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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1973
Page
11
Hollywood column notes Clint Eastwood as a top Hollywood stake. Eastwood’s Malpaso Productions backs his films and he directs, stars, and produces with strong box office. He aims for self sufficiency, edits from Carmel, and pursues High Plains Drifter after Breezy. He notes a need for a self reliant man and highlights success alongside risks.
Peter Boyle will headline the ABC Movie of the Week project The Man Who Could Talk to Children. Hal Holbrook is signed to co star with Clint Eastwood in Magnum Force. Producer Martin Ranschoff bought screen rights to James Houston’s The White Dawn.
A near capacity New York crowd celebrated Paul Robeson at Carnegie Hall for his seventy-fifth birthday though he did not attend. Paul Robeson Jr. spoke about barriers he faced with passports and a taped message urged blacks to seek equal rights and shares. Celebrities including Sidney Poitier Zero Mostel Harry Belafonte and Roscoe Lee Brown recounted Robeson’s career from Rutgers athlete to Columbia Law student actor singer and film star.
Minna Gombell, an American film and Broadway actress with over 100 credits, died in Santa Monica at age 81 on Saturday. She had featured roles in The Hunchback of Notre Dame That Girl and The Best Years of Our Lives. Funeral arrangements were pending, and she will be buried in Baltimore in a family plot.
Academy Award winner William Holden signs to lead the four part NBC miniseries The Blue Knight based on Joseph Wambaugh novel. Holden plays Bumper Morgan, a Los Angeles police officer nearing retirement. Wambaugh, LAPD veteran, also writes and serves as creator and story consultant for Police Story.
Actress Melina Mercouri led a Brussels march Sunday protesting the Greek military regime in power six years. About 1,000 marchers joined at the head of the line with Belgian Sen. Pierre Vermeulen. The Greek Committee of Belgium and the Association of Greek Students in Belgium organized the protest.
Charles Chaplin, aged 85, celebrated with family in Nice France. He and his wife, five children, a grandchild and two daughters-in-law dined at a Riviera restaurant and received goodwill messages from friends. They will remain on the Riviera for about 10 more days before returning to Switzerland.
Alan King of Mineola N Y says his 18 year old son Andrew was taken into custody after taking his father’s Rolls Royce without permission and then the mother’s Pontiac. Police found 141 grains of marijuana and 41 grains of hashish in the car. Andrew King was arraigned on unauthorized use of an auto and felonious possession of drugs after a night in Nassau police custody. The Kings reside in a $300000 mansion at Kings Point.
Theaters present a slate including The Harder They Come at Paramount with 6 and late showings, Walking Tall at Iowa, Wonder Women with multiple daily times, Country Cuzzins, 2001 A Space Odyssey at Plaza, Cabaret Stage 1, Class of 44 Stage 2, Sounder Stage 3, The Secretary at Twixt Town, Sexy Susan, Fear Is the Key, Innocent Bystanders, Butterflies Are Free, Stand Up and Be Counted, Naked Countess, Weekend with the Babysitter, Two People Stage 4, The Possidon Adventure and Joe Kidd at Jerry Lewis venues, plus Plug Co Marion features.
Five writer producers including Jack Webb were charged by the Writers Guild for crossing picket lines outside studios a month earlier. They must appear before a guild trial board in May with possible fines and suspension or expulsion. a convicted member would be listed on a roll of dishonor. The charged include Cy Chermark Herman Saunders David Victor Jon Epstein and Marcus Welby writer-producer ties.
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