The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 47

INSIDE 51 Ann Landers 55 Comics 56 Television (The (Times Friday, Aug. 7, 1987 ffl 424-9747 I TELL JlB TIMES ti 1 1 i Makeup may lead to breakup This is to the girl in the little red truck on 1-20 today. For everyone's safety, we would ap preciate it if you would put your makeup on before you leave your house or after you get to your job. You endangered the lives of several people as you applied your eye makup, liquid base, lipstick, etc. You had your rear view mirror turned to the side so you couldn't see the cars swerving around 4 Karen Carlson back in town sst 2.

$tfe 5. A ki you, not to mention your erratic driving. So do us a favor. Keep your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel. Your makeup isn't going to help you if you splatter yourself and innocent drivers all over the highway.

Road goes both ways I see in the paper where someone thinks the local television stations don't like to carry programs live. They talk about people in Shreveport being ignorant rednecks and fools. I assume this person is not from here. If you don't like it here, the same road that brought you here will take you away, and I assume that you're working while you are here so keep your mouth shut and live peacefully. This is to all the ignorant, stupid Yankees and other such folks from the United States besides Louisiana.

If you don't like it down here, why won't you leave? I know one reason. I know sev-- eral reasons why you like it here. The weather is good. It's better than living in New York or Minnesota or any of those Northern countries. They can't stand the cold.

You talk to hundreds of them there. They like the weather down here. Some cf them like to go to California. Go on back to California and get shot on the freeway. So why stay here and try to insult the natives? Why don't you just leave? We do not need this type of people.

Political hijinks rampant This is in reference to the Buddy Roemer and Ed-wards sign. The person who's comolainine about 4 sf Times photosBILLY UPSHAW Actress Karen Carlson on the steps of Byrd High School, her old alma mater. She and her family have temporarily moved in with her mother. year and a half. An agent is your lifeline in this business.

Getting an agent is like getting married: You literally wonder as you're walking down the aisle if this is right. "My new agency feels, even though I constantly work, there's a potential still to tap. I'm very established with my peers, but I am still not a household name. I am thinking about doing another series. I was hoping it would be Dallas.

I did 10 episodes for them. I was considered a regular but was signed as a recurring character. I haven't been officially notified, but I don't think I'll be returning to the show." On Dallas she played a dowdy woman named Nancy Scottfield, who was not bright and about $2 away from welfare. Her role was instrumental in bringing down J.R. Ewing.

"I played her with a twang. Sometimes I think they didn't know what to do with me. I was still heavy from having the baby. I have now lost 33 pounds. The women on that show are gorgeous.

I was not." While on her recent L.A. trip, Carlson did film a five-day Divorce Court segment, the first time that half-hour series has done a weeklong case. It will air in September. "It was fun," says the actress. "One of the guys of the show was from WKRP in Cincinnati.

I must say, I actually had a good time, and the work paid for the moving and the flight there." Carlson also is featured in a videocassette called Shattered with actor Earl Holliman. The film concerns kids on drugs. She says it is now being sent to drug centers and schools. She has been asked to do speaking engagements about the subject in some California schools. She is thinking about doing talks in this area too.

Carlson will be returning to Los Angeles this month. Her new agent has set her up for five or six meetings, one concerning a possible series pilot. She's very interested in a miniseries project she took to CBS. The network has expressed interest. The project is pegged on a Borden Deal book, Bluegrass, she read about seven years ago.

"I just flipped when I read it," she says. "I tracked down Deal in Florida, and we became good friends. At the time, I hoped to star in it." But, she says, her TV image is not strong enough. She mentions interest from Cheryl Ladd in starring. If the project is a go, Carlson will co-produce with Harry Thomason, producer of CBS' Designing Women.

"It would be nice to call the shots for a change," she adds. By LANE CROCKETT The Times Karen Carlson is thinking seriously about coming home to stay. The actress, who appeared on Dallas last season, earlier starred in the television series American Dream and on the big screen opposite Robert Redford in The Candidate. Now she is in Shreveport visiting her mother, Margaret Carlson. "I am really appreciating this town so much after being in Los Angeles," she says.

"I just like the simplicity here. It's a place where you can go to the grocery store in five minutes. There are so many small things you just can't imagine the kids can go out and play." In fact, Carlson and her musician-husband, Devin Payne, are more than serious. They're going to try living here while maintaining their careers. Payne is in L.A.

now completing a recording contract. He heads a rock band called Devin Payne and Katona. Besides American Dream, in which she co-starred with Stephen Macht, Carlson also was in the Two Marriages series opposite Tom Mason and appeared as a bride on Here Come the Brides, where she met her former husband, actor David Soul. The actress has just returned from L.A., where she moved some belongings into a one-room condominium and put the rest in storage. She also signed with a new agent, Artist Agency.

"With my luck, I'll probably get a series now, and then I don't know where I'll be." Jon-Kristjian Soul-Payne, her 16-year-old son from her former marriage, will be enrolled for a semester at Byrd High School, Carlson's alma mater. Jon-Kristjian plans to play football for the Yellow Jackets. Carlson remains very close to her stepson, 22-year-old Christopher Soul, David Soul's son from a former marriage. She and Payne have two children Kelsey, 3, and Keenan, 9 months. They will look for a house of their own if living in Shreveport becomes viable.

"My agent said it could be done," she says. "Of course, it might entail a lot of traveling for me and Devin. Devin has spoken with some music people here and in New Orleans and is seeing about bringing his band here and doing some work. I would be interested in talking with some of the local theaters and television stations for commercial work." Carlson says her career is in an interesting transition right now. "I wish I could be more specific," she says in her softly modulated voice.

