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People in the news Fran Tarkenton still scrambling NEW YORK Fran Tarkenton would play in it every year, if he weren’t playing in the one for entrepreneurs. The 41-year-old former National Football League quarterback is a dynamo, a dynamo who has been frequently quoted as saying, “I am a businessman.” He's also a former adman, having worked off-season at Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn as an account man on a piece of business from the state of Georgia and at McCannErickson on Coca-Cola. So, given that contact with possible infection, it is no surprise that he came down with the old inventing-an-advertising-medium syndrome. He said the other day that the airline ticket folders with advertising would be his sixth business, and, as in the past, he has a partner, insisting: “I'm no figurehead. I’m intimately involved. I belly up with my money and I belly up with my effort.” One of his businesses is a consultancy on productivity. "More than any athlete of his time,” William N. Wallace wrote in The New York Times in 1976, “Fran Tarkenton has successfully mixed sports and business.” Right on. The name that he keeps before the public with his regular appearances on the ABC-TV Network gets him past executive doors with ease, and his l’il-ol’-Georgia-boy sales charm, first honed working for a Minnesota trucking company in the chill winter of 1962, appears to be dynamite when turned on. His new business inspiration came to him during one of his frequent commercial plane flights vertising in airline ticket folders, requiring an insert of six pages. That was last spring. He sold 11 airline presidents on the idea in 10 days, he said, and then during July wrote contracts with 12 advertisers without even a dummy. Usually he called the top guy at the advertiser company, saying: “This is Fran Tarkenton. I have an exciting new medium I’d like to take 10 minutes to talk to you about.” Although Tarkenton figures that the carriers he has contracted with distribute 14 million folders a month, he said he was beginning in January with only nine million and would build to as many as 16 million in July. During his New York selling summer he sold $7 million worth of advertising and. he noted proudly, “I only bought one lunch.” • LONDON (AP)~ Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono plan to sue for higher royalties from the company that owns the rights to Beatles’ songs McCartney wrote with Miss Ono's late husband, John Lennon. Tony Brainsby, a spokesman for McCartney, said it has not been decided whether to proceed in U.S. or British courts against Lord Lew Grade’s ATV Music Corp. The statement issued by Brainsby on behalf of McCartney and Miss Ono did not specify a sum for the royalties they are claiming. The statment was issued in response to newspaper reports in Britain that McCartney and his partner’s widow are fighting each other to buy Northern Songs Co., the subsidiary of ATV Music that owns the copyrights to all Beatles songs. He said the two met recently in the United States, were in constant communication and were “furious" about the reports that they were at odds. Brainsby said the suit would “relate to royalties on past Beatles sales. It has nothing to do with Paul McCartney and Lord Grade over negotiations to buy Northern Songs and ATV Music.” • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Signs warning boaters to slow down will be put up in manatee areas of Florida’s waterways, courtesy of country singer Jimmy Buffet, who gave Florida $35,000 for just that purpose. What is a manatee area, you might ask? It is an area populated by manatees, the large docile water creatures sometimes called sea cows. Buffet, a Floridian who has taken an interest in the endangered animals, presented a check to Natural Resources Director Elton Gissendanner in ceremonies Thursday. The money, which will pay for 365 signs, came from proceeds of two of Buffet’s recent concerts. Gov. Bob Graham, a fan of Buffet’s music, asked the singer earlier this year to help lead the state’s effort to protect the animals, which are sometimes injured or killed by boats in bays and rivers.

