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.

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

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 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.

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

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.