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Show WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, NORTH DAVIS LEADER, MARCH 18, 1981 ED Independent ' Network News 9:30 PM 63 Odd Couple 10:00PM News Information Society This special examines the dynamic growth in gathering and disseminating information. (R) (60 min.) a ED TV PEOPLE QQO O O 10:30 PM Tonight Show Johnnys guests will include Pe- Five years ago, a German actress named Ute Christensen folded herself into a tight bundle as her fiance welded her into the rear of his American sedan, between the back seat and the reconstructed trunk compartment. They traveled from East Berlin to West Berlin, for two and one-ha- lf hours, finally escaping through the Berlin Wall. That symbol of oppression is the centerpiece of Berlin Tunnel 21, a dramatic new film in which Mrs. Christen- sen stars with Richard Thomas, Horst Bucholz and Jose Ferrer, Wednesday, March 25 ter Strauss and Loma Patterson. (60 min.) Nightline O FI MASH 0E) Captioned ABC News MOVIE: Zuma Beach A singer befriends a of at the beach. froup Somers, Mark Wheeler, Steven Keats. 1978 11:00 PM Love Boat Gopher is fired, a man cruising with his mistress runs into neighbors and an executive uses his charms in dealing with a widow. Guest starring Eve Plumb, Antonio Fargas and Pat Morita. (R) (60 min.) Streets of San Francisco Dick Cavett Dick Cavetts on CBS. In the TV story Mrs. Chris- guest tonight is Doctor and writer Lewis Thomas. portrays the woman friend of an American (Thom- CD Special as) who tries to get her out of 11:30 PM ONews the eastern sector of Berlin. ABC News Captioned The young man, who remains 12:00 AM Tomorrow Berlin after his discharge from the U.S. Army, plans her e war escape, and organizes a group Police Story A hero aids Joe in trying to catch a of other men who have loved drug dealer. Guest starring ones on the other side to dig a Lloyd Bridges and Dick Drock. tunnel beneath the wall. (60 min.) (R) It is the same wall that, in Mery Griffin real life, Mrs. Christensens Fabulous Philadelphians: husband, Allen, brought her Ormandy to Muti Recording through on a quiet autumn Session Viewers take a rare, a transit visa look at a re- day. Allen had that allowed him access to cording session with the orches- and from East Berlin. So he tras dynamic new Music Director, Ricardo Muti. (60 devised a clever, though min.) daring, escape plan to rescue actress, G Molders of Troy A dramatic the East Berlin-bor- n portrayal of an Irish family who was not allowed to cross caught in the changing tides of the border to marry him. the American Industrial RevoluOn the night of the escape tion during the 1860s when la- the couple met at an out-obor unions were forming is y area of East Berlin, presented in this where he welded a sheet of (90 min.) once-popul- teen-age- O Q Q O Coast-toCoa- Q st O one-tim- o Q behind-the-scen- f- the-wa- docu-dram- a. Back from his cert in four-da- y Manila, metal around her huddled form, wedged between the back seat and the trunk. He covered that with a scrap of carpeting, and threw in some clothing and small appliances camouflage. The border guards opened the trunk, but they did not detect anything or anybody, actress recalls. However, the one thing the couple forgot was an air duct to make her ride safer. When she finally arrived at their destination, she con- Burt Bacharach tells me Mrs. Imelda Marcos, the countrys first lady, gave him a party each night. Composing songs sure beats working ... Six gagwriters are working on Johnny Carsons ad libs for the March 30 Oscar show ... Cher is dating guitarist Les Dudek and Penthouse pet Carole Davis is having laughs with comedian David Brenner All JHIPf fT AR Lnr.TOn MM 3761103 500 N Smmxm 2 OO MSOO Mon thru Frt EkcopI Holiday 9QO 1 m The casting of a perfect Scarlett actress The reality behind Berlin Tunnel 21 Thdfcvsl in Hollywood tante Catherine Campbell would have been her screen Every wanted the