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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-02-27, Page 20• • LLYWO%D HOTLINE Will Chamberlain inherit Charlton Heston mantle? NANCY ANDERSON HOLLYWOOD — Since !:els Chamberlain played Nth an effective Count of Monte histo in the television drama of that name, adding the role to an imposing list of costume interpretations ("Hamlet," "Cyrano de Ber- gerac,' etc.) it seemed rea- sonable to ask whether he's the new Charlton Heston. Is he the actor most likely to be put into leotards, a toga or a suit of mail whenever a period picture begins cast- Dick took the question with good humor. "It wouldn't be bad to in- herit Charlton Heston's man- tle," he laughed, "but I don't think I'm going to. I like to Imp bouncing. "But I do seem to be able to wear costumes, and that's a knack which involves, I think, being a romantic. "I firmly believe that I'll find Merle Oberon standing in the heather and that the world will be a better place for it. "My favorite costumes are Edwardian. That was a stun- ning period. The clothes were heaven. It was a very sexy time." Though Dick is currently considering offers of another costume picture as well as another television drama in costume, he points out that be's also been offered a con- temporary picture and his most recent film, "The Tow- ering owering Inferno," is set in the present. "And I've been asked to do a horror play on Broadway," Dick adds. Dick didn't have to learn to wear costumes. He came by that naturally. But he did have to learn fencing for his numerous period perform- ances. "The first time I had to fence was in 'Hamlet,'" he relates, "and I found fencing massively difficult. "Now " I da it more easily, but I still pant a little." + + + "Macon County Line," Max Baer's first production, has Copy for Crossroads Classi- fieds must be received by 6 p.m. Wednesday of week prior to pub- lication. Miscellaneous FARM REPAIRS. During March have old . barn siding replaced with colored steel. New barn doors installed or other repairs made. Call J. & H. Fleming Ltd., Hanover, 364-1880. 27-6-13 For Sale GLENDALE MOBILE HOMES and Travel Trailers for sale; also large fully serviced and land- scaped mobile home lots for rent. First sideroad west of Stratford on Highway 8, 2 mile north. Crystal Lake. Mobile Homes Court Ltd., RR 5, Stratford. Phone 393-6121. tf Wanted To Buy PIANO. Phone 291-2297. 20-27 Notice ATTENTION SKIERS Minto Glen open this season Saturday, Sunday and school holidays 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Flood lit for night skiing Satur- days 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. New lodge facilities, rentals and run. Down- hill and cross-country skiing, snowmobilling and tobogganing. Special rates on season's tickets for families or clubs. MINTO GLEN SKI CLUB, HARRISTON, Dial 338-2007 or 338-2722. rrm\ RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN—an effective Count of Monte Cristo. made so much money that American -International Pic- tures will make a follow-up, "Return to Macon County." Not Max but Elliot Schick will ride herd on this one set to go into production the last of this month near Forsz, Ga. + + +� John and Patty Duke Astin will go to New Jersey in March in the play "The Mar- riage Gamble." Meanwhile you'll see them together in "Police Woman" and "Mar- cus Welby" episodes. By the time you read this, Joan Collins and Ron Kass khuuld' be in Los Angeles househunting in preparation 'for an April move from Eng- land to California.... When Gene Hackman won the Na- tional Board of Review award as Best Actor of 1974, he very nearly rounded out his collec- tion of major acting awards. Previously he'd won an Oscar, the Cannes Film Festival Best Actor citation - and a Golden G1be. Now all he needs is a Photoplay Gold Medal. ... Elton John was among the 27,000 in the audi- ence at the Anaheim Stadium for an Osmond matinee con- cert when Donny Osmond soared in frau the outfield on a hang glider. Elton was amazed. Post concert, the Oemonds returned to their home in Utah to work on a musical score for an upcom- ing film which will be their first movie. Screenplay is by Sterling Silliphant. The Bob Fullers' prema- ture son, born 'two months early, is (at the time this is being written) gaining Channel 8 Entertainment THURSDAY, 12:45 p.m.—"THE BIRDS AND THE BEES" starring George Gobel and Mitzi Gayndr. A millionaire falls for a ' girl card shark, but learning of her reputation calls off romance. THURSDAY, 9:00 P.M.—"A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN" star- , ring Cliff Robertson and Dianne Baker. A , family of four struggles against hard times in a tenement house in Brook-, lyn prior to World,' War II. FRIDAY, 12:45 p.m.