Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 214, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 April 1986 — Page 7

People in the news Cybill bristles at 'molded' tag NEW YORK (AP) Actress Cybill Shepherd resents the implication that director Peter Bogdanovich discovered her as an unformed girl and molded her in his own sophisticated image. Her picture on the cover of Glamour magazine inspired Bogdanovich to cast her in “The Last Picture Show,” her first film, in the early 19705. ‘‘lt’s as if when Peter came along I’d never even heard of opera or anything,” Miss Shepherd said in an interview to be published Sunday in Parade magazine. "I think I molded Peter as much as he molded me. But I’m certainly not dim* rishing his huge influence on me. He was a great teacher, and he believed in me, not only as an actress but as an intelligent person. “You know, a lot of people assumed, because I was pretty, that I was dumb. I had an agent who even talked slowly when she spoke to me. She thought otherwise I wouldn’t understand.” Miss Shepherd, 36, is co-star of the hit television series ‘Moonlighting.” • CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) Actor Sylvester Stallone’s production company is eyeing the Ocoee River area as the site for a new $25 million movie, officials say. “They have been scouting,” said Jane Word, director of the Tennessee Film, Tape and Music Commission. “No decision has been made. When the film company is ready to announce, the governor will make the announcement.” In an April 2 letter to Tennessee Valley Authority general manager Bill Willis, Ms. Word said the river would be used to film a scene of a father saving his son who can’t swim. The unnamed film is scheduled for production this summer. HOLLYWOOD Because dozens of television stations and newspapers have refused to accept advertising for “Sexual Perversity in Chicago,” Tri-Star Pictures’ forthcoming summer movie, the studio has given in and changed the title to “About Last Night...” The screen version of a one-act play by David Mamet, which won an Obie award in 1976, the film stars Rob Lowe, Demi Moore and Jim Belushi. In it Lowe, a restaurant supply salesman, and Moore, a graphic artist at an advertising agency, puzzle over the difficulty of turning a brief encounter into a permanent relationship. “Our movie is entirely moral and rather sweet,” said Edward Zwick, the director. He said “perversity” was used in its secondary meaning of “wrongheadedness” or “contrariness.” According to David Matalon, president of Tri-Star, the first signs of trouble came a month ago when Tri-Star started to plan to buy television time for the movie, which will be released on July 2 in approximately 800 theaters. “NBC said they would only show the ads after 11:30 at night,” said Matalon. “CBS and ABC said yes to the ads, but lots of local stations turned us down.”

Expect 'Cosby Show' changes

LADOGA, Ind. (AP) A writer and co-producer of The Cosby Show says his Indiana background helped him break into comedy writing in New York. “I think people from Indiana and the Midwest have a dry kind of wit about them, have a sense of humor that no matter how bad things get you can find something funny about it,’’ said Mark Williams. Williams, a native of Evansville who acted in commercials and a soap opera before joining the situation comedy in New York, returned to Indiana Thursday to visit his family and speak at a home for troubled youngsters. He said he visited the Indiana Children’s Christian Home in this community southeast of Crawfordsville at the request of a former roommate at the University of Evansville who is director of the home. Williams said veteran actor Bill Cosby has major input in the program’s writing. “A lot of what we write about is based on his true-life experience,” Williams said. “He has five children. We have five children on the show four girls, one boy. That’s what he has.” Williams said Cosby improvises some of his lines while the show is being taped. "If he gets a brainstorm, he just goes with it. And what’s great about these kids (actors on the program) is that they keep up with him. If he goes off on a whole different track, they just go with him.” Williams, 35, said fans of the NBC hit may notice a change in some of the program’s characters next season. “Next year will be sort of the turning point. The third year in any series is a tough year because you have to develop new relationships. You have to expand the characters.” He said he planned to visit Indiana for a week before going to California for two weeks of meetings about the future of The Cosby Show. "People have seen it now for two years; so we’re going to have to open the show up a bit, and that’s what we’re planning on doing.”

rHE FAMILY By BU Keane "Kittycat just rearranged her nap."

DANNY DeVITO There came a knock

Speaking of reality and illusion brings us to Danny DeVito, who co-stars with Joe Piscopo in “Wise Guys,” a comedy directed by Brian De Palma about a pair of underworld underlings. “If you were to scrape away all the lower levels of ‘The Godfather,’ ” DeVito says, “these would be the two guys doing Don Corleone’s laundry.” But what moviegoers see on the screen and what is happening in the real life of the performers are two different things. While DeVito, who was born in Neptune on the Jersey Shore and grew up in Asbury Park, was filming a scene for “Wise Guys” at the Resorts International Hotel in Atlantic City, his wife, the Brooklyn-born actress Rhea Perlman, was awaiting the birth of the couple’s second child. According to DeVito, illusion met reality at a moment when "there’s a scene where I’m lying on the bed, and there’s a blonde rubbing my back. Piscopo’s in a Jacuzzi with a blonde, and there’s a knock on the door. I get up and say: ‘That must be the champagne I ordered.’ ” Moviegoers should know that when DeVito got to the door, he received neither champagne nor caviar but a note saying: “Rhea’s in labor.” DeVito arrived at the hospital before his wife. That day the couple’s second daughter was born in New York City. The actor actually filmed “Wise Guys” before “Jewel of the Nile,” which opened last Christmas. And since the De Palma film, he has also directed two television episodes, including the pilot of “Mary,” the new Mary Tyler Moore show; appeared in “Ruthless People,” a new movie starring Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold and Anita Morris, and directed, produced and co-starred with his wife in “The Ratings Game,” a film for Showtime about a trucking magnate from New Jersey who tries to break into the television industry as a producer. • LONDON (AP) Princess Diana paid a fashion compliment to Japan by wearing a red and white dress, the colors of the Japanese flag, to lunch at the Japanese Embassy. But Diana and her husband, Prince Charles, will have to wait until they visit Japan next month to sample Japanese food. The menu Thursday was decidedly French except for one national delicacy, Japanese egg custard.

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Loyal viewers of "The Cosby Show" can expect some changes in their favorite characters next year, but obviously none to this extreme. In a recent episode, Rudy (Keshia Knight Pulliam) masqueraded as a bank official as the family taught Theo a lesson in economics. The show's co-producer, Hoosier Mark Williams, was in Ladoga Thursday afternoon and said the third year of the No. 1-rated series will be the toughest challenge.

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April 18,1986, The Putnam County Banner Graphic