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8 IDST-GAZKTTK: Jan. V)IM A Tribute to Those Who Do Our Towne By Joe Browne (Op j. if. or geniuses who can hit home runs or kick 50-yard field goals. In sports, you can't do a huckstering job with a "program" that, on paper, guarantees a Super Bowl or World Series title.

In sports, you have to win championships on the field, not on paper. You just can't talk a great game you have to play a great game. Promises, theories, formulae, "new, dynamic approaches," returns to "basics" they may be impressive as all heck in words but if they don't produce results on the field, forget em. No self-appointed elitists can create a restricted world where only their views of "excellence" prevail. The fans can tell the difference between the foot-in-the-bucket ballplayer who hits .350 and the guy who strikes out with perfect style.

After all the talk, after all the training, after all the dreams and hopes and sweat, there comes a time in sports when you do or you don't. Nobody else can do it for you. If you can do in sports, great! If you can't, you can always try politics, business, the arts, just about anything else. Maybe that's why we like sports so much. On The Line Dan Rooney wasn't the Stcelcr quarterback in the Super Bowl And Dan Galbreath wasn't the Pirate clean-up hitter in the World Scries Howard Cosell and Red Smith and Phil Musick and Joe Browne weren't even in the line-ups Neither were President Carter or Mayor Caliguiri or Dr.

Spock or Jane Fonda or William Buckley Not a university president or poet laureate or Nobel Prize-winning scientist on the field Not one corporation president or Arab shiek Not even Milton Friedman or Jean Dixon or any astrologer The only ones in the Steeler and Pirate line-ups and in the line-ups of the Rams and Orioles were players who belonged there. They belonged there because of talent and performance, nothing else. Like a lot of people, sometimes I wonder whether we spend too much of our time and energy on sports. I don't think there is any question that in some cases the attention given to sports is unhealthy. The college football situation with its deadly 4 emphasis on winning is just about out of decent control at some schools, in my opinion.

And, pushing young kids to "excel" at athletics, instead of enjoying them, is almost obscene, I think. But, regardless of how you or I feel about sports, there's one thing about sports that is just about unique in human endeavors. You either have it or you don't. You do or you step aside. Nobody else can do it for you.

Your father may own the team and maybe he had dreams of your being an all-time football or baseball great but if you can't beat out a country boy from Louisiana or a kid from the "project," you'd better be satisfied with being president of the club. All those academic degrees won't get you into the line-up if you miss tackles or can't hit a curve ball. And you can't erect a wall of academic degrees to keep out school dropouts is Nana Mouskouri People Dudley Moore and Bo Derek in "10." '10' Star Dudley Moore Rates Himself a 2lA Mrs. Sadat Replaced For Poetry Forum Mrs. Jehan Sadat, wife of the Egyptian president, has canceled her scheduled appearance at the International Poetry Forum this spring.

She will be replaced by singer Nana Mouskouri who will make her first appearance at Heinz Hall April 30. Secretary for Foreign Information and the Egyptian Ambassador of Washington said Mrs. Sadat was forced to postpone her visit because of increasing commitments. Miss Mouskouri has appeared under the auspices of the International Poetry Forum on five previous occasions. Her program will be a new concert of international songs.

The second half of the Poetry Forum's season will begin Feb. 13, with readings by Naomi Shihab Nye and David Kherdian. Other readers are Jane Cooper and Carl Dennis, March Elisavietta Ritchie and Richard Shelton, March 26 and Saul Bellow, April 16. Hipkiss, Flaxie Pinkett, Winabelle Gritter, Veronica Quivers and Rhonda Fender. The men's list includes Milton Bible; Clifton Godbolt, McKinley Durst, Fred Freelaffer, Bastian Hello, Claude Kitchens, Polk Latfoon, Bronson Quackenbush, Haskell Shanks and Ezzard Whirl.

A group of young fans of former Beatle Paul McCartney announced yesterday plans for a rally demanding his release while Japanese authorities continued to debate whether to prosecute or release the rock star. McCartney has spent six nights in a Tokyo jail on suspicion of possessing marijuana. Judicial authorities have given no indication when they will decide whether to prosecute or release McCartney, who was arrested at Tokyo's new International Airport last Wednesday upon his arrival for an 11-concert tour of Japan. Customs agents said they found 7.7 ounces of marijuana in plastic bags in a suitcase during a routine inspection of his luggage. Under Japanese law, a decision must be reached to free a suspect or charge him within 20 days of pre-prosecution custody.