—"THE TRAIL STREET" starring Robert Ryan and Randolph Scott. The story of the men and women who carved a great wheat empire out of the wilds of early Kansas. ,. SATURDAY, 1:15 a.m. 'BAMBOLE" starring Virna Lisi and Elke Sommer. Four episodes in this story. SATURDAY, 6:00 p.m.—"THE NEW HEALERS" starring Leif Eric- son and Robert Foxworth. An impatient young man who dropped out of medical school and received a crash course in medicine joins a bddy and an ex -Navy nurse to operate as a para -medical team in a small town. SATURDAY, 11:45 p.m.—"THE MOLLY MAQUIRES" starring Sean Connery . and Richard Harris. In the 1870's a detective joins a band of rebeilious coal miners in Pennsylvania. SUNDAY, 11:45 p.m.—"CAMELOT" starring Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave. There once was a fleeting wisp of glory called Camelot. The beautiful musical love story of King Arthur and his Queen Guenevere. MONDAY, 12:45 p.m.—"LOOK WHO'S LAUGHING" starring Lu- cille Ball, Edgar Bergen. Edgar and Charlie McCarthy are forced down in Fibber McGee and Molly's home town. TUESDAY; 12:45 p.m. 'TO CATCH A THIEF" starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. 'The Cat', an ex -convict and ex -jewel thief, falls in love with a wealthy American girl and finds he is suspected of his old thievery. WEDNESDAY, 12:45 p.m.—"JOHN GOLDFARB, PLEASE COME HOME" starring Shirley MacLaine and Peter Ustinov. A pilot dubbed `wrong way' and a photographer dubbed `iceberg' get together when she smuggles into a harem where he had mistakenly landed. Channel 10 Entertainment THURSDAY, 12:45 p.m.—"VIVA MARIA" starring Brigitte Bar - dot and Jeanne Moreau. Two showgirls are caught hp in a Latin American revolution. FRIDAY, 12:45 p.m.—"TWILIGHT FOR THE -GODS" starring Rock Hudson and Cyd Charisse. People book passage on a tired sailing vessel which runs between the South Seas and Mexico. FRIDAY, 11:45 p.m.—"THAT MAN FROM, RIO" starring Jean- Paul Belmondo and Francoise Dorleac. A French soldier on a week's leave, follows his kidnapped sweetheart to Rio to rescue her from a gang bent on finding a fortune. SATURDAY, 6:30.p,tn.—"A MESSAGE TO MY DAUGHTER" star- ring Kitty Wynn and Bonnie Bedelia. Two poignant stories in tandem. SATURDAY, 11:45 p.m.—"THE CHAIRMAN" starring Gregory Peck and Anne Heywood. An American scientist goes on a spy mission into Red China. SUNDAY MIDNIGHT—"YOU'LL FIND OUT" starring Kay Kyser an Peter Lorre. An orchestra leader tangles with spiritualists at a house where he's playing for a party. MONDAY, 12:45 p.m.—"TAMMY TELL ME TRUE" starring San- dra Dee and John Gavin. The romantic adventures of a back- woods girl who sets out to get a college education. TUESDAY, 12:45 p.m.—"IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT" star- ring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. A negro is accused of murdering a wealthy industrialist in a small Southern town. WEDNESDAY, 12:45 p.m.—"WINGS OF FIRE" starring Suzanne Pleshette and Lloyd Nolan. A thrill -hungry aviatrix discover's only her victory in an air race can save her small air freight service. n th, but it was touch and go for a while. Jim Hutton is the new Entry Queen in an Univocal, Studios TV movie for NW which may spina off into a se- ries. ... e -ries.... Since her husband, Mooney, gave her a silver Jaguar for a wedding anni1 versary present, Loretta Lynn is learning to drive, and with,a stick shift, yet. ... Dee Presley, heartbroken after her separation frau Vernon, is so chipper these days I sus- pect she's found a broad shoulder to lean on.... From the looks of her friendship with Farley Granger, I'd guess Brett Sommers has waved estranged husband Jack Klugman a cheerful "goodbye." ... A sonata for violin and piano, written by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., has been performed in Canada. Efrem is son of the famous violinist, Sr. He's also star of "Who Is The Black Dahlia?", a new NBC-TV drama based on a famous Los Angeles murder case. Lucie Arnaz plays the victim.... Julie An- drews will make a surprise appearance in "The Return of the Pink Panther," a movie starring Peter Sellers produced by her husband, Blake Edwards. If you look sharp, you'll see her as a ho- tel maid changing Sellers' sheets. However, you may not recognize her, because not even Sellers identified Julie when he first saw her in the maid's uniform, her face plumped out by pieces of ap- ple stuck in her cheeks. Bill Smiley M. Drapeau's little game amem..000ii" I think we'll all agree that there is nothing quite so downright miserable and annoying as the persop who delights in saying, "I told yeal so." Certainly, all mar- ried