DOUG'S DIARY: September 2013

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Monday, September 16, 2013

Bob Newhart, Heidi Klum Win First Emmys -- Vulture

'Behind the Candelabra' Tops Creative Arts Emmy Awards - The Hollywood Reporter

Nina Davuluri Becomes First Miss America of Indian Heritage - Miss America Pageant : People.com

Miss America Nina Davuluri brushes off racist remarks

Miss America crowns 2014 winner

Friday, September 13, 2013

VOYAGER 1

It's official. Voyager 1 has left the solar system. While there will be little immediate benefit from this feat, it does represent a historic milestone of exploration. Voyager 1's achievement is every bit as important as Roald Amundsen's party reaching the South Pole on 14 December 1911, or Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquering Everest on 29 May 1953. The difference is that there is no human inside Voyager. With no obvious human, there is no obvious hero to venerate for the achievement. And the army of scientists and engineers who built and shepherded the mission seem too diffuse a collective for adoration. We must therefore celebrate Voyager 1 itself, as being a robotic extension of our senses, carrying our experiments to places that we simply cannot go. The duration of its mission alone is worthy of celebration. Launched in 1977, the same year that Elvis finally left the building, Voyager 1's primary mission was to visit the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn. Its orbit was designed to make a close pass of Saturn's mysterious moon, Titan, but that left the spacecraft coasting through space with no other planets to encounter. In the subsequent decade, sister ship Voyager 2 stole the limelight because of its flyby of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 was travelling faster, however, and that extra speed now means it is around 120 times the distance of the Earth from the sun, whereas Voyager 2 is lagging behind at about 100 times. Powered by radioactivity, both are still communicating with Earth. It was realised that sunlight would be far too weak in the outer solar system to drive solar panels. The power is gradually running down, however, as the radioactive fuel decays. The craft are expected to last until around 2020, and that gives plenty of time to collect data about this newly reached realm of nature. The boundary of the solar system is defined by the magnetic field created inside the sun. This bubble of magnetism traps particles and when Voyager passes the boundary, the density of particles will change abruptly. A recent review of the spacecraft data shows that this happened on 25 August 2012, over a year ago. So, according to Nasa Voyager 1 has officially left the solar system. It is difficult to say at the moment what benefit this knowledge will bring to us – just as it was difficult to say what benefit Amundsen's and Hillary's achievement would have on society. But just as certainly, achievements inspire us and drive us on to our own personal goals and therefore cannot be underestimated. Stuart Clark is the author of The Day Without Yesterday (Polygon). Find him on Twitter @DrStuClark Posted by Stuart Clark @DrStuClark Friday 13 September 2013 11.42 BST theguardian.com Jump to comments (28) Print thisShareContact usArticle history Science Nasa · Space More from Across the universe on Science Nasa · Space More blogposts More on this story Voyager 1 leaves solar system Nasa scientists say they believe the spacecraft has now reached interstellar space, beyond the influence of the sun Previous Blog home

BROWNIE CAKES

.1 box brownie mix 1 extra large egg 1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese, softened 1 cup powdered sugar 2 (8 oz.) containers whipped topping 1 (3 oz.) package instant chocolate pudding 1 (3 oz.) package instant vanilla pudding 3 1/2 cups milk 1 Hershey candy bar or chocolate syrup Directions: Mix brownie mixes according to directions. Add egg. Bake in brownie pan. Mix cream cheese, powdered sugar and 1 container whipped topping. Put this mix on top of the cooled brownies. Blend puddings and milk together and put on top of the cream cheese mixture. Top with another layer of whipped topping. Put chocolate shavings or chocolate syrup on top. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

LIKE A BOX

My mind grew quiet like a house at dusk, rooms black, except for moonlight stroking walls. Then sleep unlocked the door. When sleep appeared, removed its robe, and wrapped its arms around my neck whispering plunder in my ear, I even welcomed death to snuggle down. When death sistered itself to sleep, not brusque, but coy and clever as the start of fall-signaled by a first vermilion leaf, a chill against my cheek— then the sky opened like a box too full of diamond stars. When the stars reduced all nights to a jar stones, gray pebbles in a hand, then my mind could settle in its house and still.

Monday, September 9, 2013

Well, it's finally time to write something about my life. The sty in my eye is bothering me, but I am at work, so I don't have to think about it all the time. I'm getting ready for my big move two weeks from now.

