uh we have ladies and gentlemen our last top 10 list the category of which tonight is top 10
things I need to do before I leave my position here at NBC comes to us from the home office
in Oneonta New York top 10 things I have to do before I leave NBC here we go number 10.
drop off hair piece at security desk yes I absolutely have to do that number nine vacuum
out Bill Wendell our announcer and write down his mileage yeah I gotta do that that number eight one
final turn your head and cough visit to the NBC nurse certainly before to that look at that one
at number seven steal my weight and office supplies number six
let my plastic surgeon step out and take a bow this has been his show as much as mine
number five one last hot oil rub down from The Knowing hands of Mr John Chancellor
number four return artificial leg to props Department yeah I gotta do that
number three get one more cheap laugh by saying the word [Applause]
uh number two send change of address forms of that woman who keeps breaking into my house
and the number one
our first guest is a good friend of ours I think in terms of Show Business friends don't you Paul
and in those terms many many times a fine actor and uh he's been in such Motion Pictures as uh big
big did you see that big Paul I loved big and also A League of Their Own and uh his latest Motion
Picture entitled Sleepless in Seattle uh opens today as a matter of fact ladies and gentlemen
here he is the always Charming Mr Tom Hanks [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music]
very much nice to see you thank you very much here I am on the probably
the show business event of the season and I might as well be Phyllis Newman out here
on the show nice to see you Tom thank you thanks great to be here you know he's kind
of a Bittersweet occasion Dave because well this is probably the last time you're going to see my
puss on your TV show well it's just it's it's a matter of look first of all the only reason I'm
stepping foot in the Ed Sullivan Theater is to see exactly where he's buried I don't know if
you have a little Cobblestone a little plaque I don't know if he's on the stage I don't know if
he's backstage you know what else is buried in there no they have been propped up in the lobby
I'm like Gumby here and the Killer Bees it's kind of an orange Aid dispenser
I can't do your show anymore David because I just don't get the time slot why you would
want to move to eight o'clock on Sundays is beyond me oh I know I realize that you know
your hours are cut down you only work one hour a week because really stand in front of a curtain
say now have you seen plate spinning like this I don't think so next laser though I'm sure your
people are booking Cirque du Soleil for the next year and a half and they're coming in
Tumble you're just not going to have time for me and quite frankly I don't want to lead in Murder
She Wrote I'm sorry I just don't want to well you know you just described there what sounds
like a very satisfyingly entertaining show listen I watch my friend Bob Saget on America's Funniest
Home Videos that's not changing it's as simple as that all right good for you
Tom let's let's talk a little bit about your illustrious Motion Picture career
it's a checkered thing and it comes in and goes and sometimes we do good work like we
did this week and sometimes we choke but the point is let's talk about a couple of
chokes what would you regard as a joke oh no nothing recently I mean nothing nothing
since I figured out how to do it uh um you know not since old Dragnet but you know the thing is
not at all you gotta say that's a great idea to make a motion picture about that
uh wonderful legendary half hour of time yeah especially from a guy like me who is
still pretty much defined by what he watches on TV I have I have three I'm good no it's no no
I have I have three I have three Cardinal rules as far as watching television one is if there's
a James Bond movie on Sunday night I'm home watching it secondly uh anything with cleavage
is that Adrian Barbo just watch this
and and thirdly is good news for your family thirdly if there is an Elvis Presley movie on
Saturday afternoon I don't care how long the kids sit in the car we're not going
to Disneyland I'm going to watch Clambake I'm watching Speedway what is your favorite Elvis
Presley well I have originally probably my favorite was Viva Las Vegas fabulous
I have a makeup man who actually a friend of mine who had done my makeup had did Elvis is
that right yeah you know we'd like to have you sit in the audience when we go to the Sullivan Theater
I'll introduce him damn it you got it Danny's sweet Peck but I just recently saw roustabout
yeah which is at that rocketed to the top of my list he works for a circus well what it is is
first of all it's a stellar cast it's got Barbara Stanwick is in roustabout Barbara Stanwick walked
around Hollywood had lunch at Chase and saying I'm I'm doing this movie with Elvis
and she she there was this one moment where Elvis is is just taking the job
there it's about a carnival around it's about a carnival and he says I can't believe I'm here
