Entertainment Tonight - 1993-08-10

Name: Entertainment Tonight - 1993-08-10
Uploaded: 2026-02-13
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Uploaded: 2026-02-13

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Read a transcript preview of “Entertainment Tonight - 1993-08-10” from malgent, uploaded on 2026-02-13.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] heads out for the showdown on Tuesday,

[0:02] August 10th, 1993.

[0:13] >> Hi, thanks for joining us. I'm Lisa

[0:14] Gibbons. Mary Hart will be back

[0:16] tomorrow.

[0:16] >> And I'm John Tesh. And when a

[0:17] sensational story hits the headlines,

[0:20] before the smoke clears, a race is

[0:21] underway to bring it to the screen as a

[0:23] TV movie and into bookstores as a

[0:25] potential bestseller. The bidding on

[0:27] Heidi Gate is now off and running.

[0:29] Did you do it?

[0:32] >> These days, the ink on a hot news story

[0:34] like Amy Fiser last year was barely dry

[0:36] before Hollywood bought up the rights

[0:38] and then turned it into three TV dramas.

[0:41] As a matter of fact, that is nothing new

[0:42] for Hollywood. The Waco massacre was

[0:44] being filmed for television while the

[0:46] story was still unfolding.

[0:47] >> Heidi Glenn Fleece matter number W3 on

[0:50] the court's calendar.

[0:52] >> It's only been one day since the

[0:53] so-called Hollywood madam to the stars,

[0:55] Heidi Fleece, made her well publicized

[0:57] appearance in court. Today, the papers

[0:59] are filled with details of the

[1:00] scandalous case, and many show business

[1:02] observers like Variety's Peter Bart are

[1:05] already predicting Heidi's story could

[1:06] soon end up on the screen.

[1:08] >> People are going to say it has all the

[1:09] elements. Heidi has all the elements of

[1:12] um a natural uh TV movie. It has sex, it

[1:15] has violence, it has intrigue. Well, if

[1:18] uh Joey Bafuko was featured on three

[1:21] networks, um I certainly think that this

[1:23] would be good for at least two. But

[1:25] producer Linda Otto, who has been behind

[1:26] many successful true story TV films like

[1:29] the Ryan White story, says she woul