CNN NewsStand - 1999-05-05

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[0:00] on the right. Join us again next time

[0:02] for another edition of Crossfire.

[0:19] >> This is CNN News.

[0:25] >> Disaster strikes. Oh my goodness, that

[0:27] thing is huge. Killer tornadoes

[0:30] dramatically caught on tape by this man.

[0:32] And I'm seeing debris like pieces of

[0:35] houses spinning above me.

[0:36] >> Camcorder reporters documenting

[0:38] disasters then pawning them off to prime

[0:41] time.

[0:42] >> What you're seeing is so unbelievable

[0:44] that you couldn't script it.

[0:46] >> Has this real take on reality TV gone

[0:49] too far? The lines between news and

[0:53] reality as in terms of reality

[0:56] programming as entertainment have

[0:57] clearly been blurred.

[1:00] >> He was everyone's favorite guest at my

[1:03] best friend's wedding.

[1:04] >> Just in time for a quick pre-con visit

[1:06] to catch my drift.

[1:08] >> Now Rupert Everett is on every list in

[1:10] Hollywood. Do you feel like a Hollywood

[1:12] movie star?

[1:13] >> Um,

[1:14] not really.

[1:15] >> No,

[1:16] >> not really. What can these women do for

[1:19] these women? This woman will tell you.

[1:21] >> There is no question that being married

[1:24] to Jay was one of the things I brought

[1:26] to the table.

[1:27] >> If you don't know her, you know her

[1:28] husband.

[1:29] >> She's doing 90% of the work. And I'm

[1:31] standing in front of cameras waving and

[1:33] getting credit.

[1:34] >> Tonight, Mavis Leno, phones, faxes, and

[1:37] how she got Hollywood to take a stand.

[1:46] Now CNN and Entertainment Weekly with

[1:49] Jud Rhodess and Willow Bay.

[1:53] Good evening and welcome to CNN and

[1:54] Entertainment Weekly. I'm at Borders

[1:56] bookstore in Los Angeles where the front

[1:58] pages of the newspapers have one thing

[2:00] in common. Images of this week's

[2:03] devastating tornadoes and their

[2:04] aftermath.

[2:06] >> And Willow, I'm at NewsBar in New York

[2:08] City. Wherever you are, you've no doubt

[2:10] seen the astounding video that tracked

[2:12] the progress of those terrifying

[2:14] tornadoes as they smashed through

[2:16] Oklahoma and Kansas. Now, those images

[2:18] were captured by an amateur. One more

[2:20] example of the impact that home video

[2:22] has had on the news and on

[2:24] entertainment. News stands Michael Oku

[2:27] has that story.

[2:32] Two tornadoes directly next to each

[2:34] other. Unbelievable.

[2:37] It was late Monday evening when the

[2:39] world first witnessed some of the most

[2:41] gripping pictures of the tornadoes on

[2:43] the Weather Channel.

[2:44] >> My mouth is a gape here. This is just

[2:46] amazing, amazing footage.

[2:48] >> Tornado on the ground. Tornado on the

[2:50] ground.

[2:50] >> As he called us from the feed point. Um

[2:52] he was just beside himself just you

[2:54] could hear him in the background on the

[2:56] phone just going, "This is the best

[2:57] stuff I've ever shot in my life. This is

[2:59] the most incredible thing I've ever

[3:00] seen."

[3:01] >> Oh my goodness. That thing is huge.

[3:03] >> Mark Weinberg clutched his digital

[3:05] camera tightly. POWER LINE. STOP. STOP.

[3:07] >> Tracking the twister that has claimed at

[3:09] least 43 lives across Oklahoma and

[3:12] Kansas. I'm looking up to the sky and

[3:14] I'm seeing debris like pieces of houses

[3:17] spinning above me. I'm I'm feeling mud

[3:19] dropping out of the sky. I'm all over me

[3:22] from the tornado picking it up.

[3:23] >> The twisters broke out last evening,

[3:25] tearing a wide path. A student who

[3:27] chases storms for a living ventured out

[3:29] to catch the twisters in action. In the

[3:31] 72 hours since capturing those awesome

[3:34] pictures, Weineberg has watched his

[3:36] amateur video migrate from the Weather

[3:38] Channel to dozens of other television

[3:40] outlets.

[3:41] >> But that didn't stop one man from

[3:43] grabbing a camera and risking his life

[3:46] in one of the most powerful storms in US

[3:48] history.

[3:49] >> Two tornadoes

[3:50] >> starts with one person. I sell it to one

[3:52] person. The next guy says, "Hey, he's

[3:54] got this. I want it, too." So, he gets

[3:55] it. And then everybody wants the tornado

[3:57] about a half mile south. And Weineberg

[3:59] is no stranger to the power of his

[4:01] camera's lens. He captured another

[4:04] high-profile tornado in Oklahoma last

[4:06] October.

[4:07] >> Mark, come on in here.

[4:09] >> Landing him a stint on the David

[4:11] Letterman show.

[4:12] >> Uh, if you I tell you, if you get some

[4:14] footage of giant hail, you're in

[4:15] business. People love to see the footage

[4:17] of the giant hail.

