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C-3 Town Talk. Alexandria-Pineville, Saturday, July 5, 1980 OOOtM i'" Blind Singer Working on Bowling CINEMA jv IV i 6 HELD OVER 3rd WK. iii ens Burt Reynolds Usley-Anne Down recalled Milsap, who's able to discuss his blindness with humor, and often jokes about it. "It startled me and her, too. "I don't feel bad about it.

It's happened to Charley Pride and Waylon Jennings also. "I don't consider it (blindness) a handicap but more of an inconvenience. But I would be better at what I do if I could see, because I could read faces and do arrangements myself; I'd definitely be a whole lot better at music." He vowed to have more fun at his concerts this year. He was disenchanted with some 1979 concerts that were in theaters-in-the-round and drew stuffy audiences. Night," has been zipping up the country music charts as quickly as his previous hits like "It Was Almost Like a Song," "Only One Love in My Life," "Legend in My Time," "Night Things" and "Pure Love." One of his occupational hazards has been falling off the stage, which has happened two or three times.

Now, before his concerts, he paces the steps between his piano and the edge of the stage. But that doesn't always work. Once in Bakersfield, he paced off the distance only to fall off the stage when arrangements were altered. "I fell right in this lady's lap," Held Over 2nd Crazy Wk. "The Blues Brothers is a NASHVILLE, Tenn.

(AP) -Blind country music kingpin Ronnie Milsap wants to improve his bowling average. Milsap has neglected bowling while his singing career has rolled along and knocked down some of country music's top awards. By perfecting his approach steps and using the same form repeatedly to throw the ball, Milsap once boasted a 161 average. But lately he has been more involved with his singing. "I haven't bowled in a while, but I used to go a lot," the likeable Milsap said in an interview in an office at RCA Records.

"When you have success, you get too busy to do some things. I enjoyed it, and I need the exercise." Milsap, 34, blind since birth, is the only singer voted male vocalist of the year three times (1974, 1976, 1977) by the Country Music Association. His current two-sided hit, "My Heart" and "Silent One of the all-time great comedies a flat-out Ctcnr Si-ktl, Chit ago Tnbunt 1 1 "Don't miss the 'Blues' a miracle of MmnJ, actum and hinh spirits you cannot "Fervid, flaky, fast and just what this summer has afford to miss. An extraordinary liene Shdht, 1 V' Today" NBC-TV Archer Winsten, New Ytirk Po.t Ronnie Millsap: Career rolling along, but bowling JOHN BELUSHI DANAYKROYD II i-frmT'wgSTHicYco M- 1 mint os luuit gi)hoii A UNIVERSAL PICTl Rf Now Showing Features i s. am f.t i i Vtiiniii'A'iMiiit 1 wvho l0 I 3 hi tup Sot.

Sun. Weekdays 7:00 9:20 6 i Li sf mutt fjNtat you can't see I. If this one doesn't won't hurt It'll kill you! 111 JPWst- I i -ft in Reruns Ranked High in Ratings NEW YORK (AP) Despite a sprinkling of first-run programs like "Tom Snyder's Celebrity Spotlight" on NBC and "Nobody's Perfect" on CBS, viewers continued to favor reruns in greater numbers in the week ending June 29, figures from the A.C. Nielsen Co. show.

In fact, repeats of four CBS series were the week's most-watched shows, with "M'A'S'H" No. 1 with a rating of 23.2. Nielsen says that means of all the homes in the country with television, 23.2 percent saw at least part of the program. Thirteen previously broadcast programs were ranked behind "MASH," and ahead of the first of the original shows, Snyder's lfth-place "Celebrity Spotlight." CBS was the big beneficiary in the weekly audience survey, listing 10 of the week's 20 most-watched shows to six for ABC and four for NBC. CBS' rating for the week was 14.1 to 13.4 for ABC and 12.5 for NBC.

The networks say that means in an average prime-time minute during the week, 14.1 percent of the nation's TV-equipped homes were tuned to CBS. It was NBC's second week in a row in third place after a shortlived climb to the runnerup position early in June. NBC now has been No.3 17 of the last 18 weeks. In addition to Snyder's show and "Nobody's Perfect," several other new shows were moderately successful. An NBC special, "Debbie Boone: The Same Old Brand New Me," finished in a tie with "Nobodv's Perfect" for 19th place, with "Phyl Mikhy" on CBS 27th and "tt'illow Women in Prison," 28th.