Two weeks after being hospitalized with pneumonitis, entertainer Jimmy Durante was in stable condition yesterday, but his vital signs continue to deteriorate. The 86-year-old comedian and actor is still semi-conscious and suffering from lung congestion. Durante, nicknamed "The Old Schnozzola" for his unusually large nose, was hospitalized Jan. 7. Wouldn't it be great if Mrs.

Calabash, wherever she is, paid him a visit? Asked how to make a marriage last, Dustin Hoffman answered that the problem lies in longevity. "Don't lengthen the union," he said, "shorten the life span" Actor Brad Davis spent two days in the field with Marines at Camp Pendleton, preparing for his new movie, "A Rumor of War" Pope John Paul II topped the Roper "Man of the Year" poll, while First Lady Rosalynn Carter headed the list of 12 women. Rep. Elliott H. Lcvitas, wants to do what some say is impossible legislate manners.

He said, "Courtesy is the oil that keeps our society from burning up, from rubbing against each other." Levitas is the author of the "courtesy-in-gov-ernment" amendment to the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. Obviously, some agencies are paying no attention to it. Thailand's Queen Sirikit leaves for the United States Friday for a medical check-up in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C. The queen, 47, has been advised by royal doctors to seek U.S. treatment for an allergy caused by atmospheric pollutants.

We wonder if Washington's air is any cleaner than "i tuumtumn'' mam 4tM By TOM BUCKLEY New York Times News Service Thus far, the rewards that Dudley Moore has received for his widely acclaimed starring role in "10" have been, in a manner of speaking, negative. "I turned down million to do a film not long ago, and I found out that it's not easy to do," he said with charactertistic British understatement the other day. "I simply couldn't get enthusiastic about the script, and the thought of spending 10 interminable weeks doing it was extremely depressing. "However, I ought to say that I did so in the expectation, which I hope is not misplaced, that $1 million or even $1.5 million scripts that 1 do like will be coming my way. "I'm being sent a great many of them these days.

Blake Edwards" the writer-director of "10" "and I are discussing two or three projects that sound promising. I might also add that even before the success of '10' I had recklessly turned down $500,000 movies." Also before the release of "10" Moore was finishing up "Wholly Moses," a religious comedy in which he plays a frustrated maker, with Laraine Newman, James Coco, Jack Gilford and Jack Albertson. It is scheduled for summer release. Next May he will start on "Arthur," another comedy. Unfortunately, from his point of view, both deals were made before the critical and box-office success of "10" had quintupled or quadrupled his asking price.

Speaking retrospectively in the light of his success, Moore said that he had been particularly pleased by the critics' praise of him as a physical comedian. "Being small I'm 5 feet 2Vz is quite useful in that sort of role," he said. "For some reason, when you move fast it looks funny." Playing nude scenes with Bo Derek, whose physical beauty represents "10," or perfection, for the songwriter played by Moore, was another matter, he said. "Both of us, who actually were nude, were conspicuously embarrassed," he said. "I more than she, no doubt, because on the same scale I rate myself about a 2'z.

To make matters worse, we had to do the scene twice. Blake decided that it was too brightly lighted the first time. "I may have seemed to be of two minds in the film, but let me say that off screen I'm all for meaningful one-night stands. "All in all, I don't think I could have played the role as well as people seem to think I did if it hadn't been for group therapy and about 15 years of therapy of various sorts before that," he added. "The only trouble is that I've been working so much that I hardly ever can get to it anymore." Paddy Chayefsky has formally removed his name from the screen version of "Altered States," which he had adapted from his novel of the same title.

Adhering to what he said was an agreement with Warner Brothers, Chayefsky declined to give the reason for his withdrawal, which is about the most drastic action a screenwriter can take and usually has something to do with what is perceived as criminal abuse of a brainchild. The studio would say only that "differing points of view" on the filming had led to the break. The film, which stars Blair Brown and William Hurt, deals with psychedelic drugs. It is in postproduction and scheduled for release next Christmas. Hollywood sources suggested that Chayefsky may not have found himself in harmony with the director, the flamboyant Ken Russell.

Chayefsky, whose previous screenplays were "Hospital" and "Network," said that he had had nothing to do with the production for nearly a year. Assxiated Press Jimmy "Srhnoz" Durault' Wallace Davey, 45, a male nurse from London who married a 93-year-old British spinster eight weeks before she died, said that after their marriage his wife wanted to make a new will, leaving a large part of her $450,000 estate to him. But the court left the bulk of the estate to his wife's relatives. The British press, of course, is calling the contesting of the will "the spinster scandal." People's Top Ten list of women whose vervnames make them must-meets: Velvet Bilyeu, Magdalen Bonus, Isabel Forgang, Hortense Gullett, Hanna Flavored, Henrietta An atypical farmer is Joaquin Espinosa, known as the Cactus Man. He's one of just two cactus farmers in California, the owner of a 17-acre patch in San Bernardino County.