I am working for a service they they cut away to this very big dramatic single of a Barbara
stanik turning back to Elvis with just her eyes blazing like they hadn't done since I
don't know since since Audra lost a herd on the south 40. it's a big Valley yeah and she says
we're just fire in her eyes this is not a circus Mister this is a carnival and don't you forget
and Elvis before he broke out into a song about the rest about uh okay all right I'm sorry okay
now let me get this straight I guess the circus has like elephants right and I guess a carnival
has like a ferris wheel but I'm telling someone else they both got sawdust Ralston about yeah
I'm on our own
anything at all I know uh I know a Heartbreak Hotel I don't know uh but what I wanted to talk
to you about is some of the uh leading women the stars that you have worked with in your
films that's where this all sort of well I began I worked at Meg Ryan I grew up with twice in Seattle
anything she wants to anytime is she a nice woman she's a very nice woman you get along your friends
oh yeah yeah as a matter of fact my wife was also in the movie we're all good friends we hang around
the kids play together oh that's nice we're sort of neighbors we're just regular folks yeah and
funny thing about Meg Ryan and Amway distributor
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we've actually had to stop going to her house because she has that display yeah
okay shackley's baking basic age we'll take three more breaks you
can always use a couple extra bucks in these recessionary times well yeah yeah
you know what we could do is just turn on the cameras two or three nights a week and have
Paul in the band play for an hour and that would be great that's all you really need [Applause]
the absolute best TV talk show banned in the business thank you so much [Music]
and I said I say business you know why don't you because you really want to say industry
no no I'm from business business I'm from the streets oh you are from the studio so
I say business what is the word in the street it's good uh Mr Hanks we were talking about
uh women you have worked with now I know you also worked with uh National Treasure chair
let me let me explain I I didn't work with Cher so much as I worked
for a share a lot of people have worked on shares
I don't know not even sure what that means
touching it this was the circumstance I was a I was a Bellman or a bell boy as they're called
to in derogatory terms in Oakland when she was married to um uh Greg Allman Greg almond and I
had to I had to go to her room and uh uh take a bag that had been inadvertently delivered to
her room and take it over to Dickey betz's room actually Dickey Betts a famous guitar right so
it had it had a profound effect on me in two ways one was that you know Greg answered the
door and Greg had that little kind of kind of thing right there what is that oatmeal is it
and uh and uh you know I'm there looking stupid in my red blazer and my rainbow tie which and
and hair which was very big back then and I I I said something to the fact that I immediately
and I said oh yeah yeah what is it what is it uh Hey tuts which bags of these gotta go oh
Greg and she kind of like appeared for a moment off to another and then disappeared but I got a
you know Bonafide glim Setter so ever what happened was is that now it was I mean that
was that was Cher it was Cher almond as she was known back then and uh she was she was toots so I
had a girlfriend at the time and she immediately became toots I'm off at 10. hey toots let's go
to Ghirardelli Square this weekend hey toots and now the women who are important to me are always
always Twitter it's very hip very hip the other thing uh the other thing that that really came
out of that experience is was I immediately started experimenting uh with heroin and
oh geez it's not anything like it's cracked up today you might as well just drink a bunch of
coffee Dave it's the same exact sensation I'm joking of course I'm joking I'm telling a joke
based on Show Business Legend from years and years and years ago now have you have you since had a
chance because this to me is the delightful thing one of the many delightful things about
life because you were a bellhop 16 17 18 and then suddenly now you're Mr huge box office Superstar
and you could visit with Cher you could work with you you only could tell her this story the only
the only show business personality I've actually got to meet and say you know I I I once carried
your bed with Slappy white oh I I I I I I I broke Slappy White's golf clubs Slappy white is comedian
Vegas he's a legendary Show Business figure I was incredibly excited to take his huge suitcase for
him and carry it over to the trunk of his Matador or whatever it is and try now Slappy slappy
yeah
I took the keys I took the keys over and I lifted up the dress
huge massive suitcase and I popped the trunk on this thing and his and his and
it's loaded the trunk is filled it's got his golf clubs it's got all kinds of and
I looked at this huge suitcase and like like you know counter lever it over and it lands