[4:17] >> I got lucky with that, too.

[4:18] >> You get some big hail.

[4:20] >> I think there's just a natural tendency

[4:21] to be attracted to anything that has an

[4:23] element of danger in it. to want to see

[4:26] things that are odd and unpredictable.

[4:31] >> It finally dawned on me that we weren't

[4:33] going to survive this fire.

[4:35] >> Focus on detecting. Here it is coming

[4:38] right here.

[4:38] >> The growing appetite for

[4:40] unpredictability has made the amateur

[4:42] video market explode. Call it the golden

[4:46] age of reality television.

[4:47] >> The world's most amazing videos. In the

[4:51] past decade, the number of shows

[4:53] featuring natural disasters has tripled

[4:56] with amateur video finding a shelf life

[4:58] well after the fires, floods, and winds

[5:00] have died down,

[5:03] ferocious,

[5:05] relentless.

[5:07] These are the world's deadliest storms.

[5:10] >> To find material on uh the world's

[5:13] deadliest storms, we go all over the

[5:15] world. Uh we look we know what natural

[5:17] disasters have taken place. So we look

[5:18] for people that have footage of this. Uh

[5:21] if it's an earthquake, it might be

[5:22] somebody who has a store with a

[5:23] surveillance camera. If it's uh if it's

[5:25] a story that we might found in a

[5:27] newspaper about somebody who survived a

[5:29] tornado that hit the town, then we'll go

[5:31] after that person and we'll find out if

[5:33] they really do in fact have that great

[5:34] personal story to tell.

[5:36] When lightning started flashing, that's

[5:39] when I went inside and I placed my

[5:41] camera on a stand and I took cover with

[5:44] children.

[5:47] Technology sort of favors this material.

[5:50] It's easy to produce. It's cheap and

[5:54] there are there's an army of people with

[5:56] video cameras out there to supply it to

[5:58] us.

[5:59] >> And it just got darker and darker.

[6:01] Lightning was flashing across the road.

[6:04] But some feel that guerilla style

[6:06] programming lowers the bar.

[6:08] >> It was like the end of the world and

[6:10] caters to viewers most base instincts.

[6:12] What are the criteria that you consider

[6:14] when you think about putting on a show?

[6:17] >> I think Okay, first of all, does it

[6:19] evoke an reaction?

[6:21] >> A few months ago, we spoke with Mike

[6:23] Darnell, the man responsible for putting

[6:25] Fox on the map with an array of programs

[6:28] cultivated from amateur video. He says

[6:31] reality producers do nothing to cheapen

[6:33] what audiences are already watching on

[6:36] network news magazine shows. The

[6:38] >> truth is datine does these like you know

[6:40] survivor stories and it's the same thing

[6:43] as close call cheating death or when

[6:45] disaster it's the same I mean when I say

[6:47] the same thing I mean same exact

[6:49] material.

[6:50] >> Well the lines between news and reality

[6:52] in this area are certainly starting to

[6:54] blur but I think you still have a

[6:56] difference in most instances in terms of

[6:59] tone. uh and also in terms of the way

[7:02] it's packaged and presented.

[7:03] >> When it comes to natural disasters, I

[7:05] think everybody would agree these are

[7:07] compelling national stories that affect

[7:10] the entire country. The entire country

[7:11] is interested in it. And there's nothing

[7:13] wrong with trying to get as much

[7:15] videotape as you can of that incident to

[7:17] try to tell the story.

[7:18] >> News magazine shows like DLine, 24-hour

[7:21] news channels, and shows like the

[7:24] world's deadliest storms to the Mark

[7:26] Weinbergs of the world. It's all the

[7:28] same. They'll say, "Hey, Mark, we'll

[7:29] give you 800 bucks. That is the most

[7:31] that we can give." I'm like, "You're

[7:32] insane." They're like, "I'm telling you,

[7:34] that's all we can give." And then I say,

[7:36] "I'm sorry. Then I can't do it." They'll

[7:37] call back two minutes later offering me

[7:38] 10 times.

[7:40] finish.

[7:41] >> We'll burn out a little bit, but

[7:43] there'll still be enough of it because

[7:44] again, you have a combination of

[7:46] something that is titillating and is

[7:49] kind of hard to take your eyes off of

[7:52] and doesn't cost very much to produce.

[7:54] And in television, that's a very, very

[7:56] good combination.

[8:00] And we'll be right back.

[8:03] >> Next, we'll take you to a very different

[8:05] kind of war room where the general's

[8:08] name is Leno. Her battle plan, get an

[8:10] army of celebrities to take up her

[8:12] cause.

[8:12] >> One phone call from Mavis. Did it.

[8:15] >> I said I'll be

[8:17] >> CNN and Entertainment Weekly. We'll be

[8:19] right back.

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[10:44] >> There's nothing new about a celebrity

[10:46] taking up a cause. Paul Newman, Bill

[10:48] Gates, and Susan Sandon, for example,

[10:50] gave their support to the refugees in

[10:52] Kosovo. Sometimes celebrity efforts go

[10:55] beyond making a statement to the press

[10:57] or writing a check, and it becomes a

[10:59] full-time passion. But often even

[11:01] passion isn't enough to deliver results.

