CNN Transcript - Showbiz This Week: 'Sports Illustrated' Celebrates Swimsuit Issue 2000; Michael Douglas Stays Young With 'Wonder Boys'; TV Movies Examines the Beach Boys

PESTOVA: So you need these glasses to look at the pictures. And the pictures basically jump at you. I mean, there's a picture of Heidi throwing a hat. My son tried to grab it because he really thought it was there.

TUSH: Your son?

PESTOVA: I have a baby, yes.

TUSH: Oh, well, good for you.

TUSH: And you're in 3-D.

PESTOVA: I'm in 3-D, too. TUSH: See, here are the glasses. I got the professional glasses given only to professional people that are here today, the 38-cent version as opposed to these. But the magazine comes with the glasses. That's kind of cool.

PESTOVA: It's just a little bit different thing.

TUSH: Well, thank you, Daniela, it's good to see you again.

PESTOVA: Thank you.

TUSH: All righty, we're going to meet some of the other ladies that are here today.

PESTOVA: Go ahead, have fun.

TUSH: It's a real nuthouse.

OK, we're off to see a little update on "Cider House Rules." The John Irving novel, of course, came to the big screen. It's nominated for seven Academy Awards. And we're going to find out why the movie is such a big hit, talk to the people in it.

And here to do that is Michael Okwu.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MICHAEL OKWU, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For John Irving fans, it's become a rite of passage -- read the book, watch the movie.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "THE CIDER HOUSE RULES")

MICHAEL CAINE, ACTOR: Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

OKWU: This time around, it's "The Cider House Rules." winner of seven Academy Award nominations, including best picture and best director for Swedish filmmaker Losha Hastrom (ph).

Irving's nod came for the screenplay he spent 14 years crafting for the film.

JOHN IRVING, NOVELIST/SCREENWRITER: Which I am as proud of as I am of any of my novels. And I never thought there would come a day when I could say that about any film based on any novel, especially one of mine.

CHARLIZE THERON, ACTRESS: I became the child who just went, I have to have it.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "THE CIDER HOUSE RULES")

THERON: Put your arm around me.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

OKWU: Charlize Theron read the book and the screenplay and definitely wanted in.

THERON: I asked for a meeting with Losha, and I just said, I just want to you know I'm very passionate about it. So if you want to maybe call me up, tell me to come to Vermont, shoot the movie, I'll be there.

OKWU: Set in the Depression era, "Cider House" tells the story of an orphanage run by a doctor, played Michael Caine, and an orphan, played by Tobey Maguire, who yearns to see the world.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "THE CIDER HOUSE RULES")

CAINE: Are you so stupid to imagine you're going to find a more gratifying life?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

OKWU: Oscar nominee Caine, who calls his character the best he's ever done, admits he was inspired by a host of first-time child actors.

CAINE: A couple of times I had to stop shooting because I was supposed to be crying here. And I -- I said, whoops, let me -- we'll start again.

OKWU: "The Cider House Rules" is a Miramax film, a company now used to bringing the competition to tears at Oscar time. So rule No. 1, don't count it out.

Michael Okwu, CNN entertainment news, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

TUSH: Estella Warren, you were just on the big screen video there...

ESTELLA WARREN, MODEL: I was.

TUSH: ... and we missed you, doggone it.

WARREN: Oh, that's OK.

TUSH: That's from the "Sports Illustrated" TV show.

WARREN: Yes, you'll see me more on Saturday. I actually host the TV show with Damon Wayans, and that comes out...

TUSH: Oh.

WARREN: Yes, and that comes out at 8:00 on TNT...

TUSH: OK. That's fun to do?

WARREN: It was so much fun.

TUSH: But, I mean, it's double work for you, though.

WARREN: Yes, but it was just so -- I mean, it was such a fantastic job to get in the first place. And we went to Jamaica, and how hard could that be, you know? You know, we went to Brown Hill. And it was really funny. You have parts of the video on TV where it's in 3-D, so you need the glasses -- excuse me -- you need the glasses...

TUSH: Right.

WARREN: ... And you put on the glasses and the TV comes, like, right out at you.

TUSH: I need sunglasses with that rock you got on there. What's the deal on that thing?

WARREN: This is the Ashford diamond.

TUSH: That's from a boyfriend or what? That's million bucks, isn't it?

WARREN: It's a million -- $1.5 million. It's actually 15 karats of perfect diamond.

TUSH: It's going to be sold on -- what's the name of it? Ashford.com.

