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0:00:02 > 0:00:04It was a show that went out three nights a week, live...

0:00:04 > 0:00:05Mr Wogan, you're on. You're on.

0:00:05 > 0:00:07With a live audience

0:00:07 > 0:00:09and everyone who's anyone dropping in.

0:00:09 > 0:00:12The great and the good, the bad and the ugly.

0:00:12 > 0:00:13They called it Wogan.

0:00:13 > 0:00:15Ha, I never knew why.

0:00:15 > 0:00:18So, if you're sitting comfortably,

0:00:18 > 0:00:20I'll show you something I made earlier.

0:00:20 > 0:00:23God knows what they'll make of us in 25 years' time.

0:00:35 > 0:00:40Today it's all about the special relationship and my particular part

0:00:40 > 0:00:44in keeping it going because the Americans are coming.

0:00:44 > 0:00:48In the shape of Stevie Wonder, Tony Curtis, Victoria Principal,

0:00:48 > 0:00:50and Michael J Fox.

0:00:51 > 0:00:54Yes, there was always a little frisson of excitement

0:00:54 > 0:00:57on the show when our presence was graced by a big name

0:00:57 > 0:00:58from across the pond,

0:00:58 > 0:01:03bringing a bit of Hollywood sparkle to dear old Shepherd's Bush.

0:01:03 > 0:01:05And one such visitor was Rock Hudson,

0:01:05 > 0:01:07one of the cinema's most popular leading men.

0:01:07 > 0:01:08Unknown to anyone,

0:01:08 > 0:01:13Rock had been diagnosed with HIV three months before this interview,

0:01:13 > 0:01:16and the year after he came on the show, sadly he passed away.

0:01:17 > 0:01:22I found him warm and funny and unaffected by his fame.

0:01:22 > 0:01:24When were you first in Europe?

0:01:24 > 0:01:26- First?- Yeah, when did you come over here?

0:01:26 > 0:01:28- Were you an actor when you came over here?- Yes,

0:01:28 > 0:01:29- 1950. Huh.- Yes.

0:01:29 > 0:01:31- PLUMMY ACCENT:- Yah.

0:01:31 > 0:01:32AUDIENCE CHUCKLES

0:01:32 > 0:01:34Were you over here to make a movie?

0:01:34 > 0:01:37Yes. In London, Channel Islands.

0:01:37 > 0:01:39What was that one?

0:01:39 > 0:01:41- Do you r...? - ALL LAUGH

0:01:41 > 0:01:44Erm, the Sea Devil, it was called.

0:01:44 > 0:01:47- You obviously...- Don't ask me what it was called, I don't remember.

0:01:47 > 0:01:50I was going to say you remember it with a great deal of affection.

0:01:50 > 0:01:52LAUGHTER

0:01:52 > 0:01:55And now you're back here again with us. Do you visit very often?

0:01:55 > 0:01:57And is it easy for you to travel around?

0:01:57 > 0:02:02Well, I love England, I love London, so as much as I can, yes.

0:02:02 > 0:02:05- Um...- But it can't be easy for you to be anonymous.

0:02:05 > 0:02:08- Oh, yes, it can.- Can it?- Oh, yes.

0:02:08 > 0:02:11- And I walk fast.- Oh. - AUDIENCE LAUGHS

0:02:11 > 0:02:13I would have recognised you immediately.

0:02:13 > 0:02:14- No, you wouldn't.- Wouldn't I?- No.

0:02:14 > 0:02:15I walk too fast.

0:02:15 > 0:02:20- Who were your idols when you decided to go into movies?- Spencer Tracy.

0:02:20 > 0:02:22- Is that who you wanted to be? - Oh, yes.

0:02:22 > 0:02:25- You were too tall for Spencer Tracy. - I know, I know. I don't care.

0:02:25 > 0:02:26LAUGHTER

0:02:26 > 0:02:29I don't care, I loved him.

0:02:29 > 0:02:31As your film career developed...

0:02:31 > 0:02:35and I watched it closely cos I was your great fan - still am.

0:02:35 > 0:02:37- Thank you.- As you... I'm not a fan of many people.

0:02:37 > 0:02:39- You didn't see the Sea Devils. - I didn't see the Sea...

0:02:39 > 0:02:41Who says I didn't see the Sea Devils?

0:02:41 > 0:02:43- You don't remember if you did. - I was testing you.

0:02:43 > 0:02:45AUDIENCE LAUGHS

0:02:45 > 0:02:46What was it about?

0:02:46 > 0:02:50It was about these people on the sea playing a very vital role in the

0:02:50 > 0:02:56struggle to keep Europe and mankind free from the fascist threat.

0:02:56 > 0:02:59Was it?! LAUGHTER

0:02:59 > 0:03:00You were in it.

0:03:02 > 0:03:04I don't remember, I really don't.

0:03:04 > 0:03:06THEY LAUGH

0:03:06 > 0:03:12Films like Pillow Talk seem very tame now by comparison with

0:03:12 > 0:03:14today's more explicit standards.

0:03:14 > 0:03:15Do you regret the way films have gone

0:03:15 > 0:03:17in terms of being more explicit?

0:03:17 > 0:03:22No, I don't. I must tell you something I find interesting,

0:03:22 > 0:03:27Pillow Talk was, I don't know, 20 years ago, 25 years ago.

0:03:28 > 0:03:30We almost didn't do it because it was too dirty.

0:03:32 > 0:03:34SMATTERING OF LAUGHTER

0:03:34 > 0:03:36Were those the days you had to keep a foot on the floor

0:03:36 > 0:03:38- when you got on the bed?- Yes.

0:03:38 > 0:03:40It had to be single beds, didn't it?

0:03:40 > 0:03:43Yes, but also, in getting back to your question...

0:03:45 > 0:03:47AUDIENCE LAUGHS

0:03:48 > 0:03:49I...

0:03:53 > 0:03:58I, like, remember vividly in a Western, I was cut off at the pass

0:03:58 > 0:03:59- by...- I fairly saw it.

0:03:59 > 0:04:03LAUGHTER Yes. And I had to say, "Oh, darn it."

0:04:04 > 0:04:08There's better things to say at that moment, right?

0:04:08 > 0:04:10- Today you can say them.- Yeah.

0:04:10 > 0:04:11We couldn't say them then.

0:04:11 > 0:04:13It might have dented the old image a bit

0:04:13 > 0:04:16though if they'd heard you using more...

0:04:17 > 0:04:20- Why?- ..rigorous language, mightn't it?- Why?

0:04:20 > 0:04:24Well, because I think the heroes in those days had to be more clean-cut.

0:04:24 > 0:04:26- Do you think so?- More... Yes.

0:04:27 > 0:04:30- I mean, I think... - Isn't tall enough?

0:04:30 > 0:04:31LAUGHTER

0:04:31 > 0:04:33Tall is good.

0:04:33 > 0:04:35Tall is very, very good.

0:04:35 > 0:04:39I've tried to say that but sometimes it doesn't work.

0:04:39 > 0:04:41I bump my head a lot.

0:04:41 > 0:04:43What about breaking into the films first,

0:04:43 > 0:04:45to get back to how you got in the first place?

0:04:45 > 0:04:46Before Sea Devils?

0:04:48 > 0:04:50Was there anything before Sea Devils?!

0:04:50 > 0:04:52Yes.

0:04:52 > 0:04:53Only the silent, surely.

0:04:55 > 0:04:56HE SIGHS

0:04:56 > 0:04:57LAUGHTER

0:04:59 > 0:05:01How did you actually break in?

0:05:01 > 0:05:04Uh, this is going to sound smug - and I don't mean it to -

0:05:04 > 0:05:06I applied for a job and got it.

0:05:06 > 0:05:08Um...

0:05:08 > 0:05:10Only because I didn't know any better.

