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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Jean Seberg, 40, American movie actress; in Paris. Police found her body and an empty bottle of barbiturates in her car after she had been missing for nine days. As a 17-year-old Iowa State freshman, Seberg won the title role in Saint Joan after a much-ballyhooed Otto Preminger search, but was so amateurish that her name became a synonym for miscasting. Moving to Paris in 1958 with the first of four husbands, she starred in New Wave films (Breathless), in her last years had been undergoing psychiatric treatment...
DIED. Guy Bolton, 96, grand old man of the Broadway musical who, with his fellow Englishman P.G. Wodehouse, wrote the books for shows with tunes by George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Jerome Kern; in London. Bolton collaborated on works that were vehicles for Gertrude Lawrence (Oh, Kay!), Ethel Merman (Anything Goes) and Fred Astaire (Lady, Be Good!), as well as the recently revived Very Good Eddie...
Struck by Lightning (Sept. 19, CBS, 8:30 p.m. E.D.T.) What happens when a young high school teacher (Jeffrey Kramer) inherits an old family inn and dis covers that the handyman is Franken stein's monster? Nothing good. This show, an outlandish mixture of Saturday morning cartoon antics and campy horror movie references, has only one asset: Jack Elam's self-deprecating, sex-starved wheeze bag of a monster. Elam's unruly sea of a face makes the late George ("Gabby") Hayes look like Prince Charles. His comic delivery is in the joyful tradition of vintage vaudeville...
...wife keep their clothes on in the tub is understandable; they're probably worried about an R rating. But don't they know that too much booze in a hot tub can produce a profound lethargy? It might even cook up a script about a 40-year-old man with anxiety pangs who has an affair with a Dallas Cowgirl...
...Clayton Moore, 64, who long played the daring rider of the plains, has been restrained by court order from using the trademark mask in nostalgia appearances. Wrather Corp., which owns the masked-man rights and plans to release a new Lone Ranger film, complained that Moore has grown too old to impersonate the fearless avenger of evil. Moore fought back by retaining his familiar white hat and, until the case is settled, wearing sunglasses. "I'm not happy with the sunglasses," admitted the western hero who had to wear shades. "I want the mask back. But the Lone Ranger...