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Page Ten Tuesday, July, ij rEievision*Rev^ ?╟÷Coast* toCoast a ?╜ ?╜?╜ ?╟≤ ?√ß WUL DAD Lilli I _____________ INSIGHT KTTV, June 29, 6:30-7 p.m. How extensive is the computer age? How will man relate to it, if and when it irrevocably occurs? These questions provided most of the background for the well-done, though slightly flat, premiere of a new round of "Insight"! programs. Sam is the last human being on earth. He is a vaudeville performer. In the opening shot he goes through his routine, turns and takes his bow and looks out upon an audience that is made up exclusively of computers. He goes home and his wife, also a computer, tells him that she has "or- dered" a son. The son has been pro- gramed to learn his act when the ultimate computer takeover comes. Sam flees to the solitude of the attic in his theatre. There he reminisces, quotes Shakespeare and finds a little boy watching him. They immediately take to each other and Sam teaches him the act. He then takes him home to meet his wife, who promptly in- forms him* that the little boy is a dis- guised computer, the son which, in fact, she has ordered. The remotely profound script was written by Carol Sobiesky. While the premise was interesting the audience appeal was on a basically low level. Jack Albertson was fine as Sam. Watching him go through his tradi- tional vaudeville paces was a treat. Joan Gerber's voice, as his wife, was believable and occasionally frighten- ing. The small boy was played en- chantinaly by Michael James Wixted. Jackr Shea's direction was at its best in the brief scene between Al- bertson! and Wixted. He, rightfully, played Up the sympathy in the scene. ?╟÷Tony Lawrence. ?╟ Secret?╟╓ to Open S. F. Film Fest San Francisco.?╟÷Mayor Joseph Alt* oto and producer-director Stanley Kra- mer jointly announced yesterday the selection of the United Artists release, "The Secret of Santa Vittoria," as the opening night film for the 13th An- nual San Francisco International Film Festival, October 23-Nov. 2. Singleton Dots Martell Shelby Singleton Corp. signed 22- yeor-old Linda Martell, the first fe- male Negro country/western artist, who will record for Plantation Records, one of the corporation's five labels. EXECUTIVE SECRETARY For Chief Executive of Film Organization .. Requires all skills ... Film Industry Experience Desirable Box 5-8-A Hollywood Reporter m mu i Hi! U3 With BOB HULL HOWARD HUGHES POPPED for a big bundle, in secret, for the City of Hope's charity affair, the Third Annual Sportsman's Awards in Las Vegas over the weekend. . . . The Mystery Man paid for 600 plane tickets to fly in celebrities and sports figures, 340 rooms to house most of 'em at the Sands, Desert Inn and Hotel Frontier, and picked up the tab for the 850rseat banquet. . . Affair raised a total of 200 thousand, with Art Linkletter at his quipping best emceeing in place of Joey Bishop, who had to pull out of the assignment because of network commitments. . . . Lome Greener -tS'timona i"?╜26^prominent Canadians who'll receive the Meclal of Service from the Consulate GerteFSt'^of^Conado.- ?√ß^-w--RotlT,,,Bciiglr wff) cross channels to do a Leslie Uggams show guesting soon as she returns from the "Laugh-In" tour. . . . Tennessee Ernie Ford should line up some diction lessons with Prof. Higgins. His next special will be done in England, if producer Digby Wolfe has his way. Hillbilly cockney? . . . Diane Baker admitted during a guesting on Allen Ludden's Gallery show that she once lost a beauty contest. She shouldn't be upset. Sophia Loren lost her first beauty match, too, but one of the judges later became her husband, Carlo Ponti. . . . Ed Sullivan - will be 67 on Sept. 28, day he begins his 22nd year on the tube. ?╟≤ DANNY THOMAS CAN'T FIND ROOM in his busy nitery schedule to do that proposed special and series spin-off, "Make Room For Granddaddy." After his Vegas engagement, he takes off for three weeks at Tahoe, leaving scant room to get home in time to become a gramps when his daughter, Teri Gordon, has her baby in late August. ... . Spotted on the "Flying Nun" set the other day: a group of the cloistered people playing Monopoly on a slightly altered set with a convent on Park Place and a temple at Marvin Gardens. Game will be used in one of the new segments. . . Carol Burnett tapes the Jimmy Rodgers Show tomorrow, then she and spouse Joe Hamilton don leis for a Honolulu Fourth of July. . . . Enzo Cerusico, whose first series, "My Friend Tony," failed to make it, is ready to charge back from his native Italy for a starring role in Universal's two-hour pic for TV, "Don't Push, I Will Charge When I Am Ready." . . . Peggy Fleming invited President and Mrs. Nixon to her recent opening of the Ice Follies in Washington, but received a note of regret with the addendum from Mrs. N. that the First Family will be certain to watch her next special in December: That's not only gracious, but good p.r., too. . . . Edward Mulhare, the spook of "Ghost and Mrs. Muir," may find his pictures on a new pack of chewy stuff to be cafled "Spirit Gum." ?