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Frid.yMARCH 7. 19M THE TENMSSEAW 3D. 9 to 5' trio team up for spy movie 155 NASHVILLE MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM" FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 7:30 PM -V TICKETS: Boys Girls, 12 under, $2.00 off- duction or if they're to be fatalities in the licensing fee war currently waging between the studios and the networks. At Universal where brass is refusing to fulfill series orders unless networks come up with hefty Increases in licensing payments the Alan King show and a series slated to star the Four Bottoms brothers are in limbo. Both are supposed to start production in April (the Bottomses' in Hawaii) but, as one executive puts it, "We're waiting on pins and needles.

There's still a heartbeat, but it's faint" The situation is the same at 20th Century Fox and at Warner's, I'm told, where licensing fees are still being negotiated for the new season. "We're proceeding with plans for our shows," says one producer, "because we must But we really know nothing at the moment, and one way or the other are waiting for the other shoe to drop." im Tribune Media Services, Inc. THE LEGAL LOG: Ginger Rogers has slapped an $8 million lawsuit against Alberto Grinaldi and MGM UA Entertainment the producer and the domestic distributor of Frederico Fellinl's Ginger and Fred. The suit, filed in Manhattan's federal court on Monday, charges that the film is an attempt to commercially exploit the 74-year-old actress's public personality, for which she is entitled to be paid and over which she should have control. Of the $8 million, $5 million is for punitive damages, "meant to deter the defendants and others from engaging to further similar conduct," says attorney Barry Saretsky, of the New York law firm of Bower and Gardner.

The $3 million? "It's designed to compensate for her financial loss," reports Saretsky. How does Ginger and the law firm figure the use of her name in the film (in which Marcello Mas- out of retirement to appear on a TV show) represents a loss of $3 million? "Because of the litigation, it's inappropriate to answer that question: I'm sure the defendants will ask it, too," says Saretsky. And what about reports that Rogers was offered first class air fare and a couturier gown to attend the film's opening in Paris but wanted a $15,000 payment, too? "No comment" on that matter, says the counselor. Fred Astaire's representatives report they're taking up the matter of Ginger and Fred with him. The film is scheduled to start its LIS.

run in New -York on March 21. Rogers' attorneys are seeking a permanent injunction against its release. TV TRAUMAS: The producers, writers and stars of many of the TV shows scheduled for fall debut are -waiting nervously to learn whether those programs will ever go into pro MARILYN BECK HOLLYW00I-Dolly Parton, Uly lomlln and Jane Fonda are finally going to reteam this summer In a big-screen project which has been their aim since they made 9 to 5 in 1980. The planned Universal production isnt Brass Angclsa story Dolly dreamed up and that she's been working on for several years. That was to have had her, Lily and Jane playing housewives who set off on a European holiday and find themselves working as VS.

spies. Angels, says Dolly, has been put on hold in favor of a project penned by Colin Higgins (who wrote and directed the film version of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, in which Dolly starred). It will be set In Washington, D.C and have the trio playing spies. Dolly's looking terrific these days. She's lost close to 20 pounds "by star-tin' to exercise and by stoppin' eatin like a hog I turned 40 (Jan.

19) and decided I better start takin' care of myself if I'm goin' to keep working so hard." PLENTY OF GOOD A VJjr SEATS AVAILABLE AT! MUNICIPAL auditorium: BOX I GLOBETROTTERS troianni and Giulietta Masina play an Italian dance team of the '40s brought 1 All Seats $2.25 Financial problems hit radio stations OJ t'i 1:44. 1:04. 'A OUtl ipan 7:00,1:00,1 1:00 1:00,1:00.1:04, 1:11.1:11.1:11. Just when you think you've found the right guy, someone even worse comes along. Sally Field James Garner Murphy's Romance HANNAH AND ol 1-to HER BISTERS Mini 7) 1:10..:, ..0:10.

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1:00. 100. 1:00 1:40.1:11.1:19, IK'A OO 0 00 IV.IiIV DOUIN AND 1:01. 1:10 3 WM B.T-"".?. DIANE BARTLEY Staff Writer Radio stations in Portland and White Bluff, Term.

owned by the same company which owns Murf rees-boro's WHTN-Channel 39 are reporting financial problems similar to those already experienced by Channel 39. Station managers at Portland's WHRP-AM and White Bluffs WHRD-AM have left the stations, and Portland's Ken Scott reported that his staff walked out because they "haven't been paid in five weeks." Scott and Pat Julian, morning deejay at WHRP, both said that the station's paychecks first bounced Feb. 7. They said the employees were finally paid nearly two weeks later from the petty cash account at Channel 39. When the next payday came, Feb.

"21, and no paychecks were distributed, Julian, Scott and another employee walked out The third employee has since returned to the station but has not been paid, Scott said. Scott said he understood a similar situation occurred at the White Bluff station, but that station's former general manager, Robert Bittle, said yesterday that he preferred not to discuss situation at this time. Bittle said he and "a few other people" had left the White Bluff station. "Let's say there are some changes going on inside White Bluff Communications, that I didn't feel comfortable with, and I left," Bittle said. WHRP-AM, WHRD-AM and WHTN-Channel 39 are all owned by Brent-wood-based Bob Hudson Associates.

Hudson has admitted severe cash flow problems at Channel 39 in the past and said he is now experiencing similar problems at his radio properties. "I bought three distressed properties at the same time," he said. "All three of them were in terrible, terrible shape." But of the three, he said, the "television station was the farthest gone" and therefore demanded his immediate attention. Channel 39 has now been given "a cash transfusion," he said, "so it can at least tread water until it can pay off its creditors and become whole again." Now, he said, he knows he needs to turn his attention to the radio stations. "Yes, both of them are going through very, very serious financial difficulties," he said.

"I might just have to sell those two stations." Most employees have "been very understanding," he said, but added that he Is "a good two to three weeks from getting them the money they need." RUTGER HAUEH POWtftS BOO IHt KAI hlfctN TUHNtH Siskel A EWt. "At tht- Mm-ies" l-forurd Mattin. "Ftfrtainmnt TonijihtT funny: Rirhard orliw. T'me David Anon. Nfwwtk 99 Sheila Bmani.

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"Toiay TV V. J- 1. Art exhibit at Samtt iaTn5TH.IKS!CII,K21 making at Western Kentrucky University and at Syracuse University. His work has been shown throughout the United States and is included in numerous public collections. I lz i 1 1 1 is An exhibit of mixed media and intaglio prints by Alabama artist Christ Kakas will be on display in Vanderbilt's Sarratt Gallery through March 22.

Kakas, assistant professor of printmaking and drawing at the University of Alabama since 1978, is recipient of a solo exhibition from the "Call for Works" competition sponsored by Sarratt and juried by John Baeder, Paddy Bowman, Bob Coo-gan, Carol Mode and Carol Stein. The gallery is open without charge 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, and 2 to 1 0 p.m. on weekends.

Kakas had formerly taught print- Births Announced Woody and Melinda Easterling have named their daughter, born Feb. 21, Ellen Marie. HANMHAND HER SISTERS fofyiw--' tym." Katly and Kim Skinner have named their son, born Feb. 19 at Baptist Hospital, David Armstrong. vTt' II i WOODY ALLEN MIGIUXCMNK MIVKJUn CVRRIKFISIIBtl BRaR lll-JLSIIK' LLOil)V)L MU IIUKNOM UJ mvU)sm)ov divwkwiust i 1 Kr 1 i MCKIOilC-OMCHM.

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