Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 96, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 December 1981 — Page 7

People in the news 'Spider-Dan' falls victim to Marvel NEW YORK (AP) Daniel Goodwin, a stunt man who calls himself "Spider-Dan’' and climbs tall buildings in a costume that looks a lot like that of a comic book hero known as “Spider-Man," has been ordered to change his act. An order issued Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Abraham D. Sofaer bars Goodwin, 25, of Kennebunkport, Maine, from promoting himself as "Spider-Dan” or "Spider-Man" and from wearing his red-and-blue web design costume. Marvel Comics, which licenses commercial rights for use of the "Spider-Man” character, had filed suit Oct. 6. Goodwin, who climbed the Sears Tower in Chicago on May 25 and the John Hancock Building on Nov. 11, owns a company called Spider-Dan Enterprises in San Rafael, Calif. • After a series ot demais that anything was amiss, Elizabeth Taylor and Sen. John W. Warner of Virginia finally announced last week that they were separating. This week, however, Miss Taylor is apparently quite distressed at published reports that they are getting a divorce. "She is upset,” said Robert Elliott, Miss Taylor's personal lawyer. In a statement denying that a divorce is in the works, he said: "The separation between them isn’t based on an expectation by either of them that there will be a divorce. Whether they will be back together again, I don’t know, but they are friendly, and they remain friendly. And they are not planning a divorce.” • Simon Estes had two ambitions: To make his debut at the Metropolitan Opera and to sing the national anthem when his alma mater, the University of lowa, made the Rose Bowl. Estes’s professional singing career took off when he won the 1966 Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, and has since taken him to most of the leading opera houses of Europe but the bass baritone has never performed at the Met. This year the University of lowa finally made it to the Rose Bowl for the first time since 1958, when Estes was a student there. And now the university has indeed invite him to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Unfortunately, Estes’s other dream has come true at the same time: he will make his debut at the Met in “Tannhauser” on Jan. 4, and the dress rehearsal is New Year’s Eve, making it impossible for him to get to Pasadena the next day in time for the game. With regret, Estes chose the Met over the Rose Bowl. “It would have been a tremendous honor to have sung the national anthem for my alma mater, and the Rose Bowl is the bowl game of them all,” he said. “I’m really very sad that I couldn’t do it. But I’ve been waiting to sing at the Met for 17 years, and it’s a big hurdle to have finally jumped over.” • MADISON, Wis. (AP) Good grief, Charlie Brown. A college newspaper is being sued because a birth-control ad allegedly used characters from the Peanuts comic strip. The comic strip is “geared to wholesome, family entertainment and innocent humor, and it has never contained any lewd, lascivious or obscene material or dialogue,” says the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court. The suit by United Features Syndicate alleges the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student newspaper violated copyright laws, and it seeks $250,000 in damages from six defendants, including the university’s board of regents.

Could 'Pollyanna'be 35?

By 808 WISEHART Newhouse News Service Hayley Catherine Vivian Mills is 35 years old. That’s right Pollyanna is 35. Unlike the rest of us, who tend to be sour about advancing age, Mills takes pleasure in it though admitting many of the fans who remember her from her days with the Disney studio in the early 1960 s are thunderstruck when they meet her. She says the reaction is best illustrated by a recent encounter during a shopping trip in London. “Two women stopped dead in front of me and looked square in my eyes. One said: ‘That’s Hayley Mills. My, hasn’t she aged.’” With a wry chuckle Mills says, “That shook me right for a moment.” Viewers will be able to see the new and, to my mind, improved version of the Hayley Mills Sunday when “Masterpiece Theater” kicks off the seven-part “The Flame Trees of Thicka.” “Flame Trees” is based on the memoirs of Elspeth Huxley, who was 13 when her aristocratic English family left the comforts of its London home in 1913 to settle in the wilds of Kenya. Filmed entirely in Africa, it’s the story of the Grant Family Robin (David Robb), wife Tilly (Mills) and daughter Elspeth (Holly Aird) who set out in response to a call by the British government for settlers to develop the raw land of East Africa, make the natives properly civilized, and turn a few pounds as planters. “Flame Trees” was written and produced by John Hawkesworth, creator of other “Masterpiece Theater” favorites “Upstairs, Downstairs,” “The Duchess of Duke Street” and “Danger UXB.” Mills is frankly banking on "Flame Trees” to make her a marketable commodity again in the United States. She’s been active in England “mostly stage plays, TV talk and panel shows” but says she’d like to work more in this country, where in the past few years she’s only been seen on two “Love Boat” episodes and a Disney special. “This is the kind of woman I’ve never had an opportunity to play,” she says of her “Flame Trees” role, “a woman with a future and a past and mother of an 11-year-old daughter. It’s going to be impossible for the audience to continue to think of me as forever the virgin, I hope.” Mills had planned to make her move long before this. But her children Crispian, 7, by her former marriage to director Ray Bolting, and Jason, 4, by actor Leigh Lawson,

