The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 25

PR I Gai's fast life on the race track Transactlons Real estate: The ageless actress, Carol Raye, and her agricultural scientist husband, Robert Ayre-Smith will reluctantly sell their Wattagen State Forest home, a 90-year-old colonial cottage. Raye, whose last major stage role was in the tap dancing show Stepping Out, bought the Lake Macquarie property a decade ago. It is expected to fetch about $500,000 at auction this month. Raye rejected the title "The Queenie Ashton of the saying that the suggestion had ruined her day. "No disrespect to Queenie but I'm not a grandmother, much to my disgust, and I still want to play the role of 18 year olds," the 63-year-old actress said.

that surrounds everything he does, and he has a very dynamic personality. The perception of mystery is that he's a young man, a good looking guy with a good-looking wife, the ideal American World famous singing hair-transplant update number this column is perilously close to having to be declared an Elton John Free Zone, we should report that the WFSHT show has opened in Melbourne, the hometown of the world's most wrinkled teeny-bopper, Ian Meldrum. After a tiff in Brisbane with the modern-day Mozart, Meldrum despatched flowers to to John and his minder, Patti Mostyn. The damage appears to be fixed. No doubt this is good news for Meldrum.

He needs it, since his Countdown program looks like hitting the ground harder than Buddy Holly's aeroplane. A Smppots over the facts of the amusing little affair. He had been merely a nominee. Mindful of Carlton's not exactly pea-sized ego, she added: "Maybe he had just hoped he'd won." Ouch. Blasts from the past: After 15 years on the Film Censorship Board, the former chief censor, Janet Strickland, resigned earlier this year.

One of her last battles in that role was with the Reverend Fred Nile, whom she is suing for defamation over the film Hail Mary. The day after she left the Board Strickland, who also sat on the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, opened the doors of her own consultancy which advises on the regulatory aspects of the media. Among her clients is a film company which seeks Strickland's advice if it receives unfavourable classifications from the Board. The former censor advises the company on how to obtain a more suitable rating. "Yes, it is unusual, I suppose.

After all there are many former chief censors around, aren't there?" she said. "I'm selling my expertise, not inside knowledge." Three Harrahs for Donald: David Dale, our New York correspondent, reports that Donald Trump, the New York billionaire who wants to build the Darling Harbour casino, has a reputation for getting what he wants. (He showed the New York City Council how to repair its ice-skating rink in less than six months. The council had been unable to repair it in six years.) During his research into Mr Trump's background, Dale learned that Trump was a good friend of the right-wing lawyer, Roy Cohn, who was famed as a leader of the anti-communist witch-hunts of the 1950s. Cohn was disbarred for unethical behaviour in August and died soon afterwards of AIDS.

A reference from Roy Cohn is something most Americans could do without, but this is what Mr Cohn had to say about Mr Trump: "There seems to be an aura of excitement And the losers are. The highly-rated radio raver, Mike Carlton, has given last night's Variety Club Heart Awards a verbal fist in the face for its prize for excellence in radio. The portly one announced that he had received a call from Variety telling him that he had won the award. Carlton said he couldn't attend the awards because of a previous engagement. However, Variety said he couldn't have the award unless he fronted in person on the night to collect it.

Carlton revealed yesterday that the trophy had been given to the recently retired 2-MMM King of Comedy, Doug Mulray, instead. Well, Today's People rang an unidentified person from Variety who curtly explained that Sydney's most listened-to voice was confused ill fcasbandS public agony, II 1 Gai Waterheuse has stood beside Robbie like one of her famous father's thoroughbred Once the scandal behind the Fine Cotton affair igslied the child of the legendary herse trainer, Smith, was vocal in her defence of her Shore-educated hushaad. "Robbie is oafy 30 years old and absolutely the lead tag, the, most brilliant bookmaker In Australia and to think bis livelihood is being whisked away feen here are people like the trainer iHay-den Haitaaa walking arooad a free mas, and the horse is sold for it just seems there's a farce going on," she said. Indeed the barring of the Water houses from the track at the time of the Floe Cotton scandal was like "eiittkg off your arras and legs, and telling you to she said. Although her hasbaBd's trials, which culminated earlier this week la a sensational Foar Corners report on the Waterhouse dyeasry, sre at the forefront of her concerns, it is cot the oaty blow she has suffered since her husband was wanted off race courses across the world.

The Australian Jockey deb has imposed a total baa en Gai Waterhouse racehorses owned by Mrs Water-botise as a resalt of the eealties that were applied to her hosbsad. Unlike her htrsbasd, ttioagh, Mrs Waterhoese is still permitted to attend race meetings, fa fact, while he listened to the MelboarBe Cop ia a hotel car park, she mixed with the elite at the Fiemtsgtoa track as she has always dose, A figure of high society, the glamorous Mrs Waterheuse, who still works as a forewoman at her adorisg father's renoweed stables, Tofloch Lodge, has admitted that she has lost Heads and some social standing since her husband lost favour with racing authorities. Earlier In an eventful life, Mrs' Waterbouse, after her graduation from university, became an actress and appeared in a Canadian stage production with Trevor Howard sed the television: series, Dr Who. The acting career was soon abandoned the scent of the turf fcr Cai Waterheuse has always proved too irresistible. Thomas Keneally Roy Cohn Literature: Not long returned from a Pacific cruise, the ever-jovial, goateed writer, Thomas Keneally, is in the process of finishing his latest book.

