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New Segal I Takes Flight pollute the Then Ricky did a good imitation of a pig and some Disney characters- i Ricky 'looks and hdU like moat boys 'of fow -except for his stage presence All told three children were irtviled up stage" to rap with him Though willing to go they all froze before the lights cameras and many strange faces My Son stuck his finger all the way down to his tonsils and said not word one (rare for him) Ricky on the other hand is totally at ease When Brucie or Mommy or Daddy would say hands" or the little he would do so When Ricky have an especially clever or brilliant answer to a question I didn't leel that his parents were embarrassed or were going to lock him in a closet when they got home vf 'AT TOE END OF the official interview he stayed on for more talk a separates chat with a newscaster and separate pictures of hint merging entering and being in the icky igloo Matthqw wanted to play in the igloo with him but I said I was terrified slug Ricky and so foul up a future empire of Ricky Segall teashirts towels toys party place mats coloring books and whatever Matthew greeted his father at the door that evening with I met a little girl and we ate lollypops and sat in an His father asked you meet a little boy too?" aYes you talk to he talk to he talked to Cousin (If Matthew had talked to Ricky he might have learned that Richard Robert Segall III was born in the Central General Hospital in Plainsview His parents Barbara and Rick met while singing in a Sachem Junior High School choir in Long Island NY Ricky has not been visited by the Tooth Fairy according to his parents ana reads letters and numbers He likes coloring blocks electric trains tag the LA Dodgers and the NY Meta) RICKY SEGALL Rodeo Loses Slim Pickens To Lights of Hollywood HOLLYWOOD Slim acter actor in motion pictures Pickens crashed Into motion and television Pickens bus pictures and television hy 10 rodeo performer but he still crashing to earth from the jag a fondness for the great back of a Brahma bull outdoors By JANE LANE Of TV Scout NEW YORK Tiw sign outside Creative Playthings aid to the public today" Press party for Ricky Segall newest member of singing I walked in with my 3 Vi-year-old son Matthew and we were quickly asked if we were I said "yes" and then they gave us a Creative Plaything and a button which said a Creative Plaything" Then someone wearing the same button 'asked who I was with and I said TV Scout I think we looked like muck-in shoppers who hoped to meet a star or cousins of a real-live reporter looking for a free lunch Matthew and I wandered farther into the long store Silence! No Joyous children laughing (though they were invited ostensibly to query Ricky about kid things) no Ricky singing Just adult-type males standing around eating hotdogs and hamburgers catered by Nathans whose hotdog made Coney Island famous Or was it vice versa? I gotten the feeling of such awe since going into the lobby of Tango in Paris" Soon we got our teeth into part of the private show Matthew ate his hotdog and began playing with all the toys which as it turned out were to be given to the celebrity after his interview performance These are toys which will appear in every press agent photo of Ricky Lights and mikes were set up in a room with folding chairs and a tiny stage covered with colored paper More adults filed in and sat Juggling cameras recorders pens and pencils hotdogs hamburgers and potato chips My son was playing the xylophone and annoying everyone I WAS ANNOYED that Ricky there The Invitation said he would be and it's tiresome to entertain a 3 Vi-year-old for too long Then a little girl named Mel came She was four and the two played in soon to-be Ricky's igloo (which by then was well broken-in with sucker sticks and sticky fingermarks) Then arrived an attractive glib man named Cousin Bmcie New York disk jockey He told the now restless parents and kids that Ricky had arrived with his parents Brucie said the parents would perform first so we could see what a musical family Ricky comes from Enter Mommy and Daddy Daddy looks like John Lennon and Mommy looks like a cross between France Nuyen and Brigitte Bardot They sang one song Brucie asked for another but they deferred to Ricky standing in the wings Enter Ricky He is 4 singson key is cute confident talented and in no way projects the negative image of protege" Brucie asked Ricky you like baseball?" Yes! you prefer New York girls to California girls?" really know about that" about ecology? It awful the people Pagt 22 Pickens a former rodeo performer was spotted while! performing at a rodeo in Saugus Calif almost within the shadow of several of Hollywood's major film factories As Pickens tells it: "This guy came up to me after a spill from a bull and asked me if ever thought of getting into pictures I looked at him like he was nuts and rather be hunting or fishing than doing just about anything else I can think of" ays Pickens who seems to combine his acting commitments with a life-style uniquely and satisfyingly his own He has performed as himself in a number of outdoor programs for American and Canadian television and is scheduled to do more of them later in the year told him politely: I- agent is always telling Nevertheless he me that missing a great wanted to give me a screen part by going off somewhere test and being a little banged to hunt bear or fish for sal-up at the time I said: mon But he likes to eat the why meat that I bring back from said the studio would my hunting trios so I guess pay for my doctor bills and at a the screen test and all that One of Pickens' most so I said okay I was happy remembered roles was as the bulldogging steers and riding cowboy-style B-52 pilot in Brahma bulls and I really who rode given any thought to an atomic bomb to a being an presumably fiery end near Now an established char- tha conclusion of the movie v-- TV Waak.