0:05:10 > 0:05:14I just sent some pictures around and asked for interviews

0:05:14 > 0:05:17and I got one interview and...

0:05:17 > 0:05:18Got the part from there?

0:05:18 > 0:05:22Well, no, that man became my agent a couple of years later and...

0:05:22 > 0:05:24he took me around to a director and the director said,

0:05:24 > 0:05:26"Fine, put him in the...

0:05:26 > 0:05:28"Put him in this film, see what he looks like,

0:05:28 > 0:05:30"give him some lines here and there."

0:05:30 > 0:05:31And that's how it started.

0:05:31 > 0:05:34What about the lovely ladies with whom you've acted,

0:05:34 > 0:05:36Liz Taylor in Giant?

0:05:36 > 0:05:40- Do you keep on touch with them? - Oh, yes, yes, yes.

0:05:40 > 0:05:42She's a very, very good friend.

0:05:42 > 0:05:45- And Doris Day?- Yes.

0:05:45 > 0:05:48She lives just below San Francisco now.

0:05:48 > 0:05:50She doesn't live in Los Angeles any more.

0:05:50 > 0:05:55Was she as sweet and bubbly in real life as she was on the films?

0:05:55 > 0:06:00We never...stopped laughing. We had uncontrollable giggles.

0:06:00 > 0:06:02We couldn't stop.

0:06:02 > 0:06:04We couldn't look at each other.

0:06:04 > 0:06:07Um, I remember one...

0:06:07 > 0:06:10- I'm going to take a little time. - Of course.- I have to explain this.

0:06:10 > 0:06:14We were doing this shot supposedly on the beach. This was in a sound stage.

0:06:14 > 0:06:16We were lying on the sand, you see,

0:06:16 > 0:06:19and the camera was up here shooting straight down.

0:06:19 > 0:06:22And this was to be just a couple of shots before lunch.

0:06:22 > 0:06:25And then during lunch they would move to another sound stage

0:06:25 > 0:06:26to do another scene.

0:06:28 > 0:06:31And it was a scene where I was trying to get her to kiss me.

0:06:31 > 0:06:34I was trying to make her be aggressive

0:06:34 > 0:06:35and I was playing the innocent.

0:06:37 > 0:06:42And I had lines like, "I'd like to kiss you but I don't know how."

0:06:44 > 0:06:45And... AUDIENCE LAUGHS

0:06:45 > 0:06:48And then she had to say...

0:06:48 > 0:06:49She had to say, "Oh, well, that's easy,"

0:06:49 > 0:06:51and lean over and plant one on me.

0:06:51 > 0:06:53And then of course the joke is over.

0:06:53 > 0:06:56Now I'm supposed to take over and give her a proper one.

0:06:56 > 0:06:57Well...

0:06:57 > 0:07:01You can't roll over smoothly

0:07:01 > 0:07:02and our teeth clicked.

0:07:04 > 0:07:06- TERRY LAUGHS - The first kiss?

0:07:06 > 0:07:08And then...

0:07:09 > 0:07:11We were there a day and a half trying...

0:07:11 > 0:07:12LAUGHTER

0:07:12 > 0:07:15..to get the scene and we just couldn't.

0:07:15 > 0:07:18I mean, we would look at each other, we would spew in each other's faces.

0:07:20 > 0:07:21Great fun, I love it.

0:07:23 > 0:07:26Rock Hudson, one of my favourite guests.

0:07:26 > 0:07:29And here's another great Hollywood character

0:07:29 > 0:07:32and another heart-throb from the golden age of cinema,

0:07:32 > 0:07:38a man of many more parts than a famous '60s hairdo - Tony Curtis.

0:07:38 > 0:07:42Looking back to those '50s and '60s, you were the trendsetter.

0:07:42 > 0:07:45You were Tony Curtis, people copied you in everything you did.

0:07:45 > 0:07:48- Were you conscious that you were setting trends?- I was unconscious.

0:07:48 > 0:07:50LAUGHTER

0:07:50 > 0:07:54Really unconscious. I never... I really have never planned anything.

0:07:54 > 0:07:56You know, everything has always been somewhat spontaneous

0:07:56 > 0:07:59and just...I just let it happen.

0:07:59 > 0:08:04I didn't try to imagine myself as a trendsetter one way or the other,

0:08:04 > 0:08:05I just wanted to get through the day.

0:08:05 > 0:08:08Do you know, the meaning comes after the work.

0:08:08 > 0:08:10- Yeah.- Life is only...

0:08:10 > 0:08:13The only way you can come to any conclusion about life

0:08:13 > 0:08:14is after you've lived it.

0:08:14 > 0:08:16- People ask me, when am I going to... - But then you're dead!

0:08:16 > 0:08:19Yeah, but... People have asked me to write an autobiography.

0:08:19 > 0:08:21I said, "But I can't do it, I don't know how it'll end."

0:08:21 > 0:08:24- Yes, but it'll be too late by the time...- Yeah, right.

0:08:24 > 0:08:25And then who would want to read it?

0:08:25 > 0:08:28Well, I mean, a lot of people are writing sort of Hollywood exposes.

0:08:28 > 0:08:29Oh, well, yes.

0:08:29 > 0:08:32But, like, Jackie Collins writing Hollywood Wives,

0:08:32 > 0:08:34I've had more Hollywood wives than she has!

0:08:34 > 0:08:36AUDIENCE LAUGHS

0:08:36 > 0:08:38- I mean, you know, it's crazy. - Boasting again.- Yeah, I know!

0:08:38 > 0:08:41ALL LAUGH

0:08:41 > 0:08:45- It's not like that anyway, is it? - No, no, no.- Of course, it's worse.

0:08:45 > 0:08:47Worse, worse, worse! And you, Terry, how are you?

0:08:47 > 0:08:50I'm bearing up under the unequal strain. It's the throat, you know.

0:08:50 > 0:08:52How many of these shows have you done so far?

0:08:52 > 0:08:54- AUDIENCE:- Ahh. - Oh, shut up!

0:08:54 > 0:08:57- They couldn't care less about me. - No?

0:08:57 > 0:08:59Just before the show started, I went down and I breathed on them

0:08:59 > 0:09:01and they all ran out.

0:09:01 > 0:09:04It's the barber you go to.

0:09:04 > 0:09:06I shouldn't have had that garlic last night.

0:09:06 > 0:09:08Listen, how did you get on to talking about me?

0:09:08 > 0:09:09This interview is about you.

0:09:09 > 0:09:11- Yeah, you think so? - You, you!- Yeah, OK.

0:09:11 > 0:09:13It's just cos, do you ever say to yourself...

0:09:13 > 0:09:17- "Here's me, the boy from the Bronx"?- No, I don't.- Why not?

0:09:17 > 0:09:19Well, because I didn't come from the Bronx.

0:09:19 > 0:09:20LAUGHTER

0:09:20 > 0:09:22APPLAUSE

0:09:26 > 0:09:28I came from Manhattan.

0:09:29 > 0:09:31And I was born and raised in Manhattan.

0:09:31 > 0:09:32I lived in the Bronx once but that's...

0:09:32 > 0:09:36Listen, if I'd wanted a geography lesson, I would have asked you!

0:09:36 > 0:09:38- Right.- Why didn't you come from the Bronx?

0:09:38 > 0:09:41- Oh, yeah, right.- You ruined the whole thing about coming from the Bronx!

0:09:41 > 0:09:43Well, you know, you've kind of put me...

0:09:43 > 0:09:45May I stand up for a minute? I'm going to button my jacket.

0:09:45 > 0:09:48You just told me about buttoning jackets and sitting down.

0:09:48 > 0:09:50- Then sit down again. - Getting up and down.

0:09:50 > 0:09:52As a matter of fact, I'm going to stand up and open it again.

