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People in the news Psychic sues over Reagan prediction SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) Beverly Hills psychic Tamara Rand alleges Las Vegas TV show host Dick Maurice ‘ duped’’ her into retaping a prediction she claims to have made Jan. 20 of an assassination attempt on President Reagan. The second taping on March 31 came one day after Reagan was shot in Washington, and Maurice has admitted it was a hoax. But Ms Rand, 34, insists otherwise, and her $lO million civil suit filed Wednesday also names producer Gary Greco, Dick Maurice Enterprises and Las Vegas station KTNV-TV. NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Former boxing great Jake LaMotta says his 51-year-old ex-wife’s nude appearance in Playboy magazine doesn't bother him now, but added: "Thirty years ago I would have killed her." Mrs. LaMotta, featured in the November issue, admitted her age made her nervous about the project but said her sons and 29-year-old daughter approved of the idea along with her former husband. "It would have been different years ago, but now I appreciate her beauty," LaMotta said. “She’s a lovely lady.” • GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The state Board of Medical Examiners has disciplined the physician who invented Gatorade for writing two prescriptions to himself, violating a state law. An audit of the Shands Hospital pharmacy records showed J. Robert Cade, a hospital physician and professor of medicine at the University of Florida, had written two prescriptions of controlled drugs. One prescription was for himself, while the other was for his daughter’s dog, he said. The Independent Professional, a monthly trade newspaper for regulated professionals, reported in its October issue that the prescriptions were for 20 Demerols and 20 codeine tablets. After a hearing last month, the board decided to have Cade conduct two educational seminars to alert his collegues and medical students to the law he said he unknowingly violated. Cade said the seminars have already been held. f Cade is the inventor of a popular drink called Gatorade. • CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) removes John F. Kennedy’s name from its school of government, a Cambridge councilor says he’ll retaliate by changing Harvard Square to John F. Kennedy Square. “If Harvard gets too flippy,” Councilor Alfred Velucci, a former Cambridge mayor, said Tuesday, “it would take one little order of the council, just five votes, to change the name of Harvard Square to John F. Kennedy Square.” Velucci’s motion to change the name of the street in front of the government school to John F. Kennedy Street unanimously passed the council Monday. Harvard has denied it planned to change the name of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, but school catalogs now call it HSG, standing for Harvard School of Government, and press releases announcing speakers at the school have not mentioned the Kennedy name.
Donaldson tired of Capitol Hill grind
c. 1981 The Dallas Morning News NEW ORLEANS ABC’s Sam Donaldson, the notorious question shouter, is ready to slip quietly out of Washington. He’s spent five years hustling and haranguing in a town without pity. Lately, he’s lost maybe half a step in the rat race. So it’s time to step down if his network will let him. “Come January, I hope to leave the White House beat,” Donaldson said from a suite in the Marriott Hotel. He had just spoken at the recent Radio-Television News Directors Association convention. It was a vibrant address filled with amusing anecdotes about Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. Donaldson got a laugh a minute, but he says presidentwatching really isn’t a big kick for him anymore. “I wanted to leave after four years and I told (ABC News President) Roone Arledge that in the summer of 1980,” Donaldson said. “I’ve been there too long now. The edge is off. I don’t think I’m washed up in the business, but I’ve seen enough of Washington. The stories are repetitive. Let someone else come and reinvent the wheel. “I was there when (Israeli Prime Minister Menachem) Begin paid his first visit to the White House. To me that was new, interesting and fascinating, and I’m sure my piece reflected my enthusiasm. I tried to do a good job the other day when Begin was there, but I’ll bet if you put the two pieces side by side you’ll find the first one was a little better. I was a little fresher then and it wasn’t old hat to me.” At 47, Donaldson said he’s not up to making a spectacle of himself anymore. During President Reagan’s Labor Day stop in New York, for instance, Donaldson said he found himself on his hands and knees, crawling on the grass with an armful of videocassettes, looking for a way out of a jampacked media event. “I’m getting too old for that. I’m getting too tired for that,” he said. “I’m not telling you I’m too good for that, but it is a young man’s game. You should be in your 30s and have the energy to do that. I’ll still pull my share and I’ll still work hard. If I have to go around the clock for a couple of days on a story, that’s fine. But I’m just tired. I’m pleased to have done it.” A recent article in TV Guide, “Washington’s Politicians Rate TV’s Reporters,” said Donaldson “seems to have lost the position he enjoyed during the Carter days as the White House’s top TV reporter. “Reagan officials and other White House observers,” the article said, “credit CBS correspondent Bill Plante with having the best inside sources and most thorough understanding of what goes on in the Reagan administration.” Donaldson termed the article “fair” and nearly on target. “I covered Carter all the way through the primary elections (in 1976) and knew all his people,” he said. “Plante