WARREN: Ashford.com.

TUSH: All right. Boy, that's -- do you get nervous walking around with that?

WARREN: I have a ring guard.

TUSH: OK, well Estella, good to see.

WARREN: It was pleasure meeting you.

TUSH: Pleasure meeting you. We'll see you on...

WARREN: Saturday.

TUSH: ... the special, Saturday, 8:00 Eastern time.

WARREN: Eastern time.

TUSH: Let's go to the movies now, where Michael Douglas is in a picture called "Wonder Boys." He plays a professor that gets involved in some intrigue.

And here's Gloria Hillard. You don't know what I was talking about there, do you?

WARREN: But I went with it. TUSH: You do. You were great, you were great.

WARREN: I'll go with you on anything.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

GLORIA HILLARD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Consider that there might be a little bit of serendipity with Michael Douglas's latest film, "Wonder Boys." Not that the 55-year-old actor has taken to wearing pink Chanel bathrobes, but this is a story of a successful 50-something guy who, early in his career, was considered a wonder boy.

MICHAEL DOUGLAS, ACTOR: I was 30 when I won the Oscar for best picture for producing "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." And there was that moment where we said, well, this is it. I mean, it doesn't get any better than this, and it's all downhill from here.

HILLARD: And there's director Curtis Hanson, also 55, who is by no means an overnight wonder boy, but he won critical acclaim and an Oscar for the last film he co-wrote and directed, "L.A. Confidential."

In "Wonder Boys," Douglas portrays a once best-selling novelist and professor facing an uncertain future.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "WONDER BOYS")

ROBERT DOWNEY, JR., ACTOR: How's the book?

DOUGLAS: It's -- it's fine, it's done. Well, basically I got a little tinkering I still got to do.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HILLARD: For storyteller Hanson, who began his career as a writer, this was a story...

CURTIS HANSON, DIRECTOR: I never thought of it as being about a writer, as much as about somebody who was struggling with what we're all struggling with, which is trying to make sense of our lives.

HILLARD: And perhaps as a punctuation to that there's Robert Downey Jr., in what was his last performance before being incarcerated for a drug-related parole violation. The film also stars Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes, and Tobey Maguire.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "THE WONDER BOYS")

TOBEY MAGUIRE, ACTOR: Where exactly are we going?

DOUGLAS: To see my wife.

MAGUIRE: The one that left you?

(END VIDEO CLIP) HILLARD: In this film, we see another side of the usually designer- clad and somewhat dangerous actor. Talk to him about his father and you'll see another.

DOUGLAS: I'm sure proud of him. He was funny. The other day he says, you know, I saw -- I was looking at one of my old movies, you know, and I was looking and I couldn't -- couldn't remember it -- I couldn't remember it. Then I looked at it and realized, that wasn't me. It was you, Michael. It was your movie."

HILLARD: This movie, Douglas' character is facing the prospect of being a new father late in life. In another twist of life imitating art. Douglas is expecting a child with actress, Catherine Zeta Jones.

DOUGLAS: Yes, we're very happy. Catherine and I are very happy. We're going to have a baby sometime this year. I'm just tickled pink.

HILLARD: For the 55-year-old actor, it's a new movie, a new start, not to mention a new look.

Gloria Hillard, CNN, Los Angeles.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

TUSH: Up next, surf's up with the Beach Boys.

And Latin music explodes.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

TUSH: Ana Paula from Brazil came by to see us. Here she is in "Sports Illustrated."

ANA PAULA LEMES, MODEL: Yes, that's me.

TUSH: They told me you don't speak a lot of English.

LEMES: Oh, yes -- no, I'm trying. My English...

TUSH: You don't need to speak English. Don't worry about it.

LEMES: All right. I speak with you in Portuguese.

TUSH: OK, do it in Portuguese. Tell me in Portuguese about these shoes. Can you get those shoes down there, Brian?

LEMES: I'm going to tell you in English because it's very funny.

TUSH: Yes, let me hear about these shoes.

LEMES: It take a lot of time for make my shoes.

TUSH: You made your shoes?

LEMES: And he put tape -- no, my stylist -- and it come up here, put tape here. And, wait, wait -- (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

TUSH: Is that tape?

LEMES: Yes, it's tape.

TUSH: So they're not real shoes.

LEMES: No.

TUSH: You showed up today without shoes, so they made a pair.

LEMES: Look at shoes, it's tape.

TUSH: Think of all the money they paid you, you could have got some shoes.

Ana, thank you.