Set in the first days of old Sydney, it has science-fiction overtones. Once that one's off to the printer, Keneally will begin to work in earnest on his next novel, on world hunger. He plans to travel to Eritrea next year in order to research the book. "I think I'm moving off my historical phase and into my contemporary phase," he reflected yesterday. Edited by ANTHONY DENNIS pill Wl Janet Strickland Carole Raye i A mm imriiniri nnr ATN 7 ABN 2 NBN 3 SBS 6.00: Cartoon Carnival.

6.50: News. 7.00: Good Morning Australia. 9.00: CES. 9.05: Romper Room. 930: Daniel Boone.

10.25: Private Benjamin. 1035: Wheel Of Fortune. 11.20: Coronation Street (PGR). 12.00: Medical Story (PGR). LOO: The Paul Lynde Show.

1.30: Daytime Serials (S, PGR). 4.00: Young Viewers. 5.00: Happy Days (Rpt). 5.25: Perfect Match. 6.00: News.

7.00: Sale Of The Century (S). 730: Automan Computer drama series with Chuck Wagner. 8.35: Mike Hammer (PGR). 935: Go Lotto! 9.40: Masquerade (PGR). Spy action.

1030: Romance (PGR). Love stories. 11.45: In Search Of. 12.15: Close. 6,00: The Tomorrow People (Rpt).

6.20: Leave It To Beaver (Rpt, bw). 7.00: Cartoon Connection (Rpts). 9.00: Romper Room For tots. 10.00: Falcon Crest (PGR, Rpt). 11.00: Eleven AM Topical show.

12.00: Movie Like Normal People (PGR, 79, Rpt). Two intellectually handicapped young people battle discrimination and fear. Shaun Cassidy. 2.00: Streets Of San Francisco (AO, Rpt). 3.00: Fame (PGR, Rpt).

4.00: Wombat. 430: Huckleberry Finn And Friends (Rpt). Adventure. 5.00: Play Your Cards Right Game. 530: Punky Brewster (Rpt).

6.00: News. 6.45: Sport Today. 7.00: Terry Willesee Tonight. 7 JO: Detective In The House (PGR). New comedy-drama about a family man turned sleuth.

Judd Hirsch. 8.30: Our Family Honour (AO). Film-length debut episode of this new series about two New York families. 10 JO: America's Cup Report. 10.40: Newsworld.

11.30: Bless Me, Father (Rpt). 12.00: News Overnight. 730: Carleton-Walsh Report (Rpt). 8.00: Animals In Action Wildlife. 830: Sesame Street.

930: Play School (S). 10.00: Daytime Programs. (1235: News). 3.00: Sesame Street. 3.55: Magic Roundabout.

4.00: Play School (S). 4.23: Animated. 430: The Bear, The Tiger And Others. 435: Croc-Note Show For tots. 5.00: Inspector Gadget (Rpt).

5.25: Roger Ramjet. 530: Vendue Adventure. 535 Come And Get It. 6.00: Dancing Daze (Rpt). 6.30: Bananaman.

6.35: Dr Who Terror Of The Zygons (Rpt, Pt 3). 7.00: News. 730: 730 Report. 8.00: The Investigators 19S6 final of this consumer protection program. 8.30: Hancock The Reunion Party (Rpt, bw).

Hancock plans a reunion. 9.05: Countrywide Patenting plants. 935 The Carleton-Walsh Report. 10.05: Australian Concert Hall Mich-ele Campanella performs Mozart. 1035: The Book Program Reviews.

1L25: Q7 (PGR, Rpt). Comedy series with Spike Milligan. 1135: Close. 4.25: Swami Sarasvati (Rpt). Yoga series.

4.30: Kaleidoscope International cartoons. 5.00: Poppies By The Railway Track (Rpt). Family drama (Yugoslavia). 5.30: Tales Of The Blue Telephone Series about teenagers. (Czech).

6.00: RosadeLejos Cult drama. (Argentina). 630: The Noise Rock. 7.00: World News. 7.30: Brazil, Brazil Documentary series (UK).

830: Sport Report Australia Sports news. 9.00: Nine O'Clock -Current affairs show. 930: Fiery Skies Bakas turns informer. (Greece). 10.20: The Germans In World War Two New documentary series about Germany during the war.

(Germany). 1130: Close. ON THE AIR 7 J0 pm, 10, Jacques Cousteau's Sharks: The old man of the sea goes down to the ocean again with the crew of the Calypso to examine the behaviour of the men in grey suits. (No sign, thankfully, of David Reyne and his boutique colleagues from the McElroys' lurid telefilm, Shark's Paradise.) 2.15 am (Thurs), 9, Prime Cut is billed as an "AO Mod TV Version." Alas, it's not Mod enough. Gene Hackman and Lee Marvin star in this epic piece of gore about a Kansas meat racketeer who favours turning his enemies into snags rather than resorting to the usual concrete overcoat.

