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Burlington, (N.C.) TIMES NEWS Oct. 17, 1976 9B Susan Blanchard Is the Perfect 'Tina' Wrong Type Turned Out to Be Right eventually married. Susan and Charlie are also very much in love.) Her agent, she says, didn't send her out on many interviews "because they are so big and I think they lose me. One day I got a call from them and they told me to be sure to wear my hair down on the interview." She makes a face and points to her short dark hair. "When I got there, I found the role was for a STUDIO CITY, Calif.

Susan Blanchard is a delight, a perky, pretty, bright, enthusiastic young lady from the East who is learning the wonders of California living "you can play tennis all year 'round" and has managed to keep her sense of humor about herself and the business. She is playing Tina in the new ABC TV series, Mr. and Tina, and the ingenuous quality which Susan has in real life is obviously what was wanted for the show. It's just that it took a lot of nerve making days for Susan to learn that fact. As she tells the story, she and "I guess you'd call him my fiance because we'll be married some day." Charles Frank, came to California exactly one year ago after they met and fell in love on the soap opera All My Children.

(The characters they played were in love and blue eyed, curlylocks kind of blonde." Eventually, she got a call to go see Jimmy Komaek, creator and producer of Mr. and Tina. "When I got there, Pat Morita was there. Now I haven't seen Happy Days, so I didn't know he had been in the show. They introduced me to him," Susan says, "and told me he was just over from Japan and spoke no English.

They asked me to changing their minds about the type they wanted. "This time I went back and they had a lot of girls there who looked like me. This time I thought of a joke. Then I got called in a third time and I read from a script. The fourth time they told me I would be tested.

I still didn't think Pat spoke English. They were testing two of us. We had an 8:30 a.m. call and I didn't test until 11:30. The scene went well and I was amazed at the amount of English Pat had learned in two weeks.

"Afterwards, Jimmy told me 'on the basis of that test, you'll get Susan went home elated and time passed. She didn't hear. Then there was' another call, asking her to test again. The other actress also returned for a second time. "This time I realized I had been duped and Pat spoke great English.

Anyway, I thought I was just dreadful and after the test I went to the dressing room and called Charlie and told him I had blown it. Jimmy told me I would know definitely the next day." Susan decided not to spend the next day waiting by the telephone. She went shopping. "I was just coming in with my arms full of grocery bags tell him a joke and make sure he could understand it. Well.

I cound't even think of a joke, so I tried to tell him some of the funny things that happened when we first came to California. "I also found out they had been thinking of a voluptuous hip girl so I figured I was not exactly what they were looking for." Susan went home. She got a call a few days later asking her to go back. They were Theatre Grant Applications Sought Now Professional, non profit theatre companies in North Carolina have a limited time left to apply for financial aid for their 1977 projects from the state Theatre Arts section. Theatre Arts, a section of the N.C.

Department of Cultural Resources, will award grants to eligible theatre companies in late November, using funds provided by the N.C. General Assembly. Application for general grants must be made by Oct. 15. These funds can be used for such projects as capital improvements, salary supplements, and technical consultations.

Grants will also be awarded in a "guest artist" category. This pilot program provides funds to bring nationally known film or television performers to North Carolina stages. Only two grants will be awarded in this new category. Theatre Arts officials will work closely with the two grant recipients to determine the future of the program. Susan Blanchard 3 DULT MATINEE MONDAY THRU SATURDAY fgniiwiliaWii and the telephone was ringing.

It was about 3 o'clock and my agent wanted to know if I could be at Jimmy's office by 3:30. Jimmy had been so nice through all of this that I figured he wanted to tell me in person that I didn't get it. I drove over shaking in my boots. SUN. MON.

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THUR. DINE IN ONLY ABC TV is filming the book as a 12 hour non fiction "novel for TV," with stars like Cicely Tyson, Edward Asner. Leslie Uggams, Moses Gunn, Lou Gossett, Lome Greene, Lynda Day George, O.J. Simpson and a newcomer from U.S.C. named LeVar Burton, who plays the major role.

"You'll know him after 'Roots, Heley promises. Meanwhile, Haley is writing a second book called "Search For Roots." He savs, 'Roots' is what I IN HER DREAMS SHE'S A SEX GODDESS IN REAL LIFE SHE'S EVEN BETTER! I II JACK wicholsow Coupon Expires Dec. 30, 1976 Our Customers know the difference. A iroiut HiM STARRING: URSULA MONROE CEDAR HOUSTON JACK RAND0LF DOUGLAS CANNE UNE FLEW OVER It: NEST "bad'HsIears" i "GONE WITH THE WIND" 224 S. Graham Hopedale Burlington Phone 228 7821 1115 E.

Bessemer Greensboro Soon Haley began selling stories to magazines and eventually winding up with Playboy where he started the interview feature and conducted it for three years. One interview was with Malcolm and that led to his first book, "The Autobiography of Malcolm All this time, his grandmother's stories about his ancestors and their African roots were boiling in his brain. One day he was in Washington and he went to the National Archives and looked up the records for the county where his grandparents were born. "It wasn't that I didn't believe my grandmother, but there was something about seeing the names of my ancestors in the official records of the United States that made them so clear to me. All those years I had been thinking of people as my grandmother's grandparents and suddenly I relized they were my great, great grandparents." Haley spent 12 years researching "Roots," which is the saga of a black family from its origins in Africa to the present day.

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He's a pleasant looking man, in his early 50s. Haley was born in Ithaca, N.Y., but grew up in a small town in Tennessee where his grandmother told stories of the family ancestors. Haley's grandmother herself was not born into slavery, but her older sister was. The stories made a profound impression on him. However, as time came to choose a career, he chose the Coast Guard, beginning as a mess boy and becoming a cook.

He did his 20 years in the service, retiring when he was 37. Meanwhile, during his spare time in the service, he taught himself to write. "I wrote something every night or almost every night for eight years before I finally sold anything," he recalls. "The Coast Guard created a new rating called Journalist. I retired as a Chief Journalist and wrote speeches and public relations material for them." MM.

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