LEMES: Thank you very much.

TUSH: Ever hear of the Beach Boys?

LEMES: Yes.

TUSH: OK, there's a movie about them coming out.

LEMES: Oh, really.

TUSH: On TV. Are you going to see it? OK.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

(MUSIC)

DENNIS MICHAEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): They created the soundtrack to countless California dreams of sunshine, surfer girls, and good vibrations. The ABC miniseries "The Beach Boys: An American Family" shows there was some deep and turbulent water under the waves of adulation.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "THE BEACH BOYS: AN AMERICAN FAMILY")

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: I said get up! So this is how you betray my trust, huh?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

JOHN STAMOS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: I think we kind of gravitated toward the drama between the family, which was so fascinating and interesting. And it's like, you know, this dichotomy of like this happy, shiny music, and then behind this "Ozzie & Harriet" kind of exterior was this heavy, dysfunctional drama going on.

MICHAEL: John Stamos knows these waters well. The actor served as executive producer of the miniseries and for 10 years played and toured with the surviving members of the band. But there are those who know the story even better.

MIKE LOVE, BEACH BOYS MEMBER: They have some revealing insights into the intricacies, what went on behind the scenes of the Beach Boys. I mean, everybody knows about hit records. But how we survived, what some of the things we went through is pretty interesting.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "THE BEACH BOYS: AN AMERICAN FAMILY")

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Everybody shut up!

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MICHAEL: The dark part of the story, conflicts between Brian and his father, interband struggles, and the inevitable erosion of time play against the brilliance of the music.

(MUSIC)

STAMOS: I wanted to show how powerful that music is. I mean, not only did it reach millions of people and affect millions of people, including myself, but it was what pulled them out of their adversity.

MICHAEL: The miniseries ends with the release of a hit album in 1974. Darker parts of the story remain untold. Carl and Dennis Wilson are dead. Brian Wilson has little contact with his former bandmates. The Mike Love camp and the Al Jardine camp are in a legal battle over the use of the name Beach Boys.

Some of their careers continue. Mike Love and Bruce Johnson are seen here performing on "The Donnie & Marie Show." Dreams are one thing, but in reality, endless summers end.

LOVE: It is like any family. In our family, we have had people who have responded very differently to the same environment and same stresses.

MICHAEL: But for two nights, the surf is up again.

Dennis Michael, CNN Entertainment News, Hollywood.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

TUSH: this is such tough duty for a guy like myself. Michelle...

MICHELLE BEHENNA, MODEL: Is it hard to handle, Bill?

TUSH: I'm telling you -- Michelle Behennah.

BEHENNA: I think you're handling it very well.

TUSH: Do I get a gold star?

BEHENNA: Bill gets a gold star -- if he remembers my name. TUSH: Oh, who couldn't?

BEHENNA: You look very nice tonight.

TUSH: So do you, thank you. You're very kind.

BEHENNA: Thank you very much.

TUSH: What page are you on? I'm going to...

BEHENNA: What page am I on?

TUSH: I'm out of hands for this stuff.

BEHENNA: Here I am.

TUSH: Are you in 3-D, or is it just...

BEHENNA: No, I'm not in 3-D.

TUSH: Does it get you mad when you're, like, divided in half? I always wondered about the staple thing that they used to make jokes about.

BEHENNA: Well, I guess that's just part of being, you know, in a magazine. There I am again, on a surfboard in a G-string.

TUSH: Oh, that's nice. At least they didn't put the staple where...

BEHENNA: Where it matters, where you really want to see, right?

TUSH: I'm not talking. I'm not saying anything else. We're going to take a break and come back to more of "Sports Illustrated"'s swimsuit issue 2000.

BEHENNA: It was pleasure to meet you.

TUSH: It was my pleasure.

BEHENNA: Take care.

TUSH: Michelle Behenna -- see, I got it.

BEHENNA: Another gold star -- A-plus.

TUSH: Still to come, "Bats" wings its way into the video store.

And Latin music is hot, hot, hot -- I mean muy caliente.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

TUSH: Please do not adjust your set. We're talking about the TV set. Kylie Bax, that is you in 3-D. And if you don't have the glasses on you're all blurry there.

KYLIE BAX, MODEL: Me and my sea shells.

TUSH: Is that your idea? Who comes up with these ideas?

BAX: No, that was the photographer's idea actually, so, you know...

TUSH: First time in "Sports Illustrated"?

BAX: It is. It is my first time. Very exciting. There's a lot of people here, a lot of press.

