NBC Pages Turned Hollywood Players Tell All: Johnny Carson Sightings, Calls From the President, TV Cameos"The page uniform is a scarlet letter," says Universal Television's reality chief Meredith Ahr, who donned the infamous polyester suit as a member of NBC's page class of 2. It's so hideous, and everyone sees you in it and knows you're the lowest on the totem pole; but at the same time, it's like this golden ticket that opens every door."Indeed, long before the job was immortalized by Jack Mc. Brayer's Kenneth the Page on 3.

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Rock, NBC's 8. 4- year- old internship program was a broadcasting institution that paved the way for hundreds of careers in the entertainment business. Eva Marie Saint, Regis Philbin, Ted Koppel, Michael Eisner, Aubrey Plaza — they all got their start giving tours to out- of- towners and fetching coffee for network stars like Johnny Carson. What the gig lacks in pay — the current crop of 1. THR spoke to 2. 1 former pages who parlayed their experiences at NBC's headquarters — both in New York and Los Angeles — into successful careers and asked them to reminisce about their respective runs.

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There was a time when my kids were big 3. Rock fans," says Liz Cole, a class of '9. NBC's Dateline. "I was able to tell them I did that job, and to them, it was way cooler than anything else I've ever done."•••EVA MARIE SAINTActress Page Year: 1. I was 1. 9, and I'd never had a job before.

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I'd heard about the Guidettes [an early moniker for a female tour guide at NBC], and then I tried out and got it. Maybe because I was a cute blonde? That summer changed my life. It brought me out of my shell. You had to take the elevator during the tour, and one day it opened and Joan Crawford stepped in. She saw me standing there in my uniform — which I loved — and she said, "Do you want to be an actress?" I said, "Oh, yes," and she replied, "Well, you will be," and then she turned her back and the doors shut. That was the thrill of my summer.

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WILLARD SCOTTWeatherman Page Year: 1. One of my jobs was to relieve the switchboard operator so she could go to the bathroom or get food.

I'll never forget, I was there one Sunday morning, and Sundays are usually quiet, but the light on the board turned on. Good morning, NBC," I said.

The voice on the other end of the phone said, "This is the president, and I want to speak to the secretary of state." So, I said, "Yeah, and this is Santa Claus," and hung up. Five minutes later, the phone rang again. Watch Closed Circuit Mediafire. The same voice: "Goddammit, this is Harry Truman, and I want to talk to Dean Acheson [who was at NBC doing a panel show]." "You're kidding," I said, and he said, "No, this is not a joke." I apologized, of course, and put him through, and he was nice enough not to raise hell.

REGIS PHILBINFormer Live! Page Year: 1. 95. In those days, the page department was run almost like a military unit. There was a full dress inspection before every shift.

TV was still in its infancy. I don't remember giving tours, but I'd sit behind this big desk on the bottom floor, and it was a thrill because you never knew who would come in. Perry Como was upstairs doing his half- hour show every night. And I'll never forget, Perry was on vacation and Eddie Fisher was pinch hitting for him for the week, and as they were getting ready to say goodbye to Eddie, they called me. Hey, Regis, come up here and hang on to this elevator. Eddie's going to say goodbye and then get in, and the show will end." So he fights his way through the crowd and up the aisle, and then he gets into the elevator, and I see I got myself on TV. I was thrilled. I ran to call my mother to see if she'd seen me on TV.

And she said, "Yeah, yeah, but where was Eddie going?"RICHARD BENJAMINActor- director Page Year: 1. On our lunch breaks, you could go up to the balcony and watch the NBC orchestra rehearsing with Arturo Toscanini. It was incredible. In one of those studios, Gene Rayburn, who used to be a page, was running a game show, and he'd see the pages and yell, "One day, kid, you'll be down here!" I remember color television was just starting back then and The Perry Como Show rehearsed in color.

So, the last stop on the tour was the master control room and I'd always say a little prayer, 'Let The Perry Como Show be on,' because then they'd get to see color TV for the first time in their lives and I didn't have to say a word because they'd be mesmerized. Those tours became performance pieces for those of us who wanted to be actors. I'd embellish things or tell them they might see David Sarnoff, who had run RCA and NBC, but please don't take pictures. I had no idea what David Sarnoff looked like, and as we came down some corridor and I'd see a man with gray hair and a suit, I'd say, "All right, that's Mr.

Sarnoff, and remember you're not supposed to …" and of course they went nuts and took pictures of this complete stranger. TED KOPPELFormer Nightline anchor Page Year: 1. I was arguably the worst page in the history of NBC. I was assigned to be backstage at The Tonight Show with Jack Paar, and I'd take calls coming from ambitious young women who wanted to come on the show.

