Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 187, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 April 1980 — Page 8

The Putnam County Banner Graphic, April 11,1980

People in the news Judge 'smashes' disc jockey's plan INDIANAPOLIS-A standing-room-only courtroom audience heard the fate of Asher Benrubi Thursday at Indianapolis. Asher who? Better make that Smasher Or Adam Smasher, the WNAP-FM Indianapolis disc jockey who appeared before Judge Betty Barteau Thursday. THE JUDGE ENJOINED Smasher from working on the air at any radio station in a 50-mile radius of the Capital City for six months However, that ruling does not prohibit a return to WNAP, where he had most recently been serving as part of the "Morning Team ” The disc jockey resigned from WNAP March 27 after claiming station management refused to negotiate a new contract Smasher was served with a restraining order the following day. about an hour before he was to go on the air at KISS-99 (WIKS-FM), Indianapolis. Judge Barteau ruled that Smasher’s WNAP contract specified that if the radio personality left the station he could not work for any competitor in that 50-mile radius for six months Smasher’s attorney said an appeal of the judge’s decision is possible. ATLANTIC CITY. N.J (AP) Put out to pasture by the Miss America Pageant, Bert Parks may be going up the Boardwalk again to work for a new casino hotel The 65-vear-old Parks confirmed Thursday he is close to an agreement to promote the 500-room Brighton Hotel & Casino. The $65 million Brighton is scheduled to open as Atlantic City's fourth casino around May 31. "Aren’t you proud of Daddy?" Parks said in a telephone interview from his winter home Hollywood. Fla. “I’m coming home to Atlantic City. But, hey, I never left those lovely people. You just don’t throw away 25 years just like that.” Parks said his contract, which has not been signed, calls for him to make guest appearances, radio and television commercials for the Brighton. "I fervently hope the deal goes through." Parks said. “But until you write your name down, it doesn’t mean a thing." Parks, who sang “There She Is” to tearful Miss Americas since 1955, has made several television appearances and commercials since pageant officials confirmed Jan. 2 that they would not renew his one-vear contract. Pageant officials announced that Ron Ely. television’s first Tarzan and game show host, would replace Parks. Albert A. Marks Jr., executive officer of the pageant, and Campbell’s Soup spokesman Scott Rumbaugh confirmed Thursday that the company would end its sponsorship. Marks said Nestle Co. would join Gillette, a 22-year sponsor, and Kellogg’s, a 12-vear sponsor. • LONDON (AP) The show went on. doctors or no. Merrill Osmond, third eldest member of the pop singing Osmond family, defied medical advice and went on stage here Thursday after collapsing at his London hotel earlier in the day. Osmond, 27, has had heart trouble for three years and is worried about his son, Shane who was hospitalized here this week with suspected meningitis, said the group’s publicist, Tony Brainsby. Shane is expected to be released soon. “It is the strain of that coupled with the tour that has made Merrill ill,” Brainsby said. The singer was driven to the theater in an ambulance and a nurse and an oxygen cylinder were on standby in the wings. The Osmonds are in Britain for a tour of London and provincial cities British newspapers today reported the six brothers and sister Marie are saying it will be their last tour before they split up. • When John Badham, movie and television director, was guest instructor this week at New York University’s School of the Arts, he got his graduate students to concentrate on varied approaches to filming dance sequences. To illustrate one of his own, he showed all of “Saturday Night Fever,” in which, he said, he had John Travolta “strapped to the cameraman and the two of them spinning in a circle.” He also brought along film clips from several “classics” including “Anchors Aweigh,” in which Gene Kelly danced with the animated figure of a mouse A laugh of recognition as well as amusement arose from the audience, and in particular from Laslo Benedek, head of graduate studies in the department of film and television “You just took me back 30 years or more.” he told Badham. explaining that in the late 1940 s he had coproduced the Gene Kelly film with Joseph Pasternak

Edith's memory won't be 'stifled'