TUSH: Do they get "Sports Illustrated" back home in New Zealand?

BAX: They certainly do. Everybody in the world gets "Sports Illustrated." Come on, there's a lot of men in the world. They all have to have it, you know.

TUSH: And more people get this issue than any other issue.

BAX: Absolutely, it's the main issue.

TUSH: Thanks for stopping by and saying hello to us.

BAX: Thank you.

TUSH: Good to meet you.

BAX: Nice to meet you.

TUSH: You've got some other folks that want to talk to you.

We're going from Kylie Bax to a movie called "Bats." Did you know about that movie?

BAX: I've heard of it.

TUSH: Lou Diamond Phillips stars in this horror film. It's now on home video, and here's Dennis Michael.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "DOUBLE JEOPARDY")

UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: The state says you already killed your husband. They can't convict you of it a second time. That means that when you leave here you can you kill him.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MICHAEL (voice-over): It would be more fun to see "BURDEN OF PROOF" chew on this legal theory than to actually watch "Double Jeopardy," a bad movie with some good elements. The good elements are stars Ashley Judd and the sturdy Tommy Lee Jones ignoring the script's major structural flaws and playing the cards they're dealt with panache. Now, if you actually pay attention to the storyline, as they say of the other "Double Jeopardy," the scores can really change. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "BATS")

LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS, ACTOR: Wait a minute. Are you saying some kind of bat did this?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MICHAEL: They usually don't make them like this anymore, and that's the way it should stay. "Bats" plays out just about every cliche in the "why are they attacking mankind?" genre. Ants have done it, giant grasshoppers -- even bunnies have attempted to have their revenge on mankind back in 1972 in "Night of the Lepus." Making bats scary in a movie? Does this seem like laziness to you?

See you at the rental counter.

Dennis Michael, CNN entertainment news, Hollywood.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

TUSH: Rachel Roberts, you look fabulous. I saw you down here on stage turning around for those still photographers. You've got to do that for us.

RACHEL ROBERTS, MODEL: All right.

TUSH: Wow, we just to talked to Kylie Bax. Speaking of backs...

Anyway, here's your picture in there. Love that bathing suit.

ROBERTS: Well, thank you.

TUSH: Where did you -- so you didn't have to travel to shoot that one, did you?

ROBERTS: Yes, that was in Maui, in Hawaii.

TUSH: Nice duty. You guys got a tough life.

ROBERTS: I know, hard work.

TUSH: At what point in your career do you just get used to all folks like us and all the paparazzi...

ROBERTS: I don't think you ever get used to it. It's always exciting and interesting and something new.

TUSH: OK, well we're going to take our issue home.

ROBERTS: All righty, you do that.

TUSH: OK, Rachel? Thank you, it was nice to talk to you.

ROBERTS: Thank you.

TUSH: We're going to take a break, and we'll be back with more of the "Sports Illustrated" 3-D issue.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

TUSH: Lujan Fernandez.

LUJAN FERNENDEZ, MODEL: Not Lujan.

TUSH: Not Lujan. Oh, all right. How do you say it?

FERNANDEZ: Lujan, Lujan.

TUSH: Oh, Lujan.

FERNANDEZ: No, no -- Lujan. Don't say again.

TUSH: OK, we'll just forget about it.

FERNANDEZ: (OFF-MIKE)

TUSH: Last year we talked to you when you were in "Sports Illustrated," and you didn't speak any English. And look at you today.

FERNANDEZ: I told you because you don't remember.

TUSH: Oh, no. I do remember. How could I forget you? And now here are you speaking English.

FERNANDEZ: Uh-huh.

TUSH: So what are you doing between modeling assignments, go to Berlitz?

FERNANDEZ: Just a little bit. I take classes, but just one a week.

TUSH: Well, you sound fantastic. And as always you look fantastic. I was going to hold your 3-D picture up, but, you know, it's really hard to see you without the glasses.

FERNANDEZ: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) through the glasses?

TUSH: Oh, I've got the glasses. So, here, I'll do that. You hold this a second.

FERNANDEZ: OK.

TUSH: I'll do that, and then we'll go...

FERNANDEZ: I'll do the interview.

TUSH: We'll go and find -- you do the interview. Do you like Latin music? That's a dumb question, isn't it. Do you like Latin music?

FERNANDEZ: Yes. TUSH: Wow. That really...

FERNANDEZ: Do you like Latin music?

TUSH: Yes, I do.

FERNANDEZ: Do you like that picture?

