The Daily Chronicle from De Kalb, Illinois • Page 15

DAILY CHRONICLE, DeKolbSycomore, III. Wednesday, May 4, 1983 15 On Alice' elia Weston troinQd the hard wavto foe 'JoeneV These ratet effective through May 10, 1913 wav condescending. It's shoes." It didn't take long for Miss Weston, falling back on one Verlene Mahaffey a character she and her brother invented when they were children to design ajjair of her own saw to that. 1 "That was my greatest trepidation about taking the role." she said. "We had three-way conference calls for several days between my agent, Warner Brothers, and myself.

I trJopld NEW YORK (UPI) Celia Weston, who started her career as a starving actress by slinging hash I for a living, goes right on slinging it, but she's no longer starving and the i living, at last, is easy, Fans of the CBS Nielsen champion "Alice" know her now as Jolene Hun-Inicutt, the blackstrap molasses-tongued waitress who took over at Mel's Diner when Flo left to found her own short- lived series. Flo, played by Polly "Kiss My Grits" Holliday, I was a Southerner too, but that's where the similarity ends. Miss Weston, whose flawless diction can lapse at will i into the smoky drawl she I learned at her mother's knee In Spartanburg, S.C., just a huge facet of American life that would be left untouched by our show if we had forsaken it. "I'm very happy I have at my disposal the ability to do an authentic accent." There is nothing soft and coy in accent or in action, however, when Miss Weston comes to the defense of Linda Lavin, the star of "Alice." By reputation, Miss Lavin is a tough taskmaster on the set, but Miss Weston denies it. "I sometimes watch the show on the air and see Linda is laughing, as Alice, at something Jolene has done and that's a very generous thing to do," she said.

"It's like seeding clouds for rain." TYPE OF SAVINGS ACCOUNT RATE YIELD SUPER-NOW acm C7A07 CHECKING 6.50 6.70 MONEY MARKET ft07 nMf ACCOUNTS 8.10 8.40 6-MQNTHS poo07 CERTIFICATES' 8.67 8.98 QUALIFIES FOR FREE GIFT 18-MONTHS A -nm 1 CERTIFICATES' 9.50 10.11 QUALIFIES FOR FREE GIFT CERTIFICATES' 9.75 10.11 Sicates- 10.00 10.38 told them I didn't want to come on and be a Flo clone I had my own ingenuity to bring to the role. "They were very reassuring tjiat would be the case, and then, of course, when I got there, there was an understandable temptation to try to push me into Flo's shoes. That's what it felt like -wearing somebody else's shoes. "I told them about Verlene and so they decided to name me Jolene," she said. Then, lapsing into an accent that would thicken gravy, she defined Jolene.

"She taowks lak a wood tick," she said, giggling at the effect. "It's this universal red-: neck appeal," she said. "I don't mean that in any 5 1 Regulations require a substantial interest penalty for early certificate withdrawals. ACCOUNTS INSURED TO' $100,000 BY THE F.S.U.C. NEW YORK (UPI) -The Nielsens, it would seem, revel in science fiction and red faces.

They gave high marks last week to both, sending NBC's big four-hour, alien-invasion piece, into second place right behind an ABC offering titled "Life's Embarrassing Moments." Not to be outdone in the goofiness department, NBC placed one more in the Nielsen ratings magical Top 10 the most recent edition of the everpopular "TV's Censored Bloopers." The opening segment of one of television's most innovative and expensive sci-fi efforts in years pulled a rating of 25.4 and a- very respectable audience share of 40 for traditional underdog NBC, while "Embarrassing Moments" pulled 28.0 and 44 for ABC, but neither score was enough to take the May "sweeps" period to CBS. Nielsen pegged it CBS, 17.7; NBC, 14.8; ABC 13.4. The Arbitron score card gave CBS 17.0, NBC 14.9 and ABC 14.5. The Top 10 programs for the week ending May 1, according to the A.C. Nielsen were: Most Embarrassing Moments (ABC).

2. (Part I) (NBC). 3. Dallas (CBS). 4.

60 Minutes (CBS). 5. Magnum, P.I. (CBS). 6.

The Love Boat (ABC). 7. Hart to Hart (ABC). 8. Simon Simon (CBS).

9. TV's Censored Bloopers (NBC). 10. Alice (CBS). week away from CBS.

CBS relied on its traditional stable of champions to win it with an overall rating of 16.0 and a share of 27. ABC was second at 15.1 and 25 and NBC brought up the rear at 14.7 and 24. News ratings remained with the CBS "Evening News" well ahead of the pack at 11.7 and 24. NBC's "Nightly News" edged into second place with 9.5 and 20, ahead of ABC's "World News Tonight," which brought up the rear at 9.2 and 19. Both Arbitron and Nielsen rating services gave the first week of the important ratesetting iflCilQ DDGfTJG Prices Effective Thru May 7th, 1983 crtrticarj-T The Saving Place heroes," Ms.

Moore said. "He's daring, the pioneering type." Walters received national attention last July when he attached 42 weather balloons to a lawn chair and sailed into the the skies. Noisy roosters nothing i to crow about HUTCHINSON, Kan. (UPI) A man whose eight roosters ruffled the feathers of a neighbor who complained about their pre-dawn crowing has offered to insulate the, chicken house. The neighbor, John Lawson, told the city commission Tuesday the rooster pens are about 15 feet from his bedroom window and he was bothered by the early morning crowing.

He proposed an ordinance limiting the noise the -roosters can make. But rooster owner John Stephens told commissioners he would turn the pens southward to prevent the crowing from blaring in Lawson's direction and would insulate the pens. The city commission decided not to act on Law-son's proposed ordinance. He was lit, but the horse wasn't FREMONT, Calif. (UPI) John Black has found out the hard way it's not only illegal to ride a horse while drunk, it's also against the law to ride at night without a reflector on the horse.

Black, 27, was booked into Fremont jail on suspicion of drunken driving. Police said he also violated a nighttime ordinance by not having a reflector on his horse but probably won't be charged on that count. i An officer and sometimes gentleman LINCOLN, Neb. (UPI) Even governors go on blind dates when the date is an actress. Gov.

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