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CALENDAR Cos Angeles Slimes Television Listings Tuesday February 1 1983 Part VI BOB CHAMBERLIN Los Angeles Times VIDEO FILE PAY TV MAY TAKE YOU OUT TO MORE BALLGAMES with an official close to the negotiations have revealed some of the details have created something in the public's that they have a God-given right to sports on the official said "Sports is going to no doubt about it going to wean the public off this free White Sox owner Eddie Einhorn is the principal mastermind of the new pay-TV venture which is being put together by Robert Schmidt a Washington DC communications consultant and attorney and a former president of the National Cable Television Assn Among clients are the New York Yankees Plans for the new network were presented to other club owners at December league meetings in Hawaii and again early in January in Chicago Super Sports Network is to be based on SportsVision pay-TV service in the Chicago area which offers about 425 sporting Please see VIDEO FILE Page 8 package of other sporting events The proposed pay network will carry commercials too Viewers of the proposed pay-sports service can expect to pay monthly subscription fees comparable to those of other pay-TV services such as Home Box Office or ON TV Owners of the three baseball teams have put up a reported $16 million to launch the network and have invited other baseball teams to participate in the proposed network At least 10 other teams are said to be considering the proposal seriously- The owners involved in the formation of the proposed network have refused to discuss the proposed venture publicly but sporadic published reports in trade magazines and a background interview By DAVID CROOK Times Staff Writer Having witnessed the great national video orgy of the Super Bowl just two days ago viewers must be wondering how much longer the advertising -supported commercial -TV system can keep up the pace There are signs that the old TV Some baseball owners for instance have already found a new mistress in pay television The change -up to pay TV may begin with first pitch when the Chicago White Sox the Detroit Tigers and the Milwaukee Brewers plan to launch their new Super Sports a national satellite-delivered pay-TV service promising a minimum of 40 games from each team plus a year-round RODERICK MANN Willie Nelson left and Merle Haggard mix country tradition and modern concerns in concert ROBERT HILBURN LATEST DREAM TEAM In country music you will probably find some diehards who also argue that the old days were the best but harder to support the proposition in that field Without slighting the landmark contributions of Jimmie Rodgers in the '20s and or Hank Williams later country music has more major artists at work now than ever The encouraging thing is many of these key figures are working together Rejecting the career isolation of most rockers the giants of country Nelson Haggard Jennings Johnny Cash and George team up on record andor in music than in rock is that (country peformers) been around a long time and we know each other got our careers established and we enjoy doing something that is fun for us For instance as big a fan of this man (Nelson) as anybody great to be able to be on stage with Last NelsonHaggard shows were staged by Charlie Ma-goo Productions the same company headed by Hells Angels members (James) Fu Griffin and Deakon Proudfoot that sponsored last Nelson and Jennings date at San Spartan Stadium On Saturday Nelson came out early to join Haggard vocally on their new single to a nostalgic salute to the good and bad times in a veteran life He then stayed on stage for more tunes including fiddle-spiked oldies like All and country smash From When Haggard got to the line in about let our hair grow long and shaggy like the hippies out in San Francisco he looked over and winked at Nelson who frequently wears his hair long The crowd roared at the good-natured confrontation and even more at the San Francisco reference in the song After an intermission Haggard came on stage for Nelson's part of the show but simply played guitar Please see NEW DREAM Page 6 PENNY COLEMAN MILLIE PERKINS MAKING A HOLLYWOOD COMEBACK JUDY GRAEME Millie Perkins is back in town happy with a new film for in which she appears The answer came that a movie with Elvis Presley called in the Perkins married Dean Stockwell but was divorced four years later Then she married writer Robert Thom had two children and moved to New York She made some more indifferent films And when her second marriage foundered (Thom died in 1979) she and her two daughters moved to Jacksonville Ore where she stayed until two years ago Now back in town And after a long absence from the screen making her comeback Please see PERKINS Page 3 granddaughter (Lesleh Donaldson) has come for the summer to help out the familiar instance of nothing quite being what it seems Despite constant talk of how good a man her husband was Donaldson learns that he actually was a nasty drunkard all that whispering Donaldson keeps hearing from the basement which is strictly off-limits? And why is it that some of overnight guests never are seen again? Made in the realistic Canadian style has a certain earnestness and lack of polish that is appealing Donaldson and her new boyfriend (Dean Garbett) a local youth are likable and believable in their considerable naivete Hawtrey proves to be as formidable an actress as she is in appearance and Barry Morse come to stay at Please see' Page 5 and may be key country