A6é CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 7, 1980 Showbiz by Joey bare CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: A former wife and an ex-lover are combining to make the life of daytime television heart-throb Chris Robinson rival the steamiest soap opera. The real-life plot so far has seen: The blocking of his third marriage by his second wife, Sandy Tennant. His arrest on theft charges filed by another woman. And a continuing battle over a paternity suit, filed by yet another woman 15 years ago. In the midst of all this, the star who plays Dr. Rick Webber on ABC's ‘General Hospital’ is be- ing comforted by the woman who wants to be the third Mrs. Robinson, model-actress Rhonda Plasterer... Sexy Victoria Principal is a ga with a superstar future thanks to TV's hit series ‘Dallas,’ in which she portrays beautiful Pamela Ewing. But Victoria is also a gal with a past, a Diaypil past that includes flings with ‘older men’ like Frank Sinatra and multi-millionaire financier Bernie Cornfield. Her other boyfriends have included Desi Ar- naz Jr., football star Lance Rentzel and even the Maharajah of Palitana. “| spent time with men who had it all because ! wanted it all too,” Victoria admits. TV. BACKSTAGE: -Dishy ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ star Catherine Bach vows that_she will never fall into the Hollywood success trap. “There's a dangerous side to show business,” she says. “I’ve seen it turn some other- wise nice people into ranting, raving maniacs. They drive themselves too hard and become physically and emo- tionally exhausted. They go kind of crazy and their behavior becomes outrageous. But you can take it from me, that will never happen to Catherine Bach. If| see any signs of it, I'd simply quit the business. Happiness means a lot more to me than being a star.” ... Reruns of the ‘Brady Bunch’ show are now being used to help troubled children, says proud ex-Brady ‘mom’ Florence Hender- son. ‘Psychiatrists use our show in counseling children,” Henderson told me. “It's very rewarding to know and I’m roud of it,” she added. The show ran for five years and lorence says she enjoyed every minute of it. “There are so many violent shows on TV that try to tell it like it is. We were an idealistic show, and | was the expert on how the parents should act because | was the only one there who had kids.” TV CLOSEUP: Actor Dean: Pau! Martin reported for military service at McGhee Tyson Air National’ Guard Base near Knoxville, Tennessee to begin training for a career as a jet fighter pilot with the California Air National Guard. Martin will complete a six-week officer candidate school leading to a commission as a second lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve, then attend USAF jet pilot training in Phoenix, Ariz. After earning his wings, he will serve asa ‘weekend warrior’ with the California Air Guard's 163rd Tactical Air Support Group at Ontario Airport. Martin will continue his association with ABC, with whom he signed a development pact earlier this year. He plans to doa series pilot_as soon as he finishes his training... Michael J. Stark is the new face on ‘Guiding Light,’ as private investigator Joe Bradley. Apparently the role was created especially for Michael whose only other daytime role was a brief stint as Dr. Simms on. ‘One Life to Live.’. .. David Soul, a clowning cop in ‘Starsky and Hutch’ on television and a swinging bachelor off-camera, wants to turn his life around. The former Hutch is going alter ‘serious, heavyweight roles.’ And he’s planning to settle down ‘forever’ by marrying Patti Sherman, who's divorced from former teen-idol Bobby Sherman. CAUSES HEADACHES ASKS FOR BODIES ANN ARBOR, MICH. 