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1 THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Monday, February 21, 1983 2-D Magic on the Mall Magician Marty Capitanno will appear on the Franklin Street Mall Wednesday at noon. Capitanno has performed at Disney World, Busch Gardens and various nightclubs in the Southeast. Among his illusions will be doves appearing from flaming frying pans and levitating bodies. For more information, call 223-8518 or lip) rv .1 The art of transportation The Tampa Museum is accepting applications for a transportation grant program which will allowed selected schools bus allowances to tour the museum. Deadline for the grants is Feb.

28 for visits scheduled between March-June 15; and May 15 for visits scheduled between Sept 6-Dec. 31. For additional information on the program and to receive a list of eligibility requirements or an application, call the museum at 223-8130, ext. 23. The Tampa Museum is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m.

until 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; and Sunday 1 p.m.-5 p.m. The museum is closed Mondays. John Hammond Recreation center to be dedicated The city of Tampa Recreation Department will formerly dedicate the refurbished Rey Park Center Thursday at 4 p.m. The 30-year-old center at 2301 N. Howard was formally called the West Tampa Community Center and has recently undergone a major facelift.

Mayor Bob Martinez will attend, and the public is invited. For more information, call 223-8615 Audubon to meet in new location Tuesday The Tampa Audubon Society will meet at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, at a new location the Junior League Building, 87 Columbia Drive. Janet Roth, from the Florida Phosphate Council Speakers Bureau, will present a program on "Wildlife on Phosphate Lands." The meeting is open to the public, free of charge. He'll play the blues for you John Hammond, veteran blues singer, will play free at the WEDU studios Sunday at 3:30 p.m. The free concert is'for a taping of the Channel 3 show, "Troubadours," to be aired at a later date.

For tickets, stop by the station or call WEDU at 253-2736. MASH'- From Page ID parking lot singing and holding hands. Kellye Nakahara. who plays Nurse Kellye, is also holding a dogeared script from the final film special, "Goodbye, Farewell, Amen." Scribbled across its cover are signatures of fellow cast members. "This is like the end of school when everyone signs your yearbook," she says.

"I can't believe it's over." She sobs. "I came on 11 years ago as atmosphere and I've found a home. I hope there's life after hope we all find work." 2:50 p.m. The media horde has swelled to more than 200. They are nervous on this warm California day.

"Soon. You'll all be let in soon," says the Fox spokesman. John Rappaport, longtime "MASH" producer and writer, appears at the Stage 9 entrance. Someone waves the Jan. 18 issue of the National Enquirer in front of him.

The headline claims the Enquirer has the final 'MASH" script. Rappaport acknowledges it's true. He says the Enquirer bought it from a fink for $35,000. 3 p.m. The doors open and the crowd spills onto the set.

It is much smaller than it appears on television. The mess tent is only half a tent. The ground is rubber disguised to look like dirt. Most of the set is dark. At the fSr corner on a mound of sand.

Director Burt Metcalfe is supervising the final scene. It has been designed so all seven principal characters will be on camera Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce (Alan Alda), B.J. Hunnicut (Mike Farrell), Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit), Maxwell Klinger (Jamie Farr), Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan), Charles Winchester (David Ogden Stiers) and Father John Mulcahy (William Christopher). Houlihan is accepting donations to a "time capsule" in the form of a battered footlocker. "21 Peter, Take 2," a stagehand shouts.

The press has to be scolded. "Quiet on the set," a female assistant to Metcalfe barks. 3:20 p.m. The scene begins: Hawkeye gives Hot Lips a teddy bear Radar left behind and says, "Wait a minute, one thing, Klinger's Scarlett O'Hara dress." Houlihan: "No, I draw the line at that." Klinger: "C'mon Major, that's not fair. This could stand for something.

How about all the girls we left behind?" Houlihan: "OK, OK, but not that awful getup. The black one." Klinger: "Madame has impeccable taste." Hawkeye: "Well, it seems as if we're burying everything else. Why not the hatchet?" The scene will be repeated several times before the afternoon is over. Alda blows his lines. Swit cries.

Mike Farrell says "It's been this way for two weeks: relief, excitement, tears, laughter. Our family is breaking up." 4:15 p.m. The wait for Metcalfe to shout "It's a wrap!" has become long and boring. The visitors, which now number close to 300 (counting CBS and Fox executives who have dropped in), have stopped watching the takes. They are scattered about the set.