BETTE DAVIS: Eyes miniseries
HOLLYWOOD (AP) Two-time Oscar winner Bette Davis stars as a New England school teacher who sets out to rediscover her family in the NBC miniseries “Family Reunion.” The series was inspired by an article in the Ladies Home Journal magazine. Fielder Cook directed from a screenplay by Allan Sloane. The show will be broadcast in two parts, on Sunday, Oct. 11 and Monday, Oct. 12. SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) A loud argument betweeen country music singers Tanya Tucker and Glen Campbell in a hotel here was broken up by police, authorities said. Sgt. Rickey Spier of the Bossier City police said Wednesday he had to threaten Campbell with arrest early Saturday before he would leave the the hall outside Miss Tucker’s suite in the Le Bossier Hotel. • CHICAGO—The Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday charged Italian movie mogul Carlo Ponti and two Chicago lawyers with defrauding investors in connection with five movie production partnerships. In a suit filed in U.S. District Court here, the SEC accused Ponti, husband of actress Sophia Loren, and Ronald Tash and Denis Kleinfeld of violating securities laws in promoting the partnerships, in which investors put up $3.52 million. Also named in the suit were Sostar S.A., a Pontiowned production company located in Liechtenstein, and the five Illinois production partnerships. Specifically, the suit charged that between August, 1974, and June, 1975, investors in the five partnerships were promised 100 percent profits, plus a tax deduction of $4 for each $1 invested. This tax information, the SEC said, was based on fraudulent information. Furthermore, the SEC charged that the investors were told that financing for the projects had been obtained from a production company owned by Ponti, when there was no such financing. Each of the five partnerships had between 45 and 60 .investors. None of the partnerships received any money for the movies, the SEC said. None of the movies was a bigname production.
has the same advantage now, having gone through the same thing with Reagan. I have to recognize that during the years Carter was in the White House, because of my having been with his campaign, it was easier for me than for a competitor to get a story.” Donaldson’s contract with ABC expires in November. That means he’s negotiating right now “for something else to do.” If ABC’s not willing to transfer him, Donaldson said he might look elsewhere. As the beet known of the networks’ Washington correspondents, he’ll have some leverage. He’s at the height of a career that began over two decades ago in Dallas at KRLD-TV (now KDFW). A native of El Paso, Donaldson majored in telecommunications at Texas Western University and later the University of Southern California. In 1960, he left KRLD to become a political reporter for WTOP-TV in Washington. He covered Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign in 1964 and joined ABC three years later. After following Carter on his road to the presidency, Donaldson became ABC’s chief White House correspondent in January, 1977. En route, his aggressive, often abrasive style earned him a reputation he’d like to alter. In Marathon, political reporter Jules Witcover’s account of the 1976 presidential campaign, Donaldson was described as “the brassy ABC correspondent who has never needed a road map to the jugular” and “a reporter as unobtrusive as the bubonic plague.” “I don’t think I’m going to win any Mr. Nice Guy awards,” Donaldson said. “I think I’d like to, but I don’t think I will. “I am irascible and aggressive. And when people are not doing their jobs, I can be abrupt and abrasive, and say mean and nasty things. If I don’t make the air because somebody can’t edit, they’ll hear about it. “I’ll tell you this. Reporters in this business, no matter what the level of pressure, had better believe they’re good, whether they are or not. A lot of people mistake that for arrogance.” But Donaldson sounds more like Henny Youngman than Darth Vader when reviewing the respective capabilities of Presidents Carter and Reagan. “Jimmy Carter could build a cruise missile from memory,” Donaldson said. “Ronald Reagan would not know the difference between a cruise missile and a Cuban cigar.” At a party, though, Donaldson said there’d be no contest between Jimmy the Grind and Ronny the Raconteur. “I kind of like him,” he said of Reagan. “If you could have 200 of the most interesting people in the world at your house, I don’t think Jimmy Carter would be on the list. He’s not that interesting a person. But Ronald Reagan might be among your top 10 or 20 because he does tell good stories. I’ve heard a few of his movie jokes. They’re funny.”
