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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1971
Page
5
The Recording Industry Association of America reports a 4.7 percent rise in 1970 sales over 1969. Total sales reached 1.66 billion dollars, with phonograph records at 182 million and long-playing albums at 1.017 billion. Prerecorded tapes totaled 478 million, up from 416 million.
New York AP reports comedian Jack Mason, famed for nonstop stand up, shifts to feature filmmaking. He aims to star in Getting Laughs as Roger Stoolie after raising financing, saying film work will challenge him more than stand up. Mason previously worked as a rabbi and Catskills social director before TV exposure on Steve Allen Show.
Mason describes forming JaMa Productions to sell shares of his income as the main asset. He plans five film properties including Roger The Stoolie and a television project a comedy debate show with him as host a comic district attorney challenging real people on issues such as women’s lib psychiatry.
Actor James Franciscus explains how he prepared to play Mike Longstreet a blind insurance investigator in ABCs Longstreet. He spent 24 hours blindfolded learned cane technique talked with blind students and trained with guide dogs to capture authentic experience and emphasize the character over cases.
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