[11:04] News stands Robin Growth has the story

[11:06] of one woman who wasn't getting very far

[11:08] until she started using her famous name

[11:11] to push and prod Hollywood into action.

[11:18] I mean women are committing suicide

[11:20] there because they can't stand to live

[11:21] under the system anymore.

[11:23] >> Death would be better for us right now.

[11:26] What should we do with our lives?

[11:28] >> The concept of gender apartheid is just

[11:31] unfathomable to me. and um must be

[11:35] stopped immediately. I mean, it's

[11:37] totally unacceptable.

[11:38] >> Just being through our basic rights like

[11:41] women in all other countries.

[11:43] >> It's really important to shine a light

[11:44] on the behavior of the

[11:48] >> average woman living under Taliban rule

[11:50] doesn't realize she has a voice in

[11:53] Hollywood. I'm privileged to stand here

[11:55] tonight with Mavis and and all of you

[11:57] who are using those skills to tell this

[11:59] story and to focus their attention on

[12:00] the plight and hopefully to change their

[12:03] world, you know, when I meet these idiot

[12:04] people. But isn't this another Hollywood

[12:06] cause?

[12:07] >> Yeah, it is. Screw you.

[12:10] Screw you.

[12:12] >> So, why did the crisis over human rights

[12:14] in Afghanistan become Jay Leno's

[12:17] Hollywood cause?

[12:18] >> It's because of this woman, his wife

[12:21] Mavis Leno. Well, excuse me, but this

[12:24] happened to women only because they are

[12:28] women. And I am a woman, and it is my

[12:31] issue. It's the issue of every woman

[12:34] alive in this world who is free to speak

[12:36] her mind about it. Magabbus and Jay have

[12:40] been married for 20 years. Until now,

[12:42] she happily chose to stay in the

[12:44] background of her husband's celebrity,

[12:46] helping him to build his career. She led

[12:49] a very private life that included a 10

[12:52] book a week reading habit, worldclass

[12:54] travel, and pursuing her love of

[12:56] animals. Then two years ago, Mavis Leno

[12:59] joined the feminist majority foundation.

[13:02] >> I'm not a joiner by temperament.

[13:05] >> Her attention was pulled to a country

[13:07] half a world away.

[13:10] >> The cause she chose was gender apartheid

[13:12] in Afghanistan. the widespread practice

[13:15] of stripping away the rights of some 11

[13:18] and a half million women and girls. In

[13:21] 1996, the Taliban regime seized control

[13:24] in Afghanistan. Since that time,

[13:26] according to Amnesty International and

[13:29] other human rights organizations, women

[13:31] have been denied education, the

[13:33] opportunity to work, access to adequate

[13:36] medical care, and they are not allowed

[13:38] to leave their houses without a male

[13:40] member of the family. There are reports

[13:43] that those who break the rules are often

[13:45] beaten, even killed.

[13:48] The campaign against gender apartheid is

[13:50] symbolized by a piece of blue mesh that

[13:53] is the peepphole of the fulllength

[13:55] shroud known as a burka.

[13:57] >> Imagine being out in the baking heat in

[14:00] this and only able to breathe through

[14:02] that. I feel passionately about it

[14:04] because I want to rescue them.

[14:07] Basically, I want them to be restored to

[14:09] the lives that they had before.

[14:11] So Mavis Leno got some attention when

[14:14] she went public, urging politicians and

[14:16] corporations to send a message to the

[14:19] Taliban that if human rights abuses

[14:21] continue, the Taliban government would

[14:24] feel it financially.

[14:26] Leno went to Washington and testified

[14:28] before the Senate Foreign Relations

[14:30] Committee. She spoke out at a UNICAL

[14:32] shareholders meeting.

[14:33] >> And I would like to say to UNICEL, get

[14:36] with the program. Do not finance these

[14:39] people. opposing the building of a

[14:41] pipeline that would monetarily benefit

[14:43] and strengthen the Taliban. But Mavis

[14:46] Leno still wasn't getting front page

[14:48] coverage. So she pulled out her trump

[14:50] cards money and her husband. So finally

[14:54] uh I said to Jay, you know, we've got to

[14:58] make a donation

[15:00] to this fund and have a big press

[15:02] conference to announce it. And that's

[15:05] what we did. So, I have this photo op

[15:09] check here.

[15:10] >> And it was a sizable contribution.

[15:13] >> Yeah, it was $100,000.

[15:15] >> That night, she and Jay were on Larry

[15:18] King Live.

[15:19] >> You know, it's easy for me. I'm a

[15:21] Canadian. People like to hear jokes. So,

[15:23] if I go somewhere and I tell jokes,

[15:25] people will pay money which will go to a

[15:27] good cause.

[15:28] >> The Lenos really husbanded their

[15:32] celebrity. They haven't used it before.

[15:34] and that Jay uh and she contributed

[15:37] $100,000. It made all the difference in

[15:39] the world.