TUSH: I love that picture. You have to sign it with a 3-D pen.

FERNANDEZ: You have that one?

TUSH: No.

FERNANDEZ: (UNINTELLIGIBLE)

TUSH: You've got everything. Lujan, good to see you again.

OK, here's Michael Okwu, and he's going to tell us about Latin music.

FERNANDEZ: Bye.

TUSH: Bye.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

OKWU (voice-over): Call it the explosion, a craze for the most beguiling trend in popular music. Since Ricky Martin's sensational coup at last year's Grammys, Latin acts are all the rage.

RICKY MARTIN, SINGER: Beautiful things happened with rap. Beautiful things happened with rock'n'roll at a certain time. And hey, why not Latin at the same time?

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, SINGER: We have great music. We have a great culture. We're great people: enthusiastic, romantic, energetic, good rhythms.

OKWU: In the first half alone of 1999, American retailers spent more than $291 million for albums and videos by Latin artists, an 11 percent increase from the year before, and for good reason.

You might not have heard about Mana or Luis Miguel, but they're up for Grammys, along with Santana, Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, and Gloria Estefan.

Last year, four Latin acts danced onto "Billboard's" pop charts.

MICHAEL PAOLETTA, "BILLBOARD" MAGAZINE: It's a crossover into -- onto the pop charts. I mean, it's happened in the past with acts like Gloria Estefan, but to have it happen in such abundance in one year is pretty incredible. It's remarkable.

OKWU: None more remarkable than Martin's platinum-selling "Livin' La Vida Loca." JOE LEVY, "ROLLING STONE": His hit is not really a Latin hit. You know, if "Livin' La Vida Loca" is a Latin hit, Dean Martin wants a salsa Grammy. That's a Vegas number with some surf guitar in it. It's big, it's brash, it's a big pop song, and it was a huge hit.

OKWU: A signal, perhaps, of things to come. Traditional pop music with a Latin flair.

PAOLETTA: They're adding a different spice. They're adding a different ferocity to it. It's fiery, it's sexy, it's sensual.

SANTANA, MUSICIAN: We put together this music, "Supernatural," and we believe it's definitely going to create a constant (ph) effect. My brother Benny Greenfield (ph) calls it spreading a spiritual virus.

OKWU: And it's infectious. In "Supernatural," Santana, resurrected after more than three decades in the business, weaved his sounds with a host of contemporary pop artists like Dave Matthews, Lauryn Hill, and Rob Thomas, who belted out the platinum-selling "Smooth."

In 1999, sales of Latin artists rose for the fifth-straight year. If this is an explosion, the public's enjoying it.

Michael Okwu, CNN Entertainment News, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

TUSH: While all the ladies go to travel to Hawaii and all these great shots -- great shoots, Malia Jones shoots her pictures for "Sports Illustrated" where?

MALIA JONES, MODEL: Five minutes from my house on the north shore of Oahu.

TUSH: I mean, you didn't get to travel. Does that make you mad?

JONES: You know, well, spending, like, most of my life in the water and surfing, and then, like, you know, having to be in a bikini for, like, a "Sports Illustrated" shoot, it kind of takes a lot of the pressure off. So, like, you know, you just feel so comfortable with Walter being a surfer and everything. I mean, it was easy.

TUSH: Well, that's the thing I like about your photo in here. It's called "Room and Board" -- B-O-A-R-D, surfboard. You're a champion surfer, right?

JONES: They kept me in my element for this, yes.

TUSH: So what does a champion surfer do? You go out every day and surf? That's why you live in Hawaii?

JONES: Yes, I live on the north shore, which is actually some of the best waves in the world. And the rest of the time, I'm traveling to, like, France and Japan and Tahiti and everywhere.

TUSH: So it's fun just to stay home.

JONES: Yes, well, I mean, there's surf everywhere in the world. That's the think, you know?

TUSH: Do you carry your surfboard everywhere?

JONES: Yes.

TUSH: Do you really?

JONES: Yes.

TUSH: OK, well we have to go. We are out of time. It was fun to see all you ladies. It's a great issue. We'll see you on the TV show on Saturday night at 8:00 at on TNT.

JONES: Thanks for coming to the party.

TUSH: And we'll keep your 3-D glasses handy. Thanks for having us.

That's SHOWBIZ for this weekend.

JONES: See you Saturday.

TUSH: There you go. Don't forget SHOWBIZ TODAY weekdays at 4:30 Eastern right here on CNN. Malia Jones, thank you.

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