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V Though Charley Pride's private touripg plane has been temporarily grounded (after a recent brush in mid-air over Texas), the artist's band and road crew are still a bit shaken over the incident. According to Bobby Smith, Pride's conces­ sion/road manager of nine years, the crew was playing cards when the small Cessna hit the tail section of Pride's F-27, and "we all just sat quietly and prayed" until the craft touched down at an airstrip near Fort Worth. Cturity PrMa The seasoned manager, who is already back in the air with Charley via commercial air­ lines, says he has only one regret: "The last thing I remember seeing before we were hit was that I was holding in my hand--a full house. Pride went on to play to a packed house only hours after the incident at a benefit concert for more than 2,000 nuns gathered in Dallas for a convention of the Notre Dame order. It seemed an odd place to find an 'outlaw,' but there he stood, dressed in jeans,, hair flowing from under the familiar black hat, with a 'Shooter' at his side. But Wayion Jennings wasn't packing a piece at the metropolitan zoo. It was just his year-old son Shooter, who It seems has taken an interest in the world beyond mother's lap and his Nashville home. Wayion describes the outing as a real experience. "He can't talk yet. so when he sees a strange animal, he just walks over to the cage, points, and makes some kind of a cazy sound." After a day of showing Shooter cages of lions, bears and monkeys, Wayion says he heard his son making more noise than usual. "When I turned around, he was point­ ing and laughing at me\" The younger Jennings may not have been too far off base if he was looking for the hottest attraction at the zoo. His dad has just received a double platinum certification (over two million sold) for his Greatest Hits LP, making Wayion the first Nashville- based artist in history to have two albums reach this sales mark. This news was followed by the announcement that his current Music Man LP has scored a gold certification, prompted by the release of the single 'Theme From the Dukes of Hazzard.' The song from the popular CBS televi­ sion series is on its way to becoming a pop hit for 01' Wayion, who is busy filming his own television special for the upcoming fall season. Wayton Janninga Waylon's wife, iessi Cotter, and 'The Rockford Files' star Jamas Qarner, join him in the program, filmed entirely on location in the West, primarily in Waylon's old stomping frounds, Phoenix, Arizona, ettings include Mr. Lucky's nightclub (where Wayion was discovered by Willie Nelson and RCA in 1965), a concert at Denver's Red Rock Am­ phitheatre, and a race between Wayion and Garner in two of Waylon's race cars. 4* es : Boothe climbs upward by Margo Zlnberg " 'Making it' in life has nothing to do with public acceptance, insists Powers Boothe, the lone star to pick up his Emmy in Pasadena at this year's boycotted telecast. "I'm satisfied that I'm a good person, so I could go back to my daddy's farm tqmorrow, if need be, and be happy." It's hard to picture the man who played Jim Jones in 'Guyana Tragedy' and stars next in NBC-TV's World Premiere Movie, 'A Cry for Love,' Monday, October 20. moseying home down a dirt road to a cotton farm in West Texas. Yet he grew up in the tumbleweed town of Snyder, where Hollywood seemed as remote as the North Pole. "Of course I'm the black sheep in my family," jokes Boothe, who portrays the brilliant, sensitive, alcoholic lover of Susan Blakely, a drug addict, in 'A Cry for Love.' His two brothers are a highway patrolman and a career officer in the army. "A speech class my mother persuaded me to take in high school turned the tide for me. I s»aw that acting was a lot more fun than beating my head against someone else's," says the ex-football hero with degrees from South­ west Texas State, and South­ ern Methodist University. He discarded his drawl after two years with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival--"You can't do classics with a Texas accent"--and left for the bright lights of Broadway with his wife, Pam, a financial consultant and the high school sweetheart to whom he's been married for 10 years. Powers Boothe "I performed in more off-Broadway and regional theatre shows than I could ever remember," says Boothe, who hustled a lot of odd jobs to pay the rent and was once a 'gofer' to the maitre'd at Sardi's. "Often I'd work in the theatre six months and be unemployed three months. I used to think, 'Why is it the garbage man earns $16,000 and I have a Master's degree in theater arts and can't make a living in my profession?'" , Finally last year Boothe won the starring role in the Broadway hit 'Lone Star,' written by his SMU plassmate, Jim McLure. "After 10 years of struggling my career took off like a shot, and suddenly I'm one of those proverbial overnight successes." Moving to Los Angeles, he was quickly cast as Karl Maiden's adversary in NBC-TV's 'Skag,' and as a union organizer in the TV movie, 'The Plutonium Incident.' For Love' he Story of Boothe received the script for 'A Cry immediately on finishing 'Guyana Tragedy: Tl Jim Jones.' "I was tired and planned on resting for a while, but I just fell in love with this part. Tony's an educated guy with a programmed existence. Life isn't Disneyland and Christmas, so he turns to alcohol as an escape." Optimistic about the future and determined not to be typecast, Boothe hopes one day to wear a white hat and ride tall in the saddle on the silver screen. "It would be a childhood dream come true. I'd be at home on the range." TV COMMAOG MRVKCt. IMC