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People in the news Seven years later, Pruett's back NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) There’s no mid-life crisis for country music singer Jeanne Pruett, whose career is surging for the first time since her 1973 classic “Satin Sheets.” Her single “Temporarily Yours” has been in the Top 5 of the country music charts on the heels of another hit, “Back to Back.” Her “Encore!” has been among the 10 bestselling albums. "It’s nice to be reborn at age 45,” she says, “Satin Sheets" propelled her to stardom, joining songs like “Behind Closed Doors” and “Rhinestone Cowboy” as the most-played country music songs of the 19705. In the past seven years, however, her career forged nothing to rival “Satin Sheets.” But with the success of her past two records and the album, she’s back among the top female recording artists in country music. Life may begin at 40 for some, but for her, it began again at 45. "It’s kind of the second time around for me,” she says. “I’ve seen it before the records and the attention. ‘“Satin Sheets’ was the kind of song you could hang your career on. It took me from an unknown to a household word. Between 1976 and 1979, my bookings and my money never dropped, but my record success did. “I’ve always been proud of my work, but in the past year, the quality of my work and the material the songwriters have given me have put my career on the upswing. “I’ve been recording the best material and the timing has been right because some other female acts have been broadening their scope while I’ve stayed purely country.” • NEW YORK (AP) Bert Parks, who spent years hosting the Miss America pageant, is now promoting the idea that beauty is beans. Parks turned out in a tuxedo Tuesday to make a commercial for Chock Full o’ Nuts coffee. The set was decorated with a banner that read “American coffee pageant.” A young woman by his side wore a coffee can. Parks introduced the “beauties” regular coffee, instant coffee and de-caffeinated coffee. Parks was fired from his job as master of ceremonies for the Miss America pageant this year when he turned 65. Chock Full o’ Nuts paid Parks $200,000 “as down payment” for three 30-second commercials. • Paul McCartney was a solo act even before the Beatles broke up in 1970, for all practical purposes. His band. Wings, is his vehicle, which might explain in large measure why he has had such troubles retaining its personnel. His most recent disk is called “McCartney II,” meaning it’s only his second “official” solo album, after “McCartney” of 1970. In other words, he recorded it at home and did all the vocal and instrumental parts himself. When Paul McCartney says “solo,” he means it. The first song on the album, “Coming Up,” is No. 1 on the singles charts right now, and the album is rapidly ascending toward the same spot on the album charts. The record has its moments of charm and even self-revelation, but ultimately seems trivial. McCartney seems to need equal collaborators to stiffen the frothier side of his creative spirit. Like John Lennon, for instance. Anybody for a Beatles reunion? • Carly Simpn may not be quite so much a pop-music icon as McCartney, but she is still firmly ensconced in the hierarchy. Like McCartney, she has, at her best, the gift of speaking with some gravity in a brightly accessible pop idiom, all glossy and fresh. And because she isn’t so much identified with a particular musical style as she is a voice and a personality, she can adapt to pop music’s evershifting fashions with little fear of blurring her image. On her new “Come Upstairs” album. Miss Simon extends her musical idiom as far as modified techno-pop, but this is still very much a Carly Simon record. This time, it has been produced by Mike Mainieri, who has also written most of the songs with her. But Miss Simon’s distinctiveness of vocal timbre and phrasing and her characteristic thematic preoccupations love, mostly, especially that for her husband, James Taylor, and commentary on the pleasures and perils of stardom remain as before.

Broadway Beat

By JOEY SASSO Helen Hayes, the 79-year-old “First Lady of American Theater,” recently showed that she could win first place in making quips about the performers. In San Francisco, to publicize the Third Biennial John Muir Medical Film Festival in nearby Walnut Creek, Ms. Hayes was asked by local reporters her opinion of some Hollywood newcomers like John Travolta and Jack Nicholson. While Urban Cowboy got good marks from Helen-she opined “Travolta has everything a good actor should have-“emotion and Truth,” “Shining” star Nicholson hardly shined in her eyes. Jack, in her words is “an awful phony. He’s made up a character and played him to death. When I heard him on TV recently, I thought he was talking like (Marlon) Brando but worse, because I sensed it wasn’t real. I know he didn’t grow up talking that way. Then I read that he let Brando take over Missouri Breaks because he had such a passion for Brando. He should try to be himself, be an original.” Your turn, Jack. Sophia Loren, currently in Rome filming her life story, “La Buona Stella (The Good Star),” is probably feeling like five different people these days. Not only is she playing herself, her mother and her mother portraying Greta Garbo, but she’s also busy with her new role as spokesperson for SOPHIA by Coty. Ms. Loren will be in th eU.S. in September to help promote this new perfume. She is the first major star to help create a perfume and loan her name to it. Johnny Mathis claims he has found a secret passageway in his Beverly Hills home. He says Howard Hughes and Carole Lombard held their love trysts there-and their ghosts still haunt it. . . Robert Redford is more than interested in putting together a movie based on Roy Rogers’ life story . . Paul Newman’s friends say he’s angry because John Travolta turned down a co-starring role in

