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Rona Barrett (born Rona Burstein, October 8, 1936, in New York City) is an American gossip columnist and businesswoman. She currently runs the Rona Barrett Foundation, a non-profit organization in Santa Ynez, California, dedicated to the aid and support of senior citizens in need.
As a teenager, Barrett overcame a degenerative hip condition that made walking extremely difficult, and organized fan clubs for popular singers she admired, such as Eddie Fisher and Steve Lawrence. She became a gossip columnist for the Bell-McClure newspaper syndicate in 1957, and soon went to work for the management handling teen idols Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
In 1966, she began broadcasting Hollywood gossip on the Los Angeles television station KABC-TV. She appeared on TV regularly, going on to appear on ABC's five owned and operated stations around the country. However, not everyone was thrilled with the arrangement. WABC-TV in New York put her pre-recorded gossip segment into its nightly local news, but anchor Roger Grimsby would generally introduce it by making disparaging comments about her. Barrett made the enemies list of Frank Sinatra by criticizing his personal life, particularly his relationships with his children.
Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV; July 3, 1962) is an American actor and filmmaker. Cruise has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards. He started his career at age 19 in the 1981 film Endless Love. After portraying supporting roles in Taps (1981) and The Outsiders (1983), his first leading role was in the romantic comedy Risky Business, released in August 1983. Cruise became a full-fledged movie star after starring as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in the action drama Top Gun (1986). Since 1996, he has been well known for his role as secret agent Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible film series, whose most recent film, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, was released in 2015.
One of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood, Cruise starred in several more successful films in the 1980s, including the dramas The Color of Money (1986), Cocktail (1988), Rain Man (1988), and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). In the 1990s, he starred in a number of hit films, including the romance Far and Away (1992), the drama A Few Good Men (1992), the legal thriller The Firm (1993), the romantic horror film Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), the romantic comedy-drama sports film Jerry Maguire (1996), the erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut, and the drama Magnolia (both 1999).
Donald John Trump, Sr. (born June 14, 1946) is an American businessperson and media personality. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's career, branding efforts, personal life, wealth, and outspoken manner have made him famous throughout the country. Since 2015, he is also a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election.
Trump is a native of New York City and a son of Fred Trump, who inspired him to enter real estate development. After two years at Fordham University and while studying at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Trump worked for his father's firm, Elizabeth Trump & Son. Upon graduating in 1968 he joined the company, and in 1971 was given control, renaming the company "The Trump Organization". Since then he has built hotels, golf courses, and other properties, many of which bear his name. He is a major figure in the American business scene and has received prominent media exposure. The NBC reality show The Apprentice bolstered his fame, and his three marriages were extensively reported in tabloids.
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Plot: Marlo Manners is enjoying her honeymoon with Sir Michael Barrington, husband number 6. As luck would have it, an international conference is taking place in the same hotel and the Russian delegate (one of Marlo's former husbands) is threatening to derail the negotiations unless he can have one more fling with his ex. Adding to the complications is a tape Marlo has made detailing all of her affairs and scandals, which her manager is desperately trying (and failing) to destroy.
Keywords: based-on-play, celebrity, cuckold, ex-husband-ex-wife-relationship, honeymoon, hotel, independent-film, journalist, last-film-role-for-actress, lead-actor's-last-filmIn 2009 I had the honor of talking with legend Rona Barrett. Throughout much of the seventies, and certainly all of the eighties, Rona Barrett was the face of Hollywood. If it mattered she said it, if it hurt she remained silent. Today it's unfathomable that gossip has grown into - reality TV. Decorum and class have been tossed aside for bucks and booty. Kardashian creates it, the stupid eat it up. Under Rona's eye people like her would have never gotten a mention. I often think of the old line from TV's TAXI. If I love you and your work you get a great review; If I dislike your work but like you - you get a lousy review. If I cant stand you at all - good work or bad - you get NO review; therefore your career goes no where. How we need that kind of Hollywood leadership again!
