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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, April 2,1975
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Ask Dick Kleiner
Starting hard stunt
By Dick Kleiner
DEAR DICK: I recently become interested in the work of stunt
women. Are there schools in which one can learn this trade? If
there are no formal schools, would it be possible to take on an
appenticeship with a stunt woman? Are there any physical re
quirements involved? — L.M. LUBANSKY, Ventura, Calif.
DEAR DICK: Could you tell me if there are any schools or
organ eatione that teach people stunts for show dusiness?
DOUG CARLEY, Mobile, Ala.
You’re both aiming at a tough career to crack. There are no
schools, no apprenticeships. Stunt people must, first, belong to
the Screen Actors’ Guild. Most start as extras and work their way
into stunt work. You have to be skilled in many areas — gym
nastics, horseback riding, swimming, motorcycling, car driving.
Best thing to do is come to Hollywood (after you've mastered
those skills) and try to get work as an extra. It isn’t easy.
DEAR DICK: Could you please tell me the name of the cowboy
that Gabby Hayes played with in westerns? —D. KOEBEL,
KITCHENER, Ontario
How could you forget good old Roy Rogers?
DEAR DICK: Will they ever put the Ed Sullivan Show back on
television? If so, when? —JEFF GREGG, WHITEFISH, Mont.
There may be an occasional clip, for nostalgia’s sake, but the
show itself is gone. Mostly because Sullivan is gone.
DEAR DICK: I have a question about airing of television
shows. Our local station. WLOS in Asheville, N.C., doesn’t show
S.W.A.T. or Hot L Baltimore, which are on the ABC schedule. No
explanation from the station as to why not. Who and what gives
them the right to decide which of the network shows they will air
and which they won't? - THOMAS L. MCCAVE, Spartanburg,
S.C.
Most network stations are what he called “affiliates.” They
are independently owned and operated. If, in their judgment, the
network program is not in the public interest they may refuse to
show it. Your station may have decided that S.W.A.T. was too
violent and Hot L Baltimore too sexy. (Eight ABC affiliates do
not show Hot L Baltimore.) The affiliates must carry a certain
amount of the network shows to retain their affiliation, but,
within that limitation, they can do whatever they deem eest.
DEAR DICK: Who was the emcee on the show, Name That
Tune, shown during the ’sos? - 808 SHERMAN, Essex Junc
tion, Vt.
That was George DeWitt.
Dear Dick; what is the name of Jenny, the secretary on Hawaii
Five-O? Is she a former child star? — IONA PARKER,
Georgetown, Mass.
That’s Peggy Ryan, who was a child star and a young lady star.
She and Donald O’Connor made 15 films together and later she
worked with Ray McDonald.
DEAR DICK: I have heard many rumors about Jimmie
Walker, who plays J.J. on Good Times, being dead, killed in a
motorcycle accident. Is this true? — JAMES MORROW, Forest
City, N.C. , ,
Lots of letters about this latest wild rumor. It is completely un
true. At this writing Jimmie is alive and well and very funny.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
Showbeat
Madeline Kahn
looks beyond
By DICK KLEINER
HOLLYWOOD - (NEA) -
She’s far from a raving beauty
but maybe this is the era of non
ravers. Look at Barbra Strei
sand — and now look at
Madeline Kahn. Suddenly, Ms.
Kahn is the biggest thing in pic
tures since talking popcorn.
It’s hard to define her appeal.
She’s funny, but not a com
edienne in the accepted sense of
the word. She can be romantic
but Playboy isn’t fighting for
her as a centerfold.
What she is is a sort of con
venient way-station between
Marilyn Monroe and Carol
Burnett. She can get the man
(or monster, as she did in
“Young Frankenstein”), or she
can just play it for laughs (as
she did in "Paper Moon”).
She's an actress with a built-in
laugh track.
But she says now she’d like to
try some serious roles. She isn’t
worried about being typed but
she would like to show the
world that she can make people
cry, too.
‘‘My parts, even ‘Paper
Moon’ and ‘Young
Frankenstein,’ are not
caricatures,” she says. ‘‘l
always have in mind a complete
person when I do a role and it’s
not my fault the picture comes
out with only one facet showing.
The character I played in
‘Paper Moon’ was a very
serious lady, although the pic
ture only showed her comedy
aspect.”
In many of her films she sings
and now she hopes to do some
recording as well as acting. She
is considering putting together
an act to do in Las Vegas and
* elsewhere.
Madeline Kahn comes from
around Boston but grew up in
New York. She never had much
money so this current status of
success is very attractive.
‘‘l’m enjoying this,” she
NEW OPERA
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -
The San Francisco Opera has
commissioned a new opera for
its American bicentennial cele
bration.
The opera will be composed
by Andrew Imbrie, professor of
music at the University of
California in Berkeley, and
librettist Oakley M. Hall. They
will collaborate on a setting of
Wallace Stegner’s Pulitzer
Prize novel, “Angel of Repose.”
The opera will be premiered
during the 1976 season.
Red Heads
About three per cent of the
adult population of this coun
try is naturally red-headed.
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MADELINE KAHN: A glint
of toughness.
says. “It’s nice to be able to
sleep at night and not have to
worry about unpaid bills. It’s a
very good feeling.
‘‘And now I‘m indulging
myself — why not? I’m redoing
my apartment, I’m buying lots
of nice clothes, I’m spending
lots of money. Listen, I worked
for ten years to get here, so why
not?
‘‘Besides, acting is hard
work. Maybe it’s not sweaty
work but it takes lots of think
ing and long hours. So I feel ac
tors are entitled to the financial
rewards they get,”
As a teen-ager, she won an
acting scholarship to Hofstra
College on Long Island. Even
then, she seemed to get only the
comedy roles.
“After two years of not get
ting what I wanted,” she says,
“I switched over and began
studying music seriously. While
I was going to college, I got a
job singing at a German hof
brau on Long Island.”
She worked hard, singing and
acting, to get where she is,
which is at the top. The hard
work shows. There is a glint of
toughness about her. She makes
few jokes when she talks and
she's virtually all business.
When she isn’t working, she's
learning. For her, that means a
constant program of studying
acting, singing, dancing,
anything that can help her get
further faster.
“But I also have fun,” she
says. “To me, fun means seeing
my friends and going par
tying.”
She’s off, already, to her next
assignment — England, where
she'll work again with Gene
Wilder in “Sherlock Holmes’
Smarter Brother.” It’s her first
trip to Europe and she thinks
it’s coming to her. Why not?
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
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