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Traveling ★★★
with the Stars
by Tim Boxer
NEW YORK—THE BEST historical novel to come along so far this
year has to be Joan Joseph’s "In Joy and in Sorrow,’’a Dell paperback.
From the very first page, she kept me entranced with engrossing dialogue
and vivid episodes. It’s a compelling book.
Her father, Philip Joseph, came from Montreal, where he founded
5 a lawyer in Tel Aviv. Her mother, an
anthropologist, came from Chicago to study
the Yemenites in Palestine. They married,
Joan was born in Tel Aviv, then they moved
to Montreal when her father got cancer.
Her illustrious uncle, Dov Joseph, was
military governor of Jerusalem after the
War of Independence. He was minister of
justice during the Eichmann trial. He died
last year.
One of her previous books was “Folk
Toys Around the World and How to Make
Them.” She toured the backwoods of
exotic countries to unearth people’s
traditional toys.
Her son, Robert Evan Levy, 21, just
finished boot camp in the Navy and is now at
submarine school. He wants to see the
Tim Boxer * orld - ,0 °
Her next book will be published by Dell next winter. It’s about a
young woman who grows up in Montreal in the 1850s, and becomes a
doctor.
* * *
CREAM OF WIT: After seeing the prehistoric film “Quest for Fire,’’
Henny Youngman quipped, “You could tell which of the men had Jewish
wives—while the others were out hunting for bear, they were trying to
trap mink.”
* * *
REEL NEWS: First it was Phoebe Cates, the Jewish teen-age star, to
make a movie in Israel. She co-starred with Willie Ames in “Paradise.”
I he next teen idol to trek to the Holy land will be Brooke Shields. In June
she’ll film “Sahara,” a movie inspired by Rudolph Valentino’s “The
Sheik,” and by the disappearance for a few days of the British prime
minister’s son, Mike Thatcher.
Of the $15 million budget. Variety reports, almost half will be spent in
Israel Brooke’ll play a girl who dresses like a man to join a car race in
1928. She gets kidnapped, raped and charmed by an Arab sheik, played
by Richard Gere.
The Cannon Group, owned by Menahem Goland and Yoram
Globus, are the producers. They recently gave us “Deathwish II.” They
started their filmmaking career in Israel, then settled in Hollywood where
they are major movie moguls
On a recent visit in Tel Aviv, Goland told a press conference: “1 am
definitely an Israeli. I do operate now in filmdom’s Mecca, and I usually
live in a plane, but there is no foundation to the rumors that I have
changed my identity."
* * *
HAVE YOU EVER sat on the dais at a dinner at the venerable
Waldorf-Astoria? I found it a frightening experience. The occasion was a
fund raiser for Girls Town Or Chodosh of Israel. I sat next to Israel Bond
biggie Howard Samuels and TV newscaster Roger Sharpe. Dinner
chairman Joe Nakash, of Jordache, made it easy for me. 1 didn’t have to
speak. That was a delicious relief. People who are called upon to make
their first public speech usually writhe to the occasion.
After the speeches and awards, I joined Albert Hague and Sue
Schachter for a tasty meal. Sue is a talent agent. In fact, she represents her
own daughter, Felice Schachter, who appears in the NBC series “Facts of
Life.”
Albert is the composer of such Broadway shows as “Plain and
Fancy ” and “Redhead.” He's collaborating with lyricist Lee Adams (who
did “Bye Bye Birdie") for a new musical next season called “Film and
Flam."
Next month he’ll be in Los Angeles to film a CBS movie of the week,
“An American Love Affair.” It’s a comedy starring Gil Gerard and
Victoria Principal. He plays an oceanographer.
Albert began his acting career with the movie “Fame.” He also has a
role in the NBC series “Fame," based on that film He recently spent six
months filming the series in L A One day, while doing a scene
downtown, he saw a newsstand stocked with the New York Times and
Variety.
“I was so overjoyed to see a hometown newspaper that I ran over to
buy a couple of copies,” he said. “They wouldn’t sell. Turns out it was a
fake newsstand for the scene we were filming."
* * *
ERNEST TOWNSHEND, who plays the major role of the young
playwright in Broadway’s longest running comedy thriller “Deathtrap."
changed his last name from Pysher Wonder why? Incidentally, he also
plays Cliff Nelson on ABC’s daytime drama “Edge of Night."
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