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Gloria Swanson Worries for youngsters gait tells more about By TORONTO; {CP) — The years have dimmed some of the sparkle, but the magic of Gloria Swanson still holds an audience spellbound, The actress who once commanded the adulation of millions doesn’t revel in past glories or memories, she said recently. At 81, her avocation is to help young people de- velop physical health and a wholesome attitude toward life. Of course, promoting her autobiography also takes up some of her time. “T have so many things to do and there just isn't miuch time,” she told a'cap- itive audidhée of reporters. “I worry so much about youngsters — I feel the reason we have so much sickness is that people don't know enough about them- selves, their bodies, their minds. They don’t know how magnificent they really are. They don't know enough about their health.” Wearing a black velvet pantsuit and clutching a red carnation, she ran jewelled fingers through her unkempt grey hair and said as little as. possible about her 65 years in show business — from the silent screens to Broadway. COFFEE A NO-NO Even in those heady days of wine and roses, she never touched, liquor until she was about 35, she said, and she has drunk only two cups of coffee in her life. Her most visible aide at the news conference was her young nutritionist, who accompan- ied her on the tour to ensure a regular diet of health foods. Her book, Swanson on her life than she preferred to discuss. She fielded, for ex- ample, questions about her alleged. tryst with Joseph Kennedy, whose sons later rose to the highest political offices in the U.S. ‘ The book doesn’t mince words about the romance and even tells how she was ad- monished by the cardinal of Boston, who. told her she became an occasion of sin every time she went with Kennedy. And it tells how she responded. ¢ “If Mr. Kennedy has told you in confession that lam an occasion of sin for. him, Your Eminence, then you have no- “right to discuss it: And if he didn't, then you have nothing to discuss.” . Now married‘ to her sixth husband — one of her previous marriages lasted a month and another two months — Swanson acciden- tally broke into the movie world at 16, when she was still an “army brat” moving across the U.S. with her officer father. Tutoring by Cecil B. De Mille and a head: ig per- Canadian born Ron Clark top comedy writer lin of French Postcards and Hair, Eileen. Brennan. of Pri- vate Benjamin fame-and vet- eran comic Jack Carter. ; ite; com: need ‘laugh after laugh ugh." He ‘remembers the 8 When ‘one of his jokes wie Perse More spotlights several young un- known Canadan comics like Howie Mandel,’ Peter Ayk- royd, Keith Knight and Mike, | McDonald in featured roles originally meant for Amer-* icans, ¥ “What worried. me was formers,” said Clark during © an interview at his favorite hotel, the classy Ritz Carlton. The movie is the first _ work Clark has done in Can- ada since he fortuitously hopped a Greyhound to New York more than 20 years ago. »:. 2 " EING BACK “I ‘can't tell you how .. funny it is for me to be back where I was born, doing a ° movie,” he said. “I'm the first guy that showed up from Hollywood who can speak to them in French.” He was referring to the French management of Film- plan, the Montreal movie Paramount. The Hollywood studio, he explained, wanted to soft- en the language and heighten - the love angle in his screen- ‘ play and he refused. “It’s kind of a rough picture, the language is bor 9. comedian looked >°“When I ‘switched’ over’ to’ TV," Clark chuckled, “I wished I'd done it sooner. There's a:laugh track." je Canadian mother. and English fathe ehviof: his early schooling waa ‘in-French. But what comic influences he had came, from’ the. popular En- glish-languagé | radio ‘come- dies ihe listened to with his fath the’ Jack Benny Shor ‘anny Brice as Baby Snooks, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and Fibber McGee‘and Molly.” - At McGill. University enrolled in business adminis- -tration, but’ devoted ergies to writing and'direct- ing skits for. the, atinual Red sand White Revi ‘ { he'd writte: « \Before-long, Clark was hopping a bus or train to New York almost ‘eyery weekend to sell more material to com- ed ee : LEFT FOR BIG APPLE = He decided to go to New ,sketches, rather coarse, it’s not, soft York for ‘good* after a de- like a TV show.” Comics is a project very": close to Clark and that’s why ° pel sonality of her own made her as famous in her time as her contemporary Charlie