Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 208, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 May 1980 — Page 7

People in the news Papa Walton had to give up bottle One night in March 1969, after the premiere of “The Watering Place,” Ralph Waite walked into Sardi’s and was greeted by applause and cheers. "It was great,” he recalled the other day over lunch at the famous restaurant. “I had the No. 1 dressing room, a dresser, a bottle of champagne. After eight years in the theater this was going to be the big breakthrough.” That was before the reviews came in. They were so bad that the show never played a second performance. The next day Waite was off to Hollywood "I got some third and fourth leads," he said. “I was making a living but it was tough just sitting there, waiting for the phone to ring. ” It was then that Waite, a heavy drinker all his life, began hitting the bottle harder. So hard, he said, that in 1972, when he got the role that helped to turn his life around, as the father in “The Waltons,” he decided to get help. “I just couldn’t play that gentle, kind man for 12 hours and then bounce around the bars,” he said. That was the emotional root of “On the Nickel,” a drama of life on the skid row of Los Angeles, which opens in New York on Sunday. Waite wrote the screenplay in 1976 and when he was unable to get financial backing, he decided to produce the film himself. "It cost me $1,050,000,” he said. “That was everything 1 had saved, plus an advance from Lorimar, which produces ‘The Waltons,’ plus part of my share of the syndication rights of the show, plus a loan from the retirement fund my manager had set up for me.” Waite also decided to direct the film and to play a costarring role. “We brought it in under budget and four days early,” he said, “but I was very naive about things like postproduction and distribution. One major distributor was willing to handle ‘On the Nickel’ but the terms meant that it would have had to gross sls million before I saw any money at all.” DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) Suffering from an undisclosed ailment, actor Peter Sellers has been taken to a Dublin hospital. His condition Monday was said to be “comfortable.” A spokeswoman at St. Vincent’s Hospital would not confirm reports the comedian has suffered a heart attack. Sellers, 54, had a heart attack in 1964, and was fitted with a pacemaker after an attack in 1977. • EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla (AP) Among the 2,000 Cuban refugees living in the tent city here is 71-year-old , Regina Juana Cugat, sister of the popular SpanishAmerican band leader, Xavier Cugat. One of the 10,800 Cubans who jammed the Peruvian Embassy in Havana last month, she and the family with whom she lives were ferried by boat to Key West over the weekend. Xavier and three brothers Francisco, Alberto and Enrique Cugat all were born in Spain before their parents emigrated to Cuba. Miss Cugat lived in Havana all her life. Miss Cugat has lived for years with Carmen Garcia Borges, her husband, Florentino, and their 20-year-old son Florentine Jr. Mrs. Borges said she spoke to Alberto Cugat, a painter who lives in New York City Sunday night after their arrival. “He was overjoyed to know we were here, but he was very worried that his sister was all right,” said Mrs. Borges. “He said he would make arrangements to come see her on Tuesday. We’ll see what happens then.” She said Alberto told her Xavier was on tour in Spain. • Rudolf Nurqyev, the former Russian ballet star who now dances in New York, has sold the world rights for his biography to the publishing house of Sperling & Kupfer in Milan, the company announced Monday. A spokesman for the company, declining to give financial details, said dancer, working with an Italian writer, Mario Pasi, would describe his life, art and defection from the Soviet Union.

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Magazine picks the 10 best bodies

The most beautiful bodies in America - what does it take to attain that super select circle? No matter what their natural attributes -- strenuous exercise and diet is the answer, and in the May issue of Harper’s Bazaar the 10 beauties -- actresses and models picked by the editors -- reveal how they do it: ' JACQUELINE BISSET: “You can actively cycle for long periods of time without getting exhausted. It tones up the entire body, especially the legs without the threat of injuries you can get in other sports.” CHRISTINE BRINKLEY: “For me, dieting is a constant struggle. I’ve tried everything from tofu to watermelon juice only if I crave something, I eat eat - just a little. That really helps control binges. Exercise is never a chore. I fit it in wherever I am -- swimming, jogging, biking - something every day.” SHAUN CASEY: “When you water ski, you work every muscle - especially stomach muscles for balance and you don’t even know you’re using them. Jogging on the beach is terrific too ... when the sand is flat and hard.” FARRAH FAWCETT: “I’m not the kind of woman who’ll say, ‘Let’s go to lunch’ - I’d rather play singles! Without exercise, I’m miserable. Even when I’m working, I run two miles a day. The best thing about exercise? I really don’t have to diet.” JERRY HALL: “If I’m going to exercise, it’s got to be

