Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 300, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 August 1982 — Page 12

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, August 30,1982

People in the news Tearful ending for 'Sugar Babies' c. 1982 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK With tears, cheers and a thunderous standing ovation, “Sugar Babies" left Broadway Saturday night after 1,208 performances. There were a few glitches in the last show. Ann Miller dissolved into giggles when she accidentally whacked Mickey Rooney’s wig off, a dove wandered aimlessly around the stage at one point, and Rooney stopped everything when he couldn’t seem to recite, “I am so tired of hearing this story,’’ as Miss Miller went off, one more time, into an account of how she murdered her husband. But it was a somber cast and a still audience that listened to Rooney during the final curtain call of the burlesque musical at the Mark Hellinger Theater. “Our show has been very, very long; and I’m very short, so I’m not going to keep you too long,” he said. “We didn't expect to be here six months, it was a 1,000-to-l shot. My career was resurrected with this show. I was doing dinner theater in Kentucky when they asked me to do ‘Sugar Babies.’ We thank you for coming.’’ Then the cast sang a song written for the occaaion by Rooney (he apologized in advance if anyone thought it was too corny) that included such lyrics as “New York is people and magic when the curtain goes up” and “We’re sorry we have to leave.” Backstage later. Rooney watched the San Francisco 49ers and San Diego Chargers battle it out on television, as friends stopped in to greet him. One of them was Carroll O’Connor, who sent Rooney into peels of laughter when he offered him a stake in a Florida oil-well deal. Asked to pose for pictures, Rooney promptly climbed on top of the nearest armchair. In her dressing room, with a telegram from Helen Hayes saying, “The lights will be dimmer till you come back to Broadway,” Ann Miller could not stop the tears. “It feels like someone jerked my heart out,” she said. “Closing to a fuli house and everything seems crazy, but Mickey said it was better to leave with our flags flying, and I agreed.” • “Suddenly the forest opens up, and in a glade is a crystalline Stonehenge, and I do magic with earth, fire, air and water.” Doug Henning was describing his new $4 million magic musical, “Merlin,” his first Broadway venture since the long-running “The Magic Show.” He plays Merlin as a young man; the evening ends with Merlin meeting King Arthur. Directed by Frank Dunlop, whose last musical, coincidentally, was “Camelot,” “Merlin” is scheduled to open Dec. 19 at the Alvin Theater. Sitting on his terrace, the magician began casting a spell: “Merlin starts to mold earth, and the earth becomes a golden chalice. An air queen appears, and she wraps her wings around her, and she visibly vanishes." This was, he said with great enthusiasm, a modern evocation of the Mascot Moth Illusion of 1840. “Merlin shoots 20-foot flames from his hands, and then he flies, in and out of pillars, 18 feet off the ground. This will knock the socks off magicians.” He made it clear that “Merlin” would be a case of “illusionary magic,” as contrasted to “real magic.” "In illusionary magic,” he said, ’’someone levitates and the cause is hidden by a magician’s technique, like Peter Pan on wires. Real magic would be if I were really to levitate. I’m working on it.” • LONDON (AP) Britain’s Prince Charles learned about more than ships in the Royal Navy he also had his first experience in a red-light district and learned to cook his speciality, bread and butter pudding. “My first experience of things like red-light areas came when we had marvelous runs ashore in different places,” Charles said in an interview recorded for use today on Radio Norfolk. “I also met very dangerous sailors who tried to mix your drinks all the time.” Charles, following a royal tradition dating back to his great-grandfather George V, served in the navy for five years beginning in 1971. He finished up in command of a coastal mine-hunter HMS Bronington and was promoted to rank of commander.