Chap- in. She was surrounded in her heyday by such stars as Rudolph Valentino, Mary Pickford and others. Yet, when she was asked who she considered the most fantastic . person she had ever met, she gave the name of a person who shared her enthusiasm for health food. ~ ay “And ¥-don't know why I~. showed such poor taste in husbands,” she said. “Of course, it isn’t fair for a man to be married to a celebrity. That does something to a man and that shouldn't hap- pen.” On country charts The Bellamy Brothers, whose Warner Bros. single of ‘Lovers Live Longer’ is spollighted in the national country charts, have been in Los Angeles taping such TV'ers as ‘The Mike Douglas Show,’ ‘The Tani Tennille Show’ and ‘The John Davidson Show.’ Howard and David Bellamy will wind up an international televi- sion tour the latter part of December, after making stops in England, Germany, Austria, llaly and Holland. Bill Anderson, Bobby Bare and Johnny Duncan have each taped a segment at the Opry House for the upcoming Cerebral Palsy Telethon. The show is set fo air, on ABC-TV, January 17 and 18; and the pre-recorded segments by Bare, Anderson and gular M Duncan will be part of a special country music section to hosted by Paul Anka. Anderson will” feature _ his illie Jones;' and Duncan will present his recent hit with Janie Fricke, ‘He's Out of y Lite.” . Patsy and Ed Bruce's Gingham Music Company has won its first ASCAP award. for ‘The Last Cowboy Song.’ Ed, Male Vocalist On A Country Album.’ He also won Billboard Magazine's Award for ‘Number One New Male Country Artist.’ both at F and Film- plan he insisted he direct it. Over the years, Clark has written material for some of America’s funniest men — Jackie Gleason, Steve Allen, Buddy Hackett, Danny Kaye, Allen King, the Smothers Brothers arid many others. © His new movie, he ad- mits, is bits and pieces of things he went through or witnessed. s "VERY DEPRESSING’ “It's a comedy with some very serious moments be- cause, in some. ways, it's a very depressing business. T've spent all my life around these guys.” As a young writer he - worked for comedians doing the gruelling circuit of Cat- skills resorts. “Comics have to work very hard there,” said Clark. A- Unique flating meeting with a pro- ducer at CBC . Toronto. “I wish 1 could remem- ber the fellow's name," Clark said with an Ironic smile. “I went there hoping to sell or write some material, maybe for the Wayne and Shuster show, but I found it so dis- couraging. ° * “Thad no hope there at all, In New York, where I was starving, it was just so : much more encouraging.” His break came when _ Carter took the Canadian kid | toan agent and got him other clients, , Soon after, Clark mar- ried his home-town sweet- heart, Sheila Ostroff, and they moved to New York the same day. ; : He wrote a comedy al- bum, rare in those days, called The President Strikes Back, a spin-off on the ir- * reverent First Family album spoof of the Kennedy clan. “Most people can't read suddenly gave me something T cauld show.” Don't Forget Every Tues. Working Gal's Luncheon Special A Ane Every Sun. & Wed. but that. album © “Most of those resorts are’ > singles places with desperate men and desperate women. 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Includes relish, onions, mustord, ketchup and fries. 2.25. * Allabove served with garlic toast *3.25 CNonte Car lo Motor chun, 1935 Columbia Ave., Castlegar Licensed Dining For Reservations 21 MIKE O'CONNOR: (right): presents’ a manager of CanCel’s pulp division at the, a es Thursday. Sweeney and Chuck Dinning, manager, of CanCe! each given plaques in recognition of Cancel! 