Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 241, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 June 1985 — Page 6

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, June 6,1985

People in the news Miller has designs on Collins, Evans BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) Designer Nolan Miller is the man who sees to it that the women on “Dynasty” are dressed to the teeth. He also sees to it that Joan Collins, who plays Alexis Carrington Colby, Linda Evans, who is Krystle Carrington, and all the cast members on ABC’s hit prime-time soap opera are dressed to fit their characters. “Joan Collins has a very studied look,” he said. “She always has gloves, handbags, shoes and all the accessories that match. It’s an ensemble outfit. It’s a Joan Crawford kind of look. I dressed her for 20 years and to the day she died everything was a set.” Krystle Carrington, on the other hand, is much more subtle and low key. In the past, Miller has been responsible for the wardrobe on all of Aaron Spelling’s shows, such as “Hotel,” “The Love Boat,” and “T.J. Hooker,” but in the coming season he will devote most of his time to “Dynasty” and its spinoff, “Dynasty II: The Colbys.” He is also the fashion consultant for the Dynasty Collection of clothes, jewelry and accessories. Miller also dresses Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman, Suzanne Pleshette and a number of other stars. He designed Miss Taylor’s wardrobe for “Malice in Wonderland” and “North and South.” Miller, 50, is tall, slim and as handsome as a television star. He was wearing a gray, pin-striped double-breasted suit. “I’ve wantd to design clothes for movies ever since I was in the sixth grade,” he said. • WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) A partnership which includes actors Paul Newman and Keir Dullea and writer Robert Ludlum has been given a three-week deadline extension on its $300,000 down payment on the Westport Country Playhouse. The $1.2 million sale of the century-old barn playhouse in Newman’s hometown was delayed until June 25 at the seller’s request, Jacquie B. Lazo, a lawyer for the buyers, said Wednesday. The limited partnership to buy the summer theater, located on 3Vfe prime commercial acres, was formed by the Connecticut Theater Foundation, which has leased and produced off-Broadway-style plays there since 1973. James B. McKenzie, president of the foundation and a general partner, said the group has raised the $300,000 in pledges but only about $200,000 actually has been donated. McKenzie said the summer theater’s 55th season will not be affected. It opens the first of 11 productions June 24 with “One for the Tango” starring Leslie Caron. • VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope John Paul II met briefly with Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, on the day before the 17th anniversary of her husband’s assassination. The official Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, reported Wednesday that Mrs. Kennedy and some family members, who were not identified, attended the pontiff’s weekly audience with the public in St. Peter’s Square. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro said he did not know what Mrs. Kennedy and the pope discussed. Kennedy was fatally shot in a Los Angeles hotel on June 5, 1968.

Murray 40-year-old 'snowbird' now

c. 1985 N.Y.Times News Service Canadian singing star Anne Murray, who will be 40 years old June 20, says she’ll be shifting away from her familiar pop-flavored country style when she goes back into the recording studio this summer. The four-time Grammy Award winner won’t be working with her longtime producer Jim Ed Norman. She’ll use three Grammy-winning writer-producers she won’t say whom and she says the result will be an album of “poporiented, very contemporary and up-to-date” songs. Repeatedly nominated for Country Music Association awards she won her first this year for the hit “A Little Good News” she maintains that country doesn’t really reflect her style. “I’ve always been a crossover artist, and that’s the way I’d like to keep it,” she explains in a telephone interview from Toronto. “Country music has been real good to me radio stations play my records sometimes when they’re not even country, and that’s wonderful but I want more than that. I don’t want to get lost in one category.” “My records just have to have a more contemporary feel, that’s all there is to it,” she adds emphatically. “A singer is really at the mercy of the publishers and writers, and what they do is what they’ve heard before they think they hear in you ... and that’s why a lot of times it’s difficult to get them to send you new sonos that they might send to Pat Benatar. You can’t convince them you can sing that, too. “I'm a good singer,” she matter-of-factly says. “I can sing anything, just about, short of opera. That’s the problem with getting categorized everybody presumes.” Will Murray now record only the songs she’s always wan-

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HOLLYWOOD (AP) John Travolta has become the 1,805 th celebrity to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and Mayor Tom Bradley proclaimed the day “Perfect” in honor of Travolta’s film due for release this week. Travolta, 31, got his star Wednesday in front of Mann’s Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard and was congratulated by relatives and long-time girlfriend and actress Marilu Henner, who also appears in “Perfect.” Travolta won an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of a restless Brooklyn youth in the 1977 film “Saturday Night Fever.” His latest film, in which he plays a Rolling Stone reportei who falls in love with an aerobics instructor played by Jamie Lee Curtis while researching a story on the health club craze, opens Friday. About 12 to 15 stars are dedicated on the walk each year. It costs $3,000 for a person or agency to sponsor a star, but the chamber keeps the sponsors anonymous. The proceeds go to the chamber • Twyla Tharp, the iconoclastic modern dance choreographer, is about to make her directorial debut with “Singin’ in the Rain,” a $4.5 million stage adaptation of the 1952 movie musical. The production, with Don Correia in the role that helped to make Gene Kelly a star, opens Thur sday at the Gershwin. It is a story Miss Tharp knows intimately. Born in Portland, Indiana, in 1942, Miss Tharp worked in her parents’ drive-in movie theater as a child. “I grew up on movies,” she says. “I grew up on the Kelly pictures. This was dancing to me.” Miss Tharp has choreographed the show’s big group numbers, but after some thought she decided to retain the choreography created by Kelly and Stanley Donen for five numbers “Good Mornin’,” “Moses Supposes,” “Fit as a Fiddle,” “Make ’em Laugh,” and “Singin’ in the Rain.” “Their essence is so much American culture and tradition,” she explains. “Why change them? The concepts are embedded in the piece. The dance comes out of the situation. ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ is the classic example of why people dance and sing: this guy has not only had his career saved, he’s in love. And it’s raining. What better reason to dance?” That famous number was the heart of the film from its very conception. “We were called in by the producer, Arthur Freed,” Miss Comden recalls. “Our assignment was to do a movie using his catalogue of songs. We were told the title had to be ‘Singin’ in the Rain,’ so we knew that somewhere it had to be raining with a guy singing.”

ted to do? “I’ve pretty much done what I wanted to do all along,” she replies. “About the only music I haven’t done, really, is the old stuff, jazz. But what I do always has to be songs that I like.” She says she disagreed with her producer about only one of her hits “Shadows in the Moonlight,” which she didn’t really want to record. They readily agreed on other hits such as “Danny’s Song” and “You Needed Me.” Regarding her 40th birthday, Murray says she couldn’t be more pleased. “I feel real good about it,” she says. “I’ve never felt better. Finally now I’m having a great time. I’m really starting to enjoy things. “Being 40 doesn’t bother me. I think it’s the best time. Your 30s aren’t so great and your 20s are the worst. They’re just awful because you’re trying to get yourself together and you don’t know what’s going on. So when you get to be 40. at least vou have some idea.” Born in the coal mining town of Springhill, the daughter of a doctor and the only girl among six children, Morna Anne Murray was a tomboy when she was young, but her musical interests developed early, too. She began taking singing lessons when she was 15. She made a big splash in the United States in 1970 with her gold record “Snowbird” and took a spot on Glen Campbell’s TV show. In 1975, amid a growing stardom, she married Langstroth and took time off to have her children. “It’s a constant challenge to keep the balance because you just can’t have a career and a family and have it work out right all the time,” she says. “It changes from day to day.”

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