0:09:52 > 0:09:54If you were from the Bronx, you would have done that

0:09:54 > 0:09:55properly in the first place.

0:09:55 > 0:09:57- Right.- Now it turns out you come from Manhattan.

0:09:57 > 0:09:59- Yeah. I've forgotten what you said. - Yeah.

0:09:59 > 0:10:01But when you got down, did you think...

0:10:01 > 0:10:04Because remembering the parts that you had and all the rest of it,

0:10:04 > 0:10:07you had a very marked Bronx accent, although you came from Manhattan.

0:10:07 > 0:10:11Let me say this, living is living from the first day you're born.

0:10:11 > 0:10:14The fact that you end up in the movies doesn't make you any

0:10:14 > 0:10:17more special than before you ended up in the movies.

0:10:17 > 0:10:19- Course not.- So, you know, I don't reflect that.

0:10:19 > 0:10:22I don't pull "a little boy from the Bronx or Manhattan ends up

0:10:22 > 0:10:23"a famous movie actor."

0:10:23 > 0:10:27To me, both are distinct, strong and positive.

0:10:27 > 0:10:30One cannot forget your past and you cannot forget your present.

0:10:30 > 0:10:31And you hope for the future.

0:10:31 > 0:10:33You know, one...

0:10:33 > 0:10:35I've learned a very important lesson.

0:10:35 > 0:10:38I've come through a very serious illness.

0:10:38 > 0:10:41I'm an alcoholic and have a drug addiction

0:10:41 > 0:10:44and this really almost killed me

0:10:44 > 0:10:45and I didn't know it.

0:10:45 > 0:10:49I thought I was weak-willed, and this was what usually people

0:10:49 > 0:10:52thought of people who drank a lot or used drugs.

0:10:52 > 0:10:55But I have since found out through research that's been

0:10:55 > 0:10:58done in America that it's a disease.

0:10:58 > 0:11:00And it's a disease that you have to fight as a disease.

0:11:00 > 0:11:05It's an incurable disease that can be cured only by abstinence.

0:11:05 > 0:11:10So therefore, I thank God that I'm still alive and able to battle it

0:11:10 > 0:11:13and able to help as many friends as possible in that.

0:11:13 > 0:11:17So you see, that, the fact that I'm alive talking with you here,

0:11:17 > 0:11:21with these fine people here, that in itself is the blessing.

0:11:21 > 0:11:24And also it's full marks to you for the strength of character

0:11:24 > 0:11:28- that it takes.- Well, the character only comes from the researching

0:11:28 > 0:11:31and I can't spread the gospel enough.

0:11:31 > 0:11:34There was a time where I said, "Oh, it's all just a rhetoric

0:11:34 > 0:11:39"and it's all political, you know, drinking and drugs,

0:11:39 > 0:11:41"they're just saying that because they don't want..." Whatever.

0:11:41 > 0:11:42But it's true.

0:11:42 > 0:11:45It is killing and it's doing a lot of damage to a lot of young

0:11:45 > 0:11:50people in the world and we all are, I feel owed to somehow

0:11:50 > 0:11:53give a lift and confidant support to as many young people as possible.

0:11:53 > 0:11:55Good for you. Well, thank you for saying that.

0:11:55 > 0:11:58- That's important.- There's just something I have to give you.

0:11:58 > 0:12:00- A little surprise.- Oh, my God.

0:12:00 > 0:12:02- Even as we speak... - Where did you get that from?!

0:12:02 > 0:12:05- I've been hiding it for some years. - 'Ello!- The old cane and JR hat.

0:12:05 > 0:12:07BRITISH ACCENT: Cor blimey.

0:12:07 > 0:12:09- How long have you been missing that? - Where did this come from?

0:12:09 > 0:12:12- I stole it last time you were here. - I've been missing it for...

0:12:12 > 0:12:14- No!- I nicked it from you, yes. - Did you nick it from me?

0:12:14 > 0:12:16- The old cane and the hat.- Bend over!

0:12:16 > 0:12:17Look at that.

0:12:17 > 0:12:19Well, I'm so glad you've got my stick and hat for me.

0:12:19 > 0:12:21- It's another nice... - Isn't it wonderful, yes?

0:12:21 > 0:12:23I love it. Where did you find it?

0:12:23 > 0:12:25- Let that be my little secret. - All righty then.

0:12:25 > 0:12:28- What a surprise show this is. - Tony Curtis, ladies and gentlemen.

0:12:28 > 0:12:30How happy I am to be here, ladies and gentlemen.

0:12:30 > 0:12:33CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:12:33 > 0:12:37You got my hat back! Clever man.

0:12:39 > 0:12:42Lord knows where the hat and cane came from.

0:12:42 > 0:12:44Now, while I try to remember,

0:12:44 > 0:12:49a bar or two of a song from an icon of country music,

0:12:49 > 0:12:51the great Willie Nelson.

0:12:51 > 0:12:53APPLAUSE

0:12:57 > 0:13:01# Maybe I didn't love you

0:13:03 > 0:13:06# Quite as often as I could have

0:13:09 > 0:13:12# Maybe I didn't treat you

0:13:15 > 0:13:17# Quite as good as I should have

0:13:21 > 0:13:25# If I made you feel second-best

0:13:27 > 0:13:31# Girl, I'm sorry, I was blind

0:13:33 > 0:13:37# But you were always on my mind

0:13:40 > 0:13:44# You were always on my mind

0:13:47 > 0:13:51# Maybe I didn't hold you

0:13:54 > 0:13:58# All those lonely, lonely times

0:14:01 > 0:14:05# I guess I never told you

0:14:08 > 0:14:10# That I'm so happy that you're mine

0:14:14 > 0:14:18# Little things I should have said and done

0:14:21 > 0:14:23# I just never took the time

0:14:26 > 0:14:31# But you were always on my mind

0:14:33 > 0:14:36# You were always on my mind

0:14:39 > 0:14:42# Tell me

0:14:45 > 0:14:49# Tell me that your sweet love hasn't died

0:14:52 > 0:14:55# And give me

0:14:57 > 0:15:01# Give me one more chance to keep you satisfied

0:15:03 > 0:15:05# I'll keep you satisfied

0:15:09 > 0:15:12# Maybe I didn't love you

0:15:15 > 0:15:17# Quite as often as I could have

0:15:20 > 0:15:24# Maybe I didn't treat you

0:15:27 > 0:15:29# Quite as good as I should have

0:15:33 > 0:15:37# Little things I should have said and done

0:15:40 > 0:15:42# I just never took the time

0:15:45 > 0:15:50# But you were always on my mind

0:15:52 > 0:15:56# You were always on my mind

0:15:58 > 0:16:04# You were always on my mind

0:16:05 > 0:16:11# You were always on my mind. #

0:16:15 > 0:16:17APPLAUSE

0:16:21 > 0:16:25Willie won multiple Grammy awards for that, and rightly so.

0:16:25 > 0:16:29We're meeting a real tough guy now, always the baddie.

0:16:29 > 0:16:32The very look of him would frighten the horses.

0:16:32 > 0:16:36And the voice - like gravel on a gravestone.

0:16:36 > 0:16:38Lee Marvin.

0:16:38 > 0:16:43It must be said that you look more like Lee Marvin than Lee Marvin.

0:16:43 > 0:16:45You're one of the very few Hollywood stars

0:16:45 > 0:16:48who looks every inch what you think he's going to look like.

0:16:48 > 0:16:50I think that's because I don't use much make up,

0:16:50 > 0:16:52- because it doesn't help.- Yeah.

0:16:52 > 0:16:54I use a lot and it doesn't help me at all.

0:16:54 > 0:16:56Well, we're both in the same boat.

0:16:56 > 0:16:59But you do look the sort of a fellow that very rarely got sand

0:16:59 > 0:17:01kicked in his face on the beach.

