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People in the news Perry no Palmer in his underwear It isn’t infrequent that opposing players have to make way for William Perry, and now Jim Palmer knows how they feel. Like the longtime baseball star before him, the Fridge has decided to pose in his underwear, or, more precisely, his longjohns, size extra large. This latest venture in Perry’s burgeoning promotional and endorsement career stems from an early-season request from the Bears’ equipment manager, Ray Earley, to Royal Textile Mills of Yanceyville, N.C., for an especially large set of the company’s ThermaForm long underwear for the rotund Chicago rookie. “Somebody said, ‘lt would make a great ad,’ ” recalls Royal’s president, Mark Atwater, and the company’s advertising agency agreed. So, one night after the Bears’ practice last week, a Chicago photographer spent four hours taking pictures of Perry with a 100-pound trained bear. The ad is scheduled to appear in trade publications and sporting goods store displays beginning next month. Executives at tiny Royal Textile, which has only 75 employees and $4 million in annual sales, say that the secret in getting Perry to pose was timing: The company first called his agent in early November, before he had become a full-fledged folk hero. “If we were dealing with him today,” a Royal official says, “the price would be 50 to 100 percent higher.” But if the ad campaign was the residue of some luck, its keynote was pure genius: “We Keep The Refrigerator Warm.” • CHICAGO (AP) Alderman Richard Mell, whose threatened lawsuit over the use of the name “Chicago Post” persuaded Mary Tyler Moore’s new TV series to rename its fictional newspaper, is being asked to stop using the name himself. Mell, who has published a neighborhood newspaper, the Chicago Post, for two years, threatened to sue when he learned that CBS’ “Mary” was going to use the name for a newspaper. MTM Productions Inc. switched the paper’s name to the Chicago Eagle. But now Mell has received a letter from an attorney representing Chicago Post, a video production company, warning him to stop using the name. An attorney for the company, Patrick Tallon, said it registered the name with the state in December 1983, before Mell starting using it. • Barbra Streisand will star in and Mark Rydell will direct a film version of Tom Topor’s play “Nuts.” The courtroom drama, which will be made for Warner Bros., pits a woman who wants to be judged sane so she can be tried for manslaughter against her parents who want the lesser embarrassment of having her put away in a mental institution.

The end near for Mark Harmon

BOSTON (AP) “St. Elsewhere,” NBC’s brainy and bittersweet series about a chaotic Boston hospital, will kill off its most handsome doctor, but don’t expect his end to come in a sappy tear-jerker. For the past four seasons, the show has proven it’s too gritty and smart for sentimental departures. Dr. Wendy Armstrong (Kim Miyori), a headstrong intern, sank into anorexic depression and then took her own life with a dose of pills. Peter White (Terence Knox), a resident-turned-rapist, was shot to death by an avenging nurse. Viewers can look forward to another unsettling farewell Feb. 5 when Bobby Caldwell, a womanizing plastic surgeon played by Mark Harmon, makes his exit. Harmon, who also stars in a series of plain-talking Coors beer commercials, is leaving the show to appear in movies and act on Broadway. His character on “St. Elsewhere” has spent the season bouncing from one bizarre sexual encounter to another, slowly losing his mind in the process. The producers of “St. Elsewhere” have said that Caldwell would contract AIDS from a heterosexual liaison, but said his life would be ended by something other than the deadly illness. Caldwell doesn’t die “in the terms of a hospital bed, a la ‘Brian’s Song,”’ Harmon said, referring to the movie about the cancer death of football player Brian Piccolo. “It’s a stretch in a different direction for my character and a different way that it’s handled by the writers,” Harmon said. “It will shock and amaze everyone watching. That’s the way they do it on ‘St. Elsewhere.’” The Wednesday night show is one of the most unconventional on television, mixing gentle humor with the dark side of the human drama. Taking its cue from the stark realism of “Hill Street Blues,” “St. Elsewhere” has depicted the crucifixion of a drunken bag man, a series of rapes, the mastectomy and subsequent divorce of a middle-aged nurse, and tonight, the death, by heart attack, of a department store Santa Claus. Recently, Caldwell was slashed across the face with a

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Singer Paul Anka has been chosen grand marshal in the Krewe of Endymion’s Carnival Parade, which gets the Crescent City revved up for Mardi Gras. Endymion, the city’s largest Carnival organization, will parade 27 large floats and 10 smaller ones through the streets Feb. 8, the Saturday before Mardi Gras, a spokesman said Tuesday. The theme will be “What Might Have Been” a satiric spoof of politics and life in New Orleans. Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee lacocca, ramrod of the drive to refurbish the Statue of Liberty, will ride a float resembling the statue, officials said. • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Waylon Jennings, who has written such country music hits as “Are You Sure Hank Done It Tmis Way?” and the theme from “The Dukes of Hazzard,” will be honored by the Songwriters Guild of America. The guild announced Tuesday that it is saluting the country star for his contributions to songwriting and his encouragement to aspiring songwriters. Jennings will be presented the award Jan. 13 during the 6th annual National Songwriter Awards on a syndicated television special at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center • WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) Veteran director Martin Ritt was teased by celebrities about his trademark jumpsuit in a star-studded tribute to the 72-year-old filmmaker’s half-century in the movie business. Ritt, whose films include “Hud,” “Sounder,” “Pete & Tillie” and the new “Murphy’s Romance” starring Sally Field, always wears jumpsuits while shooting and at most social events. “I’m thankful for the day, I’m thankful for the lunch and I’m thankful for all my friends coming here,” he told the 150 guests who viewed a montage of his films at Chasen’s restaurant Tuesday. Miss Field led a series of tributes to Ritt that included testimonials by Walter Matthau, Eli Wallach and Mary Steenburgen.

MARK HARMON: Down and out of 'St. Elsewhere'

razor after making love with a cocaine addict. “I thank God for the opportunity to work on ‘St. Elsewhere,”’ Harmon said in an interview. “I think, No. 1, ‘St. Elsewhere’ is entertainment. It’s a very rare hour of programming that can make you laugh and cry in the same hour. ‘St. Elsewhere’ does that. “But I also don’t think the writers are assuming they can cure cancer. If the writers and creators of our show can make the audience think a little bit, I think that’s all they’re really setting out to do.” Harmon, 34, said his last scenes as Caldwell were among the most emotionally draining he’s ever performed. Harmon, the son of legendary football star Tom Harmon, began his acting career at the University of California at Los Angeles. But in those days he was better known for his performance as the star quarterback of a winning football team.

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