[15:40] >> And that was just the beginning. Mavis

[15:42] Leno became the talk show guest of the

[15:44] hour.

[15:45] >> I came home uh one day a couple weeks

[15:49] ago, you know, and I'm telling him all

[15:51] the things that had happened that day

[15:52] and finally he held his hand up and he

[15:54] said, "Okay, so now guess who I'm having

[15:56] on my show next week." And I said, "Oh,

[15:59] who?" And he said, "You."

[16:01] I was very taken aback. Please welcome

[16:04] my wife, Mavis Leno.

[16:05] >> There's no question but that being

[16:09] married to Jay was one of the things I

[16:10] brought to the table. Any woman in this

[16:13] audience tonight, imagine what it would

[16:14] be like if overnight you went from the

[16:17] life you've been used to up to this

[16:19] point to being essentially under house

[16:21] arrest. If I'm going to use all the

[16:23] resources at my disposal because I think

[16:27] somebody is going down for the third

[16:29] time if I don't save them, then I'm

[16:32] going to use all my resources, including

[16:36] uh being married to Jay. It's very

[16:38] important that Mavis and Jay step

[16:40] forward because we were not reaching the

[16:43] public before. Celebrity is crucially

[16:46] important because

[16:49] it gives us the visibility, the lift to

[16:51] reach people.

[16:53] >> How did it come about that you could get

[16:55] Hollywood and the celebrities the money,

[16:58] the clout behind you on this issue?

[17:01] >> Well, I have to say that Linda Bworth

[17:04] Thomasson came on board to help us with

[17:06] that.

[17:07] >> We keep people on the phone until we win

[17:09] them over. Linda Bworth Thomasson is a

[17:12] Hollywood television producer best known

[17:14] for her shows Designing Women and

[17:16] Evening Shade.

[17:17] >> Come on up, Harry.

[17:18] >> With her husband, she produced President

[17:20] Clinton's two inaugural celebrations. A

[17:23] heavy hitter in both Hollywood and

[17:25] Washington, Thomasson would choreograph

[17:27] a high-profile Hollywood event, marking

[17:30] Navis Leno's debut as a humanitarian

[17:33] mover and shaker. She said that we

[17:36] should concentrate on the women's

[17:37] celebrities. In this very room that

[17:39] we're in now, Linda and I sat, we were

[17:43] like dueling phones. We sat with two

[17:45] phones.

[17:45] >> Maybe I'm being naive. I'm certainly has

[17:47] something to do with who May of this is.

[17:49] Um, but um I think mostly people

[17:52] responded to the cause.

[17:54] >> So, we were really calling agents and

[17:56] publicists, but as it so happens, a lot

[17:59] of agents and publicists are women. I we

[18:02] had quite a few women say, "All right,

[18:04] here's all the women I have. Who do you

[18:05] want?" It was just like all the doors

[18:07] opened. When they heard what this was

[18:09] about, Hollywood cell phones were

[18:12] buzzing. Faxes were humming. Then

[18:14] Abigail Van Beern jumped on board,

[18:17] running a letter from Mavis in her Dear

[18:19] Abby column. Middle America responded.

[18:22] >> We got so many replies that it crashed

[18:25] our phone system. We got 30,000 they

[18:28] estimate between 30,000 and 40,000 phone

[18:30] calls to our just from that

[18:34] >> without the Lenos.

[18:36] I would have never heard of it for

[18:37] instance. I wouldn't be writing a column

[18:39] about it. So to my mind it's it's

[18:42] critical. But Mavis Leno does have her

[18:45] critics.

[18:47] Some feel encouraging sanctions against

[18:49] the Taliban government will actually

[18:51] hurt innocent civilians. I read to Leno

[18:54] from an article in the Washington Post

[18:56] where some Afghan specialists were

[18:58] reported as saying Hollywood activists

[19:01] are distorting the reality of the

[19:03] current condition. In fact, it may end

[19:06] up harming those who most need help by

[19:08] encouraging donor nations to reduce

[19:10] their aid or cut it off completely.

[19:14] Okay. In the first place, what donor

[19:16] nations would these be? As far as I

[19:18] know, the only nations that are giving

[19:21] Afghanistan

[19:23] uh fiscal support are Pakistan, United

[19:27] Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. And

[19:29] that support is going to the Taliban,

[19:31] not to these women. The last thing in

[19:33] the world we want is to create further

[19:36] hardship for these people that are

[19:38] already living under such difficult

[19:40] conditions.

[19:41] >> Well, I mean, she's doing 90% of the

[19:42] work and I'm standing in front of

[19:44] cameras waving and getting credit. On

[19:46] March 29th, show businesses elite showed

[19:49] up to support the cause. Thanks to Mavis

[19:51] Leno, they were impassioned, informed,

[19:54] and outraged by the plight of the women

[19:56] of Afghanistan.

[19:58] >> Let this be the first day that we stand

[19:59] shoulder-to-shoulder with our sisters

[20:02] around the world and declare that their

[20:04] persecution and abuse is our business.

