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Mannix
Overload of cop shows is crime
By Dick Kleiner
HOLLYWOOD - (NEA) -
It’s a crime.
What’s a crime? Why, the
fact that there are so many
crime shows on television
these nights. And the
authority for that statement
is one of the biggest crime
chasers of them all, Joe Man
nix alias Mike Connors.
“I think it’s a crime,” says
Connors, “that there are so
many police shows and crime
shows on TV now. They al
ways do that, don’t they?
They killed off variety shows
and they killed off Westerns
by having too many of the
same thing. And now they’ll
kill off the law-and-order
shows, too. The public just
gets tired of seeing so many
of the same kind of show.”
As one of the old, estab
lished crime shows, CBS's
Mannix doesn’t have to worry
very much. After all, Connors
have been chasing the bad
guys through some 170 shows.
He s had seven good years.
Even if the crime show wave
hadn’t crested he still would
be about ready to call it quits.
“I think next year, our
eighth season, will be
enough,” Connors says.
Hischildren. now 15 and 13,
have grown up with their
father playing Mannix. He
says that they can’t really
remember a time when he
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DEAR DICK: To whom should a person write to give his
criticism of certain TV shows? We have some series we
would like to commend and some we’d like to condemn. —
MR. AND MRS. ORVILLE LUBBE, Mendon, 111.
You can write to the heads of the networks, ABC, CBS or
NBC, in New York. And I’d send a copy to the program
directors of your local stations. I warn you that nobody much
listens to viewers’ commendations or condemnations. What
governs program selection is a combination of factors — the
ratings and whether or not the network owns a piece of the
program. If they own a piece chances are they will try their
hardest to keep it on the air.
DEAR DICK: Around 1935, there was a movie called
“Woman Against Woman.” Mary Astor was one star and
Walter Huston may have been the male lead. My question is
— who was the blonde actress, a very soft feminine type, in
the other featured female role? — GEORGE STEPHAN,
Paso Robles, Calif.
You do go back, don’t you? “Woman Against Woman" was
released in '3«. It starred Mary Astor but it wasn’t Walter
Huston. The male lead was Herbert Marshall. The “very soft
feminine type” was Virginia Bruce and she was, wasn’t she?
DEAR DICK: In Hawaii Five-O, James MacArthur plays
Jack Lord’s assistant. I have been told that MacArthur is
the son of actress Helen Hayes. Is this true? How many
times has Helen Hayes been married and how many
children does she have? — LEONARD MOULTON, Mobile,
Ala.
Yes, it is true. Miss Hayes was married to the late Charles
MacArthur, a famous playwright, They also had a daughter,
Mary, who died when she was 19, a polio victim.
DEAR DICK: How about some info on Todd Crespi, regu
lar on The Magician? Age, statistics, etc. — A NEW
READER, San Diego, Calif.
Crespi is 22 and has been acting since he was a high school
student. He was born in Germany, where his father was sta
tioned, and he’s 5 feet 10 and 145 pounds. From your name -
A New Reader - I can’t tell if you’re male or female, so I’m
not sure if you care, but Crespi is single.
DEAR DICK: In the movie, “The Man Who Loved Cat
Dancing,” is the old Indian chief the same man who played
Tonto of Lone Ranger fame? — BARBARA WHITE,
Pineville, La.
He sure is. Jay Silverheels is his name. He’s one of Holly
wood’s veteran Indian actors.
DEAR DICK: I wonder if you would answer a question
which comes to mind every Thursday evening. Who is the
narrator at the beginning and end of the Waltons? It sure
sounds like George Segal. Is it? — G.L.F., Midwest City,
Okal.
No, it’s not Segal. It’s Earl Hamner, the writer who created
the series based on his own Virginia family.
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MIKE CONNORS: Retirement is “one really good
movie.”
wasn’t Mannix. It’s hard for
him to recall a life before
Mannix.
“It’s hard to remember all
the shows,” he says. “In fact, 1
know that Joe Campanella
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was a regular on the show the
first season but I really can’t
remember a thing about that
first season. Not a thing.”
Most performers who have
been with a show as long as
Connors has been with Man
nix vary their diet by direct
ing a few episodes each
season. Connors has toyed
with that idea but has re
jected it.
“I have it in my contract
that I can direct, he says,
“but I decided that it would
just be too much with every
thing else I do. Besides, there
are so many directors whose
livelihood that is, that it isn’t
fair for me to direct. Maybe,
someday, if 1 haven’t any
thing else to do I’ll try it. But
not now.”
He is, naturally, looking
ahead, as befits a man who
seriously considers quitting
after another year. He says
his current idea is to do “one
really good movie,” some
thing which could give him
some time to work on charac
ter development.
After that, he’d like to do
another series but one of the
new-style mini-series, six or
eight episodes a season.
h l don’t have ayen to be just
a movie actor,” he says. “I
like TV but 1 feel that a mini
series would be best - it isn’t
as strenuous as Mannix is.”
And Mannix is plenty
strenuous. During those 170
shows, he’s been battered,
bloodied and bruised in the
course of pursuing criminals.
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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, November 21, 1973
New film is hilarious
By NANCY ANDERSON
Copley News Service
HOLLYWOOD - If you
want to know how movies are
really and truly made not only
in Hollywood but in France, it
would seem, rush out to catch
Francois Truffaut’s hilarious
“Day for Night,” a film dedi
cated to the Gish sisters.
Since the picture is French,
I saw it with English subtitles,
but I’m told it will be dubbed
in English before its general
release.
The movie is a howlingly
funny accounting of the hor
rors a director-producer must
suffer to bring a feature film
to the screen: his problems
with financing, with insur
ance, with the sex habits of his
cast and crew, with the drink
ing habits of one of his stars
and with the intractability of a
cat used in a crucial scene.
Through his engaging pic
ture, Truffaut not only tells it
like it is in France, he tells it
like it is in Hollywood.
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Have you read Peter
Marshall’s new book “Cheer
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That’s the Peter Marshall
who emcees Hollywood
Squares.
It’s full of cheering tidbits
such as:
"... in 1972, a Czechoslova
kian woman named Vera
Czermak was so upset by
news her husband had be
trayed her that she tried to
commit suicide by leaping
from a third-story window.
She jumped and landed on her
husband, killing him.”
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