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MMEMMEmminIENEMMIEMMIMEEMIMENEMIEMIIMIEMEIMMIMIMIEMMNPMMEMIPMIMEMEIMII i J'Y 111 i itioz 1 a ''''111kbr 1 "''011 4''' i'' Is 0e 37 0 4 ') 1 4 d's -4 1vi- 41''''' -) I 8B THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Set Oct 23 I972 He's played three presidents 1 i't 4 i lir 011arlottt ODstrtitr '4- three saints and tiro geniuses he is larger titan hie 0 qpnor I I 0 Charlton Heston 1 i Co-Star Says Wh By MARILYN BECK the star "I have preached the at e---4 N6 4( 0 2' N4 When he speaks even in cas responsible for his own life that (C) 1972 Marilyn Sack lesson that he must expect to be 1 0 ual cve if something happens is his 1 Raquel Welch Is 1: 1 bratesonrsation his voice vi i fault and he must take the I' When he talks you half ex- blame" 1 i Rhymes Wit it Witch fir swimming pool to part ern stock (his father was a mill 1 operator in St Helen Mich) i 1 By MARILYN BECK "The fact 'I 10' -4) His presence commands Wen- Heston was raised in an environ that the film par HOLLYWOOD When the licularly the scenes where I was pect the waters of his backyard Born of small-town Midwest :4) tion even when he's attired as ment where one took pride in 0 41 he was at the time of our lunch- carrying his own load And that 1 i Las Vegas Hilton sends out the press-celeb invites to Raquel it can save itself the bother of inviting Norman Alden If I Because Alden Raquel's supposed to appear in love with her came out well I can only credit to the genius of a film ed- itor who knew how and what to cut "I guess I should feel sorry ting himself on record right now woman who must have the spot- me in an audience to applaud that broad" manly to slap a lady verbally light all the time who must be the center of attention and who can't stand to be upstaged 41" ii eon meeting in a costume Welch's Dec 23 nightclub debut cut '4 I 0 ebaelhl yavti ohrereTihseno way ex us islee comprised of a soiled T-shirt and cotton work pants for his role in "co lent Green" And his viewpoints stated in articulate terms with occa sional quotes from the classics used as historical points of refer- ence to give perspective to the background has left its mark His grammar school education was acquired in a one-room school with an enrollment of 13 high school and college diplomas an- attained at a Winnetka Ill sub- sas City Bomber' co-star is put- for her a terribly insecure urb high school and Northwest- ern University But his education that "There's no way they'd get has obviously never ceased His home in a setting that He realizes it's not very gentle would have been appropriate for present command respect and one of his Biblical epics hovers Ilirth nn a mniintain tnn with 8 THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Set Oct 23 I972 He's played three presidents 17t A 4 4 4 1 q11-C 011arlottt ODstrtitr three saints and tiro geniuses 0 qpnor 0 he is ittrmfrer titan lt le I I 1 511Dotilng11tt Charlton Heston 1 1 iiice Co-Star Says What By teztpm By MARILYN BECK the star "I have preached the A-04 1 (C) 1972 Marilyn Back lesson that he must expect to be When he speaks even in cas responsible for his own life that I Raquel Welch Is 1 his voice vi if something happens it is his t4 buraalcsove fault and he must take the blame" When he talks you half ex- 3 -i pert the waters of his backyard -town Midwest Rhymes Wait Tritch 4 11 1 Born of small swimming pool to part ern stock (his father was a mill 1 4) operator in St Helen Mich) 1 If His presence commands Wen Heston was raised in an environ- I By MARILYN BECK "The fact that the film par ment where one took pride in HOLLYWOOD When the ticularly the scenes where 1 was carrying his own load And that 1 ten tion even when rsation he's attired as 1 he was at the time of our lunch- i Las Vegas Hilton sends out the supposed to appear in love with background has left its mark press-celeb invites to Raquel I 1 her came out well I can only lk 40" eon meeting in a costume comprised of a soiled T-shirt and His grammar school education Welch's Dec '23 nightclub debut it can save itself the bother of credit to the genius of a film ed itor ho knew how and what to cotton ork pants for his role in was acquired in a ne oom -r inviting orman Alden cut MGM's "Soylent Green" school with an enrollment of 13 l' Because Alden Raquel's "Kan "I guess I should feel sorry 2 high school and college diplomas i attained at a Winnetka Ill sub ii" sas City Bomber' co-star is put for her a terribly insecure And his flewpoi nts stated urb high school and Northwest- tinrt himcrif on record