Dear Abby Teens 'in family way' still a family matter

DEAR ABBY: My 17-year-old son just told me that his girlfriend is five months pregnant. She’s 16, and they are both very immature for their ages. My son still plans on going to college next year. We don’t know what to do. The girl is just a child herself and doesn’t know what she wants to do about the baby. We know very little about her parents. They’re divorced, and she lives with her mother. Who should make the decisions in a case like this? Something has to be done, but we don’t know what. Can you help? IN SHOCK IN ARLINGTON DEAR IN SHOCK: This is a family matter. Your son, his girlfriend and both your families should meet with a professional counselor a clergyperson, or someone who has had experience in advising families who have found themselves in this predicament. The wishes of the youthful parents-to-be should be respected, but cool heads rather than heated emotions should prevail. * * * DEAR ABBY: “Cooled Off in Coos Bay’’ wrote to say her husband was no longer physically attractive because he had gained so much weight. Your answer: “Pretend he’s Robert Redford, Burt Reynolds and Paul Newman all rolled into one.” Thanks, Abbv, but as an Afro-American lady, I am not physically attracted to these men. Would there have been any harm to have included one black male? Or did “Cooled Off’ identify herself as a white female? More to the point, did you simply make the assumption? Billy Dee Williams, Howard Rollins, Leon Kennedy, Reggie Jackson and Robert Hooks (to name a few) carry just as much appeal for a large segment of your readers as the three Caucasian idols you so readily mentioned. I, for one, am tired of hearing the “classic” American beauty described as “blond and blue-eyed,” and please do not point out that Reynolds is not blond, as this is hardly my point. Discrimination, no matter how slight, cannot be called by any other name, and it is attitudes such as the one displayed

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JOAN COLLINS: No nudes

HOLLYWOOD (AP)-Actress Joan Collins won a court or der Friday restraining the makers of the movie “Homework” from using nude photographs in advertising for the film about campus sex. The sultry star ot ABC-TV’s “Dynasty” and actress Carrie Snodgress are suing Rearguard Productions and Jensen Farley Productions for $25 million. The two allege they were misled by the producers into thinking the film would be an educational anti-drug movie and never gave permission for it to be released or promoted commercially, attorney Fred Blum said Friday. The movie is rated R. U.S. District Judge Irving Hill issued a restraining order Friday requiring the producers to withdraw all nude advertising by Monday. Miss Collins’ lawsuit also contends that she specifically was assured there would be no nude scenes but that the film makers used a double to make it appear that she had done nude scenes. m ATLANTA (AP) - The mission of civil rights advocates extends around the world, Coretta Scott King told supporters at a ceremony commemorating her late husband’s “I Have A Dream” speech “It we are true to the philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr., then we must understand our mission goes far beyond our neighborhoods,” Mrs. King said at Saturday’s ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. The celebration commemorated the 196;i civil rights march on Washington that culminated in King’s speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial about his dream of racial equality. Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, another speaker Saturday, said nuclear destruction is the greatest threat facing the United States. Earlier, folk singers Pete Seeger, Dorothy Cotton and James Cotton entertained about 300 people at the King Center. Rep. Wyche Fowler and two potential candidates tor his sth District congressional seat, Julian Bond and Reginald Eaves, sat on the stage, along with Bella Abzug, James Farmer and Whitman Mayo, star of "Sanford and Son.” • THIS WEEK’S BIRTHDAY PEOPLE: Sunday meant No. 24 for singer Michael Jackson, formerly of Gary’s Jackson Five, and No. 70 for actor Barry Sullivan. Actor Fred MacMurray, 74, actress Shirley (“Hazel”) Booth, 75. actress Elizabeth Ashley, 43, and baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams, 65, all celebrate Monday. On Tuesday, it’s No. 54 for actor James Coburn, No. 58 for comedian Buddy Hackett and No. 79 for entertainer Arthur Godfrey. Funny lady Lily Tomlin, 43, celebrates Wednesday, while tennis star Jimmy Connors is 30 on Thursday. On Friday, actress Valerie Perrine is 39, while next Saturday finds entertainer Mitzi Gaynoratsl.