He's been growing the unusual crop for 27 years and says, "the cactus has been good to me." He sells the leaves to a cannery and the fruit cactus apples for the manufacture of cactus apple jelly. Wonder if it has a bite to it. niMHiii i' rin iniiriiirtininiinmm- BY VINCE LEONARD Clarice Carson TV's 'Dallas' Creates Problems for Dallasites OVERWEIGHT MEN AND WOMEN jnEMflT raw? Clarice Carson Will Sing In ''Don GiovannV Thursday Soprano Clarice Carson will sing the role of Donna Anna in the Pittsburgh Opera's performance of "Don Giovanni" Thursday at Heinz Hall. She replaces Patricia Wells, who canceled her performance because of a severe throat infection. Miss Carson has appeared in Pittsburgh Opera's "Madame and "La Traviata." Don Giovanni wil be portrayed by Samuel Ramey, with Pittsburgher Marianna Christos of the New York City Opera in the role of Donna Elvira.

Performances of the Pittsburgh Opera are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington.D.C, a federal agency, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Arthur Wenk, assistant professor of music at the University of Pittsburgh, will present a two-hour program on "Don Giovanni" tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium on the Pitt campus. This program is part of a series of free public lectures featuring the operas of the 1979-1980 Pittsburgh Opera season. Make a special note on your calendar because today will be a special day to remember! Then pick up the phone and give Weight Loss Clinic a call.

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Dallas sounded right at the time, and it turned out to be exactly right." There were more than a few misgivings here when the show opened to widespread pans in April 1978. Such touches as hurricanes threatening the city (Dallas is 250 miles inland) or the Ewings sitting around the swimming pool in bathrobes and cowboy hats made "Dallas" seem unrealistic. There were those in the city who had the vague feeling someone was making fun of them. With the show's immense popularity, however, has come general acceptance. Now, Dallasites, like other "Dallas" addicts, happily watch in horror as J.R.

and the denizens of South Fork, the family ranch, stoop to new depths each week. "I love it," said Sarah Kenny, an 18-year-old college freshman from Dallas who attends Mount Vernon Junior College, in Washington, D.C. "I watch it in school, and if people all want to believe we have that kind of money, let them. "I visited a family a few weeks ago that thought we all lived in places like South Fork. I told them I rode my horse to school, and we let it graze on the football field to keep the grass low.

I'm not sure they didn't believe me." The local Chamber of Commerce now views the show as a boon to its tourist and convention business. When parts of the show were filmed here in June, the city declared a "Dallas Day" and Mayor Robert Folsom joined the cast and crew for a luncheon at the real-life ranch outside the city limits where the show was shot. "I don't think people think it's really a show about Dallas," said Folsom, a millionaire land developer serving his first full term as mayor. "Dallas is a very metropolitan, white-collar, business-oriented type city. I think it has everything people might want in a city, without all the problems, financial and otherwise, of New York and Cleveland.

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"I said, He just said, 'You old and hung up. Another boy called from Canada and he wouldn't believe I wasn't the real J.R. Finally, he gave up and said, let me talk to Bobby Ewing's problem stems from having the same name as the thoroughly despicable main character in the television series "Dallas." Like Dallas itself, he has some mixed emotions about the phenomenal success of the television show that bears the city's name. For those who are not among the 33 million people who regularly watch the show, J.R. teams up with Sue Ellen, Bobby, Jock, Miss Ellie and assorted other Ewings every Friday night on the CBS prime-time soap opera.

Every week they and various relatives, friends and enemies lie, cheat and connive their way into America's heart, in a sordid spectacle that is a cross between "Giant" and "The Secret Storm." Its main character is J.R., a rapacious oilman who comes off as the Cesare Borgia of the prairie, a man who is not above mortgaging the family ranch so he can drill for oil off China. The show reached a peak of popularity during the week that ended Dec. 23, when a Thursday night special edition of "Dallas" was the No. 2 rated show in the country and the regular show that Friday was No. 3.

Created by a writer who never spent a full day in Dallas before writing the show, it's not a wholly accurate picture of life in the nation's seventh largest city. "I don't know Texas, I was just working off the connotations, and Dallas sounded like pure Texas," said David Jacobs, the writer. "I wrote the first draft off the top of my head. I was writing for the image and not really about the place. nutntional guidance and private counseling.

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