[20:08] And the women who are gathered here this

[20:09] evening want to say to you the women of

[20:12] Afghanistan,

[20:13] Maba Schuma Hashim,

[20:16] we are with you.

[20:19] Maba Schuma Him.

[20:24] >> Outside the event, there were protesters

[20:27] including those who took issue with

[20:29] Mavis Leno and the Feminist Majority

[20:31] Foundation.

[20:32] >> We are representing our culture and our

[20:35] tradition.

[20:37] They were misleading and misrepresenting

[20:40] the real life conditions in Afghanistan.

[20:44] >> But inside, the event was considered a

[20:47] success, pulling in 1,000 supporters and

[20:50] raising $130,000

[20:52] to continue to educate people about

[20:54] gender apartheid in Afghanistan.

[20:57] >> You can say it with me to them. Maine.

[21:03] to see that those who have been silenced

[21:05] in a land far away have a voice speaking

[21:08] out for them. And I am proud that uh my

[21:11] wife made this. I am so proud. You know,

[21:17] the only one crying was the guy.

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[21:47] was.

[21:48] >> One more. Ma Shuma Hastil.

[21:54] >> As Robin reported, the money raised will

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[21:58] country. It does not go to the women of

[22:00] Afghanistan. After the success of the LA

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[22:09] Washington DC. We'll be back right after

[22:12] this.

[22:13] >> Still ahead, Rupert Everett. He may be a

[22:16] late comer to stardom, but he started

[22:18] planning for it very early.

[22:20] >> Age 14, I'd like constructed myself this

[22:22] little special dressing room with lots

[22:24] of fake telephones, and I was like on

[22:26] the phone all the time to like mystery

[22:28] agents.

[22:30] >> But next, Cruz and Kidman in Eyes Wide

[22:33] Shine. Hollywood finally tells us if

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[28:44] >> The hidden talents of Rupert Everett

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[32:27] first, Hollywood careers that never took

[32:29] off. The stories are legendary. An actor

[32:32] takes a role that sounds like a big deal

[32:34] but turns into a disaster. Or passes on

[32:37] a part, then watches as the producers's

[32:40] second choice becomes the star. But once

[32:42] in a while, an actor reluctantly signs

[32:45] on to do a movie. It turns into a huge

[32:48] hit, and then he discovers he's the talk

[32:50] of the town. It happened to Rupert

[32:52] Everett when he took a small part in a

[32:55] movie called My Best Friend's Wedding.

[32:58] >> Oh my god. Gracie to the altar.

[33:01] >> Underplay.

[33:02] >> Got it.

[33:03] >> Hey, I'm George's fiance, George. Just

[33:05] in time for a quick pre-conjugal visit,

[33:08] if you

[33:09] >> The weirdest thing about it is it seemed

[33:10] like such a bad opportunity at the

[33:12] beginning.

[33:12] >> Why?

[33:14] >> Because um on the paper it wasn't really

[33:17] a role, you know. It was um it was just

[33:19] a little kind of tragic thing really.

[33:25] >> When my best friend's wedding was

[33:27] screened before a test audience, Rupert

[33:29] Everett was such a hit as Julia Roberts

[33:31] charming and hilarious boss George that

[33:34] the test audience demanded more. So the

[33:36] movie was reshot to expand Everett's

[33:39] role.

[33:42] >> It sounded like George was

[33:45] gay. Actually, yes.

[33:49] >> You have a misconception.

[33:51] >> Playing a gay character and being gay

[33:53] was, you know, my gimmick of 1997 or

[33:56] whatever it was. And it gave me my

[33:58] little window of opportunity uh through

[34:00] which I'm jumping with elacrity. And

[34:02] that's a good job.

[34:03] >> These days, this 40-year-old Englishman

[34:05] is adapting quite nicely, thank you, to

[34:08] life in Los Angeles.

[34:09] >> Do you feel like a Hollywood movie star?

[34:11] >> Um,

[34:13] not really.

[34:14] >> No,

[34:14] >> not really. Um,

[34:16] >> why not?

[34:17] >> I think I've got to wait a little bit to

[34:19] go before I'm a Hollywood movie star.

[34:21] >> Meaning what?

[34:22] >> Well, you can't be a Hollywood movie

[34:23] star with one little tiny role in the

[34:25] movie. You know, you have to have a a

[34:27] body of work, successful work, I guess.

[34:31] >> Born in England in 1959. Everett was

[34:34] raised in an upper class family. By the

[34:36] time he was 14, he knew he wanted to be

[34:38] an actor. He dropped out of high school

[34:40] when he was 15, moved to London, and

[34:43] enrolled in drama school. And I thought

[34:45] that drama school would somehow be a

[34:47] kind of nether world where you know

[34:49] everyone was hysterical and drunk and

[34:52] crying and laughing and everything like

[34:53] that. In fact

[34:55] really it was just as middle class as

[34:59] being middle class was. So um in the

[35:01] sense I was disappointed by drama school

[35:04] but um and in the end I was I didn't

[35:06] last the course either.

[35:08] >> You didn't?

[35:08] >> No I was fired after two years.