0:17:02 > 0:17:04I mean, are you tough?

0:17:04 > 0:17:06No, I think I am...

0:17:06 > 0:17:08I have the opportunity to play it tough

0:17:08 > 0:17:10which saves me a lot of bruises.

0:17:11 > 0:17:12You don't get many fellas

0:17:12 > 0:17:15coming up to you in a bar trying to pick fights, do you?

0:17:15 > 0:17:17No, but I buy a lot of them drinks so they don't.

0:17:17 > 0:17:19LAUGHTER

0:17:19 > 0:17:22That's like the best way to protect yourself.

0:17:22 > 0:17:26Was this the kind of defence with you really, acting tough?

0:17:26 > 0:17:27Well, it's acting out.

0:17:27 > 0:17:29It saves me from getting locked up or spending

0:17:29 > 0:17:30a lot of time in gaol.

0:17:30 > 0:17:33And you get rid of it on the screen, you know,

0:17:33 > 0:17:34so don't have to do it on the street.

0:17:34 > 0:17:36But you were a marine.

0:17:36 > 0:17:38Did you have to act tough as a marine

0:17:38 > 0:17:40to hide your fear for instance?

0:17:40 > 0:17:43Well, you have to do a lot of acting to hide that.

0:17:43 > 0:17:45I guess that's where I learned how to act.

0:17:45 > 0:17:46- In the marines?- Yeah.

0:17:46 > 0:17:48But you picked up a Purple Heart, which is something

0:17:48 > 0:17:49we don't hear too often.

0:17:49 > 0:17:51You're suitably modest about it.

0:17:51 > 0:17:53How did you win that?

0:17:53 > 0:17:57You don't win them, you get them when you get hit.

0:17:57 > 0:17:59So in other words, I'd rather not have it.

0:17:59 > 0:18:01AUDIENCE LAUGHS

0:18:01 > 0:18:02Did you get hit in a very vulnerable place?

0:18:02 > 0:18:04Yes, I got hit in the...

0:18:04 > 0:18:05HE MOUTHS

0:18:05 > 0:18:07LAUGHTER

0:18:07 > 0:18:09This doesn't give me much to talk about, right, Terry?

0:18:10 > 0:18:13ALL LAUGH

0:18:13 > 0:18:15APPLAUSE

0:18:18 > 0:18:20So you obviously were hospitalised after that.

0:18:20 > 0:18:22And then... Was it then you decided to be an actor

0:18:22 > 0:18:24while you were in hospital setting there festering?

0:18:24 > 0:18:27No, I was trying to figure out how to get out of the Marine Corp then.

0:18:28 > 0:18:32And after the war was over... I was discharged just before that.

0:18:32 > 0:18:37..I just went into the normal jobs that a 21-year-old scout sniper would

0:18:37 > 0:18:39go into in civilian life, right?

0:18:39 > 0:18:41I was digging ditches.

0:18:41 > 0:18:43So...

0:18:43 > 0:18:45I just happened to be in a community that was kind of artsy

0:18:45 > 0:18:47and they had a little summer start company there

0:18:47 > 0:18:50and I fell in with the girls and the boys of that group

0:18:50 > 0:18:53and I liked it very much and just stayed with them.

0:18:53 > 0:18:54And then went to Hollywood?

0:18:54 > 0:18:57Eventually, yeah. The theatre first and then, you know, that route.

0:18:57 > 0:19:01Did you get as typecast in the theatre as you subsequently were

0:19:01 > 0:19:04- in Hollywood?- Oh, no, the theatre was wide open.

0:19:04 > 0:19:08You could hide behind wigs and costumes, where the camera is

0:19:08 > 0:19:11a little more intimate than that so I couldn't disguise myself too well.

0:19:11 > 0:19:13Hmm, I mean, this tough appearance made them

0:19:13 > 0:19:16first cast you as a gangster and a killer?

0:19:16 > 0:19:17No, actually, I think

0:19:17 > 0:19:21the reason I was cast as that is that I wasn't a model-looking,

0:19:21 > 0:19:23young, leading man. I had...

0:19:25 > 0:19:27And so all those guys were the heavies,

0:19:27 > 0:19:28so I was one of those guys,

0:19:28 > 0:19:29so I became a heavy and that was it.

0:19:29 > 0:19:32Did you enjoy it, punching John Wayne for instance?

0:19:32 > 0:19:33Well, anybody enjoys that.

0:19:33 > 0:19:35LAUGHTER

0:19:35 > 0:19:36And getting away with it.

0:19:38 > 0:19:40Did you ever get hurt in any of those screen fights?

0:19:40 > 0:19:43I know you ducked the punches and there was a lot of extras

0:19:43 > 0:19:46and all that, but did John Wayne ever land a good one on you?

0:19:46 > 0:19:48No, no, we've always avoided each other on that

0:19:48 > 0:19:51because we had to go to work tomorrow, you know?

0:19:51 > 0:19:55And so it's...it's a dance, it's a choreographed dance.

0:19:55 > 0:19:58- Hmm.- So, no, I was never really injured in films.

0:19:58 > 0:20:00You also have a reputation...

0:20:00 > 0:20:03I'm sure it still doesn't hold good.

0:20:03 > 0:20:07..of being something of a drinker in your halcyon days.

0:20:07 > 0:20:11- Oh, yes, I was much younger.- Was that like being the old gunfighter

0:20:11 > 0:20:14that people would come up and challenge you to drinking bouts?

0:20:14 > 0:20:16Didn't you have a famous one with Oliver Reed once where

0:20:16 > 0:20:19he challenged you to drink yourselves unconscious?

0:20:21 > 0:20:24- LAUGHTER - You don't remember?

0:20:26 > 0:20:29- I did a film with Ollie, yeah. - Do you not remember the drinking?

0:20:29 > 0:20:31I think we were in Mexico, I'm not sure.

0:20:35 > 0:20:37Well, it was fun whatever it was.

0:20:37 > 0:20:39LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

0:20:44 > 0:20:45Did...

0:20:45 > 0:20:48But at the time... I know you hardly touch the stuff now at all.

0:20:50 > 0:20:54At the time, did your legendary drinking prowess have anything

0:20:54 > 0:20:56to do with you getting the part of the drunken gunfighter?

0:20:58 > 0:21:02No, but I took the horse out and got him the part.

0:21:02 > 0:21:04- Cos he was drunk as well, wasn't he?- He had to be.

0:21:04 > 0:21:07I mean, he wouldn't drink, so I had to talk to him for a while.

0:21:07 > 0:21:11But he made me very good in that film, that horse.

0:21:13 > 0:21:15Friendship goes a long way with a few little...

0:21:16 > 0:21:17Have you always been a family man?

0:21:19 > 0:21:22Well, that was out of necessity, you know, that's...

0:21:22 > 0:21:24They were just there?

0:21:24 > 0:21:26No, the sheriff was there.

0:21:26 > 0:21:29- Or her father with a gun? - That's what I'm saying.

0:21:29 > 0:21:30ALL LAUGH

0:21:32 > 0:21:34Sweetheart.

0:21:34 > 0:21:35My wife is in the audience.

0:21:35 > 0:21:38I think she's probably been, would you say one of the most

0:21:38 > 0:21:42effective things in your late mellowing?

0:21:42 > 0:21:45Has she eventually worn you down?

0:21:45 > 0:21:47Well, even in my early mellowing...

0:21:47 > 0:21:51- Sorry.- Yeah, she's been around a long time in my life.

0:21:51 > 0:21:53I met her when she was 15 and I was 21.

0:21:54 > 0:21:56And justice was finally done.

0:21:58 > 0:22:00She made an honest man of you, did she?

0:22:00 > 0:22:03Or the town did, I've forgotten which one.

