Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 66

21" fail' Worth STARTELEGRAM 1Vednesday EveniUg August 11 1971 I 2F foil' Worth STAltTELEGRAM Wednesday Evening August 11 1971 1 IN THE TUBE LTV Actor Charles Briles Keeps Busy Doing Many Outside Jobs i A )' 1' i 3: 5 If Ir! le One of Briles' favorite stories (and sore spots) was the time he tried to cash a $250 check in a drugstore They wouldn't cash it He had proper iderftification but they still wouldn 't cash it Briles walked over to the magazine counter picked up the current issue of TV Guide and carried it back to show the clerk "Look" he told her pointing to the cover "That's me with Barbara Stanwyck" bled apok)getically "now I recognize you you're Lee Majors" (Majors played the part of Stanwyck's illegitimate son on "The Big Briles was even more galled All actors have tremendous easily bruised egos It's a requisite for the business Several nights ago my wife a friend and I were having cocktails in the Century Plaza note As the evening came to a close I got up to search out my wife's coat The hotel is enormous and I found in THEY CALLED and I took But there was no activity not one television show shooting I took them to a Mexican restaurant for lunch where they drank more milk and tasted tacos for the first time It bothered me that I hadn't been able to show them at least one "movie actah" even if it was a small one Then I thought of my good buddy Briles The girls remembered "The Big Valley" and were bubbling over at the thought of meeting one of the stars I didn't reveal his stead two very young Southern girls who helped me When we'd retrieved the coat I invited the girls to our table for a drink They accepted met my wife and friend and ordered milk Ellen and Ann were from Concord NC and had flown to Los Angeles just to ride the 747 and hopefully to see "a movie actah" We were captivated by their sparkling naivete and I impulsively offered to take them through a studio next morning if they phoned before eight name because I wanted him to come as a surprise I phoned Chuck and he was agreeable It would cost me $3 an hour he joked That evening Ellen Ann my wife and I drove to Chuck's apartment He charmed the girls and at least 20 minutes was spent trying to get the flash cubes on their camera to work while pictures were taken of them all together I purposely hadn't introduced Chuck by name because I wanted to surprise the girls At the end of the evening as we were walking out the door I said "Well girls do you know who you've been visiting with?" "We shu-ah do" they replied in their lovely Southern accents "and we can't thank you enough Mr Majors" Chuck stiffened but I whisked the girls away before anything further could be said After we got the girls back to their hotel we returned to Chuck 's His price had was $5 an hour He wasn't joking li ii CHARLES BRILES Not Lee Majors THE CLERK cashed the check "Of course" she bab By BILL MMIAN 71IOLLYWOOD (Spl) 'Charles Briles is a 25-year-old -television actor whom you've probably never heard of He's played i any small os roles in maZ ett Vi jor TV shows 1 I in clu ding i ti: a nza" but his long- lasting claim to ki- i nescopic im- BILL mortality MAHAN was the role of Eugene Barbara Stanwyck's youngest son in "The Big Valley" A TV series used to be good for 39 shows a season Now they're down to 13 in some cases Writer directors producers and actors are all feeling the pinch At one low point after the series Briles had just landed a job as a soda jerk when he received a fan letter asking him how it was being a big actor More recently he's turned to screenwriting I just hired him at approximately $2 an hour to write a television Script I'm now in the process of trying to raise financing 'for the project viii: Izici )4: 1 I i NI 0 :17 GONIER tir Al D4 IIIIIFIMI WAR GRE AT Essig is 0014 0 sst Go vo 0 9 0 st 1' 1 sosoil's 0 A 11111115 SALLE DO MMINIIIMME IINPO1111160 41 "LIBRARY CENTER" "LIBRARY CENTER" EXCITING MEW MEDITERRANEAN STYLING Great! 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