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Show , 5 it: ofm An DEscrze NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 , 1975 iJJ 1 Lowth6-- Aott, 3aa admi op, bt LIVIr1 ,.I .,,, Editor's note: Polly sexid sneered at the new arrival on the entertain- - "ea logif gale.,- g otti7 ..,,,, ,,, ,0 LT etel4 cs.,.. el-- " .., .av Second cf eight ,.., - I I ''"', - on fire. And she kept the CBS network in always a onnencivr for top for 23 years. When a show lasts a generation it is perhaps inevitable that a performer's personal lite becomes folded into her professional life. Less than a year after I Love Lucy began its run in 1951, Lucille Bail became pregnant. By November 1962, the publicity mills began grinding nin news Of the impending event. , There was such sensitivity to questionable language in those days ,that Lucy not on the CBS zisn't pregnant network she was "enceinte.' detivered right on schedn'e and everyone sighed with relief when the child turned out to be a boy, Desi Jr. There's just so much waiting you can do in television. it was neecessary to write scripts in advance and the sex couldn't be left indeterminate, Fortunately, ifie ters had derided on a boy. News of the birth was carried on page one in many parts of the nation along with a story about Dwight D. Eisenhower's inauguration as the nation's 34th president. The Jackie Gleason Show and especially "The Honeymooners," a domestic comedy segment was an instant hit on Saturday nights in the early 1950s. Gleason always knew how to parlay Success into money; He managed to negotiate a contract with CBS that called for a commitment for two years of shows, plus a guarantee of $100.000 a year tor 15 years even if CBS never put him oil the air. ratings 1 A CBS lawyer who specialized in contracts. and describes himself as rather tired.' after years in the vearing besiness, remembers one "terrible session" with a clam, cool (lean in the dressing room one evening before a Gleason show. "Gleason wasn't dressed and he wasn't going to go on unless he got his concessions. He outfluffed me. Thirty seconds before 8 p.m. when the show was to start, we capitulated. By the time the overture was over, he was fully dressed and on or would Aage. 1 firmly believe like to believe that he wouldn't have gone on if we hadn't given the concessions. I never even told Paley Aotit that one." arLo.,04e :'''''," ', Of ' , ''! :. :4.; P. 1::,."4':,.:::::..:4..,:t4,..,:-..':-;'i.- ,,..,,: 11:.:If;,:,....n :,i:',u,,..:3 ,;,.,..,,,,i ,,.-.,,,,,:- . ,.r!!,:,'g:: j:i,,,.,,:::,,i:,,,,:--,,,I,!'',.-,;-- ,' I ':3,:"::-'- - - ;3:--:- -- 'ir..' -' '',:',..i.:: :::..:,: , , -,;:i ......':: '..,::,.:;..::::rf.,:..,..c.:.; t':--;- :.,,,,,4 ;..:Ario. :;:,., :;,; I:' t.. ::,... .. - ,,,:''''''''.:: ;,: ' : - ,;... ''''''''''':ieiAs'::::',;'''':';: r,,,;',1, ...::!::''''.4-':,ti''': ''':. ' ' '', 4 " ,'' i:.:,. would take near:. ?,:.:i '''''''''' - ''''''' ' '''''''''';.- ''''''.' '' ' ' - .."1...'.':', .:0:. ' :::::!...........'-','- ' '.' , .. , ''.. ::,,,,,,,,,::,',:::,!4'.:;:' '::::::':'-"- , Paley to rernatred.to that you. better give him the money." When Jackie decided to do his show from Miami Beach and Ijrkit. Club were he y the iy of the cou!triilay golf eVer-Srhard swallowed CBS officials Year, rind took his $650,000 keyhole glass house off his hands. The network tried to sell the Peekskill, N.Y., house but wound up owning it for years. In 1979 Gleason and CBS disagreed over the kind of show he should lap doing. CBS wanted a full hour of Tlit Honeymooners. which for a s he had done year in the r as a separate show, but Jackie preferred a variety package including "The Honeymooners." The CBS proposal would have meant memorizing 55 minutes of script in four days. Jackie claimed, "I could have done it, but I would have had to cut out everything else." So Jackie politely said no to Bill Paley and retired to his new Glea Manor in Inverrary, Fla. Like in every a great ball club three-deeposition, CBS officials reasoned that it pays to keep talent on the bench and thus out of the opposing clubs lineup. CBS kept writing $100.000-ayea- r checks while Jackie sat on his ample derriere. As it turned out.. Jackie didn't renew his contract with CBS when it finally