Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 255, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 July 1980 — Page 6

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, July 1,1980

People in the news Hagman doesn't know assailant c. 1980 N.Y. Times News Service MALIBU. Calif. - Larry Hagman is standing at the door of his oeeanfront house greeting guests. He’s wearing white duck pants, white Stetson, dark blue overshirt, bare feet and a big. big smile His wife, Mai, in dark slacks, wears a white T-shirt with the message: JR Lives! Malibu 6-29-80 Hagman’s mother, Mary Martin, dressed to the nines in a red and navy padded patchwork jacket, red pants and red boots, is less casual and unabashedly excited. ‘‘He’s a cult,” she exults. “I’m a living legend.” There was jov in the Hagman household Sunday night as the family also including Preston. 18. and Heidi. 22 toasted J.R’s remarkable recovery from bullet wounds inflicted last spring by his as yet unknown assailant on the season’s final episode of “Dallas.” "I’m not really worried about who shot J.R ,” he said. “After all. I’m JR. so it wasn’t me J.R. wouldn’t be dumb enough to do that,” says Hagman. who has reason to celebrate his strange and unexpected fame as the villain everyone loves to hate on CBS’ prime-time soap opera not to mention a salary jump from $12,000 to a reported $75,000 a week in a new one-year contract. "I’m worth it.” he says with a diabolical grin. Whoever did shoot J.R. will get his - or more likely, hers. “I’m not the kind of a guy who’d let someone go without retribution.” says Hagman. looking sinister He’s holding court with television writers from all over the country, who have been bused to his back doorstep from the Century Plaza Hotel. The welcome is impressive. Costumed Japanese waitresses are daintily dispensing artistically arranged raw fish from two tables, one in a threestory room with a floral stained-glass window wall, the other on a wide deck out front. In the kitchen, hung with copper pots and baskets -Hagman is a gourmet cook - a full crew of Japanese chefs chops and sculpts sushi to order. “I know the food you’ve been having in the hotel.” says Mai Hagman, sympathetically. “This food is clean.” She is speaking aesthetically. The Hagmans are aesthetic, eccentric people, determinedly unlike their Hollywood counterparts. Heidi Hagman. an actress who has been living on her own since she was 17. explains that her father’s little fancy doesn’t faze the family. “He realizes he talks a lot and he had to learn how to be quiet. It isn’t bad. He giggles and squeezes and pats you on your head. He smiles if he’s pleased or shakes his head if he’s upset.” Heidi fled to college and acting school in San Francisco because she had to prove herself to her dad, who at first discouraged her from becoming an actress. When he finally saw her onstage, as the oldest daughter in a stock production of “The Sound of Music,” he said, “You’ve got it. kid!” Heidi, a sweet-faced blond who resembles her mother, says her father’s new notoriety hasn’t changed her life much. “Just the emphasis. I used to be Peter Pan’s granddaughter (alluding to Mary Martin’s memorable Broadway role), now I’m J.R’s daughter.” While reporters and photographers ebb and flow around him. the man called J.R. moves to the beach, where he silently digs a semi-circular trench and a deep hole for a fire, as the ocean waves role in a few feet away. From the front of the deck, hung with state and national flags, he plucks the Texas flag and plants it on the sandhill he has made. Then he turns, smiling, to face the press again A natural question: Is he going to run for president? “If chosen, I will run. If elected I will serve. But first they've got to get a bill through Congress to raise the president’s salary to $5 million. I’m not gonna take a cut in pay.” Hagman is far from being disturbed by the onslaught of reporters. “I’ve been wanting to do this for 15 years. I wanted the people who wrote about me to see where I live, the ambiance.” he says, crowded into still another corner. “This is a comfortable place with the sun and the wind by the sea. This is really my life.”

Broadway Beat

Burt's 'Bandit' baby expensive labor

By JOEY SASSO CAST OF CHARACTERS: Some executives at Universal were stunned when they got the final price on Burt Reynolds’ lastest film, the recently completed “Smokey and the Bandit Have a Baby,” Burt and director Hal Needham ran up a bill close to S2O million! Not that anyone at Universal is complaining. The origi ‘‘Smokej and the Bandit” has taken in at least S2OO million since its release in 1977. . Wonder why it’s been so long since you’ve seen Chirstopher (Superman) Reeve in a film-and why his second major film“ Somewhere in Time,” has been languishing on the shelf for so long? Simple. Universal has so little faith in the romantic fantasy (based on a Richard Matheson novel and shot more than a year ago on location in Michigan) that it rather shrewdly decided to hold up release of the expensive costume epic until October. “I’m sick and tired of my image!” Liza Minnelli. “It’s all wrong!” The public may think of a glittering, slinkilysexy, ultra-sophisticated superstar, dressed to display a flash of those stunning legs, disco-ing the night away at New York’s Studio 54. But Liza insists: “ Off stage I’m not Sally Bowles, the girl who sang and danced at that sleazy Kit Kat Club in “Cabaret!” And I'm not that sexy dancer in “The Act.” As for Studio 54, I only went there a few times, and then just to help out a fund-raising party. But the photographers were there, the pictures appeared in the papers again and again, and people got the idea I spent every night in the place.” *** NO BIZ LIKE SHOW BIZ: Jon Peters admits he’s sick and tired of being badgered by reporters who ask him if his live-in love affair with Barbara Streisand is over. Peters now is even paranoid to take his clothes to the cleaners for fear it will be misinterpreted as his moving out. It didn’t take Bianca Jagger long to rebound from her divorce with Rolling Stone leader Mick The new man in her life is 35-year-old multi-millionaire, Ron Fuhrer. Friends say Bianca didn’t get enough money from her divorce settlement from Mick to keep up her extravagant lifestyle so she had to find a boyfriend who could afford her.

