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Show ROBERT CULP ENTERTAINMENT An Actor Who Fights for Causes ij u is like a Robert culp of Hollywood j j j j lLTTJ actors today he adopts causes. In Hollywood, this has become as fashionable as owning a Ferrari or an swimming pool. odd-shap- ed But Bob is different. He puts his money and his time where his ideals are. Example: after attending the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King, he and his wife France Nuyen toured with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a King aide, and lived in some of the most socially depressed areas of the country. He also spent three weeks living in Resurrection City, during poverty demonstrations in Washington, D.C. Example: from his experiences, Culp wrote, directed, and narrated his own documentary of Chicago slums, where the Southern Chrisp tian Leadership Conference sucprogram has been most cessful. It was called "Operation Breadbasket" and examined the SCLC project. He sold the film to ABC-Tbut it kept him unemtwo years and nearly almost ployed wiped out his savings. "At least I had my say," he philosophizes. "I did what I could." He went back to work in the modern marriage satire, "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice," but, typically, acting isn't enough to occupy him fully. He's now writing a movie script (one of his scripts for his tv series, "I Spy," won an Emmy nomination), and he may direct and act in it. Bob's theater experience began when he was 14. "Mom shoved me into it," Bob told me. "I was impossible as a kid. I was an only child, and I was lonely. I always self-hel- V, had great flights of fantasy. I drove my motber wild. So she got me started in a little theater group in Oakland, Calif." Once on stage. Bob was hocked, and he acted his way through school, to New York, and back to California this time, of course, to Hollywood. He encountered trouble there not because of any acting de- ficiencies but because of physical characteristics. I remembered a studio official commenting on his walk, and I mentioned it to him. "That walk of mine!" Bob exploded. "It nearly 1 UJJU cost me my job! They told me it was effeminate. It's simply the way I move. I hold my head a little forward, too. And I squint a lot be." cause I'm Bob admits that his two-ye- &a city . w . near-sighted- ar marriage to actress France Nuyen, who was born in France of a Chinese father and French mother, has its ups and downs. "It's just great when we are both working or off on location. The hard part is when one of us is left behind." He says he isn't easy to live with and has a quick temper, but insists, "I am very patient with France. At least, I think I am . . He paused a moment, then added, "I'm not so sure she thinks so." The couple, along with France's daughter Fleur, live castlelike home in a near Hollywood. When I asked Bob whether he and France would like a child of their own, he replied, "Oh, yes." Then he stopped short and moaned, "My God, what am I thinking of? After talking about the overpopulation problem, I say that and I am father to five kids!" (Four by his second wife, actress Nancy five-year-o- ld Asch.) While Bob's "Operation Breadbasket" was accomplished the hard way, it gave him a substantial knowledge of his craft and better self understanding. Now, with acting, directing, writing, and producing credits, he should have no problem as a professional or as a concerned citizen. But should there be a conflict between the two, Robert Culp is likely to do a dangerous, courageous thing and a rare one : risk his professional standing on behalf of a cause he believes in. TIE CITY OFFERS PRICES of only 79c to $2.00 . . . prices that appeal to every man and represent real quality and value. TIE CITY'S huge purchasing power, direct importing of fabrics and exclusive designing make these low prices possible. THE 18 TIE CITY STORES in New York operating on this basis have collared th tie market Every store isf SUCCESSFUL and w4 100 are now ready to open stores coast to coast. BIS PROFITS ARE WAITING for both the store owner an the area Distributor. Yd don't have to know the tail business our evaluate your location afi train you in our PROVEN SUCCESS methods that give you almost instant exp ence. k after 22 successful years and 18 ia wnutuiw stores tie city gees national TIE CITY Corporation 255 tut Seanu Ihrf . Fwt Family Weekly, November tS, 1969 21 U4bh. fla. 31304 Gentlemen: I know I can mM txi character and co'fnenH you finances. I would Is nt vour aroaram av ;i tint 11 DISTRIBUTOR INDIVIDUAL -- PEER J. OPPENHEIMER YOU JUST NEED THE AMBI TION and foresight to be your own boss and be willing to get your share of this t5O0,OOtf0tl tie business. When you qualify. you may tie in on an investment of as little as $40,000 for an area Distributorship or $16,750 for an Individual store. PROFITS returning at once. Only good character, a will to succeed, and qualified references are required. u AOCtCSS CITT STATf PHOM a sucsidiaxt or L. ZIP swam, no., a pusucu owned co. |