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COL. SANDERS: Back in hospital

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Col. Harland Sanders, 89, the symbol of Kentucky Fried Chicken, has been readmitted to the hospital, this time suffering from a problem with his esophagus, according to an official of the restaurant chain. Sanders was hospitalized in early June for pneumonia, and doctors also discovered he had leukemia. Sanders was released and began receiving chemotherapy. On June 30, he was again admitted to the hospital for pneumonia, but was released Saturday. Cathleen Partlow, spokesman for the fast food company, said Sanders condition was not serious. “It is a condition which makes swallowing difficult,” she said. • NEW YORK (AP) Nearly seven weeks after he was shot in the back by an unknown assailant, civil rights leader Vernon Jordan remains in serious condition, hospital officials said. A spokesman at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, said Tuesday that Jordan, president of the National Urban League, was in “serious but satisfactory” condition. Jordan was shot May 29 in a motel parking lot in Fort Wayne, Ind., where he had given a speech. He was transferred to the New York hospital June 12. No arrests have been made in the case. • And now, the latest chapter in the continuing saga of Larry Kert’s quest to play A 1 Jolson on Broadway. Kert is rehearsing a new version of “A 1 Jolson, Tonight!” which will open on July 21 in Indianapolis. After playing there a week, the musical will move to Kansas City, New Orleans, St. Louis and Tulsa, Okla., for weeklong runs and then New York, maybe. This story began a year ago last spring, when Kert starred in a musical called “Joley,” which had an ill-fated Broadway tryout on Long Island. After that, Kert and Jeff Britton, the producer, started over with a new set of collaborators. They enlisted Nicholas Dante, co-author of “A Chorus Line,” to write a book, and Michael Shawn to direct and choreograph. The result was a new show, “A 1 Jolson Tonight,” which was partially unveiled at a series of backers’ auditions last summer. • NEW YORK (AP) Amy Vance, a young New York lawyer, had a rather unusual sponsor for her application to practice law in federal courts former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Vance and his wife, Grace, appeared in U.S. District Court in Manhattan Tuesday as their daughter, 30, was sworn with about 35 other lawyers by Judge Robert W. Sweet. Miss Vance, who began practicing law after graduating from Fordham Law School three years ago, rushed to the clerk’s office after the ceremony, paid an $lB fee and received a certificate permitting her to practice in the courts of the state’s southern district, which includes parts of the New York metropolitan area. Vance and his daughter are associated with different private law firms in Manhattan.

“Fort Apache” without as much as a phone call or a look at the script. *** SWING SET CONFIDENTIAL: Don’t believe for a second those rumors and “reports” of Roger Moore, the screen’s 007, finally coming to a parting of the ways with his producer, Cubby Broccoli. A source close to the actor reveals the easygoing Moore and the gruff producer are just a dot and a dash away from signing a contract for “For Your Eyes Only,” making that the fifth time Moore would player super-agent James Bond on the Big Screen.. .Two showbiz moguls weren’t laughing after a vintage Jerry Lewis performance in Paris. The two men had hired Jerry to host a nightclub bash and carried a $6,500 bott of 90-year-old champagne into an office to celebrate after the show. They left the room to chat and returned to find the bottle empty and Jerry with his feet up on a desk. . .In a blitz shopping spree in Aspen, Cher shelled out a grand for matching ski gear, which she gave to her ex, Sonny Bono and Sonny’s honey, Susie Coelho. *♦* NO BIZ LIKE SHOW BIZ: To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s signing to record exclusively with RCA Records, the company has announced plans for simultaneous worldwide release in August of 250,000 copies of a de luxe, numbered limited edition eight-record album, “Elvis Aron Presley,” contaning 87 performances, 65 of them never before released, by the world entertainer whose career catapulted music into the rock ‘n roll era. The boxed set will bear a gold replica of the signature that appears on Elvis’ first record contract. Shown around the box are the eight inner sleeves, each bearing a rare, fullcolor photograph of the artist. The package also includes a 20-page booklet containing information about Elvis’ career and additional photos. Noteworthy in the alumb is a 13minute, 41-second monologue of Elvis discussing his thoughts and beliefs on various subjects.

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