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WOODY'S WORLD HAZEL I'mt l.iiinlffiliilc Tlmr.il,i 1. I 'T? 1 IE Gossip Cloris Says 6No9 To Gay TV Movie Role 'V "I'm home, Hon!" OH I i By Marilyn Beck Hollywood Columnist HOLLYWOOD, Calif. Cloris Leachman has turned down the chance to star in a TV movie about a homosexual mother who loses her children to her ex-husband. "The script was wonderful and I was up all night wondering if I should accept the part," she says. "I admire the woman for her principles.

But there's no way I could ever do what she did. I would never jeopardize my children (she has five) no matter what the cost was to myself. I would sacrifice anything for them. And because I couldn't understand her thinking, I finally turned down the role." you get the Impression that Woody misses the tamping season, scout? "Is your name INSIDE WOODY ALLEN wilt UIVC.N IO MAVIWG Tl GUTS TOTRVTO SELL HIM 'wMatsX OF THE INSURANCE COMWV I WORK FOR A POLICE. Cloris Leachman Marsha Mason Denise Nicholas Euan Lloyd reports, there was a near disaster when Richard Harris and South African actor Graham Clark were attempting to jump aboard a moving DC-3 for a scene in the $12 million film.

Clarke slipped, Harris shoved him in the door and fell onto the runway as the tail of the plane passed within inches of his head. And, actor Hardy Kruger got banged up In a battle scene but was nursed back to health by his latest love, 26-year-old Chicago model Anita Park, his flame since he split front wife Francesca earlier this year. BLACK AND WHITE: Former "Room 222" co-star Denise Nicholas is disappointed she's returning to television in an all-black show. She starts work next month on "Baby I'm Back," the new CBS sitcom with "Sanford and Son" son Demond Wilson. She plays a woman who's living with a lover when her long-lost husband reappears, and though she's delighted with her character and with Demond, she feels the networks are mistaken in larding the airwaves with segregated shows.

222' had prestige and dignity," she recounts, "and because it was an integrated series, it generated interest from both black and white audiences. Busy Cloris just completed Disney's "North Avenue co-stars with Mario Thomas and Wayne Rogers on ABC's Dec. 11 "It Happened One Christmas" special; will star in ABC's dramatic "Country of the Heart" movie, and expects to be back on CBS with a follow-up series to her "Phyllis" show. Marsha Mason and Nell Simon winged to New York for tomorrow's unveiling of his "Chapter play based on their courtship and which has turned out to be a form of therapy for their marriage. Simon's first wife died in July, 1973.

He met Marsha on Oct. 3 of that year; on Oct. 22 he married her and they went through a painful period of adjustment. There brief pre-marital romance also was painful, says Marsha, who reveals, "When 'Chapter II' premiered in Los Angeles this fall, I found a couple of the scenes so personal I wanted to hide my head." She also had to learn to stop being intimidated by the memory of her husband's late wife. "I once found myself calling out, 'Joan, give me a sign.

How would you have handled I am a believer in psychic phenomena, you know." FOREIGN AFFAIRS: "The Wild Geese" company hits flown to London from South Africa where, producer I Are all these TROPHIES FO(? i bowunhoward 1 AGATHA CRUMM A LEAVE YOUR HU66MP HE'S UPSET BECAUSE MOTHER, PONT YOU l'7 LIKE TO ALONE, PORI6. 11 THEY TWNEP HIM POWN, THINK JONIOR'S BORROW A CHANCG4 WODLC? WIMrw nC Ui-MJcV? IKtjT NATIONAL. IMPROVE IF HE PlPNTfl 1 )-t1 Klir I rib i KEEP5AVIN6 1 Clint, Sondra Loom As Big New Team 1 THE PHANTOM they're Tpont cry, yia.via.,. rw 7 ia ITi were to give the fum-uco oc ru7xK 7 IT'S THE HAPPIEST I7M SO GLAP BRIDE AWAV. READY, Li 6, clc.i 4 MV OF MY LIFE YOU WILL BE MY fj DIANA backup singer for Lisa Mordente and Betty Rhodes Barabra Waiters dined at 21 with Commerce Undersecretary Sidney Harmon, an old friend Mrs.

Martin Luther King's kids quizzed Frank Langella of "Dracula" about show biz and he said, "To make money, stay out of the theater and get into pop music or television." i Ryan O'Neal (36) has discovered Ursula Andress (41) The "Bubbling Brown Sugar" cast in London is fighting flu: Billy Daniels is nut of the show temporarily Billy Carter is being set to do a TV Commercial for an insurance company. Danny Simon (playwright Neil's brother) says he's written a musical about baseball owner Bill Veeck, wants James Whitmore to star in it Joe Masiel, who says he's never gonna play the Palace, opens Dec. 1 1 at the Astor Place Theater in "Joe Masiel, NOT at the Palace" Twenty weight-lifters ran up a $3S0 tab at the Stage Deli. One of them put away 10 beers find a four-pound platter of meat. Lee Marvin's first wife, Betty, was at Gian Marino's with her new groom, Jerry Melner Robert Shaw, filming in Yugoslavia, brought along his wife and infant son.