TELEVISION AWARDS

1959-60 BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY LUCILLE BALL, THE WESTINGHOUSE LUCILLE BALL-DESI ARNAZ SHOW BARBARA BILLINGSLEY, LEAVE IT TO BEAVER HARRIET NELSON, THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET DONNA REED, THE DONNA REED SHOW JANE WYATT, FATHER KNOWS BEST WINNER: LUCILLE BALL BEST ACTOR, COMEDY JACK BENNY, THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM WALTER BRENNAN, THE REAL MCCOYS RED SKELTON, THE RED SKELTON SHOW DANNY THOMAS, THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW ROBERT YOUNG, FATHER KNOWS BEST WINNER: RED SKELTON BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA AMANDA BLAKE, GUNSMOKE BARBARA HALE, PERRY MASON JUNE LOCKHART, LASSIE CONNIE STEVENS, HAWAIIAN EYE LORETTA YOUNG, THE LORETTA YOUNG SHOW WINNER: LORETTA YOUNG BEST ACTOR, DRAMA JAMES ARNESS, GUNSMOKE RAYMOND BURR, PERRY MASON JAMES GARNER, MAVERICK LORNE GREENE, BONANZA ROBERT STACK, THE UNTOUCHABLES WINNER: JAMES ARNASS BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS ANGELA CARTWRIGHT, THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW LAURIN CHAPIN, FATHER KNOWS BEST ELINOR DONAHUE, FATHER KNOWS BEST SHELLEY FABARES, THE DONNA REED SHOW SHEILA JAMES, THE MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS WINNER: SHEILA JAMES BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR RICHARD CRENNA, THE REAL MCCOYS BOB DENVER, THE MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS MICHAEL LANDON, BONANZA JERRY MATHERS, LEAVE IT TO BEAVER JAY NORTH, DENNIS THE MENACE WINNER: JAY NORTH BEST COMEDY DENNIS THE MENACE THE DONNA REED SHOW FATHER KNOWS BEST LEAVE IT TO BEAVER THE REAL MCCOYS WINNER: LEAVE IT TO BEAVER BEST DRAMA BONANZA GUNSMOKE PERRY MASON 77 SUNSET STRIP THE UNTOUCHABLES WINNER: THE UNTOUCHABLES 1960-1961 BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY BARBARA BILLINGSLEY, LEAVE IT TO BEAVER GLORIA HENRY, DENNIS THE MENACE HARRIET NELSON, THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET DONNA REED, THE DONNA REED SHOW JANE WYATT, FATHER KNOWS BEST WINNER: DONNA REED BEST ACTOR, COMEDY WALTER BRENNAN, THE REAL MCCOYS ANDY GRIFFITH, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW FRED MACMURRAY, MY THREE SONS RED SKELTON, THE RED SKELTON SHOW ROBERT YOUNG, FATHER KNOWS BEST WINNER: RED SKELTON BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA AMANDA BLAKE, GUNSMOKE BARBARA HALE, PERRY MASON JUNE LOCKHART, LASSIE BARBARA STANWYCK, THE BARBARA STANWYCK SHOW LORETTA YOUNG, THE LORETTA YOUNG SHOW WINNER: BARBARA STANWYCK BEST ACTOR, DRAMA JAMES ARNASS, GUNSMOKE RAYMOND BURR, PERRY MASON LORNE GREENE, BONANZA ROBERT STACK, THE UNTOUCHABLES EFREM ZIMBALIST JR, 77 SUNSET STRIP WINNER: JAMES ARNASS BEST SUPPORTING ACRESS ANGELA CARTWRIGHT, THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW ELINOR DONAHUE, FATHER KNOWS BEST SHELLEY FABARES, THE DONNA REED SHOW SYLVIA FIELD, DENNIS THE MENACE SHEILA JAMES, THE MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS WINNER: SHEILA JAMES BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR BOB DENVER, THE MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS DON KNOTTS, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW MICHAEL LANDON, BONANZA JAY NORTH, DENNIS THE MENACE MILBURN STONE, GUNSMOKE WINNER: BOB DENVER BEST COMEDY THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW DENNIS THE MENACE THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM THE REAL MCCOYS THE RED SKELTON SHOW WINNER: THE REAL MCCOYS BEST DRAMA BONANZA GUNSMOKE PERRY MASON 77 SUNSET STRIP THE UNTOUCHABLES WINNER: PERRY MASON 1961-1962 BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY LUCILLE BALL, THE LUCY-DESI COMEDY HOUR SHIRLEY BOOTH, HAZEL GLORIA HENRY, DENNIS THE MENACE MARY TYLER MOORE, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW DONNA REED, THE DONNA REED SHOW WINNER: SHIRLEY BOOTH BEST ACTOR, COMEDY WALTER BRENNAN, THE REAL MCCOYS ANDY GRIFFITH, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW FRED MACMURRAY, MY THREE SONS RED SKELTON, THE RED SKELTON SHOW DICK VAN DYKE, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW WINNER: DICK VAN DYKE BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA AMANDA BLAKE, GUNSMOKE JOAN FREEMAN, BUS STOP BARBARA HALE, PERRY MASON MARILYN MAXWELL, BUS STOP CONNIE STEVENS, HAWAIIAN EYE WINNER: BARBARA HALE BEST ACTOR, DRAMA JAMES ARNASS, GUNSMOKE RAYMOND BURR, PERRY MASON RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN, DR. KILDARE VINCE EDWARDS, BEN CASEY LORNE GREENE, BONANZA WINNER: RAYMOND BURR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS FRANCES BAVIER, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW ANGELA CARTWRIGHT, THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW SYLVIA FIELD, DENNIS THE MENACE SHELLEY FABARES, THE DONNA REED SHOW ROSE MARIE, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW WINNER: ROSE MARIE BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR MOREY AMSTERDAM, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW JOSEPH KEARNS, DENNIS THE MENACE DON KNOTTS, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW JERRY MATHERS, LEAVE IT TO BEAVER JAY NORTH, DENNIS THE MENACE WINNER: DON KNOTTS BEST COMEDY DENNIS THE MENACE THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW THE DONNA REED SHOW THE REAL MCCOYS THE RED SKELTON SHOW WINNER: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW BEST DRAMA BEN CASEY BONANZA DR. KILDARE GUNSMOKE PERRY MASON WINNER: DR. KILDARE 1962-1963 BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY LUCILLE BALL, THE LUCY SHOW SHIRLEY BOOTH, HAZEL MARY TYLER MOORE, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW DONNA REED, THE DONNA REED SHOW IRENE RYAN, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES WINNER: MARY TYLER MOORE BEST ACTOR, COMEDY JACK BENNY, THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM WALTER BRENNAN, THE REAL MCCOYS BUDDY EBSEN, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES ANDY GRIFFITH, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW DICK VAN DYKE, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW WINNER: BUDDY EBSEN BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA AMANDA BLAKE, GUNSMOKE JOAN HACKETT, THE DEFENDERS BARBARA HALE, PERRY MASON ROBERTA SHORE, THE VIRGINIAN CONNIE STEVENS, HAWAIIAN EYE WINNER: CONNIE STEVENS BEST ACTOR, DRAMA JAMES ARNASS, GUNSMOKE RAYMOND BURR, PERRY MASON RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN, DR. KILDARE VINCE EDWARDS, BEN CASEY LORNE GREENE, BONANZA WINNER: LORNE GREENE BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS FRANCES BAVIER, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW DONNA DOUGLAS, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES NANCY KULP, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES ROSE MARIE, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW VIVIAN VANCE, THE LUCY SHOW WINNER: NANCY KULP BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR MOREY AMSTERDAM, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW RAYMOND BAILEY, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES MAX BAER, JR., THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES DAN BLOCKER, BONANZA DON KNOTTS, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW WINNER: MOREY AMSTERDAM BEST COMEDY THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW HAZEL THE LUCY SHOW WINNER: THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES BEST DRAMA BEN CASEY BONANZA DR. KILDARE GUNSMOKE PERRY MASON WINNER: GUNSMOKE 1963-1964 BEST ACTRESS COMEDY LUCILLE BALL, THE LUCY SHOW SHIRLEY BOOTH, HAZEL MARY TYLER MOORE, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW DONNA REED, THE DONNA REED SHOW IRENE RYAN, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES WINNER: LUCILLE BALL BEST ACTOR, COMEDY BUDDY EBSEN, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES ANDY GRIFFITH, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW FRED MACMURRAY, MY THREE SONS RED SKELTON, THE RED SKELTON HOUR DICK VAN DYKE, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW WINNER: DICK VAN DYKE BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA ZINA BETHUNE, THE NURSES AMANDA BLAKE, GUNSMOKE SHIRL CONWAY, THE NURSES BARBARA HALE, PERRY MASON JUNE LOCKHART, LASSIE WINNER: AMANDA BLAKE BEST ACTOR, DRAMA JAMES ARNASS, GUNSMOKE RAYMOND BURR, PERRY MASON RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN, DR. KILDARE LORNE GREENE, BONANZA DAVID JANSSEN, THE FUGITIVE WINNER: RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS ANGELA CARTWRIGHT, THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW DONNA DOUGLAS, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES NANCY KULP, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES ROSE MARIE, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW VIVIAN VANCE, THE LUCY SHOW WINNER: VIVIAN VANCE BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR MOREY AMSTERDAM, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW BILL BIXBY, MY FAVORITE MARTIAN DAN BLOCKER, BONANZA DON KNOTTS, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW MICHAEL LANDON, BONANZA WINNER: MOREY AMSTERDAM BEST COMEDY THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW THE LUCY SHOW MY FAVORITE MARTIAN WINNER: THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW BEST DRAMA BONANZA THE FUGITIVE GUNSMOKE PERRY MASON 77 SUNSET STRIP WINNER: THE FUGITIVE 1964-1965 BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY LUCILLE BALL, THE LUCY SHOW YVONNE DE CARLO, THE MUNSTERS CAROLYN JONES, THE ADDAMS FAMILY ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY, BEWITCHED INGER STEVENS, THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER WINNER: ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY BEST ACTOR, COMEDY FRED GWYNNE, THE MUNSTERS JIM NABORS, GOMER PYLE, U.S.M.C. DICK VAN DYKE, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW RAY WALSTON, MY FAVORITE MARTIAN DICK YORK, BEWITCHED WINNER: RAY WALSTON BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA AMANDA BLAKE, GUNSMOKE MIA FARROW, PEYTON PLACE JOAN HACKETT, THE DEFENDERS BARBARA HALE, PERRY MASON DOROTHY MALONE, PEYTON PLACE WINNER: DOROTHY MALONE BEST ACTOR, DRAMA JAMES ARNASS, GUNSMOKE GENE BARRY, BURKE'S LAW RAYMOND BURR, PERRY MASON DAVID JANSSEN, THE FUGITIVE ROBERT VAUGHN, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. WINNER: RAYMOND BURR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS FRANCES BAVIER, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW DONNA DOUGLAS, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES NANCY KULP, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES ROSE MARIE, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW AGNES MOOREHEAD, BEWITCHED WINNER: AGNES MOOREHEAD BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR BILL BIXBY, MY FAVORITE MARTIAN BOB DENVER, GILLIGAN'S ISLAND ALAN HALE, JR., GILLIGAN'S ISLAND AL LEWIS, THE MUNSTERS DAVID MCCALLUM, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. WINNER: BOB DENVER BEST COMEDY THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES BEWITCHED THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW MY FAVORITE MARTIAN WINNER: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW BEST DRAMA BONANZA THE FUGITIVE THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. PERRY MASON PEYTON PLACE WINNER: PEYTON PLACE 1965-1966 BEST ACTRESS COMEDY LUCILLE BALL, THE LUCY SHOW SHIRLEY BOOTH, HAZEL ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY, BEWITCHED MARY TYLER MOORE, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW IRENE RYAN, BEVERLY HILLBILLIES WINNER: IRENE RYAN BEST ACTOR COMEDY DON ADAMS, GET SMART EDDIE ALBERT, GREEN ACRES BOB CRANE, HOGAN'S HEROES BUDDY EBSEN, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES DICK VAN DYKE, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW WINNER: DON ADAMS BEST ACRESS, DRAMA AMANDA BLAKE, GUNSMOKE MIA FARROW, PEYTON PLACE JUNE LOCKHART, LOST IN SPACE DOROTHY MALONE, PEYTON PLACE BARBARA STANWYCK, THE BIG VALLEY WINNER: BARBARA STANWYCK BEST ACTOR DRAMA JAMES ARNASS, GUNSMOKE DAVID JANSSEN, THE FUGITIVE MARSHALL THOMPSON, DAKTARI ROBERT VAUGHN, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. EFREM ZIMBALIST, JR., THE F.B.I. WINNER: EFREM ZIMBALIST, JR. BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS FRANCES BAVIER, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW BEA BENADERET, PETTICOAT JUNCTION BARBARA FELDON, GET SMART ROSE MARIE, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW AGNES MOOREHEAD, BEWITCHED WINNER: FRANCES BAVIER BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR MOREY AMSTERDAM, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW BILL BIXBY, MY FAVORITE MARTIAN BOB DENVER, GILLIGAN'S ISLAND WERNER KLEMPERER, HOGAN'S HEROES DAVID MCCALLUM, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. WINNER: BILL BIXBY BEST COMEDY THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES BEWITCHED THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW GET SMART WINNER: GET SMART BEST DRAMA THE BIG VALLEY DAKTARI THE F.B.I. THE FUGITIVE THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. WINNER: THE F.B.I.

