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Blade Movie, TV Neux Briefs Bill Cosby In Rome Shooting NBC-TV Series By Jesae H. Walker Special To Hie Post The millionth member of. ITT'· "Big Blue Marble Pen Pal Program" is 13-year-old Rhonda Ward of Webb City, Missouri who was matchnd with 13-year-old Jorg en Schu Dck of Copenhagen, Denmark. Since the program started in the summer of 1974, it has processed more than 890,000 domestic and 310,000 foreign requests, including children from more than 2S different countries. Pen Pals write (Dear Pen Pal, Big Blue Mar ble, P.O. Box 4064, Santa Barbara, Ca. 93103) a letter or card with his or her name, address, sex, age, special in terests and type of pen pal desired. + + + Arthur Wilson has been ap pointed cooperative advertis ing manager for Warner Brae., a top spot for a black in the movie industry. A grad uate of Harvard, the Sorbonne and Columbia, Wilson Joined Warner Bros.' ad-publicity de partment in 1968. He was editor of the Warner Bros. 50th year filmography, "The War ner Bros. Golden Anniversary Book" and also directed the . national educational cam paign on "AU the President's Men" for Warner Books. + + + Richard Wesley, who wrote the screen plays for "Uptown Saturday Night" and "Let's Do It Again" is one of the five writers presently at work on screenplays for the new pre sentation of the "Roots: The Second Hundred Years,' to begin filming on April 16 and to be shown on ABC-TV during 1979. Undisputed star at the White House Reception by the Car ters celebrating the reopening of the doors of the historic Ford's Theatre was Eartha Kitt, who drew all that publici ty about her first visit to the White House since the cele brated 1968 incident when she criticized President Johnson over the Vietnam war. But the star of the benefit show featur ing many stars from the last decade and attended by Pre sident and Mrs. Carter was Billy Dee Williams who drew a Carter-led standing ovation for a segment of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech. + + + Business at James Earl Jones' "Paul Robeson" Jump ed up to <3.3 percent its second week at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. But a warning to those who plan to see it: It must vacate this theatre by April 2 because of a commit ment to another play. Mors critics are giving favorable reviews to the one-man show. Stephanie Mill·, Mar of the Broadway bit, "The Wix," and Michael Jackson, who ia star ring in the movie version, will be honored Feb. lOattheSMh annual National Urban Lea gue Beaux Art· Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria '· Grand Ball room in a "Salute to Youth." Mi*. Andrew Young, wife of the UNC Ambassador is Hooo rary Chairperson. Tickets are MO each. Dress optional. + + + Just as NYC Deputy Mayor Basil Paterson was bemoan ing the fact that there is only one commercial TV station owned by Blacks in the U.S. before a meeting of the Na tional Association of Media Women, the White House un veiled an energetic program to boost minority ownership in broadcasting and cable TV. In a petition to the FCC, it prooosed rule changes in all areas of license processing so that more broadcast proper ties and funding prospects are available for minority appli cants. 4- + + "Black Body Blues" is the secood play by Gus Edwards now playing the St Marks Playhouse and presented by the Negro Ensemble Compa ny. It goes into repertory with an earlier play, "The Offer ing." + + + ^M^iil^direct^^Geoffre^Ho^ der is rushing his "Timbuktu" to Broadway, Us wife, the farmer dancer Carmen DeLa vallade is appearing in Shakespeare's "Othello" off Broadway at the Roundabout Stage One with Ear le Hyman in the title role. Hyman has long played this role in Nor way-in Norwegian. + + + There's a month-long film festival called "Senegal: 15 Years of an African Cinema - 1962-1977" now at the Museum at Modern Art. - BiÏÏCÔeby /' ...New TV series '99'î mauots pians, ηκυτ îiamc, nom. «oo». » MOHUOWAtl r*ir îo-Kir ir.ir . '149.9g MITIO «tl ■ ■ «'•wwewnii» SIMMS *7", roofing INHMUI ♦Ι«·2 hvau H'maA SALVAGE CO. JJLW . ! , I 1 L_
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