Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 65, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 November 1979 — Page 4

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People in the news Oakland judge says Innocent' OAKLAND. Calif. (AP) State Court of Appeal Justice Paul Halvonik has pleaded innocent to marijuana charges, and his wife has been given until Dec. 6 to enter a plea to similar charges. They were charged with a felony charge of cultivating marijuana and a misdemeanor charge of possession of marijuana. The Halvoniks were arrested Sept. 19 in their Oakland home, where police recovered 323 marijuana plants Mrs. Halvonik also was charged with possessing a small amount of cocaine. Both Halvoniks could be disbarred if convicted of felony charges. He also could be removed from the bench. • Sprinkling mixed metaphors like salt, the official Soviet newspaper Izvestia panned Henry A. Kissinger's book, "White House Years." as a “political striptease” and its author as "unprincipled” and "insecure." “Kissinger enjoys publicity,” wrote the newspaper’s Washington correspondent, Melor Sturua. "His selfadmiration makes him always ready for any political striptease. So one shouldn’t be surprised that among the items he takes off are detente, peaceful coexistence and disarmament." That’s for starters. Then the Izvestia review, after all that talk about Kissinger taking things off. reverses gears and goes into his putting things on: “The 1,500 pages of his book are 1.500 pages of fig leaves. The more leaves he tries to put on himself, the more he divulges of what he really thinks.” • CINCINNATI (AP) A Cincinnati man who threw two young children out of a fourth story window during a domestic argument has been sentenced to two consecutive 7-to-25 year prison terms.

Elizabeth Ashley A new perspective after her breakdown

c. 1979 Atlanta Constitution Distributed by The N.Y. Times News Service Elizabeth Ashley has never been one to hold back. She keeps the "Tonight Show” censor on his toes whenever she’s one of Johnny Carson’s guests because she calls a spade a spade, and often in rather graphic, four-letter terminology. Although she hasn’t been too,visible in recent years, Ashley is enjoying renewed attention, thanks primarily to her book. “Actress;” a forthcoming movie, “Windows,” costarring Talia Shire; and a 1980 return to Broadway in “Jill,” written by Leslie Havard. She had been the toast of Broadway in 1962 and won a Tony for “Take Her, She’s Mine.” She followed that with the play “Barefoot in the Park,” another Tony nomination and good reviews in the movie, “The Carpetbaggers.” Offstage she was known as a rebel, though she insists she of it. The lady is quite opinionated she prefers "subjective” and every bit as outspoken as Jane Fonda or Shirley MacLaine, moviedom’s leading female politicos. You don’t find Ashley on soapboxes or leading marches or speaking at rallies, but she’s hardly politically apathetic. “1 think I’ve been more politically active (than Fonda). I’ve actually had two ribs broken and been to jail three times (in demonstrations, including the 1968 Democratic Convention riots),” she said in a recent intereview, gaining steam for a pet peeve. “I believe that the only valuable place for the artist, in the politics of one’s time, is from one’s position as a private citizen. The artist loses credibility the minute he becomes a public sjjokesman, a campaigner.” She took a long drag on a cigarette, caught her second wind and continued. Ashley, who could pass for half her 40 years, was wearing a green caftan and curled up in the corner sofa unit at the her hotel. Within close reach were a pack of cigarettes, lighter, ashtray and cup of coffee. “Jane Fonda is a woman who, let us not forget, learned her politics from Mark Lane (an associate of the late Rev. Jim Jones). Now that’s a very dangerous thing. She’s married to a fellow that I consider a rather corrupt potato. Jane is a woman I’ve known for many, many years. I have absolute respect for her as an artist. As an intellectual, as a political being, I admire her for the place her heart is in. “Although I so agree with many, many, many of the things she stands for, I think she’s in a very, very dangerous position and she is risking the credibility of everything that she purports to believe because she is essentially working as a campaign wife for Tom Hayden, who is running for office. And the minute that the performer gets into partisan politics, ail you are doing is lending your celebrity to something that you want to win. And philosophically, intellectually and ethically, you are always going to be eminently bustable. “The position where the artist has strength, I feel, is as a private citizen who has two things: one is access and the other is mobility. Access to the halls of power and mobility because we are always moving around and that makes access possible. “I think it is tragic that Jane Fonda is being manipulated, I believe, into a position of vested political interest. "It is not mine to tell you how it is; it is mine to tell you how it seems to me as a private citizen in my subjective, personal opinion. The difference between me and the average citizen is that I have access to the air. I can say anything because I am not campaigning. I am not running for office.” Right now Ashley is not running for anything. She tried bucking the system and wound up fighting for her sanity. Back in 1962, Ashley was Broadway’s brightest new star. She had a Tony, was involved with one of Hollywood’s glamour guys, George Peppard, and was in a position, most people thought, to call her own shots. That’s when the break came. She woke up one evening in 1964 locked in a mental hospital with the pieces of her life scattered around her. She had been unable to handle the pressures that accompany theater and film success. Everyone wondered how that could happen to such a pretty young actress who seemingly had the best life had to offer. "I don’t believe there’s a line and that if you are on one side of it, you are crazy, and if you are on the other side of it, you are sane,” she said. “I think that’s just too sim-