role of Scarlett (who later became Mrs. Randebut. Miss Fontaine suggestOHara. ed her sister for Melanie. Miss dolph Hearst). Or so it seemed, when it Three other newcomers de Havilland won out over Frances Dee, Andrea Leeds had almost suffocated from was announced that Margaret under consideration eventualPulthe fumes seeping into the Mitchells ly won other roles in the and Anne Shirley. g novel movie: Starlet Evelyn Keyes The role of Ashley Wilkes back of the car. She awoke to itzer. Gone with the Wind was played Scarletts complaining a different sort of freedom in a hospital. presented to be made into a sister Suellen, Alicia Rhett problem. Selznick wanted Although the actress going was cast as India Wilkes, and Leslie Howard from the start, demurs whenever it is sug- movie. In England meanwhile, a Mary Anderson played May-belbut Howard was not particugested that Berlin Tunnel Merriwether. 21 is her story, she notes that young actress not yet well larly interested. Before HowOlivia de Havilland is said ard relented, Selznick considthe drama is a reality for known in the United States Vivien Leigh had her heart to have won her role indirectered Melvyn Douglas, Jeffrey many Berliners. It is more than a romantic set on the same project, ly from the talent search. Her Lynn, Ray Milland and Shep-per- d Strudwick. story about an escape. It is a although everyone told her sister, Joan Fontaine, was In the end, Selznick began story about freedom. Escape she hadnt a ghost of a chance. being considered for both Miss Leigh got her way, of Scarlett and Melanie, in what his grand production without stories like mine exist in all course, and the epic classic variations in Berlin. a Scarlett. Vivien Leigh had movie that resulted will be been mentioned to him as a two-part rebroadcast as a possibility, but Selznick had The human struggle to be special, Sunday, March 22 and dismissed the idea. Her Engfree is a universal theme that Tuesday, March 24 on CBS. lish films had not played most people can relate to, Choosing Rhett Butler was much in the United States outn side of a few big cities, and easy. Through a newspaper says Richard-Michaeltor of Berlin Tunnel 21, survey, the novels readers Selznick thought the Ameriwhich was filmed entirely on overwhelmingly picked the can public would reject a as the location in West Berlin, popular Clark Gable British actress in such a pureImagine waking up one ideal Rhett, and producer ly American role. But Miss Leigh was determorning and seeing a barri-i- n David O. Selznick agreed that cade of men with guns, barbed Gable was right for the role. mined, as well as perfect for the role. She arranged to meet wire, tanks, chains cordoning According to some reports, the middle of the street, he though, his first choice had Selznick on the set while they actually been Gary Cooper, filmed the burning of Atlanta says. he had also considered and and as Atlanta burned, Unlikely scenario? But Vivien Scarlett Leigh Rath-bone that is what happened in 1961 Ronald Colman, Basil motion picture history was OHara and Errol Flynn. when the border between East made. But casting Scarlett OHara and West Berlin was closed, restricting the flow of traffic. was another matter. That Berlin Tunnel 21 is a story of same poll had come up with Bette Davis, interruptions, a feeling most two favorites Berliners have even today, of who had just portrayed a being simultaneously walled Southern belle in Jezebel, and Margaret Sullavan, the in and walled out. It is also a film about how heroine of another movie some people refuse to accept about the Old South, So Red the interruption of the Wall in the Rose. Selznick did not their lives, says Michaels, feel either was right for the who has directed such strong-wille- d coquette of the acclaimed television dramas novel. So he launched a as Scared Straight! Another nationwide search for ScarStory and And Your Name lett, including highly publicized visits to Atlanta