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Show WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, NORTH DAVIS LEADER. SEPTEMBER 25. Captioned ABC News stamng Michael Parks. (R) (60 O 1 min.) 'ice Woman Streets of San Francisco Pepper and Crowley pose as in- - 'y.Ac A Menr Griffin Am. temational jewel fences to break a gang of jewel thieves. Guest 1:45 AM NewsSign Off STARVIEW 0 Q WUPWI rue C.ug shwm cr a tv ap veurufze3peu. rue mams 'oTut & W R kfjtlZS o fn HY 1980 Syndicate United Featute By RUTH THOMPSON As a spate of new television movies are telling us (again) this season, the private lives of two deceased blonde beauties major sex symbols 20 were anything years ago but glamorous. The two of course, are the !? bULbr0Odlngl? lnsecure wanted al p recognition as a serious actress, and Jayne Mansfield, who believed that a big bosom and a little wiggle were all a feianHerT ast0 63FV!er!aie IT j s?e, t.a !itLhaVe hlped her while ego. the record shows that MM gave a bad perform- ance, a few otherwise non- directors earned their halos putting up with her ly mov-train- as Now we keep hearing that Farrah Fawcett, who shot to celebrity status via Charlies says shes been plagued, often, by the inner question, Am I, or am I not a Critics were harsh ed strip-syndicat- co-st- ar real actress? ss er when she had power (she had a production interest in The Prince and the Showgirl in which Olivier was both and director) and inconsi- derate of To this day, Olivier is out- raged that an octogenarian character actress was kept waitmgfor three hours, laced period corsets, while MM kept her flaw- ess face and fiddling with those blonde curls until she camera feadv the movies she made when she quit the television series, but as one of them stated, Look, isnt it time we stopped picking on her? The problem is with the films, not with her performances. With citys him she registered both as a history, with the results in overwhelmingly favor of competent professional and a films. The vote (4,095 likable personality. for and 2,580 against) Its that word al that can trigger surprised many who describe Sure the tousled fair hair and Mesquite as a conservative. bra-les- s Baptist, very dry community torso made her a up girl. But she already Sad where no Playboys appear on the newsstands and aU four credentials on camera before she became famous. Farrah theaters strictly enforce audiendid dozens of commercials in ce-age restrictions on films. Home Box Office only a few of which was her own personality visible. And engaged in an acUve camas even seasoned Broadway paign there, stressing freedom of actors tell us, Youve considerations got to to voters.choice Their promotional know your craft to do mercials and be disciplined. materiaL such as handbills John Wayne's last You also have to have keen saying film will be banned in timing when counts. So much fo? Farrah. Mesquite, proved to be At this point, few remem-nevBarr is gets serious her that Cybill Shepard also found her showcase in televi-saintGameshow sion commercials. That led to a good movie role, as a temptime- Chuck Barr is is entrepreneur back, but this in The Heartbreak time with a talk show. Leave J;id, directed by Elaine May. It to the Women. for NBC in turn led to other daytime TV. Barns will turn ,as in which she was starred, out a pilot under the aegis of though miscast, by her long-hi- s his Chuck Barr is Productions, time romantic interest, Peter and Its to be offered tn a version for Bogdanovich. She was tarred with the cant act epithets. early and late afternoon But unlike the blighted airing, concurrent with showheuuties of the 1950s, Ms. ing on NBC. Leave It to the Shepard seems to see herself Women, with a panel of four aa a whole human being, and women from various professhe gave her private life a sions who will talk about the chance (married, moved to issues that develop between Memphis and had a baby) the sexes, is an update of the before rethinking her career, 1950s; TV show, Leave It to the Girls. Now she has just finished Tune out Dial? her second nightclub booking Opponents of DiaL a new Critics who tended to York, magazine planned for her off at first as a dilettante. glossy public TV viewers, are trying ave her some applause this to prohibit the use of Corpora- time around. One added that corn-actre- et herSel movies to be not only a draw appear at the box office, but at the voting booth as well. When Mesquite, Texas, held a public referendum on August 9 to decide whether its citizenry wanted cable TV with or without movies, voter turnout was the largest in the ed f The tragedy of Monroe, of 1S that as thu8h screenings f her movies she was a fine prove and comedi- sfhe nevei; got the feed- back critics when it a compulsion to honesty into him by a stern clergyman father, stands by statement that he found MM had a dark side: arrogant :2f0SNV R is for Mesquite ed neuroses. Laurence Olivier, who had hSHM-L- TV TATTLE ed -wasting 'H3J.0H L Beating the tragedy of being a sex symbol pseudo-biographic- rue uerrez amp ro UHTAtiGLe 1980 