When lists are made of ”Great Old Broads,” Barbara Stanwyck will certainly be at the top. In between starring in films like ”Stella Dallas,” ”Golden Boy” and ”Double Indemnity” and playing her current TV role in
”The Colbys,” she was tough Victoria Barkley in ”The Big Valley”
series. During its four years on the air, ”Valley” was frequently compared to ”Bonanza” and Stanwyck to Lorne Greene, comparisons that Stanwyck hooted down in her typically feisty style. ”Our family is much stronger. My sons are real men. Lorne Greene is the Loretta Young of the West,” she is quoted as saying in ”Stanwyck,” by Jane Ellen Wayne.
Carl Weathers, who produced and starred in the recent TV remake of the Tony Curtis-Sidney Poitier film ”The Defiant Ones,” has definite ideas on his role as producer: ”You have to have your presence felt without being arrogant. . . to find that fine line between trying to do it all yourself and recognizing someone`s capabilities and allowing him to do what he does best. . . As a producer you don`t try to make something that`s good, gooder but rather make something that isn`t quite working, better.”
Runty little kids, take heart. Six-foot-six Dolph Lundgren, Ivan the Terrible in Sylvester Stallone`s ”Rocky IV,” was below average in height until his 15th birthday and had to take up martial arts because he was constantly being picked on by other kids. But Lundgren, a champion kick-boxer, doesn`t now go around picking on others. ”I have a lot of violence in me,” he told Newlook magazine, ”but I save it for the ring. I hurt a lot of people in kick-boxing competition. Not on purpose, but when I get hit, I get really mean. Outside the ring, most people think I`m a pretty nice guy.”
REPLAYS
”See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river–and see all.”
Socrates
”It is not worthwhile to go around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.” Henry David Thoreau
”I don`t mind going someplace just so long as I can be home for lunch.” Edward Dahlberg