wound down. Anxious to get a deal more to his liking than an hour of the Honeymooners, he jumped ship and joined NBC where, at this t, I , ;,,,,,v, , half-hou- p waiting, his career is in limbo. When Gunsmoke was to make the switch from radio to television in 1955. there was never any question in CBS circles as to who should play Marshal Dillon. The part was written for and tailored to the dimensions of John Wayne. The Duke was everybody's idea of the heavyweight good guy who tamed Dodge City with countu wisdom salted with brute strength and peppered with lead. John Wayne wasn't interested. But he did suggest a candidate big fellow named Arness who was under contract to 1Vayne's production com- the time, James Arness At pany. in I the ; ' :::- :'-- , .,..;,-- :a,e,.. - .1,, mit.8 n'tc :'. Y7'.:'',;: .:'...''.'',,',f:4:,':; .:,':,1.-- I St7u1 '4. :::::'," .... .' , .. ectiottl :,' :, ,.-- ,..., , f,,,,,,,,,,,,,,t-s,- L111. ,,., ,-,11,-;.- grAls0 ', -. ,, 4 Wati I have a corapia!nt hank strollar to one someone else had tecently, but with a different Dank. We had authorized them to pay an insurance premium from our checking account. They did this for same time, then we canceled the policy and the authorization. A couple of months later they hawed two more premium notices. in higher amounts, paying the insurance company $47.64 for each. Now the hank refuses to credit us they get the money back from the insurance company. You said in yotu tolumn that this was wrong and that the hank had an indemnification program Will you help us as you did thcm?T.C., Salt Lake City. We could almost reprint our answer trom the column. You, too, didn't get to the right party. You were dealing on a branch level and with underlings instead of the manager, who happened to be at home, The former were guilty of a lack of communication and knowledge of the bank's policy, which is to oceount and seek repayment unen indemnification program. As of now, they have called you personally to apologize and tell you your account has been credited. Sorrynot a hazard There is a shrub on the corner by us that blocks our view of traffic entering the intersection. We have to pull way out to see if anyone is coming, and this is quite hazardous. We've complained to the neighbor who owns the shrub. but he won't remove it. He did trim it. but this hasn't helped much. Can you 114.4)7LK Nolladay. The Board of Health and the County Planning Commission agreey(Ur neighbor has done nothing wrong, and that shrub doesni create a hazardous, situation, When we saw the picture of the shrub and the intersection that the Planning Commission v.'c were inclined to agree with them. They took the picture from the a ntage of a driver entering the intersection, and that shrub doesn't block vision at .. :, ,,,- Don't James Arness is worth perhaps $20 million because of a role he didn't want to play. 71 . ' 't-':;'- , '....,:- - 7' ; , end a career without the victim even knowing why his telephone has ,.,,,,,,,,, r!, ,,,....,, suddenly stopped ringing. 1 ' 'F''. e'1,5404:'::,::, Dozier invited Arness to his house. 't .:.:......,.er't:.;:..';';':77;',.?:;'4.4,:-,Z4'.4,iar,4:::,,..v:,7,.,,,,,..-,;tiI,1.;A.,Z24',i, At the meeting. Dozier and fellow ,, ; :::.:::!...V.:'.1.,',.rf .. executives explained the contract A.i;:?.?.',41;. if:.:Al..;:Ay::.: why it was a good one for Arness and :,''A why he shouldn't break it. ,f,?, Whether Artless saw the light or 4:4 :1--,. felt the heat. he lived up to simply :;': ;:'''" f.:4 the terms of his contract and i t.i::::.:1.7..c.:-.discovered a gold mine. Gunsmoke r4gg dominated the Saturday night scene f .4,::.,ii.:,:::,':,;.:;:L'::,,;,S att.; isi7..'4 at 19 p.m for years, galloping along t.),.::,..,::;,. ,,,.,7,:v,...,,ii,;.. at or near the top of the ratings well into the It was 12 years :,!..0A'il before NBC movies managed to gun it down. (At that point in 1967, Gunsmoke was actually cancelled. But at the -- suggestion" of Bill ,,,,,::..,:: ::..:....7.,..,.:.:x,..i:zwaieitii ..,,,, Liiir,4er, '''''"" :, Paley, who always loved this endless western saga, the cast was Jackie Gleason (above, with Art Carney) was an and the show resurrected and rescheduled on Monday night prime instant hit on Saturday nights in the