Unhappy Wambaugh targets NBC Blue Knight adaptation
Hollywood buzz reports Joseph Wambaugh condemns NBC for turning his novel The Blue Knight into a four part TV miniseries starring William Holden. He criticizes cast choices and scripts while at NBC affiliate dinner. Also notes clashes with Kent McCord and other idle Hollywood gossip about Day of the Dolphins cast, Playgirl, and Courreges expansion.
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Hollywood
Calif
Joseph Wambaugh
Los Angeles
NBC
Julian Goodman
Don Durgin
Wambaugh
Kent McCord
McCord
Fiddlers Contest Set for Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View
Dozens of fiddlers from Arkansas and nearby states travel to Mountain View October 27 for the first annual Fiddlers Contest at the Ozark Folk Center. Winners receive 100 50 and 25 dollars and perform at the 8 pm folk music program. Entries due by October 2 with a 5 fee. Spectators admitted free.
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Arkansas
Mountain View
Ozark Folk Center
Folk Center
Charles Sandage
Sandage
Godfather Part II filming moves to Lake Tahoe
AP reports on October 1 1973 Paramount moves production for Godfather Part II to Lake Tahoe and other locations. Coppola plans two parallel stories with Michael in the 1960s and Don Corleone’s rise, Brando absent, De Niro cast as young Don. Cast also includes Pacino Duvall Keaton. filming slated 16 weeks in multiple locations.
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Los Angeles
Lake Tahoe
Sierra
Paramount
Frank Yablans
Marlon Brando
Francis Ford Coppola
Brando
Don Corleone
Marlon
Coppola
Michael Corleone
Las Vegas
Robert de Niro
de Niro
Georgia
al Pacino
Robert Duvall
Diana Keaton
Miami
Caribbean
New York
Sicily
Woman Finds Crater Gem at Diamond Park
Barbara Stansill of Osage Oklahoma found a 3.9 carat Silver Cape diamond at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro Arkansas. Park officials confirmed it as the year's best and most valuable gem found there, despite her husband’s doubts about the mine.
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Murfressboro
Ark
Barbara Stansill
Osage
Okla
Max Love
State Parks and Tourism Department
Stansill
Greene novel The Honorary Consul a withering satire
UPI reviews Graham Greene’s The Honorary Consul as a tragic comic tale set in an Argentinian backwater. A British official is kidnapped by revolutionaries who threaten to execute him unless 10 prisoners are freed. Dr. Eduardo Plarr navigates tense dialogues, religious contradictions, and a cast of rounded, morally complex characters including a conflicted priest.
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United Press International
Graham Greene
Simon & Schuster
Eduardo Plarr
Greene
Joan Hanauer
UPI
Popular records by William D. Laffler highlight Alfred Newman
A UPI article reviews Alfred Newman as a major 20th century film composer with scores for Wuthering Heights The Song of Bernadette The Robe Captain from Castile and Anastasia The piece notes his Captain from Castile album and praises Newman as adept at varied moods Charles Gerhardt and the National Philharmonic are credited for performing his music The piece also mentions James Brown Joe Simon Millie Jackson and Henry Mancini as other prominent soundtrack figures and touches on Mancini Visions of Eight and its Olympic focus
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William D. Laffler
New York
UPI
Alfred Newman
Newman
Talking Pictures
Bernadette
Castille
Brevados
Castile
RCA
Charles Gerhardt
National Philharmonic
Mancini
Budmilla
NBC to air The Blue Light mini series nightly
NBC presents a one hour nightly dramatization of Joseph Wambaugh s best selling novel about an LA policeman near retirement. William Holden and Lee Remick star in the mini series airing November 13 to 16 with four consecutive nights of episodes.
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NBC
Joseph Wambaugh
Los Angeles
William Holden
Lee Remick
Stevie Wonder plans lighter schedule after accident
Stevie Wonder spoke in New York five weeks after a serious Aug. 6 car crash about his recovery. He said he may perform less, not due to disability but to reassess his priorities, aiming to relax, fish, and spend time with loved ones. He plans to produce with Wonderlove and Syreeta Wright, possibly not recording himself, and will travel to Africa for a long-planned vacation after doctor visits and continued treatment.
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California
Courreges
Couturier
U.S
New York City
Louise Danelian
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Mary Campbell
al New
Wesler
Stevie Wonder
New York
Wonder
Greenville
S.C
Wonderlove
South
Duke University
Durham
N.C
Salisbury
Africa
Syreeta Wright
Winston-Salem
Los Angeles
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