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vs Ad made her famous Andy Kaufman spent years performing in coffee houses for no pay in his native New York before landing the Latka Gravas role in the ABCTV hit series Taxi Andy claims that he is song and dance man not comedian But whatever it is that he does it creates delighted hysteria in his loyal audiences His unique per formances are the fruition of career that began at age eight when he began entertaining professionally at parties Born in New York City An dy grew up on Long Island NY and worked as childrens party entertainer through high school Upon graduation he took year off before enrolling in Grahm Junior College in Boston He then began working college coffee houses with what ultimately became the founda tion for his nightclub act At the same time Kaufman was childrens at work on two novels The Hollering Mangoo and Gosh Returning to New York An dy picked up an unpaid gig at My Fathers Place in Roslyn He was smash hit filling the club all that sum mer and being asked to con tinue as the opening act for major rock groups into the fall It was only much later that he learned he was booked originally as joke or curiosity because the owners had no idea what he was doing etertainen or why For three years Andy worke ed Herculean schedule travelling in from Long Island each night with his props ap pearing at one nightspot rac ing across town to the other and performing again and trying his best to appear on theimnd Show at both clubs All gratis This is until net work television executive spot ted him and liked what he saw Kaufmans firstmajor ex Joan Blondell dead at 73 after battle with leukemia SANTA MONICA Calif AP Joan Blondell the brassy but goodhearted heroine of come dies and musicals who once called herself the fizz on the soda has died of leukemia after stage and screen career spanning five decades Miss Blondell 73 died Christ mas morning at St Johns Hos pital where she had been ill for several weeks said Flora Marks the actresss business manager In her heyday the quick withacomeback blonde ex changed wisecracks with such leading stars of Hollywood as James Cagney Edward Robinson Spencer Tracy Clark Gable Leslie Howard Errol Flynn Pat OBrien and Robert Taylor The daughter of New York City vaudeville couple Rose Joan Blondell launched her ca reer in the spotlight at age three when she joined the fam ily act WON CONTRACT television wine commercial has brought Sherry Miller from dancing lessons to the brink of fame Since she made the commercial in I978 she has done other ads and has been offered parts on various CBC television shows CP Photo show biz 12 pictures HOLLYWOOD tAIi Time Life Films will make up to 12 major motion pictures during the next three years to be dis tributed by 20th CenturyFox David Susskind TittiesLifes senior executiveprtxlucer will oversee the production schedule of about fotir movies year The movies including Loving Couples starring Shirley Macliaine and James Coburn Fort Apache starring Paul Newman The Spy based on novel by Norman Garbo Village Creek love story by Gordon Baxter The Spivey Assignment about drug smuggling and If You Believe fantasylove story by Scott Parker Pleshette stars HOLLYWOOD tAli Si aanne Pleshettc stars as woman struggling to hold her self and her failiin together when her husband has it Her vous breakdown in the CBS movie If Things Were liifr ferent The movie which airs Wednesday Jillt 16 also stars Don Murray Tony Roberts Arte Johnson Chuck McCann Dan Shor and Sherrie Willis Author Kurt Vonnegut says that hes not enlt couraging l7yearold tyro writer because Its silly boring trade Robert Lewis directed from screenplay by Bill Froehlich and Mark liisson Top movie HOLLYWOOD tAP The Los Angeles Film Critics Asso ciation has selected Kramer vs Kramer as best picture of 1979 The movie also won four other awards Dustin Hoffman was named best actor and Meryl Streep best supporting actress Robert Benton won awards as best director and for best screenplay Miss Streep was also cited for The Seduc tion of Joe Tynan and Manhat tan Sally Field was named best actress for Norma Rae and Melvyn Douglas was named best supporting actor for The Seduction of Joe Tynan and Being There Film rights HOLLYWOOD AP Edgar Scherick and Jon Slan have ac quired the film rights to The Petting Zoo new novel by Brett Singer MISS Singer is gand niece of Isaac Bashevis Singer the Nobel Prizewinning novelist She parlayed her first major Faced financial disaster Veteran producerdirector Otto Preminger answers questions two weeks ago in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills Calif Preminger faced financial disaster with his film The Human Factor earlier this year AP Photo Best land deal around chunk of Alberta soil CALGARY WV After the pet rock comes chic dirt And what dirt would Caiiir dians rather own than geniunc Alberta soil Bob Undscth 2tiyear old city realtor is offering Alberta soil neatly packed into can for mere $397 per titlktlltlth of an acre when spread evenly