matchup of the concert Besides their shows together Nelson and Haggard have made a heartwarming album which was just been released by Epic Records About the willingness to work together in country music Nelson said backstage Saturday night main reason is we really enjoy it Normally the only time people like Merle and I get a chance to sit around and sing together is in a hotel or motel room Now just getting the chance to do it in front of other Agreed Haggard think one reason you see it more in country think of this as being my I second Millie Perkins A said makes it rather a long time since my first Millie Perkins made her movie debut in "The Diary of Anne in 1959 before the majority of filmgoers were born And in it she made an indelible impression as the young Jewish girl whose chronicle of her doomed efforts to evade capture by the Nazis during the German occupation of Holland became a modern classic Perkins had been a shy fashion SAN If and was country dream team in the late 70s the key country matchup during the may be and In the first of several proposed concerts together Nelson and Haggard demonstrated Friday and Saturday nights at the Cow Palace here that this pairing is as potent as the Nelson-Jennings combination that sparked the enormously influential outlaw movement in country music Despite the longtime Wil-lieWaylon association Nelson and Haggard may have even more in common musically Both have a strong feel for country tradition freely mixing Western swing and honky-tonk salutes with their latest hits Equally important they are both interested in making that tradition relevant to listeners The difference is that Haggard programs his blue-collar consciousness into the lyrics of songs like Blues" or the Good Times Really while onstage attitude conveys his message of brotherhood and integrity as much as the words to his songs The bad news about this new association: No LA date is planned Much of the rock world is hung up on the idea that the music just as good as it used to be For '50s and '60 enthusiasts no one has ever equaled the excitement of Elvis Presley and Little Richard or the Beatles and the Stones respectively A FRIENDLY WAY TO USE TELEVISION By CLARKE TAYLOR NEW YORK-Fred Friendly the pioneer broadcaster whose longtime partnership with the late Edward Murrow is best remembered for the It series that they produced together likes to say flunking And with good reason Friendly from broadcasting in 1968 as president of CBS News to teach at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Now 67 Friendly is back trying to bring enlightenment to television For starters he has been the inspiration and adviser behind Constitution: That Delicate a series of four seminars on constitutional issues taped last year at Independence Hall and broadcast on public television stations throughout January The final segment on reverse discrimination and affirmative action is scheduled to air Wednesday at 10 pm on KCET Channel 28 are trying to develop the case that 200 years ago something unique in the history of the world was a written Constitution that Friendly said one Please see FRIENDLY Page 4 MOVIE REVIEW SERVES EMPATHY WITH HORROR model living in New York when director George Stevens saw her photograph and picked her for the role But her reviews were glowing think I got three bad ones she said But after that nothing happened Twentieth Century -Fox which had her under contract resisted efforts to loan her out The studio had something special in mind for her she was told but it took so long to materialize that two years after had opened The Times was asking in a headline Happened to Millie is not all that far removed from in It takes its title from a run-down but inviting Victorian farmhouse outside a small town that could just as easily be in the Eastern or Midwestern United States indeed supposed to be in America The funeral home has been out of business for years ever since the undertaker disappeared The townspeople insist that he ran off with another woman but his wife (Kay Hawtrey) will hear none of that and says she is sure he will return An ample warm loving but pious woman decided she must take in tourists in order to make ends meet Her teen-age By KEVIN THOMAS Times Staff Writer Ten years ago Canadian writer-director William Fruet made an outstanding feature-film debut with in a period domestic drama of extraordinary impact that launched Carol Kane Earlier Fruet had written for director Donald Shebib the engaging Down the a kind of masculine version of current success However the proximity of Hollywood always has made it difficult for Canadian film makers no matter how talented to sustain a career on home ground That is how a man of caliber ends up making a horror picture called (city the print by the way at the Paramount Theater in Hollywood is dreadful) Yet written by Ida Nelson with clearly as its inspiration is without apologies and need to make any It produces plenty of shrieks in an and some intended laughter yet it possesses characteristic empathy with ordinary unsophisticated people overwhelmed by catastrophe In short scare show that it may be INSIDE CALENDAR MUSIC: Nell and Ivar Gotkovsky reviewed by Terry McQuilkin on Page 5 Long Beach Symphony reviewed by Benjamin Epstein on Page 2 POP: Untouchables reviewed by Don Waller on Page 6 TV: programs Page 7 Henrietta Pelta assists young people with operatic intentions through Euterpe Opera she tells Daniel Cariaga on Page 2 Fred Friendly is trying to bring enlightenment to television.