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People in the news 'Gonzo' treated at Ford Center RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) Gregory Harrison, who played Dr. “Gonzo” Gates on the TV series “Trapper John, M.D.,” is being treated at the Betty Ford Center for a chemical dependency, his manager says. The actor entered the center near Palm Springs about three weeks ago and is scheduled to be released later this week, Frank Levy said Tuesday. Levy declined to discuss what kind of dependency the actor is being treated for. Harrison, 37, stars in the recently released movie “North Shore.” He just completed a CBS television movie, “Hot Paint,” with John Larroquette that should be released shortly, Levy said. • SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) Lorne Greene, the white-haired patriarch of television’s “Bonanza,” is responding to treatment for pneumonia developed after ulcer surgery, a hospital spokesman said. “He is continuing to improve, but his condition remains serious,” Armen Markarian of St. John’s Hospital, said Tuesday. The 72-year-old actor was hospitalized Aug. 19 for surgery, and his condition deteriorated last weekend, lospital officials said. Greene starred as Ben Cartwright in the TV Western “Bonanza,” which ran from 1959 to 1973. • David Hartman does not deny rumors he may enter politics, reports the current issue of TV Guide. “I have not ruled (politics) out,” Hartman states in the magazine. “It’s obviously not something that’s imminent, not between now and ’BB, but I have never burned any bridges.” Observers speculate that through his ABC-TV special on the Constitution he’s building a more weighty and dignified aura and distancing himself from his “Good Morning America” (ABC) celebrity chats. Hartman has agreed to produce a pilot and three one-hour specials for ABC, the first of which is this week’s “The Constitution: We Live It Every Day.” George Merlis, former “GMA” executive producer, sees another side to Hartman. “People would be fired when David was out of town,” he says and reveals that he was fired when Hartman was in Washington. The “funniest thing was David pretending not to know.... David called and said, ‘What happened!’ I said, ‘David, you know what happened.’ He said, ‘I can’t talk now, I will call you later.’ He never called,” Merlis says, “and it’s six years later.” • NEW YORK (AP) TV’s sweetest slot is the halfhour following “The Cosby Show” on NBC. “The Art of Being Nick,” a pilot for a show that may never be, tried that time period and finished second in the weekly ratings. “Nick,” starring Scott Valentine in a spinoff of his weird boyfriend role on “Family Ties,” was not picked up for NBC’s fall schedule, but it might find a place as a replacement series. Cosby and NBC, meanwhile, rolled along at the top of the A.C. Nielsen Co. ratings of last week’s shows. The network had an average rating of 12.0 for the week, followed by CBS and ABC in a tie at 11.1. For the 49 weeks of the season to date, NBC’s average is 16.0, CBS’s is 14.0 and ABC 12.6. The evening news competition was a virtual dead heat, with NBC the winner at 10.0, followed by ABC at 9.9 and CBS at 9.8. Each rating point represents one percent of the nation’s 87.4 million homes with television sets. The rest of the week’s top 10 included “Cheers” and “Night Court” from NBC, “Growing Pains” from ABC, CBS’ “60 Minutes,” a tie between CBS’ “Designing Women” and ABC’s “Moonlighting” for seven place, “20-20” from ABC in ninth and CBS’ “Newhart” in 10th place.

Dream come true Woman wins jackpot after nocturnal vision

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) A woman who dreamed of money gushing from a slot machine drove straight to Nevada and won a $1 million slot machine jackpot. Pearl Anderson, 54, also got three offers of marriage after hitting the Club Cal Nueva’s big payoff early Tuesday, but said she turned down the proposals. Instead, she planned to give her husband a big hug when he arrived in Reno on a jet chartered by the casino. Mrs. Anderson said she drove to Nevada in the middle of the night after she woke up feeling lucky, she said. “I dreamed of buckets of money pouring out of the machine,” she said. Mrs. Anderson, a mother of five children and gran-

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NEW YORK (AP) Not being able to read means more than missing out on the classics. In the upcoming ABC made-for-television movie “Bluffing It,” it also means living with constant fear, anger and emotional pain. The movie, airing Sunday, Sept. 13, is part of Project Literacy U.S. (PLUS), a joint campaign by Capital Cities-ABC Inc. and the Public Broadcasting Service. James Sadwith wrote and directed the movie, an at-times melodramatic but still effective portrayal of a widespread problem that should inspire some people to overcome pride or fear and seek help. An 800 number is provided. Dennis Weaver stars as Jack Duggan, a middleaged factory foreman who has settled into a comfortable life that accommodates his illiteracy. Only his wife, played by Janet Carroll, knows his secret, and she helps him live the lie, reading and writing for him and drawing him diagrams. Eventually Duggan is forced to face the consequences of his illiteracy and the changes in his life that the power of reading will bring. “It’s one of the most devastating situations that I’ve ever played as an actor,” Weaver said. WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) Valerie Harper says she didn’t walk out on her hit series “Valerie” she was fired. Miss Harper, breaking into tears several times as she described losing a show she called “my baby,” said Tuesday she wanted fans to know she isn’t “the greedy actress with a lust for money who walked off the show.” “That is patently untrue,” she said. “The basic thing you need to know is I was fired. I was forced off the show and told not to come back.” Miss Harper, 47, was dropped from the show last month after a salary dispute with Lorimar Telepictures Productions. She was reportedly being paid $57,000 per show, but wanted SBO,OOO. The title of the NBC comedy series “Valerie” has been changed to “Valerie’s Family” and the character played by Miss Harper will die. Lorimar spokeswoman Barbara Brogliatti on Tuesday said only that Miss Harper and the studio could not resolve “financial and creative differences.” • MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Muhammad Ali and his chocolate chip cookie, The Champ, will be among the entrants at the Fourth Annual Chocolate Festival and Fair on Sept. 19-20. The former three-time heavyweight champion will peddle his new product during the chocolate fest at the Fountainebleau Hilton Resort. • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) whose agonizing over a White House bid earned him a reputation as a political Hamlet, preparing to publish a third installment of his diaries? “It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when,” Cuomo spokesman Gary Fryer said Tuesday. “But there are no plans for anything right now.” The question came up after the governor was interviewed Tuesday by radio station WAMC. Cuomo announced in February that he would not seek the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.

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