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i 1 i I' 3 II i and Candice Bergen as Gould's girlfriend. It was filmed in the 1960s. Can you give me the title and tell me whether it's on video? B.P.S., Charlestown, Ind. Dear B.P.S.i It sounds as if you're talking about "Getting Straight," a good 1970 comedy with Gould and Bergen, but no Fonda. Harrison Ford appears in a small role.

And it's on video. Bloody color Dear Incredible: I went to see the first "Rocky" movie when it came out, and I remember it being in black and white. We were discussing the movie at my office last week, and my coworkers said the movie had al- gIllltIllllK" at the time wasn't all that great. Office politics Dear David: A friend and both retired secretaries, remember a sketch on "The Carol Burnett Show" with Tim Conway as the boss and Burnett as his secretary. What were their characters' names on the sketches? D.B., Chillicothe, Ohio Dear D.B.: Burnett played Mrs.

Wiggins, and Conway was her boss, Mr. Tudball, who pronounced his secretary's name "Huh-wiggins." Got an entertainment question? Write to "Incredible" David Inman, The Courier-Journal, 525 W. Broadway, Louisville. Ky. 40202.

Questions of general Interest will be answered; personal replies are not possible. ways been in color. Was the first "Rocky" originally in black and white or not? H.H.C., Hattiesburg, Miss. Dear H.H.C.t As Wayne of "Wayne's World" might say, "Not." "Rocky" was released in color waaaaay back in 1976. Tip the Piper' Dear Incredible! As a child, I remember a show called "Pip the Piper." Who played the following characters: Miss Marino, Mr.

Leader and Pip the Piper? I also remember a musical-variety show on Saturdays during the 1970s on which "Mama" Cass Elliot made an appearance. Can you help? M.P., Rochester, N.Y. THE INCREDIBLE INMAN Continued from Page 1 competition: "Arthur Godfrey and His Friends" on CBS. Gould and Bergen in 'Getting Straight' Dear Incredible Inmam I recently saw a movie on cable with Elliott Gould as a college student, Peter Fonda as a war protester Dear M.P.i Actually, the character's name on "Pip the Piper" was Miss Merrynote, but I used to think that the title of the Bee Gees' song "More Than a Woman" was "Bald-headed Woman," so nobody's perfect. "Pip the Piper" ran on ABC in 1961 and on NBC in 1961-62.

Jack Spear played Pip, Phyllis Spear played Miss Merrynote, and everyone's favorite, Lucien Kaminsky, played Mr. Leader. And Cass Elliot was a regular on a summer show, "Andy Williams Presents Ray Stevens," on NBC on Saturday nights during the summer of 1970. And I hate to mention this, but the fact that you remember the show implies that your social life Add Entertainment Fox is glad to play a role in tribute to Cagney by Adding Screened a Glass or Enclosure! DENTURE CLINIC AND UP R.linc'4500 Repairs Done While You Wait Problem Dentures See Is The Best Technology Craftsmanship at the Lowest Prices General Dentistry 7407-C Fegenbuiih Ln. SxunUv.

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Fox says he's always admired James Cagney, who was, like Fox, a small man. But in films he was a tough guy, pugnacious and defiant. The energetic Cagney, a product of a poor neighborhood in turn-of-the- century New York City, gained fame playing both gangsters and G-men. "I don't take nothing from nobody" was a line that became his own. But Cagney Fox also could dance, and did, in "Footlight Parade" and in "Yankee Doodle Dandy," the George M.

Cohan biography that won him an Oscar. Sunday night at 8, after an absence from television of nearly three years, Fox returns to host "James Cagney: Top of the World" for TNT cable. The channel will also air several Cagney films this month in honor of the actor's July 17 birthday, beginning with "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (Sunday at 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.). Cagney's roles were a long way from the two that made Fox famous: conservative, middle-class Alex P.

Keaton on NBC's "Family Ties," which won him three Emmys, and teen-ager Marty McFly of the "Back to the Future" movies. Growing up in Canada, Fox discovered Cagney movies "sandwiched between used-car commercials at midnight. My feeling about doing a film like this was to make people in my generation aware of who this guy was." The special was shot on some of the same Warner Bros, lots where many of Cagney's 64 films were made and includes inter I views with leading ladies Mae Clark, the one who got a grapefruit pushed in her face, and Virginia Mayo, as well as his daughter, Casey Cagney. Fox said he had read books about Cagney before director Carl Lindahl offered him the hosting job and quizzed Lindahl on the profile's contents to make certain that viewers knew a fact that he found amusing: "One of the world's tough guys made his stage debut in drag (in a vaudeville act called 'Every That led to a job in the chorus of the 1920 revue "Pitter Patter," in which he made his Broadway debut and met his future wife, chorus girl Frances Vernon. In between were movies such as "Penny Arcade" with Joan Blondell, which brought them both screen contracts; "White Heat," the first Cagney film Fox remembers seeing; "Public Enemy," the first of Cagney's "tough-guy" films, and nine films co-starring Pat O'Brien including "Angels With Dirty Faces." In that one, Cagney played a gangster who shot Humphrey Bogart and served as the model for the Dead End Kids, and O'Brien played a priest.

Cagney had wanted to make a film version of his life story, and in 1985, when he was 85, he heard Fox remark on a show that he'd like to play the actor. "I had made this comment sometime," Fox recalled, "and then I was doing a television interview and they said, We have somebody who'd like to speak to you on the It was Cagney. He wrote me a couple of letters, and I was really honored and flattered. "I had dinner with Cagney about two months before he died," Fox recalled. "I remember he didn't approve of the fact that his wife was having a touch of vodka.

But then when he passed away On 1986), the project just kind of drifted off. I didn't actively pursue it. So when this documentary came up, I saw it as the same kind of opportunity." Mismeasured Windows in Stock as Low as Vinyl Siding $99.00 Replacement Windows Roofing Custom Formed Trim Seamless Guttering 1-800-928-SAVE 1-800-928-7283 EXTERIOR DESIGNS OF KENTUCKY Bird Vinyl Product Certification Program Choose A Bird Certified Vinyl Contractor 937-4696 727 DMa Hwy. M-F OO-S 00 Sunday, July 5, 1992 TV WEEK Page 7 A i i I i.