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...others in the trial on involuntary manslaughter and negligence charges stemming from the deaths under a crashing helicopter of Actor Vic Morrow and two children during filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie in July 1982. Last week it was the defense's turn. Led by former Watergate Prosecutor James Neal, Landis took the stand. While admitting illegally hiring the child actors, he said no one had told him, nor did he realize, that the fiery scene was dangerous. Asked Neal: "Did you say to the helicopter, 'Lower, lower'?" Replied Landis: "I don't recall saying it. I don't know...
Cracked Deputy District Attorney Lea Purwin D'Agostino: "I think we showed if ((Landis)) is telling the truth, then the rest of the world is lying." Neal expects to take until April to present his defense, after which the case will go to the jury...
Palandjian and Engle grabbed first place in the 16-team doubles field, defeating Kevin O'Neal and John Roberts of Clemson in the finals, 6-2, 6-4. The victory was the third straight Eastern doubles title...
...point and terribly unsuccessful past that point," concedes the full-time writer who has also dabbled in politics, prizefighting and performing. "Here I'm trying to make a professional, conventional film on its own terms." The movie boasts a $5 million budget and a cast that includes Ryan O'Neal as Madden, Isabella (Blue ; Velvet) Rossellini as his smoldering old flame and Newcomer Debra Sandlund as his estranged spouse. It is part of a two-picture deal Mailer has with Cannon films; the other part, already completed, was to write a screenplay for Jean- Luc Godard's King Lear...
Having expected the shooting to "be seven weeks of hell," Mailer has, to his surprise, enjoyed it (and anticipates finishing it on schedule next month). "I like working with actors." And vice versa. "I think he wrote the part with me in mind," says O'Neal, who remembers boxing occasionally with his current boss. Now "he beats me up a lot worse than he ever did in the gym." Mailer is frankly hoping for a box-office success so that he can direct again. "I think I needed a vacation from writing," he observes. "Oddly enough, directing a film, because...