Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 263, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 July 1980 — Page 7

People in the news Jennings has no driving desire NASHVILLE. Tenn. (AP) Waylon Jennings wants more than a “Good Hearted Woman” these days. He is looking for a good running car to add a NASCAR trophy to the gold records on his wall. Jennings and his driver, Gary Baker, hope to get that trophy Saturday night in the Nashville 420 stock car race. Baker, a road racing veteran, got the country entertainer as a sponsor last year and posted a 33 percent victory record on the road race circuit. Their partnership grew out of a business relationship. Baker, who wears a three-piece suit and doesn’t have a trace of grease under his fingernails, has been Jennings’ tax attorney for five years. Baker took Jennings to a race and he was hooked. “1 loved the sound of the motors. That locks me in. That's where the excitement is,” Jennings said. But Jennings says he has no desire to get in the driver’s seat. “I wish I was younger; I’d try it. But I’m not now. I’d hurt somebody probably me.” After their road racing success, Jennings and Baker decided to try stock car racing this year. Their first two outings ended with a spectacular crash in the Daytona 500 at Daytona Beach, Fla., and mechanical problems in the Winston 500 at Talladega, Ala. Saturday night, Baker is to make his first NASCAR start on a short track. Even though he owns a quarter of the Nashville track, he can’t practice on the .596-mile oval. “NASCAR has a rule that you can’t get on the track one week prior to the race,” he said. Jennings says he will be at the track Saturday night, as he is every chance he gets when the black and white Monte Carlo with "Waylon” on the side enters a race. “Before I got into racing, all I did was work. I didn’t have any hobbies,” Jennings said. “Now I have a hobby I can afford.” Jennings says he is ready for the team’s road-racing success to transfer to the NASCAR circuit, and he is counting on a victory Saturday night before a hometown crowd. “I’m going to ride around on the hood after he wins that monkey,” W’aylon boasted. “We'll buy Daytona and turn it into a car wash.” • LOS ANGELES (AP) Thirteen writers who worked on Red Skelton's television shows are trying to make sure they wrote deathless prose. The writers filed a federal suit to prevent the comedian from destroying tape recordings of the programs. In several recent interviews, Skelton has said the tapes of his four TV series from 1955 to 1971 should be destroyed upon his death. But his attorney Stephen Koundakjian said Skelton, who turns 67 next Friday, “has never told me” that he wanted the tapes destroyed. “He made the statements more or less in jest,” Koundakjian said. “He’s a clever comic, you know, and it’s very possible that his remarks were quoted out of context or misinterpreted.” The writers want an injunction that would prohibit the three-time Emmy winner from destroying nearly 250 tapes and kinescopes under his control. A hearing on the suit will be held Aug. 22. NEW YORK (AP) Being a fan is one thing, but stashing SIO,OOO worth of Billy Joel Tshirts and other stolen goods is another. Vinko Stare, 32, of New York was arraigned Thursday on charges of criminal possession and sale of stolen savings bonds He was held in lieu of SI,OOO bond. Detectives with a search warrant reported recovering the Tshirts, electronic gear, a video cassette player, guitars and crystals imprinted with Joel’s name in Stare’s home. Police said the bonds and the rock singer’s gear had been stolen from Joel’s offices last November.

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c. 1980 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Having played opposite a gorilla in her first film, the remake of “King Kong,” and the angel of death in her second, “All That Jazz,” Jessica Lange is glad to have a chance to be a person instead of a presence in her third and fourth films. These are “How to Beat the High Cost of Living” and a remake of “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” adapted from the James M. Cain novel of lust and murder. It is scheduled for release during the Christmas holidays, with Jack Nicholson and Miss Lange playing the roles created by John Garfield and Lana Turner. “If I had had my choice, I wouldn’t have begun my career with ‘King Kong’ and ‘Jazz,’ ” Miss Lange said. “They were terribly daunting. It was almost impossible for me to watch myself in ‘King Kong.’ The screening was excruciatingly painful. At least half the time I had my hands over my eyes, wishing it would go away. It was a kind of immature reaction you get when you see yourself on the screen for the first time.” “How to Beat the High Cost of Living” is, in her words, a nice comedy about three women the other two are Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin who get involved in a robbery. It was filmed in the genteel precincts of Eugene, Ore., and was completed last October, a month before the start of “Postman,” for which she was able to move back toward Hollywood, because it was shot in Santa Barbara, Calif. The “Postman” remake was directed by Bob Rafelson. He was co-producer of “Easy Rider,” the film that made Nicholson’s reputation, and directed him in “Five Easy Pieces.” Rafelson might not have been able to do “Postman” if he hadn’t been let go last April for falling behind schedule with “Brubaker,” and for allegedly throwing a chair at a studio executive who flew to the Ohio location to urge him to go faster. Despite the close association between the director and Nicholson, Miss Lange said she did not feel like an outsider during the “Postman” filming. “Jack was tremendously generous to me,” she said. “His presence and intensity were just as great during my closeups as during his own, and that helps a lot.” Miss Lange, a pleasant, self-possessed young woman, is a Minnesotan, who attended the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and studied modern dance in New York and

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WAYLON JENNINGS: Car fever HOLLYWOOD (AP) it might be called “The Holdouts.” Three television stars seeking more money failed to show up for fall season filming, and production company attorneys filed $1 million lawsuits against no-shows Judd Hirsch and Danny DeVito (“Taxi”) and Robert Guillaume (“Benson”). Hirsch, who plays the wisecracking Alex on the consistently top 10-rated ABC-TV show, and DeVito, the diminutive but hard-nosed dispatcher, were charged with breach of contract by Paramount Pictures Corp. for their failure to begin filming Monday. Guillaume, the butler with the rapier-like wit, also was to begin his filming duties Monday for his popular ABC-TV series, said Witt-Thomas-Harris Productions in its breach of contract action. The Superior Court filings also sought to restrain all three stars from working elsewhere during the 23-week term of their contracts. Hirsch, who was to begin his third season, reportedly gets $15,000 an episode. “I’m not thrilled with the economics of my deal,” Hirsch said Wednesday through his agent Sandy Bresler. Bresler said Hirsch has no intention of quitting the series. • WASHINGTON (AP) Mayor Dianne Feinstein’s day in Washington included a visit to the White House, immediately followed by a quick trip to the hospital. The San Francisco mayor tripped and broke her arm Thursday while leaving the White House after a visit with Vice President Walter Mondale. She also received facial cuts and was treated at George Washington University, according to a spokesman for her husband, Dick Blum. NEW YORK (AP) The deposed Shah of Iran may be out of favor in much of.the world, but his signature is still worth something in the auction house. A 1977 photograph signed by the shah that shows the former ruler and his wife with President and Rosalynn Carter at the White House has been sold for $475. The official White House color photo, signed M.R. Pahlavi, was sold to James McLane, a part-time dealer from Morris Plains, N.J., according to the Charles Hamilton Galleries. Charles Hamilton, gallery president, said it was the first signed photo of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi sold at auction. “His signature is very scarce” because Pahlavi rarely gave autographs, he said. Hamilton said the price paid was unusual in comparison to the value of photos signed by U.S. leaders. One autographed by Carter is worth $75, Gerald Ford S6O, Lyndon Johnson SIOO, and Calvin Coolidge SSO, he said. It was one of several celebrity-autographed articles sold Thursday night at an auction at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

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