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the exception to the rule but now maybe there will be others John Travolta is the latest to look like hell make it So far no women Now though there signs that Susan Clark has good shot at the golden ring Purists might dispute the labelling of Susan Clark as TV product After all she started out on the stage first in Canada her home country and then in England where she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and then went on to spend year in repertory Then she returned to Canada and was spotted by Universal talent scout and when she was 23 she became Universal contract player and appeared in several motion pictures But it was TV that established her first as guest star on series then in shortlived series of her own Mc Naughtons Daughter and finally as the star of such memorable TV movies as Babe and Amelia And now with those behind her and bunch of awards on her mantle piece for her ef forts she is going on to big movie roles She is finally out of her Universal contract free at last and is making movies right and left First up is Disney film The North Avenue Irregulars Next comes project she is terribly excited about something called The Diviners It means lot to me she says because it Will be made in Canada and its about the by primetime people as the Billy Carter of Family Feud which gets The San says is Pedro Bums to the air you open with oneminute teaSe Theyre terribly afraid of Take Gambit as an This gave me chance to ex should be tolerant with head it giarbagedpail opinions The biggest interview example pmliingthat henwassuilgggézdnfor re tl is also We love eac ot er an we the er do is lik In moneyl ABC 39 20 W0 They have questions like Later Dawson appeared ma tolerant of the shows straining at the bounds of taste often by the malapropisms of con Susan Clark Free at last Moves to movies SUSAN CLARK from Canada Scots and Irish in Canada and that is my heritage Following that if all goes according to plan she will star ina film biography Collette about the noted French writer She says that after Babe and Amelia she was offered many TV biographies but didnt want to be typed as the lady who does TV biographies so she turned them down But Collette she feels is dif ferent special plus feature film She thinks she has emerged into the top rank of movie actresses at precisely the right Movie scene Hot Wax movie for nostalgia Starsky and Hutch we dont mily Feud smoocing kiss He took his case to the public he said and got 9017 letters in minutes 20 seconds And then if they have someone against gasoline they have someone female tennis pro is it Billy Jean King Idi Amin or Fatty Arbuckle Im not high on that talk show with former speechwriter William Safire who said how proud he was to time Not only are there more parts apparently for women now than there have ever been but the audience for those films is there and demanding more making always used to be question of women at with want to go to movie theyll opley News Service American Hot Wax PG If youre rock roll buff you wont want to miss this flick unfolded by screenwriter John Kaye While there are some inaccurate charac terirations of pioneer disc jockey Alan Freed Tim McIn tires performance as Freed is convincing But Chuck Berry really steals the show in the final scenes with his duck walk and guitar as he sings Reelin and Rockin rihald song which he belts out with considerable gusto MELTING MAN The Incredible Melting Man People who brought popcorn to their seats stopped eating it after the first three minutes of this rather gross motion picture Col Steven West played by Alex Reber is hero astronaut just back from the first Saturn orbit He has contracted some mysterious malady which gradually is melting his body His grisly search for new human flesh is enough to take away anybodys appetite THE FURY The Fury Hi 77 Here is motion picture in desperate search of plot Director Brian De Palma has brought together fine cast listenable music by John Williams and special makeup effects by Rick Baker an old pro But on the way to the screen writer John Farris forgot to bring along credible story line Kirk Douglas is believable as man trying to rescue his son from supersecret government agency attempting to use his uni ue psychic powers But the bloody and gruwome action am les aimlessly seeming to search for some story clarification which never shows up TOPFLIGHT Crossed Swords PG topflight cast probably had lot of fun making this movie an adaptation of Mark Twains The Prince and the Pauper This is twisty tale wherein lowly lad and highborn one Edward Tudor the Prince of Wales change places for while with hilarious results Charlton Heston is overweight as Henry VIII Raquel Welch proper English lady no kiddingi with such other supporting worthies as Ernest Borgninc Rex Harrison and George Scott The Divine is paid in bullion think Susan says that that is because the women in the movie audience are now their own choices It home saying would like to see movie tonight but there is no one to go That situation no longer applies Women today if they call man or woman friend or if they cant find anyone to go with theyll go by them selves So there are more and more women in the movie audience and so moviemakers are making more and more movies for them Susan is one of the last studio contract players She was pacted to Universal for 10 years her original sevenyear deal and then another one which after three years she managed to get out of It was good in way she says because it helped me to get known to get established And the training got at the studio