52.900 grit to es ‘pr que:,to-.Wilf Sweeney, erce.tuncheon meeting 's lumber division, were the chamber in August. ‘joined other major i Banks jump. "fates ‘TORONTO (CP) — The Royal Bank of Canada has “CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 7,190.” ASSN ee PSS RANTS ave ke aa eee elit ald COLUMBIA EXCHANGE | Open Tues. + Sat. —9 a.m. to S p.m. Hy Buying ‘and selling pre-owned furniture, applian- ces, and g 3122 Broadwater Road, Robson; B.C. Phone — Bus.: 365-2417 Res.: 365-5812 ‘banks in ‘raising the trend- _ setting prime interest rate, the’ charge levied’ ontop ited ‘corporate customers, to 16.6 per cent from 14.5 per Scont. fvision. th manager of CanCel’s lumber'd ecolrd vice-presid ‘Give:ys:y O'Conik: ? VE Castlegar chant b Commerce needs “thi y blicks” from new membérd<'°" 8: Newly-acclaimed vice- was nd 1 —CeatteweFetes bry ‘Young ur bucks’ : r "bets) besides. the: miember- hip committee,” said:O’Con- Chamber secretary Linda ‘Greer said membership has risen to 99 from 42 at the * the Royal raiséd the interest it pays out on sav- ings accounts,'as the other banks did: Thursday, but it also announced increases in - its mortgage rates. Its charge for a one-year, ‘ apen mortgage now is 13.5 per'cent, up a full percentage point, while the five-year rate moved to 16 per. cent from 15.6 per cent. ‘ “The increases by the banks follow another sharp jump in the central rate of the Bank of Canads. That rate, which is: considered a president Mike O'Connor told’ - beginning of the year:“Bight guide for chartered banks to the 15 members who attend- ‘eda y luncheon meeting, “We need their bucks. Whether they:,;can come out and be active or not is really not our concern.”. The chamber has improved. ; its financial situation from that: of previous years. O'Connor said they expect to - end the year with a $700 + balance. “The Castlegar chamber is coming along real - - good.” ora Sire ‘A major project this year has been .a -membership drive, featuring .a’ contest ‘with a trip to Reno-as’ the prize. Eligible -to win’ are newly-signed members ‘and those who signed them in. “We're trying to get some- body out (finding new mem- more have signed up due to ‘the contest.”. tae Bie ‘PRESENTATIONS ” mber. .preggnted rative plaques to ‘Wilf: Sweeney, , mans: of ‘CanCel's pulp divisigy-and Chuck Dinning, manager of charge their customers, rose’ Thursday - at ‘the’ weekly fixing to 14.76 per cent ‘from _ 18.95 per cent a week earlier. Chartered Bs merce, the Bank the Bank of Nova Toronto Dominio: CanCel's lumber division, in National Bank and the Con- recognition of the $2,900 tinental Bank. They did not grant the company gave the - announce changes in their chamber in August. mortgage rates, although in- O'Connor’ ‘said’ he and. creases were ex Green’ appealed to CanCel ly. : management’ when the The banks raised the in- chamber’s bank refused to terest they © pas on ‘non- grant another on chequii ings Acc iy debts made in previous - three-quarters off'a percen- years. In.the past the cham- tage point to 12.25’ per cent, ber formed and collapsed while the interest paid: on twice, leaving a heritage of daily savings accounts went debt. CanCel managers asked up the same amount to be- a lot of tough questions and “gave us a few palpitations” see tt SS Car sales down 8.7 p.c. TORONTO (CP) — Can- interest. in its new. front- year-to-year drop of 29.8 per ada’s Big-Three auto-makers sold 8.7 per cent fewer cars in- November. than in the same month last: year and.26,5.per _. October.’ ; ches Si glewer cent fe Thee was by Chrysler of Windsor, Ont., whose car < sales-rose 17.2 per cent to 10,489 from 8,909. Total car sales by Chrys- ler, Ford Motor Co.. of Can- © ada Ltd, and General Motors . of Canada Ltd. were 63,461, compared with 58,674 - in November, 1979. wheel-drive K cars. Sales of those cars doubled in . November. from ' drop reported for trucks, to 2,696 from 2,958. Ford of Canada, based in Oakvillé, Ont., said its’ car sales declined 18.7 per cent to 11,368 from 13,990 but noted that sales of its “world” cars are rising. .! Ki th i Truck sales 19,889, down from 26,318, Chrysler said car sales, which were down from last year by as much as 67 per cent in May, have improved steadily and the gap has been overcome largely because of Huge losses Fears that sh a. vice- president and general mana- ger of sales, said the new small cars “are getting most of the action in dealer show- rooms these days and Nov- ember sales of 2,147 were up 24 per cent from October.” . Ford's truck sales had a on markets interest rates will send the shaky North American econ- omy back into a recession