Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 21, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 September 1984 — Page 6

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, September 27,1984

People in the news Belushi's widow tells her story CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) —ls journalists are “protectors of the truth,” for some it is a truth of their own making, says the widow of actor-comedian John Belushi. “Before (reporters) talk to you, they know what their story is going to say,” Judy Jacklin Belushi, 33, told an audience of 150 Clemson University students Tuesday. “When they interview you, they’re just waiting for you to say things that fit in.” Mrs. Belushi’s lecture, billed as a talk on “Ethics in Journalism,” centered on her career and celebrities in her and her husband’s life. She touched only briefly on Bob Woodward’s controversial book about Belushi and his drug problems, “Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi.” “It wasn’t about John, it was about his disease,” she said, adding: “I’m quoted (in it) as saying things I didn’t say.” Belushi, 33, died in March 1982 in Hollywood of a drug overdose. A Canadian singer has been charged with second-degree murder. Asked if she planned her own book about Belushi, she said she “might at some point,” but she now is writing a book about being a widow. WASHINGTON (AP) Because of their work with charities, movie star Elizabeth Taylor and Sarah Brady, wife of White House press secretary James Brady, have won the “Women of the Year” award of the United Service Organizations. “I remember going to hospitals when I was a child and talking with the wounded boys and watching the glamorous (USO) entertainers” during World War 11, Miss Taylor said Wednesday at an award luncheon. “I learned a lot about life, death from my visits,” she said. The actress was cited for her aid to the Israeli War Victims Fund and to Variety Clubs International. She shared the award with Mrs. Brady, whose husband is recuperating from head wounds suffered during the assassination attempt against President Reagan in March 1981. • SYDNEY, Australia (AP) Best-selling Australian author Morris West, saying part of the estates of Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and lan Fleming were managed the same way, is launching a movie company to produce his own works. West, best known for “The Devil’s Advocate” and “The Shoes of a Fisherman,” said at Tuesday’s launching of Melaluka Productions that it plans five films in 1985, all based on his plays and novels. West, 68, said the aim of the company is “to make good films, make money and to guarantee my estate.”

Broadway Beat Teddy Kennedy, Angie Dickinson an item

By JOEY SASSO Teddy Kennedy is being groomed for Hollywood stardom by his old friend Angie Dickinson. A new career in movies will help Teddy break away from his stalled political career. And who better to coach him than former Policewoman Angie? The cozy couple are so wrapped up with each other that Teddy even missed his ailing mother Rose’s 94th birthday on July 22, much to the disgust of the rest of the Kennedy clan who had gathered for the occasion. Meanwhile, Teddy and Angie were at a charity tennis tournament in Colorado where for three days they stayed at the Aspen Club and couldn’t take their eyes off each other. Angie, still stunning at 52, danced the nights away in Teddy’s arms at Aspen’s Paragon disco. Since she was a member of Frank Sinatra’s notorious Rat Pack in the ’6os, Angie has had close ties with the Kennedy family. She was once arrested for bathing nude in a California pool while carousing with friends, but the incident was glossed over when the cops found that among the other swimmers in their birthday suits were JFK and his brother Bobby. Angie insists that she and JFK were “just good friends” and never lovers, but she also admits that the late president oozed enough sex appeal to “make a girl go weak at the knees.” Politics have always interested Angie. She has frequently campaigned for the candidate of her choice, and always votes. She says, “I don’t think it wise to support a political candidate blindly, without realizing that he or she is just another human being, with faults and failings.” *** Now that her 30-year marriage to Clint Eastwood is history, his ex-wife Margaret has been touring Europe with someone new-former used-car salesman Henry Wynberg. Wynberg once made headlines when he wooed and lost Elizabeth Taylor.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) Paul Anka sang a special version of “My Way” before more than 500 fans and onlookers as he was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Anka, who has written more than 400 songs, received the 1,788 th star handed out by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce at a ceremony Wednesday on Hollywood Boulevard near Mann’s Chinese Theater. At the same time, Anka, 43, was awarded a citation from the American Federation of Police for helping subdue a mugger on a New York City street in May. • LOS ANGELES (AP) Comedian Bob Hope is still America’s favorite funnyman after decades of entertaining troops overseas and presidents at home, according to a soon-to-be-released Louis Harris poll. Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby and Red Skelton rounded out the top five in the poll, which was conducted for a new syndicated television series called “America’s Choice.” Hope, 81, is preparing to launch his 35th year on TV on Sept. 28, when NBC is scheduled to air “Bob Hope Presents the Hilarious Unrehearsed Antics of the Stars.” PHILADELPHIA (AP) Funeral services have been set for Friday for John Facenda, the dramatic voice of National Football League highlight films and a pioneer broadcaster who died at the age of 72. “There will never be another voice like his,” said Steve Sabol, executive vice president of NFL Films Inc., of Mt. Laurel, N.J., which hired Facenda to narrate its weekly highlights show in 1962. His last work for the company involved highlights of this year’s Super Bowl. Facenda, honored for lifetime achievement at local Emmy Award ceremonies less than two weeks ago but unable to attend, died Wednesday at Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital in nearby Darby, a spokeswoman said. His colleagues said he had been suffering from cancer. “He had a voice that once you heard it you never forgot it,” said network sportscaster Tom Brookshier. “We always said it Was a voice from the other side of the great beyond.”

For the first time, Maggie recently talked about the life she shared with Clint, before they divorced and she won an impressive $25 million settlement. “If we were still married, we would be sitting here in disguise,” she says sadly. “Once he was famous, he hated being recognized. He would wear a false mustache and dark glasses.” She added, however, that she has no plans to live with Wynberg at the moment: “I’m now on my own schedule for loving. I’m a free woman.” *** SWING SET CONFIDENTIAL: Paul Newman admits that he’s still reeling from the drug-related death on his son six years ago-and insiders say the emotional torment could be responsible for the heart problems that have been plaguing him lately. The 54-year-old actor recently spent time at the Pritikin Longevity Center in Santa Monica, Calif., for what he describes as a complete rest and a “chance to rethink his life.” Earlier this year, he had to undergo delicate surgery at the Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, Calif., to clear blocked death in 1978 of his son, Scott from a drug and alcohol overdose. “The memory of it cannot be erased from my mind,” he confesses. “He and I could not find a way of communicating, and I blame myself for the breakdown.” BARBRA STREISAND is the nost misunderstood woman in showbiz. That’s the opinion of her family and friends who say that underneath the steely armor of her public image is a softhearted and caring person. “Just because she’s a superstar doesn’t mean she’s made of steel,” says her sister, Roz Kind. “People don’t realize that she’s had to develop some protective tools so she can avoid getting hurt. Barbra’s very vulnerable. She’s also the kindest person I know. She’s always been there for me as a big sis and I get good and mad when people say she’s nothing but a perfectionist with a giant ego.”

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