╟≤ TROTTING AROUND THE FOX LOT is a story about 20th execs and Harry Belafonte's reps huddling over plans for a set of specials which would be budgeted in the multi-million class. . . . Michael Burns welded a trailer hitch to his Bentley to haul his horse trailer up and back from the Valley, and now wonders if maybe he should top off the expensive pony-puller with an ascot for his nag's tail. . . . It is a rinky-dink world. Tom Kennedy spends 45 weeks a year taping his "You Don't Say" show at NBC studios across the corridor from Peter Marshall and his "Hollywood Squares" program. Kennedy found out the other day that when he goes to Traverse City, Mich., next month to play the lead in "Girl in My Soup," he'll be following Marshall's closing in "Cactus Flower." . . . An act billed as "The Unlikely Trio" made its debut On Tommy Leonetti's Sydney, Australia, show the other night. The threesome, composed of Billy Eckstine, Al Martino and Leonetti, got along so well that now they're launching-a sheep breeding business Down Under with the firm name of The Swinging Shepherds. . . . The American Gas Assoc, is trying to turn on Dean Jones for a set of their specials next season. . . . Bruin grid star Zenon Andrusyshyn will join O. J. Simpson in an episode of "Medical Center" at MGM. ?╟≤ ' SPLITTING FISH & CHIPS in London the other day were Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith and Ross Martin. Talk was all about the "Female of the Species" special coming up. . . . Newark News TVed Tom Mackin learned about Tinseltown the hard way while interviewing Monte Markham on the set of "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town." Cherubic Tom dropped 15-cents into a soft drink set, then discovered it was only a prop. . . . Lana Turner moved out of her suite at the Sheraton-Universal to a permanent pad in Coldwater Canyon. . . "Mod Squad" star Tige Andrews turned down a quarter-million offer for his Malibu Canyon acreage, about twice what he paid for it two short years ago. . . . ABC is readying a series for Carl Betz. . Is Universal thinking about a World Premiere movie-for-TV based on Richard Bradford's best-seller, "Red Sky in the Morning"? ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. yesterday completed an hour-long radio documentary on Agnes Moorehead. Show details her career up to "Bewitched," including excerpts from that famed "War of the Worlds" broadcast with Orson Welles. . . . Nico Minqrdos picked up John Saxon's role in the "Name of the Game" filming In Greece, Holdup in production for o little senmhip by the loco! RKO General ^Delays Buildinj Program in C< By ALLEN M. WIDIM I Hertford. ?╟÷- RKO General owner-operator of WHCT-TV anrjbunced a delay in start stp6ction on a long-projected | million dollar building to hou independent station, pending tion of feasibility studies. The building would be situd the downtown Trumbull St. red| ment area. The delay, according to bro ing sources, can be attributed! decision on part of the FCC (if Communications Commission) on approval of construction panded antenna facilities for TV in suburban Avon. Connecticut Television Inc*, operator of WHNB-TV, the N| filiate here, has filed an FCC over expansion of WHCT-TV a| power from existing 186,000 million watts. WHCT-TV recently conclu| six-and-a-half year Pay-TV ment, is now programing, main, syndicated shows, vintagl and a number of morning CBSl not carried at present by WT| the primary CBS affiliate. Canfield, Gray J< Set Supremes Canfield Concerts, Inc. andl Gray Productions have joined f and under the new merger will 1 Diana Ross and the Supremes Swing Auditorium in San Berr Aug. 15. New association of Canfiell Gray was announced by Dirw Dirksen, Canfield's executive p er. Canfield Concerts, InC. will | tained as official organization Cheryl Miller New Dodge Spokesw< Actress Cheryl Miller had signed to become the Dodge S| woman for 1970, according tol ard Sandler, of Bernard Sandler'^ mercial Talent Agency. Deal with Don Schwab of BBD&O. ?╟ Otley,?╟╓ ?╟ Virgin,?╟╓ at F| New York.?╟÷"Otley" and Virgin Soldiers," two ColumbiJ tures presentations with whicif Foreman is associated, will rep Great Britain in the Locarno Ir tional Film Festival to be held 12 in Locarno, Switzerland. 8x10s GLOSSY PHC Low as 8C || t j BLOW-UPS Low as *2 Natural Color Postcar (4 Color Process) uw .owett Prlctt Anywhere ?╟≤ Sm 10% DONOVAN Rare Souvenior Program with Inqj ort & writings by Dona