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...Schaefer, two male ex actors who have gleaned atmosphere from old John Wayne movies. Although these romanticists represent the new Grub Street, the income of some superstars is more suitable for Rodeo Drive. The authors' earnings from a single volume can reach $30,000, and novelists like Janet Dailey (80 million copies of 57 novels in print) produce eight books a year for a six-figure income. Experience is not necessary. Bestselling Writers Kathleen Wood-iwiss (The Flame and the Flower) and Jude Deveraux (The Velvet Promise) were dis covered in the "slush pile"- the trade term for unsolicited...
...selling. In the case of Carter and Reagan, the enthusiasm of their media masterminds is unbridled. Says Gerald Rafshoon, the former Atlanta adman who prepares Carter's commercials: "We've got the smartest guy in the race. We're going to play that up." Says Peter Dailey, on leave from his California ad agency to help Reagan: "He is one of the great communicators of his generation. Our only problem is how to get that warmth compressed into 30 seconds of television...
Even Reagan's TV expert Dailey cites studies showing that nearly a third of the commercial messages delivered over TV are misunderstood by viewers. "People aren't really intently listening," he says. "TV is a way to turn yourself off." Dailey recalls research showing that the electronic brain scan of a person watching TV is remarkably similar to that of the same person sleeping soundly...
...What's unusual is that most of the music will have been written before they shoot," he explains. "So I'm working closely with Francis on the story and on the development of the songs. It's a bastard musical in a way, not in the tradition of Dan Dailey and The Music...
DIED. Dan Dailey, 61, lanky, affable actor and song-and-dance star; of anemia, after an artificial hip inserted last year became infected; in Hollywood. A teen-age vaudevillian, Dailey appeared on the Broadway musical stage before making such movies as Mother Wore Tights (1947) and When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948). From 1969 to '71 he starred in the TV series The Governor...