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By. JERRY BUCK

“LOS ANGELES (AP) — In
away, scting in a movie
~ ‘pdfered sweet revenge for
Bruce Davison. He got to rob
the bank that would never

cash his cheques:

In the movie, Day of
‘Terror, -Night of Fear,

Davison and Warren Oates

play two bungling bank
robber,

f 8. .

* “That was the fun part,”
-said Davison, a slim, blond
actor. who may be best

remembered as the rat

in Willard.
‘ “My manager's office is in
the same building and the
would never cash my
pheques because I didn’t
‘an account there—but I
-§f6t to rob them.”
he ‘alter bungling the holdup,
avison and Oates are only a
steps ahead of the pollce
when they burst into a travel
agency and ‘selze five
hostages.
The movie at first, was
The Mouth Marines,

tiatots who try to talk

flunmen into © releasing |

aferring to the police

‘Day: ‘of Tesror,' Night of .

’ Fear, which alao stars Chad ©
Everett and Sandy Dennis,

.will be shown at $p.m. EST
Saturday on NBC. It was

” written and directed by E.

Arthur Kean.
BUILDS TRUST

Evorett ‘plays Officer Ron 7

Willard I've gotten typecast
',as a crazy. When I played
‘ Dean in Deadman’s Curve, I

Tice, who gets Oates on the
tale one, first to défuse an
losive situation, then to

build 8 foundation of trust 80"

the gunmen will believe and
depend on him. |

Thé: film. builds suspense
masterfully, with Oates as
an explosive animal. who
could go elther. way, and
Davison as a born loser who
can't cope with the pressure

and the separation from his _

daughter. .
The hostages, admittedly

stereotypes, display well:
defined reactions to the

aay Dennis is a plain :
spinster who ‘gets more:
attention from. Oates than _

she’s ever had from a man

before and begins to identify * -
- brought him ‘to Hollywood,
where he's been ever since.

with him.

Davison, al, : : WAS seen -
recently In Deadman’s -
Curve on CBS,:about rock
_siogera Jan and Dean, andis .

Studio recession

: ‘By BRUCE RUSSELL

LOS ANGELES, (Reuter) .
.=~- “Hollywood _ studios are:

caught In as many upheavals
_~ tp their current period of
. Prosperity as they were in
i recession years of the

ly 1970s,

me ie entire . top’:

jnanagement of one. mar
Etudie has walked out,
another studio has been hit

by “embezzlement scandals -

sea the actors are asking for

eir share of the profits.

” Attention has been focused
on: ‘financial ethics because
of admitted embezzlements

by ‘Columbia studio dilef
Bard Begelman.

 '? But the biggest’ upheaval

in elt came when the

Sinai ip, Watt eee
raneamerie v

inaer, was getting the
bh and giving nothing in

return
"They wanted to set ‘them-

selves up as an independent

company with’ major Trans-
america stock participation.
ransamerica refus

“The five men had brought

United Artists to a record
level of prosperity with $318-

revenues in 1977 with
guch hits as Rocky and One
Flew’ ‘Over the Cuckoo's

Nest
prupios DWINDLE.
‘Over the years the number
of: ‘studios has- dwindled to
geyen— Paramount, Fox,
Iniversal, Warners, United
“ists, Columbia and
ey, MGM no longer has
own distribution and has

ae down on movie

Last: year ‘United Artists

ran neck-and-neck with 20th
Foca ope in‘ profits,

‘Fox atudlo operations have

taken over by Alan

dd Jr., son of the late film

a hit the jackpot with
Sar: « Wars,. the © most
nfitable film ever, and has

wad a string of other suc-
-¢esses. like Silver Streak,

Omen, Julia and d The
Point. -

Me

(CP) — A pretty blue-eyed:
Nee hostess, 25-year-old

 Caltt erie Conroy, paid the’

ie of:tove twice over.
Feil ducunlednine hours
phone call to her boy-.
sie in Pakistan to tell him
}helf-dinner: date had to be
‘aticelled. ‘Then she got the
yl for the four -minute call—'

sand. I Ww woulda't. be

ied a ‘tt for dinner in

revenge _ mere nee had
to meet."

ia basle. Chet ofthe call

iia 4620) plus a. &2

plubled the bil as a charge
r‘handling:the call. ©.

loited, 1 there
Bai rie “¢ould fot

gas ‘noth

erson-toperson fee, But the .

Awas. staying .
el. wie she, was staying . board ofa Norfolk golf-club.-

_ read: Last week my husband’

ternational : pley yed the best round of golf. §

know:

. als n't. “cheap,” i
ean bt this.was
* MdicUlows tie are.

u

‘chance’ there are any

going through a highly

profitable period last year -

when actor Cliff Robertson

discovered. he had been =
taxed for a $10,000 cheque .
from the company which he -

had never seen.

He discovered the cheque..

finishing 4 run at.. the
Westwood Playhouse with

«Richard Thomas in

Streamers.
“I think of acting as a
hobby,” sald Davison. “It

keeps mefrom going crazy."
HAS BEEN TYPECAST

Davison said, ‘‘since

broke that. It. was the first
time in a while 1 got to play

somebody fairly normal.” —

Nevertheless, he sought
out the role in Day of Terror,
Night of Fear.

