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If 0 Jm Jl y.ypvM 5D Minneapolis Tribune July 30,1972 Will Jones after last night LU off on long benders, she and her broom." Ms. Weston also has written the book and lyrics for a musical that she's now trying to get. produced. Chaplin to star Sidney Chaplin will star with Susan Strasberg in "So Evil, My Sister" which Reginald LeBorg is directing. "The FBI," "Bonanza." "Run for Your Life, lh Young Lawyers," "Night Gallery." "Mannix," "Bewitched" and others.

She was particularly turned on by the witch part in "Bewitched," she said, because when she was about 12 she invented a character, Persimmon Witch, that she's'been developing ever since. I rr California I i plate reads P. WITCH. Persimmon will be the subject 'if a book, or perhaps several. "Persimmon is kind of an Everyman witch, not your -d a cauldron witch," Ms.

Weston said. "She's had a nose job, she dyes her hair, and she loves martinis. She goes spearea at Stratford, while still in school. In that period she also played Emily in a production of "Our Town" in which author Thornton Wilder himself played the stage manager. On Broadway, she was in "Toys in the Attic," "A Far Country" and "Mary, Mary." While in New York she also spent some years in soap opera, notably "The Guiding Light" and "Another World." A move to the West Coast found her in a running part on "Get Smart," cast as a spy-scientist whose cover was that she was a stripper.

She's also been seen on the first few days on the set despite his uncle's frequent, reassurance! that everything was okay. "He's a very open person, which helps," Ms. Weston said. "And everybody's very nice, which helps. 'Dangerous Relations" is Ms.

Weston's first feature film, too, But she arrived here with a load of experience in summer theater, on Broadway, and more recently on TV. She grew up in the Bronx, where her father was a school superintendent and her mother a teacher, and attended Performing Arts High School and Hofstra University. Her first acting experience was Shake- OPEN SUNDAYS 6 P.M. SHOWS 7:30 9:30 11:00 "HAWAII TODAY" Direct From Honolulu A COLORFUL PRODUCTION YOU MUST SEE TO BELIEVE U's the "TALK Of THE TOWN!" fruJffBSesr STRIP SIRLOIN STEAKS 2 5" Includt CKk itm frm Mort Ouvvrn Tabtii flHt and BgtUr, So'ed with thi drtiurif, ftot branch ni, Bvraga SEVEN DAYS A WEEK DANCING NITEIY To Muic of DAVID CARROLL and his 50 revue plus latest hits! ELVIS REVUE TUES. THURS.

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They've started a second album for Mo-West, and were at work on material for that in Ms. Weston's away-from-lhe-camera hours. In Boll's picture, Ms. Weston plays a rich society type with liberal sleeping-around habits. The hero, Sammy Bolt, played by producer-director 1 1 's nephew, Sam Bell, falls in love with her.

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Spitz, a commercial photographer with a career that ranges back through five years as a University of Minnesota staff photographer to turns as a society-page a for the North China Daily News in Shanghai and as freelancer for a girlie magazine in his native Vienna, has turned to movies with a company called Intercontinental Visuals. Spitz said he's just finished a girlie-type short subject, "Aladdin's Tea Kettle," in two versions one with more skin than the other to be run as a featurette with -r a skin movies. But it was only an exercise, he said, to get warmed up for feature-film production. He has two feature projects in the works. The one he expects to do first is "The Script Writer," a rewrite of Arthur Schnit-zler's "La Ronde" that was filmed in the late '40s with Danielle Darrieux and Anton Wa I broo k.

Spitz said he's lining up about $80,000 worth of Twin Cities backers to do the updated remake in a Minnesota setting next month. Meanwhile, he's also nego-tiating with Stephen Johns, a script writer for the British Broadcasting who has done a screenplay from his own sexy novel, "I Like It That Way." That's a much more expensive project, for which Spitz said he has ready local backers, and if all the pieces fall together he'll film it in London this fall. Yet another group of Minneapolis movie makers, who have a background in the theater business, are making rumbles about a film project that would involve more money, and more name stars, than anything yet announced. But they're not ready to talk about it yet. Meanwhile, the set of .1.

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