Sunday, September 8, 2013

MISS CANADA I

St. John's Merilee Lange 93 Gander Nadine Madison 91 Corner Brook Olivia Nelson 90 Portaux Basques Patrice Offington 88 Labrador Quinn Pine 87 Sydney Rhonda Quayle 85 Truro Suzette Rollins 90 Halifax-Dartmouth Tanith Sullivan 91 Peggy's Cove Ulla Tyson 88 Yarmouth Vivianne Usselman 87 Summerside Willa Vance 85 Charlottetown Xaye Wells 83 Elmira Yani Xu 91 Campbellton Zorah Ying 91 Moncton Amelia Zuckerman 90 St. John Berenice Abernathy 85 Fredericton Claudia Bell 93 Gaspe Danita Cipriani 96 X 8 Sherbrooke Estella Dorn 91 Trois Rivieres Francesca Epstein 91 Drummondville Glayde Fung 90 Quebec City Honour Gale 91 Laurentians Iris Helston 92 Montreal Jacqueline Ivers 93 Laval Kami Jung 91 Ottawa-Gatneau Lita Kyle 92 Peterborough Marjorie Larsen 88 Kingston Noelle Mercier 93 Oshawa Patsi Nilsen 88 Toronto Roseanne Oka 87 Oakville Samantha Poulter 87 Mississauga Treasure Quong 85 Etobicoke Vanity Rust 81 St Catharines Willow Symons 80 Niagara Arnelle Tambor 91 Windsor Basia Uggams 90 Hamilton Camille Victor 92 Burlington Doris Wicks 86 Brampton Ella Young 85 Kitchener-Waterloo Fantasia Zakreski 91 Sarnia Grayson Ackerman 85 London Hilla Billings 82 Guelph Ivy Cummine 80 Barrie Joanna Davis 93 Georgian Bay Krystle Elias 95 X 5 Sudbury Louise Fonger 88 North Bay Melanie Gustafson 86 Sault Ste Marie Nova Hynde 85 Thunder Bay Pina Isbister 90 Kenora Resa James 90 Winnipeg Sharmagne Kelly 92 Portage La Prairie Tannis Linden 96 X 4 Brandon Violette Morgan 91 Selkirk Astrid Nurse 88 Dauphin Bonnie Overton 85 Flin Flon Caroline Pike 93 Thompson Devon Quiring 91 The Pas Evan Rawlings 88 Churchill Fanita Sylvester 85 La Ronge Grace Tenant 86 Prince Albert Hannah Van Horne 96 X 3 North Battleford Irma Williams 88 Saskatoon Jayne-Marie Allan 93 Yorkton-Melville Kelly Best 91 Regina Lydia Chalmers 85 Moose Jaw Marnie Dixon 92 Swift Current Preet Elway 90 Medicine Hat Rashida Flanigan 91 Lethbridge Sandra Garcia 96 X 2 Drumheller Tiffany Hillerman 94 X 12 Calgary Arlene Ives 88 Red Deer Barbara Jones 93 Lloydminster Colleen King 94 Edmonton Danielle LaTrace 95 X 14 Grande Prairie Erika Mercury 93 Fort McMurray Faline Norman 91 Kamloops Goldie O'Brien 90 Prince George Heather Perry 93 Kelowna Joely Rowse 94 Penticton Kassidy Stevens 91 Cranbrook Lana Townsend 96 X 1 Prince Rupert Marlo Vine 93 Fraser Valley Pyne Walters 92 Langley Rayne-Anne Arnold 95 X 7 Surrey Sally Brown 93 Burnaby Tobi Carter 96 X 9 Richmond Aldina Dennison 93 Vancouver Blaine Ewing 92 North Vancouver Christa Fernandez 97 X 11 Victoria Donna Gonzalez 95 X 15 Nanaimo Emily-Rose Hamilton 95 X 6 Whitehorse Farrah Ivory 94 X 13 Yellowknife Gwen Jellicoe 92 Iqaluit Hazel-Kate Krause 96 X 10 TOP 15 MISS CRANBROOK, LANA TOWNSEND 95 X 3, LETHBRIDGE, SANDRA GARCIA 94, PRINCE ALBERT, HANNAH VAN HORNE 96 X 5, PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, TANNIS LINDEN 95 X 4, GEORGIAN BAY, KRYSTLE ELIAS 96 X 1, NANAIMO, EMILY-ROSE HAMILTON 94, LANGLEY, RAYNE-ANNE ARNOLD 95 X 6, GASPE, DANITA CIPRIANI 96 X 10, BURNABY, TOBI CARTER 94, IQALUIT, HAZEL-KATE KRAUSE 96 X 7, NORTH VANCOUVER, CHRISTA FERNANDEZ 94 X 9, DRUMHELLER, TIFFANY HILLERMAN 93, WHITEHORSE, FARRAH IVORY 94, EDMONTON, DANIELLE LATRACE 95 X 8, VICTORIA, DONNA GONZALEZ 95 X 2 10 SEMI FINALISTS GEORGIAN BAY, KRYSTLE ELIAS 96 X 2 VICTORIA, DONNA GONZALEZ 95 CRANBROOK, LANA TOWNSEND 96 X 4 PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, TANNIS LINDEN 95 PRINCE ALBERT, HANNAH VAN HORNE 96 X 1 LANGLEY, RAYNE-ANNE ARNOLD 94 IQALUIT, HAZEL-KATE KRAUSE 95 EDMONTON, DANIELLE LATRACE 96 X 5 NORTH VANCOUVER, CHRISTA FERNANDEZ 95 GASPE, DANITA CIPRIANI 96 X 3 5 FINALISTS PRINCE ALBERT, HANNAH VAN HORNE 96 GEORGIAN BAY, KRYSTLE ELIAS 95 GASPE, DANITA CIPRIANI 96 CRANBROOK, LANA TOWNSEND 95 EDMONTON, DANIELLE LATRACE 96 4TH RUNNER UP MISS GEORGIAN BAY, KRYSTLE ELIAS 3RD RUNNER UP MISS CRANBROOK, LANA TOWNSEND 2ND RUNNER UP MISS EDMONTON, DANIELLE LATRACE 1ST RUNNER UP MISS GASPE, DANITA CIPRIANI MISS CANADA, HANNAH VAN HORNE (PRINCE ALBERT) G