0:22:03 > 0:22:04LAUGHTER

0:22:04 > 0:22:05And now I'm an honest man.

0:22:05 > 0:22:08We're delighted to see you, Lee, and thank you for coming.

0:22:08 > 0:22:10Thank you. APPLAUSE

0:22:10 > 0:22:12WHISTLING AND CHEERING

0:22:21 > 0:22:25Like every other chat show, Wogan thrived on big names,

0:22:25 > 0:22:29but of course it was great to meet stars in the making

0:22:29 > 0:22:31at the beginning of their careers.

0:22:31 > 0:22:34Here's one of them - Michael J Fox, about to become

0:22:34 > 0:22:36one of the world's biggest celebrities...

0:22:36 > 0:22:38Well, being fairly small.

0:22:38 > 0:22:41..with the release of the first of the Back To The Future films.

0:22:45 > 0:22:47AUDIENCE APPLAUDS

0:22:50 > 0:22:51Just saying, to see, Michael...

0:22:51 > 0:22:55Cos I saw a screening of that movie and it really is sensational.

0:22:55 > 0:22:57- I'm glad you liked it. - And I have to say that,

0:22:57 > 0:23:00isn't the real star of the film the car?

0:23:01 > 0:23:04Well, yeah, but you don't have to tell me that.

0:23:04 > 0:23:05Yeah, no, the car is incredible.

0:23:05 > 0:23:07This is a DeLorean car,

0:23:07 > 0:23:08which goes back and forward into the future.

0:23:08 > 0:23:11- Right.- And takes you back...

0:23:11 > 0:23:13Back into the past and then you've got to try

0:23:13 > 0:23:14and get back to the future with this.

0:23:14 > 0:23:17You can never explain this movie. That's the good thing about it.

0:23:17 > 0:23:19I thought I just explained it in ten seconds.

0:23:19 > 0:23:20People really have to go and see it.

0:23:20 > 0:23:24Yeah, it's a DeLorean that this friend of mine who's a mad scientist

0:23:24 > 0:23:29converts into a time machine and I get kind of trapped in it.

0:23:29 > 0:23:32It takes me back to the '50s and I run into my parents

0:23:32 > 0:23:36and screw things up royally and have to kind of get it...

0:23:36 > 0:23:39- I have to introduce my parents... - Yeah.- ..otherwise, I won't exist

0:23:39 > 0:23:42and my mother is kind of smitten with me,

0:23:42 > 0:23:45- which is a sticky situation. - That's right.

0:23:45 > 0:23:47But the film manages to get over that...

0:23:47 > 0:23:50- Yeah, it handles it really well. - ..Oedipal situation.- Right. Right.

0:23:50 > 0:23:52It's the kind of all-American

0:23:52 > 0:23:54teen hero that you play, though, isn't it?

0:23:54 > 0:23:56Kind of, yeah, which is good for a Canadian.

0:23:56 > 0:23:58LAUGHTER

0:23:58 > 0:24:01You can feel a bit uneasy being a Canadian playing...?

0:24:01 > 0:24:03No, it's kind of funny, actually, cos people say that.

0:24:03 > 0:24:07Kind of the all-American kid from Vancouver, which is really great.

0:24:07 > 0:24:10I mean, the thing about the film was you went back in time

0:24:10 > 0:24:15- and subtly changed your own life by being back in the past.- Right.

0:24:15 > 0:24:17Would you...? I mean, did it make you think at all...

0:24:17 > 0:24:19It certainly made me think.

0:24:19 > 0:24:21..how much you'd like to go back in time and see things?

0:24:21 > 0:24:23Um, you know, I thought about that

0:24:23 > 0:24:27cos it was something that I thought about when I was doing it -

0:24:27 > 0:24:29what would I change or what would I alter?

0:24:29 > 0:24:32I don't think I'd change anything. I mean, it worked out all right.

0:24:32 > 0:24:35- I mean, here I am.- Certainly worked out for you, yeah.- I'm in England.

0:24:35 > 0:24:39- You're supposed to be about 17 or 18 in the movie.- Right.

0:24:39 > 0:24:40How old are you in real life?

0:24:40 > 0:24:43- HE MUMBLES - Are you?- Yeah. No, I'm 24.

0:24:43 > 0:24:45- You don't look it. - No, I know. I know.

0:24:45 > 0:24:48I think I made a deal somewhere along the line and I don't want to know...

0:24:48 > 0:24:51You haven't got a painting in an attic anywhere, have you?

0:24:51 > 0:24:54There may be. There may be. But, yeah, I've just been real lucky.

0:24:54 > 0:24:57How did you manage to stay so fresh doing that movie?

0:24:57 > 0:24:58Because I know you were also shooting

0:24:58 > 0:25:03a very successful Family Ties series that you do in the States.

0:25:03 > 0:25:07It was a strange situation cos I worked on Family Ties

0:25:07 > 0:25:09from ten in the morning until about six at night

0:25:09 > 0:25:12and then I'd get in a car and go over to Universal

0:25:12 > 0:25:14and work until about two, 2:30 in the morning.

0:25:14 > 0:25:19But the people, the energy involved, with the other people in the film,

0:25:19 > 0:25:22was just so great that you were just so inspired when you got there.

0:25:22 > 0:25:26Bob Zemeckis, who directed it, is a total lunatic,

0:25:26 > 0:25:29but happily, can be productive in society

0:25:29 > 0:25:34by making films and he really had a lot of energy.

0:25:34 > 0:25:36And I guess there's the other Stevie Wonder.

0:25:36 > 0:25:38Not the one who was here tonight,

0:25:38 > 0:25:42but Steven Spielberg certainly had things going and under control.

0:25:42 > 0:25:44So, it was something that I really believed in.

0:25:44 > 0:25:47He's making so many movies at the moment, Steven Spielberg,

0:25:47 > 0:25:49that eventually, this programme will be made up

0:25:49 > 0:25:51of stars from Steven Spielberg movies

0:25:51 > 0:25:53coming in every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

0:25:53 > 0:25:55You're in America now with the success of Back To The Future.

0:25:55 > 0:25:58You are, I suppose, to be regarded as a superstar

0:25:58 > 0:26:00and yet, here, the movie hasn't opened yet.

0:26:00 > 0:26:04- LAUGHTER - So, nobody knows who you are.- Yeah.

0:26:04 > 0:26:06- LAUGHTER - Where would you rather be?

0:26:06 > 0:26:09- Where would I rather be? - Here or in the States?

0:26:09 > 0:26:12This is fun. This is fun. Especially...

0:26:13 > 0:26:15I went out for a drink

0:26:15 > 0:26:18with some friends on Saturday night when I first got in

0:26:18 > 0:26:21and I was quite glad by the end of it that no-one did know who I was.

0:26:21 > 0:26:23TERRY CHUCKLES

0:26:23 > 0:26:27But it's kind of nice to have a bit of both, I think.

0:26:27 > 0:26:30Before it hits and it hits, as it will, very big.

0:26:30 > 0:26:33Well, especially cos London is such a great walking town, you know.

0:26:33 > 0:26:36It's a great place to get out and walk around and see everything

0:26:36 > 0:26:38so it's nice to have seen it like this

0:26:38 > 0:26:41before either they see the movie and like me

0:26:41 > 0:26:43and stop me and talk to me or see the movie

0:26:43 > 0:26:45and want to stone me. LAUGHTER

0:26:45 > 0:26:47So, one way or the other, I've seen London so...

0:26:47 > 0:26:49I don't think they're going to want to stone you.

0:26:49 > 0:26:52I think you're going to be very, very big indeed.

0:26:52 > 0:26:53It's a wonderful movie.

0:26:53 > 0:26:55I hope that everyone here likes the movie. It's a lot of fun.

0:26:55 > 0:26:58- Glad you could drop in and see us. - Thank you. My pleasure.

