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...South Carolina, Charleston's Sword Gate Inn, an 18th century house belonging to David and Suzanne Redd, rents five antique-filled bedrooms for $55 per night; they come with a sumptuous breakfast (including freshly squeezed orange juice, cinnamon apple casserole, homemade sausage balls and locally blended "Carolina coffee") and complimentary bicycles for seeing the sights. The Vendue Inn's 18 rooms are organized around an 18th century courtyard, where wine and cheese parties take place each day to the strains of chamber music...
Most B & B proprietors, even those who are full-time innkeepers, are not trying to make big money. Says Suzanne Redd of Charleston's Sword Gate Inn: "We're in it for the pleasure. We love to entertain." Marian Binkley, owner of San Francisco's Hermitage House, agrees: "It isn't a business, it's a hobby. It's like having ten sets of house guests every night. The B & B owner has got to want to mother the world...
Slowly, though, Langston managed to find work as a comic actor, appearing regularly in skits at Redd Foxx's Club and as a regular on The Sonny and Cher Show. When the show was retired, Langston, who had been pocketing about $1,500 a week, decided to call it quits too. He dropped out of performing for about a year and a half to open and manage his own Los Angeles nightclub, Showbiz...
...money, however, is not the goal of most marketeers. Like the Hollywood stars-Lucille Ball, Barbra Streisand, Suzanne Somers and Redd Foxx-who are chauffeured to the flea market at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, they are having fun, wheeling and dealing away an afternoon...
...Marie will be back on ABC. This year Sister Osmond will forsake her clean-teen look for boots, bobbed hair and slinky high fashion. Joining the song-and-skit brigade this season: Richard Pryor, who will bring his jive, streetwise humor to a new NBC variety series, and Redd Foxx, who will sanitize his stand-up act for his own weekly show...