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RALPH WAITE: The dry look G. Gordon Liddy and Dwight L. Chapin, both involved in the Watergate backblast, met lor the first time last Wednesday. Chapin was President Richard Nixon’s White House appointments secretary. He’s now publisher of Success Unlimited magazine. Liddy was with Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP). He’s now pushing his just-published autobiography in big cities across the nation Both men did time after Watergate, but they worked in separate buildings during the Nixon administration Here’s how they met: Chapin stepped out of an elevator in the lobby of his of fice building, intent on going for a haircut, “when I saw him and did a doubletake. “I had never met Liddy but 1 had seen him on ‘A M America.’ "He was talking to some people (in the lobby), so I waited, then introduced myself. “I asked him up to my office for a cup of coffee, and he accepted.” Chapin says he asked Liddy if he worked with a ghostwriter on his new book. Liddy said no, that’s why he’d written an earlier novel, to prove to publishers he had writing skills. • Ex-President Gerald Ford’s main humorous targets at a GOP banquet this week were his successor, Jimmy Carter; his good pal, Bob Hope and Gerald Ford. According to Ford: —He tees off a lot with Bob, “who’s a good golfer, a tough competitor, hates to lose, hates to pay.” —“I really resent Bob going around the country commercializing on my golfing inadequacies. He tells these huge audiences that I play golf as a contact sport.” —“Bob says I am the only person who can play four golf courses simultaneously.” —Bob also claims Ford “had a good round the other day.. .An eagle, a birdie, an elk, a moose. ..” —“I had such a lousy game the other day, I lost two balls in a ball washer.” —“Betty and I have found retirement in California really isn’t too bad. In fact we would recommend it for President Carter at the earliest possible moment.” • OTTAWA (AP) Ohira was offended, he didn’t show it. But Canadian officials were red-faced when the armed forces marching band greeted Ohira with the “Colonel Bogey March” the tune whistled by defiant British prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the film “Bridge On the River Kwai.” Ohira had not yet arrived on Monday for the ceremonies on Parliament Hill when the band began to play, but assembled Japanese dignitaries heard strains of the march. “We are extremely embarrassed,” an armed forces spokesman said Monday.

BITTEN KNUDSEN FARRAH FAWCETT

fun! And if there’s risk involved, all the better. I’m from Texas where we didn’t get to surf, so windsurfing is making up for lost time ... and bicycling is one of the best ways to keep my legs in shape.” BITTEN KNUDSEN: “Fencing involves your entire body and mind ... you finish a lesson completely relaxed. It tightens up the total body, especially flabby thighs.” BARBARA (MRS STEVE McQUEEN) MINTY: “I watch what I eat; if I gain, I diet with V-8 for lunch. I keep active taking care of the animals (on her farm) and riding my horses. Getting bounced around is terrific exercise.” SHELLEY SMITH: “In New York, I could never psych myself into exercising, but here it’s easy. I swim every day, sail, play tennis, and work out with weights at home. A few years ago I could Sara Lee myself to death; now I eat healthy and thrive on it.” SUZANNE SOMERS: “If I had to choose between having an extra inch on my waist and never having another dessert. I’d pick dessert! But I don’t go crazy with it and I do exercise at least 15 minutes a day to stay in shape to wear the clothes I love.” CHERYL TIEGS - alphabetically the last of Harper’s Bazaar’s 10 best -- but not the least: “Tennis is my sport. There’s nothing like playing an energetic game outdoors. It involves stamina, skill, and terrific timing.. it makes me feel alive!”

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