and the reported discovery of a giant ofl- field in the Soviet. Union. left Canadian: stock markets with huge losses last week. The relentless interest rate spiral gained momentum ‘to bring short-term rates in both Canada and the United States to their highest levels in seven months. A five-session slide at Toronto ‘left the 800-stock composite index down 76.67 points or 3.19 per cent on the "week to 2326.56. It was the seventh-largest weekly loss for the index on. records dating back to 1971 and the worst falt since a decline of 98.90 points the week of March 28. ‘3 in. dex fell 12.10 points or 8.26 per cent to 958.61, while the industrial index closed the week with a‘ loss of 18.72 points or 3.53 per cent to 376.10. - ‘ At Vancouver, . where regulatory. authorities jumped margin rates the previous week in an attempt to curb a wave of speculative trading, stock prices contin: ued to fluctuate wildly. Two rounds of increases in the U.S. primelending rate — the rate charged by - banks to their ‘top-rated corporate customers — left cent to 7,148 from 10,098. General Motors of Can- ada in Oshawa, Ont., said car i American Motors (Can- ada) Ltd. of Brampton, Ont., said its passenger vehicle sales were 1,705 units, almost identical to the 1,700 ‘units sold in 1979. but did come through. Other chamber activities include duction of a map, CIBC could tween 11.5 per cent and 12.25 per cent. The Royal's p : g CITY OF CASTLEGAR THE 1981 INAUGURAL MEETING will be held on DEC. 8,7 P.M. j , inthe | is COUNCIL CHAMBERS OFCITYHALL 460 COLUMBIA AVE: CASTLEGAR... The General Public is: invited to Attend Refreshments will be served. Borderline Transmission AUTO 5 =: M FREE Towing within a 20-mile cadius with major - repairs. We have Automatic Transmission Shift Kits in stock. + One-Day Service in most cases, Automatic -. Transmission | Service special $286 INCLUDES: road . test, remove pan, point increase in its one-ye: would add $86.30 ported ising and distributed free, which should be. “coming out in March” and introduction of a group insurance. “It's. a group. benefit program for all chamber members.” The . chamb lose millions TORONTO (CP) ~ The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce says its profits for © fiseal 1980 were reduced by $14 million because it had to tothe monthly payments of a $50,000 mortgage being paid back over 25 years. There was no word from the banks of changes in in- terest on consumer loans, but they are to. rise, ; put funds aside :to., cover ; possible-losses.from.loans.to Massey-Ferguson . Ltd. Toronto. , Larry... Bosse's’ Jewellery -as~ presi- ‘dent for 1981. Bosse had been vice-president for. 1980 but The bank said it stands stepped in as president when to lose $100. million if re. Tom Oglow resigned for financing efforts. by Massey- - personal reasons. . Ferguson fail and the giant This. year the chamber t Ronald Hogue, director of sales, said the Eagle fe heel-dri hicl: maker goes instituted the -practice of bankrupt. having two vice-presidents. now account for 32 per cent of AMC's passenger vehicle sales. its top selling car line is the Concord. Jeep sales were 486 in November, down from 626 in the same month last year. For the year to date, Chrysler's car sales were down 24 per cent to 116,822 and truck sales dropped 20.6 per cent to 34,014. Ford of Canada’s car sales in the first 11 months ; fell 27 per cent to 144,658, Truck sales were 94,453, a drop of 28 per cent. GM of.Canada and AMC aa not provide year-to-date C8. - In the U.8., meanwhile, the major auto-makers re- new car sales during November fell 7.3 per cent from 1979. Only Chrysler Corp. showed ani increase for the month and the last 10 days of b *-out to $14 million. z Under p of the’ © Mike O'Connor, owner of Canada Bank Act, the.money wastiacal eral Obspel will 'be placed’ in a contin- president. He served as a gency fund over five years, Giector for 1980. prey beeen aren 8 Joe Streloff, owner of 88- Kootenay Klothes Kloset, The amount for 1980 works 1, acclaimed second vice. president. He also had been a director for 1980. 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