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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1976
Page
14
New York AP report shows ABC commanding the Nielsen ratings for the eleventh straight week with 12 programs among the top 20. The top show was ABCs Monday movie Buster and Billie seen in 19.5 million homes while Bert DAngelo drew 6.9 million.
Listings show multiple venues with films and stage plays. Notable items include One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at TOWA and Jaws at WORLD with showtimes, plus stage productions at STAGE 1 and STAGE 2. Hollywood reports note Freddie Prinze in Money to Burn and NBC renewals for The Rockford Files and The Hollywood Squares.
Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, says he is bitter and broke after the film swept five Academy Awards. He received only 6,000 dollars for the screenplay and faces a federal suit seeking 869,000 dollars plus five percent of gross receipts. He notes he did not attend the ceremony and was watching at his Oregon farm after selling movie rights to Kirk Douglas in 1963.
Danny Kaye will conduct the Yale Philharmonica Orchestra on April 24 in New Haven for a Yale University benefit. He says his wife Sylvia Fine persuaded him to take part in the unpaid concert, a novelty for his long career in charitable shows with major orchestras.
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