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Griffin Daily News
’TV NOTEBOOK
Tijuana Brass' Boss
Is Really Two People
By JOAN CROSBY
NEA Entertainment Editor
NEW YORK—(NEA)—
There’s a man in the life
of Herb Alpert, musician,
who is a puzzlement to him.
This other person is also
named Herb Alpert and he
looks just the same. But he
is an entertainer and a total
stranger to the “real” Herb.
"Something very peculiar
happens to me when I’m on
tour,” Alpert said, “and I’m
not sure I can articulate it
too well. But this Herb Al
pert fellow who entertains
is someone I have seen on
TV or heard on the radio
and he’s not really me. I
don’t consider myself an en
tertainer, so when I’m per
forming it’s as if I leap into
another fellow. I know cer
tainly that he is not the
same fellow who loves to
stroll on beaches and kick at
sand crabs.”
Herb Alpert, young, hand
some, talented, sensitive and
very rich, is also a shy man.
And because he is, entertain
ing is foreign to his nature,
but a part of being a suc
cessful artist. “So it’s al
most as if I black out when
I entertain,” he says.
Herb will be blacking out
any day now as he films his
third TV special, to be seen
on NBC-TV on Oct. 29. It’s
called The Brass Are Com
ing, which is also the title
of his 13th A and M album,
released to coincide with the
TV show.
When he tours with the Ti
juana Brass, he draws turn-
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away crowds everywhere he
goes.
“Many times I find myself
breezing through a perform
ance in an unconscious way.
But when I get to my office,
then I’m into reality.
“I do recall one very ex
citing moment,” says Herb,
who doesn’t care for crowds,
especially when they all
want to touch him. “We
were playing in Pittsburgh
and we had to give two con
certs at two separate halls
because of the ticket de
mand. When we came out of
the stage door after the first
concert, there were about
2,000 people waiting. They
applauded and when I said
I had to rush to the next con
cert, the crowd kind of
parted and made a pathway
to the bus that was waiting
for us. It was kind of a nice
thing and very orderly.
“Mostly the people who
are attuned to the group
are not from the screaming
or losing-sight school of fan.
When I recorded ‘This Guy’s
In Love With You’ the age
level dropped a bit. But since
I don’t have a hit vocal now,
maybe they’ll forget me.”
* ♦ ♦
Sheldon Leonard won’t own
up if you say he is produc
ing a new 30-minute TV
show for NBC-TV called My
World and Welcome To It,
based on James Thurber’s
works. But he will own up,
although not happily, if you
ask if he’s producing a 22-
minute show.
“We have been reduced to
22 minutes,” he says, speak
ing in capital letters, “and
Atlanta Gaa Light Company
they call it a half-hour show.
They have taken' a minute
away for an anticigarette
spot. The network has taken
more time for its ‘stay
tuned’ spots. There are
three-and-a-half minutes of
commercials. The r e’s an
opening and there’s a closing
with credits where every
body wants a separate card.
They deserve credit but it
gets ridiculous when they
have things like ‘The man in
charge of cats’ and ‘The man
in charge of bringing food
to cats.’ ”
Sheldon, who has a good
Sheldon Leonard
A 22-minute half-hour.
track record as a producer,
and who can be proud of the
literate and truly witty pilot
he produced in My World
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Herb Alpert
Doubles in brass.
etc., says he is “engaged in
battle. I have been seriously
wounded three times by mis
programing. I Spy should
not have been on Mondays
after The Man From
U.N.C.L.E. and the Danny
Thomas anthology. Acciden
tal Family was a much bet
ter show that anyone gave it
credit for being, but it was
on in the wrong time slot.
My Friend Tony was de
signed to appeal to the young
Mod Squad type viewer and
to showcase Enzo Cerusico
and they gave me 10 o’clock
on a Sunday night!”
Sheldon would prefer My
World etc. to have a later
start, but agrees the Monday
night lead-in to Laugh-In is
not as bad as it could have
been.
But when Sheldon sells
future TV shows (and he
has one filming its 10th
episode in London right now,
starring Millicent Martin
and Patte Finley as a pair
of airline stewardesses—it’s
tentatively called From a
Bird’s Eye View), he is “go
ing to try to have some voice
in where the show goes on
the schedule.”
He has a voice that can be
heard, too.
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Traffic accidents involving bi
cycles claimed 700 lives in the
United States in 1968.
* * *
California issued 2,247,200
fishing licenses last year, more
than any other state.
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The chipmunk runs with ease
on small twigs and branches
where only a bird would feel
safe.
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About 165,000 retired “win
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to the Lower Rio Grande Valley
of Texas from northern states.
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direct effect of the loss of moist
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ening of the wood fibre.
ALBANY, Ga. (UPI) — A
conscience - stricken wife who
thought she had blinded ber
husband turned herself into a
human torch and burned to
death.
Mrs. Elease Richardson, 33, a
mother of three, flung hot
grease in the face of her hus
band, Navy Chief Boatswain’s
Mate, Herman Richardson, dur
ing a family spat last weekend.
Navy security police said
Mrs. Richardson tried to visit
her husband at the Naval Hos
pital here Saturday, but was
told he had been transferred to
Jacksonville, Fla. and may
have suffered permanent eye
damage.
Mrs. Richardson was returned
to the Albany hospital Monday
with fatal burns. Just before,
she told friends she had blinded
her husband.
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Their three children did not
witness the self immolation.
Mrs. Richardson had sent them
to her sister’s home.
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HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -
James Gamer continues his rac
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HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -
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up the cast after the departure
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HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - Fash
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HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - Zsa
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