[35:11] >> Why? because I was still a big showoff.

[35:15] I was kind of I was always trying to

[35:18] wind everyone up. I was I was a pain

[35:21] probably.

[35:21] >> His attitude may have been a problem,

[35:23] but landing acting jobs was not.

[35:27] >> I auditioned for this play called

[35:28] Another Country.

[35:29] >> Are you a communist because you read

[35:31] Karl Marx? No,

[35:34] you read Karl Marx because you know you

[35:36] are a communist. that started off in a

[35:38] little tiny theater outside of London

[35:40] and uh got very good reviews and then

[35:42] suddenly it was in um the west end of

[35:44] London which is like Broadway

[35:47] and um I became like at the age of 21

[35:50] kind of a theater star.

[35:52] >> Mhm.

[35:52] >> And then that was made into a movie in

[35:54] the mid 80s.

[35:55] >> That was made into a movie a year and a

[35:56] half later and um that was how I kind of

[36:00] got into the movies really.

[36:01] >> I'll send you a postcard from France.

[36:03] >> France isn't far enough. After a second

[36:05] film, Dance with a Stranger, he decided

[36:07] to give Hollywood a try.

[36:08] >> Next time you see me, I'll be rich and

[36:10] famous.

[36:10] >> But not much happened. He moved to

[36:12] Europe and found other ways to satisfy

[36:14] himself creatively and support himself

[36:17] financially.

[36:18] >> You were a pop singer.

[36:20] >> That wasn't to support myself.

[36:21] >> Oh, that was just for fun.

[36:22] >> That was to support my ego.

[36:24] And um luckily they're all very

[36:26] untraceable, these records.

[36:29] >> Not quite, Rupert. We did find one.

[36:38] This is a generation of

[36:45] >> He even wrote two novels. Hello Darling,

[36:48] are you working and the hairdressers of

[36:51] Sanrope? How would you describe Hello

[36:53] Darling, are you working?

[36:56] >> Trash, but you know kind of uh

[36:58] alternative trash.

[37:00] >> And did it do well? Um, yeah. Did quite

[37:03] well.

[37:04] >> You've been honest about a lot of things

[37:06] in your background. You told an American

[37:08] >> I don't want to talk about all of them

[37:09] now.

[37:11] >> You told an American magazine that that

[37:12] you worked as a prostitute as a young

[37:14] man. Do you are you sorry you were that

[37:15] honest? Was that a good thing to have

[37:17] shared to just sort of get it out there

[37:18] and be done with it or a bad thing to

[37:20] have done?

[37:20] >> I think talking about things is um it

[37:23] struck me as a good idea at the time um

[37:26] because I really wanted to get famous

[37:28] and successful. I wanted anything that

[37:30] was said about me to have been said

[37:31] about myself. And um and I thought

[37:34] getting stuff out in the open would at

[37:36] least, you know, I would not have the

[37:40] National Inquirer coming down my neck,

[37:42] you know, just as I was reaching Tom

[37:44] Hanks hood.

[37:47] >> After more than 20 years in the

[37:49] business, Everett is finally getting a

[37:51] taste of stardom.

[37:54] He played Christopher Marlo in this

[37:56] year's best picture, Shakespeare and

[37:58] Love. I have a new one nearly finished

[38:00] and better.

[38:03] >> He co-stars with Michelle Feifer in The

[38:06] Midsummer Night's Dream, which opens

[38:08] next week.

[38:09] >> He thought I was enamored as an ass.

[38:11] >> In June, he's the charming aristocratic

[38:14] Arthur in The Ideal Husband.

[38:16] >> Did you miss me?

[38:17] >> Awfully.

[38:18] >> Then I'm sorry I did not stay away

[38:19] later. I like being missed.

[38:21] >> And in July, Inspector Gadget, Dr. Claw.

[38:25] >> Just claw. One word.

[38:28] like Madonna

[38:29] >> Everett is also writing parts for

[38:31] himself.

[38:32] >> The type of acting or the type of film

[38:34] that I think I would be the best in

[38:37] isn't quite written at the moment. Not

[38:40] that that's anyone's fault. It's just

[38:41] there isn't it's just not there. And um

[38:45] you know I would like to be in those

[38:47] modern versions of those films that Cord

[38:50] Cobbert made you know um and uh Kerry

[38:54] Grant made and things like that. A few

[38:56] years ago, you told the magazine that

[38:58] you were hungry for success. Are you

[39:00] still?

[39:02] >> Yes. Really?

[39:03] >> This isn't enough success.

[39:05] >> I really would like to be able to um

[39:08] just have a shot. I don't mind failing,

[39:10] by the way, but I'd like to have a shot

[39:12] to present myself in the cinema in the

[39:14] way that I feel I could be at my best.

[39:16] The great thing about having a success,

[39:19] you know, in in the autumn years as

[39:22] opposed to the spring years or the late

[39:24] summer years is that, you know, you've

[39:26] learned to respect

[39:28] what you can do yourself more. That's

[39:30] all one has really, what one can do. And

[39:33] rather than sitting around wasting your

[39:34] time not doing it, I'd rather, you know,

[39:36] try and do it.