NEW YORK (APi -- Television producer Norman Lear Thursday gave $500,000 to establish a fund to promote the Equal Rights Amendment in memory of the soon-to-be-late television character Edith Bunker. Edith, the model of the oppressed housewife married to Archie Bunker in the popular television series “All in the Family." is scheduled to die when the series opens its 11th season this fall. “MY HOPE IS THAT those women who care about her will remember her with a contribution,” Lear said. The fund is being established with a $500,000 contribution from Tandem Productions, the company owned by Lear and Bud Yorkin. "She was the quintessential housewife who was touched by the women’s movement." Lear said “What’s been happening to housewives across America was best mirrored by Edith Bunker. He noted that feminists opposed the show initially because Edith was a “doormat” for Archie who continually told her “to stifle.” By the fourth season, she was telling him to stifle and. over his opposition, went out to do volunteer work which she eventually demanded to be paid for. LEAR ATTRIBUTED EDITH’S growth to changes in his own life brought on by his wife, Frances. The money will be given to the National Organization for Women-Lega! Defense Fund within the next few weeks and will be used for the campaign to ratify the ERA. Actress Jean Stapleton, whose decision to play characters other than Edith led to the elimination of that part, said in a telephone interview from her Los Angeles home she thought viewer response to the fund would be “grand.

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POLLY BERGEN: Cosmetic tycoon? Polly Bergen, the singer-actress, is about to embark on something “new” again. Having been dubbed a “cosmetics tycoon” a decade ago for her turtle-oil cosmetics line, she moved onto corporate boards and took on a schedule of fund-raising causes, in addition to some television work. But when she showed up Tuesday at a party given by Gov. Hugh L. Carey’s Office for Motion Picture and Television Development, she said she was about to return to stage acting. At the end of next month she is to open in a Chicago production of Neil Simon’s “Plaza Suite” at the Drury Lane Theater, in her first stage role in 20 years. “Don’t ask me why I’m doing it,” she said. “I think I must have got the idea I ought to go off the deep end.” • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., seeking an unprecedented fourth term as Indiana senator, has spent a hefty portion of the $426,560 he raised for his reelection bid. his campaign report shows. Bayh spent $339,989 of the $426,560 he raised in the first three months of 1980. His Federal Election Cojnmission campaign report will be filed by early next week after a final check with the FEC and the Indiana secretary of state, his campaign manager, David Bochnowski, said Thursday. The biggest single contribution to the Bayh campaign was $5,000 from the Citizens Organized Political Action Committee of Los Angeles. Other contributions included SI,OOO from Carroll O’Connor, star of “Archie Bunker’s Place,” and O’Connor’s wife, and $250 from playwright Neil Simon. Edward Asner, star of the “Lou Grant” television series, and Steve Allen, longtime television star, producer and actor, also contributed $250 each to Bayh’s re-election. Singer Kenny Rogers gave SSOO, and Grant Tinker, a television producer, gave SI,OOO. Syndicated advice columnist Abigail Van Buren gave $250, as did her husband, Morton Phillips. CINCINNATI (AP) When the Cincinnati Reds play the Atlanta Braves in the the National League opener, it seems Susan Mouch gives birth to a child. On Wednesday, the 30-yearold woman gave birth to her third Opening Day baby. “You don’t stand a chance in the family if you’re not a baseball fan,” she said Thursday night. On April 5, 1971, when the Reds lost to the Braves, 7-4, Mrs. Mouch and her husband, Jerome, became the parents of a baby girl, Angela. On April 4, 1974, Andrew was born to the suburban Wyoming couple as the Reds downed Atlanta, 7-6. On Wednesday, Abby, a 7-pound, one-ounce baby girl was born The Reds shut out the Braves 9-0. “The first two were born right about 2 or 2:15 (p.m.), roughly about game time,” said Mrs. Mouch. “But this one came later in the afternoon.” Noting that the first names of Angela, Andrew and Abby all start with the letter “a,” she was asked if that was because the Braves are based in Atlanta. “No,” she said, “that had nothing to do with it.” -• Rona Barrett, the Hollywood columnist and one of the staples of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” is having second thoughts about continuing on the show. Her contract expires in September and Rona says she’s at the stage where she has to pause to consider what she wants to do with her life. “Those morning deadlines are murder.” One report has Rona miffed because ABC permits Barbara Walters to invade her territory for those specials with movie stars.

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NORMAN LEAR: Half million gift “I BELIEVE THAT IF IT were explained to Edith, that she would have supported the ERA because the ERA is a simple matter of justice,” said Miss Stapleton, an avid ERA supporter.

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