"T just wanted to work
with Warren Oates badly,”

‘he said. “He's. my favorite

actor. I find him interesting

‘and dangerous. and
- vulnerable all at once.’

Davison, a native of Phila-
delphia, got into acting while
a study ‘at New York
University. He worked at the
Lincoln Centre for several

years, then made his film |
- debut in Last Summer. -

The Strawberry Statement

-acriminal conspiracy to kill
‘Gen. George Patton, played
_ by George Kennedy.

Columbia Studios was”

had been: cashed’ with a-—

forged signature by studio :

head Begelman. .

Begelman was suspended
_ and an investigation showed | 3.
he had taken $61,000'he was ;

not entitled to,

HAD BRILLIANT RECORD 2

But the studio was loath to oF
see him go. Taking over 2.

nearbankrupt operation in

1973 he had turned it around “

with hit like Shampoo, The

Deen and Flos Bocomters i

olthe Third Kind. jing o-

after he agreed to refund the

money with. interest and to .
get psychiatric treatment for.

emotional problems.
But the affalr had raised’
issues of studio. financial

ethics - and ‘eventually:

Begelman “was: forced to

resign in the face of con-

tinuing publicity:

Then two British actors .
- Michael: Caine and. Sean-

sunt

ai saiiill

Connery filed a-auit against’. § . 7

Allied Artists claiming they
were owed. $100,000 as their

five-per-cent’ share: of the

profits -of. The ‘Man ‘Who
Would Be King.

The company fited a §21 &
million libel’ suit against

Connery, Caine was not -
mentloned because‘ he ‘had _

not. made ‘any- public’ com-
ment about it,

7
BOWLER SALES DOWN _

LONDON (CP) —- Bowler
sales-at James Lock have:
declined, but they shouldn’t

be called bowlers. This old
firm. makes a hat called a -

Coke (pronounced Cook) and
invoices it as such to
customers. It originated in
1840 when Sir William Coke
asked Lock to design a.hat.
for him, and it was made to

Lock's specifications by -f

Thomas and Willlam
Bowler. pe

a Love i isn t cheap

By NORMAN: CRIBBENE ,

Catherine posed to. the . :
MANCHESTER, “England ..

“British. post office, ‘which
operates. the, . ‘elt

aystem, ‘then to the. hotel

“management. The post office.
-. paid ‘they had no control over ~

hotel charges. The hotel raid
all Its call rates were clearly
displdyed in the bedrooms. :
“The 100-per-cent mark-up’
is normal to-cover the cost of -
staff and the installation of
, expensive equipment,” the
’ hotel manager gald, , «.
Catherine said itwas: sug:
gested the could have used .

- the ablic call box.instead of.

her bedroom and put in two)
sy “and 10-penny. p pleces.
“TF told them. I wasn't hefty,

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Truck

driver

behind mike

By JOE EDWARDS ©

NASHVILLE, Tenn:. (AP)
— Dave Dudley, who statted
as a dise jockey 20 yeara ago
before becoming a country
music singer with legions. of
truck drivers as his ‘foremost

fans, is behind | the. mike‘

again.

- Dudley has a country
music radio show from
10p.m, to 2a.m: Monday
through Thursday on WSM, a
clear-channel station (nc
others on its frequency) that
reaches much of the United
States and Canada. It's also
the station that broadcasts
the Grand Ole Opry on
Friday and Saturday nights.

“I'm enjoying it," he said
in an interview. ‘'It's doing a
lot for me.”

Dudley, best known for his
1963 hit Six Days on the
Road, said he decided to
return to radio ..“‘for .the
exposure and the finances.
You can’t buy exposure.” ”

He continues to record and
make personal appesirances
on weekends. His current
single is I Am Alone.

His radio show, with Chuck
Morgan as co-host, - falls
during one of country
music's mest famous time
slots. For years, the show
featured Ralph Emery,
maybe the most famous
country music dis¢ jockey in
the country.

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Dudley was among the

“celebrities Emery would

interview on the show.
“When Ralph would call

me and ‘ask me to do his

show, I waa flattered,"*

Dudley recalled. -

DROVE | «
TRUCK :

He was a truck driver for
four years in the early 1950s
in Stevens Point, Wis. This
background, plus his songs
about truck driving, have
made him a hero to truckers
everywhere, ¢

a | atablished myself as
the working man's singer
and as the truckers’ friend,”
Dudley said.

He still attends truckers
conventions and union
meetings and does com-
mercials for truck tran-
smissions.

The radio show was achal-

; lenge he couldn't pass up, he
said.

“We all have hot and.cold
‘spells and no one would.

entertain this because they.
wanted to keep their careers.

rp. a
“But people know who [:
am and I don’t see why this:
shouldn't be tried. I feel OK:
in splitting my career in two;
directions.
“I don't play a lot of my.-

own records on the show.
unless I get a sincere
est," ;