On New Years Day 1979, Rona Barrett hosted this year in review special also known as "This Year's Look At Entertainment". Although the on-air title suggests a comprehensive review of 1978's news events, music, TV, movies, and sporting events, this special was mostly interview-driven with some of the most important celebrities of 1978. Features interviews with Priscilla Presley, Donna Summer, John Travolta, Robin Williams, Steve Martin, and Barbra Streisand. Also includes Ms. Barrett's Oscar predictions, Elvis Presley memorabilia, and select obituaries.
Hollywood gossip maven Rona Barrett's 1984 interview with Tom Cruise... shortly after the success of "Risky Business"... and just as "All the Right Moves" hit theatres..
In 1980, Hollywood interviewer Rona Barrett talked with Donald Trump and asked him pointedly whether he would ever consider running for president and he tells her no. This unaired clip is from a much longer hour-long interview. Rona Barrett interviewed hundreds of the most glamorous and famous celebrities of the 70s and 80s. Reelin' In The Years Productions is proud to be exclusively representing this library for clip sales worldwide. For more info, visit http://www.reelinintheyears.com. With 20,000 hours of music footage spanning 90 years and thousands of hours of in-depth interviews with the 20th century’s icons of Film and Television, Politics, Comedy, Literature, Art, Science, Fashion and Sports, Reelin’ In The Years is now the World’s Premier Source For Footage Of Musical Artists, E...
Rona Barrett interviewed hundreds of the most glamorous and famous celebrities of the 70s and 80s. Reelin' In The Years Productions is proud to be exclusively representing this library for clip sales worldwide. For more info, visit http://www.reelinintheyears.com. With 20,000 hours of music footage spanning 90 years and thousands of hours of in-depth interviews with the 20th century’s icons of Film and Television, Politics, Comedy, Literature, Art, Science, Fashion and Sports, Reelin’ In The Years is now the World’s Premier Source For Footage Of Musical Artists, Entertainers & History Makers. http://reelinintheyears.com Note: these clips are available on YouTube for producers, directors, researchers and clearance companies for potential use in their projects. Our website on the screen is ...
When I read that Sir Clement Freud - British broadcaster and writer and grandson of Sigmund - had died on April 15th, I remembered this priceless dust up on Jack Paar's Tonite program. This was the genius of the original talk show format - you mixed, shook and stirred your personalities together and often got real sparks... and Jack was loving every minute of it!
Are you seeking rare archival celebrity interview footage for your documentary project? Are you looking for DVD bonus footage for the re-release of a TV series or movie from the 1970s or 1980s? set? If so, you may want to contact Research Video who exclusively license footage from Rona Barrett's hundreds of hours of one-on-one celebrity interviews. Guests included in this presentation reel are: Michael Douglas, Jack Nicholson, Angie Dickinson, Carol Kane, Richard Dreyfuss, Bay City Rollers, Steve Martin, Sly Stallone, Richard Burton, Neil Simon, Goldie Hawn, Kirk Douglas, Sally Field, Robert Redford, Walter Matthau, George Segal, Ed Asner, Christopher Walken, Robin Williams, Penny Marshall, John Travolta, Alan Alda, Gary Busey, Olivia Newton-John, Ann-Margret, Farrah Fawcett, Rock H...
A 1980 segment of "Tomorrow Coast to Coast" where Rona Barrett reads viewer feedback, followed by Casey Kasem-voiced network promos
Cher talks early life with Sonny in a short clip from her interview on Rona Barrett's Hollywood; Nothing But The Truth. This was filmed in Sonny and Cher's bedroom in their Holmby Hills mansion located at 141 S Carolwood Dr. c1974
I was born a poor poor man
All my life I had hard workin' hands
But I sang a song as I carried my load
Cuz I had a dream about rainbow, rainbow road
Then one day my chance came along
A man heard me singin' and playing these old songs
He bought me fine clothes, paid the money I owed
Started me on my way down rainbow, rainbow road
Then one night a man wiht a knife
Pushed me till I had to take his life
Fast as fallin' all my friends were gone
That old judge traded me a sentence for a song
Just livin' with that ball 'n chain
Had to wear a number 'for they'd ever call my name
Like a dream I'm growing old