men will agree with me. Most of us know perfectly well that we are poor little lambs who have lost our way, that we have feet of clay and bones for brains. But we hate being reminded of it. It seems to me that there is nothing?mgre red indant than to wake up with a hafagover, mouth full of the bottom of a birdcage, head full of porcupine quills, and have a smirking, self-satisfied voice grating "Well, I warned you, but you wouldn't listen to me." Who needs it? Who needs a post-mortem, when he is still alive, though barely? I speak not from experience, of course, but from hearsay. Not admissible in court. After that preamble, I have to admit that I told you so. I told the whole nation so. But nobody lis- tened. It must have been a couple of years ago, when I warned, in no uncertain terms, that the rest of us were going to be picking up the tabs for Napoleon Drapeau's be- lief that he is really a reincarna- tion of the infamous emperor. Or maybe it's Caesar he thinks he is. Certainly he is giving us members of the populace bread and circuses, as Caesar «: sd. Mighty light on the bread and heavy on the circuses. II said it right here, in black and wlite, that the mayor of Montre � was going to take us for a fast buggy -ride, when he got the Olympic Games. For Canada? Don't be silly. For Montreal. The handwriting is now on the wall, loud and clear. And as fast as M. Drapeau rubs it off, or licks it off with his eloquent labial organ, it reappears. It seems inevitable that you and me, sistern and brethren, are going to be picking up a big, fat tab for the 1976 Montreal Games. And games is the word, if the Olympics consist of running in ever -decreasing circles until you disappear up your own you -know - what. Let's not blame it on the con- struction strikes m Montreal. Let's not blame it on inflation. Let's blame the $300 million dollar deficit (and who knows how much more?) on the delu- sions of grandeur of the rolyiest- polyiest' con man since P. T. Barnum made that immortal statement: "Never give a sucker an even break." Hank Bourassa of Quebec and Pete Trudeau of Ottawa knew they were dealing with a greased eel when they tangled with Drapeau, but all they did was make polite political noises, as- suring the suckers that it wasn't going to cost more than maybe seven cents each put on this extravagoraana. Some of us, those possessing the gift, and a memory, knew perfectly well that we were going to be reamed like an old pipe, but they wouldn't listen. Oh, well, what ,. the hell. A prophet is without honor in his own country. You in your small corner, and I in mine. My severest critic of my point of view is not my wife, as is most often the case. She thinks the Games are something the teen- agers play down at the Olympia restaurant. The only connection is that the proprietors of the Olympia are Greek. No, my chief opposition comes from my assistant department head, which only confirms my long -held view that she is bigoted, thick-headed, disloyal to her chief, and a lousy shuffleboard player. Her argument goes like this: "The Olympic Games are for all of Canada. Why shouldn't all Canadians help pay for them?" Well, she's all wet, in which she wouldn't weigh 85 pounds, soak- ing. Nobody asked me if I wanted the stupid Olympic Farce in Canada. And even though I wasn't asked, I said NO. By me, the Olympic Games ervice Directory Starcraft . Jayco Prowler . Glendale Open 6.days, closed Wed. Satisfaction ales ervice 3 miles east of Listowel on Hwy. 86 Ph. 291-1158 ain/on FACTORY R, ,-. . OUTLET n Their Original OLD MILL at tM r,il,�, tn,ek IN BLYTH BAINTON LTD. Blyth 523-9373 /111116. DATSUN NIMir Sales and Service CUNNINGHAM MOTORS INC. 131 Kincardine Rd. 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He wants coliseums, palaces, and probably wouldn't object to a few graven 'images of himself scat- tered about the city. Did you notice that when the Olympic Committee was on the edge of the abyss, looking into it, there• wasn't exactly a scramble among the world's nations to pick up the tab? The only tentative offer was from the Arab swingers, who are in similar circumstances to the old lady who lived in a shoe. They have so many barrels they don't know what to do. Admitted, bar- rels are better than children these days, but there's a limit. Say. Pardon me for a moment. Just had a thought. Those Arabs fit are buying up practically any- thing these days. Wonder if they'd be interested in some fine moose pasture I own up north. Used to be called mining stocks. Probably not. However, maybe they'd take a flyer on a pure- bred hybrid cat. Half wolf, half pig. And by golly, the price is right. 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