0:26:58 > 0:27:02- Michael J Fox! - APPLAUSE

0:27:03 > 0:27:06Michael J Fox, still acting today

0:27:06 > 0:27:10and doing so much for the awareness of Parkinson's disease.

0:27:10 > 0:27:11Good man.

0:27:11 > 0:27:14Now, when my next guest Stevie Wonder came on the show,

0:27:14 > 0:27:17he received one of the biggest ovations from the audience

0:27:17 > 0:27:19the Shepherd's Bush Theatre had ever seen.

0:27:19 > 0:27:22Incredibly talented, a child prodigy,

0:27:22 > 0:27:25he told us what it was like growing up in the music industry.

0:27:25 > 0:27:29You really didn't have a normal teenage, then, did you?

0:27:29 > 0:27:32I mean, you were famous by the time you were 12 or 13.

0:27:32 > 0:27:37It was still normal. I mean, my allowance was only 2.50 a week.

0:27:37 > 0:27:38- AUDIENCE:- Aw!

0:27:38 > 0:27:41Give me a break! LAUGHTER

0:27:41 > 0:27:46And, um...you know, I did the normal things.

0:27:46 > 0:27:49I fell in love every week... LAUGHTER

0:27:49 > 0:27:52..by the age of 16.

0:27:52 > 0:27:56At 15, it was the time that...

0:27:56 > 0:27:59Well, I'd been writing for a while, but the first hit that I had

0:27:59 > 0:28:02was in '65 with a song called Uptight

0:28:02 > 0:28:06and that was a tour that we came over here and performed

0:28:06 > 0:28:09and I did the Scotch Club.

0:28:09 > 0:28:12They allowed me to perform and sing there.

0:28:12 > 0:28:14- They didn't serve liquor while I was performing.- Yeah.

0:28:14 > 0:28:18And it was a little cutesy. It was like...

0:28:18 > 0:28:21# Baby, everything is all right

0:28:21 > 0:28:24# Uptight, out of sight. #

0:28:24 > 0:28:26It was like I'm a poor man's son across the railroad track

0:28:26 > 0:28:28The only shirt I own is hanging on my back

0:28:28 > 0:28:31But I'm the envy of every single guy Cos I'm the apple of my girl's eye.

0:28:31 > 0:28:34HE MUMBLES AUDIENCE LAUGHS

0:28:34 > 0:28:37- That was around about, what, '65?- '65, yeah.

0:28:37 > 0:28:39- Yeah. And that was... - HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

0:28:39 > 0:28:41Those were very productive years for you, weren't they?

0:28:41 > 0:28:43Between '65 and '70, you had an awful lot of hits,

0:28:43 > 0:28:46like For Once In My Life, My Cherie Amour

0:28:46 > 0:28:48and Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday.

0:28:48 > 0:28:51Do you have a favourite from that time?

0:28:51 > 0:28:53I think probably... HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

0:28:53 > 0:28:54..I enjoyed doing all the songs.

0:28:54 > 0:28:59For Once In My Life, of course, was special because it...

0:29:00 > 0:29:02I kind of changed the song around

0:29:02 > 0:29:05from the way that I guess the writer originally wrote it.

0:29:05 > 0:29:07But I felt that the lyric...

0:29:07 > 0:29:12I mean, the original song by Tony Bennett, of course, is great.

0:29:12 > 0:29:14Of course, he just recorded another one of my songs.

0:29:14 > 0:29:17I'm just kidding. LAUGHTER

0:29:17 > 0:29:19Um, you know, just doing it like...

0:29:20 > 0:29:23# For once in my life I have someone who needs me

0:29:23 > 0:29:26# Someone I've needed so long. #

0:29:26 > 0:29:29HE HUMS

0:29:29 > 0:29:32- It's great like that. - You've forgotten that.- Oh, somewhat.

0:29:32 > 0:29:34But the way that we did it was like...

0:29:34 > 0:29:39# For once in my life I have someone who needs me

0:29:39 > 0:29:41# Someone I've needed so long... #

0:29:41 > 0:29:43I thought it was something that you were supposed to rejoice.

0:29:43 > 0:29:47# For once I can say this is mine You can't take it

0:29:47 > 0:29:50# Long as I know I have love I can make it

0:29:50 > 0:29:54# For once in my life I have someone who needs me

0:29:54 > 0:29:58# Ba-da-da-da-da. #

0:29:58 > 0:30:00You know, that kind of thing.

0:30:00 > 0:30:03CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:30:08 > 0:30:10I must tell you the truth, really.

0:30:10 > 0:30:14What happened was we were supposed to get in last night here

0:30:14 > 0:30:18around ten-something and there was a little trouble with the plane.

0:30:19 > 0:30:20I told them I wanted to fly.

0:30:20 > 0:30:22They said, "No, you can't do that, Steve."

0:30:22 > 0:30:24LAUGHTER I said, "Come on. One time.

0:30:24 > 0:30:26"Let me fly the Concorde one time."

0:30:26 > 0:30:28They said, "No, Steve. You can't do it."

0:30:28 > 0:30:31They said, "You'll be moving too fast to see the turns."

0:30:31 > 0:30:33LAUGHTER

0:30:33 > 0:30:36But so we got in...

0:30:38 > 0:30:39- ..at about five this morning.- Yeah.

0:30:39 > 0:30:41- SIREN WAILS FAINTLY - Hang on.

0:30:41 > 0:30:43I think they're coming for you, Steve!

0:30:43 > 0:30:46Did you do something bad the last time you were here?

0:30:46 > 0:30:49- I told them I was coming to be on your show.- That's it.

0:30:49 > 0:30:51LAUGHTER

0:30:51 > 0:30:53And then in the mid-'70s, you did that wonderful album -

0:30:53 > 0:30:56- Songs In The Key Of Life. - AUDIENCE MEMBER:- Whoo!

0:30:56 > 0:30:59Well, Songs In The Key Of Life... LAUGHTER

0:30:59 > 0:31:00the...

0:31:00 > 0:31:04The one song that... Well, you know, a few songs were very successful

0:31:04 > 0:31:07from Songs In The Key Of Life. The...

0:31:07 > 0:31:09# Isn't she lovely?

0:31:09 > 0:31:11# Isn't she wonderful? #

0:31:11 > 0:31:13About my daughter Aisha.

0:31:13 > 0:31:20And the first song on the album was a song that kind of relates to why...

0:31:20 > 0:31:24One of the major reasons of me being here in England this time.

0:31:26 > 0:31:27Um, we're going to be...

0:31:29 > 0:31:33..raffling off a signature that I will do for a cover of the album

0:31:33 > 0:31:37and I plan to also maybe donate a harmonica to the same thing

0:31:37 > 0:31:40and they can raise money for the children in need.

0:31:40 > 0:31:43- That would be super. - It would be a good feeling...

0:31:43 > 0:31:44- Yeah.- ..to give a lot of money.

0:31:44 > 0:31:49APPLAUSE

0:31:53 > 0:31:54But the...

0:31:55 > 0:31:57Thank you! LAUGHTER

0:31:57 > 0:32:02But the one song that is from the album that kind of relates to...

0:32:03 > 0:32:06..to I guess the whole drive that's been happening

0:32:06 > 0:32:10and fortunately, since Songs In The Key Of Life

0:32:10 > 0:32:14in 1976 is released, there have been some incredible things

0:32:14 > 0:32:16that have happened in the world of music

0:32:16 > 0:32:21and more and more people have begun to sing along.

0:32:22 > 0:32:26And making the world realise that it is a song

0:32:26 > 0:32:29that can create and help to make harmony.

0:32:29 > 0:32:31This song is called Love's In Need Of Love Today.

0:32:31 > 0:32:33I'll just do a little bit of it for you.