Not even Sissy Spacek, an actress of considerable renown, emerges from the bloodbath with her reputation intact The scene in which she and a group of drugged and naked women are coralled like so many heifers in Mr Hackman's barn, is bound to be among the expunged portions. But it's not nearly enough. Gross and utterly awful, it should be consigned to a meat rack in Rocky's training fridge. Noon, 10, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum is another of those films which infuriated the people who used to put up plastic letters outside cinemas. It has been described as being "like coitus interruptus going on forever" which to my mind is probably a bit too fanciful a description but you never know It is, however, a robust farce which races along at a crackerjack pace with plenty of bawdy routines and slapstick sequences.

Based rather loosely on a story by Plautus, it is Richard Lester at his best, blending New York Jewish humour with absurdity at the speed it deserves. Nicholas Roeg photographed the action which stars Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Michael Crawford and Michael Hordern. Eminently watchable it seems far shorter than the 99 minutes it actually is. Doug Anderson TEN 10 TCN 9 CTC 7 WIN 4 6.00: Morning News Report. 7.00: Good Morning Australia.

9.00: Good Morning Sydney (PGR). 10.00: Fat Cat. 10.30: Another World -(PGR). Drama serial. 1L30: News.

12.00: Movie A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (PGR, 66, Rpt). Comedy about a conniving Roman slave. Zero Mostel. 2.00: Marcus Welby (AO, Rpt). 3.00: Finder Of Lost Loves (PGR, Rpt).

4.00: Catch Cameron (Rpt). 4 JO: Simon Townsend's Wonder World. 6.00: News And Weather. 630: Today. (6.40: Business Today).

9.00: Here's Humphrey (Rpt). 10.00: The Young Doctors (Rpt). 10.30: General Hospital (PGR). 1130: Morning News And Weather. 12.00: Movie Punch And Jody (74, Rpt).

Drama. 130: Serials (PGRs). 330: TheSulIh-ans (Rpt). 4.00: Cmon Kids. 5.00: MASK.

530 Professor Poopsnagle's Steam Zeppelin (S). Children's show. 6.00: News. 630: Willesee. 7.00: Sale Of The Century (S).

730: TV Bloopers And Practical Jokes. 830: Movie The Old Gun (AO mod, 76). Award-winning drama about a doctor whose family is murdered by Nazis. Philippe Noiret. (Lotto: 9.27).

1030: News, America's Cup Update. 10.40: Best Of Jackie Gleason (Rpt, bw). 11.40: People Are Funny. 12.10: Movies (Rpts). Picadilly Incident (PGR, 46, bw).

Drama. 2.15 Prime Cut (AO mod, 72). Drama. 335 Death Is A Woman (PGR, 66). Drama.

5.10; Bonanza (PGR, Rpt). 630: Today. 9.00: For Young Viewers. 10.00: Barney Miller (PGR). Comedy series.

1030: Coronation Street (PGR). 11.00: Eleven AM. 12.00: Edward And Mrs Simpson (PGR, Rpt). 1.00: Daytime Serials -(PGRs). 330: For Kids.

5.00: Benson Comedy. 530: Perfect Match. 6.00: News And Weather. 630: Willesee. 7.00: Sale Of The Century (S).

With Tony Barber. 7.30: Beyond 2000 -Tonight: 'The Nautile'. 835: Mini-Series Robert Kennedy And His Times (PGR, Final). Drama based on his life and political career. With Brad Davis.

10.30: Special Squad -(AO). 1L30: Movie Cad-dyshack (AO, 80, Rpt). Comedy. L20: Close. 6.00: News.

630: Today. 9.00: Fat Cat. 9.30: Cartoons (Rpt). 9.35: Jaz-zercise (Rpt). Fitness.

10.05: Daytime Serials (PGR). 1130: News. 12.00: Movie Younger Generation (29). Comedy. 130: Daytime Serials (PGRs).

330: For Kids. 5.00: Perfect Match. 5.30: Sale Of The Century News. 7.00: Willesee. 7.30: Believe It Or Not (PGR).

830: The Love Boat. 9.27: Go Lotto! 9.30: The Equaliser (AO). 10.30: Movies (PGRs). Tank Force (58). A group of escaped POWs hinder the enemy's home front operations.

(12.00: News Repeat). 1230: Gunfight At The OK Corral (57, Rpt). Classic western. 2.40: Close. v- 5.00: 530: 6.00: 7.00: 7.30: (Rpt).

Man Gilligan's Island (Rpt, bw). Best Of Perfect Match (Rpt). News, Sport And Weather. Neighbours (S). Drama.

Jacques Cousteau's Sharks 8 JO: Mini-Series A Married (AO, Final). Drama about a barrister's tragic love affair. 11.00: News, America's Cup Report. 11.10: Movie Cast A Giant Shadow (PGR, 66, Rpt). Drama about Israel's early days.

With Kirk Douglas. 135: All My Children (PGR). 235: Religious (Rpt). 3.00: Close. 0 WD CI.