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86 THE MORNING CALL, AUentowa, Pa, Nor. tl, 197 Keynotes: The 'Cotton Club' is bound for television KM TUB" AV4D A LOOM CRIES OVER A A BEAR IN -TWE SHADOW OF THE UkE, rS TIME FOR PgPpERONI 1 THE MOU AND UTTUj BROTHER PIZZA! 7 fW favors, and his friends came through. Hearing Joe needed help, Billy Daniels flew out from New York to assist. And when musical director Phil Moore underwent open heart surgery during production, Henry Mancini dropped everything to work as music copier. "Everyone wants this show to go," Adams said.

"Even Ray Charles, who hates television because he can't judge it by feeling, hung around from beginning to end. I usually fill in for Ray on TV guest spots during rehearsals, so he can come on and do his stuff without the preliminaries, and I was puzzled." "Tonight. I'm working for you," Ray told me. "I'll go the distance! "If this show goes, I'm going to have the most beautiful chorus girls around," Adams said, enthusiastically. "Cotton Club girls will look like Ziegfeld girls, and I know where to get them in city halls and at the Post Office." In Joe's opinion, the black woman has tuned out because of stereotyped parts, and he intends to bring back dignity and style with his chorus line.

In company with, "NBC Follies" producers Bob Booker and George Foster, and with assistance from Dinah Shore's old boss, Henry Jaffe, Joe Adams put Cotton Club together with nickels and dimes, not having the big budget accorded other variety projects. Joe was asking for By CHARLES WITBECK HOLLYWOOD "Most people are afraid to go to a nightclub in these times," savs Joe Adams, Ray Charles' manager. "Who wants to be mugged or knifed? And if you do go, the bill is outa sight." Adams has a solution bring a flashy club act to television. It's called "Cotton Club '75," named after Harlem's famous nite spot of the '20s and '30s, and airs Saturday, Nov. 23 (in some cities, Sun.

Nov. 24) on NBC from a.m., with stars Red Foxx, Billy Daniels, the Lockers, the Nicholas Brothers, Buddy Rich, "Good Times" Jimmie Walker, Jonelle Allen, Cleo Laine, Ray Charles and Clifton Davis among others. NBC's first black radio announcer years ago and booking agent for performers such as Aretha Franklin and Charles, Joe Adams knows when those important ratings weeks come up in television land. Producers call up and ask for his performers. Joe also listens to cab drivers, elevator men and street people who resent seeing the black man on television either play the buffoon or superfly.

"There's another side to the black community and I want to show it," Adams said. "We're presenting a class act for blacks, whites and kids. In most spots, Ray Charles usually appears in the last act. But on Cotton Club we open with him. That's the kind of show we nave.

It's not perfect, but it will do." Cotton Club 75" is a pilot, of course, and the question is whether the country is ready for a weekly black revue, or whether execs will duck the offering. Frankly, Adams doesn't know. Japan and Germany are interested in the project, but the U.S. remains a question mark. One thing is certain.

If accepted, similar entries will be on all networks once the breakthrough is achieved. mailbag started in show business with a comedy act in which he employed magic. He still does his act from time to time. Question I heard Bob Denver, who was so wonderful in "Gilligan's died. Did I hear right? L.W.,".' Wichita, Kans.

Answer You have been misinformed the rumor mongers are on the go again. Bob Denver is alive and well and working in TV. Question I am a late hour movie fan. Who played the sexy lady in the Gary Cooper movie, "Fountainhead," and -who played the royal lady in "Her Highness and the R.E. Answer Patricia Neal, who can be seen almost any night selling coffee on those commercials, was the leading lady in "The Fountainhead." Hedy Lamarr.

a-big star of the '40s, played her Royal Highness in "Her Highness and the Bellboy," which also starred Robert Walker and June Allyson. For an answer to your question about any TV program or actor, write to Steven II. Scheuer, TV Mailbag, c-o The Morning Call, Allentown, 18105. Channel Changes Here ore lost-minute network changes in TV Channel Choices programs: 4:00 p.m. 11 THE MUNSTERS replaces Batman.

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