early '50s. time and it remained there until this year). Network minions were at Arwas a candidate for actor 8 anonymwas already pouring thousands of ness's call to answer every whim in ous. His biggest hit the title role in dollars into the production. Tough those gold years. When Arness "The Thing" had required a luck. pard. You can forget that CBS wanted to get out from under his virtuoso growling performance as a contract. Arness had spoken. !emeh, the cowboy crooked a finger vegetable from outer and CBS came forward with its He hadn't bargained. however. space. with William Dozier. then West seemingly bottomless purse, kissed When Artless showed up for a Coast director of programming for the financial bruises and bandaged them with greenbacks. This kind of test. excited sudio executives the network Do7 ler was a deterbailout kept the stars happy,. and thought the man just reeked of horse mined man and a veteran of the kind sweat ard manly charm. He was, in of warfare that is happy stars make for a happier, short, Right for the Part. played in Hollywood as casually as more prosperous network. James Arness mounted up and James Arness did not want the viewers switch channels on TV. He picked up the telephone and bluntly rode into Dodge City, finally loping part. His agent, Kurt Frings, wafIft told Arness: "You don't know me, off into the sunset after 20 enthusiastic either, Still. Arness was years at free and Frings committed him to do but I want to tell you that you are the end of the spring season this about to do something very the role. year. Bill Dozier guesses the man is worth perhaps $20 million today, and On the night before Arness was to all because of a part he didn't want. CBS Even an established star (which show up for wardrobe fittings, was notified that he had changed his Ar(ess wasn't) thinks twice about Reprinted by ;Ierm;ssion of Playboy Press from "CBS: Reflections in a mind: he had decided against going doing something regarded as Bloodshot Eye." (c) 1975 by Robert Metz. -into TV and was, in fact, already Distributed by King Features unprofessional" by an important shooting a western for Republic entert a i nment capital executive. Powerlul people trade gossip at NexL S64.100 indiaestiun: the quiz Pictures. But the network had orFhiiiz. seandats. dered sets, ired other actors and Hollyuoorl parties, gossip that can , ,11r... if;;''. SO Lake City, ail! .,:;:,: , , ''''''- fretit's scheduled In June I paid the city g'36 to do some cement work. It hasn't been done yet. I know they're backloged but I think they should pay me interest on my money. since they've had the use of it all this time.EC., Salt Lake City. Sorry, but city officials say their handling costs would be much more than the amount of interest in nearly every case similar to yours. But don't fretthey won't have the use of your money much longer. The work you've paid for is scheduled to he done this week. - i k'',1:7'- ' ,:,1::,,,,, r r, mid-M0- s, 250-pou- grimly mistreated force, a total lack of preventive veterinary medical care (and) diets that fail to .nutritional requirements meet. Footnote: A Purina spokesman denied that its TV cats have been mistreated. He said the company had issued strict orders calling for humane handlira of all Purina eets. 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Those appealing aniWASHINGTON mals. which star in movies and TV commerials. are often maltreated. Some have been bnitally killed. The are the findings of the Humane Society of the United States whose wildlife expert. Sue Pressman, posed as a film !'wtiducer jo gathea the grim detaiiis. Performers and crewmen, upset by the animal abuse. also provided information. The Purina cats; which appear so contented in the TV commercials, apparently are miserable in real life. "Cage after rage of cats, kept for use in the Purina TV commercials," were packed With "30 to 40" animals, the unpublished study charges. At was apparent that the- cages hadn't been cleaned for several days.A moiith after inspecting the cages, the undercover Sue Pressman returned to see kiat had happenod to the cats. She was told, according to the Humane Society, that many "had died trona some kind of disease. surmised that the owner of the training