I'd tell them I was the talent booker and offer to meet them for a drink, but they'd take one look at me, and I looked about 1. I was [full of it]. Or there was another page who spoke fluent Czech, and I spoke fluent German, and when he and I were on duty guiding the elevator bank to The Tonight Show, I'd be in the information booth and he'd be by the stanchions making sure that the line went through properly. People would come over and they'd ask me a question about getting tickets to The Tonight Show and I'd answer in German. Of course, they'd say they didn't understand what I was saying, and so I'd point to the other guy and he'd answer them in Czech. And then there was the time Queen for a Day was in town [from L. A., where the game show traditionally was filmed], and all these women came and were all crowding, trying to get to the front of the line so they could get on the show.

I walked up and down that line, pointing to a crack in the sidewalk, saying that NBC had installed an electronic barrier and that if they crossed it they'd receive a mild electric shock. It just so happened that the head of the guest relations department came by as all of these women were huddled up against the wall of the theater. When she asked them what was happening, I saw all of these fingers pointing at me.

MICHAEL EISNERFormer Disney CEO Page Year: 1. I got to wear a uniform without having to go to Vietnam. It was all very formal then. You had to memorize the names of all of the senior executives and you had to know the history of NBC to give the tours. I remember I worked on The Price Is Right and Jeopardy! Tonight Show. The summer of '6. Jack Paar and Johnny Carson, so all summer long there were alternating guests.

All of the biggest stars came through. It was one of the best jobs I ever had. MARCY CARSEYTelevision producer Page Year: 1. After I graduated college, I got a temp job in the garment district, but every day at lunch I'd run over to NBC to the office of the guy who hired the tour guides at the time. I need this job," I'd say. I'd somehow gotten an interview with him, and then I just wouldn't leave him alone.

He'd say, "All you young Turks coming out of college, you all want to be in TV, and you all end up here. There's a long list ahead of you.

Stop pestering me." "OK I'll be back tomorrow." He finally gave me the job to get me out of his office. I can still almost smell the locker room. DEBBIE VICKERSFormer Tonight Show executive producer Page Year: 1. Oh, the people you saw being a page for The Tonight Show! Richard Pryor, Sammy Davis ..

Sammy Davis singing 2. DON NASHToday executive producer Page Year: 1. Every day I'd give three to five tours, and the brass ring of a tour would be running into a celebrity.

Johnny Carson used to show up around 3 o'clock, so I'd love to get the 2: 3. Tonight Show studio, Johnny would pull up in his white Corvette and wave to the tour.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 2. American superhero film based on the Mirage Studios characters of the same name. It is the fifth film in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series, and is also a reboot that features the main characters portrayed by a new cast, as the first in the reboot series. The film was directed by Jonathan Liebesman, written by Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec and Evan Daugherty, and stars Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner, Minae Noji, Whoopi Goldberg, Abby Elliott and Tohoru Masamune, and featuring the voices of Johnny Knoxville, Alan Ritchson, Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard and Tony Shalhoub. The film was announced shortly before Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co- creator Peter Laird sold the rights to the characters to Nickelodeon in October 2.

The film was released on August 8, 2. However, it was a box office success, earning $4. It was also nominated at the 2. Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Movie, Favorite Movie Actor and Favorite Movie Actress. A sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, was released on June 3, 2. April O'Neil, a local reporter for Channel 6 Eyewitness News in New York City, investigates a crime wave by a group of criminals called the Foot Clan.

At a dock at night, she sees the Foot raiding cargo containers. After an unseen vigilante attacks the thieves, April notices a symbol left behind. Watch Zodiac Online Hollywoodreporter.

April's supervisor Bernadette Thompson (Whoopi Goldberg) and her coworkers are oblivious to her story. Later while covering a charity event thrown by Sacks Industries, April expresses gratitude to the company's CEOEric Sacks, who was her late father's lab partner. Frustrated by the vigilante, the Foot Clan's leader Shredder has the Foot Soldiers take hostages at a subway station in order to draw him out. April, at the scene, becomes a hostage herself. Four mysterious figures arrive, take out the Clan, and free the hostages.

April follows them to a rooftop and is shocked to see that the vigilantes are anthropomorphic mutant turtles, causing her to pass out. When she regains consciousness, they advise her not to tell anyone of them. As they leave, April hears Raphael and Leonardo's names. FR-EE The Last Station Full Movie. April returns to her apartment and remembers "Project Renaissance", her father's science experiment, which involved four turtles named Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, and a mutated rat called Splinter.