was good My RADA training was not too much help for film work But on the other hand the Universal contract was very confining had to do lot of things they told me to do things which were not really helpful to my career For example had to go to premieres of their films to dress the occasion up remember having to go and see Countess from Hong Kong which was very bad and being instructed to keep smiling on the way out of the theatre Besides being free of the contract and having her movie career switching into high gear things are good for Susan Clark now personally She and Alex Karras the exfootball player she met on the Babe film are still together Over last Christmas they wentwith Alexs two teenage children to Susans retreat an outoftheway place on Georgian Bay which is north of Toronto We were also suppOSed to go to the Saturday Night Fever opening which had disco party after the screening she says wanted to go becausel love to dance But Alex hates it and anyhow he says that crowds make him dizzy But said we were going so he began practicing dancing and then said he had thrown his hip out But wanted to go so went with Pat Studstill another former pro football star because Pat likes to dance as much as do And told everybody went to the party with wide receiver because wide receivers dance better than linebackers ReprieVe for Rockettes Members of the audience including oné man In white top hat hand out flowers to the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall Wednesday night after the famous high steppers had performed what Hollywood potpourri they thought would be their last fhow But just after midnight an agreement was announced that will keep the New York landmark in business for at least another year AP Photo Ghosts dont scare him at all By NANCY ANDERSON Copley News Service HOLLYWOOD Hobnobbing with ghost in The Ghost on Flight 401 Alan Oppenheimer felt totally at ease because once upon time he really and truly hobnobbed with real true ghost whoops almost wrote real live ghost or else he had very strange lady in his room According to Alan he was playing summer stock in Worthington Ohio about 20 years ago and was sleeping after performance when at about am he awakened to find little old woman in his room young woman would have been one thing but this one was something else again Wearing babushka and slightly foreign mein she ap peared to be Middle European or perhaps Russian as she tottered about opening drawers and apparently searching for something What do you want the fascinated but not at all frightened Oppenheimer inquired The lady didnt answer but backed out of the room and proceeded down stairs She must have had only one foot Oppenheimer believes because only heard one on the stair heard the front door close and then every dog in the neighborhood went crazy The next morning at am she was in the neighborhood again She didnt come to my room but know she was there because once again the dogs went wild tried to find out who she might have been The buildings on the site were fairly new so asked what had been there before hoping that would give me clue as to her identity but nobody could tell me anything Things are out there says Oppenheimer But dont see any reason to be afraid of them Id like to know lot more about them On the lighter side or should one say heavier Alan wrighes Gavin MacLeod had never gone into Weight Wat rs Several years ago when the now sleek and sexy MacLeod was playing plump Big Chicken on Hawaii FiveO he and Oppenheimer had little in common appearancewise except baldness But now that Gavin is all sinew and bone autograph seekers confuse the two dont try to convince people that Im not Gavin MacLeod Oppenheimer has confessed When someone asks me for his autograph give it to them Rudy Solari is after Buddy Ebsen to play Lincoln in Solaris proposed stage production of The Champagne General play Ebsen wrote about Civil War Gen Mc Clellan And Ebsen would like to do the part whenever his Barnaby Jones schedule permits Meanwhile Buddy whos dedicated historian has been amassing notes about Mary Stuart Queen of Scots toward thg end of writing play about that tragic and controversial My Mary wouldnt be like most Marys Ebsen says Most people dont take into account how young she was when she went to prison for life Id like for my daughter Bonnie to play the part She certainly looks right for it because shes tall That Barnaby Jones continues to be hit bigger hit now than when it first went on the air somewhat surprises its star who says he never would have suggested for himself the role of private detective New Superspecial Natalie Cole stars in The Natalie Cole Superspecial an hour devoted to current popular music Monday April 24 on the CBC Television network Guest stars on the show are Maurice White above of Earth Wind and Fire Steven Bishop and Johnny Mathis Music Director is Nelson Riddle LONDON AP Singer Bette Midler known as The Divine Miss will be paid in gold bullion for lanned British concert tour is fall spokesman for her London publicity agents said Wednesday Her manager believes all currenctes are suspect these days and wants to make sure she doesnt take loss six months from now the spokesman said The agents Rogers and bwan declined to say what Miss Midlcrs fee was for the shows Closeup of strange being Strasberg Michael Ansara Stella Stevens Jon Cedar Burgess Meredith and Ann Sothern The movie is an Avco Embassy release These are the haunting eyes of The Manitou supernatural terror thriller movie about the reincarnation of 400yearold American indian medicine man The movie stars Tony Curtis Susan