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Entertainment Tonight is a weeknightly half-hour show that breathlessly celebrates celebrity, giddily charting the ephemeral highs and lows of movies, music and television. Produced by Paramount Television Domestic Distribution in Los Angeles and delivered by satellite to 134 local stations, E.T. (not the extraterrestrial), with its weekly audience of nearly 21 million, is the hottest, and certainly the fastest-paced, syndicated show on television. Since its rickety start in 1981, the show has become slickly produced and expertly edited. It is about as light, nourishing and addictive as the popcorn one hungers for while watching...
...Atlanta, Miami and London. E.T. staffers and executives are sensitive about charges that the show is all puff and fluff, a p.r. agent's dream. "We're not curing cancer," says Co-Anchor Hendren. "We want to have fun with it." John Goldhammer, senior vice president at Paramount agrees: "We're not out there to nail people." And except for an occasional sitting duck like Pia Zadora, they never...
...glancing asperity that William Powell and Myrna Loy brought to Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man series. What Taylor's role model was for her part is undecipherable; it comes out as some sort of compromise between Mata Hari and Lady Macbeth. Inflection, which is paramount with a Coward line, is either beneath or beyond her. On a line like "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is," she puts equal stress on "potent" and "cheap" so that the fun is missing and the meaning is blurred. What she has doffed in avoirdupois she has put on in ancien...
...first two weeks of its release, the movie Flashdance, an airheaded $8.5 million romance about a pretty Pittsburgh welder, earned $11.3 million and, more remarkably, for Paramount Pictures, improved its business the second week. The Flashdance LP, with ten songs from the film's nonstop pop-rock score, has sold 700,000 copies in two weeks, and is now moving off the shelves at the rate of 50,000 to 100,000 a day-welcome news to a music business that has been in a four-year slump. Says Jack Kiernan, executive vice president of lucky PolyGram records...
...another in the long list of British mannerists (Alan Parker, Ridley Scott, Hugh Hudson) to have graduated from TV commercials, and to bring their techniques and attention span with them. For another, the film's "production numbers" were designed, or at least marketed, with MTV in mind. Paramount began running two-minute commercials on MTV a full three weeks before the movie opened. "The MTV audience likes music, movement, dancing," notes Weaver. "We hoped the movie and MTV would make a happy marriage. And it happened...