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Asbury Pk Praia. Stilt? Oct. 1078 H15 Cannon Dyan Overcomes Her Wipe Out operated how she selected the girls, her interviews, meetings with doctors, but we don't show people in bed," Miss Cannon revealed. She spent 21 days in the Bay area, working on the film and became intimately acquainted with her subject. "Sally was a mayor, a very classy lady, not just madam.

Nor was she ever a prostitute. The only time Sally had trouble was when she gave it away (referring to unhappy marriages), emotionally, she had no trouble when she was running the brothel and was selling the favors of other girls." this fall in an NBC movie, "Lady of the House," in which she portrays the San Francisco Bay area's legendary madam, Sally Stanford, who is still an active politician (vice mayor of Sausalito) at the Miss Stanford showed up on the set one day. "I expected to meet a brassy, coarse woman," Miss Cannon recalled. "Instead I fell in love with her. She was out-front on everything." Although a segment of the film deals with Miss Stanford's days operating the brothel, it is not a sex-filled depiction.

"We show the business side as she Children's Show Sees Ahead By DAN LEWIS HOLLYWOOD Dyan Cannon has overcome her "wipe-out" period, which explains the cluster of activity in her career during the past seven months after four years of professional inactivity. It was brought on by an era of passivity, she explains, when she allowed herself and her talents to be used in a limited way that served studio purposes. "I had accepted the limitations that Hollywood put on me the attractive sexy girl. When Hollywood sees an attractive girl, it puts her in limited roles. "I allowed that," she continued.

"I made a lot of money, and had a house." She made a lot of pictures, all starring roles, even got nominated for an Oscar (Best Supporting Actress for "Bob Carol Ted and She was in "The Love Machine," "Such Good Friends," "Samus" and "Sheila" and there was little, if any difference in the roles she portrayed, the pretty, but hard blonde. So, one day, she stopped acting. "I came to a point where the vision of what I had and what appeared on the screen was totaling me, It was a wipe-out period," she confided. "It was very personal. I wasn't being fulfilled." Coinciding with the career disenchantment was the aftermath of a stormy marriage to Cary Grant and the stormy legal proceedings over custody, visitation and support of their daughter, Jennifer.

Miss cannon is very sensitive about questions regarding that stormy relation ship. When asked if Grant offered support during her inactive period, when she revealed she did have financial problems, she replied crisply: "I wouldn't think of answering that." But there were lean times, she acknowledged. She wasn't working, funds ran low, but friends "helped me out." "I knew that I had to understand what I wanted," she recalled. "Press agents couldn't do it for me. I had to do it myself." She began writing.

She thought about directing and where she wanted her acting career to go. She wanted to be ered more than just a sexy lady. "Being sexy is wonderful," she claimed, "because it meant people were aware of you. But there is more than a look that's important. It's not just having a skinny young look that makes the career." She feels the attitudes toward her have changed.

She is regarded in other ways, too. "Now, what's fantastic is that people may still think I'm sexy, but they also think I'm many other things, too." She received a $1,000 grant from the American Film Institute several years ago, and quietly wrote and directed a short which won an Oscar nomination in 1976 as best film short, "Dyan Cannon's Number One." Last December, she decided to return to movies. She hasn't stopped working. She co-starred with Peter Sellers in "The Revenge of the Pink Panther," was praised for her performance in Warren Beat-ty's "Heaven Can Wait," and will be seen Producer Robert Weimer explains that "We want to broaden 'Big Blue Marble's' appeal, expand the audience upward. The stories for older people will appeal on several levels.

In the past the shows became more event-oriented. This year, stories are about older children who are becoming people. It's still informative and interesting to the youngest audience." A 15-year-old surfer from Oahu, a traditional joust in Sardinia, soccer tips by Pele, John Curry's Ice Ballet, a world By JOAN GEOGHEGAN Lacrosse on horseback as played by Nomadic tribes North of Afghanistan, a Soviet child movie star, the Soviet-Armenian opera and a Siberian school for circus performers are all potential shorts for this season's "Big Blue Marble." The syndicated children's show, which is sponsored by International Telephone and Telegraph, is distributed free to stations across the U.S. provided there are no commercial interruptions and no gratuitous violence. "Big Blue Marble" reaches out to children in 68 countries and territories in five languages.