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HAROLD GOULD: Growing up

The father in “Grown Ups,” Jules Feiffer’s Broadway comedy about a New York Times reporter’s conflicted relationships with his family, is played by Harold Gould. And the veteran actor says the play has made him acutely aware of what he says to his own children. "THE REVIEWS OF ‘Grown Ups’ have talked about the monstrous, villainous parents in the play, but I don’t see them that way,” Gould said. “Their desire, really, is to love and be loved. Parents aren’t perfect. They’re the victims of their own experiences in life.” Gould has a doctorate in drama from Cornell University and taught college until 1960, when, at the age of 37, he decided to become an actor. “I had two little kids at the time,” he said. “I took a leave of absence from my job at the University of California at Riverside and went to Hollywood. I took a room, ate out of cans and started all over again. After a while, my wife, the actress Lea Vernon, and the kids came down to Hollywood. Lea taught at UCLA. It was an effort, but there was no real suffering involved.” He made his New York debut in 1969. The following year he received a great deal of attention for his performance in the lead of “The House of Blue Leaves.” “THAT PLAY LAUNCHED ME into Rhoda, ” said Gould, who played Rhoda’s father in the popular television series. “I’ve never had what you would call a big break - just an accumulation of a number of breaks. I’ve managed to work constantly. Not all the time, but enough to make a living.” • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Veteran Indianapolis reporter Robert L. Hoover has died at the age of 82. Hoover died Wednesday at Community Hospital here. Hoover worked 30 years for the Indianapolis News, serving as both a reporter and photographer. In 1957, he joined radio station WIBC in Indianapolis and covered the police beat. Despite poor health and failing eyesight, he did not retire from the new business. Although his reports were heard infrequently over the last two years, Hoover remained a fulltime employee at WIBC. Hoover began his journalism career in 1919 with the News. He took the last photograph of actress Carole Lombard at Indianapolis before her death in an airplane crash in 1944. Hoover was inducted into the Journalism Hall of Fame of the Society of professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, during his 50th year as a newsman.

with whom she’s been living for six years kept getting in the way. “I had contracted to to ‘The Pallisers’ (another British offering that appeared on public television here), but they wanted to start just two months after I’d had my first baby,” she says. “I was exhausted and not entirely fit to take on a series. “Then I was ready to do ‘Duchess oi Duke Street,’ and I found I was going to have my second baby. “I’ve tried to juggle family and career a working woman has to juggle so many things but spent most of my time on family. Now that I’ve stopped child-bearing I can concentrate on career.” Actually, even “Flame Trees” seems like pre-history to her. It was finished more than two years ago and broadcast in England in September 1980. Since then, she has made a movie that hasn’t been released in this country, “The Diamond Hunters,” and has toured Canada in the play “Rebecca.” Hawkesworth and Mills have turned into a road company of sorts. It was Hawkesworth who gave Mills her first movie role in “Tiger Bay” 22 years ago. From there, she allied with Disney to make “Pollyanna,” “The Parent Trap,” “In Search of the Castaways,” “The Moonspinners,” “Summer Magic” and “That Darned Cat.” There were others for other producers, but mainly she moved on to marriage and babies and divorce and love affairs. “It was so easy then,” she says. “When you’re such a child, once you get over being self-conscious about it, acting is perfectly natural. Children do it all the time. When you blame something evil that happened at home on your sister, what are you doing but acting? “The older I get, the harder it is. ‘Flame Trees’ was difficult in many ways. We lived occasionally in tents. There were snakes about, as well as leopards and other wildlife. Soldier ants, who bit one’s feet, were a bit of a bore.” Then there was the unkindest cut of all. “The thing I really hated was the early call. I will never be comfortable with rising at 4 a.m. Never! Never! Never!” But if “Flame Trees” catches on in this country as it did in England, it will have been worth it. She quotes one review dear to her heart: “‘Goodbye to “Pollyanna,” hello to an actress of real stature.’ “They said my venture into series work was a ‘resounding success.’ “I just hope,” she concludes, “that the critics in the States are so kind.”

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