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People in the news CBS didn't want Desi, Lucy says NEW YORK (AP) Comedian Lucille Ball says the classic 1950 s television series “I Love Lucy” was initially turned down by CBS because the network didn’t want her husband, Desi Arnaz, as the male lead. “He was Cuban, and they wanted an American couple,” Miss Ball said in an interview at her home in Beverly Hills, Calif. The network was won over when the couple took the show on the road and played successfully in theaters, she said. The show became one of the most popular in TV history and is still seen in reruns. Miss Ball also told the interviewer from Parade magazine that she divorced Arnaz in 1960 because of his drinking and absences from home. “Once we had those beautiful children, I thought, I prayed that the drinking would stop,” she said. “However, it only increased, as did his absences.” Miss Ball, 72, later married comedian Gary Morton. • WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan treated members of Congress and their spouses to fried fish and country music sung by Charlie Daniels on the south lawn of the White House Thursday night at the Congressional Seafood Festival. Several hundred guests dined on scallops, shrimp, clams, smoked salmon and fried catfish cooked up in cast-iron kettles. Daniels, accompanied by the U.S. Navy’s Country Current band, sang a repertoire that included “The Devil Went Down To Georgia,” The South’s Going To Do It Again,” “Amazing Grace.” One tune, which he dedicated to the Soviet Olympic Committee, was entitled “God Bless America, Again.” Lyrics of the song, which applauds the revived spirit America, includes the phrase “if the Russians don’t believe it they can go straight to hell.” The president laughed heartily and applauded the line. “I would have taken more except for my allergy,” Reagan joked, as he walked through the serving line carrying his own plate. “I’m really only fooling,” he added. White House spokesman Larry Speakes told reporters as far as he knew the president’s only allergy was to pollen. During the dinner, Reagan obliged numerous requests to pose with his guests for pictures or to give them his autograph. In brief remarks, Reagan recalled growing up in the Midwest where he said the only fish people ate were the ones they cught. “Life was uncomplicated then, like dling with the Congress.” Just before it was time to leave for the fish fry, members of the House voted 326-74 to cut about $1.5 million from the portion of the budget for official functions of the White House. • NEW YORK (AP) The Guy Lombardo Orchestra has filed a lawsuit to stop the nephew of its late leader from using the Lombardo name for a bad of is own. But singer Bill Lombardo said through his lawyer Thursday he will fight to continue calling his group the Bill Lombardo Orchestra. The Guy Lombard Orchestra accused Bill Lombardo of trading on its claim to be the “rightful successor” of the late and famed band leader Guy Lombardo, who died in 1977. The suit, filed Wednesday at U.S. District Court in Manhattan, seeks a court order barring use of any name similar to the Guy Lombardo Orchestra’s and unspecified damages.

Directors set to strike June 30

HOLLYWOOD (AP) The Directors Guild of America is gearing up for a possible strike that could halt production at major and independent film studios and disrupt programming at the major television networks. With the directors contract set to expire June 30, insiders say the 7,000-member DGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers are far apart on a cue card full of economic and work-related issues. The Directors Guild has formed a strike preparation committee headed by actor Jackie Cooper. Tracking down and disciplining members who cross picket lines would be Clint Eastwood, director-star of “The Enforcer," and Sam Peckinpah, who directed “The Wild Bunch.” Unlike the actors and writers guilds, the Directors Guild has never struck the alliance, which represents the major film studios and more than 200 independents, and the major TV networks, ABC, CBS and NBC. The networks could be forced to resort largely to reruns in the event of a strike. A prolonged walkout could delay the start of the fall season. “... The employers seem determined to push us to the wall. While we continue to be flexible, there are certain items we cannot and will not concede. They are important

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The'Boss' is back

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - Bruce Springsteen, the self-styled “boss” of rock ’n’ roll, is not taking a back seat to Michael Jackson, at least not in Springsteen’s home state. Jackson’s summer tour may be the hottest ticket going, but the seats for 10 Springsteen concerts at the Brendan Byrne Arena were sold out in what an arena official Thursday called a record pace Tickets for the August dates went on sale Tuesday morning around the state and were gone by Wednesday, said arena spokesman Les Unger. Loris F. Smith, arena general manager, said about 7,200 tickets were sold per hour and the gross receipts, with each ticket priced at sl6, were $3.2 million. “Bruce Springsteen is a remarkable talent and has an incredibly loyal following,” said Smith. “Of course, he is especially popular here in New Jersey, where he was born and lives.” • WAHOO, Neb. (AP) Michael Jackson Day will go on as planned with or without the one-gloved superstar, town officials say. When the Chamber of Commerce invited Jackson to the festivities and asked him to include the town of 3,500 on his upcoming concert tour they hoped for the best and expected the worst. So far, the worst is what they have gotten. “We sent it (the invitation) express mail that was about 10 days ago,” said Sherry Treptow Chamber of Commerce secretary and manager. Wahoo hasn’t even received an acknowledgement of the invitation. “We’re going to try and have a good time anyway,” Ms. Treptow said of the July 13 festivities. “We’ll be playing Michael Jackson music all day, giving away posters and Tshirts stuff like that.” Residents still hope Jackson will send some type of memento. “We hope to get a glove or at least some autographed pictures,” M v Treptow said. • SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) Steve Wallenda, a member of a famed family of aerialists, says he’s going to remain perched on a tightrope 40 feet in the air for three days to raise money for a man who needs a heart transplant operation. Wallenda, 34, who walked out onto the rope Thursday and says he won’t come down until Sunday, hoped to raise SIOO,OOO from the public to pay for the operation and postoperative care of Joel Aronson. Aronson, 47, who receives $777 a month disability insurance and is on Medicare, cannot be laced on the ready list at the University of Arizona hospital in Tucson until he raises $43,000 toward the costofthe operation. “I think it’s great,” said Aronson. “This is the only thing that’s going to save my life.”

for generations to come,” said Directors Guild president Gilbert Cates. Cates refused to discuss specifics, but guild mailers outlined some of the issues: rejection of a cost-of-living increase, larger contributions to the health plan and an increased share of the videocassette market for directors. Also mentioned were pgotection of editing rights for directors and associate directors, rejection of a proposal that would allow producers to assume some duties currently performed by assistant directors and elimination of a plan for directors to receive royalties and not salary deferment tc offset unemployment. Charles Weissenberg, spokesman for the producers, said this week that the Alliance would have no comment as long as negotiations continued. Guild members will meet July 2 in Hollywood and July 3 in New York to vote on the negotiating committee’s proposals. In the event of a strike, the television networks possibly could continue broadcasting live programs, such as news shows, with managerial personnel. But most of the programming would be reruns, since guild members work on virtually all TV series.

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