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People in the news Tip cheered in TV comedy debut WASHINGTON a speaker of the House do a TV sitcom? He can and does and you’ll see it soon in a segment of the NBC comedy series “Cheers” when House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill Jr. does a walk-on, playing himself. O’Neill was in Hollywood Monday taping the show', and casting director Stephen Kowlzak described him as “a natural.” “He was great,” said Kowlzak in a phone interview. ■Kowlzak explained that his mother, Delores Snow, had been O’Neill’s executive assistant for 15 years and had asked the speaker, who is a fan of the show, if he’d like to be in it. He said he’d love to be in it, according to Kowlzak, who scheduled him for a taping this week because O’Neill was in California for the Bob Hope Charity Golf Classic in Palm Springs. In the show, which is set in Boston’s Bull & Finch bar on Beacon Street, O’Neill is accosted by a graduate student, played by Shelley Long, who gives him theories on life and politics. O’Neill ducks into the bar to escape Long and is asked by waitress Rhea Perlman, “Hey, aren’t vou Tip O’Neill?” “No, I’ve seen Tip O’Neill,” says the speaker. “He’s much better looking.” Sitting next to George Wendt, who plays Norm the accountant, O’Neill hears that politicians don’t know what -they’re doing. “This bozo next to me could do better than Congress,” says Norm, who asks O’Neill if he’s out of work. “No,” says O’Neill, “I’m in the House.” Norm replies, the wife working?” Kowlzak, who didn’t know the exact date that the show would be aired, said O’Neill was paid the “going rate” for the taping and that he donated the money to the Cambridge poys Clubs. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Entertainer Dolly Parton has canceled concerts this week in Louisiana and Texas because of a threat against her last week in Owensboro, Ky. The singer-actress also has hired a Los Angeles detective agency that specializes in investigating threats on the lives of celebrities. Saturday night. Miss Parton canceled concerts in Owensboro after a woman called police and said she knew a man who “hated the ground that Dolly Parton walked on” and who was going to harm her. Concerts were canceled for this weekend in New Orleans, and Beaumont and Fort Worth, Texas. # ' l JACKSON, Miss. (AP) A trial for country singer George Jones on a charge of cocaine possession has been .delayed until Feb. 10. Jones had been due in court today, but a secretary at the pffice of the singer’s Nashville. Tenn., booking agent, John said Jones and McMeen were out of town this week on a cruise. Also, Jones’ lawyer, Tom Binkley of Nashville, said he was busy with another trial. Jones pleaded innocent to the cocaine charge following his arrest last March, when he also was accused of public drunkenness and speeding.

Broadway Beat Raquel Welch, Lauren Bacall feud continues

By JOEY SASSO One of Hollywood’s hottest on-going feuds involves sex symbol Raquel Welch and veteran actress Lauren Bacall. Neither has anything good to say about the other. And the bad blood began flowing last winter. Raquel, whose career had been in the doldrums, stepped in as a two-week replacement for Bacall when she took a vacation from starring in the hit Broadway show “Woman of the Year.” Raquel was a sensation. “When was the last time you heard wolf whistles in a Broadway theater?” she said. Bacall, well-known for her explosive temper, was furious over Raquel’s success. “She went wild,” revealed a woman who works on the production. After winning raves from the critics, the one-time sultry screen siren felt certain she would be a tough act to follow. Raquel proved her wrong again, though, when she took over as Bacall’s permanent replacement last summer - against the fervent advice of Lauren, who was plugging Dina Merrill for the role. Producers ignored her suggestion, though, and invited Raquel back. And to rub salt in the wound, Life magazine, which had ignored Bacall during her 17-month run, featured Raquel on its cover just a week after she opened the show. “That was the last straw for Lauren,” declared one Hollywood insider. “She’s a very proud woman, and feels she should have gotten some of the recognition that has gone to Raquel.” For her part, Raquel doesn’t harbor the slightest bit of affection for Bacall. When she moved into Lauren’s dressing room at the theater, she found nothing but four bare walls - Bacall had stripped it. She even took the curtain rods -- and it cost the producers SIO,OOO to refurnish the room. Another slap came when Raquel suggested that she and Bacall be photographed together so they could put to rest those ugly feud rumors. Bacall icily refused to pose with Raquel. Raquel struck back with some pointed comments contrasting the way she and Bacall handled the '“Woman” starring role. ' “She was very regal in the part,” declared Raquel. “She was sort of saying, ‘I am what I am. If you want me, I’m jiere.’ What I feel is different. When the curtain goes up, I ‘look out and see that the theater is filled and say, ‘God! •Isn’t this great? I’m so glad I’m here.’” * *** ; BEHIND THE HEADLINES: Marilyn Monroe’s telephones were tapped in the weeks preceding her murder pnd all of her intimate conversations with Robert F. Kennedy, then the U.S. Attorney General, were recorded - by Jhree separate eavesdroppers. Incredibly, one of those Jistening devices was installed by Marilyn herself - but she Jtnew absolutely nothing about the other two. • Those are the latest blockbuster developments in a continuing probe of the 20-year coverup of the blonde superstar’s tragic death, which has been officially written off as fcuicide. It has also been learned that sophisticated elec-