LARRY HAGMAN: 'He's a cult' TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The face of John Wayne, who downed plenty of red-eye in the movie set saloons he swaggered through as Hollywood’s toughest wrangler, has been molded into a commemorative bottle of booze. Entrepreneuer Mike Wayne (no relation) said he looked at 32 different designs before he came up with a bottle that the Duke’s family felt was just right. The result is that the late actor stares back with craggy realism from a fifth of Kentucky bourbon About 5,000 cases will be distributed world-wide, the first 500 of them in Arizona, where many of Wayne’s westerns were filmed. Each bottle weighs about 20 pounds and will sell for S6O to S7O. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) --The new Miss Indiana, Teresa Kardatzke, 20, says she enjoys jogging, weight lifting, collecting international dolls and hooking rugs. Miss Karadatzke. who represented Anderson at the annual pageant, is 5-foot-4, 102 pounds, has blonde hair and green eyes and is from Wichita, Kan. First runner-up was Ilona Conway, 23, of Bunker Hill, Ind., competing as Miss Hoosier Hills Festival. Kvmberly Kurtz. 20, of New Paris, competing as Miss Elkhart County, was named second runner-up. • During his final briefing Monday as State Department spokesman, Hodding Carter 3d took the opportunity to say that, when he accepted the job in 1977, he “always intended to give a'full and accurate representation of the department’s views and positions.” Carter, regarded as one of the more popular spokesmen the department has had, had moved on to a discussion of policy on Jerusalem when suddenly he was interrupted by a whistle-blowing, tuxedo-clad messenger, who placed a tiny dunce cap on Carter’s head. Beating time on a tambourine, the messenger sang a song. The words went like this: “The news of your departure does not please us; in fact, we cry our eyes out every night. Not because we miss you so, but because you didn’t go even sooner than we’d hoped you might.” Carter, somewhat taken aback, recovered with grace. “I don’t know who the jerks are who did this,” he said with a grin, “but thank you." Credit for the prank, by the way, was given to the State Department Correspondents Association. • The highest authority in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has ruled that Sonia Johnson’s excommunication as a Mormon cannot be overturned and, in fact, Mormon leaders in Salt Lake City urged that before seeking reinstatement, she should repent. “It makes me heartsick,” Mrs. Johnson said Sunday in Miami Beach, where she addressed a meeting of the National Organization for Women. “It is so dishonorable. They want me to repent, but what must I repent? I’m a feminist first and foremost.” /

An edgy Jack Lemmon collided with a clown hired to entertain guests at Cecil’s a Palm Springs restaurant. They had words and Jack pushed the clown to the ground as bystanders gasped. Amazed at his own temper, red-faced Jack quickly apologized . “Incredible Hulk” star Bill Bixby and his estranged wife, actress Brenda Benet, are a happy twosome again after a rough stretch in when Bill was hulked out of marriage. . Leonard Nimony and a friend stunned diners at a posh eaterie when he breezed in with a big bust of Vincent van Gogh under his arm and asked for a table, ordered glass of water for it and began introducing it to curious bystanders. . .Alana Hamilton treated hubby Rod Stewart to wild $15,000 party at their California beach home-only to wind up in a shrieking spat in front of startled guests. Alana ran outside, locked hersefi in her Rolls and screeched away-as Rod pounded furiously on the windows. STAGE DOOR: Clint Eastwood got soaked in Las Vegas when a playful lady friend pushed him, fully-clothed, into a swimming pool. But Clint paid her back by pouring a glass of water on her head during dining. . Two-fisted Robert DeNiro knocked down a creep who was trying to take a cab away from two elderly ladies in New York. When rugged Robert came to the rescue of the women and warned the guy and his pal to “be gentlemen,” the loud mouth gave DeNiro some lip-and wound up hitting the pavement. . In a shocking display of bad temper, Omar Sharif suddenly flew off the handle and slapped a woman during a quarrel. The woman-a clerk who’d been taking bets from Sharif at a Montreal track-burst into tears. An irate radio announcer had to be restrained from pummeling the slaphappy star. John Forsythe has replaced George Peppard as the patriarch in “Oil,” ABC’s “Dallas”-like movie and series pilot. Peppard denied speculation that he left the show because of a reluctance to play a character patterned after Larry Ragman’s J.R. Ewing, though he does say he quit because of a desagreement over how his role should be played.

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