Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 120, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 January 1986 — Page 6

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, January 4,1986

People in the news 'Mask' mother in AIDS fight now SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The woman whose struggle to help her son overcome a gross deformity touched millions in the film "Mask” is facing another deadly battle: her other son has AIDS. Rusty Mason says she will fight for this son as hard as she fought for Rocky, who died in 1978,10 years later than doctors had predicted. Ms. Mason’s story of drug abuse, motorcycle riding and tireless devotion to her son was depicted last year in a film by Peter Bogdanovich. Singer-actress Cher played the mother. The story centered on how Ms. Mason, who has since changed her name from Rusty Dennis, helped Rocky ignore ridicule from peers and live years longer than expected despite his rare bone disease, which caused a severe deformity to his skull. In June, Ms. Mason said her son from a previous marriage, Joshua Mason, 30, was diagnosed as having acquired immune deficiency syndrome, which attacks the body’s immune system, leaving it defensless to a variety of illnesses. Joshua said on Friday he was diagnosed as having Kaposi’s sarcoma, a cancer often associated with AIDS, but is showing no major symptoms. I fact, he said, “For the past several months I feel healthier than I have.” “If you know any of my story, you know I don’t have uny use for what doctors say,” Ms. Mason, 49, said Friday from her apartment here. “They told me Rocky was going to die before he was six and he lived ’til almost 17 doing some of the same things Joshua is doing now.” m SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) Jane Wyman, the Oscarwinning actress who plays the autocratic Angela Channing on television’s “Falcon Crest,” was resting comfortably in the hospital Friday following intestinal surgery. “There was nothing in there that had to be cut out. They simply freed this adhesion that was twisting the bowel,” said Bob Crutchfield, vice president of Lorimar Productions, producer of the show. He said the actress entered St. John’s Hospital on New Year’s Day for tests for flu-like symptoms. “Typical Angela Channing, she refused to go into intensive care. She insisted in going back into her room,” said Crutchfield, who spoke to Miss Wyman on Friday. “She said, ‘l’ve been up and walked around the room and believe you me I was glad to get back to this bed.’” Miss Wyman, who recently celebrated her 50th year in show business, was married to Ronald Reagan from 1940 to 1948. She won a best-actress Oscar in 1948 for her part in “Johnny Belinda” and a Golden Globe in 1984 for her portrayal of Angela Channing. The actress is expected to be hospitalized another week.

Kuralt offers own rules of the road

NEW YORK (AP) Some of Charles Kuralt’s rules for on-the-road journalism: Keep yourself out of the story. When covering the local tricycle race, never ride the three-wheeler. While doing interviews, never talk to anybody about anything important. And at the end of a day’s work, never eat in a roof-top restaurant. “It’s never the best place in town,” he said. Kuralt, who has worked at CBS News since 1956, began i searching for America’s backyard stories in 1967. His Ma-and-Pa features have carved a distinctive niche in broadcasting. By temperament and physique, the paunchy Kuralt figures he’s doing what he likes and does best. “I have the best job in journalism,” he said in an interview. “For all these years, I have resolutely ignored the news. ... My job is to make sure that no musical saw player, no one-room schoolhouse and swimming pig goes unremarked in America.” He’s not interested in famous people. He figures the most famous subject of “On the Road” was Wahoo McDaniel, the former pro football linebacker who became a wrestler. The perks of the road include having no bosses, no jangling phones and no office politics. The van he shares with cameraman Izzy Bleckman and soundman Larry Giannecshi Jr. goes wherever the road bends. They’re only concerned with finding interesting stories, timely gasoline, the best cooking in town and, at day’s end, a warm bed. Kuralt professes to know more about the country’s motels than its moods. “The state of motels has improved vastly,” Kuralt said. “There is a motel nearly everywhere. But we never stay in any fancy places because of our bus.” Kuralt’s recently released book, appropriately titled “On the Road with Charles Kuralt,” prints his broadcast pieces those gems of stories about the uncommon common man. The disappointment is that Kuralt didn’t write some separate chapters about his off-the-road stories, his impressions of this vast and varied country and his experiences at home in America. “Some day I’ll write my on-the-road memoirs,” he said. “I don’t have those thoughts together yet.”

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JACK NICHOLSON Best actor honors

NEW YORK (AP) Akira Kurosawa’s masterful epic, “Ran,” has been named best picture of 1985 by the National Society of Film Critics. The Japanese film, loosely based on William Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” also was awarded the best cinematography prize for Takao Saito and Masaharu Ueda with Asakaru Nakai. “Prizzi’s Honor,” John Huston’s off-beat look at the world of Mafia hitmen, won him the best director prize. Jack Nicholson won for best actor for his portrayal of a hitman in the movie and Anjelica Huston was given the best supporting actress honor for her rollicking portrayal of the Mafia don’s granddaughter. Vanessa Redgrave won as best actress for the second year in a row for her role in “Wetherby.” Sir John Gielgud was honored as best supporting actor for his work in “Plenty” and “The Shooting Party.” 9 BURBANK, Calif. (AP) Entertainer Johnny Carson is gambling on Nevadans having a sense of humor. Gov. Richard Bryan asked for an apology for a joke he said held the state’s women up to ridicule, but Carson told his “The Tonight Show” TV audience on Friday that Bryan should “lighten up,” and held forth with more Nevada humor. « Samples: “Nevada is a rich state, with 38 percent of the nation’s gold. Most of that in the teeth of six cocktail waitresses in Reno.” “Nevada serves a useful purpose: It separates California from Colorado so John Denver doesn’t keep Californians awake all night with weird songs about mountains.” “Visitors love Nevada in the summer, when it’s hot, especially if they’re doing medical research. Nevada is first in the nation in buzzard autopsies...” The original joke? “What’s the difference between a parrot and a Nevada woman? You can teach a parrot to say no.”

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KURALT: On the road again Kuralt, who comes off the road each weekend to anchor “CBS News Sunday Morning,” hasn’t always lived in the back-of-the-book section of the news. He reported from Vietnam and also served as CBS’ Latin America correspondent. The Latin America assignment was exhausting, he said, and he lived in fear of getting beaten on a story. But he recognizes that he had to pay his dues as a serious reporter before he had the credibility to talk CBS into letting him shape his current job. Now, Kuralt noted, the competition game is played by others. “If we see another camera crew on a story, we leave.”

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