Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 140, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 February 1980 — Page 4

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, February 16.1980

People in the news Bette Davis marks 50 years in movies (’. 1980 \.Y. Times News Service It was 50 years ago this year that Bette Davis made her first movie. "Bad Sister." of which she has always had a had opinion She's made more than 100 films since that one. and her first movie of her golden anniversary year is one made for television. "White Mama " It is one of which she has a high opinion and it's to be seen on CBS March f>. "Your script reads like a million bucks and it plays even better." the always-outspoken actress told the movie's fir-st-lime screenwriter. Boberl C S Downs "The script works naturally It's a joy for an actor " Miss Davis, who has often been critical of her scripls-and demanded chane.es observed: "The trouble with Broad way plays is that in out-of-town tryouts, they fiddle them to death They pick. pick, pick at the script until there's no life left There's entirely too much pillow talk That's where the playwright's wife gels into the act and tells him how to rewrite his plav " lAS VKCiAS. Nov. (AIM Knterlaiiier Johnny Carson has submitted an application for a Nevada earning license to state officials in conjunction with a New York company's effort to buy the Aladdin Hotel Carson, who will share in the management of the resort if his application and that of National Kinney Corp are ap proved, had the pajXTS filed Friday by a l.as Vegas law firm Carson and former Del Webb Corp executive Kd Nigro and teaming up with National Kinney to buy the resort for slO.l million The hotel will be renamed "Johnny Carson's Aladdin" if gaming officials license thi* prospective owners Under the agreement with National Kinney. Carson and Nigro will each receive 500. (too shares of the company's stock and Carson will perform exclusively at the Strip resort. • NKW YORK (AP) Rock singer l.inda Ronstadt will play the leading female role of Mabel in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance” this summer, the New York Daily News says She will co-star with Raul Julia in a Public Theater presentation in Central Park marking the 100th anniversary of the operetta. It will be the singer’s first acting appearance, and the first time Joseph Papp’s Central Park productions have offered Gilbert and Sullivan Pappsaid Miss Ronstadt had approached him last year about entering new areas of performing, the News said Papp said she canceled a tour so she could begin rehearsals in June. The setting of "Pirates” will be transposed to New York and the the pirates will become gang members. Papp said • NEW YORK (AP) Playwright Lillian Heilman has filed a $2.25 million suit against author Marv McCarthy, charging the critic defam(“d her hv calling her “a dishonest writer” in a television interview. The suit, filed Friday in state Supreme Court, lists as en defend; L talk show host Dick Cavett and the Educational Broadcasting Corp.. owner of New York's WNET-TV. which produces Cavelt’s show Miss Heilman asked $1.75 million in compensatory damages and SS(H),(MK) in punitive damages. In an interview on Cavett’s show. Miss McCarthy said Miss Heilman, author of “Pentimento.” was “a had writer overrated, a dishonest writer " Miss Heilman’s lawyer. Ephraim London, said Miss McCarthy’s statement was “false, made with ill-will with malice, with knowledge of its falsity, with careless disregard of its truth, and with intent to injure the plaintiff personally and in her profession.” The complaint alleges that Cavett and WNET-TV “ap proved and acquiesced" in Miss McCarthy’s statement There was no immediate comment from Cavett or Miss McCarthy, who wrote “The Group ”

For Mariette, all is 'post-Polaroid'

By TOM BUCKLEY c. 1980 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Mariette Hartley has made a name for herself and rejuvenated her career by appearing with James Garner in those popular Polaroid television commercials. The commercials proved to be not only highly remunerative to Miss Hartley, but also revived her movie career, leading directly to a starring role opposite Alan Arkin in the recently completed “Proper Channels.” Describing her return to films she previously appeared in four, the last being “Skyjacked” in 1971 Miss Hartley demonstrated that she was as intelligent and amusing as the figure she portrays in the commercials. “I’ve absolutely no qualms about stating that everything that has happened to me has been post-Polaroid, and the developments have been almost as fast,” she said. “Until then nobody at all thought I could do comedy.” Although she is on camera for only 5 or 10 seconds in the commercials, her appeal was so obvious that she was soon being sent mountains of film scripts. Among them, she said, was one from Arkin, who had always been one of her favorite actors, but whom she had never met. “It was about an architect and his wife, from whom he was separated, and how the illness of their daughter gets them entangled with social agencies that are well-meaning but far too powerful,” she continued. “I liked the beginning, but I wasn't crazy about where my part seemed to be going. My first entrance was from under a car, which I liked, but after that it seemed to get weaker and weaker. “O K , dissolve to me taking a bath with my beautiful 28-month-old daughter, Justine The telephone rings. It’s Alan. He begins by saying, Tm not going to butter you up.’ The producer must have told him to tell me that I didn’t like to be buttered up, and I don’t We talked about the script, and I told him that I thought it ought to be a family’s fight, not just a man’s fight, against bureacracy and red tape.” “Alan said he didn’t have a long list of actresses to approach,” Miss Hartley continued. "He said he wanted only me He agreed with my suggestion and promised that the rewritten script would embody them. Moreover, he kept his promise, and that doesn’t happen all the time in pictures. Making ‘Proper Channels’ was an altogether lovely experience.” Miss Hartley is a native of Weston, Conn., attended

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HARTLEY: Career revived Staples High School in Westport and Carnegie Tech, and is married to Patrick Boyriven He is French-born, a former director of television commercials, although not the Polaroids, and is about to start shooting his first film for movie theaters. Besides their daughter, they have a son, Sean, who is 4 In this season’s two-hour first installment of “The Rockford Files,” Miss Hartley was cast opposite Garner, and she dreams of doing a movie with him. “I’d do it in a second, but I’m afraid that his health and contractual obligations would make it difficult,” she said “The funny thing is that three years ago, when I was looking for work, the ‘Rockford’ producers wouldn’t touch me.”

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