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HOLLYWOOD SCRIPT TEASERS Harold, the one who made the sale, sits and looks at me like maybe I was a gold brick Instead of a woman. Marty keep3 screaming at me, 'Don't talk And Steve kisses my hand every time I walk in and makes me feel like a woman, not a She has enlisted the aid of three psychiatrists: "I have one for the whole family family therapy; I have one for me alone, and I have one standing by. The standby one is for my husband If we can ever get him to take the plunge because he is the only one who really needs it In the first place. "Nobody made this fuss about me when I was an actress. In fact, my last acting agent fired me because I refused to work for Columbia Pictures for scale and a half.

This is something like having your laundry rejected, darling." And Finally, Try Bad Luck The name of the picture Is "Idonea Darling's War." And the moral of the third part is that if you can't make it with a good frontal attack, try a bad back. The epilogue is that the agent who said all Hollywood would be disinter- ested died the day after the Larsens announced the Baker purchase and price. "Now I feel guilty about that," allows the psychiatrically inclined (or reclined) Miss Baker. "But I know that at worst I am a writer, not a murderer. Or is it murderess?" no acting assignments to amuse her, Miss Baker began to write in earnest.

She started on a book called 0w, My Aching Wife," which was more (because it was full of literal pains during creation) or less (because the actress Is like few people who ever lived) autobiographical. It Is still in the works. And she did a couple of non-fiction things for magazines. From $500 to One otherwise average day, she pulled the British bridge story out of the drawer and worked it into film length. A woman agent, one with only four other clients, was asked to peddle it.

"She sent it back," admits Miss Baker, "with a lovely letter explaining that it was a charming story providing someone wa3 interested in this type of story. That was cryptic so I called her up on the telephone. She said nobody in Hollywood was interested in this kind of story." The happy ending is that producer Keith Larsen and his wife, actress Vera Miles, announced paying around $50,000 for the seven-year-old news story that a major agency said wasn't worth $500 in the less inflated 50s. Now Fay Baker is surrounded by success. She works at an office with nine other writers, all men.

She is served by an agency (Kumin-Olenick) with four literary agents keeps looking at me and beaming and saying, 'You are our own Isabel Lennart. Our own Collette. Our own Nancy Mit- Continued from First Page Within six months, though, he had ft cript treatment. And director MI-Ohael Gordon had taken an option on the property. And Cohen, who never had his heart in the magazine business, could now take his feet out as Well well, almost.

First features ara not, for these purposes, short subjects. Between option-taking and a production deal, a full year passed (montage scene of baby crying in high Chair, banging spoon while calendar fages float across screen). Cohen ented himself out again, did some magazine work and wrote a television cript. Not until a couple of months ago could he get back to the movie business. Michael Gordon made the deal; Fox is the studio, Aaron Rosenberg Is to produce.

The movie will be called "The Smashrnaster Caper," will begin shooting In spring, will be written by Cohen and' Arthur Alsberg. Cohen gives Gordon a writing credit that will not ppear on screen. The director not only took an option but an admiring Interest; he refused to unwrap hla Imckage for Fox unless they agreed to et Cohen write his own story. We all know the old story of the originator Who was bought out while four other guys gang-killed thd screenplay. It, didn't happen here.

Moral No. 2 is have the courage of your creations and sell only to nice guys. Fay Baker is an actress (stage, screen and series) who has always liked writers (she took one to know one, i3 married to Arthur Weiss, film author and associate producer of television's but had never written much herself until she wound up with a bad disc. For seven years she carried In her purse and memory a news clipping about a British widow who had beaten the bureaucrats to get a bridge built. Whenever a writer friend or even husband complained about having a deadline but no ideas, Mis3 Baker offered the little bridge business, gratis.

The professionals harumphed, said no thank you. Without takers, she decided to make the 'offer in writing herself. Courage; of Your Creations She tried it first as a television treatment; one agency told Miss Baker that no one would be interested, not even for the she would happily have settled for. The next agent only tried the story on people who would let him produce a package. "It was like selling my story and a fatal disease at the same time," says Miss Baker.

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