One after another, TV reporters from places as far away as Charlotte, N.C., set up in front of Hawkeye's tent and record introductions for their reports. The guy from CNN does 10 takes. He can't say "Mulcahy" without stuttering. Whenever there is a break, reporters grab Metcalfe or Rappaport. Writers Thad Mumford and Dan Wilcox are also videotaped for the evening news.

Metcalfe says "This is not just a show built around a person, but around an ideal of faithfulness faithfulness to beliefs and loyalty to each other. It was the best of all possible situations a show that was artistically pleasing and popular with the masses. A lot has to do with the chemistry of the people involved. We struck a note that all of America has responded to. I doubt that it will ever happen again." 6:10 p.m.

Metcalfe finally shouts "That's a wrap!" The press moves forward surrounding the cast There are tears on Alda's face as he hugs Rappaport. A trembling Loretta Swit embraces Harry Morgan. Jamie Farr is squeezed off the mound by the TV cameras. "Auld Layne Syne" is played over the public address system. The Korean War is over and so are the battles with CBS executives for script approval.

The cork pops on a champagne bottle. The cast has a final toast before adjourning to the Fox Commissary for a press conference. 6:30 p.m. Loretta Swit steps up to a microphone to share her final comments and can't talk. Her voice breaks; Tears flow.

She has to step aside to get her composure. Harry Morgan, veteran of more than 100 television shows and movies, also has trouble. His voice cracks as he fights back tears: "A couple of days ago, somebody asked me if working on 'MASH' had made me a better actor," he says. "I don't know about that, but it has made me a better human being There's never been a congregation of actors put together that can come within a mile of this bunch. And I'm going to miss them very much." 7 p.m.

Alan Alda speaks. "I didn't think I would take it as hard as I did today," he says. "I still have six more weeks of work, editing. I never expected I'd be blubbering the way I was today I remember shooting the pilot 12 years ago on a 15-degree day on location. We stood and hugged one another by the fires.

If you hug somebody 12 hours a day, you get to know them real fast." Alda says the Smithsonian Institution would like to have the entire "MASH" set, but he will keep the dog tags he has worn for 12 years. The tags bear the names Percy Davenport and Morris D. Levine. He then says what many others have said about "There's never been an idea for a show where you had people under the greatest stress possible, where people were dying and you were standing in their blood, and hating it, and wanting to do something about it, and wishing you weren't there, and going crazy from that I hope people will understand. We're stopping out of respect for the work we've done up to now.

If we ran further, we would run the risk of squeezing it dry." Belcher. SANDI BARTOW DID SHE LOST 89 LBS. Ladies Department Final Clearance on Fall Clothing 52 SPORTS COATS 16 SUITS Reg. $150 to 93 SKIRTS Reg. $55.

to body, but he managed to get tape of Roberts' being subdued by deputies. This provided Channel 10 with a tense confrontation scene that was broadcast last week. Channel 10 officials contend deputies "slammed" Roberts against the trunk and that he suffered a concussion. Roberts has been in a hospital and out of sight since the incident. What Channel 10 didn't show were events preceding the handcuffing incident.

A witness to the event has said Roberts' head did not hit the trunk and that he "was acting like a spoiled brat" In one report last week, Channel 10 took a cheap shot at the witness by talking to a neighbor who complained about her. Because February isn't over and Roberts isn't out of hot water yet, we can expect to see and hear more about this flap on Channel 10. But the big question viewers should ask is, "How can Channel 10 cover this objectively when the station has a vested interest in the outcome?" Roberts saga Channel 1 0's "Action News" has been sensationalizing the Craig Roberts story as though it were the major news event of the month. Well, this is the February ratings sweeps. And it's not often that a TV station can get video footage of one of its own reporters in handcuffs.

Roberts, a WTSP reporter whose ego exceeds his talent was charged with interfering with a police investigation following an altercation with Hillsborough County Sheriff's officers at the scene of a suicide. Roberts reportedly argued with a deputy because the dead man's body had been loaded into a van before a Channel 10 cameraman had a chance to photograph it. The argument ended with Roberts' being handcuffed and bent over the trunk of a patrol car. The cameraman may have missed the dead LOSE UP TO A POUND A DAY ON A DRAMATIC 3 NEW PROGRAM MEDICALLY SUPERVISED FREE BLOOD PRESSURE CHECK WITH FREE CONSULTATION AMERICAN MEDICAL CLINICS, inc. TJHPI BRANDON TAMPA TEMPLE TERRACE Actor Mel Gibson has run into some luck with new film 886-6396 685-1773 879-8373 988-9181 8220 DAHIET SO.

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