The 10-month-old baby's already been in six countries Kathy Crosby's book about Bing is titled, "It Was a Very Good Candice Bergen may be getting married in March. 1 THE LOCKHORNS By Earl Wilson Field Newspaper Syndicate NEW YORK So maybe Clint Eastwood and pale, frail, blond Sondra Locke, from Shelbyville, are -going to be the new movie romantic, team. I'm just a-guessin' from what I've been a-hearin'. "You're just a child," I said to Sondra, who's sharing all the action with Clint in his new film, "The Gauntlet." "Please don't say that," she begged. "Will I never grow up?" People remember her Oscar-nominated role of Mick Kelly in "The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter." She's 29, still looks 19.

A makeup girl recently was told to powder her face. "But you have no lines!" she said. Married 10 years to sculptor Gordon Anderson, Sondra assumes it's due to proper living, exercising and meditating. In "The Gauntlet," playing a loose Las Vegas lady extradited to Phoenix by officer Clint as a witness in a trial, she's thrown out of an ambulance, attacked by a helicopter, dynamited, bombed, hijacked and shot and that's the easy part. "All I got out of it was kneeburns," she says.

"My folks called me because they thought the 0 made it more interesting," Sondra says. "I never felt at home in Tennessee. I felt I'd been parachuted out at the wrong spot somehow." Alice Cooper shunned alcohol when he and his wife were together at Studio 54. He hopes for success in his non-drinking regime "Broadway colorful street character of the '40s, has been writing to friends who lost track of her. She's in a hospital, with memories.

Farrah Fawcett-Majors flew from N.Y. to Houston for her parents' 40th wedding anniversary, joining her husband, Lee Majors, who flew there from L.A., then brought her mother to N.Y. to a big press party. "Lee flew back one way, I flew back the other way, he went to work and I went to work," Farrah says. Jeff Bridges, her movie co-star, left the party early, she adds.

"He had a date with a fish." Liza Minnelli, after two shows of "The Act" went to the Backstage Cafe with husband Jack Haley Jr. and did two more shows there sitting on the piano and as ANDY CAPP THEY CO ALLSOfWS OF EXERCISES. 'ER AN1 RUBE GO RELIGI0U9LY EVERY WEEK SAYS THfcYr Mg AN AT 'EK (KEEP FITCLASSESJ LL li i fc-j ENJOY IT TIGER iz-l i pip Give him a tip. I TOtP HIM TO STAY 6INGLE." JULIAM 6T0HE7 71C(; how ro we moiaj snjner A THATS A PO woo By Jeane Dixon For Tomorrow, Dec. 2, 1977 Horoscope YOUR BIRTHDAY You now fact an adjustment.

You want to take the easy way, but you know the easy way, but you know the easy way will wind up the hardest. Break away from old practices, move on to a higher level where the going is tougher, but more rewarding. Relationships are complex, can be worked out nicely if you really try to understand. Tomorrow's natives select a narrow specialty, study it thoroughly. Those born this year have a restless streak, will never let status quo alone.

Leo Aries REDEYE WATcM WHO Youkf July 23-Aug. 22: Co-operation is uneven, more from one source, less from another, none quite as expected. It's okay if you don't understand some people; they don't understand you either. CAM VOL) IMA6IKJE THAT WE CALLED ME A HORS DOCTOR' I OH WELL mows your. lOOP TOPAV CALLIN6 NAMES, FELLA too esse.

Virgo IZ-I Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21: Local conditions flip temporarily. You can indulge yourself in ego-boosting, solitary grandeur, or others in patronizing hospitality, and go wrong both ways. Capricorn Dec.

22-Jan. 19: Sidelines, gambles turn up; you might even invent a few yourself for others to try. Sit this one out. There's no room for expansion: calm down, think positively. Aquarius Jan.

20-Feb. 18: Show your gentler side, attract confidences, the inside story of puzzling events. Don't shoulder any blame. Mixed influences will cancel themselves overnight. Pisces Feb.

19-March 10: A number of little projects add up to a large one. An overblown scheme falls apart, pretentious people are seen for what they are. Draw a line somewhere on bickering. March 21-April 19: All factors being equal, the drift is in your favor, no cause to push anybody into hasty decisions. Settle existing, details.

Leave "big deals" for near future. Taurus April 20-May 20: A touch of humor gets you past potential hassles over budgets, work arrangements. If you are to appeal to reason, you must be reasonable. Romance stalls momentarily. Gemini May 21-June 20: You have gone past a decisive point.

Others don't know it, can't read your mind. Be patient, offer necessary explanations. Both young and old folk make many demands. Cancer June 21-July 22: Associates need some sign of your appreciation, approval, even though your opinion may be less than favorable. With no easy way out, don't waste time seeking one.

Aug. 23-Sept. 22: Optimistically hurdle obstacles. Set right whatever goes haywire. Don't go out of your road to accommodate anybody or let anyone put you off your intended course.

i Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22: If everybody seems to be rushing you, give thought to possible motives. Make your own adjustments. Refuse overtime.

For a change, enjoy a somewhat frivolous evening. HAGAR I Keep a Volunteer TO GO FOR HELP Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21: Personal plans have to wait while you straighten out an encounter situation. Taper off into small chores, relieve tension.

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