[39:43] At the moment, Everett is shooting The

[39:45] Next Best Thing. He co-stars with

[39:47] Madonna and he rewrote the script. He

[39:49] says it's a story of two best friends.

[39:52] She's straight. He's gay. And the family

[39:54] unit they try to make outside of

[39:56] society. The next best thing is

[39:58] scheduled to be released at the end of

[40:00] the year. Living a dog's life, spending

[40:04] your life in prison, and taking a life

[40:06] for money. Three plots, three current

[40:09] movies, plus your critical insights.

[40:11] Here's Critical Mass.

[40:17] >> You going to eat your cornbread?

[40:19] >> You can't have my cornbread. That's the

[40:21] damn show.

[40:21] >> Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence banter

[40:23] behind bars for life.

[40:26] >> Life.

[40:27] >> The two are wrongly convicted of murder

[40:29] and sent to the Mississippi Big House,

[40:31] where their humorous outlook on life

[40:34] prevails and friendship endures.

[40:36] >> I blame you for everything, Ray. EW

[40:39] sinks the comedy with a C.

[40:42] >> Viewers average C++. Critics also a C++.

[40:48] >> I was there all night. She didn't come

[40:49] home.

[40:50] >> Watch out for backstabbing fem fatal

[40:52] Patricia Arquette when she says goodbye

[40:54] lover.

[40:57] Arette concocts an elaborate scheme of

[40:59] betrayal and insurance fraud in this

[41:01] Roland Jaffy comic noir.

[41:03] >> Do you have any qualms about killing

[41:05] women?

[41:05] >> No.

[41:06] >> They die easier. The conspiracy doesn't

[41:08] hold up in EW's eyes and gives the film

[41:10] a C.

[41:11] >> Isn't that a cool?

[41:14] >> Viewers concur with a C, but critics

[41:16] give it a C minus.

[41:19] >> You stole her dog. I just say I borrowed

[41:21] her.

[41:22] >> Another conspiracy. Lost and found.

[41:25] >> My dog is missing.

[41:26] >> David Spade plans a phony dognapping

[41:29] scheme to score a bonjour out of his

[41:31] beautiful French neighbor Sophie Maro.

[41:33] >> Are you all right?

[41:34] >> That's okay. I'm on the hill. EW doesn't

[41:37] throw this comedy any bones and buries

[41:39] the film with a D plus.

[41:41] >> Oh, he's cool.

[41:42] >> Visitors to our website gave it a D.

[41:46] >> The average D+.

[41:50] >> Feeling critical? Here are the three

[41:52] films for next week's Critical Mass.

[41:55] Visit our website at

[41:56] cnn.com/criticalmass

[41:59] and tell us how you grade each movie.

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[45:38] The momentum continues to pressure

[45:40] entertainment industry leaders to curb

[45:41] violence on TV, in movies, and on the

[45:44] internet. On Tuesday, a Senate hearing

[45:46] offered up a number of opinions on the

[45:48] marketing of violence in pop culture.

[45:51] >> I will tell you, Mr. Chairman, if the

[45:52] entertainment industry

[45:54] continues to move in the direction it's

[45:57] moving and continues unabated to market

[46:01] death and degradation to our children

[46:04] and continues to pay no heed to the

[46:08] genuine bloodshed staining our

[46:10] communities, then one way or other the

[46:13] government will act. It is in that very

[46:16] small percentage of kids who are for all

[46:19] intents and purposes taken over by the

[46:22] worst of the popular culture who see

[46:24] these violent movies not as merely

[46:26] entertainment but as a game plan. Who

[46:29] hear the dark pounding music as a hymn

[46:32] who begin as Eric Harris and Dylan

[46:34] Clebol did to live in a dark parallel

[46:37] universe. I'm not going to absolve

[46:40] movies because as I say, there's some of

[46:42] these movies that just turn my stomach

[46:45] and I don't want to watch them. But I

[46:48] have a right not to watch them.

[46:50] >> And this coming Monday, the president

[46:52] takes up the issue of violence, values,

[46:54] and our children with a long list of

[46:56] invitees. Jud has more with the writers

[46:59] and editors of EW and this week's shop

[47:01] talk.

[47:08] Tonight on Shop Talk, we're going to,

[47:10] you might say, summit up. In other

[47:12] words, the summit that's taking place

[47:14] next week in Washington to discuss

[47:15] violence and entertainment. Do we think

[47:18] this summit is actually going to

[47:19] accomplish something or is it just

[47:20] political grandstanding?

[47:22] >> The moment does seem right for serious

[47:24] discussions about youth violence and the

[47:26] causes of youth violence and maybe we

[47:28] can do something about it. You get that

[47:30] feeling. Something's in the air.

[47:32] >> Absolutely. And I think uh Clinton's

[47:34] instincts are quite right about that.

[47:35] Unfortunately, we've got a president who

[47:37] sort of squandered his moral authority.