0:32:35 > 0:32:37Everybody say... HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

0:32:38 > 0:32:40Clear your throats.

0:32:44 > 0:32:47# Good morn or evening, friends

0:32:48 > 0:32:52# Here's your friendly announcer

0:32:53 > 0:32:56# I have serious news

0:32:56 > 0:33:01# To pass on to everybody

0:33:03 > 0:33:06# What I'm about to say

0:33:08 > 0:33:11# Could mean the world's disaster

0:33:13 > 0:33:16# To change your joy and laughter

0:33:16 > 0:33:21# To tears and pain

0:33:21 > 0:33:26# It's that love's in need

0:33:27 > 0:33:30# Of love today

0:33:32 > 0:33:36# Don't delay

0:33:36 > 0:33:39# Send yours in right away

0:33:42 > 0:33:46# Hate's going round

0:33:46 > 0:33:50# Breaking many hearts

0:33:52 > 0:33:56# Stop it, please

0:33:56 > 0:34:00# Before it's gone too far

0:34:00 > 0:34:03# Gone too far. #

0:34:04 > 0:34:09CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:34:15 > 0:34:17Stevie Wonder.

0:34:17 > 0:34:21I could have listened to him at that old Joanna for hours.

0:34:21 > 0:34:25Anyone who watched Wogan back in the day will remember

0:34:25 > 0:34:28we had a ton of fun with the big American soap operas -

0:34:28 > 0:34:30Dallas and Dynasty.

0:34:30 > 0:34:32Over-the-top in every way.

0:34:32 > 0:34:35At least the hairstyles, the shoulder pads,

0:34:35 > 0:34:38the walk-in cupboards with the wire coat hangers,

0:34:38 > 0:34:41the appalling JR, the tragic Sue Ellen.

0:34:41 > 0:34:42Oh, we loved it all.

0:34:42 > 0:34:44We couldn't get enough of stars

0:34:44 > 0:34:47like Pam Ewing herself, Victoria Principal.

0:34:47 > 0:34:50It's been said that Pam Ewing and Victoria Principal

0:34:50 > 0:34:52couldn't be more different.

0:34:52 > 0:34:54I know that you may have said this before,

0:34:54 > 0:34:55but for a British audience,

0:34:55 > 0:34:57obviously, we haven't seen you before,

0:34:57 > 0:35:00are you very different from the character you portray?

0:35:00 > 0:35:02Well, we work in the same place.

0:35:02 > 0:35:04LAUGHTER

0:35:04 > 0:35:06Um, are we very different?

0:35:06 > 0:35:08I think, in the beginning, we were very much alike.

0:35:08 > 0:35:14In the miniseries, Pamela was more outspoken

0:35:14 > 0:35:16and I think she had a bit more fire

0:35:16 > 0:35:21and then as the years progress, she became more quiet

0:35:21 > 0:35:22and a little more submissive

0:35:22 > 0:35:25- and I think that's where we parted ways.- Hmm.

0:35:25 > 0:35:27I mean, you wouldn't, in real life,

0:35:27 > 0:35:30really fancy anybody like Bobby Ewing, would you?

0:35:30 > 0:35:33LAUGHTER

0:35:33 > 0:35:36That's a loaded question. LAUGHTER

0:35:36 > 0:35:39In deference to Mrs Duffy, who is Patrick's wife, he's...

0:35:39 > 0:35:42SHE LAUGHS Oh, dear.

0:35:42 > 0:35:44Um, well, I can't say that that's true.

0:35:44 > 0:35:47I don't know if I'd fancy the rest of the family.

0:35:47 > 0:35:49LAUGHTER

0:35:49 > 0:35:51What you're trying to say is that you admire him as an artiste,

0:35:51 > 0:35:54but you wouldn't necessarily want to go out with him to dinner,

0:35:54 > 0:35:57- which you continually appear to do. - LAUGHTER

0:35:57 > 0:36:01Why is everything taking place over lunch or dinner in Dallas?

0:36:01 > 0:36:03Because they eat enormous amounts of food.

0:36:03 > 0:36:07- They do, don't they? And drink. - LAUGHTER

0:36:07 > 0:36:10- Let's see, they're alcoholics and obese.- Yeah.

0:36:10 > 0:36:12- No! No, no.- How do you stay sober?

0:36:12 > 0:36:15- Always smashing it back, aren't you? - LAUGHTER

0:36:15 > 0:36:18No, actually, I suppose a lot of the things do take place

0:36:18 > 0:36:21- over dinner on the show. - Everything takes place over dinner.

0:36:21 > 0:36:24In fact, since Pam has moved out, she very seldom eats or drinks.

0:36:24 > 0:36:27Is she going to finish up with that fellow

0:36:27 > 0:36:30- with the ferret under his nose? - LAUGHTER

0:36:30 > 0:36:32I'm sorry.

0:36:32 > 0:36:35No, I can't say. Actually, I don't really know myself.

0:36:35 > 0:36:37We find out week to week. We're given the script.

0:36:37 > 0:36:40You get as confused by the script as we do.

0:36:40 > 0:36:41Not confused, but I don't find out

0:36:41 > 0:36:44until a few days before I begin shooting.

0:36:44 > 0:36:45Do you get involved in the script?

0:36:45 > 0:36:47You know, do you actually ask the scriptwriters,

0:36:47 > 0:36:50"Well, come on. I'd like to know. What's going to happen next?"

0:36:50 > 0:36:53- Oh, very much so, yes. - And do they tell you?- No.

0:36:53 > 0:36:55LAUGHTER No.

0:36:55 > 0:36:59They tell me as much as they can and sometimes,

0:36:59 > 0:37:01there are things that I feel that Pam wouldn't do or say

0:37:01 > 0:37:05- and then we have a sort of stand-off over that.- And who wins?

0:37:05 > 0:37:08Well, if I don't say it, I suppose I win.

0:37:08 > 0:37:12LAUGHTER There have only been, I think,

0:37:12 > 0:37:15two occasions in the entire history of the show that that's happened.

0:37:15 > 0:37:17Pam would never be like that, would she?

0:37:17 > 0:37:19No, actually, that was why I refused to say something.

0:37:19 > 0:37:21I felt it was a sexual slur

0:37:21 > 0:37:23and I felt that Pam would never say something like that

0:37:23 > 0:37:26and I felt it was really going against the grain of her character.

0:37:26 > 0:37:28Are you happy the way she's gone

0:37:28 > 0:37:32or would you have liked the character to take another direction?

0:37:32 > 0:37:36I think to play a character that I so admire

0:37:36 > 0:37:38and that is so beloved...

0:37:38 > 0:37:41- You don't admire Pam Ewing. - Of course I admire her!

0:37:41 > 0:37:43But people think she's a dummy.

0:37:43 > 0:37:47LAUGHTER

0:37:47 > 0:37:51- No, I think she's a sweetheart.- Eh?

0:37:51 > 0:37:53LAUGHTER No, she's a sweetheart.

0:37:53 > 0:37:55You must occasionally think...

0:37:55 > 0:37:57I mean, you're an intelligent woman.

0:37:57 > 0:38:01You must play the part and think, "My God, why is she doing this?"

0:38:01 > 0:38:03There are times when I wish Pam would speak up,

0:38:03 > 0:38:05but there are other times...

0:38:05 > 0:38:06Well, she's made me very wealthy.

0:38:06 > 0:38:08LAUGHTER

0:38:08 > 0:38:11What's going to happen to your career when it eventually,

0:38:11 > 0:38:13as it must, finishes?

0:38:13 > 0:38:15Well, I will fulfil the terms of my contract.

0:38:15 > 0:38:17I'm pleased to hear it.

0:38:17 > 0:38:20I don't know that I'll necessarily go on as long as the show does.

0:38:20 > 0:38:23But when you finish, how are you going to move away

0:38:23 > 0:38:26from the image that has been created of Pam Ewing?