ridtt now wnman whn must have the soot- III articulate terms with occa ern University But his education 1111 THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Zhr Oharlottt Obstrtitr Co-Star Says What Raquel Welch Is Rhymes With Witch By MARILYN BECK HOLLYWOOD When the Las Vegas Hilton sends out the press-celeb invites to Raquel Welch's Dec 23 nightclub debut it can save itself the bother of inviting Norman Alden Because Alden Raquel's "Kan sas City Bomber' co-star is putting himself on record right now that "There's no way they'd get me in an audience to applaud that broad" He realizes it's not very gentlemanly to slap a lady verbally Set Oct 2 2 1972 fp otilfigint "The fact that the film par lieu larly the scenes where I was supposed to appear in love with her came out well I can only credit to the genius of a film editor who knew how and what to cut "I guess I should feel sorry for her a terribly insecure woman who must have the spotlight all the time who must be the center of attention and who can't stand to be upstaged "But really there is no excuse for her behavior The way she He's played three presidents three saints and tiro geniuses he is larger than life Charlton Heston By MARILYN BECK (C) 1972 Marilyn Back When he speaks even in cas ual conversation his voice vi brates When he talks yoti half expect the waters of his backyard swimming pool to part His presence commands attention even when he's attired as he was at the time of our lunch eon meeting in a costume comprised of a soiled T-shirt and cotton work pants for his role in MGM's "Soy lent Green" And his viewpoints stated In articulate terms with occa slonal quotes from the classics used as historical points of refer ence to give perspective to the present command respect and the star "I have preached the lesson that he must expect to be responsible for his own life that if something happens it is his fault and he must take the blame" Born of small-town Midwestern stock (his father was a mill operator in St Helen Mich) Heston was raised in an environment where one took pride in carrying his own load And that background has left its mark His grammar school education was acquired in a one-room school with an enrollment of 13 high school and college diplomas attained at a Winnetka Ill suburb high school and Northwestern University But his education has obviously never ceased His home in a setting that would have been appropriate for one of his Biblical epics hovers high on a mountain top with Beverly Hills nestled at its feet It's there where business leaders doctors politicians and an occasional actor or two congregate on weekends to make use of the Ileston tennis court that's cantilevered out along the side of a cliff and to engage in informal forums there on the mount Charlton Heston individualistic berates subordinates is embarrassing to everyone around "I've worked In a lot of films with some of the most important stars of the business But none of them have ever acted like Raquel thank God!" I get the feeling that Dinah Shore is this close to becoming Mrs Burt Reynolds Because when I asked her if she had said "yes" to Burt's proposals that gal who's never at a loss for words simply giggled and blushed Blushin' Dinah incidentally hasn't been wasting any time in town without her guy She rushes off to the LA airport the minute she concludes her NBC inah 's Place" chores each week to join Burt at his place near West Palm Beach Fla or wherever he happens to be It's interesting that while Sonny Cher are breaking records during their current gig at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas the ratings on their CBS show keep going down down down The London scene: Joan Collins has fallen so in love with one of the costumes she NV ears in Universal's "The Man Who Came to Dinner" she's trying to persuade hubby Ron Kass to buy it for her I don't blame her It's a smashing $4500 full-length coat Raquel Welch of white broadtail lamb trimmed with white Arctic fox on loan to the company from a Dover Street furrier On that "Dinner" soundstage incidentally there's a difference of opinions raging about the Lorraine Sheldon role Ms Collins is playing Many of the characters in the work were based on real people and co-star Orson Welles is convinced that the Sheldon gal was none other than Gertrude Lawrence Other's claim it was Tallulah Bankhead Joan reports she's just playing the part as a talented woman who likes men and sex In other words the type who usually ends up with $4500 coats David McCallum starring with Robert Wagner in the Universal-BBC "Colditz" series has been having so much luck recently as a musical composer (four alubums of his original tunes on the stands) he decided to try his hand at writing the "Colditz" score It's turned out to be a waste of music unfortunately The producers rejected the McCallum composition and commissioned noted British composer Robert Farnon to pen the score of the World War II German prison camp drama He's been married to former school days sweetheart Lydia Clark for a 28-year period never marked by the trail separation ritual that besets even most of the solid Hollywood marriages He's been six times president of the 23000-member Screen Actors Guild has served as US delegate to the Berlin Film Festival made a number of overseas tours under the State Department 's Cultural Presentations Program has worked with the President's Opportunities I Youth Program and is a member of the National Council of the Arts He plays a driving game of tennis is an expert horseback rider runs two miles a day reads novels and biographies by the score and pores through newspapers thoroughly So far he hasn't mastered the knack of walking on water Ponderous some of his statements might tend to seem if they weren't accompanied by an -s -s light twinkling of the eyes an occasional hint of a chuckle that prove that he doesn't take himelf or his observations all that seriously Although the presidency of the Screen Actor's Guild served as a springboard into politics for Ronald Reagan Heston disclaims any ambitions to follow that same trail "The subject of my running thought Charlton Heston 6 feet 2 with the muscular build of a lumberjack is larger than life even off the screen He's played three presidents three saints and two geniuses has been seen on film as Andrew Jackson Marc Antony Sir Thomas More Michelangelo and Moses And now looking back on a career that's spanned 22 years and has included numerous international awards he expresses surprise that he's managed to make a living much less a fortune as a motion picture actor For he's discerned a common theme in many of the 40 movie roles he's chosen that he wouldn't imagine would have translated into box office dollars "So many of my portrayals' he analyzes "have been about men whose sense of individual responsibility was the prime factor in their triumphs "Certainly it has become unfashionable to march to that different drum Certainly we have reached an era when group responsibility has come to be the favored thing when the individual can indulge in group guilt and hence find self-satisfaction in not having to do anything personally to solve any of our overwhelming problems" Probably not too surprisingly Heston is an advocate of the individual-responsibility doctrine he's expounded so often on screen And fearless that such a philosophy might label him a "square" by today's values he volunteers that not only will he continue to live by it he has In-parted it to his 17-year-old son and 11yearold daughter "From the time my son was old enough to understand" says 68 Pounds Oil Al Hirt 'Feels Great' Hirt described the operation used to correct weight problems as a "roaring success" and noted that it had even helped his trumpet playing "Men you are heavy lid hig you know you have trouble breathing" be said "I've nottred that try breath ing has really improved" "It is just made me feel so good I have the zest for living that I did not have be fore" Hirt was In the hospital for Iwo days or postoperative tests Ile returned to New Or leans where he owns a nightclub after the news confer (sive Ile said he underwent the operation after losing and gaining back "1000 pounds" in years of dieting "1 had always been obese and I had tried every kind of diet there was and lost and gained it all back" he said 01 was at an impasse and I could not do anything about for Senate or Congress has come up a couple of times" he confirms "But I've always rejected the idea and plan to continue doing so "You see I can never picture myself retiring from acting and we've got too many part time senators and 'congressmen now" i He doesn't however see anything wrong with others parlaying show business fame into elective governmental positions: "I believe actors are as likely to be effective in terms of the essential ability to communicate as any aft or ne scholar business leader or whatever And certainly far more effective in getting their thoughts across to the public "And- when you think about It bow far removed are the two fields? Any effective actor must have something of the politician in him And God knows any successful