on it flat surface He said he has put 13000 cans of Kand Land into five Edmoii ton and Calgary retail stores And at $4 square foot he insists its the best land deal Ill the province Compare iry prices with the current price of $300 per square foot for land in the major cities My deal is real steal Undseth said he doesnt ex pect to match ttic success of Gary Dahl the California entrepreneur who sold more than million pct rocks but he thinks his product may last longer He is planning to go to the Atlantic City Trade Show on Jan and is negotiating with US distributor to get the prod uct on American shelves through US Subsidiary The subsidiarys captial assets coir sist of machine to can the product in San Diego Calif He began his project with trip to Los Gatos Calif to con suit with Dahl gt Then he began registration procedures iii several countries to make sure the idea remains his TOOK IIIS lIII lll bet lot of people dont know that the pet rock sold in Canada viisiit Gary Dahls Somebody cIse took the idea from him here Thats one tf the chances we all run in busir iicss Dahl also helped him with ad vice on contracts and which people to avoid liahl didnt tare badly ba causc he did manage to sell over one million pct rocks in his first three omonths dont know what happened after that but Im sure hc sold few more Lildscth said he doesnt ex pect Rand land sales to rocket like those of pet rocks but he expectsd the ideas life to last longer because people go for the idea of owning ii piece of real estate Some cant own the real thing alid that may help he said The price of land is making it very difficult for ordinary bcrtans to own some know this trinket of mine is going to appeal to lot of people III symbolic way Variations on the basic theme are also possible There is even Calgary en trepreneur who owns gold mine on the AltlSktiB border who asked me to can one ounce piece of gold in one of my Kand land this Indscths faith it his product is strong enough that lie has planned ii move of his com pany Dennis Developments Ltd from his garage into downtown Edmonton ware house At present the company is my wife Gwen and myself and four parttime workers We have one machine that puts the tops on cans And we have fulltime distribution person who helps us track down good retail prospects Taking year off Conductor Leonard Bernstein says hes taking year off from conducting to do some composing Broadway success Maggie the Magnificent opposite Cag ney into 1930 contract with Warner Bros and made so many films that she later had trouble remembering them all In her early roles with such movies as Public Enemy she was stereotyped as gangland moll but her songanddance talents were displayed in Gold Diggers of 1933 and Footlight Parade Movies were hard work in those days Miss Blondell re called in her 1972 autobiogra phy Center Door Fancy We worked so hard and hardly had day off she once said When started in the 305 Saturday was working day and we usually worked right into Sunday morning Although she once said all she ever wanted was to have one husband and one house and one garden and lot of children Miss Blondell once had homes in New York and Hollywood and was married three times Her first marriage in 1933 He was poor sharecroppers son who never dreamed he was adopted STEVE MARTIN UNIVERSAL PICTURE i99 en aasA 513 ALL atoms RESERVED or was TO Clnenmmgmpher ter roles both in films and on George Barnes They had one television son Norman and divorced three years later MARRIED ACTOR Shortly after she married singeractor Dick Powell father of her daughter Ellen They divorced in 1944 and in 1947 she wed showman Michael Todd That marriage ended in 1950 She vowed in 1972 never to marry again The only time Id ever marry again is if someone beat on my door at the hotel and said have $27 million and Ill live elsewhere she said Miss Blondell said she shed her brash young image with the 1945 film Tree Grows in Brooklyn when Elia Kazan let me have moment of two of tenderness of maturity that nobody had ever given me be fore In 1951 she was nominated for an Oscar for her supporting role in The Blue Veil She went on to play variety of charac KCIC THE JERK 700 PM 900 PM KRAMER VS KRAMER AND 915 DUSTIN HOFFMAN Kraftsner Kramer WIEIND LS mt lllllllltli muonsu hcJH towns It fiftieexaminer Thursday Dec 2771979 11 Taxirole break for actor ANDY KAlIrNtXN tough initial years posure was opSlMurday Night where he was an im mediate hit Since then he has appeared numerous times on that series as well as on The Tonight Show He also ap peared on The Redd Foxx Show The Mike Douglas Show and Diiiahf He has starred in series pilot and in his own Wininutc special that His not aired He was rcgular on The New Dick Van Dykc Show Andy is single lives iii West Los Angeles and enjoys wrestl ing women in his spare time any figstaurant 21th SEAFOOD STEAK HOUSE Catering for all occasions For Reservations cell 4167756361 110 Holland so Hwy Bradford Ont GRAND OPENING TOGHT 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