Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 258, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 July 1979 — Page 4

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, July 7,1979

People in the news Stallone loses bout at home LOS ANGELES (AP) Actor Sylvester Stallone is being sued for divorce six weeks after his wife gave birth to their second child. Sasha Stallone filed the suit Friday in Superior Court, indicating that she separated from her husband July 1. They have been married four and a half years and have two sons, ages 3 and six weeks. Stallone wrote the screenplay for the Oscar-winning movie "Rocky" and starred in the title role. He also starred in the recently released sequel, "Rocky 11.” Mrs. Stallone did not indicate in her suit the amount of community property involved, but said she would amend the complaint later. • NEW YORK The American Cancer Society announced Friday that Richard M. Nixon had given it SIOO,OOO. The contribution was made by check in the name of the former president and his wife, Pat, with an accompanying letter that said: "We are making this contribution in memory of John Wayne. Hubert Humphrey, Rogers Morton, John Foster Dulles. Robert Taft, Stewart Alsop, Kyle Palmer, Eugene McGovern, Kate Ryan and others in all walks of life who have had cancer.” The letter identified McGovern as a World War II Navy friend of Nixon. Kate Ryan was Mrs. Nixon’s mother, and Alsop and Palmer were journalists. Earlier this week, Nixon gave his alma mater, Whittier College, in California, a collection of art objects and memorabilia, plus $50,000 in cash to refurbish a conference room in the library in which the collection will be exhibited. The items, presented to the Nixons when he was a private citizen and when he was vice president, include a handwritten John Adams letter, a commission signed by Abraham Lincoln, a set of china and cloisonne vases from Chairman Hua Guofeng, and an 18th-century filigree Hanukkah lamp presented by David Ben Gurion, the former Israeli prime minister. • ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) Recording artist Van McCoy died at the Englewood Hospital Friday morning at the age of 38. McCoy, a resident of this Bergen County community, died of cardiac arrest after entering the hospital a week earlier, said Phil Wentworth, associate administrator. The singer, who recorded on the Buddah label, is known for his performance of “Do The Hustle” and other disco hits. He was a major force in publicizing and popularizing the Hustle dance. • He’ll be unable to succeed himself after completing his second term in January, so Mayor Frank L. Rizzo of Philadelphia has already taken steps to insure that . although he’ll be gone, from the minute he leaves City Hall he won’t be quite forgotten. He’s hired an artist to paint his official portrait to hang along with those of the city’s 40 previous mayors, and it’s going to cost the taxpayers $7,000. Three artists submitted portfolios of their work, but Rizzo, a foe of the untraditional, chose Arthur De Costa, an instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. “He felt very comfortable with De Costa and comfortable with his work,” said a friend of Rizzo. The artist is enthusiastic about his assignment. “Very paintable.” he said. “He’s just a magnificent subject to paint.” De Costa will need four to six months to do the job, meaning that the portrait will be ready just in time to go up when Rizzo goes out.

