Banner Graphic, Volume 11, Number 105, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 January 1981 — Page 4

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People in the news Kim Novak in return to screen Actress Kim Novak, the sex symbol of the '6os and the vanishing lady of the '7os, has no regrets spending the last decade away from pictures before making a comeback in the Agatha Christie mystery, “The Mirror Crack’d.” Instead, she raises llamas and other more or less exotic animals with her veterinarian husband of five years, Dr. Robert Malloy, on a 120-acre ranch in Carmel. Calif. "MOVIKS ARK NOT AS much fun as llamas,” the star of "Vertigo," "Picnic" and "The Man With the Golden Arm” says. "Mind you, I liked working on 'The Mirror Crack’d' with people I hadn’t seen in years. Those people include Tony Curtis. Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson. Kim plays Curtis’ wife, a rival of the Liz TTaylor character "I still get lots of sex-symbol scripts to read, but now they want me to play has-been sex symbols," Miss Novak says The Malloy menage consists of six horses, three goats, three dogs, one donkey and 24 llamas. The latter are available for sale - the price is staggering because it’s I'een illegal to import them from their native Andes since UM. r > - or for rent through a company appropriately called Rent-A-Llama Who rents llamas? "Back packers mostly." the 47-year-old actress says. Also, it s easier to jog with a llama, and you can keep them in your backyard.” OK IIKK PRK-LI, AM A past, Novak says she most enjoyed making the Alfred Hitchcock thriller "Vertigo" because she loves playing dual roles, perhaps because "I'm a typical Aquarian - in other words, crazy." • He won’t be giving up the anchorman position on the CBS Evening News until March, but already Walter Cronkite nas received some generous praise from a couple of his chief competitors aL "If it hadn't been for Walter Cronkite, none of us would Joe around," John Chancellor, anchorman of the NBC News says in the January issue of Panorama, the magazine. "Walter believes in the ‘news’ more Sthan he believes in the ‘show.’ Walter is one of the good gguys. not a hot dog. It was only because Walter was a good Jguv that it was possible for the rest of us to compete as *T?bod guys, too." Frank Reynolds, the ABC anchorman, is quoted as saying: "I’ve often wondered what TV news would be like ts Walter were not the person he is. He could have done great damage to the industry and to the country if he had not been the principled person that he is.” • - LOS ANGELES (AP) Movie pioneer Raoul Walsh, whose 70-year career as a director included such classics j>as "What Price Glory?" and "White Heat." was mourned Friday by the film industry. Walsh, who was 93. will be buried in private services ■ - Monday. He died at a hospital Wednesday after an apparent heart attack. His wife of 35 years. Mary, was at his „ .bedside. "I'm greatly shocked to hear of Raoul’s death. I will miss him terribly." said James Cagney, who starred in the 1949 gangster film "White Heat." "He spans the whole history of motion pictures,” said -director Frank Capra, who said Walsh’s films “His films were very clean, moral, interesting entertainment.” n As an actor or director and sometimes both, Walsh worked with almost all of Hollywood’s legendary greats. ;,from D W Griffith and Douglas Fairbanks Sr. to Errol v Flynn and John Wayne, an unknown when Walsh directed him in the 1930 western "The Big Trail." Walsh went for action and clear-cut good guy-bad guy conflict in the films he directed, which included "Sadie Thompson" in which he also starred “They Drive By Night." "High Sierra." “Captain Horatio Hornblower.” "Band of Angels." “The Naked and the Dead.”