her ability as an actress cnhMced her skillful use of her voice. In anybodys guage that sounds like a compliment But you have the comfortable feeling that Ms. Shepard can take it or leave ls, about it. ASK ME ABOUT TV 43 Dancing actor Fred 45 Actor Rod 48 Rule Britan- Lucille 5 TV's Sesame 11 Ol the cheek 12 Best (comb nia compos- 15 Actor Lionel er 49 Merited 50 Celerity 51 Stair parts 52 Dennis and Doris 17 New DOWN form) 13 Habitat plant form 14 Actor Robert (comb, form) 23 25 26 27 29 30 31 18 Like Yul 1 Actress Lau- ren 2 Island in Gulf of Bothnia 3 Angel Cheryl Brynner'a pate 19 Superman's other name: Clark 2 Greek letter 24 Every 25 Star in Ser- 4 Miss 1 Redgraves monogram 5 Sons of Amer. pens Rev. 6 Radio soap opera queen Helen 7 Opera singer 27 Miss Merkel 28 Expert 30 Hot (Loretta Swit) 33 River in Alrica 35 Watering Stevens place 38 Bother 39 Wopd cutting I i t ; i i it I . 15 Govt, agency 16 Britt 20 City tn Italy 22 Informal i i ( I 8 Bars (legal term) 9 WWIJqrqe ttt 32 greeting Exists Article Butterfly You and me Concerning Miss Andersons monogram Roman two Gripping tool 36 Peeled 37 Light bever- age 39 Wrath 40 Actor Ron 42 Baseball team 44 Bark fiber 45 Indian weight 46 native 47 Ames and McMahon 50 Miss Dennis monogram e ByVALCAREW SOAPY LADY Could you please give me some informa-tion on Denise Alexander of General Hospital? I like her a lot. Amy Pomeroy, Latrobe, Pa. Denise has been playing Dr. Lesley Webber for quite a few years now. She was lured away from Days of Our Lives, where, beginning in 1967, she played Susan Martin for six years. She is from New and started her career in radio, performing on some 5000 programs. She has been in over 200 TV shows. She also has stage credits on Broad- way and on the West Coast, She is an animal lover and hours spends her working for organizations like The Fund For Animals, Wild Horse Organized Assistance and Actors and Others For Animals. TRIPLE HEADER Here is a three-in-on- e question for you. Who plays Col. Wilma Deering on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century? How old is she? Is she related to Karen 111. Black? B.L., Chicago, . Frm Gray, who IS m her 20s re ated ald Karen, plays Wilma. Did Scotty MORE GH non-worki- on General Hospital recently in a car accident? S.H., TrumbeH, Conn, My mail reflects the fact that General Hiwnii.i" been consistently rated tops in daytime programs, because there is much interest in the show and its character. No, Kin Shriner, who plays Scotty, is alive and well. But the rumor is around, because I have had that question asked from other parts of the coun-Yor- k try. Sometimes I think such rumors are the true test of stardom, I read SILENT ANGIE Donna Rescow, who played Angie, was on the soap opera One Life To Live. I watch it all the time and I dont remember her. What was the name of the character she played? J.W., Cedar Rapids, Iowa Donna had a bit part with- out any lines on the show, There was no character name, and even an ardent fan of the show like you cannot be blamed for not remembering her. (Do vou have a question about fv? Drop us a hne m carc of Newspaper Enterprise A venuc Assn 20() York, NY 10166 that TV money to support any publication that accepts paid advertising. The dicum came in the form of an amendment to a CPB appropriations bill offered by Rep. Robert Bauman and Immediately brought concerned reaction from public broadcasters and Rep. Lionel Van Deerim chairman of the Home (R.-Md- .) Communications Subcommittee. The bill gives era $172 million in fiscal year 1983. Ironically, sources at Dial the magazine-prograguide that was the target of the amendment, said they won't be affected because none of the CPB money received by par- ticipating stations goes toward the publication. However, the legislation could affect some or all of the public TV and 165 public radio stations that now publish their own program guides, accept advertising and ante federal money to help defray the costs. The Dial project was launched several months go by lour public TV stations. & WLTA-Washtngio- n, WNET-Ne- w and picago I6S York. KCET-Lo- s Y4TTVW Angc- - Rode U China Jeff Franklin, rhairman of the board at ATI Equities, has announced that bis company 'as iKnef greement the China Sports Servicewith to bring a rodeo and music coo-- ,pnn llai Five popular music acts on re, expected to the last two days olperform the rodeo, which will take place April $ through April 25 at a 25.000-se- at stadium In Peking. During these two days the rodeo nd concert will be filmed and recorded for an American television special and Ut first record album ol American contemporary music ever recorded in China. Tickets lor the event will be priced between IS and 20 cents each. Circles Words in tne list below appear across, up. down, backwards and diagonally in the Find each word and draw a circle around itsdiagram. then cross the word off the list. Some circled letters, letters appear in more than one word. The letters that form the answer will be left over. 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