in your column that it thrives on. I am appalled by your lack of consideration, and think you owe an apology to a very large group of your readers. I hardly expect you to print this, but I hope you got the message ... or did you? BROWN & BURNING DEAR B. & B.: I got the message, apologize, and plead guilty as charged for reasons of thoughtlessness and insensitivity, not discrimination. May I add my own recommendations to yours? How about Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Lou Rawls, Richard Roundtree, Robert Guillaume, Fred Williams and Bobby Short for openers? * * * DEAR ABBY: Your advice to Sam’s wife was all wrong. Sam was over 70 and in a nursing home, and his wife was worried that her friend, Emma, was getting too chummy with Sam. You said, “Don’t worry, it’s probably just an innocent flirtation Emma is not about to steal your husband out of a nursing home.” Well, don’t be so sure. After working for two years as a motel clerk near a nursing home, 1 can tell you that some of our best customers are senior citizens! One darling gentleman who was at least 80 used to check in alone every Friday afternoon. Half an hour later his “girlfriend” (in her 60s) would drive over in her own car and join him. Another couple, both in their 80s, used to arrive in a cab, check into a room, and about an hour or so later, he’d order a cab to take them back to the nursing home where they were both residents. Believe me, “old” doesn’t mean “dead"! NO NAME, NO LOCATION * * * Getting married? Whether you want a formal church wedding or a simple, “do-your-own-thing” ceremony, get Abby’s new booklet. Send $1 plus a long, self-addressed, stamped (37 cents) envelope to: Abby’s Wedding Booklet, P.O. Box 38923, Hollvwood Calif. 90038.

Actress Ingrid Bergman loses battle to cancer

LONDON (AP) Academy Awardwinning actress Ingrid Bergman, whose roles ranged from Humphrey Bogart’s lover in “Casablanca” to the toughminded prime minister of Israel in “Golda,” has died after an eight-year battle with cancer. She died on her 67th birthday. One of the last of Hollywood’s legendary figures, the Swedish-born Miss Bergman died here Sunday, her daughter, Pia Lindstrom, said in New York. Miss Lindstrom, a journalist, said she was flying to London today. Miss Bergman’s three other children also were reported en route here. Funeral arrangements were being handled by Harrods. “It will be a very quiet, family affair,” said Alfred Jackman, Harrods’ funeral director. “After cremation her ashes may be taken back to Sweden.” Miss Bergman rocketed to fame as Humphrey Bogart s co-star in the movie “Casablanca” in 1943 and made a stunning Hollywood comeback after quitting the movie capital in the late 1940 s because of criticism over a love affair with an Italian film director. She had been suffering from cancer since 1974 and had undergone two mastectomy operations. Her former husband Lars Schmidt, last of her three husbands, was with her when she died, said London theatrical agent Sue Hyman, who made the announcement of her death here today. Miss Bergman lived in Cheyne Gardens, in London’s Chelsea district. Looking back on the string of brilliant films that brought her three Oscars, her three marriages, three divorces and her fight with cancer. Miss Bergman wrote in her 1980 autobiography, “I have always thought that I will go on acting and acting and acting You need never give up. ’’

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INGRID BERGMAN: In 1974 Oscar-nominated role

Miss Bergman’s Academy Awards were for best actress in “Gaslight” with Charles Boyer in 1944 and “Anastasia" in 1956, and for best supporting actress for “Murder on the Orient Express” in 1974. She was born in Stockholm on Aug. 29, 1915. Both her parents had died by the time she was 12 and she went to live with an uncle and spoke later of how her lonely childhood led her to acting. A 5-foot-8 beauty, with deep blue eyes, she quickly became a leading lady in Swedish films before producer David O. Selznick invited her to Hollywood in 1939 to co-star in “Intermezzo” opposite Leslie Howard. Her sweet, innocent image was scandalized when she met and fell in love with Italian director Roberto Rossellini in 1948. while still married to her first husband Swedish brain surgeon Petter Lindstrom. She left Lindstrom and in 1950 gave birth to an illegitimate son by Rossellini, whom

she later married. The affair created an uproar at a time when public morality held considerable sway. She was denounced from pulpits and in the U.S. Senate as a “cheap, chiselling female.” Movie studios shunned her and despite a decade of triumphs, she quit Hollywood in 1949. She returned 10 years later, when attitudes had changes, and the cream of Hollywood gave her a rapturous welcome at a plush movieland party. She went on to more successes in movies and on the stage in New' York and London Recalling the scandal, she said later: “Some sections of the press tried to kill me. But I am hard to kill.” She summed up her career in a 1968 interview: “A very beautiful life. A very interesting life. A very lucky life ... I’ve had ugly moments in life, it is true. But they were never stupid moments, stupid tears. Even sorrows sometimes are fortunate.”