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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1969
Page
7
Raquel Welch tells reporters she will star in the Twentieth Century Fox movie adaptation of Gara Vidal's controversial novel Myra Brackinridge. Welch plays a man who undergoes surgery to become a woman, highlighting a bold cross gender role.
Martha Raye is given an honorary commission as “Admiral” by the Massachusetts Navy in a ceremony aboard USS Massachusetts in Fall River. Capt. James F. Gavin lauds her service entertaining U.S. troops across World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, noting her total time in war zones exceeds a year.
The Joey Bishop Show has been renewed through January 1971. ABC TV’s late night talk series attracts about two and a half million homes per minute and continues to sell out. The program premiered in April 1967.
Hollywood reporter Vernon Scotta notes Louis L Amour leads a group to build Shalako a 200 acre western town near Durango Colorado for film production. With 5 million cost the town will include jail saloons hotel and movable set buildings to be reused by multiple productions and tourists in winter and summer.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette mentions Sean Connery appearing in an upcoming production and Edd Byrnes at a tobacco auction. A film version of MacBeth with a Scottish cast is planned for next season, with details on a guest Lexington Ky segment and an hourlong show.
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