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Bad Boy11 John Back Before Camera 4v i I i pictures, at least the ones Carroll appeared in, the actor who calls himself an adventurer, has just about covered the globe, filming revolutions, looking for sunken ships, or a new fish, or just watching how people live differently. John was behind a camera in the Spanish Civil War, but failed to bring out one foot of film, which was confiscated by General Franco. The same thing occurred when Carroll and buddy Errol Flynn filmed Castro's mountain battles in Cuba, falling out of favor with the bearded leader one month after he took Havana, escaping minus film on a plane in a last ditch maneuver. "I've always wondered how stories of jokes originate," said Carroll, telling about his Cuban experiences with Flynn, "and I actually saw one take place outside of Havana, where a court had sentenced a young Cuban to death. "WHILE the soldiers in all varieties of uniform loaded guns, the prisoner turned down the customary last cig-aret, the white handkerchief, and only asked that his handcuffs be removed.

"At this moment, Castro pulled up in a jeep to watch the proceedings, and he ordered the guard to obey the prisoner. Then the man began a tirade against Fidel, and worked himself up to a great heat. "Castro couldn't stand the abuse any longer. He rushed up to the prisoner and sputtered: 'You, you want Both Flynn and Carroll fell to the ground in laughter, and Castro angrily turned on them for joking about such a serious thing as death. It was three days before the dictator hau realized what he said and finally recognized the joke.

"I heard this anecdote three months later in Las Vegas," added Carroll, "and it didn't seem so funny then." Carroll's comeback in TV and pictures is now a very serious thing with him and he hopes a second chance will be offered, and that perhaps he might make one good picture before his career ends. If the comeback fails, John can always open a restaurant and display his talents as a chef. "I would import Louisiana bread, the best in the world, ahead of Denver, and Paris," he announced, "and I would have to charge big prices. "Really, you can't open a good restaurant here and have good food because the people won't understand it. They're not educated yet.

The only thing the public knows is fancy prices. At two dollars a head you'll go broke, but charge ten and you'll become fashionable." The temperamental Carroll doesn't care for that kind of a business. He takes his chances acting. By CHARLES WITBECK Hollywood Movie actor-adventurer John Carroll, formerly labeled a troublemaker on sets, has returned to star with his old friend, Forrest Tucker and Andy Griffith's Ronny Howard at Disney's in "Nuthin," a two-part TV show, coming up on Channel 40. Now in his early sixties, Carroll's quick temper and fast hands have simmered down, and he proudly announced nobody even threatened to fire him from the Disney drama, a new world's record for him.

What is "One-Take" Carroll, supposedly a wealthy man, doing back in front of the cameras? "I can't retire," answers the actor who filmed the Cuban Revolution with bnddy Errol Flynn, and then got out in the nick of time. "You can't play golf all day, or eat your life away or go to Paris or Mexico at the drop of a hat." A great chef, thanks to his New Orleans upbringing, Carroll's weight went up to 240 while floating around, and his doctor finally told him to go back to work. Agent Max Arnold sent John the Disney script, and the adventurer, eager to right his reputation for being hard to handle, said "Yes." "There seemed to be a good part for my old friend Forrest Tucker," Carroll told me, "and when I suggested him, the Disney man laughed and admitted Tuck had been signed two weeks earlier." WITH FORREST by his side, Carroll breezed through the show to prove he is a good boy now, and he hopes to land other roles with a clean bill of health at Disney's behind him. It is also said that maybe Tucker had something to do with Carroll's hiring, for it was John Carroll who got the Troop star his first job years ago, when the New Orleans star was making all those terrible pictures. John AIN'T MISBEHAVIN-Oldtimer John Carroll, a former troublemaker on studio stages, is now eager to play things right as he stars with Ronny Howard and Forrest Tucker in Walt Disney's two-part TV show, "Nuthin'' to air in color on Channel 40 next season.

Riot News mm a very rich boy and he won't work for peanuts. Your studio can't afford such talent." WITHERING under the barrage Yates finally bit, and told Carroll that Republic wasn't that poor, and he signed unknown Tucker, who had never read a line in his life, to a top salary. "Forrest is a very kind man," said his long-time booster. "He covers up a sense of inferiority with a loud voice." Since his movie days, "the end of a magic era," a time for a play and poor quality (Continued From Page 14) the attention span to watch a news program for that length of time," he said, adding that it would complicate scheduling because local stations have their own news ideas. McAndrew said he saw increasing use of the satellites for news coverage as the rates come down speeding live and filmed material from the Far East and other distant points on the globe.

He said the conversion of 8MM film in the next three to five years would give television cameramen greater mobility. He Knew Where Ticket Went A Los Angeles policeman, who is a friend of Joey Bishop, recently asked the comedian for a ticket to The Joey Bishop Show, his late night color variety program on ABC-TV. "You can bet I didn't send it through the mail," Bishop reports. "I made a special trip to the lot where he parks his car and put it on his used to hang out at Jack Schwab's drugstore, and one day he saw this big man with eyes like headlights, playing the pinball machine. After Tucker comments on women, Hollywood and acting, which he felt he could do if he had to, Carroll was sold by the newcomer and told him to see an agent, Max Arnold.

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