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People in the news Van Dyke to return - again? NEW YORK A year ago at this time, Dick Van Dyke was announcing plans to return to the New York stage after a 20-vear absence. He was going to star in Lawrence Roman's new comedy "If If If." But as things often happen with announced theatrical plans, the financing failed to materialize, the production fell apart, and Van Dyke went £ home to Los Angeles. Now comes word that Van Dyke is again on the verge of returning to New York, but this time it seems unlikely that he will fail to show up. He is starring in a revival of “The Music Man," which has been touring the country since October. "The Music Man” has been booked into the City Center for a 12-week run for the summer, opening June 5. This production, directed and choreographed by Michael Kidd, is being produced by James M. Nederlander, Ray Lussa and Fred Walker. , “A number of producers have been trying to get me to do this show for at least 10 years,” Van Dyke said over the phone from San Francisco, where the musical is playing. "Jimmy Nederlander asked me about it last spring, but I was committed to ‘lf If If.’ As soon as it became apparent that I wouldn’t be doing the play, he called again and said he wanted to take ‘The Music Man’ to Broadway. Braidway was an especially important consideration." Another consideration, he added, was the money-making potential of a touring production, which plays huge halls around the country. "This is very lucrative,” the entertainer conceded. “I won’t deny that. You can make a considerable amount of money in a short time.” Van Dyke described this version of “The Music Man” as one with “a lot more choreography” than the original , production that opened on Broadway in 1957. He also said that his portrayal of Prof. Harold Hill is “totally different" from Robert Preston’s interpretation of the role. “I’m not , quite as irascible and threatening. I play him a little softer.” • . LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) A threatening telephone call to the home of sharp-tongued comedian Redd Foxx was followed by vandalism to Foxx’s home here, police say. Vandals splashed the comedian’s house with red paint and marked the initials "KKK” on the outside walls sometime during the night, police said Tuesday. Earlier, Foxx’ housekeeper. Preston Hale, told police a caller claiming to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan warned that . Foxx who starred in the “Sanford and Son” television series would have a “surprise” when he returned home from Los Angeles, where he was filming a show. • Fort Apache is under attack. “Fort Apache: The Bronx,” a cops-and-robbers movie being filmed in New York has been called “anti-black, anti-Hispanic, and anticop” by Thomas Walker, a retired Bronx police captain upon whose book the movie is based. But Paul Newman, one of the stars, defended the movie. He told the New York Daily News, “I have spent my whole life caring about what happened to the underprivileged. It is wrong for anyone to say that I would have anything to do with something that was racist.” But it sure seems like that’s what Charles Peterson, president of the New York Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association was saying: “Paul Newman is nothing but a rich actor, as rich as Rockefeller, who is using the streets of our city free of charge to shoot a movie and make millions more on the backs of poor blacks, Hispanics, and what he calls lousy white cops.” • LOS ANGELES (AP) This year’s sexiest girl-next-door is from the country next door, according to Playboy Magazine. Dorothy Stratten of Vancouver, British Columbia, Tuesday was named 1980 Playmate of the Year, the first Canadian to win the title since it was established 21 years ago by Hugh Hefner’s magazine for men. Clad in a strapless gold wraparound dress, the blonde 20-year-old actress claimed a $25,000 check and almost $175,000 worth of prizes at a gala Playboy Mansion luncheon. • HAMPTON, Va. (AP) Actress Elizabeth Taylor Warner is the latest trustee of the Hampton Institute, a 112yearold, predominantly black college. The wife of U.S. Sen. John Warner of Virginia was elected unanimously to the college’s 36-member board of trustees Tuesday along with William M. Ellinghaus, president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Fixx 'repairs 7 to pen for sequel

When Jim Fixx wrote his runaway bestseller, “The Complete Book of Running” in 1977, he pretty well painted himself into a corner, he concedes. Having used the word “complete” in the title, how could he write a second book on the same subject without putting “logic to uncomfortable stresses?” But then he got to brooding about the book’s velocity. In less than two years it went into 30 printings and 14 foreign editions. It hit best-seller lists wherever it appeared. And it turned a trickle of road-runners into an estimated flood of 40 million in this country alone and still growing. So now we have “Jim Fixx’s Second Book of Running” (Random House, $10), which takes up where the first volume left off. With apologies to logician-readers, Fixx quite justifiably reports his “Complete Book” changed the athletic, exercise, equipment, psychological and medical mores of this and other countries where it appeared. In itself, he writes, thfe first book sparked a flood of new information on such subjects as nutrition, body training, the avoidance and treatment of various athletic injuries, effects of running on the elderly, women and children, and general well-being. Fixx, who is 48, began running in his mid-30s when he weighed 215 “and looked like a prize pig.” His aim was to better his tennis game. But he wound up losing 50 pounds and lowering his cholesterol rate. He worked in an editorial capacity for the Saturday Review, McCalls, Life and Horizon. He runs 10 miles every day, has competed in eight Boston Marathons, serves on the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, is married with four children and lives in Riverside, Conn. Here are a few of the side-effects from his first book on running:

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BARBARA FELDON: Big city girl Much-maligned New York City has found a Big Apple polisher in Barbara Feldon, Agent 99 of the old "Get Smart” television series. Feldon, who opened on Broadway last week in “Past Tense,” has a house in California but calls New York home now. She told the New York Daily News, “It (New York) has changed for the better. It’s much more casual and much friendlier than it used to be. Maybe I’m friendlier. I don’t know, but I think the city is awfully friendly. “The isolation in California is surreal Your car is your most precious intimate. New York drags you out of yourself all the time. It keeps entertaining you. It’s like a most amusing and intrusive playmate.” • “A Day in Hollywood, a Night in the Ukraine” will open as scheduled Thursday, after a federal judge declined Tuesday to issue a preliminary injunction against the musical’s producer, Alexander H. Cohen, sought by Susan Marx, whose late husband was Harpo Marx of the Marx Brothers. Judge William C. Conner of the Southern District of New York instead scheduled a hearing for May 15 on Mrs. Marx’s complaint that the play represented an unauthorized use of the comedy team’s well-known image and material. Cohen’s lawyer, John R Fernbach, said the judge advised them to consider an out-of-court settlement. • FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) Stokely Carmichael has changed his name, but he hqsn’t changed his tune. Carmichael, the black activist whose fiery rhetoric was among the most radical of the 19605, now lives in Guinea and has adopted the African name Kwame Toure. But his speech Monday at Colorado State University sounded a lot like the days when he was a part of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. “Some people want in (the political system.) Some people want to destroy. I don’t want in I want to destroy,” he said. • The first of the new American Book Awards will be handed out Thursday night, and the winners’ names are being held secret, much as those of Oscar winners are. But in advance of the hoopla, it was announced Tuesday that a highlight of the awards program will be the presentation to Eudora Welty, the much-honored novelist from Jackson, Miss., of the 13th annual National Medal of Literature. It’s awarded to a living American “for the excellence of his or her past and continuing contribution to literature.” Miss Welty will receive a bronze medal, along with a check for $15,000, from the Harold K. Guinzburg Fund, which endows the National Medal of Literature. Past winners of the medal include Edmund Wilson, Thornton Wilder, Marianne Moore, Robert Penn Warren and E.B. White. • Robert Benton, the writer-director of “Kramer vs. Kramer” has denied reports that a sequel was in the* works in which Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep would get back together. “It may seem logical, but we’re not doing it,” he said.

Podiatrists: Many of the 10,000 in the United States are enjoying a bonanza. Some have names as celebrated in running circles as top athletes whose feet they fix. Running clubs: Are overwhelmed with applicants. The Road-Runners of America, the nation’s chief organizer of races, recently added 44 local chapters. Religion: The magazine Runners’ World recently observed, “A new religion has been invented the religion of the runner.” The pastor of an Atlanta church started “joggers’ masses,” which precede breakfast followed by running. offer reduced rates to runners. Newspapers-Broadeasting: Papers increasingly carry running columns; radio and television stations are adding to weather reports the prospects for running. Naturally, all this is not peaches and cream: Runners report that attacks are increasing from angry motorists with beer bottles and other missiles. Columnist “Dear Abby” polled her readers on jogger vs. motorist squabbles, and declared motorists won 50-1. From the heart: Heart-transplant innovator Dr. Christiaan Barnard called running “a dangerous mania.” A New Jersey cardiologist was assailed as “an old fool” and “a consummate windbag” for backing the exercise. Close to Home: The magazine Running Review, reporting “Big Business" influence moving in. ran a headline: “The Hidden Rot of Commercialism.” Fixx himself asks a key question: “Will it last?” Family Health magazine had one answer: “In 1989, the roads and running tracks won’t be any less jammed with bipeds than they are today. If anything, there’ll be MORE runners out there.”

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