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Evening, June 25, 1976 Japanese-American Comedian To Star In Series By VernoB Scott HOLLYWOOD (UPI) do you make a Jap The question was asked by Pat Morita, the Japanese- American comedian who will star in and a television series that is breaking new ground by starring an Asian. question was serious. As a stand-up comic his humor is strictly American. He knows little if anything about Japanese humor. Considerably under medium height, Morita is a watch-charm of a man who chuckles a great deal.

He has a wispy mustache and a receding hairline. As a Nisei (a second tion Japanese-American), Pat Morita is more Ameriran than Archie Bunker. In the series he plays an old-country Japanese newly arrived on these shores. Wearing a funky hat, a T- shirt, on which a giant clam was stenciled, and chinos, Pat sipped a can of fruit juice the other day and wondered how viewers would take to an Asian hero. popular to call as Asians instead of he said.

the difference. Why not Japs or Nips. It matter to me. blacks can be called blacks, why they call us Morita, a nightclub comedian for more than a dozen years, was last season as Arnold, the owner of the drive-in hangout for the kids in the highly rated series. Over the years Pat has had his ups playing Hollywood and his downs playing third-rate clubs in the Catskills.

Pat speaks unblemished English and until this series came along he fake a native Japanese trying to speak American English. In order to star as Pat developed a Japanese cent with the aid of Mel Blanc. four years ago I was playing the Copa in New York and tried an old-country he said. opening night Bill Dana told me I had the worst Jap accent he ever heard. And what does Dana know? Hungaian.

brother can read and write Japanese and speak the language too. I can understand it pretty well, but I can barely make myself understod in Japanese. I guess the yellow PBS To Telecast White House Dinner Live By JAY SHARBUTT NEW YORK (AP)-For reasons that elude me, the Public Broadcasting Service says spend the entire night of July 7 showing public TV viewers live and taped coverage of a quiet dinner at the White House. The dinner is to honor royal family, which is making what PBS calls a Bicentennial here, no doubt to explain that George acted a bit rashly 200 years ago. PBS says its coverage, to begin at 7 p.m.

CDT and end at 10 p.m. unless dessert is late, will be anchored by newsman Robert MacNeil, Jean Marsh, public most famous maid, and Julia Child, a cook. It says the live show will include the royal ture from Blair House, the official receiving line at the White House, the procession to dinner, the toasts and the live entertainment. Now never seen such a live TV dinner honoring a royal family, but we suspect the commentary will go something like this: MacNeil: royal family is arriving and this? HY GARDNER HAS THE ANSWER: Glad You Asked That! Chevy Chase is right behind them. Whoops, he fell down.

But he's getting up, saying problem, no and the Duke is looking Marsh: you please contribute to support public MacNeil: said, not now, Jean. Queen Elizabeth, as we can see, is chatting with Mr. Ford. Mr. Ford is laughing.

She must have said something funny. No. maybe not. In fact, the Queen is frowning Child: if I may interject, I believe she said, you please pass me the and may have been Marsh: you please contribute to support public MacNeil: I repeat, this is no time for a fund Marsh: but how shall we pay for this live We normally tout old movies, but got to take a look tonight at the CBS late movie scheduled to compete with Johnny Carson and late-hour mystery show. (Check your local listings to be sure on.) sheep of the As Mr.

Morita will play an immigrant widower with a couple of young daaghters. The in the title is an attractive governess for his little girls. Morita describes his character as a sort of inept swinger, a genius inventor who somehow just misses when he tries to blend into the American culture. taken a Berlitz course in English and is willing to jump into the main stream of American Pat said, he messes up. problem is that he tries to enforce old-country customs and manners for the kids in a new environment.

But they take to American life right away. would like to hang in there with the Samurai code and keep women in their place, but he handle The incongruity of the situation provides the humor. Moria said there are no racial messages or subtle pleas for social justice. never tried to be a spokesman for the Japanese in this country. Or in the old coun- TV Station Purchased 1 understand the genius of the violin.

di Menohin, recently attended his first Rolling Stows concert. What was his reaction? T. Sloate, Youngstown, Ohio. you took an electric drill or a piledriver, turned it so it sounded a note, amplified it a hundred times and then played it over a public square, it would sound to the people forced to live nearby much as this concert sounded to me. It a concert of he caustically comments to a London reporter, a spectacle, and the spectacle nowadays which fills the rwd in people for emotion Only the most committed Rolling Stone loyalist could have regarded this return to London as anything but a comments about Mick Jagger were equally blunt.

tonelessly bawled rather than sang. He looked like Little Lord Fauntleroy and was just about as In visiting Jerusalem I ran into a restaurant called Kissinger's Steak House. this conflict of interest for our Henry? Mrs. H. Schmidt.