She. facility" had saved money by getting the cats 110M animal shelters and avoiding ,full inoculai ions. other ri , ' MI 1 : 'F' 1 I ,,,,,,.,,,..,,..,,,:,.,..,,,,..,,,,,,,...,,,.,,,r,..:.....,,,,.,,,:,,,,,:.,,:::..........,:.:::, ; ';''.'42!!.t7::",',-',f- says Luey: look is an uncommonly beautiful woman. Even at age 60 or thereabouts she displays legs that are the eney of women a third her age. She might even have become a sex symbol with her flaunng red hair and dazzling good looks. But Lois gorgeous creature with a mouth as flexible as a rubber band used her lace to stop custard pies and pizzas. She walked into walls, fell oft ladders. dangled from tall buildings. made up as a clown and set her nose ' ,:,s, ,';'',:::'.,...-,,-- -- "1 neve changed. People could tune in and see what they expected to see. The only when changes were of necessity divorced Desi treat-lifhusband Desi Arnaz who in the initial series) and when sold the reruns and had to change the title. But my character always remained the same, I think that accounts for my longevity." Lucille Ball, if you take a second kmi; ..: 'al ,,.,,,,,, 1.. ',.et,... By Robert Metz If it were possible to stay awake for all the 195 Luei lie Ball telecasts and view them without interruption 179 I Love Lucys, 136 The Lucy Shows, 114 Vicre's Lueys and 16 this madness would specials conslime 10 days and 1:ntA.! hours. Which is not to say it would be over. Reruns will continue. Her face has already been seen more often than the face of any human being who every lived. TH' - ment scene television, and few Hollywood stars could be tempted by TV offers, But by the early 195ils, TV mild offer bigger audiences than the average film and the tadustry laVished riches on Its nerformers Quickly, TV established its own star system and three of the biggest were CBS's Lucille 'llallIlacide Gkasan and James Arness. A 3 '; IL7234townsq NEARER: We recently described a arsenal of eavesdropping devices. which the government uses to spy on private citizens. We neglected to mention that the government has set the style for the commercial world as welt As one observer put it, modem science has made snooping "the fastest growing Lit dirtiest business in the world.Michigan Blur Cross and Blue Shield. for example. uses elaborate equipment to monitor telephone calls from the public. Unknown to the callers, supervisors at Blue Cross listen in on the telephone conversations between its service representatives and private citizens. Other Michigan companies, such as Montgomery Ward, Sears and even Michigan Bell itself, eavesdrop on telephone callers. 1984 whole The society also discovered that "the fox used in the Audi Fox auto commercials (had) a diet card calling for nothing but two chicken necks a day. an extremely meager diet." the bear that had starred in the Also, Beverly Hillbillies TV series (was) living in a cramped cage, with no evidence of reward fer the thousands of dollars it must have earned for its owner." Worse, the report alleges that an impatient n television lion by trainer "killed a hitting it over the head with a Another animal handler allegedly "put out a trained cougar's eye." And part of a herd of horses narrowly escaped being blown up for p Western intent on showing action. In her di3riiise as a producer, Mrs. PTC3S;iia3 told one trainer she needed a grizzly bear or her film. he suggested "ha he could spray paint on a brown bear to make It like a grizzly." m Cahfornia She found fempci-zturz.- s animal ghettos often reached "as high as 110 degrees." A trainer said he planned to deprive a bear of food or 34 days to cow it into performing, the report charges. hi Society found lic.titywnycl guilty of "Inhumane trairang triettaxii;. mei tilting the withholding of food and the use of well-know- In Georgia, firms using telephone monitoring eiripment at least are required to reizister with tite state. The pnblic is alerded by an asterisk, winch is placed next to the firm's name in the phone wok. Among the companies rilarkc :! with an asterisk are Greyhound Bus, Georgia Power. in American Airways and Delta Air Lincs. Informed sources tell us there is massive use of monitoring devices by private e091- panics, 'These not only al.e used to cworhr telephone ,..,. nriversations: buswessmen place tens of thousands of blip in competitor showrooms. insurance offices. lawyers ofl fi es hot el rooms el sew here. Legal experts believe this electronic may b a violation of the individuars constitutional right to privacy. This is the view of Dale Kildee. a Michigan state senator. who conducted his Own investigation of electronic monitoring. He warned: "Big Brother doesn't just jump in with a big splash. Big Brother creeps in and then he's there.