The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 102

Tfc Kww City Star TV SCENE Dac Drc l7t On the TV Scene Young Lawyer Is Put-On By Joyce Wagner The Siar's Television Edilor man type more the every day run-of-the-mill TV When the acting urge first surfaced Zalman studied briefly with Stella Adler then appeared for the first time on stage in an off-Broadway production of on a Hot Tin In 1966 Zalman and his wife moved to Hollywood and he immediately began appearing in small TV guest roles in series such as Gunsmoke Hitchcock Presents Mr Novak Bonanza Judd Cimarron Strip and The FBI Then a year ago Zalman was tested to for the role of Aaron Silverman in ABC new series The Young Lawyers Why "to Holly woo Zalman King sat slumped over one of the cafeteria tables He was in a foul mood over some problem on the set which he confided he want to talk about In fact he added he want to talk about anything It was he conceded a lousy day for an interview But Zalman did talk and as the interview progressed even his sense of humor returned Zalman King is a put-on artist He is alternately flip and sardonic Yet through it all there is something terribly likable and charming about this boyish prankster Zalman was born in Trenton Jt the son of Dr and Mrs Fred Lefko- Rtr -A Children Free in Room December 18 thru 26 At Tan-Tar-A open all year long So you don't have to wait until Christmas to give yourself a Tan Tar-A holiday And what a holiday be! 3 days and 2 nights for only $3695 with indoor swimming movies 3 lines of bowling an hour of billiards a choice of a ski lift ticket or a sauna and an ice skating sess'ion Five hearty meals and no extra charge for children in the same room with parents Dec 18 thru 26 "Well because they tested me for it and they want to hire me They wit He has two sisters and was "the tried not to hire me but somehow they baby of the did Social Christmas Package mi No Package Always the best in entertainment The Chasers Four- Dec 14 thru Jan 2 The Newcomers- Dec 31 thru Jan 23 Lionel Hampton Jan 16 National Ski Week Activities Jan 17-Jan 23 Joey and Luigi -Jan 25 thru Feb 13 Call this Kansas City toil-frcs number for reservations now AC 9 3656 MM Mu Fatatom TAN-TAK SOOT honeymoon center of the Midwest Write for special honeymoon rates Sundy TXurdy Tan-Tar-A Resort Osage Oeach Missouri 65065 Phone (314) 346-2283 OF AMERICA LEADS TOE WAY TO LOWER PMCES OH CONFUTE REMOSEUNfi-ROOFING-SIDINC-REPAIRS He adopted his stage name from his first two given names Zalman King always called me Zalman King My friends always called me Zalman King and I always thought of myself as Zalman he explained dispassionately Series of Experiences Prior to his emergence as an actor Zalman had a series of and varied experiences He studied anthropology at Grinnell college for two got info tin Ivy league atmosphere in the East and I was such a crazy kid I knew that if I get out of that environment end up turning into a monster The years I spent in Iowa that change in environment and attitudes changed my whole life I think I would have ever became an actor if stayed in the East I would have settled down into the everyday hustle and Then be spent two years as a commercial diver in the Bahamas before returning to school While in school Zalman and his wife (Patricia Knop sculptress) opened a string of coffee houses alternately in New Jersey New York and eventually in Iowa "We had five coffee houses going at one time It was a big operation1 he smiled had entertainment dancing and singing and some of the coffee houses even served food "We started with $100 and bought old chairs and a coffee pot and put in a folk singer When we got enough money to get going we painted the walls and added an art gallery with paintings by the kids from school "At one he added "we even had the dorm sandwich But then things changed Zalman left school and coffee houses behind because "I wanted to do something that would fulfil me "I had no desire to be a mechanic or he explained wanted to be a writer but then I found that the best way to sell my screen plays was to become a Does he consider himself a star now that he is appearing each week as one of the stars of The Young Lawyers? he smiled not the leading He shrugged his shoulders and slumped farther down into his chair that nonsense they put you through to get a he began shaking hi head He sighed adding now if I been hired have some great position in a bank or an insurance agency or Another Zalman King put-on "No he began "I like television and I really like what I'm doing I have anything before I went into this series I mean what had I done? "A bunch of he answered "My career going Films Are Next Since making The Young Lawyers pilot for Movie of the Week Zalman has starred in two films Ski and "You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It or You Lose the and is planning to produce write and star in three of his own films do the first one in February unless I get fired from the series My wif and I wrote it I have a film company in association with the Canadian Film fund It will be a Canadian film titled Ballad of a Tall Tale about a guy who lies "I wait to start he confided with the first trace of enthusiasm throughout the interview been dreaming about this for such a long time The story takes place in Grinnell if I had American money behind the picture I would film I' he added wistfully Despite his feelings of the moment Zalman confided that his acclaim a Aaron Silverman has made him fee "like a kid in the toy box "People are telling and they never confessed telling me could be a great director if I work hard I mean wow And people are sending me scripts I have 10 now And I could probably do any film I want he said with another shrug of his shoulders all baloney in a way cause I waited so long to get here "Hie only thing I hope now is that I take advantage of it I hope I become an ass over OUTDOOR ANTENNA INSTALLED with purchase ol CONSOLE COLOR TV sick stone! 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