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swana (AP) —
years and more than 60
million records later, singer
Paul Anka says he’s been.
such a whopping success
hecause he writes" “tor the:
masses.” - |

“Tama people's writer,” ”
he says. ‘I.don‘t write for
; pseudo-ntellectuals.” ~

Ottawa-born, « Anka;

- performing at this gambling
resort, in the African. veld,
said he survived the 1950s
by writing. “I was the ugly
kid; not- one of “the pretty:

_ boys they. were selling.:’

He has written more than,

400. songs, from pop.
smashes, such as Diana and
Put Your Head .on. “My -
Shoulder, to ‘more recent
hits, such as ‘You're Having
My. Baby, to ‘ballads, My
Way and the theme to the ©
movie, The Longest Day.

Earlier this ; year, he.
released ‘the. album, ‘Both
Sides of Love, recorded in’

~“Nashville- and is: currently
“ recording another.
Anka wrote for such
_ entertaining. glants. as,
. Frank Sinatra, Barbra
Streisand, Tom - Jones, .
Linda Ronstadt and Buddy
~ Holly,

Anka, 40, has come a long
way from the days when he
thumbed his’ way to
‘California. to record a tune
called | Blauwildebeastfo-
-ntein, a novelty song.taken .
from thename of an African

town whose ‘name. mean -

blue wildebeest - fountain.

“Tt was. quite: an- at-
tractive song, actually," he
said. ‘‘And I sold it with a lot

of honesty and sincerity, -

like*a little kid: And they.
went for it. Anyway, it came
out and: I was’ stiffed. as B
- failure at 4" 0°
+: He returned. to “Ottawa,
where his parents, ran
~Testaurants. But he didn't
stay long. “‘I needed .to get —
to New York,’ he sald.
“IGA food: stores were
‘running a: contest - for
Campbell Soups.: Whoever.
* “eallected™: ‘the’-most “soup:

wrappers would Ro. to. New.

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- “Canada-and “wrote 4, song -
about : an: older: ‘gir]:-who:
babysat * ‘ for’ ‘hiss ‘younger

* recalled.

that’s 5 buying,

“mote tha ‘towillae copied. - -
‘He’ now lives: in ‘Carmel,

’ ‘Calif., with his wife, Anne, a

former mode], and thelr five
daughters. He spends about.

. 30: weeks a. year doing

concert tours on the road.
His family, he-said, un-

__-derstanda him, “Obviously,

I migs them, but I like very
much what I'm doing,” he
Bays.

- ‘T'ma realist, ‘in that part -
of what makes my marriage
work is the fact that there is
space of a kind: I have a-
‘great relationship with my
girls. The emphasis is. on
oo of time, not quan-
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LOS ANGELES (AP) —:
‘June Lockhart was
vacationing at the local
mountain resort ‘of “Lake ©

- Arrowhead a year ago when

‘her manager called and-
. asked if she'd like to go to:
China.

’“] said: ‘Idon't even want
to know the circumstances
— I'm going,’ ” ‘she
“One: of the’
wonderful perks of this
business is that you get to
travel so much." ~

- She spent 3%: weeks in
China, . filming Peking
Encounter, the first “joint.
_ American-Chinese -prod-
uction. since the mainland
was re-opened to cultural
exchange. : :

-Peking Encounter is an
hour-long ‘Liberty Mutual
dramatic special that telis
of the love between _a young

_ American ‘woman and ‘a

‘Chinese orchestra con-.
ductor. It. will be broadcast
by. more than 100 stations —
during the week beginning
Saturday night...

The ‘drama also stars

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‘Diana. Canova and Mason~
‘Adams and. -two Chinese |

_ performers, Shi Yong and
‘Chen Chong. -E. |W.
Swackhamer directed the
‘film for “Robert Halmi
_ Productions from an
-original - screenplay by
Cecile Tang and Timothy
Burns. -
7 Nothing prepares you
- for China,” says Lockhar
‘who has travelled. om
tensively around the world.
“They don't-teach you in
school what.to expect, how
‘it looks or what that com-
-munist philosophy has done
‘to them: Even before it was
- “communist, dit. was ‘tightly
controlled.
“You want te tell them to
“ghten | up,” the actress”
says. “*T sensed. ‘they were
very. cautious about who™
they talked ‘lo, who they
“were. Been with or who they
laughed ‘with.” . -
“She: describes Peking
Encounter, a8 “Aight,

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implied romance with. the

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that they were not- allowed
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