0:38:26 > 0:38:27With great difficulty.

0:38:27 > 0:38:31I think it will take a lot of work on my part.

0:38:31 > 0:38:33Um, I think it's going to be very difficult

0:38:33 > 0:38:35the first few years to break out of...

0:38:35 > 0:38:38I know if someone were in my living room once a week as a character,

0:38:38 > 0:38:41I'd find it very hard to see them as anyone else

0:38:41 > 0:38:43and so I've anticipated that,

0:38:43 > 0:38:45but I think there's enough time for me to.

0:38:45 > 0:38:47And the money will always be a comfort.

0:38:47 > 0:38:50Um, I think I've been wise and saved my money and invested it,

0:38:50 > 0:38:53which actually, a lot of series people

0:38:53 > 0:38:55don't foresee that one day, it will end.

0:38:55 > 0:38:56Why are you smiling?

0:38:56 > 0:39:00- I'm smiling... - LAUGHTER

0:39:00 > 0:39:02I just like to hear you talking

0:39:02 > 0:39:04completely differently from Pam Ewing

0:39:04 > 0:39:05cos she'd never invest her money

0:39:05 > 0:39:08cos she's a complete eejit with that kind of thing.

0:39:08 > 0:39:10LAUGHTER Well, she married well.

0:39:10 > 0:39:13It's very, very hard work, obviously,

0:39:13 > 0:39:15when you do get up very early in the morning.

0:39:15 > 0:39:19How hard is it for you to climb into the old make-up every morning?

0:39:19 > 0:39:21- SHE LAUGHS - Get out there on the set?

0:39:21 > 0:39:24- It can't be easy. - No, it's not that tough.

0:39:24 > 0:39:27I mean, I get up between four and 4:30.

0:39:27 > 0:39:28I'm in make-up at 5:40.

0:39:28 > 0:39:31For some unusual reason, I'm supposed to be there at 5:40.

0:39:31 > 0:39:33I think cos I'm always late so I'm there by six.

0:39:33 > 0:39:36- And how long does it take you to do the make-up?- Half a day.

0:39:36 > 0:39:38LAUGHTER No, hair and make-up takes two hours

0:39:38 > 0:39:41and we're on the set and we start shooting until six or seven.

0:39:41 > 0:39:44What do you look like before the make-up goes on?

0:39:44 > 0:39:46Just like this. It's a waste of time.

0:39:46 > 0:39:51LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

0:39:53 > 0:39:56A good sort, that Pam Ewing.

0:39:56 > 0:39:59Do you know, I'd like to have invited her to the Oil Barons Ball,

0:39:59 > 0:40:02but it turned out the Carringtons of Dynasty

0:40:02 > 0:40:05were also up for a bit of gentle joshing

0:40:05 > 0:40:08as I discovered when John Forsythe and Linda Evans,

0:40:08 > 0:40:11also known as Blake and Krystle,

0:40:11 > 0:40:16invited little old me to their humble abode.

0:40:16 > 0:40:19Do you ever get sick of the character Krystle?

0:40:19 > 0:40:23- I mean, she's so good. - What's the matter with being good?

0:40:23 > 0:40:25Yeah, but there's good and good.

0:40:25 > 0:40:27You can be good but tough sometimes.

0:40:27 > 0:40:30- I mean...- Krystle's tough sometimes. - No, she's not.

0:40:30 > 0:40:33I mean, she must drive him mad. Does she drive you mad?

0:40:33 > 0:40:36Yes, I've been driven mad more times than I care to remember.

0:40:36 > 0:40:39- I've been trying to get her to be bad.- In a bad way?

0:40:39 > 0:40:43Not be good. And I'm trying to do something about...

0:40:43 > 0:40:44- The old shoulder pads?- Yes.

0:40:44 > 0:40:47You even wear the shoulder pads in bed!

0:40:47 > 0:40:50- Yes!- You do, don't you? - You don't wear yours?

0:40:50 > 0:40:51That's all she wears.

0:40:51 > 0:40:54I don't sleep in a dinner jacket, for goodness' sake.

0:40:54 > 0:40:56Why do you keep drawing away?

0:40:56 > 0:40:59- That's all she wears is just the shoulder pads.- In bed?

0:40:59 > 0:41:01- Just shoulder pads. - Nothing else. Two shoulder pads.

0:41:01 > 0:41:03She looks like an American football player.

0:41:03 > 0:41:05- I don't want to be here any more. I want to leave.- Don't go!

0:41:05 > 0:41:07For goodness' sake. I've only just arrived.

0:41:07 > 0:41:11I've come all this way and now you want to leave.

0:41:11 > 0:41:14Well, you want to check my pads and I don't want you to!

0:41:14 > 0:41:16Well, all right. I won't lay a finger on you then.

0:41:16 > 0:41:18It seems disappointing to come all this way

0:41:18 > 0:41:21and not even get a chance to touch your shoulder pads. Still...

0:41:21 > 0:41:24- We gave you a drink. - I brought you a mug.

0:41:24 > 0:41:27That's right. And a shirt, yes. I'm feeling guilty now.

0:41:27 > 0:41:30- We don't have a gift for him. - Yes, I'm feeling very, very guilty.

0:41:30 > 0:41:32Why don't we give him the family?

0:41:32 > 0:41:34Yes, I'd like to give him a couple of children.

0:41:34 > 0:41:37- Would you like a couple of my children?- Certainly not.

0:41:37 > 0:41:39Let him feel your shoulder pad. Go ahead.

0:41:42 > 0:41:44Oh, that's terrific.

0:41:44 > 0:41:46That's terrific, that shoulder pad. I feel good already.

0:41:46 > 0:41:48- Now feel his shoulder pad.- OK.

0:41:50 > 0:41:52That's even better.

0:41:52 > 0:41:55- Now, are you glad you came? - This is it. Now I'm happy.

0:41:55 > 0:42:00'But there was just one thing that would make me happier.'

0:42:00 > 0:42:04But, look, before I go, there's just one thing I've always wanted to do.

0:42:04 > 0:42:09- What's that?- I'd like to walk just once down that great staircase.

0:42:09 > 0:42:14- What? What for?- It's just a lot has happened on that staircase.

0:42:14 > 0:42:16Not enough has happened on that staircase.

0:42:16 > 0:42:17I've tried and it didn't work.

0:42:17 > 0:42:19- Your private life is your own business.- All right.

0:42:19 > 0:42:23All I just want to do is for once walk down that staircase.

0:42:23 > 0:42:26- Can I do it?- All right.- Does it mean going back to the mansion?

0:42:26 > 0:42:29No, we've got it right around the corner here. Come on. Go ahead.

0:42:29 > 0:42:32MUSIC: Dynasty Theme Song

0:42:32 > 0:42:34Merry Christmas, Terry!

0:42:37 > 0:42:41Here it is. I've finally arrived.

0:42:41 > 0:42:45The very chandelier, the smooth banisters,

0:42:45 > 0:42:50these stairs on which you have to watch your step,

0:42:50 > 0:42:52less you tumble over and lose your baby.

0:42:52 > 0:42:56Look at this. An ancestral Carrington.

0:42:58 > 0:43:00Stap me vitals!

0:43:00 > 0:43:03If it isn't old JR Carrington,

0:43:03 > 0:43:05the man who invented the shoulder pads.

0:43:06 > 0:43:08This is it, I suppose -

0:43:08 > 0:43:11the crowning glory to a wonderful day.

0:43:12 > 0:43:15Like all wonderful days, it has to come to a close.

0:43:15 > 0:43:18So, I suppose I'd better be on my weary way.

0:43:22 > 0:43:25It's time for me to slip away now too

0:43:25 > 0:43:28so join me for another backward glance

0:43:28 > 0:43:29soon as you can.