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By BOB THOMAS

LOS ANGELES (AP)
— How does an actress
survive in a movie
dominated by three high-
powered actors?

“It wasn't easy,” said
Denise Nicholas, who
appears in A Piece of the
Action with Sidney
Poitier, Bill Cosby and
James Earl Jones.

The plot of the Warner
Brothers-First ‘ Artists
film concerns a couple of
clever crooks (Poitier
and Cosby) who are
blackmailed by a former
policeman (Jones) into
working for his late wife’s
community centre. Miss

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becomes romantically
involved with Cosby.
“Obviously the film
was male-oriented,” the
actress said. “J tried to

develop the character in be

terms of her commitment
to the ghetto, to show her
drive and energy. I think
she was worth more
investigation than she
got.

“I believe audiences
won’t accept surface
portraits of women
anymore. Audiences
have a curiosity about
women, and they want to
see women portrayed as
something more than a
sex object. You can't
show them walking in and
out of situations.

“Sidney, I believe, is
interested in the sub-text
of women on film. He has
a definite concern for the
psychology of women, I

ope in his next project
he'll do something about
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fording closeup views of
the three stars. Her
observations:

“Sidney (who also
directed the film) is very
disciplined, very quiet,
very patient. He really is
very much like his screen
image. So much that I
still look at him and
swoon. My knees buckle,
my tongue is tied. He
laughs at me, but I tell
him, ‘Sidney, I can’t talk

to you.’

“As a director he has
the ability to. pull a
performance from you
without your feeling the
pain of it. He’s never
cranky, even when he’s

comedians. He: has
tremendous energy, he's
wired for sound, he’s
always rapping. He can
ngerous. He can
suck all your energy like
a siphon.”

“I didn’t have much
work to do with Jones. I

-had admired him since I

had seen him in New
York in Othello and The
Great White Hope, which
had me in tears. On the
set he was quiet and
stayed by himself. But
you could see he was al-

ways watching.”

PLAYED IN SERIES
A graduate. of the

. University of Michigan,

Denise Nicholas took part
in the civil rights
movement of the 1960s,
and toured the South with
the Free Southern
Theatre. After New York
stage and television
roles, she came to
Hollywood for the role of
Liz McIntyre in ABCTV's
hit series, Room 222.

The series had both
good and bad effects.

“Tt gave me
recognition with
audiences. But afterward

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see you coming. They
figure they’ve seen you
enough.”

Denise realized she
needed a ‘flashy,
energetic role to break
down my image as a quiet
school teacher.” Poitier
was casting for Let's Do

It Again but declined to

see her,

“He had turned me
down for Brother John
and he didn't want to do it
again,” the actress said.
“His reason had been
that. ‘acting hadn’t

broken’, through... that.
« face.” ;

_ She finally won anothe
chance. This time Poitier
remarked: ‘‘You’r
breaking through that
face.”

“You mean I'm getting
ogd?”’ she asked.

Charles a
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LONDON (Reuter) —
Prince Charles will
become a privy coun-
cillor next Tuesday,
Buckingham Palace said
Wedlnesay.

The Privy Council acts
as the Queen’s advisers
and has judicial powers
over Commonwealth
affairs. It usually has
about 340 members.

Apart from British
cabinet ministers, who
are automatically
members, the honor is
accorded to eminent
persons from any country
in the Commonwealth.
Appointment is purely at
the discretion of the
Queen.

Both the Queen and
Prince Philip are privy
councillors.

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Two of the greatest

‘institutions in the history

of Canadian en-
tertainment join forces
when Johnny Wayne
brings his comedic
talents to Hockey Night in
Canada on CBC television
this season. The master
comic will appear seven
or more times on a series
of intermission featurrs
entitled “Confessions of a
Hockey Nut’’, one of
which Johnny Wayne
certainly is. _. i
“If thre is one thing
Hockey Night in Canada
telecasts have lacked in
the past’”’, says executive
producer
Mellanby, ‘‘it’s been a
sense of humor, an ability .
to see the funny aspects ©

oof the game.” Joe J.
on"“NBC “has “F:
contributed greatly tothe .

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fans enjoyment of
baseball with his witty
lines and _— off-beat
features. Johnny will fill
thal void for us on Hockey
Night in Canada.

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Little Sister —
Sings too

By PETER J. BOYER

LOS ANGELES (AP)
_ fing. years ago, an
aspi young couniry
sit er nzmed Brenda
Gail Webb sat in her
Wabash, Ind. home
puzzling over the first big

problem of her career—_

she needed a name. -™.
There was

Gail and the company

already had a Breanda—
Brenda Lee.
Finally big sister

Loretta Lynn thought of
the string of all-night
joints in the South, little

| .square-shaped places

called Krystal that
served little square-
shaped hamburgers.
Thus Brenda i
became Crystal Gayle.

That was 1971, when
women country stars like

Loretta twanged per--

ceptibly an wore

- beehive hairdos.

But things changed.
‘Singers - ‘like Kris
Kristofferson, Waylon
Dolly
Parton showed the rest of
the world you didn’t have
to go barefoot to like
country music, and the
art became respectable.
CROSSED LINE

And Crystal Gayle
quickly emonstrated
that she could sing.
Within a couple of years
she had a No. 1 hit, [ll
Get Over You, and was
named Outstanding
Female Vocalist last
October. What’s more,
she had crossover appeal.

Crystal's sultry, bluesy
lament Don’t It Make My
Brown Eyes Blue found
its way to pop audiences,

and now is a top hit.
““T’ve always wanted to
appeal to more people
than just country, to sell
more records," Crystal
said, displaying none of
that Butcher Holler, Ky.,

‘twang that has become

her sister’s trademark.

Crystal said her ability
to sing pop-rock arises
from a childhood away
from the coal mines of
Kentucky, where Loretta
learned to whine. Her
family moved from
Butcher Holler when she
was a child, and she grew
up in Indiana.

"IT have a_ different
style from Loretta
because she grew up in
the country and I grew up
in a town. We had two
totally different kinds of
backgrounds. I listened to
folk music and Leslie
Gore, like any kid, buying
the 45s that were popular
at the time.”

FACED COMPARISONS

Finding a name was

-her first problem. Living

with the comparisons
people made between
Crystal and her sister
was the next.

“t remember in the
beginning, when I started
singing, everybody made
comparisons. They'd
compare our voices, the

way we looked,
everything.
“Loretta got my foot in

the door, and I took it
from there. f look at my
sister as a living legend. I
think she’s great.

“She’s done so much

ight for country music—

when anybody thinks of a
country singer, Loretta
comes to mind first.”

Crystal says she has no
idea whether she will
continue her move
toward pop.

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