- Big Brother, of course, was the ea vesdmpper in George Orwell's concept of survt-di- ance ever-presen- t, 1964. In r110 1't! 4:10Ser. ways than one, 200 is getting I ordered five items from Spencer Gifts, Atlantic City. N.J., in April. I sent them a check for $10.32. In June they mailed me a card saying the package was returned to them, unclaimed. I wrote asking them to send it again and they said they would. So far nothing. So I wrote again and asked for my money back. Still nothing.E.M.L., Salt Lake City. VVe finally got through to them. They have sent you a refund and an apology, Do-lAAan attemp,.; to solve problems, get answer inyesttgate complaints and cut red rape Write or teepinone. You F.,ust sign your name anti 91 ve your address Ptease include your teleptvor,e number. OUR MAN MIES 70piviikt tli Harry Jones Deseret News staff writer By Before we get too deeply involved in Thanksgiving. and then head into Christmas the itt, very next day, we should take a refreshing. pause and skim ever so lightly over antunm. When did summer end, and Indian Summer begin? Indian Summer is really anyone's season. It just comes and no one seems to know why. Fin not even sure why it is given the name Indian Summer. There's nothing in the Indian handbook! I don't even have a theory on Indian Summer, but I do have a theory about an October rain that falls on a weekend. It doesn't take too much to put mc into complete disorder, or downright chaos. A rainy weekend can do that to me. It is especially true when someone with higher authority plans my Saturdays. When the first drops of rain fall, it is welcomed. The slightest drop of rain means that the mower has been stilled. The rake is taken back to the garage. and the garden hose left stretched out across the lawn, It had been scheduled for rolling and storing for the winter. It means that the yard man and chief leaf raker hos to remain indoors for most of the day. Spirits are high because there's football on the tube, or a good beiAk to be read by a nice roaring Who am kidding? Not the husbands of Headache - Manor! tyrant. takes out the B It is the plan that keeps Me out of the wet. but that is the only benefit. Instead ot the tootnall game on the tube, or the good book. I can touch up the kitchen chairs. and put the trim on the guest room. its a good time to wash the inside of the picture window. The books cannot be read, but they can stand a good dusting. There are all sorts of things to be taken downstairs or storing. Heaven knows where these items came from They just didn't gather because it was raining outside. but Lve never seen them before. These chores have been catalogued by the unofficial head of the housebrild for Just such an emergency. I hate efficienQ Women (loll t realize that painting chairs. trim ;ui wa;ttint, inside windows ai-- winter things. Under no circumstances should they be mentioned in the autumn! Nothing brings snow and sleet fa'iter in the middle if Indian Sommer than for a person to do Ivinter chores. I doubt We;ti. Useless or Fo!),,vnank agree, but it lb a tfuisrn. is the same when I get the feeling it is time to put cm the snow tires. If I don't buy them, we have three feet of snow the next morning. If I do buy them, Indian Summer clings like a vine. That's v(hy I'd nevei' be a weatherman! WITS ENDi Major League baseball teams should hold their spring training, at home so they could g2t used to the kind of weadter they have to play series A higher autheritv. now a oerations chart marked Plan e years cgo..0 Oct, 22 1984 Refund and apology -- -- 1 4e. 1,,14.: .,.....) ...fir, The British army is reported taking down buildings in South Easton .1(r firewood erecting barracks and raising batteries for their defense, 1T1. also - d!!,'L-r4z.- , |