FROM "ASK EDITORS LOS ANGELES The everso-full figured Jane Russell Russell: a rosy new TV career. is the newest member of The Yellow Rose cast. Her stint on the NBC soap western is Jane's first major role since 1970, but her $20 million movie contract, courtesy of the late Howard Hughes, has made it unnecessary for her to rustle up work. Living in Sedona, with her second husband, John Peoples, Jane wasn't even that familiar with The Yellow Rose, but Peoples, a Texan and true fan of the show, talked her into it. Despite a hot tamale image that dates all the way back to the film The Outlaw, Russell says she wouldn't do a nude scene.
'Thank God they've got all those sexy' young things who will take it all off so I don't have to think about Burt Lancas ter's first movie since his quadruple bypass surgery last September will be A Little Treasure. Described as a contemporary The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, it will also star Margot Kidder as Lancaster's stripper Travolta will get $1 million for pushing the soft drink Chuhi on Japanese TV, while Alan Alda's Atari deal runs for HE 4 7. FAR' 577 YOURSELF six years and some $6 million. But there has been a negative development for Hartley. Not only was her series Goodnight, Beantown given a good-bye from CBS, she was almost dropped by Polaroid.
But here's a flash: Her commercial co-star, James Garner, decided to bow out and Hartley has been given a six-month reprieve. It makes us shutter to think of having one without the other. Robert Windeler treasuring his recovery. WASHINGTON There's been plenty of static between the National Association of Broadcasters and the National Kidder: teamed with Burt for the Sierra sequel. Cover photo by Diana Kassir Cable Television Association.
The N.A.B. is intent on preserving the status quo in TV, while the N.C.T.A. keeps its antennae up for innovations. Recently, after years of skirmishes, Thomas Wheeler, head of the cable industry in D.C., and Carol Randles, chief lobbyist of the N.A.B., fell in love and. decided to channel their energies into matrimony.
Observes Randles, who is leaving her job to avoid a conflict of interest: "In Washington people can oppose each other on issues during the day but still see each other socially at night." Sounds like a great idea for a new TV sitcom. But for network or cable? -Kathleen Maxa and Jane Ottenberg NEW YORK Charles Durning, recently seen in the film To Be or Not to was not exactly a star pupil the American Academy Dramatic Arts. He was ceremoniously kicked out class for being "too short height and talent to become an actor." -As- if that weren't enough of a pan, he was told that the only way could ever make a living the stage was by "sweeping Mick Jagger will CONNIE SELLECCA star of TV's Hotel What do you know about hotel life now that you didn't know before you began the series? San Angelo, Tex. That even the simplest things, such as table settings, do not just happen. Everything must be checked and rechecked.
I've also learned that some people go to hotels for purposes other than business or relaxation for instance, to steal. I've found out enough about hotel life to know that I could not earn a living in it. I haven't got the personality. contract, but gave the role to an actor with a better wardrobe. FAMILY WEEKLY, All rights reserved.
ROBERT YOUNG Of Marcus Welby, M.D. fame What do you remember most about your start in the movie business? Sacramento, Calif. Back when actors supplied their own costumes, I was cast as a gangster's son in a movie produced by Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures. He called me into his office and bawled me out for dressing badly for the part. According to Cohn, audiences wouldn't accept even a mobster's son who looked poor it was unAmerican.
He criticized my attire to the point that I stormed out of his office, vowing to give up acting and become a teacher. Finally I came back and explained that I was broke and had just one suit to my name. Cohn kept me under Jagger and Hall: Great Expectations. Be, plenty of satisfaction, he at claims, if his pregnant girlof supermodel Jerry un- Hall, presents him with a boy of this spring. "I'd like him to be in a good says the stone- faced Mick, who doesn't hold much hope that his new also child will be a musician.
"It's he hard to follow a famous father on unless you've got talent," he modestly explains. Anita get Summer J. Let Photos foram NBC; Trends; UP1; Photo Lancaster: Young: Kidder: Jim I Derek.
