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Show [eae TV2—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Monday, Actress Commutes Weekly From New York to L.A. December 24, 1979 good for me.”) One might be able to Anne has appeared in films, and a number of take Anne Meara out of New York, but keeping her away is another story. Not even the lure of a co-starring role in a regular series can tempt her to move to Hollywood. Consequently, since LET'S TAKE OUT oF CHRISTMAS becoming the “Kate McShane”). Anne Says she was not eager for a series.“It’s pleasant at this point in my life that I don't need work, and don't have to do jing unless I can it,” she said. it appealed to her in the “Archie Bunker” newest © 1980 United Feature Syndicate, Inc fixture in ‘Archie Bunker's Place,” Anne has been on the crosscountry run. “My contract specifies that they provide me with a roundtrip per-diem, and a car with a chauffeur to pick me up and drop meoff each day. I don’t drive,” Anne reveals. 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(Academy-Award and using their ownreal winning actor), was initial commitmentfor “Archie Bunker's Place” was for six episodes. She was added when the producersfelt the series, a spin-off from “All In 1957, in an off-Broadway production of “Ulysses in Nighttown.” In that same production were Zero Mostel, Bea (“Maude") Arthur and John Astin Meara and O'Connor have remained friends through the years, and % Internship ies? “I wasn't anxious, and when Mort called again and described they had in mind for me over the brought in to play Archie's partner. The pair work well together, but the early episodes lacked fire. Archie couldn't bounce his quips off his new The Family” needed partner with the same some more spark and impact. So the producers went after Anne Meara. pep. The first call found her Anne and series star unavailable. Carroll O'Connor worked “But Mort Lachman together in theater — in (the producer of the The The Gift That Keeps On Giving ticket (airline,first class), a tidy from time to time O'Connor requested that Annedoguestshots. When everyone else left “All In The Family,” leaving only O'Connor, CBS refused to give up on its star and decided to keep on going witha title change, and shift of scenery from the house to Archie's new bar. Martin Balsam,that fine veteran revised series) persisted,” Anne reports. “I wasn’t available because of a movie (“Flame”), and a series of six half-hour shows for HomeBox (pay cable), a monthly, humorous preview of upcoming films on the pay-cable network we were doing.” The “we” refers to Anne and her husband, Jerry Stiller. They met as young actors in New Yori. They performed with a Shakespearean company, and, despite their disparate backgrounds — she is Trish-Catholic and he is Jewish — they married, life experiences, put reflects. “She was going to be a cook, whois feisty and doesn’t take crap from anyone. She i ly takes a nip, and smokes cigarettes, and sometimes her ashes drop in the food. I love it. Everyone is so pure on television. Here I am going against the grain.” She also likes the idea that her character is someone “who gives Archie back in kind,” together a cabaret act. So,it was as a stand-up comedy team thatStiller and Meara first drew attention. The biggest leap to stardom came through a series of which is what Edith (Jean appearances on the old Stapleton) did in her own Ed Sullivan Show, and naive way. Only Anne soon they wereattracting does it more aggressively big dollars in nightclubs. — and louder. Butthe pair never lost “I said to Archie, do I sight of their original sound like you?” Anne goal — acting. So, after says. “And Carroll said. nine years of playing ‘It was terrific. Keep it nightclubs, they bowed up.” out and have not worked Anne says her a cabaretin eight years, concession is that she is concentrating on other doing someone else's forms of the performing show. Otherwise, if she arts: amongthem,a very ever does her ownseries, successful run in a radio it would have to be done commercial for Blue Nun in New York. wine, which they did for Emphasizing that seven years. commitment to In the years since Manhattan,she and Jerry quitting the nightclub have launched their own scene, they have also production company, worked separately.Jerry “Stiller and Meara” co-starred in the productions, and they Broadway version of have just entered into a “The Ritz,” and also the two-year lease on a suite film version. (‘Annie of offices in midmade me accept the Manhattan, where they role,” Jerry recalls. “She seek productions and also insisted that it would be write together. Hostage Interview Gets Reaction NBC News presented thefirst TV interview with an American hostagein Iran recently on Channel2. “Hostage! First TV Interview” wastelecastwith John Chancellor anchoring in New York. The broada was delayed because of technicaldifficulties at the satellite ground station outside Teheran. i second special Program, “Hostage! First TV Interview — A Reaction,” anchored by Garrick Utley, was telecast later and included excerpts from the interview,plus reaction to and analysis of it by the hostage’s parents; White House Press Secretary Jody Powell; State Department spokesman Thomas Reston; Lloyd Hollins, a hostage released last moht; and the interviewers, NBC News correspondents Fred Francis and Geor;‘ge Lewis. An excerpt from the interview was telecast on “NBC Nightly News”earlier in the evening. This morning, “Today” carried excerpts of the interview in its four newscasts. The hostage, chosen the Iranian students, was Marine Corps Corporal William Gallegos of Pueblo, Colo. His interview was relayed by satellite for oe telecast. was interviewed in library of the United States Embassyin Teheranco NBC News correspondents Fred Francis and George Lewis. The producerof the program in Iran was Walter Millis. Arrangements forthe interview were concluded (Continued on P. 8) |