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e.j Monday, January 10r 1977HOLLYWOOD POSTERS — Dan Faris poses in his San Francisco Cinema Shop with some of (he movie memorabilia he has for sale. Faris says his stock pile now includes 250,000 movieposters and some 2 million photos. Movie memorabilia is far more than a business la Faris, who has traveled around the country adding to his archives. ( AP Wirephoto)Claudine's Trial Finally Startingi-ASPEN, Coio. (AP) - After mapping strategy with her lawyers on what would have been her lover’s 32nd birthday, Claudine Longel return.1; to court today to hear contrasting versions of how he came to bleed to death from a bullet in the abdomen.A jury chosen from her neighbors in this Rocky Mountain ski resort town was to bo sworn in loday, after which prosecution and defense would present opening arguments in Ihe manslaughter trial.Photographers were to be allowed to snap picture Inside the courtroom during the first few minutes of today’s session. The arrangement was in accordance wjth a state iaw allowing cameras in the courtroom If all parties agree.Many potential jurors ■— including some of those picked — admitted during selection last week having thought at one time or another that Miss Longet was guilty of shooting professional skier Vladimir “Spider’\Sabich last March 21 as he dressed for dinner in the bathroom of the chalet they shared here.However, defense attorneys Charles Wccdman and Ronald Austin said the Former showgirl can get a fair trial here, and they did not seek a change of venue .The two chief prosecutors, Dist. Atly. Frank Tucker and his depuly, Ashley Andeon, said they planned to call up to 30 witnesses. ,The trial in Ihe high-ce Hinged 19th Century courtroom of state District Court. Judge George Lohr Is expected' to last an additional two weeks.Miss Longel, 15, who could spend 1(1 years in jail if convicted of the reckless manslaughter charge, spent much of the weekend secluded with her three children by former husband Andy Williams. Hut she met Sunday with her lawyers.“We promised her this weekend for rest andrecuperation, said Weedman.“But a trial is an ongoing thing and there are always matters to discuss, witnesses to interview,'1Williams has been subpoenaed by the prosecution and was expected in court this week. He said when jury selection began last Monday that he was unsure what the nature of his testimony would be.Miss Longet contends that the shooting was an accident,that Sabich was showing her how to use the .22-caliber pistol when it went off, Some witnesses are expected lo testify that Miss Longel has admitted she pointed the gun at Sabich and playfully said “bang, bang.”The jury must determine whether Miss Longet acted recklessly.A third of the 62 prospective jurors said they didn’t believe the shooting was an accident.Only two possible jurors expressed sympathy for the defendant, and both of them were dismissed.The 12 jurors chosen to judge Miss Longet include Army veteran Jean Gendron, 37, who was a firearms training officer. Asked about reports that the affair between Miss Longet and Sabich had soured, Gendron told the court, 1 just thought they had a lovers’ quarrel and she shot him.”Steve Allen Returning To Television TonightNEW YORK (AP) - A talk show host of bygone days, Steve Allen is doing something new. He’s a talk show host of bygonedays.“1 hope the program will infuriate some people, he says: “\Ve will have achieved our . wildest' success to the •' extent we Mfuriafe people,”, The prog ram' Is called ‘‘Meeting of Minds/* and the guests will not be the likes of Zsa Zsa Gabor, Tony Randall or Joyce Brothers.Nor will his “guests” — and that's what Alien calls them — be deadly bores, he says. They will, however, be dead.And the boredom level will be entirely in Allen's hands, for . he created ^ the'program • and wrote ‘.tlip^l^e^fromf/teaterial -already published. The first of ./six GOminute programs already completed wili bef seen over ' PBS Jan.'lO at 8 pmV EST.. j ' Allen’s “guests, played by actors such as Alexander Scourby, will be Cleopatra, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Paine, Theodore Roosevelt, Marie Antoinette, Sir Thomas More, Karl Marx, Ulysses S. Grant, Altitta the Hun, Galileo Galilei, Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin.What he has Irled lo create is a “theater of ideas thal would be entertaining and yet would stimulate Ihe viewer to thinkhimself by introducing him lo or reminding him of important thinkers and doers of history. ’’ Americans don’t think enough, haven’t become well enough Informed and aren’t therefore very . attlve^ participants in their democracy, Allen ays.“It is such concerns that t’ause me to devote so much time to 'Meeting of Minds,”' he adds. “It can help stimulate popular interest in the problems and a rational way of thinking about them.”The talk show lakes place in a kind of a living room at a round table. Guests come down a flight of stairs, as if from heaven, rather^ than.through a partedIn one:fctib^'efjneafpo^tess■ ■ ■'' .: I--*;'■■i». : ‘y -• i*-. f v ‘ * -obc) southeastern 7Wtroriuctinn and makes tho unlikely offering of a flower to an earlier guesl, AVTTILLA THE Hun. The “host remarks that Miss Dickinson seems somewhat distracted.“I’ve been out with lanterns looking for myself,”-she ex- ; plains.In another show, amonumentally bewigged^ Marie Antoinette confesses without embarrassment, “To be quite honest, I never finished any book.The program’s path lo national television has been a tortuous one at best. Allen, whose “Laughbaek” show of highlights from past broadcasts is now in syndication, has been trying for, 17.years' to.get • “Meeting of Minds'’ on the air.■ A segment with' Freud,' Hegel, Montaigne and Aristotle',: was canceled-before'it-could-•air on the “SteverAllen Show’^ one Sunday night in 1959. 'ClaudineTrialProfilesASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Here is a brief look at the judge and the lawyers Involved In the trial of singer Claudine Longet on a charge of reckless manslaughter in the death of skier Vladimir Sabich:—Disl. Ally, Frank Tucker, at age 35, is the state's youngest district attorney. His family came to Aspen in the silver boom of the 1880s. Like all his staff attorneys, Tucker attended the University of Colorado law school. He dresses casually for court, most days wearing blue jeans and a corduroy coat. Tucker is in charge of the Longet trial strategy but leaves most courtroom duties up to his deputy, Ashley Anderson.—Deputy Dist. A tty. Ashley Anderson is a Minnesota native who worked for the Denver district attorney several years, With his shaggy blond hair and big glasses he looks even younger than his 29 years.—Asst. Dist. Atty. Barry Bryant “is essentially here in ca.se Ashley or I gets sick,” Tucker says. Bryant, 36, is from Michigan and also worked with the Denver district attorney. He knew Sabich but refuses to discuss how close their relationship was.—Charles Weedman, 49, of Los Angeles, one of two defense attorneys for Miss Longet, objected during jury selection to Tucker’s characterizing him last year as a “big-city, hot dog” lawyer. Weedman represented a member of the Charles Manson family on a murder charge. He wears conservative tailored suits.—Ronald Austin, a Colorado native, who has lived in Aspen 10 years, is the other defense attorney. He does some criminal work but spends more time handling divorce eases.—Judge George Lohr, short and trim, appears to be in his early 40s. He has refused several times to discuss his personal or professional background. Asked lo provide biographical information, Lohr sent this message through his clerk: “If you want to lalkTwith me about justice in -Pitkinr County, I'll be glad to do.that after the trial. ■'FIRE SALENEW YORK (AP) - Sallie Marr, mother of Lenny Bruce, will appear in Alan Arkin’s new comedy “Fire Sale, Twentieth Centur y-F o x announced recently. The film stars Arkin,Rob Reiner, Vincent Gardenia, ■'An Janette Comer, Kay Medfbrd; and Sid Caesar. ■■■'•'f.'rJfyL•Av:Riucrsidel4th WEEK6:409:007’,T 7IrClock* i SwCOUPONGOODMONDAY.NO
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