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     KUP'S COLUMN
     By Irv Kupcinet
     (c) 1981 Chicago Sun-Times (Field News Service)
    Robert Redford, who has devoted himself to the cause of the
environment, is inviting large oil and energy firms to send their
managers to the graduate courses he organized and funded at the U. of
Idaho and Washington State U. The movie star told the Wall Street
Journal that he believes it is time for the environmentalists and the
energy executives ''to bind up their wounds and end the inflammatory
debate.'' That can be accomplished, the Sundance Kid states, if the
managers attend his courses in resource management.
    The staid New York Times came up with this humorous line in view of
the discovery of more presidential tapes: ''They just discovered the
tapes of President Calvin Coolidge-four years of silence.''
    Pantomimist Marcel Marceau, while appearing at the Paramount Art
Centre in Aurora, Ill., the other eve, broke his 30-year tradition of
never speaking from the stage. He stopped his show to apologize to
the audience for the poor lighting, which was affecting his
performance. Marcel at first threatened to walk off, but the
audience's response persuaded him to continue, despite the handicap.
    Abe Lincoln, whose beauty was inward, has undergone a complete
face-lift in time for Friday's observation of his 173rd birthday.
Sculptor Larkin Mead's famous statue of our most famous president,
located at the Lincoln Tomb Historic Site in Springfield, Ill., had
been showing its age due to years of harsh weather and air pollution.
To restore its original elegance, a team of technicians from the
Center of Archaeometry at Washington U. in St. Louis was retained to
polish, patinate and renovate Ol' Abe. Thanks to archaeometry, a new
field that combines art, history and sophisticated space-age
techniques and is known as a health spa for statues, Lincoln never
looked better.
    Hollywood's newest romance has actress Lois Nettleton and Gavin
MacLeod sailing on the ''Love Boat.'' (They met when Lois was a guest
on the program.) ... Friends of Henry Kissinger are keeping fingers
crossed. He'll undergo a triple bypass heart operation in Boston...
Frank Sinatra soon will be sharing the constant companionship of his
trusted aide, Jilly Rizzo. Jilly shortly will wed Elaine Young, widow
of actor Gig Young.
     Hollywood was startled when a prominent attorney, Frank Rothman,
was named head of both MGM and its wholly owned subsidiary, United
Artists. Rothman, head of a giant Los Angeles law firm and considered
California's top litigant attorney, retired from the law to take
command of the studios. He also is stepping down as the National
Football League's chief counsel in its long-pending case to prevent
the Oakland Raiders from moving to L.A.
    Another prominent attorney, Edward Bennett Williams, also is in the
news. Democrats who want a ''new style candidate'' to run for
president in '84 have been sounding out Williams, one of the nation's
best known lawyers who once served as treasurer of the Democratic
National Committee and is prominent in sports as president of the
Washington Redskins and owner of the Baltimore Orioles. Many
Democrats believe it is time to ''get away from typical political
figures'' (sorry about that, Sen. Ted Kennedy and Fritz Mondale) and
seek a wholly different type candidate.
    Williams, known for his sense of humor, is responding to these
entreaties by reversing Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's classic: ''I
will accept if nominated and will serve if elected.'' ... Williams
also is responsible for the hilarious line about the extravagance of
his former Redskins coach, George Allen: ''We gave George an
unlimited expense account and he exceeded it.''
    How much do you think those Moonies collect in their begging for
donations to the Unification Church at airports and other places? One
teen, Kate Kennedy, writes in Penthouse magazine that she collected
$90,000 (tax free) in one year, working 18 hours a day, seven days a
week and 52 weeks. Multiply that sum by the hundreds of Moonies
collecting money around the nation and you have some idea of the Rev.
Sun Myung Moon's finances.
    NBC is exhibiting its confidence in ''Fame'' by ordering three more
episodes, bringing the total to 16 for the show that made its debut
in January. Brandon Tartikoff, president of NBC Entertainment,
predicts ''Fame'' will be another ''Hill Street Blues''-starting slow
but picking up a growing and loyal audience.
    Jack Brickhouse, the longtime voice of Chicago Cubs baseball, after
a record number of ''retirement parties,'' signed on with WGN for
three more years. Hey! Hey! (He retired only from baseball
play-by-play.) His new contract (''the best I ever signed'') will
involve news and specials, as well as sports. Jack also will become a
member of the Cubs' front office.
    And it's Bob Orben's closer: ''If all the world's a stage, I hope
we're not the closing act.''
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