One's company Ritter's career a three-ring circus itself

By TOM BUCKLEY c. 1979 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK and 29th Street one night recently, and the neighborhood was altered by the presence of the police officers who were assigned to keep order during location shooting of “Captain Avenger.” While his next shot, at the wheel of a taxicab, was being set up, John Ritter, who plays the title role, was relaxing in his mobile dressing room in his costume a fetching bodystocking, trunks and cape in turquoise and rose. Ritter, who is best known as the male lead in “Three’s Company,” the TV situation-comedy hit, was awaiting the delivery of a giant pizza that he, his wife, Nancy Morgan, and a group of hungry friends would consume. “When you’re hot, you’re hot,” said Ritter, an amiable and well-spoken young man. “I got a call from an agent at about 1 a.m. a couple of weeks ago. He said, ‘Kid, how would you like to open the show for Charo at the Sahara?”’ As he spoke these names, which are, respectively, those of a singer rather more notable for a cascade of blonde hair, an exaggerated Hispanic accent and a figure of unexampled voluptuousness, rather than for her voice, and of a Las Vegas hotel, Ritter raised his eyebrows precisely that fraction of an inch necessary to indicate genteel dismay. “I said, ‘l’d love to,”’ Ritter went on, “‘but I don’t have an act. ‘What do you mean, you don’t have an act?’ the agent said. ‘You’ve got to have an act you’re funny.’” Ritter thinks he’s funny, too, but as an actor, and he wants to keep it that way. He admires comedians, he said, who stand alone on a stage, living or dying on the intensity and duration of the laughter they can elicit, and often fighting private demons as well, but he wouldn’t care to change places with them. “Robin Williams and I are old friends,” he said. “We both studied at Harvey Lembeck’s Comedy Workshop in Hollywood. Robin is a comic actor in ‘Mork and Mindy.’ He does great stand-up comedy, too.” Familiar to countless millions of television viewers though he may be, Ritter concedes that, until now, the people who have seen his films “The Barefoot Executive,” “The Other,” “Nickelodeon” and “Breakfast in Bed”— could comfortably be seated in his dressing room. His breakthrough on the big screen, is coming, he hopes,

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RON CAREY: 'Gut feeling'

HOLLYWOOD Ron Carey, the hyper comic who helps brighten the “Barney Miller” squadroom on ABC each week, figures that this will be his year. “I haven’t gotten direct word,” he said, “but I’ve got a gut feeling that I’m finally going to make detective this season.” The running gag in “Barney Miller,” of course, has been Carey’s desperate attempts to shed his patrolman’s uniform and join the plainclothes guys. “Yeah, I’ve got that feeling within,” Carey said. His absolute joy was dampened somewhat when it was mentioned that Barney and the boys may be joined by a woman detective this season. "C’mon,” Carey said, “Don’t tell me that. I just gotta make detective this year.” But it’s only a television show, he was reminded. What’s the big deal? "To you, it’s only a show,” Carey said. “To me, ‘This is my life, Ronald Carey’.” • ROME (AP) Milos Forman has been awarded the David of Donatello prize, Italy’s equivalent of the Oscar, as best foreign director of 1978 for the film “Hair.” The David for the best foreign actor was awarded to both Michel Serrault for the Italian French film “The Little Vice" and to Richard Gere for “Days of Heaven.” The David for the best foreign actress was also a tie, going to Swedish actresses Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullman, for “Autumn Sonata.” • Charles A. Lindbergh had his “Spirit of St. Louis” and Richard Rodriguez, a product of the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, has his “Swamp Fox.” That’s a roller coaster in South Carolina that carried him Wednesday to a new world marathon record of 148 continuous hours of riding. The 21-year-old Rodriguez, who calls the aviation pioneer “my hero," modestly compared his feat to those of the aviation pioneer after he stepped off the ride at a Myrtle Beach amusement park. Rodriguez broke his own previous world record of 140 hours, which he set at Blackpool, England, last month. One five- minute rest break was permitted for each hour of riding, but the marathoner had to eat as well as sleep on the rails. “After six days, it gets kind of monotonous,” he said. Reading, obviously, was out, and so were most other activities. So he passed the time with the aid of some ironstomached friends and fans, who took turns on the ride telling jokes, singing songs, “anything to keep me occupied.”

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JOHN RITTER: Wanted man not only with “Captain Avenger,” in which he plays an out-of-work actor who gets a temporary job standing in costume in front of a theater that is showing a movie of that title, but also with “Americathon,” a satirical comedy which he plays the president of the United States in 1998, which has been completed and is scheduled for release this summer. Meanwhile, “Three’s Company” is going into its third full season with no sign of weakening and must already have come close to making his financial future secure. “The funny thing is that I did the pilot because I needed the money,” Ritter said. “It looked like a one-joke show to me, and I figured it had maybe one chance in a hundred. All I could think of while I was doing it was, ‘My God, suppose a movie comes up and I can’t take it.” Ritter, although he is a son of Tex Ritter, doesn’t sing, play the guitar or talk with a twang. “Maybe that’s why,” he said.

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