It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers. ↗
I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened. ↗
Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story. ↗
People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television. ↗
When you look at what we spend on entertainment, whether it's on CDs, music, DVDs, there is so much money invested in that, people want to know a little more about the stars they're paying to see or hear. ↗