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PAUL NEWMAN: Eyes Oscar Paul Newman, already being touted as the favorite to win the Academy Award for Best Actor when the Oscars are announced next spring, says he has “mixed feeling” about the possibility of getting one. “THERE'S A PART OF me that has always wanted to w'in an Oscar, so when I’m 83 I could say, ‘So there,”’ he said. Newman, who was nominated for an Oscar but didn’t win for “Absence of Malice” a year ago, is expected to be nominated for his role as a less-than-successful lawyer in “The Verdict.” Newman is honest to a fault about his work as an actor. He says he has never felt comfortable as a leading man. insisting he always has been a character actor. And he believes his role in “The Hustler,” which some critics rate among his best, left something to be desired. “It’s very painful for me to go back and see that now because I realize I didn't have to work that hard,” Newman said of the 1961 film. “It was all there. 1 just emphasized it too much. I over dramatized it. The intentions were right, but they were simply overblown. “I JUST WISH I HAD realized much earlier to depend on what I was doing. You don’t have to make points. The points make themselves, if you're smart enough.” • LONDON ( AP) Despite some controversy over his grades. Prince Edward, the youngest of Queen Elizabeth ll’s three sons, will enter Cambridge University this fall. Students at the college have protested that the prince’s final British high school examination grades last summer were not high enough to warrant a place at Cambridge. Press Association, Britain’s domestic news agency, reported he got a “C” in English Literature, a “D” in history, and a “D" in the joint subject of economics and political science. Edward, 18, will major in archeology, anthropology and history in a three-year honors degree course, Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday. Those are the same subjects his brother. Prince Charles, studied at Cambridge. Sir Alan Cottrass, Master of Jesus College at the university, refused to say whether Edward took Cambridge’s entrance exam.

tronic bugging equipment was planted in Marilyn’s home - and a chilling tape recording of the macabre dialogue the night she died still exists. Dozens of veteran Hollywood stars have sent telegrams of praise and gifts of flowers to Elizabeth Taylor following her lawsuit to stop ABC producing a movie on her life. The stars fear that once their life stories are told in full, they will be written off as alive-and-kicking actors. Among the celebs leading the cheering for Liz is screen legend Bette Davis, who has vowed to battle any attempt to bring her biography to the screen. “Liz is doing us all a favor,” says Bette. “The networks should only be doing things like this when we are dead. Otherwise, they’re taking away our livelihood.” Liz, meanwhile, won’t talk about plans for a sequel to her 1956 movie “Giant,” but it can be confirmed that screen writer Robert Garland, who used to date Diane Keaton, completed the script six weeks ago. He was ordered to rush the final pages so Liz and Rock Hudson could review it before negotiating their contracts. *** INSIDE HOLLYWOOD: Hollywood stars are on the government’s “most wanted list” because they’re so rich they’ve forgotten about savings accounts, paychecks and even jewel-stuffed safety deposit boxes without missing a blink. “When we tell them, they’re extremely grateful,” says Pat Nolan, who heads the unclaimed-property division of the California Comptroller’s Office. Among the absentminded stars Nolan recently tracked down are Mickey Rooney, Kris Kristoffersen, Rita Moreno, O.J. Simpson, Kate Jackson , Phyllis Diller, Bette Midler, Lucille Ball and Bob Hope. Even Liberace received his due: A dusty SI,OOO check for a television appearance. *‘lt seems fantastic, but this kind of thing happens all the time,” Nolan said. “The stars don’t even miss it, but it’s our job to make sure they get what’s coming. Sometimes they’re so grateful they send us autographed pictures and ‘thank you notes.’” James Stewart recalls that one of his favorite pictures was “The Spirit of St. Louis” although it was a commercial failure at the box office. “When Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic solo in 1927 he was the hero to millions of Americans as well as to other nations,” Stewart said. “When we made the picture of his life 30 years later the interest in him seemed to have vanished.” Stewart, who was a brigadier general in the Air Force in World War 11, had a lot in common with the “Lone Eagle” when they met on the set of the film. “We had a mutual interest in flying, of course,” he explained. “I let him sit in the wicker seat in which I played most of my scenes. I had to go somewhere and when I came back a half hour later, Lindbergh had fallen asleep. When I woke him up he told me the seat was too comfortable. ‘lf I had that one on my plane when I flew the ocean I would have never made it across the water,”’ Lindy said.

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