Hollywood Studio Magazine (1978)

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LEE GRAHAM... MAN ABOUT TOWN Burgess Meredith, his head shaved for a role, gilds the Lily (Tomlin) after her Huntington Hartford opening. In Vegas the right combination is as important in the showroom as at the slot machine. The Riviera hit the jackpot with Bob Newhart’s dry wit and Bernadette Peters’ effervescent song and dance. The comment was made, “Newhart bites the hand that feeds him and makes Caughn inihe-act -it feel like a manicure.” He made it big in the Sixties with his album, “The Bernadette Peters at the Vegas Riviera. Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart” and has been drolly on and off the tube and in and out of clubs ever since. In his dressing room following the Riviera opening, open-shirted Bob, with his wife of 15 years, Ginny, was the same sober relaxed man as on stage. The 48-year-old Chicago-born star took law at Loyola University, then began his career as an accountant. “But I was no good at it,” he remembers, “I figured that if you came within six or eight bucks of it, you were going to be okay.” Sexy, saucy Bernadette seemed smaller and less gregarious as she welcomed us, in her velour lounging robe, to her dressing room. Still fun, of course -and with that Betty Boop overtone in her voice. Speaking of that distinctive voice, Ms. Peters confides, “Well, it goes with the body! I don’t use it as a gimmick.” Bernadette prefers standards like her opening, “Steppin’ Out” or “I Don’t Know Why.” She doesn’t know why she isn’t into the songs of today -“They’re good songs, but they don’t have staying power. I think it’s important to say what you want to say in a song. And no extraneous thoughts.” Right on, Bernadette! Up the Strip from the Riviera, Tom Jones, with his painted-on pants, was doing his thing at Caesars Palace -performing with that macho gusto that Friends for many years, Jane Withers and Man About Town Graham at a Tinsettown bash. Happier days -Robert Culp and France makes dignified mothers behave the Nuyen before their bitter divorce. way they told their daughters not to. (Photo by Yani Begakis). The 47-year-old sex symbol explains his 30 HOLLYWOOD STUDIO Magazine own appeal, “Women, when they pass 30, are still full-blooded women and they like full-blooded men. That’s what they get from me... Iturnthem on, and excitement like that is a good outlet.” Incredibly, Jones, who lets his emotions fly onstage, left school at 15, married his childhood sweetheart, Linda, at 16, and became the father of a son, Mark, at 17. His theme song is “It’s Not Unusual,” but he certainly is -as crowds at Caesars testified. Lily was a dilly! When Tomlin opened at the Hartford in “Appearing Nightly,” she did her offbeat characters and made hilarious observations like “Sex is so personal, why do we have to share it with someone else?” The former Detroit cheerleader’s career has gone steadily upward since she first gained fame on “Laugh-In.” She hit it big with TV specials, recordings, movies, and an Oscar nomination. Tinseltown has seldom seen such a celebrity-studded opening. Certainly the odd couple of the evening were Brenda Vaccaro and Burgess Meredith. Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston made separate entrances and exits into and out of the Hartford -then met down the street after the show. Tomlin’s former co-workers, Bill Macy of “The Late Show” and Goldie Hawn of “Laugh-In” were there. And friends galore -Shirley MacLaine with Nora Kaye and Herbert Ross; Marsha Mason and Neil Simon; Marlo Thomas and David Geffin bumping into David’s former girlfriend, Chef; Louise Fletcher and Morgan Mason with her son, Andrew; Sally Struthers and bridegroom, Dr. William Rader; Valerie Harper and Dick Schall; Shera and Peter Falk; and Beverly Michaels who starred in Lily’s favorite film of the ‘50’s, “Wicked Woman.” Backstage the star may have explained inadvertently why her many characters are so convicing. Asked “What’s Lily Tomlin really like?” she answered, “There isn’t one!” Women’s Libber Lily was with her writer-director-friend, Jane Wagner, and her female dog, Tess, as they left the theatre in her limousine -with a lady chauffeur. Look for real fireworks when this case comes to court. France Nuyen is charging her ex-husband, Robert Culp, with using $18,000 of her money to pay alimony to his first wife, Nancy. France quietly filed suit in Superior Court not only for that money, but for $25,000 punitive damages. France contends that Culp overstated their community liabilities and