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People in the news Bruce Lee's son really can't kick LOS ANGELES (AP) Brandon Lee says he is more interested in “Hamlet” than following his late father, Bruce Lee, into martial arts movies. Lee stars with David Carradine in “Rung Fu: The Movie, but he said he hopes the first time he will play a martial arts expert is also his last. “I want to do many other parts,” said the 20-year-old I don t want to be stuck doing martial arts parts or just Chinese parts. I want to do all kinds of things. I don’t want to be seen as Bruce Lee’s son and nothing more.” Carradine reprises his role as Caine, a Shaolin priest who roves the Old West. The time is 20 years after the end of the series, which ran on ABC from 1972-75. In the movie, which CBS will broadcast Saturday, a Manchurian with a death warrant for Caine comes from China, accompanied by a young martial arts expert named Chung Wang (Lee). Lee was working as a “gofer” for a production company when he had a chance meeting with casting director Lynn Stallmaster, who was trying to cast the part of the Chung Wang. Lee auditioned four times before he was accepted. He is an expert in Yee Chuan Tao, which he said is “a study of my body as well as my mind. I think of picking up this glass. I’m cognizant of the way you’re sitting and of any moves you may make. It’s not a series of moves. A movement is meaningless if it doesn’t have a spiritual meaning behind it. “It’s the same with acting. You can fake anger by grimaces, but it has no emotion behind it. Martial arts is a creative medium just as acting is a creative medium. It helps me with my movements which helps me as a person which helps me as an actor.” The 6-foot Lee is considerably taller than his father, who died in 1973 at the peak of his popularity. Bruce Lee had little success in Hollywood but in Hong Kong he became a legend in the “chop socky” movies. • Ever since he joined the Washington Bullets this season, basketball followers have frequently read of how Manute 801, as a youth in the Sudan, was learning to dunk one day when he banged his head against the rim and broke two of his front teeth. The story isn’t true. Actually, 80l now says, the teeth were simply yanked out. And the reason is that, instead of his coming down on the rim, he got his mouth tangled in the net. 801, who now wears a couple of false teeth to cover the gap in his smile, set the strange record straight in an appearance on David Letterman’s television show Monday night, during which there was this exchange regarding the 7-foot-6-inch center’s introduction to the sport: BOL: I tried to dunk the ball, and came down and broke my teeth on the net. LETTERMAN: Hit your teeth on the rim? BOL: No, on the net. Right now I don’t feel bad about it, because right now I’m making money, so I don’t care about teeth. LETTERMAN: Yeah, that’s kind of my philosophy: If you’re making money, the hell with teeth. BOL: I think right now, if I want to buy teeth every day, I can buy teeth every day. • LONDON (AP) Prince Charles and Princess Diana will start a ski vacation in the Swiss Alps next week with a photo session on the slopes, hoping to prevent a repeat of the media siege that plagued an earlier ski trip, Buckingham Palace says. Charles, 37-year-old heir to the throne, and Diana, 24, will spend 10 days starting Feb. 6 at Klosters, their favorite ski resort, a palace spokesman said Wednesday.

Sally Field a Hollywood survivor

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) There is, Sally Field readily - admits, a lot of “Scarlett O’Hara” in her. Not that she is possessive, fickle or vindictive. But she often harks back to the gospel according to Scarlett: “I’ll think about it tomorrow.” That philosophy has helped Miss Field survive 20 busy years in Hollywood, getting her through the years when she was known as Gidget or the Flying Nun or Burt Reynolds’ 3 girlfriend. Only with her Oscar-winning “Norma Rae” did she gain some grudging respect. And when she collected her second Academy Award for “Places in the Heart” last year, the scoffers cited her effusive speech: “You like me! You really like me!” She bristles slightly when the Oscar speech is mentioned. “Yes, I know it offered a lot of material for people to . play with,” she said. “I have no regrets. What I said is absolutely what I am. If I offended anyone by being honest, straightforward and emotional, I can’t help it. I can’t turn away and cloak my feelings at a moment like that. Some people can play cool. I just can’t fake it.” Even with the awards, she still receives knocks from critics who deride her famous spunk. “Do I get calloused?” she mused. “Yes, but you can

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NEW YORK (AP) Actress Hope Lange married theater producer Charles Hollerith Jr. in a private ceremony at the home of friends in Monterey, Calif., a publicist says. The marriage Wednesday was the third for Miss Lange, 54, and the second for Hollerith, 58, said publicist John Springer. She previously was married to actor Don Murray and director Alan Pakula. Hollerith’s first wife, Helen, died in 1981. Miss Lange won two Emmy Awards for her 1968-69 television series “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.” She has also appeared in a number of films, including the 1957 Oscar nominee “Peyton Place.” • RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. (AP) Retired actor Victor Mature, who once flexed his muscles in such movies as “Samson and Delilah” and “The Robe,” turned 70, stepping from his home overlooking a golf course for his usual morning game. “God’s been very good to me. I’ve been blessed with a very beautiful life,” Mature said Wednesday. The actor left full-time moviemaking in 1960, and now lives in this San Diego County community with his fourth wife, Lorey, a former Chicago opera singer, and their 10-year-old daughter, Victoria. • The $35,000 gamble in which NFL Films had prepared a video history of the Super Bowl drive by the Bears but none by the Patriots paid off with Chicago’s 46-10 victory in the championship game. Once the last of the film was shot Sunday, a small jet was waiting in New Orleans to take the product back to the organization’s headquarters in Mount Laurel, N.J., for final editing of a one-hour cassette that goes on sale next Monday, at $19.95. The weekend’s only bit of bad news for NFL Films was that several fans in search of creature comforts broke into its hotel suite during the game and threw themselves a party. “They had SB9 worth of room service,” says Mike Cohen, a company spokesman. “They ordered up pizzas, they drank all the beer and soda we had in the room. While one Refrigerator was scoring a touchdown, our refrigerator was being emptied.” • LOS ANGELES (AP) Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman has signed with Cannon Films to play a retired Secret Service agent caught in a blackmail plot in the film adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s novel “Laßrava,” a newspaper says. Cannon chairman Menahem Golan confirmed that Hoffman had signed but refused to discuss the fee. At least three other major studios considered the movie but all declined because of the fee Hoffman requested, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. The actor asked for $6.3 million and 22.5 percent of the gross revenues, the newspaper said, quoting a source close to the negotiations. Golan said the deal with Cannon was different.

callous over so much that you can’t act. Sure, I get hurt feelings. I say, ‘Ouch go away!’ But you know something? Bad reviews hurt for a moment, but you don’t remember them.” She was dressed casually heavy-weave wool sweater, jeans, black-mesh high running shoes. But her attitude seemed businesslike', befitting her new role as head of her own production company, Fogwood Films. Her most notable roles have been as a small-town factory worker and a farm widow during the Depression. In “Murphy’s Romance” she’s a divorcee struggling to support herself and her son on a horse-boarding ranch. “Marty Ritt offered me ‘Norma Rae,’ and (director) Bob Benton offered me ‘Places in the Heart,”’ she said about her roles as down-home women. “I’d like to think that they came my way only because of my acting. But I’ll admit that there is something about me that attracts that kind of role.” She was born in Pasadena, Calif., 39 years ago but spent her formative years in the Valley. Acting was inevitable, since her mother was a Paramount contract player, Margaret Field, and her stepfather was Jock Mahoney, television’s Range Rider and later a screen Tarzan. She started acting three weeks before her 18th birthday.

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