Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 215, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 May 1987 — Page 7

People in the news Publicity minor Majors' concern Lee Majors attriDutes ms long-time rift with the press to a confidence betrayed by journalists. Majors reveals inthe current (May 16) issue of TV Guide, “I came out here a Kentucky boy who couldn’t knot a tie. I started when (other journalists) were sitting in your (the TV Guide reporter’s) chair. I was young, and I told one of ’em how my father’d been killed when my mother was eight months pregnant, and how she died a few years later. I was adopted, but nobody knew that in the little town where I grew up,” Majors says. “I ASKED THEM NOT to use the stuff until I said so, and they agreed. Then it all blew up in headlines. That one hurt me, my (adoptive) parents, and people in Middlesboro felt deceived. From that time on, I didn’t much trust the press. And I haven’t seen much to make me change my mind.” Majors reveals in TV Guide that he’s done five series over 20 years, and yet “I’ve liked maybe two or three stories on me during my whole career.” Beyond the money, friendship with Richard Anderson, a burgeoing relationship with NBC (he’s also doing his own pilot, “Harris Down Under,” with network, a sort of “Bonanza 87” shot in Austrailia), and working with Lindsay Wagner again, Majors points to another major reason for doing the reunion. “There were some emotional scenes unlike anything I’d done in ‘Six Mill.’ It’s about being brought back together with my son after we’ve been estranged. I feel that personally. I never knew my blood father, and I never really got to raise my son. He grew up back in Kentucky, and while he was in California all summer, that wasn’t day-to-day. I feel like I missed something.” PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) Actor Judd Nelson was fined S3OO after pleading no contest to disorderly intoxication stemming from a nightclub scuffle last month. Palm Beach County Judge Karen Martin fined Nelson on Tuesday as part of a plea agreement that bars adjudication of guilt on the misdemeanor charge. Attorney David Roth entered the plea; Nelson was not at the hearing. The actor was arrested April 28 outside a Jupiter nightclub after he shouted obscenities and dared police to hit him, police said. • STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) Frank Sinatra has canceled a concert in Sweden after he was denied a tax exemption because he performed in South Africa, Swedish television reported. The singer would not be exempted from the 30 percent “artists’ tax” because he is on a so-called United Nations “blacklist” for performing in South Africa in 1981 and 1983, the report said Tuesday.

Allen sees red over colorization

c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON Woody Allen looked terrifed, sort of like a fish out of New York. He was surrounded by bronze statues and marble pillars and gray suits, and the comforting routine of Elaine’s and Central Park and Checker cabs seemed very far away. “I didn’t have the faintest idea what to expect, many senators or one senator,” said Allen, who made one of his extremely rare forays outside of Manhattan Tuesday to testify before a congressional panel on what he called the “sinful” practice of coloring old black and white movies such as “Casablanca” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” much less new black and white ones like "Manhattan” and “Broadway Danny Rose.” In typical Capitol Hill practice, only one senator, Patrick J. Leahy, was on hand for a hearing on the legal issues raised by adding color to films originally produced, sold and distributed in black and white. “Why is colorization any worse than when they chop up movies with commercials for television or shorten them to run them on airlines?” Leahy said, playing devil’s advocate with his witnesses, who included Allen, Rogers, and the directors Sydney Pollack, Milos Foreman and Elliot Silverstein. “If directors had their way,” Allen responded, “We would not let our films be tampered with in any way broken up for commercials or shortened or colorized. But we’ve fought the other things without much success, and now colorization because it’s so horrible and preposterous and more accutely noticeable by audiences is the straw that broke the camel’s back.” Foreman added that directors were afraid of where the coloring process would lead. “Where will it go from there? Why not jazz up a little the music in ‘Gone with the Wind’? Kids are today heavily into

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LOS ANGELES (AP) “Top Gun” flyboy Tom Cruise and his new bride, actress Mimi Rogers, are postponing their honeymoon to work on movies. The couple tied the knot privately in New York on Saturday, Cruise’s publicist, Andrea Jaffee, said Tuesday. Cruise, 26, played a Navy fighter jock in “Top Gun,” 1986’s hottest movie, and co-starred with Paul Newman in “The Color of Money.” Miss Rogers, 31, starred in “Gung Ho” and “Streetwise.” Actor Emilio Estevez was Cruise’s best man in the Unitarian service, and Miss Rogers had a longtime friend as maid of honor. • MAPLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) Bruce Springsteen’s drummer, Max Weinberg, gave his alma mater a platinum copy of “Born In The USA” when he was inducted into the high school’s hall of fame. The 36-year-old Weinberg was honored Tuesday at Columbia High School, where he graduated in 1969, said district spokeswoman Jane Stein. Weinberg began his drumming career in the school’s marching band. He played in a succession of bands before joining Springsteen in 1975. The hall of fame was established in 1985 to honor graduates who have distinguished themselves nationally, Ms. Stein said. • WASHINGTON Alexander M. Haig Jr. said Tuesday that he has “moved from an asterisk in January to a solid third position” in the 1988 Republican presidential race “by every credible poll.” The former secretary of state added that the can didates ahead of him, Vice President George Bush and Sen. Bob Dole, were shown as trailing prominent Democrats such at Gary Hart and Gov. Mario M. Cuomo. Reminded by reporters that the New York governor was not a candidate and that the former Colorado senator had withdrawn from the race, Haig replied: “There’ll have to be another Cuomo and another Hart, and there will be. But if the Republican party picks its candidate on pedigree or pecking order instead of assessing who can win, it’s irrelevant.” Haig said he had raised “almost $1 million” since the beginning of the year and would soon announce a “very impressive” lowa campaign staff.

heavy metal, so let’s replace the soundtrack with electric guitars and drums.” But why, Leahy pressed, is coloring films worse than producers buying books and then changing the endings in the movie? Pollack and Allen explained that authors have free choice about whether to sell their books to the movies, and the books still exist intact, but directors do not have free choice about whether their movies are colored. “If a movie director wishes his film to be colorized, then I say by all means, let him color it,” Allen said. “If he prefers it to remain in black and white then it is sinful to force him to change it.” John Huston, the director, also testified against the coloring process in a videotaped message to the committee. He said he had tried recently to watch a colored version of “The Maltese Falcon,” the movie he directed, and stopped in disgust. “Why should this mindless insipidity be allowed?” Huston said, gruffly. “Why should Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, who were so careful about their images, be bushwhacked by the coloroids?” Ginger Rogers read a Jimmy Stewart statement saying that he had been equally repelled by the colored version of Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life,” which he called “a bath of Easter egg dye.” “Gloria Graham played a character named Violet, so someone thought it would be cute to have all her costumes in vioiet,” Stewart wrote. “That is the kind of obvious visual pun that Frank Capra never would have considered.” Rogers said she had the same feeling watching her performance in the treated version of “Forty-Second Street.” “All those lovely girls in ‘Forty-Second Street’ suddenly had the same orange face, the same orange legs, the same green costume and the same blank look,” she said.

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