Clinton News-Record, 1975-01-16, Page 20PAGE 2
The Gossip Column
BY ROBIN ADAMS SLOAN
0: What about Elizabeth BAD TASTE IN 'THE, EAR:
Taylor's two sons_ from her Radio Luxembourg was not
marriage to Michael Wilding? amused by a recent anti-drug
I'd like to know something commercial made by rock star
about them.—M.B., In- Alice Cooper. They said it was
dianapolis, Ind. bad taste for the macabre Alice
A: Twenty one-year old to announce: "Of all the ways to
Michael is separated from his get off these days, hard drugs is
wife and child and is currently not the one to choose. If you do
living in a commune in Wales. take them, I will come around to
Chris, 19, is planning to go back your house and slit your puppy
to school to study music', but at dog's throat."
the moment spends his time 0: Does the' Playboy .king
either traveling ordoing nothing. Hugh Hefner drink? (.hoer he is
0: We were wondering a teetotaler.DE.T., Evanston,
whether Bob Evans, who was Ind.
first married to All MacGraw, A: You are correct — the King
has replaced her.-E.A., of Swinging does not drink hard
Tacoma, Wash. stuff. However, consumption of
A: Evans has had a series of his favorite beverage, Pepsi, is up
short -loved romances. Some to an astonishing 40 bottles a
didn't even last 24 hours and day.
there's no one even semi- 0: I saw Genevieve Waite
permanent around the singing in a Greenwich Village
Ptiramount studio chief. But as nightclub with her husband
Evans himself has told close John Phillips. Two questions:
friends, "Ali is a very hard act to why does he put her down so
follow." during their act? Wasn't he
0 Don't composers get sore once with the -Mamas and
when they hear their songs ' Papas?—W.P., Brooklyn, N.Y.
chaped and butchered, like on A: Yes, songwriter -singer
the Dodge commercial -where
they sing "There'll Be Some
Changes Made" es "You'll Love
the Change We Mede"? I'd be
furious.—B. W., Huntington, Li.
A: It just means money for the
songwriter who can sometimes
make as much as a $50,000 flat
fee, plus residuals from the num-
ber of performances on the air. A
few songwriters won't allow their
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Phillips was one of the original
Papas. The nightclub act is
designed as a kind of reverse
Sonny & Cher and if you think ,
the onstage bit is something, you
should see this couple in real life
where Phillips treats Genevieve
even rougher.
TOP BANANA: That's what
Russia's exiled- great writer
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is to the
work to be used in commercials , Bic pen people. In 1971 the Bic
— Richard Rodgers, for one.,people found out that Solzhenit-
SCANDAL OP THE WEEK: n syn preferred to write with their
actor who has won fame playing Bic Banana after he dropped a
a homosexual has turned art into line to his lawyer saying, "For
life.'We hear he has left his wife the time being, I've been able to
and' family and run off with his obtain a few Bics, so there' no
male lover. urgency." Result — the com} any
0: I believe you said that has now sent the author, i.i'ving
Princess Caroline of Monaco in Svvitzerland, a lifetime supply.
was going to school in Paris. , 0: Is the Kien edy family
Does , she have dates?—F.R., friendly with Lee Radziwill's ex -
Akron, Ohio. .+ husband?—H.J., N.Y., N.Y.
A: Yes, she dates like most A: The Kennedys liked Prince
other 17-year-olds. Her escort, on Stanislaus Radziwill and have
d'Estaing, handsome son of the breakup of the marriage. In fact,
occasion, is Martin Giscard remained friendly even after -the someone related to the English
p;• .�, family who N a Royal
French President. Spotted recen- when Teddy was in London Princess in the bargain — even if
tly in a restatfrant by an _obser- recently he stayed in Radziwill's it is only of Yui >.. ►� ui
vant photographer, she managed apartment.
to talk him out of taking a pic= 0: l know that Patti Boyd,
tore — not because she's shy but Beetle George Harrison's wife,
because she was smoking, a prac- Is seeing a lot of rock star Eric
tice her -mother sternly forbids.
Clapton. How come she doesn't
tour with him in the United
States?—E.A., Philadelphia, Pa.
A: Patti, who is seliarated
from Harrison, can only visit the
United States once a year
because of an alleged narcotics
offense.
tp: How does Rona Barrett
feel about Frank Sinatra at-
tacking her over and over in his
nightclub acts?—H.W., Boston,
Mass.
A: Little Miss Rona thinks Ol'..
Blue 'Eyes' constant attacks have
helped make her even more
famous than she already was as
a TV gossipist. She also credits
Sinatra's verbal assaults with
helping to put her new book.
"Miss Rona," onto the best-
seller list.
0: How can Richard Burton
claim to be so madly in love
with Elizabeth Taylor one
minute and then propose, on
his first date, to that Princess?
— F. 0., Hillsdale, I11.
A: Well, first of all. Richard
Burton has a flair for the
dramatic. Second, he hates to be
alone. Third. he loves women .•
Fourth. the only way v ni could
top Elizabeth Taylor is to marry
*Milton 'Mr. Television' Bede
went on the air with his famous
"Texaco Star Theater" for the
very first time 26 years ago!
That's correct! Twenty-six years
ago Uncle Miltie hecame a way
of life every Tuesday evening
across North America and
remained so until 1956. The
clown of clowns developed an
unhelievable large following —
forever loyal to his brand of
comedy. But 26 years ago? Feel a
little older now?
*One of Hollywood's all-time
box Office. draw Jack Lemmon
(Oscar -winning performance for
'Mr. Roberts' — 1955, 'Some
Like It Hot', 'Luv'. 'The Odd
Couple' and so on) starred in his
own television series way hack
when. Lemmon and his wife at
the time, Cynthia Stone, co-
starred twice weekly in 'Heavy
for Betsy' in, get this. 1952! It
was his one and only experience
'wiih a weekly television series.
Producers have tried relentlessly
to woo him hack since.
*Actor Gale Gordon has spent
2:3 years during the past three
decades playing two characters.
N°‘. York City -born Gordon
played the unforgettable Mr.
Conklin in 'Our Miss Brooks'
tradio & tvl for fatal of nine
years. He then became Theodore
.1 Mooney. Lucy's hanker and
.ometime friend, in 'The Lucy
Show' and 'Here's Lucy' het -
ween 1960 and 1974.