politician must be part actor "The resentment toward actors entering politics is curious and stems I feel from the fact that many people still regard us as second-class citizens We're looked upon as wifestealers drunks when" and his lips tip into just the bare suggestion of a smile "we all know those traits aren't reserved for my pro fession alone" One of the last of the remaining veteran super-stars whose services are still in steady demand his MGM "Skyjacked" was one of this summer's box office winners his "Call of the Wild" is due for Christmas release and he is now hurrying to complete "Soylent Green" film chores at Metro so he can fulfill a legitimate assignment on the Los Angeles Music Center stage ne ue re Lrt en he Lte ye oss out wo ust Ian )art Lors and hat as e're ers9 lips lion lose de-was lice Id" and lete at Why Spend 10 Times More On Defense Than On Health? Ile's also aware it's probably not very wise 'because when Jim Aubrey and the rest of the brass at MGM read this they'll probably never speak to me again But she was so terribly unfair to the cast and crew of 'Bomber' I feel Someone has to speak out" He recalls that "Burt warned me about Raquel after they made 'Fuzz' together In fact he told me he'd sent flowers to her roller skates after she broke her wrist during a 'Kansas City' skating spill "But I wouldn't listen to Burt or to the stories about Jim Brown's troubles with her during '100 Rifles' shooting But do I ever wish I had'" Alden feels that his Raquel caused distress probably was more acute than that enced by her other leading men because she was part owner of "Kansas City Bomber" which meant she had the opportunity of throwing her weight around as boss lady as well as leading lady "Maybe I shouldn't take pot shots at sacred cows" says the veteran character actor "but she was simply terrible She was al- ways changing the script around always intimidating people in the cast "As far as I waS concerned the -I only time she did communicate with me was with four letter words too raw to even repeat wonumpoinimnot 0162RAFF 44 192 MNatopt Svnettrzle FOrairelleNS it Big Asset In 'Marriage By BILLY crtAmm INly wife and I have been wrangling for a long time Now she Is talking about get ting a divorce nf) you think it Is right to separate because of petty disagreements? JE The Bible says: "What therefore Cod hath joined to gether let not man put aqui der" (Matthews 196) Mar is something holy If you Wand your wife are Christians you will not regard it You must remember too that Jesus emphasized again and again that the spirit is more important than the law your differnces are petty Vou can save your marriage your home rerhaps you both have been expecting perfection suit that has led you Into the habit of nagging find complaLaig about litlle things that night better hive been overlookvd You must begin now to be a little kinder Try to he patient Show your appreciation but swam that harping criticism Occasionally bring your miife an unexpected gift And every day tell her you love her Any family will go on the rocks vithout love and forgiveness You can't break I he habit of fussing nod scolding without the help of God Begin each dly with Nile rending and prnyer An you draw near to Cod you'll draw closcr to each (Our 6m lielf i tz ANCY' ig 174c To 'a )41 APtoie Ris ltt 2 It spend national care on shows times disease That that for its ago "Bois brother If Ill) commodity the ahead should to the to the which dying more cities that me Jose your per per and per 4 I 1' 41 Ix that one of the chief aims of every nation's foreign policy is to keep its friends from turning into enemies what is not recognized is the opposite aim (at times just as important) of keeping its enemies from turn jog into friends In nearly every Intractable case of illness when the patient suddenly begins to make a recovery it is because that moment has arrived when the doctor himself becomes the tre a men By Sydney Harris SUPER SAVINGS FOR SATURDAY SHOPPERS Thoughts at Large: seems curious that we only 6 per cent of our budget on health and 10 times as much def ens when history that people are 1000 more likely to die from than from war satirical little button reads "Kill a Commie Christ!" is neither as modern nor as originally comic as deviser imagines: 150 years Carlyle satirized the slogan of the French revolution or as mon trete ou in le tue" translated as ''Be my or I will kill you!" prostitution Is ever eliminated it will be when sex Is longer considered as a but regarded as a relationship and In that light younger generation Is far of