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Broadway h My Beat By JOEY SASSO Special to the Post Observations in Covering the Night Beat: Comedian Redd Foxx is being sued by the father of a teenage hotel bus-girl in Las Vegas. Charles A. Brands claims the enter tainer made sextial overtures to his daughter, Cheryl, 15, and called her obscene names when she rejected him at the Silverbird Hotel and Casino on Aug. 19. Foxx was not available for comment on the charges. Allegedly, Foxx, whose real name is Jon Elry Sanford, touched the girl while she was working and proclaimed, “This is the one 1 want.” He then shouted obscenities at her when she told him to leave her alone, according to the suit. The Brandas are seeking $20,000 in damages, contend ing the girl became hysterical and nervous after the alleged incident. Digging for the roots has had its rewards and setbacks for famous author Alex Haley of “Roots" fame. Haley's f faced with a menacing plagia rism suit over a book he claims be never read before writing his internationally ac clained "Roots " Yet, a U.S. magistrate has found that Hal ey had “access” to the 19M novel “Jubilee” penned by' Margaret Walker Alexander, director of black studies at Jackson State IJ. in Jackson. Miss. She claims Haley did read the book and that part of his “Roots” was largely cop ied” from “Jubilee.” Mean while, Henry Fonda’s already slated for a role in “Roots: The Next Generation,” com ing up next as a TV spectator, and Marlon Brando has asked for a part. “Love Boat’s favorite bar tender, Ted Lange, who is known for making delicious Teacher’s Scotch Sours, and Sherryl Thompson surprised everyone and got married in a quiet ceremony They ’ ve dated openly for a long time, but no one expected a wedding. Sammy Davis's stunning wife, Alto vise, makes her dra matic acting debut insPimen sion Picture, “Kingdom of • ilex Haley ...To be sued? Spiders” with Bob Mitch urn’s son, Jim. “Sammy went around telling everyone I was doing a National Geographic special,’’Mtovise reports. "TC&e’i nothing scientific a bout the picture no way-just plain scary.”— The fame brought by LeVar Burton’s performance in “Roots” drove him to a psychiatrist and nearly ruined his life. “I tried not to let the pressures of stardom get to me, but I kept wondering what all the fans who constantly hounded me wanted. I got so confused.” LeVar relates. “I was puzsled about many thingp. Where T was goihg everything. People wameu me quick fame would change my whole life, and they were right,” confesses the 21-year old actor who played Kunta Kinte in the popular . mini-series. “I’ve had to go through some severe adjust ments. I didn’t trust anybody. One day no one heard of me, and the next day people were staring at me and getting tongue-tied because they didn’t know what to say to me,” explains LeVar, who stars in “One In A Million,” the true story of how Detroit Tigers centerflelder Ron Le Flore went from criminal to sports superstar. “All Ot a sudden I wasn’t dealing with my friends and familv. I was involved with people I never met before. I tnougnt everybody wanted something from me. Every one kept saying, “You’re going to go through some changes,” and . I listened to them, but I didn’t know what they meant. "...Old friends, Harry Belafoote and Sidney Poitier.seen sipping Hennessy V.S.O.P. the other night at a Hollywood party....Gladys Knight has a pip of trouble on her hands. Ho- husband, Barry Hankerson, is divorcing her. He’s tired of show biz people.... 'niat’s Show Biz: Dionne Warwick was talking about the good ole 60’s, a time when all the songs she sang from “Alfie” to "Promises, Prom ises" became hits. Big hits. But, she really wasn’t thinking about the kudos. She was remembering Tim Brown, the running back, for the Eagles, “the man I damn near marr ied. I saw him not too long ago, “Dionne told me. "I ran into him in a drugstore in L.A. We talked for a while. He’s got a family now. But what Can I do? I’m not sorry. You make choices in life and you’ve got to live with them." Sometimes that is difficult, Warwick divorced actor Bill Elliot three year ago. BFGoodrich | TIRE ^AH size oIoobHEBiTIo"" 45.90 10.41 49.00 BJ1|B 19.7* 50.90 BQ|B 20.40 52.90 BglgjB 21.30 55.30 BEXEB 22.31 5*.90 BQg^l 22.93 *1.90 BjXZB 24.94 59.00 B^g^l 24.12 *2.*0 BIZE^H 25.20 *4.30 BB 25.93 *7.70 27.29 PUKP.I.T. S1.71-U.0S BFUs SILVERTOWN® size U5T WmTfnm WSl mu-14 «i.*7 JQ M 1\4 213R-14 44.41 /X/ 205R-19 44.40 j,[f, VVV 01.70 HtXTS 24), /Xr 225R-19 05.90 Jln \\r\ i 230R-19 in. 71 BTgH 20.05 fjJCl \ 233R-13 115.84 HQ3S 31.41 YNA HR7S-19 *4.45 23.47 JR7S-19 00.42 23.42 \tj\ OR74-19 40.00 21.34 fjW LR74-13 moj^fliur PUB M.T. 91.77 ^.31 ~ *>>* 1 VI i . li SAU ENDS SEPT. 27 WE APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS! * 131 N. Sharon Amity M. 3M-4943 (■♦ CotwuM) Hit Smith Bhr4. SM-tUI r*A IWTNMUU )7*-*M7 HCHISIS AVAILAH
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