"I just left an agent I had been with for about a other people tearing down Edwards signs, what about people pulling the Buddy Roemer signs up-out of your yard? We've had several taken out of our yard, bumper stickers being pulled off cars. The same goes for our candidate too. Peace plan full of holes I agree with some of my friends and most of the conservative Republicans in Washington on Reagan's peace plan. As they stated, it's nothing but a big sham. I think it's ridiculous.

What does Reagan think he's doing? He and North want to destroy the country. Even his own conservative friends that agreed with him are all against him. in btvtis im Tf- Caller would play for pay This is to the statement of "Management mayhem" in this morning's paper. All I can suggest to the caller is why don't you quit your job and give it to somebody else who doesn't care whether they're working for goofballs, routing paperwork or anything? Take off, let somebody else have it. I'll play with their paperwork.

I'll work for these goofballs anytime, as long as they pay me. Nose comment shameful If I didn't live alone and need The Times to keep company each day, I would cancel my subscription immediately on account of that re- volting thing in today's Tell The Times about our president's nose. You should be ashamed and be thankful we have such a fine president Carriers: Hone your aim I'm also calling in response to the caller who said that carriers lose. I'd like to say too that I agree that carriers need to be paid but they also need to learn where to throw the paper. I live in an apartment complex and every morning I go out to get my paper and I have to walk down near the corner or the next apartment My paper is never at my door.

It happens that I have some very nice neighbors who will bring it to me if I'm not home. If I had neighbors who were dishonest they would take my paper. I think carriers need to be a little more responsible for their customers. On Shreveport: i I just like the simplicity here. It's a place where you can go to the grocery store in five minutes, Karen Carlson Actress Times photoBILLY UPSHAW Carlson and her husband, musician Devin Payne, have two children, Keenan, 9 months, and Kelsey, 3.

Well-wishers, mayors make Aragee inn kin's day Tait says that local business may be bad, but he sold 30 cars, trucks and used vehicles on Saturday. "We have 27 salesmen, but we couldn't wait on one-third of the people." Guests included a planeload of corporate bigwigs from Chrysler, who flew down from Michigan. Highest ranking was Tom Pappart, group vice president Margaret Martin Loftus, two great-granddaughters Mary Virginia Loftus and John R. Loftus and 15 nieces and nephews Monday at dinner at Mike Anderson's. Flowers and balloons filled Mrs.

Corbitt 's spot at the table. When Carolyn Carter of Huntington Beach, and Betty Farmer of Houston sent invitations to the 80th birthday party they were giving for their mother, Shreveporter Elizabeth Kendrick, they suggested that friends forward some kind of memento. "They sent some wonderful things and we made a scrapbook baby pictures, pictures taken on a trip to Hot Springs, poems," says Mrs. Carter. Among those at the reception Sunday for 200 at the First Baptist Church of Shreveport were Marguerite and Dale Waller.

Silas and Nelle Turner, Hazel Kerlin, Dr. Marc and Cindy Kerlin. all of Shreveport. and Aubrey and Corinne Trusty of Water Valley, and Avalvn Lesage of Homer. Margaret Martin is a Times columnist Most people get watches when they retire from a company.

Angie Junkin got one Monday from the Shreveport-Bossier Tourist and Convention Bureau just because she's done a good job for the past 10 years. Mrs. Junkin is the first person thousands' of tourists see when they visit the Shreveport-Bossier Tourist and Convention Bureau. She greets visitors in person and on the telephone. On Monday, bureau chief Preston Friedley said thanks with a surprise reception and the watch.

Shreveport Mayor John Hussey and Bossier City Mayor Don Jones were there to proclaim "Angie Junkin Day" in the two cities. Mrs. Junkin received hugs and kisses from husband Rhett and her parents, Joseph and Frances Ann Dollard. Bureau official Thweatt got up from her sick bed to attend. Others there included Wes Burdine, vice chairman of the bureau's board; Jodie Stevens, general manager of the Ramada Inn-Bossier City, George Dement of the Holidome; public re- maternal grandparents, Tom and Ann Robinson; and the paternal great-grandmother, Ruth Andress of El Dorado, Ark.

When you see Stacy Anderson, you might ask her if she has on her Diana Ross shoes the black silk ones with the faux stones. "Diana Ross and I are the only two people in the world with shoes like these," Miss Anderson explained as she kicked up one of her legs at a party to show the shoes, the ones worn for the portrait photographer Anthony Garner took of her. When Miss Anderson tried on the shoes in Las Vegas, she was told that the singer Ross ordered the shoes especially made for her, but then changed her mind and said she didn't want them. After Miss Anderson bought them. Miss Ross came back and said she'd changed her mind again and where were the shoes? So the store had to order another pair made for her.

Birthday girls: Ethel Corbitt celebrated her 83th with granddaughter Susan lations advetising exec Suzy Ryan; and Evelyn Howard and June Carter of the state office of tourism. Fish were frying Arthur Tait says he's been doing business promotions for 36 years, but he's never seen as big a turnout as the one Saturday for the grand opening of Tait Shreveport Dodge on Bert Kouns. Some 4,000 people trooped through to savor Chef Jake Duplantis' 2,000 pounds of fried catfish and piles of hush puppies and coleslaw. Dots and dashes After Dr. Will Andress finished baptizing grandson William Knox Andress Sunday at the First United Methodist of Shreveport, he held the baby up so the congregation could see him.

Baby William Knox, 3 months old, is the 6th in an unbroken line of Andresses with the name Knox since 1840, says Andress. Among those family members present were the baby's parents. Knox and Lisa Andress; the paternal grandmother, Julia Andress the.