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From page 1B:Pornin 12 days around Marin County in convepingwi.h hi3j.nMitchell the San Francisco Bay area. One then 14. He asked me, Dad. whatPotato, Two Potato” was produced for $240,000.It is a long way, indeed, from 1958 when Weston produced his first movie, a western for United Artists called Gun Fever” with Mark Stevens.One Potato, Two Potato followed six years later after Weston read about a black surgeon who married a white nurse. The nurse’s ex-husband sued for custody of their children. One Potato, Two Potato was about a divorced white woman with a daughter who marries a black man with whom she worked at a factory.The woman was played by Barbara Barrie (Oscar-nominated in 1980 for Breaking Away) and the husband by Bemie Hamilton (who had a role in TV’s Starsky and Hutch”). Richard Mulligan (of S O B.” and TV’s Soap”) played the ex-husband.Larry Peerce, who came out of directing TV wrestling and demolition derby shows, took the reins on One Potato, Two Potato” (with a $10,000 birthday gift from his wife as seed money). Peerce would later guide Goodbye, Columbus and The Other Side of the Mountain.Weston and Peerce formed a partnership and put the project together with additional funds from free thinkers and liberals.” A major contribution came from Peerce’s parents (his father is tenor Jan Peerce).kind of pictures do you make?’ I said, 'X-rated.' He said, 'X-X-X-rated?’ I told him this was my opportunity to work with film in a profession 1 love.I also said it was a very rough time and if someone came into the house and took me away in handcuffs he should know I’m not a bad person. I don’t sell dope. People have a right to see the kinds of pictures they want.They did not come to take Weston away and he still makes his movies — and waits for a phone call.Rehiringus. He doesn’t know which one to hit first.”He says he's been working closely with Christopher Mayer and Byron Cherry, the two actors added to the show after Schneider and Wopat quit. He remembers he took a videotape class with Cherry in Atlanta five years ago.I have mixed emotions about the change,” Shroyer says. I liked John and Tom very much. We were like a family. I think any show has to be that way. I’m proud for the new guys and their success, but I still miss John and Tom. I don’t know how to explain it. The new guys are doing a good job.”
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Fri, Aug 27, 1982
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