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_ „ •*••• vusuV) Helen Keddy and H.B. King will make appearances on the first program of the new prime time adult health ser ies. "Keeling Good", which will debut November 20 on public tel ision stations all —-■ over the ontr>. Tbo show. will lake a verj different ap proach to such health topics as mental health, prenatal care and nutrition. . ."Kreebieand the Bean", the Warner Bros, comedy star ring Alan Arkin and James Caan as an odd couple of San Francisco police detectives, will be a Christmas attraction in New York, opening on December 25 at three _theatres. • Jerry Greene, a long-time Sew urieih*. jau rigurp, has been cast as Joanne Wood ward's butler in "The Drown ing Pool”, the First Artists Presentation for Warner Bros, now being filmed in Lafayette, La. ..Geraldine Fitzgerald, Grady Tate. David Downing. Y’usef Inman.* Hank Ross. Nick LaTour. Dianne Mc Intyre, Carol Harris. Mary Cross and Prenta Devi are among the many stars who will appear at the 2nd Annual ALDELCO Black Theatre Awards on November 18. sponsored by the Audience Development Committee (AL'DELCO) and to be held in NYC at Vincent's Place. . .TV ratings show "Sanford & j Son” (No. 2) and “Good | Times” (No. 10) are top shows in national ranking, according to recent figures. “All in the Family” heads list. “That's My Mama", is lied in 28 with ‘‘Kmprffonrv" anH "CalurHav ALGREEN ..Recuperating Al Green To Return To Work Shortly ..Singer Al Green, who suf fered second degree burns three weeks ago when a 29 year-old despondent girlfriend dumped a pot of scalding grits on him while he was climbing, out of the bathtub, was dis charged from the Memphis ' Haptist Hospital last Wednes day and is expected to resume his normal work schedule shortly. ..According to a spokesman for the Memphis hospital. Green was discharged last . week and returned two days later for a checkup which showed that “he is doing fine." A week earlier. Green had undergone successful skin graft surgery for the burns which his doctors said would take anywhere from six to 10 months before the color of hi* •Un fully returns. . - ..Meanwhile, the Memphis police, who noted that they were continuing their invest igation into the suicide death of Mrs. Mary Woodson, said the Madison, N.J. mother of Night Movie". “Get Christie Love”, is No. 47. But a recent report by Nielsen Station In dex, a first on Black American Households, revealed that "programs featuring Blacks appeal to Black Households". Top shows, in order, in Wash ington. D.C. and Detroit were “Sanford and Son" and "Soul Train.” . ."The Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Story Hour" is the title of a unique series airing weekly beginning Sunday, Nov. 17 on the National Black Network. Special guest artists will join the famous husband and wife team each week to read their Favorite selections from Black world literature. Ruby and Ossie will be partied Nov. 13 in Chicago at the Hyatt Regency to kick off the new NBN show. .. Ed Castleberry hosts a "Mutual Soul of Entertain ment” broadcast daily over Mutual Black Network. Broadcast from his Washing-* ton, D.C. base, it hits 31 stations coast to coast with movie Items, interviews and the like. It's a S-minute seg ment. ..The recent Flip Wilson TV special has been attacked by the Tennessee BaDtist Mis Hirer pre-scnooi age cniiaren had strong "suicidal tend encies." . .Detective Lt. T.L. Lomax of the Shelby Countv Sheriff’s Department said the woman's husband. Raymond Woodson, also told them that on-two .previous occasions his wife had tried to take her life. . Lt. Lomax said according to Raymond Woodson, his wife frequently threatened to com mit suicide, and on two prior occasions actually attempted to kill herself by taking a handful of pills and cutting her throat with a blade. Woodson. Lt. Lomax said, sought psy chiatric treatment for his wife who was ordered under strict supervision. The Shelby County Lieuten ant said although they have been working on the assump tion that Mrs. Woodson's death was suicide ever since the County Coroner report was released, his department is taking ever precautionary measure in checking every little detail. sionary and Educational Con vention as depicting the black preacher as a “sort of eccles iastical Stepin Fetchit and the black church as a spiritual rock and roll center". Flip, meanwhile, is being mention ed to play the role of Louis 'Satchmo" Armstrong in a ilni of the music man’s life story which Paramount is planning. . Redd Foxx and his estraged wife, Betty Jean, are due back in Las Vegas Court Nov. 18 and the judge has ordered them to cooperate as they prepare for their divorce trial. Redd says Betty Jean had kept the family's books. Her lawyers say she doesn’t know where they are. That 120.000 sable Diana Ross shrugs herself into these nights shows distinctly that the lady doesn’t have to sing the blues anymore. She was In New York recently to pick up a 12-fur wardrobe at Max millian’s for her new film, "Mahogany” which will shoot on location in Rome and Chicago. MARLON BRANDO ..Stars In NBC Movie WSOC-TY To Present “The Godfather’* Saturday Night at 9 .."The Godfather," all-time box office hit and winner of three Academy Awards, will be colorcast in two narts on Channel Nine beginning Satur day. Nov. 16. at 9 pm. Part Two will be televised Monday. Nov. 18 at 9 pm. Marlon Bran do stars in the title role. ..The dr .i is based on Mario Pus i . hest-selling novel about the . owerful and violent Corleone family, or ganised crime chieftains in America during the 1940’s. ..Filmed on location in New York. Las Vegas. Hollywood and Sicily, the story follows the development of the Cor leone empire from gambling operations and prostitution to night club holdings, rigged horse races and narcotics. The film gives an inside look at the Mafia’s split pers^nal Ity. On one hand these people are legitimate businessmen, dexoted family men and up standing members of their community, But the other side of the coin reveals a tightly knit organization of cold blooded professionals, power ful enough to pull political strings to suit their own pur poses and able to infiltrate industry on a world-wide scale. Frightening in its im plications. "The Godfather" paints a shocking picture of this country's "second govern ment." ..The decision to split “The Godfather” into two segments was made in order to prevent having to edit scenes from the picture to fit a one-evening time period. According to NBC officials, less than one minute has been trimmed from the original film. “Americans All” To * Feature Charley Pride A profile of Charley Pride - his music and the story of his rise from a farm boy in Mississippi to country music's first black superstar - will be presented on the ABC News series. "Americans AII,"^ SUNDAY on the ABC Tele vision Network. . The program will be broad cast immediately after "The ABC Sunday Night Movie” for that date. "High Plains Drif ter." The "Americans All" documentary series highlights the contributions of ethnic minorities to American society. .. ABC New? cameras focus on an appearance of Charley Pride in Louisville, Ky„ covering his arrival by private Jet with an entourage of 20. including his band, singers and technicians, and his con cert ' at the Louisville Con vention Center. Among the hit songs he performs are: "Let Me Live,” "Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone?" and "Cotton Fields.” ..In a conversation back stage, Pride reflects on his life. CHARLEY PRIDE ..Pride grew up listening U the stars of Nashville's Grant Ole Opry on the radio ant bought his first guitar at thi age of 14 with money earnet from picking cotton on hi family’s farm in Sledge. Miss ..He recalls: "Where I livet there wasn’t anybody to shov me how to tune a guitar, so picked enough cotton to mak enough money to order me i Sears Roebuck Silverton guitar.” i No. 1 No. 2 IJfWMJ UtUXNvX. ii i£UitimU /Af KK ** k 4Vi»%\r ALISTAIR MacLEAN'S MAR IS TH< K«f _ ALISTAIR MacLEAN'S MOST ^ BIZARRE ADVENTURE BIG I 2 big shows DOUBLE I FEATURE | $1.00 TIME I ! 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