In the U.S., half of those stations are Public Broadcasting stations. The opening animation is straight out of "Star the new theme song, "Closer," Is very contemporary; the entire show is scored with original music. The familiar magazine format will run the same type features as last year, however, more depth will be added to the story lines. An Austrian sld story shows how a kid handles losing. There's a rodeo piece in which a nine-year-old steer rider is injured.

frisbee champ and aerobatics are all slated for this season. I Weimer says there are "quite a few sports segments." He wanted more vari- 1 ety "after four years of sticking with young Idds, they could be involved with sports." But so many good sporting stories came up that Weimer added new story lines and went with them. "Big Blue Marble" isn't a totally rosy look at the planet, either. They'll be segments on diminishing resources, reform school, an orphanage in Spain, migrant workers in the U.S. and drug rehabilitation tor teen-agers.

IlffiV Soap peras To catch up with last week's action in your favorite television soap opera turn to the Soap Opera column Monday In the Panorama section of The Press. HARDWARE TOOLS LEADER GUTTER 0 5 3 a a OLD MAN WINTER IS COMING! COMPLETE WEATHER-STRIPPING DEPT. 0 Jl 0 Vinyl Inserts Pipe Wrap Caulk Cord Garage Door Seals Thresholds Door Sweeps Foam Tape Weather-Stops OFF rTuTiNsiDEir SEE OUR SOLAR c-rnnM HEAT UNIT IN OPERATION! wealthy Bill Matthews (Joe Gallison, presently Neil on Days of Our Lives, had the role). After several crises including missy's finding her real mother and played by movie star Ann Sheridan Missy and Bill wed and moved to California. Several years later Bill drowned and Missy was brought back to start her own serial, the spinoff from Another World, Somerset.

Unfortunately Carol Roux, by this time divorced from dancer Avrum Harum, decided she didn't like working on the serial and quit. According to a fellow Somerset castmate Carol was a good actress but unable to cope with the schedule. "Everyday Carol would come up with some real or imaginary illness and create problems." Last we heard Carol was back in Hollywood, but not active in show businness. How was the character of Brad written out of Young and Restless? Mrs. R.L.m Bayville, N.J.

He wasn't. Last we saw Brad, he was in love with Leslie and wanted to remarry her, and possibly would have had not Brock also been vying for, Leslie's affections. When Tom Hallick, who played Brad, decided to leave the show, producers suspended the storyline. It does seem strange that when Les became pregnant by brother-in-law Lance, she turned not to the missing Brad or the once-attentive Brock, but to then almost-unknown Lucas whom she later married. On Guiding Light, can yoa tell me who Ed was married to when he became the father of Freddie? Mrs.

R.M Harvard Heights, III. Freddie -was conceived while Ed was married to his first wife Leslie. Leslie, the daughter of Dr. Steve Jackson, later divorced Ed and married his brother Mike. A few years ago Leslie was killed whe she was purposely struck down by a car driven by Anne Jeffer's estranged husband Spence.

Have a question about your favorite soap or soap star? Write to Lynda Hirsch, co Field Newspaper Syndicate, 401 N. Wabash Chicago, 111. 60611. Lynda will answer as many questions as she can in. her column, but the volume of.

mail makes personal replies impossible. By LYNDA HIRSCH Can yoa please explain who Barbara Ryaa on As the World Turns is? Today the show mentioned she was the daughter of Jennifer, but who was her father? Also, who is the mother of Bob's little girl Franny? V.D., Westmont, III. Barbara's father was a Dr. Chuck Ryan, Jennifer's first husband. When Chuck Ryan learned he had a terminal illness, he asked longtime friend Bob Hughes to look after his wife Jennifer and two teen-age children Barbara and Rick.

Following Chuck's death, Bob and Jennifer fell in love and were wed. Jennifer who later succumbed to a terminal illness, herself, was also Franny's mother. I read in the paper that Lisa Wilk-enson who plays Nancy on All My Children gave birth to a baby girl. On the show her character had a baby boy. If Nancy plans to use her own child, bow are they going to pull of the sex difference? Charlotte, N.C.

Lisa and real life husband John Danelle (her ex-husband Frank Frant on All My CHildren) have no intention of using baby daughter Amanda on the show. But the sex makes no difference. Often on soaps baby girls have played baby boys and vice versa, On General Hospital Rachel Ames (married to Barry Cahill) decided to use her daughter to play her son Tommy Baldwin for over a year. Most viewers were unaware that little Tommy Baldwin was really Christina Cahill. On Days of Our Lives, who has Bob Anderson been married to? CO, Cincinnati.

Bob's wives include Phyllis, the mother of his daughter Mary. When Bob divorced Phyllis, he married Julie. After suffering a miscarriage, Julie realized she still loved Doug and sought a divorce from Bob. At present Bob is married to Londa Peterson Phillips. Can yoa tell me what happened to the girl who played Missy on Another World? B.B Cleveland.

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