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Show by Joey Sasso CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: While much has been made about Vanessa Redgrave's shooting her controversial movie-for-TV 'Playing For Time' behind barbed wire secrecy, a source at CBS assures me that newshounds have missed a bigger scoop. The source alleges that when Miss Redgrave was in New York recently for 'consultations' before beginning 'Playing For Time.' the Oscar-winning actress was really shooting scenes for the film under armed guard. Miss Redgrave has already been the target of at least two death threats . . . Twenty-nine-year-old Gregory Harrison of CBS-TV's 'Trapper John, M.D.' is taking a generous, paternal interest in his younger brother. He's moved the teenager into his new Hollywood Hills home and enrolled him at U.C.L.A. The kid wants to be an astronaut and the first man to actually live on the moon . . . Guaranteed to be one of the most coveted female TV roles of next year is the lead in the four-hour CBS-TV movie of Tammy Wynerte's autobiography. autobio-graphy. 'Stand By Your Man.' The many-times-married-and-divorced country music superstar super-star has had a life for dramatization including a kidnapping and beating in 1978. TV CLOSEUP: Keeping their marriage secret for several weeks after they said their "I dos" in Montreal were 'Holocaust' star Joe Bottoms. 26. and producer Delilah Andison. 36. While the newlyweds are happily on tour promoting Joe's new movie. 'The Black Hoie.' we hear that his parents are back home fuming about the "older woman" who caught their son . . . Kate Jackson seems happier now that she's left 'Charlie's Angels.' She and husband Andrew Stevens were mobbed by young fans recently when they went shopping at F.A.O. Schwarz in New York City. Kate chatted with them and signed autographs. One delighted mom said: "Kate was charming and took time out to talk to the kids. Her husband was itching to leave but she ignored him." . . . Never underestimate Hollywood's ability to exploit tragedy for the sake of a quick buck. Snooting has begun on a four-hour CBS mini-series called 'James Warren Jones: The Mad Messiah,' which scnpter Ernest Tidyman, an Oscar winner for writing 'The French Connection.' says is a "genuine tragedy that should be honestly examined, not exploited." Wonder what he'd call Universal's 'Guyana: Crime of the Century' oozing into theatres across the land next April. CELEBRITIES IN CANDID: ABC's 'Family' has some high-powered stars on both sides of the camera this season. In one episode, Joanne Woodward is directing Henry Fonda, who plays a man approaching senility. Of her first job directing a TV show, Miss Woodward says: "I feel more creative doing this. You're in a wonderful position of power, you can tell people what to do and you never have to get up in front of that camera, which is terrifying." . . . The end of the world is just around the corner, insists Christian actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. "I believe it s close that it will happen in our lifetime, revealed the 60-year-old star. In a rare interview, Zimbalist told how he recognized signs, foretold in the Bible, of impending doom. "The whole smut side of my industry makes me want to hang my head in shame. I see being in the period of the end days as part of a plan. For example. 30 years ago our country was the most powerful in the world. Today it is a third-rate power skidding downhill." Zimbalist said he is particularly concerned by the spread of communism and at home, the lack of respect shown by young people to their parents and teachers . . . Metromedia Producers Corp. will use pay cable to preview the mini-series of its Golden Circle project, starting with its third production. 'Blue Grass.' . |