Valley News, The (Newspaper) - April 5, 1977, Van Nuys, California Tuesday Calif VALLEY NEWS Section 3 Page 5 Bear hugs are part of brotherly love Marc Singer left stars as football hero John letti with Jeff Lynas as his younger brother who is stricken with leukemia in true-life dramatic special Something for tomorrow 9 p.m on CBS TV takes 2 new roles keep young Katie Saylor on the run PARKER Six months ago Katie Saylor was unmarried and unemployed Today she's a working bigamist Petite blonde and beautiful she evokes thoughts of a miniaturized Grace Kelly as she pokes at a diet lunch on a rare day off from her role in Fantastic Journey NBC Thursday and discusses her double life Harvey Strassman and I were married last Nov she said We had been trying to get married since last August It took me two years to get this man to marry me I finally hooked him then I was in an auto accident We postponed the wedding until October We had reservations for Hawaii and 10 to 15 friends were going to fly there from New York and Los Angeles Then a producer friend called me and told me the woman who was going to play the lead in his feature film Super had walked out They were to begin shooting in Missouri in two days He begged me to take the part So I went to Missouri for four weeks and called Harvey three or four times a night When I got back he said there was no way we could go to Hawaii He represents Noah Dietrich in his law suit against the Howard Hughes estate and couldn't leave town We finally got married between court sessions in the Las Vegas Municipal Court and had a weekend honeymoon Six weeks later while she was getting ed to married producer Bruce Lansbury tapped her for the female lead in Fantastic Journey I never thought I would get the the 25-year old actress confessed The producer and casting people screened some film of me that I wasn't pleased with I learned that just after the first reel started to roll it fell off the projector She began on the show Dec 26 That's the day she became a bigamist You think movies are rough to work she said but television production is all consuming It's a total marriage total commitment your food and drink You get home at 7 o'clock at night eat dinner learn your lines for the next day and get to bed because often you have to get up at 3 to drive to location in Simi Valley or Santa Barbara I always give myself an extra hour to drive from Beverly Hills because I always get lost She got lost on Ventura Boulevard trying to find Wally Johnson's Shilling in Studio City With a schedule like that she was asked how does a tender young marriage You have to have an understanding husband who gives you port and love Not many husbands could tolerate she said Katie is a native of Connecticut where she was adopted as a baby by noted dress designer Larry Aldrich and his wife She studied with the American Theater Wing Academy of Dramatic Arts and Actors Lab m San Francisco and under such respected coaches as Sandy Meisner and Eve Collier She has appeared in several plays TV dramatic shews and movies and played Al no's girl friend in The Godfather A starring role in Fantastic Journey is the acme of her career thus far but she's not sure her interests and lifestyle are compatible with the demands of a weekly TV series There are so many things I want to do I design jewelry and I've painted all my life and sold some Total marriage to a series goes against my natural grain There is no time for your own thoughts You can only think about getting through the day With that she pushed half her diet lunch aside and prepared to race to the Burbank Studios It was supposed to be a day of leisure but she had to spend the afternoon dubbing dialog for footage shot the week before Hollywood celebre 2 new idols for By MARILYN BECK If the mail being received by zines is any indication those ABC Hardy Boys Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson will soon be deposing Henry The Fonz and John Barbarino Travolta as Kings of the Teenybopper Idols Shaun feels one reason he and Parker have ered so many fans so fast is because of the format of their show We play investigators and I guess we have Knight in Shining Armor appeal We represent heroes In talking to such teen idols of the past as Bobby Sherman Davy Jones and Shaun's half-brother vid Cassidy he has reached the conclusion that About of the girls who write fan letters are too young to have boyfriends or don't have them for other reasons That's where we come in We are fantasy boyfriends is what it comes down to The Cassidy isn't particularly pleased that magazines lead young impressionable readers to believe they have a chance of meeting the objects of their adoration And looking at the situation squarely he is convinced that the mail pull of every male idol would dwindle drastically if all those little girls who write in knew the chances of a personal meeting are practically nil Practically as impossible for some is even ing a picture of their hero with a genuine autograph True pictures are often sent upon request with the actor's name written upon them but frequently it's a secretary who does the writing on the behalf Filmland fricassee with a spot of Songwriter Carol Connors insists she's still the woman in David Janssen's life that in spite of re- ports linking him with Angle Dickinson There's no more to it than the fact they're just old friends David tells me there's absolutely no romance there Well that's what he says Don Rickles says I don't think I'm insulting but I'm not going to fight that label because it got me my house and car and my pedigreed dogs The tongued comic explains I was in my late 30s before I became a guy with my own dressing they can now call me anything they want as long as someone keeps signing the check with the big number TV The networks will be announcing their September schedules by the end of next month but at this point much of the casting on the new shows remains up in the air Stephen Gentry West Coast programming vice president for ABC tells me It's frantic time Each of the networks is preparing from 40 to 55 pilots and it's of trying to round up enough qualified performers to go around We have three projects that should have started production last week but haven't because casting problems aren't resolved In most cases the problem doesn't involve lead performers but supporting players needed to round out the casts and says Gentry It's a matter of finding people with appeal and talent who are willing to do TV There's so much demand this time of the year by all three networks that you wonder after a while if you won't have to end up hiring department store dummies Come to think of it quite a few dummies have made it big on the tube Celebrity If there's one thing Jenny Agutter doesn't want to become it s a star Not that the actress whose fame is on the rise with a featured role in Logan's Run and ring performances in the upcoming The Eagle Has Landed and Equus isn't anxious for 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