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Miss U.S.A. I Alabama Brandi Conners 92 Alaska Cheyenne Dobbins 93 Arizona Delilah Evans 91 Arkansas Randene Fernandez 90 California Sarah Giles 94 x 8 Colorado Tania Henderson 90 Connecticut Victoria Ivory 93 Delaware Wendy Jones 92 District of Columbia Yolanda King 90 Florida Zina Landers 88 Georgia April MacNeill 91 Hawaii Bonnie Nyad 87 Idaho Carla O'Reilly 92 Illinois Deborah Peterson 95 x 9 Indiana Erin Quigley 96 x 10 Iowa Fiona Rose 91 Kansas Gina St John 96 x 7 Kentucky Heather Torres 92 Louisiana Iris Unger 88 Maine Julianne Valenzuela 98 x 2 Maryland Kara Walker 91 Massachusetts Leandra Xu 90 Michigan Molly Young 92 Minnesota Nadine Zorba 91 Mississippi Olivia Au Yeung 92 Missouri Piper Browning 94 x 6 Montana Quinn Chamberlain 97 x 1 Nebraska Rosita Danes 92 Nevada Sheryl Erickson 93 New Hampshire Tina Flores 95 x 3 New Jersey Valerie Gould 92 New Mexico Wanda Hill 93 New York Avery Iwaniuk 91 North Carolina Bandi Jacobs 90 North Dakota Cecile Kowalski 93 Ohio Dara Lalonde 91 Oklahoma Emily Moxon 92 Oregon Farrah Norman 90 Pennsylvania Gwendolyn Oliphant 88 Rhode Island Hazel Pierre 87 South Carolina Irene Quan 86 South Dakota Jamie Rogers 93 Tennessee Kim Stanwyck 92 Texas Louisa Thompson 90 Utah Marguerite uln 93 Vermont Nola Van Horne 92 Virginia Patrice Weistein 94 x 5 Washington Rayna Xu 91 West Virginia Sasha Ying 92 Wisconsin Tamara Zaks 93 Wyoming Alita Daniels 95 x 4 10 SEMI FINALIST MONTANA, QUINN CHAMBERLAIN 95 X 4 MAINE, JULIANNE VALENZUELA 96 X 1 NEW HAMPSHIRE, TINA FLORES 94 WYOMING, ALITA DANIELS 95 X 5 VIRGINIA, PATRICE WEINSTEIN 94 MISSOURI, PIPER BROWNING 93 KANSAS, GINA ST JOHN 95 X 3 CALIFORNIA, SARAH GILES 94 ILLINOIS, DEBORAH PETERSON 93 INDIANA, ERIN QUIGLEY 95 X 2 5 FINALISTS MAINE, JULIANNE VALENZUELA 96 INDIANA, ERIN QUIGLEY 95 KANSAS, GINA ST JOHN 94 MONTANA, QUINN CHAMBERLAIN 95 WYOMING, ALITA DANIELS 93 4TH RUNNER UP MISS WYOMING, ALITA DANIELS 3RD RUNNER UP MISS KANSAS, GINA ST JOHN 2ND RUNNER UP MISS INDIANA, ERIN QUIGLEY 1ST RUNNER UP MISS MONTANA, QUINN CHAMBERLAIN MISS U.S.A. JULIANNE VALENZUELA (MAINE)

SEPTEMBER 9 1967 BILLBOARD COUNTDOWN

SEPTEMBER 9 1967 BILLBOARD COUNTDOWN 1. Ode To Billie Joe, Bobbie Gentry 2. Reflections, Diana Ross And The Supremes 3. Come Back When You Grow Up, Bobby Vee And The Strangers 4. Baby I Love You, Aretha Franklin 5. The Letter, Box Tops 6. All You Need Is Love, Beatles 7. You're My Everything, Temptations 8. Light My Fire, Doors 9. Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie, Jay And The Techniques 10. san Franciscan Nights, Eric Burdon And The Animals 11. Cold Sweat, James Brown 12. Words, Monkees 13. Pleasant Valley Sunday, Monkees 14. Brown-Eyed Girl, Van Morrison 15. Thank The Lord For The Night Time, Neil Diamond 16. You Know What I Mean, Turtles 17. There Is A Mountain, Donovan 18. Funky Broadway, Wilson Pickett 19. (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher, Jackie Wilson 20. (I Wanna) Testify, Parliaments 21. Heroes And Villians, Beach Boys 22. I Was Made To Love Her, Stevie Wonder 23. Silence Is Golden, Tremeloes 24. I Had A Dream, Paul Revere And The Raiders 25. Never My Love, Association 26. I Dig Rock And Roll Music, Peter, Paul And Mary 27. Twelve Thirty, Mamas And The Papas 28. Things I Should Have Said, Grass Roots 29. Gettin' Together, Tommy James And The Shondells 30. The World We Knew (Over And Over), Frank Sinatra 31. Groovin', Booker T. And The M.G.'s 32. The Windows Of The World, Dionne Warwick 33. Gimme Little Sign, Brenton Wood 34. A Girl Like You, Young Rascals 35. Fakin' It, Simon And Garfunkel 36. Carrie Ann, Hollies 37. To Love Somebody, Bee Gees 38. Little Old Wine Drinker, Me, Dean Martin 39. Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone, Martha And The Vandellas 40. Blues Theme, Arrows 41. Making Every Minute Count, Spanky And Our Gang 42. Zip Code, Five Americans 43. I Make A Fool Of Myself, Frankie Valli 44. A Whiter Shade Of Pale, Procol Harum 45. Ha Ha Said The Clown, Yardbirds 46. Hypnotized, Linda Jones 47. Get On Up, Esquires 48. The Cat In The Window (The Bird In The Sky), Petula Clark 49. Museum, Herman's Hermits 50. It's The Little Things, Sonny And Cher 51. Knock On Wood, Otis And Carla 52. Happy, Sunshine Company 53. You've Got To Pay The Price, Al Kent 54. Jill, Gary Lewis And The Playboys 55. Little Ole Man (uptight---Everything's Alright), Bill Cosby 56. Put Your Mind At Ease, Every Mother's Son 57. Memphis Soul Stew, King Curtis 58. There's Always Me, Elvis Presley 59. In The Heat Of The Night, Ray Charles 60. Anything Goes, Harpers Bizarre 61. Expressway To Your Heart, Soul Survivors 62. Casonova (Your Playing Days Are Over), Ruby Andrews 63. Run, Run, Run, Third Rail 64. Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil, Jefferson Airplane 65. Turn On Your Love Light, Oscar Toney, Jr. 66. Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got), Frankie Laine 67. Just Out Of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms), Percy Sledge 68. The Look Of Love, Dusty Springfield 69. I Feel Good (I Feel Bad), Lewis & Clarke 70. Turn The World Around, Eddy Arnold 71. Take A Look, Aretha Franklin 72. It Must Be Him, Vikki Carr 73. Your Precious Love, Marvin Gaye And Tammy Terrell 74. To Sir With Love, Lulu 75. Dandelion, Rolling Stones 76. A Banda, Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass 77. Let Love Come Between Us, James And Bobby Purify 78. Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got), Brook Benton 79. Soul Man, Sam & Dave 80. How Can I Be Sure, Young Rascals 81. You've Made Me So Very Happy, Brenda Holloway 82. What Now My Love, Mitch Ryder 83. Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song), Buckinghams 84. I'll Never Fall In Love Again, Tom Jones 85. Get Together, Youngbloods 86.It's Got To Be Mellow, Leon Haywood 87. Knucklehead, Bar-Kays 88. I Can't Stay Away From You, Impressions 89. JUdy, Elvis Presley 90. Tell Him, Patti Drew 91. Sweet Soul Medley, Magnificent Man 92. Our Song, Jack Jones 93. Sunshine Games, Music Explosion 94. Hey Joe, Cher 95. Spreadin' Honey, Watts 103rd ST. Rhythm Band 96. Forget It, Sandpebbles 97. Nearer To You, Betty Harris 98. Wednesday, Royal Guardsmen 99. You're A Very Lovely Woman, Merry-Go-Round 100. Requiem For The Masses, Association

