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BARRY NEWMAN: Petrocelli’s alter-ego finds hotel room better than apartment for
the single male on TV location.
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Ask Dick Kleiner
TV cheap games
By Dick Kleiner
DEAR DICK: How can all those daytime TV game shows
give away the money and merchandise they do? — L.N.J.,
Stillwater, Okla.
To TV, which is a big money operation, what the game
shows give away is peanuts, or maybe cashews. Much of the
merchandise is given by the manufacturers, in exchange for
the plug on the air. The cash when measured against the cost
of a dramatic show is nothing. A game show is still the
cheapest kind of programming, relatively, there is.
DEAR DICK: Can you tell me what you can find out about
, Harve Presnell, who played in the movie, “The Unsinkable
Molly Brown,” and what he is doing today? — MRS. NIKKI
OLDENBURGER, Iron Springs, Alberta, Canada.
Harve’s agent tells me he’s just returned from a tour with
“Molly Brown” and an engagement in London where he aj>-
’ peared in the musical version of “Gone With The Wind.” He’s
doing mostly stage work these days. It’s really a shame that
a man with such a glorious voice can’t find film or TV work,
while the creepy-peepies with their nonvoices make for
> tunes.
DEAR DICK: Some years ago there was a TV series called
Jim Bowie. Please, could you tell me who played the title
role? - MRS. SHARON PERTUIT, Violet, La.
• Sure could. It was Scott Forbes, and, to answer your next
question, the series ran on ABC. from ’56 to ’SB.
DEAR DICK: I would like to know what year Lee
Meriwether (of Barnaby Jones) was Miss America. — MRS.
A. LEONHARDT, San Jose, Calif.
That little fact is now omitted from Lee’s official biogra
phy. I guess she doesn't want people to pinpoint her age that
precisely. But it’s a matter of record — the beautiful Miss
• Meriwether was Miss America 1955.
DEAR DICK: Do you remember the actor Patrick
McGoohan? He starred in the TV series. Secret Agent and
The Prisoner, and in such movies as “Ice Station Zebra”
• and “Mary, Queen of Scots.” I would like to know what he
is presently doing and where he is. — MRS. ELAINE
MEDASIE, Claysburg, Pa.
McGoohan is still a very active person. He acts and he
directs and, although he lives in England, he goes where the
action is. You may have seen him in a recent edition of Peter
Falk’s Columbo. He made a dandy villain.
DEAR DICK: Does Kojak smoke a special brand of cigars
• and cigarettes? If not, what is the brand name? -
JONATHAN DIAZ, Thibodaux, La.
When the show began, they pointedly stressed that Kojak
(Telly Savalas) was trying to quit smoking. He sucked on
. Tootsie Pops instead. But he still smokes some - he smokes
Shermans, those brown-colored cigarettes.
DEAR DICK: Will you tell us why the FBI isn’t on any
more. That was our family’s favorite program. Now after
v the Lawrence Welk show is over we just turn the TV off.
The new shows that were advertised all summer long are
lousy as usual. Is there any way to get The FBI back on? —
THE THOMPSON FAMILY, Joplin, Mo.
No way at all. The show had-a long and healthy run. The
ratings had begun to drop off. The show had just about ex
hausted the story material available to it and, as a matter of
fact, The FBI had become Fairly Boring Indeed.
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REFUSING TO TIGHTEN her belt any further, a New
York City demonstrator picketed before a hotel where
Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz spoke. Ellen
Catalinoto said that if «he follows Butz’s advice, “I’ll be a
skeleton.”
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On subject of girls
Barry Newman is single-minded
By Dick Kleiner
TUCSON, Ariz. - (NEA) -
As a big — well, medium
sized — Hollywood star in a
small — well, medium-sized
— city, a man has to know
how to handle himself, girl
wise. Especially if a man is
single.
Its not an unpleasant prob
lem. But, for Barry Newman,
who shoots the NBC series
Petrocelli here it’s something
that is always in the back of
his mind. And, often, it is
thrust into the front of his
mind.
They were shooting out in
the desert, some 15 miles
west of Tucson. Fantastically
beautiful country. Barry,
looking out of his place in his
citified suit, shirt and tie, was
halfway up a mountain with
guest star Strother Martin
and some others.
After the lunch break, they
would move on to another
spot. It would mean lugging
the heavy cameras and the
rest of the equipment to an
other place, back down the
mountain.
At the break, we had lunch
in Barry’s neat but not gaudy
trailer. He took off his Count
ess Mara tie — “I’m supposed
to be an impoverished lawyer
but I have to wear expensive
ties because they are the only
ones heavy enough to support
one of these microphones.”
He talked about the girls.
What made him think of girls
was a box of cupcakes left in
the trailer.
“Have one of these,” he
said. Then he laughed and
added, “They were made for
me by the mother of a girl
who said, ‘You’re not going to
leave Arizona without me.’ ”
There are all kinds of girls
pursuing him here, not just
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the nice, homey kind who
have mothers that make him
cupcakes.
A The prop man this morn
ing tola me,” Barry said,
“that one of the strippers at
the Blue Note wants to meet
me. She may be very nice,
you never know.”
There are, he said, with a
satisfied smile, plenty of girls
around who are intrigued by
the star of a Hollywood TV
series, even if it isn’t one of
the year’s greatest hits. The
girls range from cupcake
daughters to strippers to col
legians.
“The University of Arizona
is here,” Barry said, “and
there are a lot of pretty and
bright girls there.
It’s a different kind of life
for Newman, basically a city
boy and a very sophisticated
one. Life is strange, he finds,
while living in a Tucson
— Griffin Daily News Thursday, tMi . .’t ;1,1974
hotel. A bulletin board in the
hotel lobby reminds him that
the Alfalfa Improvement and
Forage Insect Conference is
now in session.
He’s exploring the state on
his days off. He has a contract
which is very liberal, as TV
contracts go. He has both
Sunday and Monday off.
“My contract,” he says,
“was based on the one Jim
Franciscus had. Jim got it
after he had done several
series and knew what he
wanted. One of the big things
he got and I got, too, was two
consecutive days off.”
“Sundays I just relax,” he
says, “and Mondays I explore
the state.”
Home, to Barry Newman,' is
still New York. His parents
are back home in Boston. But
here, he lives in a hotel room,
which is unusual. Most stars,
when on location, insist on an
apartment or a rented house.
“I tell you why I prefer a
room,” Newman says. “It all
goes back to Bud Freeman.”
Freeman was the great sax
player. As a young man, Bar
ry played the sax, too, and
Freeman was one of his idols.
“I met him and got to know
him pretty well, Newman
says. “Until he recently got
married — he was in his 60s
when he married a psy
chiatrist — he spent all his
life in hotel rooms. And he al
ways said that, for a single
man, that was the best way to
live. I like hotel rooms; any
thing I want I just ring for
room service.”
And, in case there’s a girl
around, room service can be
a very pleasant, unobtrusive
thing to have.