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Show HOLLYWOOD HEADLINERS B, NANCY ANDERSON Copley News Service Uida Gray, Sue Ellen of DiUa," eipects to pres-st pres-st a new image in "Not In Prut Of The Children," a lilevision "Movie Of The ltd" she's chosen to do bwuse it's given her a role vastly different from Hat of Jl.'s well-dressed, isolate wife. Id it shell be seen as a utvery-glamorous toman living with a jomger man and fighting tckeep custody of her chil-dren. chil-dren. I don't have any fear of being sterotyped," Linda uyi, "because I'm in dirge. I'm very versatile ud It's my responsibility It show that versatility." ( She's been trying to con-i con-i pet the world that she's tally not Sue Ellen but a itnan "who has a lot m to offer" than her television creation. She believes she's finally tsublished her separate identity since (to quote limla), "The first year of Mow people only knew u J.R.'s wife, the brunette on the couch. He second year, people Wed me as Sue Ellen. Bit now they call me Liada Gray." Even though Julie is an Emmy winner, multiple Tony winner mi holder of the Donald- WindNew York Drama Circle awards, she "'its no apology for in the nighttime opera, CBS's "Knots usiing" II fad, she says she'll . back for another sea-. sea-. tasked. Heanwhile, she's reor-ling reor-ling a one-woman derived from the let-ud let-ud journals of Char-J Char-J Bronte to "open when 'J time," she says. ' her long-range tioos is to direct a Auction of "Peter Pan" genuine 7-year-Jy "win a wonderful Jple call Barrie's sentimental. To me, Pan is very fierce." of her devotion of the Sea rM a ship dedicated ag dolphins, whales threatened sea Jan Smithers, JjT a "WKRP has " SveD Vision rights ! story. J"!' BUI she says, "has u 1 M of money" for 11 to co-produce and star in a television movie about the work of The Sea Shepherd with some proceeds from the project to go to the ship's support Smithers is also trying to buy rights to a book she won't name to be produced as an animated feature. "I won't tell you what it is," she says, "but reading it, I sobbed 13 times." As for the fate of WKRP," she's counting on its continuance, recent low ratings notwithstanding. As of this very moment, nobody has any idea whether or not "MJLSJI." will go on for an 11th season sea-son according to Jamie Farr, who plays Cpl. Klinger, but somebody is going to have to make up their corporate minds before be-fore a contractural deadline dead-line in March. All the contracts will end then, and, while Fan-would Fan-would be glad to come back for an 11th season, not all the cast would be willing will-ing to return. Without saying specifically specifi-cally that Alan Alda wants to leave "MJLS.H.," Jamie asks, "If Alan leaves, does that constitute canceling the series? It's not called The Alan Alda Show.'" "M.A.S.H.," Farr believes, be-lieves, could continue successfully suc-cessfully not only without Alda but with an almost total change of cast In fact, he thinks, if it goes on, it will need cast changes to keep it fresh. At the end of this season 20th Century-Fox and CBS will have four unused 'M.A.H."segments in inventory in-ventory which, as Jamie points out, could be used for a fragmented season. "I believe you could carry the show on," says Farr, "with some of us, all of us or none of us, but as of now neither the network nor the studio has asked any of us to renew. "The question is: Does 20th Century-Fox want to end the war? "I've heard rumors that the network wants "MAS.H." to stay on at any cost" When Jane Fonda, producer pro-ducer of the fledgling ABC-TV ABC-TV series "Nine To Five," was asked in a press conference con-ference why none of the principals are black, Rita Moreno, a star of the show piped up, "Forget about the NAACP. When was the last time you saw a Hispanic starring in a television series?" se-ries?" Evidently Ricardo Mon- talban had slipped her mind. Moreno is so outspoken she cheerfully admits that she's 50 and has very seriously seri-ously suggested to Fonda that "Nine to Five" include an episode about the affects af-fects of menopause upon a woman's professional productivity. pro-ductivity. So far, ABC has ordered only four episodes of the series which also stars Dolly Parton's sister, Rachel Ra-chel Dennison and Valerie Curtin. |