Page 18- TOE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday May 13 1W9 Was Sidney in that movie ASK DICK KLEINER Would ft be possible to rind oat who slogs on the commercial for Champagne She has an oper atic voice My husband just loves her voice Mrs Seabrook Texas A That operatic voice happens to be the property of one of the greatest sopranos of our era Kid Kanawa of New Zealand And incidentally the aria you hear on that commercial is My hatband and I have a abont a Sidney Poitier movie Did he play in a movie called To Sir With Love about a blind girl EP Houston I need to know the name of the movie in the 60s with Sidney It was a blind girl he helped BAC Westover A A Patch of Bluetl965 with Sidney and the late Elizabeth Hartrnan was the one about the blind girl But Poitier was also in To Sir With Love had nothing to do with He played a teacher in that one Sidney Poitier Bing Crosby part of Caro from Puccinis opera Gianni Schicci You can hear it on a CBS record called Puccini Heroines I enjoy watching Norm Abram on This Old House Please tell me all yon can about him and bow long be has been a carpenter AA Moun tain Home Aril A Norm Abram has been a profes sional carpenter for 17 years His fa ther was a carpenter before him began his TV work when be did some carpentry for a producer One thing led to another and another thing led to a career Recently we had a discussion about two Bing Crosby movies Holi day Inn and White Christmas I know VeraEllen and Rosemary Clooney were in White Christmas but were either or both of them also in Holiday Inn Vineland NJ A No Holiday Inn had Cros by Fred and Marjone Reynolds as the girl they both were chasing The other one was Virginia Dale Send your questions to Ask Dick Kleiner co Newspaper Enterprise Association Park Ave New York N Y Due to the volume of mail personal replies cannot be provided Fame star seeks fame as a singer VIDEO BEAT on the independent Vision label An al bum is due in June with a tour to follow Fora GermanIrish boy from Ohio Hufsey sounds a lot like Kool Si the Gang on his debut disc I not hard rock just because I have long hair and earrings he says Oh dear Another TV star pretend ing to be a pop singer And in this case the TV star whos putting out a record played a singer for ears But wait Billy Hufsey who played singerdancer Christopher on Fame turns out to be a singer who was only pretending to be an actor Ive been a musician since I was says now 30 I picked up the drums when I was then the pi ano and the saxophone and the trum pet And when I came out here I was going to be in a band Then I got a movie Then I got another movie Then I got Fame was going to do a record right af ter Fame But I did seven television shows a movie of the week then I got a role in Days of Our Lives Now I m just going i- do this J is Hufseys first record an dance ditty called Contagious Billy Actually the music I enjoy doing most is ballads like Seals St Crofts or Bread But you cant get a record deal singing that kind of music any more Even so Hufseys deal isnt the big gest Vision is too small to buy him a video first time out and it DATE BOOK z a j May 13 Today Is the 133rd day of 1939 and the 54th day of spring TODAVS HISTORY On this day 1985 the Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a house held by a besieged radical group starting a fire that kilted people and destroyed 61 homes TODAYS BIRTHDAYS Georges Braque 1882 Joe Louis 1914 Be atrice Arthur 1926 Barnes 1926 Wonder 1950 TODAYS QUOTE I dont see why people want new plays all the lime What would happen to concerts If peo ple wanted new music all the time Barnes TODAYS MOON Day after first quarter May 12 TODAYS BARBS Remember when Sue was a girl name and not an order to your lawyer get busy on your problem Will power Is what an aging and affluent relative has over the rest of the family I i Day the 134th day day of spring TODAYS HISTORY On this day In 1948 the United States became the first country to recognize the state of Israel TODAYS BIRTHDAYS Otto Klamper- Bobby Darin 1936 George Lucas 1944 David Byrne TODAYS QUOTE Same as It ever was song lyric David Byrne TODAYS MOON Betweeh first quarter May 12 and full moon May 20 TODAYS BARBS BY PHIL PA8T0RET Our minister says none of his parishio ners are more prayerful than the golfers who beseech providence to give them a dav have an army of promotion and mar keting personnel to back the release Still hes happy to have it You know percent of people never work again after a big series like Fame real lucky Look at the people from Laverne Shirley or Eight is Enough or MASH see any of them working If making good with a debut on an independent label is bucking the odds Hufsey is used to bucking the odds I came out here from Cleveland wasnt in the union didnt have representa tion was not even an actor And I au ditioned for a movie from an adver tisement in an industry trade newspaper and I got the role People think Oh you gotta know somebody I didnt know anybody People think I cant go to Hollywood Im nobodys sons brothers uncles aunt People say I can do it I cant do it Well if you say you cant do it youre probably right You cant The phrase cant is apparently not in Hufseys vocabulary Im a perfectionist he says When I start ed dancing I wanted to go from three pirouettes on Monday to on Thurs day My legs took a lot of punishment Now if I do a performance Ill get a tape of that performance and Ill watch it about 2 times and pick it apart And next time I do it itll be 2000 times better Currently studying at Hollywoods Vocal Institute of Technology and continuing to pick himself apart Huf has every expectation of reaching the top in pop music And if he doesnt thats OK too Hey Im making a halfway decent living and doing what I want to do he says I could be on an assembly lineounching holes in my fingers NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE HYUNDAI OWNERS For Service Call 8731818 DBs PICK OF THE WEEK DEPECHE MODE 11004100 Friday 1100400 Saturday oo00 STREET OUELPH ST PLAZA 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