with a thud and and I'm trying to push the trunk of his car closed and I know that I
put his suitcase on top of his golf club because I mean he must have had 400 golf
clubs in this golf club every conceivable Golf Club tool was in this and I'm pushing
it down like this and from all across the parking lot of here y'all been in the shop
[Applause]
sloppy white came running about 400 yards like this
shot so I have I met Slappy white at the uh at the at the Academy Awards and I I
apologize for for breaking his golf course it couldn't be a more flattering characterization
um it's a distinctive delivery this is the big the big movie uh Sleepless in Seattle
opens now opens today and uh I understand that the reviews on the film are great it's huge in
San Diego people people seem to love it and it looks like another big Blockbuster for you it's
a very nice movie and the odds are always against you you creating that but North Ephron it did a
wonderful job well you know what I think it is and I've expressed this to you before I think
that it's you I think people go to see your work because they know you're a good actor but more
importantly I think they know you're a nice guy except for Slappy white perhaps I I I I would not
go on Nationwide TV and say it's anything other than the best damn movie you'll ever see we're
all very proud of it it's a it's a great move yeah but you used to be on heroin I understand no no
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
something very satisfying about that Tom it's good to see you thank you so much
Tom Hanks ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen if I can pass along one word of
advice to you this weekend is you're getting ready to pursue your weekend to leisure activities
so [Applause] um this is our um 1800 ninth and uh final show uh for NBC we began the program
uh cold day in February of 82 and here we are in the middle of June a lovely summer evening in 93
nearly 11 and a half years and and we're wrapping it up I want to thank uh the folks at home who
have watched us uh all those years uh it seems unlikely that we would get together and do this
every day if you folks weren't at home watching you know um but you folks have been terrific
and one of the really nice things about it is is knowing that you were there to take a look at what
we were up to each and every night uh obviously the the staff and the crew all of the people who
have worked with us up on the 14th floor everybody who works down here on the sixth floor everybody
who works throughout the building to help us do this program every night when you folks at home
tonight as we roll the final credits just do me a small favor and and take a look at the credits
as they roll by and know that the success of this program over the years first and foremost is due
to the hard work efforts and loyalty of the names of the men and women that you'll see go by tonight
and you folks all of you have my thanks and and my friendship and I and I couldn't express that
to you enough um Paul Shaffer I've said this from the very beginning I I hope you people at home
understand just how good Paul is Paul and his band are without a doubt the best in the business today
how about that band it's nice of you thank you
and early on I noticed that the nicest thing for me coming to work each day and the most
exciting part of every show we have ever done has always been your music and and I
mean that absolutely and I I would do this all over but I sure as hell wouldn't do it
over uh without you guys exactly you have been fabulous to work for all these years
it's been a thrill every night it's been new and different every night and thanks a
lot like to see it like to see you wear a tie at the new place I'll work on it [Applause]
ah a began a relationship with NBC in the late 70s in roughly 1978 I was a guest on The Tonight
Show with Johnny Carson and uh it was I think the most exciting moment of my life in Big Time
television and I've had an association with NBC ever since and through all of those years I have
never been anything but completely proud of of my relationship with uh with this network and I hope
in some small measure that they took some pride in our accomplishments it's for me it's it's just
been terrific the gentleman who will take over this program is Conan O'Brien I've met him a
couple of times the only thing I know about Conan for sure is that he you know he's been in prison
that's all I I don't know I know he killed a guy I don't uh and he um he's been on the show and
and uh as I said to him when he was a guest on our program uh I hope for Conan and his staff
uh all of the success and the happiness uh that we here have been able to achieve and I sincerely
mean that for him and his folks uh also I I hope that he finds it in his heart sometime down the
road uh to invite me back here from time to time I I would get a kick out of that um [Applause]
so that's uh that's it I want to thank Bruce Springsteen for
being here what an evening and of course Tom Hanks
the next time we see you folks it will be uh Monday night August 30th
at 11 30. have a good night thank you goodbye [Applause] [Music] [Applause]