세계 최정상의 남성 피겨 스케이터인 채즈 마이클 마이클스와 지미 맥엘로이는 세계 챔피온쉽 사상 최초로 공동 금메달을 시상하는 자리에서, 그동안 쌓여온 서로에 대한 라이벌 의식을 참지못해 싸움을 벌이고, 급기야 메달 박탈은 물론, 남성 솔로 피겨 스케이트 대회 출전 자격을 영구 박탈당한다. 3년 반의 시간이 지난 지금, 채즈는 아이들 행사에 악당 마법사 옷을 입고 스케이트를 추는 일로 연명하며 술에 쩔어 살고 있고, 지미 역시 신발가게에서 점원으로 일하며 근근히 생계를 이어가고 있다. 어느날 갑자기 이들에게 재기 가능성에 대한 영감이 떠오르는데, 그것은 바로 최초의 남성-남성 피겨 스케이터 듀엣 팀을 구성하여 듀엣 경기에 출전하는 것이다! 이제 이들은 호흡을 맞추기 위한 연습에 돌입하는데...
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers payed up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
The first of Perry Como's Christmas specials includes appearances by Rich Little and figure skater Peggy Fleming as well as performances by the Carpenters and by Perry Como himself. Also featured a reenactment of the Birth of Jesus Christ.
This colorful documentary chronicles the events of the 1968 Winter Olympics in France. The events made international celebrities of skater Peggy Fleming and skier Jean-Claude Killy for their gold-medal performances. The camera accurately catches the speed of bobsleds and downhill racers and ski jumpers as they race for the gold. President Charles DeGaulle is shown observing the action over 13 days, which saw France earn the best performance to date in the winter games.
