Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 12

4-B THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS Abilona Texas Wed Eve Feb 16 1977 Wednesday Night Television Logs Showbeat Dick Kleiner 'Roots II' may be in making of me I was still something of a misfit the only American but it wasn't so bad" As solace while in Australia she turned to religion and wu a devout Roman Catholic "Then one day" she says "I had to aay an Act of Contrition I made up my own and the print like that friendly with Tommy Leonetti who waa then a hot and rising young linger Now I have met his step-daughter a rising young actress Kimberly Beck is a regular on ABC's Man Poor Man" series She plays the daughter of a lady lawyer a young girt with problems who may or may not turn out to be a hooker Leonetti became her stepfather 10 yean ago when he married her mother "I really love ihe say sort of like a Era Ask him anything and '11 have a book for me to read about the subject" Leonetti and his family including Kimberly spent throe yean in Australia She was 12 to 15 at the time He had a show there and became a big star in Australia For Kimberly those three years in Australia were a turning point in her life had always been a misfit as a kid" ahe saya had been sick rheumatic fever and I had been raised by my grandmother My mother waa an actress Cindy Rob-' bins was her name and was so busy with her career that she didn't raise me in Australia she was always there That wu the first time she really took care KIMBERLY BECK "Rich Man" regular ter things today than are the movies to make money today" he saya to be sensational But television is able to tackle more aerious and thoughtful themes more provocative themes biographies Movies used to do them but no more except for an occasional Pst-ton or MscArthur or the offbeat things like Lennie No today it's television that is doing the filmed biographies" A king time ago I became By HOLLYWOOD (NEA) -There may be more Roots coming along eventually David Wolper who put together the splendid eight days that ABC telecast recently says there could be more on the way "I have the right! to the entire Alex Haley book" he says the book tells the story of nine generations of Haley's family but the telecast only covered five generations So there are four left I've also already acquired the rights to Haley's follow-up book about his search for his roots I think both of those will make big TV projecti" Wolper aaya that making and then seeing Roots on television was a funny feeling He had been deeply involved with the project tor two solid years and then it was over in eight days "It's not like doing a movie or a TV series" he says "They both last for a while But this was over so quickly and it had represented such a long period in my life" Wolper is one of those who believes that TV is doing bet- deal with Jimmie says he is happy that women have asserted themselves lest anyone think he is a Male Chauvinist Pig But don't get assertive around him on the subject of map riage Even Jimmie can get worn out used to sleep with six or seven a week The last six months I have spent in isolation Now there are one or two women I am involved with and I am not the be-all and end-all of their existence in a nice space I'm grooving well doing nicely and evolving nicely" OAK DRIVI-IN i i i TOO 4 till HER TASTE OF FREEDOM PUN ST Silt OUT MISS TERRY TAKES LIBERTY ueiTi ten is wna os OPM 7 MTU A WUX RATES XXX tm bist nna TOW! 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By JOAN CBOSBY HOLLYWOOD Jimmie Weiker'i apartment is perhaps smaller than might be expected but as might be expected it is a swinging bachelor's pad with over- stuffed luxurious leather fur' niture modular designs around and plants everywhere you look He lives on Sunset Boulevard In a round building high over the busy thoroughfare Jimmie who hu reached teenage idol stature through his role as JJ on Times" says his main function is as a stand-up comic Even his surroundings don't awe him a stark he says "I never thought wow I've made it I'm doing the things I want to do I moved into the comedic field by being in a poverty program In a year and a half I got a lot of stuff together" Jimmie is very opposed to drugs or any stimulants in- JIMMIE WALKER eluding alcohol and coffee Hi think school is th greatest thing ever invented not a big believer ii schooling I think college Just way of saying 'Staj here until you get yourself to gether1 Unless someone is go ing to be a doctor or a lawyer Latin or English literature am Greek literature have littli bearing on our lifestyle" Jimmie stretches his lonj frame and says have a tre memdously long boring phi losophy We are bogged dowi by bureaucrats We're like i train on the tracks whose con ductor advocates a socialistic capitalistic dictatorship" Best Picture Best Actress Best Actor Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress II Best Director Jimmie Is disillusioned by politicians have all been corrupted to get into those high places You just don't walk in out of the streets end get those positions You have to give something to get there We're getting more and more cluttered Everybody says everything is wonderful and no one is doing snything about it "Everybody is corrupted People are hypocritical They got so excited when Carter said he occasionally lusted after a woman Every man has lusted after a woman I'm always lusting" Jimmie is definitely not married The way he feels he will never be (but don't reckon without the powers of some women to get wedding rings) "I don't believe in map riage" he says think it's an outmoded outdated institution Han is not monogamous by nature Every day a man sees a woman and thinks 'Hey ail right I could Mobile Ala At least Richard who is about 42 is single He is tall and thin and was born in Beverly Hills His first fame was as Dr Kildare You'll need a lot of money As soon as he finishes "Night of the Iguans" on Broadway he goes to Australia for a film (The TV Scout Staff in California will answer your questions in this space We cannot newer by mail or telephone Ask TV Scout UulBiri A MIMICAL F1MTA1 dSaSms BOY BOBERS Totxth dr Country OPEN 6:30 PR 673-6961 ADULTS 17S CHILDREN SO MCTMSOUWYN By JOAN CROSBY BROWN TUNES -Can you tell me the name of the eatchy theme mnale on the Charlie Brown specials? 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