6:00 OffiNEWS (D FIRST ROW FEATURES Operalion Third Form" Schoolboys-turned-detec-lives discover the criminals who stole their school's legendary bell are really involved in more serious crimes. (1 hr.) o WELCOME BACK, KOTTER O O CD NEWS (1 HR.) © HAPPY DAYS AGAIN © DICK CAVETT Guest Phil Donahue. © ABC NEWS '(f) MOVIE *+ * “Somebody Up There I Likes Me" (1956, Biography) Paul Newman, Pier Angeli Rocky Graziano. a New York slum * boy, rises to lame as a championship boxer. • (1 hr.. 53 min.) 6:30 ! O NBC NEWS O LAVERNE & SHIRLEY ffi CBS NEWS © NEWS © OVER EASY "Living Together" g © MARY TYLER MOORE 7:00 OM*A*S'H .(J) WHAT WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT? O LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE Q ABC NEWS O CBS NEWS © THE MUPPETS © © NBC NEWS © SNEAK PREVIEWS Roger Ebert and , Gene Siskel review some recent films that nearly everybody missed the first time around including "Carny," "Gates Of Heaven" and The Onion Field "(R) © WILD, WILD WEST 7:30 0 TIC TAC DOUGH (D THE TOMORROW PEOPLE The : Slaves Of Jedikiah" Stephen, an ordinary ' schoolboy, is haunted by strange voices call--4 mg him. (Part 1) 0 ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT

Friday's TV programs

O P.M. MAGAZINE A tour of St. Louis's Gateway Arch: a house-husband who writes a column for the Washington Post © P.M. MAGAZINE A tour of St Louis's Gateway Arch; a house-husband who writes a column for the Washington Post; Joyce Kulhawik on infrared cameras, Marty Matthews makes tree ornaments. © FAMILY FEUD © LAVERNE & SHIRLEY © MACNEIL / LEHRER REPORT 8:00 0 © © NBC MAGAZINE (1 HR.) (D LIVEWIRE "Love" Guests: Ashford and Simpson, singing and songwriting team; Darrell Perry, Love Tapes Project; romance writer Kathryn Falk; psychologist Arlene Kagle; writer Janice Kaplan; The Music Box, a singing telegram. (1 hr.) O GOLIATH AWAITS A young scientist (Mark Harmon) discovers a British luxury liner, lost for over 40 years, at the bottom of the sea with 400 people still alive and being ruled by a benevolent dictator (Christopher Lee). (Part I)(2hrs.) 0 © BENSON Benson is recruited by the FBI in a scheme to trap a lobbyist suspected of bribing federal officials, g o © THE DUKES OF HAZZARD © WASHINGTON WEEK IN REVIEW CD MOVIE **’/> "The Cat From Outer Space" (1979. Comedy) Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan. An extraterrestrial tomcat crash lands on earth. G’ (1 hr., 54 min.) 8:30 O © BOSOM BUDDIES © WALL STREET WEEK "Return Of The Chartist Pope" Guest: Adriaan Schrikker, technical consultant, Jeffries and Company. 9:00 0 © © MCCLAIN'S LAW A prime suspect in a series of iunchtime rapes counters with a lawsuit charging McClain with police brutality. (1 hr.) ® OF PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS WITH ESTELLE PARSONS

BARRY GIBB:As Don Juan?

LONDON (AP) “Staying Alive” to the iambic pentameter of Lord Byron’s “Don Juan,” but Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees is ready to make the leap. Gibb, at 35 the oldest member of the pop-music group, is to make his acting debut as Lord Byron in a new movie, producers Mikola and Elizabeth Shevcheck announced Thursday. They said Gibb had already been signed for the film about the life and loves of the 19th-century English poet, who helped the Greeks in their struggle for independence against the Turkish empire. In a statement issued through the producers, Gibb said he had turned down numerous scripts over the past few years because he was waiting for the right challenge. “Lord Byron was a man who overcame past difficulties and personal problems, and forged boldly ahead,” he said. The producers said they were “very fortunate” to discover the pop star’s dramatic side. Filming is to begin next summer with an expected 1983 release date. No mention was made of Gibb’s salary. • Nancy Reagan has ordered that, starting Friday, the White House be closed through the weekend so that it may be decorated for Christmas. The official unveiling of the decorations, including al9 te-foot Christmas tree and 16 smaller ones, will take place Monday. Mrs. Reagan accepted the trees Wednesday from Eric and Gloria Sundbeck of Bethesda, Md. Their fir had been selected as national champion by the National Christmas Tree Association. The Sundbecks also supplied a championship Christmas tree for the White House in 1979, when Jimmy Carter was president. Sundbeck, who grew the tree in Spartansburg, Pa., said it was planted from a three-year-old seedling 26 years ago. It is taller than those grown commercially, he said, and would retail for about S7OO. Mrs. Reagan, who pronounced it “a lovely big tree,” said it would be covered with “oldfashion decorations.” Christmas planning at the White House also involves addressing 60,000 Christmas cards, paid for by the Republican National Committee, to be mailed Dec. 8 to heads of state, close Reagan friends and political supporters. The Reagans plan to spend Christmas in the White House and New Year’s in Palm Springs, Calif. • NEW YORK (AP) The American Academy of Arts and Letters has two new members former New York Philharmonic musical director Leonard Bernstein, whom the academy called “America’s most renowned musician,” and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Bernstein will occupy the chair last held by composer Samuel Barber, who died last year. Schlesinger will take the chair previously occupied by the late composer Howard Hanson, it was announced Thursday at the organization’s annual meeting. The academy, the upper body of the larger Institute of Arts and Letters, selects 50 members of the institute for special distinction. Schlesinger won the Pulitzer Prize for two books, “The Age of Jackson” and “A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House.”