News specials did not do well. "Sadat's Eternal Egypt," a "CBS Reports" presentation, was No. 57 for the week, while an "NBC White Paper," "If Japan Can Why Can't We?" was 65th. Both ABC and NBC had two shows among the five least-watched. NBC's "Sanford" was No.

67, followed by "One in a Million" and "Galactica 1980," both on ABC, "Joe's World" on NBC and "The Stockard Channing Show" on CBS. Here are the week's 10 highest-rated shows: "MASH," with a rating of 23.2 representing 17.7 million homes, "House Calls," 22 or 16.8 million, "Dallas," 21.4 or 16.3 million, and "Lou Grant," 20.8 or 15.9 million, all CBS; "Taxi" and "Hart to Hart," both 20.3 or 15.5 million, both ABC; "60 Minutes," 19.9 or 15.2 million, CBS; "Quincy, M.E.," 19.7 or 15 million, NBC; "Three's Company," 19.5 or 14.9 million, ABC, and 'The Jeffersons," 19.4 or 14.8 million, CBS. The next 10 programs: "20-20," ABC; "Trapper John, M.D.," "Alice" and "Dukes of Hazzard," all CBS; "Tom Snyder's Celebrity Spotlight," NBC; "Facts of Life," NBC, and "Fantasy Island," ABC, tie; "WKRP in Cincinnati," CBS; and "Debbie Boone: The Same Old Brand New and "Nobody's Perfect," CBS, tie. Search for Runaway Documented in Show ADRIENNE BARBEAU -n i 4 ww AWAM tA tAV.v.V WVV VVV. VVVA Kt Robert Redford mMM PHANTASM i 7 OrrlKt I) r''Jf'f OPENS AT "Sk FEATURE 3 BRUBAKER 20TH IMI R.FOX PHKSFVTS A TKD MANN BON SIIVEBM AN PROOtTTIftN A STtART H()SrNBtB(, Fll ROBERT REDFORD "BRUBAKER" YAPHET KOTTC) JANE ALEXANDER MURRAY HAMILTON damdklith TIM tirc-ulhr Pfodticer Ti l) MANN Prudutt-d by BON SILVI HMAN rHrtded by STUART Rf)M-VHI W.

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ALL SEATS $2.00 plus "HUSTLER SQUAD" t) Held Over 4th Blood Chilling Wk. THE FIRST them in their search. She agreed to let us photograph them in return for our help." Gingold uses the story of Lori as the foundation for a larger view of the problem of runaways. He also took his camera into the backwaters of Los Angeles and to New York's Minnesota Strip, where he talked to pimps, hustlers, runaways and frustrated policemen. EVERY THURSDAY IS BARGAIN NIGHT AT SHOWTOWN ALL TICKETS $1.50 EPIC HORROR FILM Jack Kroll, Newsweek Magazine MHf OTP GENERAL MATH EATRES nwaiwmgitTinrii-i LOS ANGELES (AP) The heartbreaking search of two women for their daughter and sister on the gritty streets of Hollywood is told in "Whatever Happened to Lori Jean Lloyd?" A camera crew spent 10 days with Anita Smith of Dayton, Ohio, as she looked for her daughter Lori, accompanied by another daughter, Joni.

Lori disappeared from her home four years ago, when she was 14, and nothing was known of her whereabouts until Mrs. Smith spotted a girl she thought was Lori in the television documentary "Angel Death." The girl appeared only briefly in the background of a scene filmed at the Clare Foundation, a rehabilitation center in Santa Monica, Calif. "Angel Death," about the perils of "angel dust," or PCP, was produced by David Be-gelman, now president of MGM Studios, and Dave Bell Associates. The one-hour documentary on the search for Lori Jean Lloyd will be broadcast on about 80 stations across the country in July. Actress Marsha Mason is the on-camera narrator.

"Shortly after 'Angel Death' aired, we decided to do a film about runaways," said Dan Gin-gold, producer of "Whatever Happened to Lori Jean Lloyd." Gin-gold is a long-time documentary producer and director and a four-time Emmy winner. "While we were beginning our research we got a call from Mrs. Smith, who had seen 'Angel Death' and spotted what she thought was her daughter. We told her to come out with her other daughter and we would help No Bargain Matinee No Passe Children (under 12) $2.00 at all times v. I u0(" if I auit cut 1011 I fnwi Warner Bros A Wartip' CnmrnutwlitTisCofrinanv CWarrwr Bum, Int 1980 All RnjhlsHrsi-tvwil iiiJiTMlMiriiiiiilTg HiiiiKiia lil'lililii -1.