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The Newest Hot Author Is a Housewife From Indiana mm mm mm Continued from Page 71 ies I went out" and bought myself a 1965 fire engine-red Chevy station wagon. Kilburn calls it The Chinese People's Fire Since I've spent a lot of time In drive-in movies, I naturally thought of people when I wrote the book. Actually, I wrote it as a movie it's in scenes and frames with movement I daydreamed while I wrote it, wondering what it would look like on a screen. I truly never well, how could I ever expect it would sell to the movies? While I wrote it, I kept looking at a poster Jennifer has of Lee Van Cleef In The Good, the Bad and the Jay Grobart was based on Lee Van Cleef. Catherine Crocker I described physically from Julie Adams because I'm a fool for a beautiful bone structure and she has it.

I have beautiful bones, too, you just can't see them. Carroll O'Connor is Willard Crocker. Harvey Lapchance was copied from Harry Carey Jr. Of Tbnisnt 10-11 PM. Grcger Piatigorshy: Master and his class The Inimitable Piatigorsky breathes special life into his USC Cello Master Class.

And KCET's cameras are front row center, showing how this gentle genius urges students to full potential. The class is informal, often humorous, always rich with Incisive comments on, music and life as well. In Part Two of this program (Sunday, Oct. 8. 10 p.m.

the emphasis is on teaching. We see that Piatigorsky is not satisfied until true feeling, along with technique, is achieved by his students. Monday PM. csi Chi Chfaan It's sport. It's exercise.

It's a method of self-defense. And the Chinese practice of T'ai Chi Ch'uan is becoming more popular every day throughout the United States. T'ai Chi Ch'uan stresses slow breathing, balanced relaxed posture, with absolute calmness of mind. The fundamentals of T'ai Chi Ch'uan will be taught every Monday by Marshall Ho'o, instructor in T'ai Chi at California Institute of the Arts. The show repeats Thursdays, 7 p.m., Fridays, 8 a.m.

Kilburn, her husband book is dedicated to him is a Social Security field investigator and the one question asked of Mrs. Durham which rankles her has to do with the abrupt change in her marital earning status. It isn't going to disgrace Kilburn if I make a little money. We've been together 21 years and he's supported me all of them. He's got his 20 years of service with the government and can retire now if he'd like.

If the second book is a good thing and the movie does well, why shouldn't we retire? Our mothers are both widows and live in Evansville, so we'll probably stay there. But what would be wrong with a couple of months a year in Mexico; Kilburn painting and reading and me reading and writing? She looks positively dreamy at the prospect. She doesn't mind it at all, suddenly overcompensating for more than 40 years spent in Evansville. She is off the next night for Portland, home, then Denver for the Rocky Mountain Book Sellers Convention (They probably want to throw rocks at then to the New York Book and Author luncheon, Chicago for two talk shows and back to Los Angeles. She has just come from her first visit to New York, which she says she found consisted mainly of "getting in and out of taxis and giving interviews in my hotel room at the Algonquin.

New York wasn't as bad as I had expected. Kilburn and I want to go to New York with the girls and be tourists get lost and get mugged. Kilburn isn't with me because he figured he'd be a fifth wheel. I suppose by now he's wondering if I'm dead or alive. He's used to having me around.

"I'm from a German part of the country and sound a little Dutchy" Tuesday PM. Ciiywatchers Hosts Art Seidenbaum and Charles Champlin return this season for more visits to unusual places and people. Among their stops: Arco Towers, the Union Rescue Mission and Los Angeles CountyUSC Out-Patients Clinic. "Citywatchers" is underwritten by the Haynes Foundation. Replays Thursdays 8:30 a.m., Fridays 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday 9:30 PM. She doesn't mind being overcompensated for 40 years in Evansville This series of documentaries, by leading film makers, opens with a portrait of India's troubled city, Calcutta. Louis Malle, world famous French director, looks at a city with a million homeless people, a labor force that keeps wages far below subsistence levels, and a government incapable of curing the city's ills. Yet his discerning eye discovers great human dignity in the desolation that has become Calcutta's way of life. Among subjects of future documentaries are the McCarthy era, facial plastic surgery and a poignant study of shows the first Wednesday of every month.

course, that's just my casting and it doesnt matter. She claims she never expected to see anything beyond her $2,500 advance. She means it Eleanor Perry read the book in galley form and showed it to producer Martin Poll. Poll bought it and Mrs. Perry ha3 already completed the script It is not yet cast and filming does not start until January.

Td love to have a peek at the script' Mrs. Durham smiles. "Not to see what she's done with it, but because I've never seen a movie script I dont even know what they look like." She was paid $50,000 for the film rights and another $25,000 may roll her way if the picture exceeds its presently small budget. 'People keep telling me 111 get the extra payment. I've also got 5 of the net profits.

How do you really figure the net profits?" Mrs. Durham is not asking a simple question of addition, she knows what she's speaking about She reads Weekly Variety and Publisher's Weekly care: fully. She knows that distributors and exhibitors are considered slightly less than honest by many producers. She knows the business. I read the trades long before I had any competition, and I read them now that I have competition." Paperback rights sold to Dell for $100,000, of which she receives half.

It is a Book-oi-the-Month Club alternate for December. "Just in time for the Christmas business," says its author. Rights have been sold In Britain, Japan, Norway, Germany and Holland. "The Dutch advance is higher than the British. Absolutely floors me," she says.

More to the point; there is no way just now to tell how much money Mrs. Durham will make on the book except that it will be a lot From the looks of it, a lot of people are going to get used to having Marilyn Durham around. Her second book, Dutch Uncle," will be published a year from now. ft is, she says, sounding like a perfectly plotted bookjacket, "about Jacob Hollander who has nobody and wants nobody but acquires two Mexican orphans. It takes place in 1880.

"Did you expect I was going to write a novel about my disgruntled lot as a housewife? Not me. I like history a I'm not disgruntled." She clearly knows her way around libraries and bookstores. She got the setting of "Cat Dancing" from an old WPA guide to Wyoming. Its frontier details are plucked from children's books and such relics as Bannerman's mail-order catalog of Civil War surplus. She found the catalog in a collection of books Kilburn had had for years and is the sort of retentive reader who can discourse intelligently on when holsters were first introduced and whether or not they came with flaps oyer them.

1 like accuracy," she says, almost as though she was unaware of the freshness and tautness of her book. It is, as is its author, marvelously refreshing. PM. LA.Cc!!cctivc On the last three Wednesdays of every month, KCET producers probe the serious, touching, human and bizarre sides of Los Angeles. A city so diverse it contradicts the title of this show.

The opening program tells of 16-year-old Gloria Griffin who was shot and seriously wounded by a detective. She and her younger brother were subsequently charged with assault with a deadly weapon against the detective and his partner. The charge was later dismissed in Juvenile Court The Grand Jury found the officers not criminally responsible. These incidents are studied from the point of view of all participants. Result: a lesson in the realities of our city and its institutions; Other programs on LA Collective will deal with the image of an airline stewardess.

Los Angeles pioneers and the national convention of La Raza Unida. Replays Sundays 10 p.m. CALENDAR, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1972 iKsa SEVENTH.