Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 233, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 June 1980 — Page 6

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People in the news J.R. assailant to get real lawyer SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) TV cowboy Dusty Farlow will get a noted, real-life trial lawyer Richard “Racehorse" Haynes if he’s indicted for shooting “Dallas" millionaire J.R. Ewing. Someone speculation about “whodunit” is driving “Dallas" fans nuts gunned down ornery J.R. in this season's last episode of the CBS television series. And Farlow, a San Angelo rancher, is a prime suspect. "The only thing Dusty is guilty of is poor-marksman-ship," says Haynes, who believes J.R. deserves to die. "If he doesn’t die. then lightning ought to strike him,” Haynes told The San Angelo Standard-Times. “Dusty is a lamb among wolves, while J.R. is outside the bounds of propriety within Christian morals.” Haynes said. The Houston defense attorney says the case is complicated bv reports that Farlow died in a plane crash. But grand jurors apparently heard secret testimony that Farlow was not on the plane and they may indict him for attempted murder. ".. If Dusty reappears, he will have a good motive,” because he “violated the first rule falling in love with another man’s wife,” Haynes said. But any man is entitled to a lawyer, and Haynes says he could defend Farlow by showing the “jury evidence that there were mitigating circumstances.” “...Dusty has been sorely put upon by J.R. and his minions. He has been victimized and put through excruciating episodes. “Just the character of J.R. would be enough mitigating circumstances to harbor malice.” he said. “J.R. is amoral, immoral, repugnant and without any redeeming character traits such as honor, decency and honesty.” In a real-life case. Haynes successfully defended Fort Worth multimillionaire Cullen Davis in two murder trials and one murder solicitation trial. • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) What size shoe does a perfect “10" wear? Well, the secret is out. Bo Derek, star of the film “10.” bought two pair of size 7B shoes at a Joseph Magnin specialty store here, drawing a crowd when she entered the store Wednesday. “Everyone in the store was watching her from the moment she walked in,” said store publicity woman Margaret Randall. The film star charged the open-toed beige and white shoes. Ms. Randall said. • Despite the fact that she’s in the news business as a regular on the NBC-TV “Today” show, one bit of news Jane Pauley tried hard not to let get out was her forthcoming marriage. But Wednesday the 29-year-old Miss Pauley, saying she “had hoped to keep the whole thing quiet and personal,” confirmed that she plans to marry Garry B. Trudeau, the 32-year-old cartoonist whose “Doonesbury” comic strip won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1975. The couple, who have been keeping steady company for a couple of years, will be married June 14. It will be the first marriage for both. • Now that he’s leaving the State Department, where he’s been chief press spokesman for more than three years, Hodding Carter 3d is making sure he has a roof over his head. In fact, a very big roof, with 22 rooms under it. Carter, who has resigned effective July 1, said Wednesday he planned to buy “Norumbega,” a castle-like mansion at Camden, on the Maine seacoast. He wouldn’t disclose the purchase price, but the property had been advertised as “realistically priced” at $148,000. “We’ll be there in the summer and plan to use it at least for a summer house,” said Carter. “We’ll be living in Washington most of the year because my wife is still an assistant secretary of state for human rights." His wife is Patt Derian. The three-story “Norumbega,” built in 1896, is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Douglas talks good game

- c. 1980 N. Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Mike Douglas, who reportedly wanted to make as much money as Johnny Carson when the late night talk show king was only taking down a mere $3 million a year, is exultant at the new contract that gives Carson a fat $5 million for his efforts. “Purely as a fan,” Douglas hastens to add. “I’m happy that Johnny got what he wanted and is not going off the air We need him.” Mike Douglas, of course, is not going off the air either, despite having been dropped by his Westinghouse syndicators after 19 years of entertaining folks with his afternoon talk-and-talent-to-do. He currently is finishing up his stint for Westinghouse, with his last show scheduled for the end of this month. But the very next day, he’ll be back with the same old “Mike Douglas Show,” only this time it will be his own special baby and he will call all the shots. Better make that the same “young” show for Mike. One of the raps against him, and the “official” reason given by Westinghouse for bringing in John Davidson in his stead, was that Douglas “projected an older image and did not appeal to the 18 to 49-year-olds who are the prime consumer target for TV.” “Isn’t that incredible?” Douglas asks. “To start with, we have achieved our highest audience ratings in the past few months ... and not only in numbers, but in demographics. They show quite clearly that our audiences are made up right across the spectrum, from youngster home from school, to adults in every age range. “But we do particularly well in the 18 to 49 category. Heck, right now we grab more than 2 million homes in that bracket every afternoon. Nobody does any better and, in all due respect to John Davidson, nobody will." The unspoken story of Douglas’ firing may better be related to money. According to many sources, Douglas was earning $2 million yearly and would have liked it to be $3 million, which would have brought him to Carson’s level. “Look,” Douglas says with his wide Irish smile, “everybody would like to make more money on the job. But nobody understands this. Sure, we had just begun

