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People in the news Sonny crooning third chorus of 'I got you, babe' Entertainer Sonny Bono married his longtime girl friend, actress-model Susie Coelho, on New Year’s Eve at Aspen, Colo., Bono’s publicist said. About 50 people attended the 9 p.m. candlelight ceremony led by minister Greg Anderson at Aspen’s nondenominational Prince of Peace Church, Richard Grant said. It was the third marriage for Bono, 46, and the first for Ms. Coelho, 26. Chastity Bono, the groom’s 12-year-old daughter by singer Cher, Bono’s second wife, was one of four bridesmaids. The others were model Liz Treadwell, Melissa Clark and Ann Parke. Actress Mimi Rogers was maid of honor. Grant said Cher knew of the wedding plans. “They all know each other and they’re all very close.” he said. Cher was in New York rehearsing for her Broadway debut. • It was just after Thanksgiving when, Rachel Shelton said, she had the strangest experience on the telephone. “It was like nothing I could ever explain,” the 54-year-old Mrs. Shelton said this week from her home in Hammond, Ind. “It sounded like I was talking to myself.” Actually the voice was that of her twin sister, Evelyn Bays, whom she had not seen since infancy. The two were born in the poor coal mining town of Beaverdale, Pa. Their mother became ill and a neighbor cared for Evelyn. Soon the neighbor moved away, taking Evelyn. It was not until she was 21 that Mrs. Bays learned she was “adopted.” She then began a search for her family. At the same time, Mrs. Shelton was searching for her twin. Their paths finally crossed at the Department of Vital Statistics in Newcastle. Pa., where both had written independently for birth certificates.

Veteran actor Victor Buono dies at 43

APPLES VALLEY, CALIF.- Character actor Victor Buono, whose portrayal of the portly suitor in “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” won him an Academy Award nomination in 1962, died Friday at his ranch. He was 43. Buono, who weighed nealy 400 pounds, apparently collapsed after celebrating the New Year with his brother David Buono of Lynwood, Calif., earlier in the day. A caretaker, Richard Martines, found his body on the dining room floor when returned from a party at 4 a.m. PST, San Bernardino County deputy coroner Jeff McCormick said. McCORMICK SAID the death appeared to be from natural causes. Buono was taking medication for back pain, he added. Buono was born in San Diego Feb. 3, 1938, and studied at Villanova University before starting his acting career at the city’s Old Globe Theatre, where he won the Atlas Award for acting in 1960. He began playing character roles in movies and on television, where he also made appearances as a comedian. BUONO WAS NOMINATED for best supporting actor to Bette Davis in “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” and ap-

The first women's libber' Ann adds pounds to portray Mae

By Bob Herguth (c) 1982 Chicago Sun-Times Blond bombshell Ann Jillian, fresh from TV’s “Making A Living,” starts shooting Mae West’s life Monday (Jan. 4) in Hollywood. Does Ann play Mae? Does Washington, D.C., have a White House? Ann as Mae should air in April or May as an ABC-TV movie-of-the-week. The flick also will be released in theaters in Europe, a tribute to Mae’s continuing happy, hippy grip on mankind’s imagination. We asked Ann if she had to gain weight to play Mae. “Oh, boy, did you hit it on the nose!” said Ann. “I just got through losing 17 pounds for ‘Making A Living,’ which got me down to 115 or so. “I imagine I’ve gained back 13 of the 17 for Mae. “I don’t particularly feel comfortable now at the weight I’m at but it’s right for Mae. I always dreamed of being able to gain weight for a part and I love eating. “But I find everything I wear n0w....we11, I have to have five different wardrobes for my different sizes.” Ann will portray Mae from age 17 into her 40s (Mae died in November, 1980, at 88.) “I think they’re gonna leave (the movie) on a high note, when Mae returned to New York after troubles in Hollywood,” said Ann of her film. “I think they’ll leave it open for any future things they might do.” “I read her autobiography. ‘Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It. and I also read about her. I met people who knew her through her career. I watched all the movies she made and I listened to tapes of her singing. And we II use her penthouse apartment, Ravenswood, for some shooting. I don t want to do an imitation of Mae as much as I want to capture an essence of her. Hopefully anyone who is a Mae West buff will recognize the essence. “The only thing I can do as an actress is make them, after 10 minutes, forget this is an actress and get them involved in the story.” As Ann studied Mae, she became an admirer. ‘She was the first woman’s libber as far as being open about it in the movies,” said Ann. “She was the first to have a sense of humor about sex. “She was never vulgar in what she thought of male-female relationships. She alwaye delivered her lines in style. And it was us—our own imaginations—who took over what she was saying.” We asked Ann about her recently cancelled sitcom (She played a brassy waitress with a 24-carat heart.) Making A Living has not been renewed,” she said. “I am not feeling the total devastation of it all because I had something to go into. “I really feel for the producers because they really tried hard with the show. “Of the many shows on TV today, ‘Making A Living’ had quality direction, one of the finest ensemble casts around, and was well-written. Because of that. I’m sorry.

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Mrs. Shelton says she is still shaking her head in amazement at that first phone call. “We are so much alike, after all those years,” she said. “We both married servicemen, both had four children, liked the same colors tans, golds and browns and have the same personality. ” Mrs. Bays lives in Los Angeles with her husband. The two women had planned a reunion on their 54th birthday, last Wednesday, but there have been delays and now the date is next Wednesday in Chicago. Mrs. Shelton is divorced and had been a machine operator at a steel plant until she injured a hand and was laid off in October. She doesn’t know when she’ll be back at work. “Well, I needed some time at home,” she said. “And now what' I’m really looking forward to is next Wednesday.”

peared with Miss Davis again in 1964 in “Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte.” He also played in “The Strangler,” “Robin and the Seven Hoods,” “The Greatest Story Ever Told.” “The Silencers,” “Who’s Minding the Mint?” “The Wrath of God,” “Arnold,” “Beneath the Planet of the Apes,” and, most recently, “The Man With Bogart’s Face.’ Besides acting, he wrote humorous poems poking fun at his own corpulent build and recited than as a standup comedian on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight” show, and elsewhere. Some of the poems were included in a book he wrote,“lt Could Be Verse.” HE PLAYED VILLAINS in two superhero television series, the evil King Tut in “Batman” in the 19605, and the cruel Mr. Schubert in “Man From Atlantis” a decade later. He also appeared in the “General Electric True” television program with Jack Webb in 1962-63. A private funeral service was being arranged by Kern Mortuary in Victorville, Calif., and a spokesman said Buono would be buried in San Diego. His brother was believed to be his only surviving close relative.

JULIAN: Hello, big boy “There was faulty programming. It was kicked around so much, with three title changes and constant changing of times. “They kicked it around too much to let it survive. “You have to believe in a show and have enough guts to leave it on, wherever it may be. “I went along (on public appearances' with whatever information was given me that week. Consequently, I looked like I was confused about dates, even on the Johnny Carson show. I was trying constantly to explain my way around the confusion. "The public needs to find a particular habit of going from one thing to another” on evening TV. Is there another TV series ahead for Ann? “There absolutely is," she said. "In March I m planning to do a pilot for my own series. It includes singing as well as situation comedy. It’s an interesting kind of format, quite innovative. You know how Fame’ is coming back? ‘Fame’ is bringing in a new musical kind of trend, and this is riding the crest of it. Ernest Chambers is writing it, and I believe he’s an 11-time Emmy nominee.” Ann wouldn't say who's producing her upcoming series, but we hear from another source it’s Fred Silverman.