Gilda leaves 'SaturdayNight' behind

c. 1980 X.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK casually to me. ‘I didn't think you were very good tonight,’ I'd cry for days.” Gilda Radner. The former "Saturday Night Live” television superstar doesn't cry any more. Gilda Radner’s trial by fire the opening night of Jean Kerr’s hit comedy “Lunch Hour,” in which Radner made her Broadway acting debut is already a distant memory. There were some raves and a few reviews that were ... well, less than that. Anyway, she and the show have come out on top Business is brisk and Radner says she loves going to work nightly at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and sharing the laughter and applause with Sam Waterston. Waterston and the play’s director. Mike Nichols, helped the talented tyro from television in her metamorphosis from kook to actress, and she says she’s very grateful to both and to author Kerr. It was Nichols also the director of the comedienne’s only other Broadway foray, “Gilda Radner, Live from New York.” in which she performed her “Saturday Night Live” roles who first thought she might belong in the theater. “He called me up.” Radner recalls, “when I was out in the Hamptons on Long Island, taking a vacation which looked like it was going to last the restdf my life. I was determined not to go back to ‘Saturday Night Live.’ He said to me Tm directing this play and there might be a part for you Will you read it 9 ' And boy. did I read it The only problem was that Jean Kerr had never heard of me and had never seen ‘Saturday Night Live ' "It’s all very strange about my transformation into an actress I think it all began one morning when I woke up and said to myself, ‘I don’t feel kooky or zany today ’ Then f said to myself, ‘I don’t WANT to be kooky and zany.’ Back to Waterston, Nichols and Kerr, who Radner says “showed her the way ” “I loved Jean from the moment we met,” she says There she was tall, friendly and just as kooky as I could ever be The first time we met she had a Diet Pepsi and an ashtray in her purse ready for just about everything 1 fell in love with her ft’s a funny thing The girl I play in ‘Lunch Hour’ is a former fatty I got out some old pictures and showed them to Jean 1 used to weigh 40 more pounds than I do now When I read the play I said to myself, T know that girl ’ I

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PETER FALK: 'Columbo' comeback? NEW YORK (AP) Actor Peter Falk has a soft spot in his heart for Columbo, the TV detective in the rumpled trench coat whose seemingly innocent questions led to solutions of the most complicated crimes. “I really liked that guv I liked him a lot,” said Falk, who portrayed the police lieutenant on the popular series. "I’ll tell ya. I’m ready to start doing Columbo again. All they gotta do is ask me," he told a reporter for Knighl-Rid-der newspapers. The last Columbo episode was filmed two years ago. By that time, Falk was making about six shows a year, earning about $500,000 per episode. As for the famed raincoat, "it’s still at the studio.” “I ought to go pick it up, take it home, frame it and put it over the mantle or something. It’s so old I gotta put a saucer of milk out for it every night ” • Whatever else you may have heard about how things will be run in the Reagan White House, you may be sure of one thing: “There will be jelly beans in the White House, that’s all I can say about it.” That prediction, unfraught with political significance, comes from a man who seems uniquely equipped to make •t ~~ Herman Rowland, a fourth-generation candvmaker whose company whips up the jelly beans that are the president-elect’s favorites. Reagan, a jelly-bean freak who kept a jar of the candies on his desk when he was governor of California, wrote Rowland a letter some years ago in which he said: “We can hardly start a meeting or make a decision without passing around the jar of jelly beans.” Rowland proudly confided, out in Oakland. Calif., this week, that Reagan’s favorite candies were “Jelly Bellies,” considered by aficionados (and apparently there are some) as the, well, caviar of jelly beans. And, for anyone who needs to know, the Herman Goelitz Co., founded by Rowland’s great-grandfather, pops out 10 million Jelly Bellies a day, in 36 flavors including blueberry, peanut butter and hot jalapeno. • ELKHART, Ind. (AP) Bandleader Doc Severinsen has been named vice president of C.G. Conn Ltd., a band instrument company, the firm’s chairman announced Friday. “Doc Severinsen will play a major role in the development and improvement of Conn brass instruments, and I cannot imagine a better man to help us,” said Daniel J. Henkin, chairman of the Elkhart-based company. “Doc’s lifelong commitment to music and his expertise will be a source of great strength for Conn in its dedication to create the finest instruments possible,” Henkin said. Severinsen will be working on product design for all brasswind instruments, especially on new' acoustical concepts and mechanical improvements.

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