Show ask dick P 'Lou Grant' down one by Dick Kleiner please tell Calif You DEAI I'm curious about "Lon Grant” repeat I aav recently I aav the first airing and noticed a difference in the reran The episode focused on unsafe at a California practices and cover-upunclear plant Throaghont the reran it seeaied obvious to me that the voices were DICK: s use An innocent mistake on 'Lou Grant' in dnbbed whenever the of the plant was mentioned The plant was referred to as “Tnkor” Was this the name originally nsed? Or did the original name hit too close to home with the unclear industry? NU Hagerstown Hi My regards to your keen eyes and ears There was a change but not because of any conspiracy It was simply a goof by the research firm that clears company names Whenever a company name is used in a TV script a research firm is responsible for clearing it to make sure it is a fictitious name That "Lou Grant" script used the name "Nucon” for the company and the research firm said there was no company by that name But when the show was first aired its producers heard angrily from a company called Nucon in Ohio There was talk of a lawsuit but MTM — which produces the show — convinced the company the mistake was innocent They did agree however to change the name in the rerun DEAK DICK: My wife says the the late Bobby Darin died in a ear accident I say he didn't There’s fU riding on this bet so u name game BOB Hacienda Heights are rich Darin died from a heart is still alive MRS EARL H SNOW sego Miek No Steiner died in 197L Ot- attack DICK: At the 1171 Academy Awards who appeared as with All MacGraw? And who was the copresenter with Ynl Brynner? I have a 5 bet riding oo this HEATH DE YO Sterling III I should get a percentage of all this big loot Ali MacGraw and Francis Ford Coppola presented the Oscar to the best director and Yul Brynner and Natalie Wood presented the Oscar for the best foreign film DEAK DEAR DICK: Who casta replacements for “MASH?” I think theyH have a difficult time replacing Radar but they’ve done a great Job each time before If Alan Alda quit eould the show go on in yonr opinion? SUSAN Fortnna Calif No one person has the entire say on casting but executive producer Burt Metcalfe has a very strong vote They will not be replacing Gary Burghoff (Radar) at all merely upping CpL Klinger (Jamie Farr) to company clerk I think "MASH” could go on in an Alda-les- s state but not for very long He is the heart and soul of the show DEAR DICK: Yon were kind enough to tell me the name of the composer of the “Gone with the Wind” mnale — Mai Steiner — and now I would like to know if he DEAR DICK: I remember Don Knotts and Tom Poston were two of the "Men on the Street” on the old Steve Allen show Who was the gentleman with curly hair? Is R his voice I hear on commercials and as the voice of Woodsy Owl? I can picture his face but can yon put a name to It? JOANNE LIGHTCAP Indiana Pa No because I can't picture his face from your description I will tell you however that the Steve Allen's "Men on the Street" were Knotts Poston Louis Nye Skitch Henderson Pat Harrington and Bill Dana Not all at the same time of course but they were the only ones DEAR DICK: Mine is a really hard question going back to a TV show that always featured a sailboat coming into a TahltHype harbor The star of the show — was he called Adam? — was a tall dark and handsome actor a Clint Eastwood type I am going off the deep end trying to remember both the name of the show and the name of the actor JOAN SPENCER Tncsoo Arlx I imagine you are thinking of "Adventures In Paradise" which ran from 1959 to 1962 with Gardner McKay as Capt Adam Troy Today McKay is the drama critic for the Los Angeles He never did care much for acting (Newspaper Enterprise Assn) Herald-Examin- ftbool$ er at Logan Library Everything you ever wanted to know about staying solvent by Ann Olsen Sylvia Porter's New Money Book for the 90’s tells how to beat the high cost of living — and use your earnings credit savings and fflipoetry Winter by Jerry Anderson investments to better your life Many consumers feel they are experts on Inflation having been in auch a relentless price squeexe for so long To determine how much we really know about inflation and its effects Sylvia Porter suggests taking the inflation quiz A few sample questions from the quiz: How have US auto prices risen compared to all other US goods and services during the last five years? 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