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Show * WER7 AND AMUSEMENTS GUIDE MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 71 Behind the Scenes Patty Duke Returns talented Patty Duke is ready for work again, Her baby Sean Patrick is eight months old and Patty is prancing with eagerness to start the wheels of her career rolling. Since her Emmy Award for “My Sweet Charlie” no actress has had moreoffers than this diminutive star, but she’s choosey. “I don’t wantto play another pregnantgirl,” she says, ‘‘so I hadto turn down the script they offered me for the FBIseries, It svems they want to type Patty and she'll have none of that. Since she played ‘‘Charlie”’ they offer her pregnant girl roles, and after the “Miracle Worker” the story of Helen PATTY DUKE Keller, they swamped her with background for her potential a to play blind girls. She’s being honored at present career. “When I was trying to get by the showing of four of her TV started,” she said, “I think Mr. movies in five weeks. “Tt’s one whole year of my Ross and his wife were the only ones who thoughtI could act. But work,”she says. Patty's done a lotof living in I didn’t give up and eventually her 25 years, and it hasn’t been the parts began coming my way. easy. She has worked at her The hardest one of all, of course, profession since John Ross, was ‘The MiracleWorker’ when actor’s coach, became in- Thad to be a deaf mute who was terested in her when she was blind. When Mr. Ross heard the eight yearsold and spoke with a life of Helen Keller was going to worked with dese, dem and doze lingo. be dramati During her efforts to overcome me a whole year as if I were herdiction, she mastered Irish, Helen, and when the try-outs Italian, Southern, Spanish, came, part.” I was ready and got the German and British accents which gave her an exceptional (Continued on Page10) Julie, Carol at Lincoln Cenfer They are as different as Surrey-on-Thames and San Antonio, Texas, Guinevere and Princess Winnifred Woebegone, “T Am Titania” and “I Made A Fool OfiMyself Over John Foster Dulles. But there is something intangible complementary about the show business chemistry of Julie Andrews, the Surrey-bred lady who portrayed Guinevere in “Camelot” and started her musical career eee operatic ee aria “I am itish music halls, and San Antonio-born Carol Burnett, who played Princess Winnifred W. one in “Once Upon @ Mattress” and got her first laugh with the song “I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles” in a New York ight club. ‘Thefact that these twogifted superstars are attuned to the same laugh waves is evident in their two-woman special ‘Julie andCarolat Lincoln Center,” an hour of music and comedy to be broadcast Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. on Channel5. Julie considers Carol “super,” and Carol speaks of her co-star as “terrific.” But how do they explain their artistic compatability? “For one thing we appreciate each other’s humor,’’ says Carol. “We break each other JULIE ANDREWS (LEFT) and Carol Troubled Water,” during “Julle and Carolat Burnett sing a medley of songs of the 1960s, “Moon River” to “Bridge Over Duel, Murphy Remain ‘Unsullied’ Pete Duel and Ben Murphyare just refuse to live the way examples of whythings just sin’t Hollywood stars are supposedto. Although he admits he’s been This rapport was first what they used to be in once makinga little money,starring discovered when the two stars glamorous Hollywood. were working in New York and The two handsomestars of in series like “Gidget” and enjoyed dancing, singing and Channel 4’s “Alias Smith and “Lave on a Rooftop” before his clowning together just for fun. Jones” (Thursdays at 7 p.m.) current western adventure show,Duelhasfor yearslived in a $65 a month apartmentover a garagein a lowerclass section of West Hollywood. ° Recently, he rented a more expensive place, a house with a ‘The eighth annualcolorcastof he runs away with another yard for his three dogs in “Rudolph the Red-Nosed outcast, Hermy the Elf (who Hollywood's Beachwood Village, Reindeer,"’ the animated would rather be a dentist than a a rustic and funky mixture of musical special about a shy buck toymaker). They journey into small cottages, apartment who lights the way to a Merry the Arctic wilderness and soon houses and relatively expensive Christmas,will be presented on find they are being chased by the homes just minutes from the famed Hollywood and Vine inChanne! 2 Monday at 6:30 p.m. Abominable Snowmonster. preempting ‘Rowan and They go to Christmasville tersection. Martin's Laugh-In.”” to tell Santa of the island. “Therentis much higher than Burl Ives provides the off- Rudolphis greeted by bad news. the garage apartment, but I camera voice for Sam the Helearns that the Abominable haven’t gone in over my head,” Snowman, who sings and tells Snowmoster has captured the Pete says with a grin. “I sublet the story of Rudolph’s ad- Little Buck’s family. Rudolph the garage place to my kid finds the Snowmoster’s cave brother, Geoffrey (also an acventures, and, with some hel» from his tor), and, if anything happens Seven songs were composed friends, he rescueshis kin. with this show, I'll move back for the special by Johnny Rudolphis greeted as a hero. in.” Marks: “Holly Jolly Christ- When a blizzard strikes and Ben, who proudly maintains ‘Silver and Gold,” “We threatens to cancel Christmas, Are Santa's Elves,” “We're a Santa Claus asks: “Rudolph, he banks at least half his salary Couple of Misfits,” ‘Jingle with your nose so bright, won't “in case of lean times,” last seasonused to sayhelived in “a Jingle Jingle,” “‘There’s Always Tomorrow” and ‘The Most you guide mysleigh tonight?” very inexpensive apartment ‘Thelittle reindeer proudly leads decorated in cheap motel Wonderful Dayof the Year.” He the sleigh through the storm on plastic.” also created thetitle tune, which has become a_ perennial Christmas Eve. This season, stardom hasn't In addition to Ives, others Christmasfavorite. providing voices for the gone to his head. Hestill lives in As the program begins, characters are Larry Mann, the same apartment which is Rudolphis troubled because his Billie Richards, Alfie Scopp, just minutes away from shiny nose makeshim the butt of Stan Francis, Paul Soles, Janet Universal Studios. ‘I have jokes by other reindeer in Orenstein, Paul Kligman, improvedit a little,” he says. “I Christmasville. In desperation, Corinne Connely and Peg Dixon. bought a Persian rug from a Rudolph Rides Again — For the Eight Time BURL IVES provides the off-camera voice for Sam the Snowman,the puppethe holds in his hand, during the eighth annual colorcast of “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” the animated Christmas season musical special which will be presented Monday 30 p.m. on Channel 2, Lincoln Center,” music-comedyspecial to be broadcast Tuesdayat 7:‘30 p.m. on Channel 5. used furniture store and a girl gave mea plant.” As far as transportation goes, the two men are equally unflamboyant. Pete drives a fourwheel camper truck because he likesto headfor the High Sierras when he’s not working. Ben drives the same 1966 convertible his parents bought him several years ago when he headed for California. As for clothes, the mens’ biggest wardrobe is probably the one Universal buysfor the show. A female fan of both actors has decided that Pete owns onepair of jeans and one shirt which he wears off cameraall the time. Because hehas a sense of humor both on and off camera, Pete refuses to contradict her. Ben, according to the fan, has a more extensive inventory of off-cameraattire. Besides jeans andat least one casual shirt, she hasnoticed him in twodifferent suits. Andneither one ever dreams of the famous kidney-shaped pools that all successful actors had to have in Hollywood’s past. PROGRAM CHANGES Television logs are established and updated each week by the TVoutlets themselves. Complete accuracy cannot be guaranteed since program changes are continually being made —| often after the TV Section’ has gone to press. |