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JAMES CAGNEY: It's no joke NEW YORK (AP) Director Milos Forman says his great coup coaxing film giant James Cagney out of retirement all started with a joke. Cagney, who in the 1930 s became one of the greatest bad guys in movie history, has been signed to play the role of the police commissioner in “Ragtime,” Forman’s upcoming movie based on the best seller by E.L. Doctorow. The 80-yearold left the movies in 1961. He now lives on his New York farm. According to good friend Forman, the two started joking one day about Cagney playing a part in the picture. “We kept it up for a few weeks. But slowly it became more than a game. I noticed that he was getting serious. And finally, he said, ‘Well, let’s do it,”’ Foreman told the Daily News. Cagney’s part will be a brief one in the 2'i>-hour movie based in the turn of the century, Forman said. Shooting V/ill start in July. The director refused to say how much Cagney will be paid. “How can you put a price on a Rembrandt?” he asked. • ATHENS, Greece (AP) -Fiery Greek actress-politician Melina Mercouri claimed she was slightly injured in a clash between riot police and demonstrators in an Athens suburb, it was disclosed Wednesday. • Miss Mercouri, 55, noted for her interest in environmental problems, had joined a demonstration Tuesday protesting the sewage disposal problems in the area. Other deputies of the major Socialist and Communist opposition parties took part. Police said they were forced to drive back the demonstrators after they threw gasoline bombs. • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) He only weighs eight pounds, 13 ounces, but he carries one of the biggest names in the automotive business. Henry Ford 111, a grandson of the recently retired chairman of giant Ford Motor Co., was born here Wednesday, according to a spokesman for Ford Australia. The infant is the grandson of Henry Ford II and the son of Edsel and Cynthia Ford. Edsel Ford is the only son of the retired chairman and the baby is the first of Henry ll’s grandsons to be given the name of the founder of the Detroit-based automaker. The parents are Americans. The 31-year-old Edsel Ford is currently assistant managing director of Ford Australia. • Years ago, when Woody Herman had to be rushed to a hospital with a bone in his throat just before a concert, Count Basie stepped in for him with the Herman band. Wednesday night, Herman substituted for the 75-year-old Basie, who was hospitalized earlier this week with pneumonia, at a Basie band engagement at Chicago’s McCormick Place-on-the-Lake.

talking contract renewal, but in the very preliminary stages, nothing pinned down, nothing definite. Then, wham! I didn’t have any warning from Westinghouse. I figured things were going pretty well. Instead...” The day after the announcement, Mike began talks with Syndicast, one of the major television syndicators, and they were able to pick up the loose ends without missing a thread. Now, “The Mike Douglas Show” is already signed up for 86 markets across the country and, Douglas says, “There are more than a few just waiting to see how Westinghouse makes out without me, so that they may switch before the summer is out.” The current number of markets is 11 fewer than Mike had with Westinghouse, but the potential audience is much greater. “Now,” the genial host points out, “we will be going into such key markets as Detroit and Chicago, both of which we didn’t have with Westinghouse. These are huge audiences that have not been tapped by my show before.” Douglas plans to retain his same format, with co-host each week sharing the up-front duties, and some non-show business guests sprinkled in among the acts to give the show relevancy and perhaps a touch of controversy. “We’ve never shied away from that,” Mike says. “Our prime purpose is to entertain, but we live in a world where many vital things occur and we want to be a part of them, to look at them, to help our audiences understand them.” Basically, it will air from Los Angeles, but Douglas will continue hitting the road as part of his format. “The second week,” he says, “we’re in Dallas. And I’m really looking forward to a super week right from the stage of Radio City Music Hall. We’ll keep on the move.” Ah, but will Douglas ever come up to Carson’s $5 million status? “I don’t really know,” he says, and there’s that Irish twinkle again. “All I do know is that this time around, it is my show. I will own 80 percent to 60 percent or some nice, comfortable number like that, depending on how many cities eventually buy it. Nobody is going to fire me, ever again.

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