly written songs and I think when you know when people are
more concerned with looking weird and photographing things weird you know and they're not as concerned
with the music and the lyrics and stuff you know I'm I'm now that I'm in my 30s I mean
my taste is spoiled.
I want to have a good song first you know I would rather see a bad video of a good song
than a good video of a bad song.
My life has gotten a lot saner since I've left the Eagles.
I'm married I've traveled a little bit more you know I've got to you know taste a little
bit of the sweet wine in my good fortune instead of just moving through life and not getting
to stop and enjoy myself.
I'm still in the fast lane but I'm going 70 now instead of 90.
Country stylist Emmylou Harris has completed her most ambitious album to date and has just
kicked off a nationwide tour in support of the project.
Elaine Gannock talked with Emmylou at rehearsals in Nashville.
In the music community here in Nashville Emmylou is highly regarded as a dedicated professional
and one of the most distinctive country stylists in the business.
The Ballad of Sally Rose is a concept album which tells the story of a young singer who
makes it big.
Emmylou co-produced the album and is translating it into a stage show that will take her on
her first nationwide tour in more than a year.
There's an excitement about it that hopefully not going to overcome the mistakes that are
bound to happen because it's a gargantuan project it's the most complicated show I've
ever done.
Possibly it is a risk but it was a chance I felt I had to take because sometimes I think
if you stop taking risk that is the biggest risk and I really feel that way about myself.
Why did you choose Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt and Gail Davies to do the backup
vocals on this album?
It was great because there was just a certain sound I was looking for that when our voices
get together that we just all fill in all the missing gaps in each other's voices with
Dolly's high and mine in the middle and Linda on the bottom it's like it creates almost
like the perfect voice.
How much of the Ballad of Sally Rose is autobiographical?
There are parts of it that are autobiographical things that happened to Sally that also similar
things happened to me and then there are things that never happened to me ever things that
happened to friends of mine that I knew about and then things I made up so it's a real
hodgepodge of things.
For Nashville so many people in the music community have been...