Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 166, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 March 1987 — Page 6

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC, Tuesday. March 17.1967

People in the news Walters had 1 1 an documents WASHINGTON Barbara Walters provided the White House with documents reporting that an Iranian arms merchant believed that Lt. Col. Oliver L. North had diverted profits from the sale of arms to Iran to the Nicaraguan insurgents, a senior White House official said on Monday. The official’s comments were part of a general White House confirmation that President Reagan had received two documents with information on the sales from Walters, a television journalist for ABC News, in December and January. The comments confirmed an account published in Monday’s Wall Street Journal. The White House spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, said the documents had been presented to the White House after Walters interviewed the arms merchant, Manucher Ghorbanifar, and Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi businessman, last December. He said that he had no knowledge of how they had reached the president. On the matter of the documents, Fitzwater said he had been told “that they had nothing new in them in terms of material information that would cast new light on the case.” Both documents were turned over to Peter J. Wallison, the White House counselor, who made them available to the Tower Commission’s investigation of the Iran-contra affair. The senior White House official said that the documents, for the most part, recounted comments by Ghorbanifar in an interview with Walters • ABC News released a statement in New York Monday that said Walters’ “transmission of her information to the president was in violation of a literal interpretation of news policy.” “ABC policy expressly limits journalists cooperating with government agencies unless threats to human lives are involved,” the statement said. “Ms. Walters believed that to be the case.” • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Wisecracking, cigarsmoking George Burns brought his act here for the first time since 1928. “That was 55 years ago, and I’ll be back in 55 years,” the 91-year-old comedian said Monday. Told that 1928 was 59 years ago, Burns replied, “I’m not a mathematician. I’m a country singer.” Burns, who got his start in vaudeville and became a star on radio and television with his wife, Gracie Allen, said he has no plans to retire. “Retired people play with their cuticles all day,” he said. “Have you ever played with your cuticles?” The star of such films as “Oh, God” and “The Sunshine Boys” said movies are his favorite medium. “You don’t have to remember everything, and you can sit'down. You have to stand on stage.” Asked asked if there was anything he wants to do that he hasn’t done yet, Burns said, “I haven’t kicked the back of my head.”

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LOS ANGELES (AP) Catherine Mary Stewart’s name is such a mouthful, she says she is considering changing it, even though she’s already starred in several movies under that monicker. The latest is “Murder by the Book,” a comedy that CBS will air Tuesday, March 17. “I’m thinking of going back to being Cathy Nursall,” she said. “I took the Stewart from my mother’s maiden name. I come from a great Scottish background in Canada. My grandmother spoke Gaelic until she was 10. My mother wanted me to be a nurse, but I couldn’t face walking down the hospital corridor and being paged as ‘Nurse Nursall.’” She arrived in Hollywood in 1981, after studying acting and dancing for two years in England. She’s been in such films as “The Last Starfighter,” “Night of the Comet,” and “Nighthawks,” as well as the miniseries “Hollywood Wives” and “Sins.” In the latter, she played Joan Collins as a young woman. In “Murder By the Book,” she stars as the victim whose kidnapping gets the comedy under way. Robert Hays plays a mild-mannered mystery writer who becomes a tough-talking private eye named Biff Deegan in his fantasies. He weaves in and out of both characters. “He’s having lunch with his publisher one day when he looked out the window and sees me being thrown into a car,” said Stewart. “He runs out to see what’s going on and finds a matchbook that is a clue to the mystery. It involves a missing piece of art. “It’s a slapstick comedy, which is something I’ve never done before. It was a gas. There’s one scene where we’re both shot up with sodium pentathol. He’s trying to pick me up and I slide down and eventually slide out the window into the bushes.” Fred Gwynne plays the crooked art dealer, and Celeste Holm is Hays’ domineering mother. The movie was made before Hays began his starring role

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LOS ANGELES (AP) Sylvester Stallone says he will start work in five to six weeks on “Rambo III,” with the one-man commando squad this time staging an invasion of Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. Filming will take place entirely in the United States and will use Afghans living in this country, Stallone’s publicist, Paul Bloch, said Monday. Stallone is working on the script. The original movie in the series, “First Blood,” was adapted from the novel by David Marell and released in 1982. “Rambo” was released in 1985. Stallone denied reports that the driven Vietnam veteran would mellow in the third film in the series, saying, “Rambo will always remain the way he was created, unpredictable and explosive, but totally patriotic.” LOS ANGELES (AP) Jazz drummer Buddy Rich was in good condition after surgeons removed a brain tumor during a four-hour operation, a hospital spokesman said. The surgery at the UCLA Medical Center was concluded late Monday, said spokesman Michael Burns. “Surgeons termed the operation satisfactory,” he said. The 69-year-old Rich will undergo radiation treatment and was expected to remain at the hospital for at least two weeks, Burns said. Rich played with some of the nation’s top big bands, including those led by Artie Shaw, Tommy Drsey and Harry James, before organizing his own group 21 years ago. Rich was first hospitalized a month ago with paralysis on the left side. He re-entered the hospital a week ago after the tumor was diagnosed. The drummer had been undergoing chemotherapy. • PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) Frank Sinatra drove himself home after being released from a hospital following his third operation since November, his publicist said. Sinatra, 71, was released from Eisenhower Medical Center in neighboring Rancho Mirage on Saturday morning, spokesman Lee Solters said in Los Angeles. The singer had minor surgery to remove scar tissue from an earlier abdominal operation. “He even drove home himself, proving the hospitalization was so minor it was a little like going to the dentist, only less painful,” Solters said.

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CATHERINE MARY STEWART, ROBERT HAYS In 'Murder by the Book' Tuesday on CBS in the ABC series “Starman.” The director was Mel Damski, who had directed her in “Mischief.” Her first job after arriving in Los Angeles was on the soap opera “Days of Our Lives.” It took her a year to get the role, and by then she was flat broke. She recalled that on her first day on the job she ran out of gas at the studio gates. “The hardest thing for me was to take it seriously,” she said. “I read the script and it was so silly. I played a nurse named Kayla Brady. I was Roman Brady’s sister. The problem with soaps is that if you don’t become really evil or nuts it becomes very boring. Kayla was very, very good.”

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