Gregory Benton, 26, pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of attempted aggravated murder. Additional charges of felonious assault and aggravated burglary were dropped following the guilty plea. The prosecution said Benton went into the apartment of his former girlfriend, Vanessa Ross, Oct. 8, and that during a dispute, her chidren, aged 1 and 3, were thrown out a bedroom window. The children landed in shrubbery and were not seriously injured. NEW ORLEANS (AP) A Florida prison official’s refusal to mail an inmate’s letter because it contained obscene references to a censor was a violation of the inmate’s rights, a federal appeals court ruled. The sth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the letter from John McNamara, an inmate at Glades Correctional Center in Florida, was vulgar, coarse and offensive but not forbidden by law. The letter made lewd references to the censor. The censor passed the letter on to assistant superintendent J.C. Moody, who returned it to McNamara, who threatened discipline if he wrote another like it. A federal judge fined Moody and ordered him to pay attorneys’ fees. • c. HI7!) N.Y. Times News Service After dickering that apparently began last July, Josephine Ford, sister of Henry Ford 2d and wife of Walter B. Ford 2d, has bought the Anchorage, Nelson A. Rockefeller’s summer home on the Maine coast at Seal Harbor. Mrs. Ford, whose husband’s Detroit family is not related to the auto-making Fords, already has a Seal Harbor estate, but was said to want a more commodious house. The Anchorage should fill the bill it has a double-level living room, a banquet-sized dining room, and 19 other rooms, plus a salt-water pool and two glass observation towers overlooking the Atlantic. The house, built in 1939, was put on the market in June 1978, before Rockefeller’s death, because he had used it only rarely in the preceding 20 years.

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ASHLEY: Can only take so much plistic, and I think it’s inaccurate. It just doesn’t work that way. “It’s just like being on a sailboat. Your sails can only take so much before they snap. The important thing is to defuse pressure situations before they become unbearable.” She tried forfeiting her acting career, partly-because Peppard, whom she eventually married, wanted her to and partly because she believed that might be the best way out. It wasn’t. They split, and she tried to return to acting. She found doors slammed in her face; she learned that she was regarded as a bad risk, but she persisted. After a few small guest spots on TV shows, she made her stage comeback in 1975 as Maggie the Cat in the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and again got raves and another Tony nomination. “Actress” came out last year in hardback, and it generated mixed comments but became a best seller. “It’s not an autobiography,” Ashley said. “It’s a memoir, I suppose, of a very specific time dealing with very specific things. It doesn’t attempt to deal with the whole spectrum of what it all means.” “Actress” does not chronicle her life. The bulk of the book concerns Ashley’s breakdown and her coming to terms with her successes and failures, both in her personal and public life after achieving celebrity status, and how she managed to balance them. , “The book certainly has paid off, and I don’t mean monetarily. It’s a textbook at the New School for Social Research in New York City, and it’s required reading at 14 universities in sociology, drama and management departments.” She’s currently writing a novel, awaiting the release of “Windows” and preparing to begin rehearsals for “Jill.” Often Ashley sounds cynical, but she denies that’s the case. She says she’s been around long enough to see things differently. No more the innocent rebel from Baton Rouge, La., blinded by Broadway lights. “The only reason to work in the theater is because it’s something that you want to do, because you don’t really make any money. And it’s too difficult to do that just to pay the rent. When I have a mortgage payment, or I’m broke, that’s when I knock off a television thing, because it s fast and painless, and I try to pick something that will humiliate me as little as possible. “It’s a great myth that talented people are very much in control over what they do,” she said. “There just aren’t many movies made. That’s the state of the business. And television you can’t even discuss because it’s run by congenital fools. Basically nothing runs it but a computer that’s gone amok.”

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