Milwaukee. No conflict no kin. It only proves all Kissingers are smart. That the Jerusalem restauran- teur recognizes a box office name even if the name may be just a coincidence. Who said, will not accept if nominated and will not serve if P.D.B., Phoenix, Arii.

Gen. William Sherman in turning down an offer to be nominated for President in 1884. His message, delivered to the Republican national convention, said in part: "If nominated I will not run. If elected, I will not I heard that King Kong finally wiH find a mate, a she-gorilla. Will this be a mini-mechanized Kong like the one who held Fay Wray? Or will she be a real gorilla? R.

Goldsmith, Baltimore. "Queen Kong, the Liberated Lady will have to be done with trick photography just as the original Kong Kong was. My husband and reading about a number of West Pointers being involved in that mass cheating situation, wondered whether this might have been influenced by Watergate? Any opinion? Mr. and Mrs. L.

Wendell, Troy, N.Y. While the current climate of the country can be blamed for some moral handy derelictions, we think this scandal is one of them. Frankly, a copout. Watching Lucie Arnaz on TV made me wonder. As the daughter of Lucy and Desi, did she always know she would be an actress? Hattie Burt Lambert, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

No. used to cry and say the only one in my family who is never going to be she revealed to PBS interviewer Jeanne Wolf. just be a great thought Lucie, raise beautiful children and When asked whether Lucie knows Tatum. Ryan daughter (another young tege). she answered: "I see Tatum a lot on the beach in Malibu she has a house right near a friend, and when alone a kid.

Then she dresses up, has some person cut her hair and put on her makeup and looks like a seven- year-old trying to be 23 it just gets to me. I understand why trying to do that. There was actually a headline in a movie magazine that she was making passes at Robert De- Niro. Thank goodness that never happened to me at her When the interviewer noted that brother Desi once was characterized as somewhat of a Don Juan. Lucie answered: image doesn't fit anymore.

much more conservative now. He hardly dates at all. And producing a movie a science fiction film. also very heavily into meditation, Lucie also said that, while she is separated from Phil, her husband, not legally divorced. just see any real reason for going through with it until one of us wants to get married again.

For a long time we hoped get back together maybe be a Lucie also denied that her fling with Jim Bailey, the clever female impersonator, was a publicity stunt. was just a good friend and fun to be Send your questions to Hy Gardner, You Asked in care of this newspaper. P.O. Box 11748, Chicago, III. 60611.

The volume of mail makes personal replies impossible. NEW ORLEANS. (UPI) WVUE-TV, Channel 8, has been sold for $13.5 million to an Oklahoma broadcasting company The sale, to Gaylord Broadcasting, was announced this week. Columbia Pictures the current owner, said it expects the sale to be complete by the end of the year if it wins Federal Communications Commission approval. Columbia executives said the sale was part of a strategy to sell properties unrelated to film and television production.

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I think much in terms of race. Being part of a minority is no burden for me. in Japan everybody knows an American. no burden either. looks like a funny show to me and all supposed to be.

We showed the pilot to a lot of Japanese here in Los Angeles which has the largest Japanese population in the country and they loved it. fell down laughing. They could see themselves in the same situations. we had some friends from Japan look at it and they cracked up. Our only problem showing the series in Japan will be in the Morita had to worry about making the transition from stand-up comic to situation-comedy actor.

transition was made easier because we tape our show in front of a live he explained. something like working in a club. I learned a lot from I still believe what happened to me on that show. I appeared in only 16 episodes and became a hero to the kids in this country. go anywhere now without being recognized as With luck, Morita may find a new bunch of admirers who think of him as Mr Bit Parts: Vanessa Redgrave will play the title role in for 20th Samantha Egger will co-star with Jack Palance in Richard Burton will narrate a rock album version on H.

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