Taking off
Wright Brothers credit Nashville, not Kitty Hawk
NASHVILLE, Term. (AP) - The road from French Lick, Ind., to Nashville was filled with lots of near misses, but a trio of bearded country-style musicians called the Wright Brothers finally arrived. After years of playing restaurants and motel bars in the Midwest, the three boyhood friends from southern Indiana brothers Tom and Tim Wright and Karl Hinkle are scheduled to release their first single in September on Warner Brothers. And they’ve already made two guest appearances on the Grand Ole Opry. “We started out playing in restaurants, then we developed ourselves into a show band and worked around the Ramada Inn chain and in college concerts for about six years,” says 32-year-old Tom. About two years ago, after a change in managers, the good things that all struggling musicians dream of began to occur, and it’s been a steady climb upward since then for the Wright Brothers. “We’ve worked our way into
Carson No. 1 in prime time, too
NEW YORK (AP) - ABC won the prime-time ratings race for the second consecutive week, even though NBC scored heavily with programs featuring two of he network’s biggest stars, figures from the A.C. Nielsen Co. showed. Ten of the 20 highest-rated programs in the week ending Sept. 27 were on ABC, including a “Monday Night Football” game between Dallas and New England in the No. 2 position. NBC, in contrast, listed only three of the Top 20 shows, but two of the three highest-rated. “Johnny Carson’s 19th Anniversary Show” was No. 1 for the week, with a rating of 28, and a second NBC special, “Bob Hope’s All-Star Comedy Look at the Fall Season,” finished third. Nielsen says the score for Carson’s special means of all
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Ticket refunds due INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - More than 200 Hoosiers will share in $10,025 in refunds on tickets to country-western music concerts that were never held, Attorney General Linley E. Pearson said. Hendricks Circuit Judge Jeffrey V. Boles entered the judgment this morning against Country Pride Productions and its chief operating officer, Jack Hoppes of Petersburg, 111. The refunds will go to 222 persons who "bought tickets for 1980 concerts featuring Freddie Fender, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Pride, Tom T. Hall, Janie Fricke and Gene Watson The concerts were canceled but the ticket prices were never returned to the patrons, Pearson said. “The refunds won’t be just for those who have already filed with us,” the attorney general said. “The order also allows refunds for many others we know that bought tickets for concerts but have not contacted us yet.”
the showrooms,” Tom says. “There’s a big difference between Ramada Inn showrooms and dinner theaters, Las Vegas lounges and Harrah’s at Reno and (Lake) Tahoe.” • The Wright Brothers want to be known as a country group, but their close harmony blend of blue grass, folk, Beatles,
the nation’s TV-equipped homes, 28 percent saw at least part of the program. ABC’s rating for the week was 16.5 to 16.1 for CBS and 14.1 for NBC. The networks say that means in ar. average primetime minute during the week, 16.5 percent of the country’s homes with television were tuned to ABC. Seven of the 20 highest-rated shows were in first run, four in addition to the three highestrated. CBS’ “60 Minutes” finished sixth, with Part I of a two-part Walt Disney film on CBS, “The Love Bug,” eighth, and two ABC shows, “That’s Incredible,” 14th, and “Best of the West,” 16th. With the start of the 1981-82 TV season just two weeks away, original programs were more common on network schedules.
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gospel and rock ’n’ roll qualifies for more than one music chart. “I think we were doing crossover country sound before people started putting their finger on cross-over country,” says brother Tim, 29. “Our sound has been like that since we started. It’s a positive crossover country sound. ”
CBS’ “Evening News,” meanwhile, regained the No. 1 position in the network news competition, after a two-week run at the top by NBC’s “Nightly News.” “World News Tonight” on ABC finished third. NBC had three programs among the five lowest-rated, and ABC two. An ABC “Theater for Young Americans” production, “Stoned,” finished 55th, followed by “Marie” on NBC, an NBC “Project Peacock” presentation, “How to Eat Like a Child,” “It’s a Living” on ABC and “Games People Play” on NBC. Here are the week’s 10 highest-rated shows: “Johnny Carson’s 19th Anniversary Show,” with a rating of 28 representing 22.8 million homes, NBC; “NFL Monday Night Football: Dallas vs. New
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The Wright Brothers began as a five-member group in 1971, although the Wrights and Hinkle had been playing together since childhood. They trimmed down to the trio, plus a drummer, and now say they’re better friends, almost like three brothers. “We feel that we’ve had a lot of chances before,,” Tom says. “Over the years, we feel like we’ve been close (to success). We did warmups for everybody from Mac Davis to Bob Hope, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Partoti and all kinds of people. . * *. “In 1975 and 1976, we thought we were right on the verge of making it, but it just wasn’t meant to be back then. We weren’t going in the right direction, and we probably weren’t together enough to handle it. So all this is happening at the right time, we think.” The Wright Brothers were playing their first engagement last year at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville when Opry announcer Tony Lyons heard them and wrangled an appearance for them on the granddaddy of country music shows.
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