Its parents Economic opportunities be offered not merely poor in large cities but small towns and villages throughout Americ a are shriveling up and away while more and people leave for the big and thus compound our i I problems of pollution population density joblessness rootlessness and public welfare I wonder if the people who use a bloody and inhumane passage from the Bible to bray that "The death penalty is God's law for murder" would go all the way with Deuteronomy 21:18 in agreeing that if a son disobeys his father the father should have the son stoned to death by all the men of the city? "Housing" is One of the biggest scandals and disgraces in America in the last 20 years yet the subject is so inherently dull that no one can get interested in it unless he is living in a hovel It is commonly recognized re -ow ceAk40 '10 1 A ill 'OAA United Press International RICHMOND Va Enter-All the objections I have tamer Al Hirt describing a been voicing for the last 20 new "zest for living" said years to the so-called "IQ" Friday he has lost 68 pounds tests are tersely and convinc- since undergoing an intestinal ingly summed up in the new bypass operation here March book "The IQ Cult" by Evelyn Sharp which all concerned parents are urged to read and Hirt said during a news con- reflect on ference at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital that he low I wish Westinghouse would weighs 200 pounds and 1--- hopes to lose another 40 try to explain to me why a "service call" to fix a couple pounds of disconnected wires in an "I feel that the loss has electric oven taking less than really given me a new lease a half-hour visit should cost on life" he said "I was real-us $21 when the workman iy ill vilen I came in here to gets only $490 an hour for his tv have the operation but I feel ork and this received only just great now" $245 on this job Hirt said during a news conference at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital that he now weighs 200 pounds and hopes to lose another 40 pounds "I feel that the loss has really given me a new lease on life" he said "I was really ill when I came in here to have the operation but I feel just great now" a 0 Senior ill l' '111111111111)) 999 11 1 i1 Misses' sweater knit pant setshoirtt '74 II 011 11' 1411b Phi I igi 7 1 iyiii i eTahsrye-ecastryelowsastahyaebrieedalcoryoklics Ill' l' hi Ilittlill i 11 it till 77' 41 I 0 I t1 collar turtleneck in fashion 1iii 4 1 lilt 4' iiltilt color combos Sizes Mil Op1 I iit 1 iih I 4 '11111 11 11 I i Ol1171 11111 1 1 il' 11 I )11 1 fi 1 11 11 it iks'4441 21'2 :12 i ilitICI 1101 11 0 'I I I 'hi a 17 I Yew 1111 wnh Hid Nk '''N''k's III II N' 1 I I 11 ''s 11 I 1 'L '''3' a ''S '7 le II '1' Nel" 1111101111110Moi 999 Misses' sweater knit pant sets of easy-care washable acrylic Three look shirt collar turtleneck in fashion color combos Sizes Forum which you lose 44 per cent to group insurance which you may or may not lose and 46 per cent went to unemployment Insurance welfare and service awards which you lose These gains and losses vary widely among institutions and corporations and as a general rule an employe might figure he'll get a pension Social Security and possibly some lifetime insurance when he retires That's about all unless the employer makes garden rakes and will tell you how to buy them wholesale Extra benefits for retired employes are increasing all the time with pensions of those already retired being increased in many cases But the normal employer is interested primarily in the employes still on the job and is inclined to throw what new benefits he can afford to them Of your question can be answered in this space send it in) By PAUL IIIGIITOWER When I retire In 1973 I know I will lose a salary and gain a pen61011 and Social Security Can you tell Just what financial benefits I will besides the salary? A It depends on how generous employer has been and how effeclive union demands for more fringe benefits have been The better your employer has been as a rule the bigger your loss One of the larger corporations reported recently that about 23 cent of its total payroll went to employes in forms other than salary These broke down as follows: 82 cent of the payroll went to vacations holidays which you lose with retirement 49 per cent went to pensions which you begin collecting with retirement 35 per cent went to Social Securily which you begin collecting 15 cent to workmen's compensation JCPenney We know what you're looking for PARK ROAO SHOPPING CENTER SHOP MK through IR 10 A to 9 PM SAT la I to 8 PM 1 elMINoLabill OWN.