nobody. burt reynolds, the hottest actor in hollywood. i m surprised to see you here. well, i m glad to see you. oh, thank you. we can meet here every night if you like. thank you. a lot of what makes successful television programming is being in the right place at the right time. and it was the right time. entertainment journalism evolved as viewers got more curious and had more access. until that point, the entertainment business had been something we didn t know all that much about. we could go behind the scenes in our effort to really give an insider s look. the crafty old j.r. of dallas fame was with his mother actress mary martin as he was presented with a star on the hollywood walk of fame. it was very honorific of the industry. they would do serious coverage of it. it wasn t salacious. and you would see actors speaking as actors instead of on a johnny carson show. what are you like on camera? i m like this. this is on camera. this is on camera.
half hour every night. entertainment tonight has surveyed tv critics in the united states and canada to find out which television shows had the most impact on viewers over the years. now up until this time, nobody had done television like this. nobody. burt reynolds, the hottest actor in hollywood. i m surprised to see you here. well, i m glad to see you. oh, thank you. we can meet here every night if you like. thank you. a lot of what makes successful television programming is being in the right place at the right time. and it was the right time. entertainment journalism evolved as viewers got more curious and had more access. until that point, the entertainment business had been something we didn t know all that much about. we could go behind the scenes in our effort to really give an insider s look. the crafty old j.r. of dallas fame was with his mother actress mary martin as he was presented with a star on the hollywood walk of fame. it was very honori
the big thing that changes in the 80s is the number of hours spent watching television goes up. the number of hours spent talking about television goes up. one of the symbols of this phenomenon is entertainment tonight. hi, i m tom hallick, and welcome to our opening night the premiere edition of entertainment tonight. all of the critics were kind of unanimous in that they said, it ll never last because there simply isn t enough entertainment news to fill a half-hour every night. entertainment tonight has surveyed tv critics in the united states and canada to find out which television shows had the most impact on viewers over the years. now, up until this time, nobody had done television like this. nobody. burt reynolds, the hottest actor in hollywood. i m surprised to see you
here s actress gena torres on the challenge of being afro-latina in hollywood. jena, you were forced to embrace one identity in hollywood? i felt like i was living in three worlds. there was my world i grew up in, spanish-speaking home, cuban parents, and you go out into the world and i m speaking english and i m in the bronx, south bronx. that s right! and then going into this industry, as an actress, then nobody recognizes you as either one. there was no place for me as a latina, and then as a black woman, i didn t identify as a black woman, because for me, it was it was cultural. right. because, of course, i present black, i am a black woman. i am also cuban. when you re here in the united states and they ask you to be in a box and you don t fit into the box, culturally, it was
the big thing that changes in the 80s is the number of hours spent watching television goes up. the number of hours spent talking about television goes up. one of the symbols of this phenomenon is entertainment tonight. hi, i m tom hallic. welcome to our opening night. the premiere edition of entertainment tonight. all of the critics were kind of unanimous in that they said it will never last because there simply isn t enough entertainment news to fill a half hour every night. entertainment tonight has surveyed tv critics in the united states and canada to find out which television shows had the most impact on viewers over the years. now up until this time, nobody had done television like this. nobody. burt reynolds, the hottest actor in hollywood. i m surprised to see you here. well, i m glad to see you. oh, thank you. we can meet here every night if you like. thank you. a lot of what makes