and Is Jonah. Despite the contrivances New Orleans to interview that exist today to restrict hundreds of professional and most East Berliners from amateur hopefuls. Meanwhile, traveling to West Berlin -- the real search back in Hollymined land areas and water-a- s wood was just as grueling. Paulette Goddard is reportways, dogs trained to kill, armed border guards and the ed to have been the leading gray concrete monstrosity of contender there, but there the Wall itself - East Berlin-th- e was some worry that she ers continue to risk their lives would attract bad press at whatever the cost to gain because of her relationship with Charlie Chaplin. Jean freedom, says Michaels, During the first week of Arthur and Joan Bennett were in the running right down to filming, for example, a East German border the wire; they had won out year-ol- d guard shot and killed a friend against earlier contenders, and fellow guard attempting including Lucille Ball, Norma to get to the Western sector, Shearer, Lana Turner, Miriam some 10 yards away. Hopkins, Loretta Young, Joan Thats more than a scenar- Crawford, Katharine Hepburn Bankhead. io. Thats real life, the daily and Tallulah By DANIEL M. MARVIN human drama that continues Selznick also considered newcomers to unfold of people throwing Margaret Tallichet, 17 Actor Reid 46 (prefix) off oppression in any way they New York model Susan ACROSS 1 TVs 36 Animal order (WKRP) My Ayres debu and Atlanta can, Michaels says. Hayward, 20 Sheepfold 47 Actor (suffix) Children best-sellin- g, Prize-winnin- le direc-tense- 15. 3 15. 5 1 5. 7 1 5. 9 15 kN, PR By Val Carew FONDA FAVORITE -JFonda is my favorite actress. How many movies has she been in? When did she begin her acting career? Nina Kanter, Lido Beach, ane EGYRTMn Mon. nSMtaen. 93.00 TheFinaL CQNFUCT, .649, 7:41 649 1:49 349 1 . - N.Y. il Hackman Barbra Stretaand' Jane Fonda, daughter of Henry, made her film debut in 1960 with Tall Story. Shes appeared in more than 25 films since then. LIVELY SCARECROW -My friend says Ray Bolger, who played the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, is dead and I say he isnt. Who is M.C., Enfield, Conn. right? You are. Of the stars billed over the title (Bolger, Judy Garland, Jack Haley and Frank Morgan), only Bolger still lives. .WteA UMfSBUMaalMUSIMtMIMXHHMSlMSlIVi ntii was Bing Crosbys first wifes name and how many children did they have? His second wife is not the Cathy Crosby of Its Incredible, is she? How many children did they have? H.H., Havre, Mont. Bing and his first wife, Dixie Lee, had four sons. Kathryn Crosby (not Cathy), had two boys and a girl. All those dance sequences being featured on Edge of Night" are the work of choreographer Michelle Marceau. And when Ms. Marceau isnt working with Sonia Petrovna (Martine Duval) and Irving Lee (Calvin Stoner) on EON, she is busy with her regular dance students, one of whom . js.Jp.aora: Woodward, vwsriim itsreef 4 TV network 7 TV network 10 Charlotte 1 1 Late Chinese leader 12 Evangelist Roberts 14 Too Close For 16 Comedienne Burnett 18 Deface 19 Pewter coin 21 Vigoda 22 Scheme 24 Sandra Of 25 Your Shows 26 Poetic contraction 27 Matt Dillon 29 Tries 31 Make amends 35 Conjectured 39 Foreign TV network 40 Serene 43 I'm A Big Girl 48 Beatty Bear-lik- e 22 Favorite ani- - 23 mal 50 Good morning, 54 Close by 55 Five hundred two (Roman) 56 Broadcast Na Na 57 58 My Gal 59 Head piece DOWN 1 Circle part 2 Siamese group 3 Actor Jack and Michele (Knots Landing) 24 MD 25 Speedy air- liner 27 Deadly snake 28 Downcast Hanks 30 (Bosom Buddies) 32 Minor prophet (O.T.) 33 See 4 across 34 Without 37 Wanderers 38 Mr. Wallachs monogram 40 Top piece 41 Actor Arkin 42 Wrinkles 44 By means of Buckman 46 (in Lobo) 47 Playwright Simon 49 Burmese knife 51 Farrow 52 Govt, agency Garfunkel 53 family 4 Love (Spanish) 5 Prohibit 6 Actor Joseph 7 Imogene 8 Bikini part 9 Purcell 13 Claude Akins role 44 treaty Albert MacGraw 15 45 m mnummimiKtiumimKHini |