Friday, September 6, 2013

MEMORIES

Suddenly A Memory His encounter with life so brief As the sun warmed the waters he was gone A mist evaporating into the air As if a leaf caught in the wind carried him away Before my eyes he vanished Suddenly a memory of yesterday.

A DANCE

A Dance The wind of hopes Breaks into a storm Upheaval, tumultuous And over turns the dreams A feast of failure On the uneven floor A flagrant display Of vulgar dance of life For the false promise I wait But the winds tell the tide Perhaps on this road no one will come and tread

SEPTEMBER SONG

I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. The land’s sharp features seemed to be The Century’s corpse outleant, His crypt the cloudy canopy, The wind his death-lament. The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry, And every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I. At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom. So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware

THE BUSINESS OF LIFE

THIS BUSINESSS ABOUT HER EARLY YEARS DEVOURED HER UNCERAINTY AND SHE REALIZED HE LOOKED LIKE THAT FROM SOME OF THE LETTERS HE SAW

i SEE THE WICKED LAMB ABOUT TO EMBRACE THE QUIET DARKNESS OF NIGHT AS IF TO SAY SHE WAS SHATTERED BY ALL THE INSANITY SURROUNDING HER ENVIRONMENT NO TELLING WHAT LIES BENEATH THE QUIVERING FERNS AND PLANTS OF YORE, I WONDER WHY SHE WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE REST OF THE UNDERGROUND WORLD

CHER AND GREGG ALLMAN SEPTEMBER 8 1975

It is 5 a.m. and crickets drone in the dark Georgia pines. Candles flicker inside the spacious living room. The Chivas Regal is passed back and forth between the two young men, and then a big acoustic six-string Guild. Dicky Betts, lead guitarist of the Allman Brothers Band, picks out a country tune, and he and Gregg Allman harmonize on the lonely lyrics, drinking Scotch, grinning like schoolboys, as serene and hopeful as the coming dawn. For the moody, intense Allman, it is a rare moment between his band's grueling 25-city tour beginning this week and the emotional pummeling that followed his marriage to and publicized separation from Cher Bono. But have they really split? Gregg and Cher were together in Buffalo, and then again in New York City last week. Cher's delicate face had erupted into a moonscape of zits, threatening the scheduled tapings of her TV show, and she was consulting dermatologists. In order to remain by her side, Gregg delayed his return to the homestead in Macon, Ga. where his band nervously waited to rehearse for their opening concert in the 80,000-seat New Orleans Superdome. This is the strangely troubled band's first tour in more than a year, timed to hype their first new LP (Win, Lose or Draw) in more than two. Together the events signal the return of what is arguably the premiere rock band in America—and certainly among the most influential, with its unique southern-rock sound powered by Allman's growling vocals and twin guitar licks. As the group's lead vocalist, organist, composer and surviving Allman brother, Gregg is clearly the egalitarian group's mainstay. Keeping the band together has been a personal triumph for the 26-year-old. He did so against harrowing odds. In 1971, Gregg's older brother, Duane, the laid-back mover of the group and a guitar virtuoso, was killed on a motorcycle in Macon. Almost exactly a year later, eerily, the band's bassist, Berry Oakley, was also killed, also on a motorcycle, just a block away. Gregg was shattered by their deaths, and even today his voice thickens when he talks about Duane as "an incredible genius. I really dug him." Gregg wasted away to 125 pounds, down from 197, and found himself in a long nightmare. "I was a heroin addict for two years," he now admits, and the experience embittered him. "There are cats out there who are gonna hit on anybody with a guitar strapped around his arm. The guy says, 'Hey, baby, you wanna buy? Just poke some of this into your arm, or up your nose, or anywhere, and it'll feel better.' It was like a cat in my body. His air is used up, and his claws are out. And he's running around inside trying to get out. Then, bam, the old spike goes in and you can almost see the cat go to sleep at the bottom of your foot. But you know he'll wake up and try to get out again." Allman pauses, and then adds through clenched teeth, "But I beat it." The victory came when he was hospitalized last year in a private methadone program. His memory of the years of addiction is mercifully vague. "It's not that I want to forget," he observes, "it's just that I can't remember." What keeps him straight now, Gregg says, is his "beautiful butterfly" Cher. "She's helped me out of it," he explains. "There is a cure for heroin. It just takes somebody loving enough." Allman says, "The Cher you see on TV and the Cher I know are two different people." She was not yet a famous face in the crowd when he and Duane first saw her nearly a decade ago in L.A.'s Whiskey A Go-Go. "We were in the house band," Gregg recalls. "One night this woman in a leather beaded dress walks in with a short guy with a cigar. I turned to Duane and said, 'Isn't that the most beautiful woman you ever saw?' He said, 'Man, I hope someday you have what it takes to deserve a woman like that.' " Gregg's first two marriages floundered—"they had nothing in mind but fame and money." All along, like a lovestruck sophomore, he had been buying Cher's LPs. Even though Gregg "had just about lost faith in women," a friend finally introduced him to Cher at the Troubadour in L.A. late in 1974. She was then keeping company with record impresario David Geffen, but five weeks later Gregg had moved into Cher's heart and her Holmby Hills mansion. It is not instantly clear what she saw in this zonked-out kid 19 months her junior. Their union was an unlikely meld of prime time and road fever; even their musical styles are radically different. But for all his Georgia red-clay posturings, Gregg is actually a brain who was first in his class two years running at Castle Heights Military Academy in Lebanon, Tenn. He played linebacker on the football team, pumped iron as a championship weight-lifter and still boasts that he could do 17 one-arm push-ups. Gregg and Duane's father died when the boys were young (he was murdered by a hitchhiker, the first of the traumatic shocks of Gregg's life) and their mother eventually moved the family from Tennessee to Daytona Beach, Fla. Duane got a motorcycle one Christmas, Gregg a guitar. They began hanging around black R&B joints and eventually organized their first band, The Allman Joys, named after a candy bar. Gregg drifted to the West Coast in other groups, while Duane made his rep in recording sessions behind soul singers like Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin. In 1969, Gregg recalls, "My life didn't have any point. I said the hell with it. Then I got a call from Duane that he had put a band together—two drums, bass, and two guitars. He said, 'Man, we need you to wrap it up.' " That call was the beginning of the Allman Brothers Band, five gold albums, three platinums and the tour this fall that's expected to reap between $15 and $18 million. Such formidable success only leaves Allman more jaundiced. "They see you signing autographs and making all that bread as a rock'n'roll star, but they don't realize that you are a piece of meat and blood and guts and feelings," he says, biting out the words. "I haven't sung a lot of happy songs. The memory of pain is always there." His marriage to Cher seems no guarantee against more such memories. He is lonely in Macon, has put up his house for sale and plans to move to L.A. With a kind of compulsive fatalism, he still roars around on his motorcycle and recently spilled badly enough to break a wrist. "But I want nothing to keep me apart from Cher," he murmurs. "Life is so short, man. 'You put your watch up to your ear and listen to how fast it's going by.' " div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">

