Entertainer

The stars handle it very graciously. They let you know. They know how to play the game.

Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her.

The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year.

Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away.

There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.

Macauley Culkin was on the show a lot. Or Haley Joe Osment.

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.

There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work.

At these award shows, I love to see what people are going to wear.

In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.

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.

There are so many venues in which stars are exposed today, that we just know much more and the studios don't have the control over stars like they used to, in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.

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.

We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too.

We can't laugh quite as much on camera, but we sure do on the set.

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.

I honestly, sincerely love what I do.