0 © DARKROOM An imaginative teen-ager believes her older sister is dating a vampire, and a poor couple think up a way to continue getting their dead uncle’s pension. O © DALLAS Cliff Barnes tells J.R. to submit to his demands for Ewing Oil property or face foreclosure on the note which Cliff now holds. (1 hr.) © ENTERPRISE "The Kyocera Experiment" A profile of the San Diego subsidiary of Japan's fastest-growing company - Kyoto Ceramic - illustrates Japan's management techniques. 9:30 © BEN WATTENBERG AT LARGE 10:00 0 © © TV'S CENSORED BLOOPERS Flubs made by television personalities on camera which were never intended for public viewing are seen; Dick Clark hosts. (R) (1 hr.) O NEWS (1 HR.) O © STRIKE FORCE Murphy and his squad go after a rapist who has attacked 22 women after iollowmg them home in broad daylight. (1 hr.) O © FALCON CREST (Premiere) Chase Gioberti (Robert Foxworth) and Angie Channing (Jane Wyman), the conflicting heads of a California wine-making family, are reunited by the death of their father and brother Jason Gioberti. (1 hr.) ©STAR SESSIONS (1 HR.) (D MOVIE * "The Fifth Floor" (1980, Drama) Bo Hopkins. Dianne Hull A young woman is incarcerated in a bizarre mental hospital where violence and drug abuse are the order of the day. "R'(l hr., 30 min.) 11:00 O O O © © © NEWS O NEWLYWED GAME © DICK CAVETT Guest: Phil Donahue (Part 2 of 2)(R) ffi THE ODD COUPLE 11:30 0 © © TONIGHT Guest host: George Carlin Guests: Sandy Duncan, Stan Kann

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O MOVIE ** "Last Days Of Planet Earth" (1978) International cast. O © ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE O NIGHTBEAT © BEHIND THE SCREEN Jame-Claire sneaks Brian into her home, and Lynette confronts Evan about the threats made on her life © CAPTIONED ABC NEWS CD BIZARRE John Byner 12:00 O © FRIDAYS (1 HR., 30 MIN.) 0 SATURDAY NIGHT CD MOVIE ** "Hollywood High" (1976. Comedy) Marcy Albrecht, Sherry Hardin. 12:05 ffi MOVIE ** V: "Dirty Knight s Work" (1976, Mystery) John Mills, Donald Pleasence A man searching for his father's murderer zeroes in on a strange society of latter-day knights with vigilante tendencies. (2 hrs) 12:30 0 © SCTV NETWORK 90 © DAVE ALLEN AT LARGE 1:00 © SCTV NETWORK 90 1:30 O MOVIE **Vi “Evil Of Dracula" (1978). The vampire again drains the life from his victims. (2 hrs.) O EVENING AT THE IMPROV 0 RUBY POWELL ffi WEATHER (D MOVIE **'/, “Rough Cut" (1980, Adventure) Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down. 2:30 O ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT © NEWS 3:30 O MOVIE * The Ghost Of Dragstrip Hollow" (1959, Comedy) Jody Fair, Russ Bender A gang of drag racers takes up headquarters in a haunted house CD MOVIE * "The Fifth Floor" (1980. Drama) Bo Hopkins, Dianne Hull

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