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Schiller's replacement as producerdirector was Marvin Chomsky (Holocaust), who took over at the outset of seven months of filming in the Soviet Union. Problems cropped up almost immediately. First the production's entire supply of wigs was lost for 3 1/2 weeks. The crew found Soviet accommodations to be spartan, transportation unreliable and toilet paper rough. "I had a miserable time," says Omar Sharif, who plays one of Peter's advisers. Bored with meals of beet-root salads, chicken and potatoes, Sharif took a trip to Paris and brought back cans of tuna, which he ate at night alone...
DIVORCED. Hayley Mills, 31, star of kiddie cinema (Pollyanna, The Parent Trap) who rounded nicely into adult roles (The Family Way, Twisted Nerve); and Roy Boulting, 63, British producerdirector; after six years of marriage, one son; in London. The suit alleging Mills' adultery with Actor Leigh Lawson was uncontested...
Died. James Jewell, 69, early radio producerdirector; of a heart attack; in Chicago. While working for WXYZ in Detroit during the 1930s, Jewell produced, wrote and directed both the early Lone Ranger series and The Green Hornet. Kee-Mo-Sah-Bee, Tonto's greeting to the masked Ranger, derived from the name of a boys' camp owned by Jewell's father-in-law. Jewell's later credits include The Black Ace and Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, a long-running saga that exhorted teen-agers to eat Wheaties...
Born. To Hayley Mills, 26, former Disney movie moppet who grew into adult parts (The Family Way, Twisted Nerve), and Roy Boulting, 59, British film producerdirector: their first child (Boulting's eighth), a son; in London. -Married. Nguyen Thi Tuan Anh, 19, only daughter of South Viet Nam's President Thieu; and Nguyen Tan Trieu, 28, son of the director general of Air Viet Nam, the national airline; both for the first time; in Saigon. -Died. Eugene L. Wyman, 48, Los Angeles attorney and Democratic leader whose political fund-raising skill brought millions into the campaign coffers...
Something about the poses and expressions suggested Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. But the photo actually showed a live actor, Stacy Keach, sitting in a real electric chair, and his producerdirector, Jack Smight, making a film called The Traveling Executioner on location at Kilby Prison near Montgomery, Ala. The third figure was merely a familiar passerby: George Wallace...