Unable to convince Bernadette of the Turtles' existence, April is dismissed. Her coworker Vern Fenwick drives her to Sacks' estate where she confides in him about her discovery.

Sacks believes her and reveals that he and April's father had been experimenting on a mutagen created to cure disease, which was thought lost in the fire that killed her dad. At Splinter's behest, the Turtles bring April to their sewer lair.

Splinter explains April had saved them all from the fire and freed them into the sewers. The mutagen caused the five of them to grow and develop humanoid attributes. Splinter took on the role of their father, using April's father as an example. After finding a book on Ninjutsu in a storm drain, he proceeded to teach himself, then the Turtles, in the fighting style. When April reveals she told Sacks about her discovery of the Turtles, Splinter informs her that Sacks turned on her father and killed him.

Then, Shredder and the Foot Soldiers attack the lair, defeating Splinter and incapacitating Raphael while the other Turtles are captured. April comes out of hiding and she and Raphael plan to save the others. At Sacks' estate, he has the Turtles' blood drained in order to create an antidote to a deadly virus that Sacks hopes to flood New York with, believing he will become rich from people seeking his cure. Raphael, April, and Vern storm the estate and free the other Turtles. The group then escapes the compound in pursuit of Sacks.

On a radio tower in the city, Sacks and Shredder plant a device that will flood the city with the virus while Sacks is preparing to convert the mutagen to healing factor. April and Vern subdue Sacks in the lab, while the Turtles are battling Shredder on the roof.

During the fight, the tower's support beams collapse. As the turtles try to keep it from falling and infecting the city, April confronts Shredder with the mutagen.

In the struggle, the tower collapses and the Turtles pull April onto it with them, while Shredder falls to the street and is confronted by police. Believing they are about to die, the Turtles confess their secrets, while Raphael gives an impassioned speech of his love for his brothers before they land harmlessly on the street. They vanish before the humans find them and return to the sewers, where they give Splinter the mutagen and he begins to recover.

Sometime later, April meets with Vern, who tries and fails to ask her on a date. The Turtles appear in a special modified "Turtle Van", and Michelangelo accidentally blows up Vern's new car with a rocket. As police respond to the explosion, the Turtles leave, but not before Mikey tries to serenade April with "Happy Together" by the band The Turtles, much to his brothers' annoyance and April's amusement. Live- action actors[edit]Voice actors and motion- capture[edit]Production[edit]Development[edit]In October 2. Nickelodeon purchasing all of Mirage's rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property, it was announced that Nickelodeon would produce a new film through corporate sibling Paramount Pictures with an expected release date sometime in 2. In late May 2. 01. Paramount and Nickelodeon had brought Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners Bradley Fuller and Andrew Form on to produce the next film that will reboot the film series.

Bay, Fuller, and Form would produce alongside Walker and Mednick.[1. For the script, the studio originally hired Art Marcum and Matt Holloway to write the film for close to a million dollars. According to TMNT co- creator Kevin Eastman, the John Fusco version was a little too edgy for what Paramount wanted.[1. A year later, the studio turned to writers Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec to rewrite the script.[1.

In February 2. 01. Jonathan Liebesman began negotiations to direct the film, beating out Brett Ratner.[1. Later in March, it was announced that Paramount had pushed back film's release date to Christmas Day 2. In early March 2. Bay revealed at Nickelodeon's 2. Ninja Turtles and that the turtles would be "from an alien race".[1. News of Bay's creative change was met with criticism from within the fan community.[1.

In response to the announcement, actor Robbie Rist, who voiced Michelangelo in the first three films, wrote to Bay accusing him of "sodomizing" the franchise. Rist later remarked that he could have been out of line since Bay makes more money than he does.[1.

In response to the feedback, Bay issued a statement asking fans to calm down since a script had not been revealed, his team was working closely with the creators, and would include all the elements that made them fans to begin with.[2. Both Brian Tochi, who voiced Leonardo in the first three films, and Judith Hoag, who played April O'Neil in the first film, have voiced their support towards the creative change.[2. TMNT co- creator Peter Laird expressed his thoughts on the change asking fans to take Bay's advice and wait until more of Bay's plan is made available.

Laird also stated that he felt the "ill- conceived plan" could be a "genius notion," as it would allow fans to have the multitude of bipedal anthropomorphic turtles that they have been asking for. He would point out that while the concept of a turtle- planet backstory made for a great run- of- the- mill science fiction story, it had no real place in the Ninja Turtles universe.[2. Franchise's co- creator Kevin Eastman stated that he had been invited behind the scenes of the film, and concluded that he was officially on board with the project and that, although he could not say much, he believes it to be "awesome".[2.