RICHARD BURTON AND ELIZABETH TAYLOR SEPTEMBER 8 1975

I am shattered," sighed onetime California used-car dealer Henry Wynberg, the man most recently sent packing by Elizabeth Taylor. "But relationships continually alter. They are on and then off again." While Liz and her on-the-wagon former husband Richard Burton enjoyed their first few days of blissful reconciliation in Geneva, Taylor's utility consort for the past two years arrived back at London's Heathrow Airport. He carried only memories—plus a mountain of the actress' luggage mistakenly taken along during his hasty departure. On arrival, 41-year-old Wynberg refused to leave the plane when he spotted a horde of reporters and photographers waiting on the tarmac. Eventually, a chauffeur-driven Mercedes pulled up and whisked the Gucci-clad and safari-jacketed Henry away—excess baggage and all. Not that Liz is without feelings. While in London, Wynberg still stays at Taylor's quaint three-story terrace house in Chelsea. (Her daughter Liza Todd lives in the basement.) "I still love her," Henry concedes, "but I do not want to discuss the affair. I have no plans, no plans at all. I haven't spoken to Liz since I heard it was all off." All off for now, perhaps. But Henry has become something of an expert at fielding Liz on the rebound. When the Burtons got back together in 1973 during one of her periodic illnesses, Wynberg obligingly moved out of Taylor's hospital room and patiently waited until Richard disappeared again. This time, however, Wynberg is hedging his bets. Just in case this reconciliation is for real, he is negotiating with a U.S. publisher for the rights to his version of Life with Liz.

SEPTEMBER 8 1975

Jackie was back on center court again. The occasion was the Robert F. Kennedy Pro-Celebrity Tennis Tournament at Forest Hills, where she made a surprise appearance—not so much upstaging such luminaries as Alan King, Burt Bacharach and Buddy Hackett as totally eclipsing them. It was her first public appearance in the U.S. since the death of her Greek billionaire-husband Aristotle Onassis last March. The time had come to put away the widow's weeds. Stepping jauntily—on bone-colored T-strap heels—from a car driven by the tournament chairman, she burbled, "I'm so excited to be here, I wouldn't miss it for the world." (She missed it last year, however.) She was wearing a white silk shirt dress, which some unsparing observers thought a little frumpy, set off with gold earrings and chains and a Cartier Tank watch. Clearly intending to watch and not compete, she did get into a series of hugging matches with various Kennedy children. She joked with Ethel, Bobby's widow, and exchanged long looks with Teddy. Much of the time Jackie was just folks, 13,000 of whom attended the tournament and raised about $200,000 for the underprivileged. She nibbled a hot dog and an ice cream bar. She was seen in conversation with sports-caster Howard Cosell, actually getting a word in. "We talked about whether her children were as athletic as Bobby's, and she decided they weren't," he reported. After she presented a trophy to comedian Bill Cosby, last year's winner, for helping with this year's tournament, he managed to say, "I thought she was beautiful." So what else is new? This one small domestic note: the Kennedy kids call her "Aunt Jackie."

SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK SEPTEMBER 1974

Everybody's favorite moppet, 9-year-old Shirley Temple, was busy filming Little Miss Broadway in 1937 when a visitor appeared on the Twentieth Century-Fox set. By the time she left, Eleanor Roosevelt—whose husband had once praised the dimpled star for keeping up America's spirits during the Depression—was proudly wearing a genuine "Shirley Temple Police Force" badge. Now preparing for her latest role as the newly appointed U.S. ambassador to Ghana, Shirley Temple Black, 46, credits the late First Lady with her own interest in diplomacy. Concedes lifelong Republican Shirley: "A lot of Mrs. Roosevelt's work in international affairs has got to me by osmosis. It's been an inspiration to me." Although she has never been to Ghana, Shirley views her appointment as just another step in a "logical progression of jobs" since she retired from films in 1949 at the age of 21. Married to a wealthy businessman, Charles Black (following a divorce in 1949 from her first husband, actor John Agar) she has raised a family of three in the well-to-do San Francisco peninsula town of Woodside. Long a stellar name at Republican affairs, she campaigned for the GOP nomination for Congress against Pete McCloskey in 1967—and lost. One reason, she believes, is that she was cast as a bedrock conservative. "Really, I'm a fiscal conservative," she explains, "but I'm liberal to moderate on domestic issues and very liberal internationally." She has put her internationalism to work, serving a one-year term as a member of the U.S. delegation to the UN. As a child star, she was known as "one-take Temple," and she has not lost her ability to cram. Instead of the usual workload of four committee assignments at the UN, she took on 13. "I'm a fast learner," she says, "and interested in a lot of things." An ardent environmentalist, she also represented the U.S. at the Stockholm conference on human environment in 1972 and until early this year served on the President's Council on Environmental Quality. Once mother is confirmed by the Senate, all the Blacks—including daughters Susan, 26, and Lori, 20, and son Charles Jr., 22, plan to move to the embassy in Accra. Although Shirley underwent a much-publicized mastectomy 18 months ago, she insists that the assignment poses no special strain on her health. "My health was great before my operation for breast cancer, and it's been great ever since," she declares. "It's just that in between I lost an old friend." Her career in public service has left her with an attitude toward those long-gone Hollywood days that approaches indifference. She has prints of her movies but keeps them in the toolshed. Nor does she feel haunted by her child-star image. "Oh, I loved my life as a child. I wouldn't change any part of it," she contends. "But this I find much harder work. There's no ending to the stories. It's not like having a script where it all works out neatly."

VALERIE HARPER GETS HER OWN TV SHOW SEPTEMBER 1974

"Hi, babe. Oh, I'm wonderful. What? Oh my God, hang up. I've gotta call my husband." The tears are rolling down Valerie Harper's cheeks. She slams down the phone on her friend, chokes out a gasp: "My husband's heard on the radio in Los Angeles we were getting a divorce and he couldn't reach me last night. Damn it, if some dress manufacturer in Chicago took a vacation alone, perhaps friends would wonder if his marriage were on the rocks but it doesn't make the papers. But in Hollywood..." What happened was simply that Valerie had requested the hotel switchboard to turn away all callers, and unintentionally that included her husband of ten years, actor-writer-director Dick Schaal. The result, as Valerie puts it, was that the two of them "were being fishbowled. If this is what it is going to be like, I'll bow out of the whole thing. I mean I won't stop living my life as a person just because I'm getting my own TV series!" Like it or not, Valerie Harper seems to be the biggest, most golden fish in the 24 new series the TV networks are floating before the American public beginning next week. She played Rhoda Morgenstern for four socko seasons on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, winning three successive Emmys, before spinning off into a CBS series of her own titled Rhoda. It is scheduled against ABC's NFL Monday Night Football, or what's left of it after this summer's players strike. In the series, Rhoda will move to New York and will no longer appear on the old show, but Mary will read letters from her (particularly if Valerie needs a rating boost). Mary's production company, MTM Enterprises, owns Rhoda, and to get it launched, Mary will guest star both premiere night and on the eighth episode, a one-hour special Oct. 28, in which Rhoda marries a widower (David Groh) with a child. The anxiety of the spinster princess will be passed on to Rhoda's younger sister Brenda (Julie Kavner). Valerie is ambivalent but "not overwhelmed" by becoming first banana. "I thought I'd feel a dark quiet moment of self-hatred, that I'd be saying 'You can't do it, you're not a star' and you know it," she says, "I'm not a star. I simply have a wonderful job." A job that pays $25,000 a week plus any profits from the percentage in the series MTM awarded her (perhaps as penance—Valerie started four years ago at an unusually low $700 a week). The new star attributes her relatively delayed accession (she's in her early 30s) to the fact that when she started "they were into Sandra Dee types, and I was dark." She also felt disadvantaged by lousy vision—until "a director told me that myopic girls are best on camera. There's a glistening in the eyes. It has something to do with the fluid..." She was born—Catholic—in Suffern, N.Y., and grew up everywhere because her father was an industrial salesman. The marriage was held together for the children. Eventually there was a divorce and a stepmother, Angela, whom Valerie "adores and uses a lot for Rhoda, because she's Italian and genuine New York." Valerie's first ambition was to be a dancer. "I was always spinning around the house," she recalls. "I saw The Red Shoes at an early age like lots of girls, and my father always paid for lessons." Her first decade in show business was in the corps de ballet at the Radio City Music Hall, in Broadway choruses and on a low-budget local daytime TV show. After she met her actor-husband, they both wrote sketches and performed. "Friends said that we deserved the Nobel Prize," she recalls. "A guest would cancel and instead of Muhammad Ali, we'd have a lady from Lane Bryant, with fashions for the fuller figure. Five minutes to air time and we'd have to strike the boxing blackout and throw in something quick about chubbettes." Improvisation became their thing. They first made a name with the Story Theater and, particularly with husband Dick, acting is as much cult as career. Schaal is now organizing a Los Angeles workshop based on the Second City-Story Theater kind of stage games. Valerie will join him between TV seasons, and in the meantime holds acting classes for the Rhoda cast once a week. The Schaals live in a three-bedroom house in Westwood. Dick's daughter, now 20, from a previous marriage, for a time lived with them. They are not on the "A," "B," or any of Hollywood's socializing circuits. As for her new stardom, Valerie still frets, "Maybe I'm a fool. I was so comfortable with Mary. We are the best of friends in real life, too, and she'll only be three stages away at CBS." If Rhoda bombs out—more than two-thirds of all new TV series do succumb within a season—Valerie philosophizes, "Well, I'll be sorry, but I won't dig a grave. It is a part of the gamble that goes with work. After all, I suppose I could go to Rome if I flop and sell lemon ice 'til things cool off."

FLASHBACK TO SEPTEMBER 9 1974

Matching pro tennis players with celebrities can make good tennis but usually better theater. Which may explain why a record 13,000 fans packed the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, N.Y. for the third annual Robert F. Kennedy Pro-Celebrity Tennis Tournament. The biggest attraction, of course, was the Kennedys themselves. While the younger ones roamed through the autograph-hungry crowd, some of the older Kennedys took to the courts to the cheers of the crowd which brought in about $150,000 in proceeds for disadvantaged children. The high point for onlookers was when young John Kennedy wandered by mistake into the press tent. In escaping the horde of would-be interviewers, he proved as fleet of foot as any pro.