[47:39] Uh, you know, if he had more at this

[47:41] point in time, he really could make a

[47:43] difference because really that's all he

[47:44] can do is try to sort of shame people

[47:47] into doing something by pointing the

[47:49] finger and saying, you know, you guys

[47:51] are responsible. You have to respond to

[47:53] what's happened in Littleland.

[47:55] >> Well, you know, certain things at the

[47:56] moment, you know, are in place. Uh, I

[47:58] mean, let's let's be frank here. Uh

[48:01] this year half the television sets that

[48:03] are made have to have the Vchip. Uh

[48:06] movies are rated, video games are rated,

[48:10] uh music, CDs have to carry parental

[48:13] guidance. Uh you know,

[48:15] >> right held up by teenagers. That's

[48:16] exactly what to go.

[48:18] >> Well, yeah. But the fact of the matter

[48:19] is, you know, it really is a waste of

[48:21] time. uh you know blaming blaming

[48:24] technology and blaming entertainment for

[48:27] what is basically parents mistakes.

[48:29] >> Well, I I I think you're getting close

[48:31] to the real issue here, which is the

[48:33] market. Uh you know, as long as there is

[48:36] a market for this these kinds of movies,

[48:38] they will be made and they will be

[48:39] shown. And there's no major studio, even

[48:42] those with the best intentions, who say

[48:44] we're not going to make these violent

[48:45] movies anymore. Well, somebody else is

[48:47] going to make them and make $500

[48:48] million. And you know that's that's

[48:51] what's got to happen is parents or the

[48:53] public.

[48:53] >> At the same time I I think that there

[48:55] does need to be a process in the

[48:58] entertainment industry where the

[48:59] individual makers of the studios at some

[49:01] point just stop and look at what they're

[49:03] doing and make that decision and think

[49:04] about the consequence.

[49:05] >> Well yes to the internet say now where

[49:09] does is there a governmental role with

[49:11] the internet?

[49:11] >> I think absolutely not. I think I'm

[49:13] personally I'm really tired of people

[49:15] scapegoating the internet for parents

[49:17] not doing their jobs. I mean there's you

[49:20] can't legislate the internet. You can

[49:21] prosecute somebody for putting up a pipe

[49:23] bomb recipe if they live in this

[49:25] country, but then that material will go

[49:26] on a server in Finland and you can't do

[49:28] anything about it.

[49:29] >> There are there are filter systems that

[49:30] parents

[49:32] >> there are dozens there dozens of filters

[49:34] >> totally ineffective.

[49:36] >> No, they're not ineffective. They're

[49:37] flawed, but they're a start.

[49:39] >> The fact of the matter is we are not not

[49:41] going to have government regulation of

[49:43] entertainment. The question is what do

[49:45] you do about children and how do you

[49:47] keep you know we this culture is now

[49:50] bathed in images of violence uh it's

[49:54] inescapable not just in the movies and

[49:56] TV but on billboards and in print

[49:58] everywhere you go um

[50:00] >> and the news

[50:01] >> and the news uh and the 24-hour a day

[50:04] news that uh continually sucks every bit

[50:06] of juice out of any disaster such as

[50:09] we've had in Colorado.

[50:10] >> Okay. Well, a debate that obviously is

[50:12] going to continue across the country for

[50:13] some time. That shop talk for this week.

[50:17] >> Like they say, there's nothing like a

[50:19] good book for making a great escape.

[50:22] Here's EW senior editor Tina Jordan with

[50:24] a review of a new book all about one of

[50:26] the best places on earth to escape to.

[50:45] Bella Tuscanany is poet Francis May's

[50:48] sequel to Under the Tuscan Sun, her

[50:50] hugely popular memoir about buying and

[50:52] restoring an old farmhouse in

[50:54] Tuscanyany. People who loved Under the

[50:56] Tuscan Sun will love Bella Tuskanyany

[50:57] for all the same reasons. The beautiful

[50:59] descriptions of the Italian countryside,

[51:02] the people that Maize meets, the

[51:04] characters who come to renovate her

[51:05] house. Like its predecessor, Bella

[51:07] Tuscanany is stuffed with recipes. Maize

[51:10] devotes lots of pages to describing

[51:12] sumptuous meals. It also has, I think,

[51:16] maybe unintentional glimpses into Maize

[51:19] herself. Um, she's sometimes a prickly

[51:22] character. You didn't really see that in

[51:23] the first book. You see it here. She's

[51:25] talking about the aunt she didn't like,

[51:27] the house guest who caused her trouble,

[51:29] the man she has been living with in

[51:31] marriage, you her relationship with her

[51:33] mother. And for that, Bella Tusciny is

[51:36] quite interesting. I caution readers who

[51:38] loved Under the Tuscan Sun that Bella

[51:40] Tuskiny isn't quite as evocative. I

[51:43] understand that Maize wasn't keen on

[51:44] writing a sequel, but that her fans were

[51:46] clamoring for it, and this book does

[51:47] have a slightly rushed feel to it.

[51:49] That's a small quibble, though. This is

[51:51] still a beautiful book, and I'd give it

[51:53] an A minus.

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[55:27] >> And Willow, don't get too excited now,

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