WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL PATTY DUKE NEWSLETTER #3!!!

"Anna Marie's dead" they told me. You're Patty now," and it was as if she really did die. When people take away your name, they are taking away your identity. What had happened to that Anna Marie person, I wanted to know. Could she be dead? Where'd she go? I felt as if they'd killed part of mr, and in truth, they had."

Hi, everyone. Not too much new stuff going on this week, but I will post what I have found. This is the third Friday in a row that I have sent out this newsletter, and though I had not originally planned to do this every week though that seems to be what's happening, so I just want to tell you all that this newsletter probably won't be sent out every week, but I will send it out when there is some worth while information.
Jim Green, the executive producer of the upcoming "reunion" show has been in Canada scoping out location areas to shoot the two-hour movie. He is also looking for spots to film an upcoming Julie Andrews movie, directed by her real-life husband, Blake Edwards.

Current Anna Merchandise For Sale

Call Me Anna:The Autobiography of Patty Duke. Usually ships in 24 hours
Patty Duke / Paperback / Published 1990
Our Price: $5.59 ~ You Save: $1.40 (20%)

Synopsis:
Call Me Anna is an American success story that grew out of a bizarre and
desperate struggle for survival. A harrowing, ultimately triumphant
story told by Patty Duke herself--wife, mother, political activist,
President of The Screen Actors Guild, and at last, a happy, fulfilled
woman whose miracle is her own life. Bantam.

A Brilliant Madness : Living With Manic-Depressive Illness ~ Ships in
2-3 days
Patty Duke / Paperback / Published 1993
Our Price: $5.59 ~ You Save: $1.40 (20%)
Synopsis:
The New York Times bestseller--Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke's
remarkable chronicle of her struggle with manic depression along with
medical reporter Gloria Hochman's illuminating information on the
disease itself. Since her first bestselling book, Call Me Anna, Duke has
emerged as an important spokesperson for mental health. Bantam.

Just Patty/Best of Patty Duke
Patty Duke / Audio CD / Published 1996
Our Price: $12.98 (Special Order)
Synopsis:
All of Patty Duke's greatest hits which were recorded during her show in the 1960's. Also included are previously un-released tunes, three versions of "The Patty Duke Show" theme song and even a recording session of her in the studio!

Valley of the Dolls : A Novel ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
Jacqueline Susann / Paperback / Published 1997
Our Price: $9.60 ~ You Save: $2.40 (20%)
Synopsis:
Sex and drugs and shlock and more--Jacqueline Susann's addictively
entertaining trash classic about three showbiz girls clawing their way
to the top and hitting bottom in New York City has it all. Though it's
inspired by Susann's experience as a mid-century Broadway starlet who
came heartbreakingly close to making it, but did not, and despite its
reputation as THE roman á clef of the go-go 1960s, the novel turned out
to be weirdly predictive of 1990s post-punk, post-feminist, post "riot
grrrl" culture. Jackie Susann may not be a writer for the ages,
but--alas!--she's still a writer for our times. Note: Anna, Sharon Tate and Barbara Parkins (whom all starred in the film version) are all featured on the cover of this reprinted version of the 1966 novel.

All of these titles plus several of Anna's movies are available at Amazon.com! Earth's Biggest Bookstore
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/3972-4857000-129278
Also Available:

30th Anniversary Edition video of Valley of the Dolls (1967). See your local Suncoast Store. Suggested Retail:$14.95


The Hallmark Gold Crown Edition of Harvest of Fire (1996) The Highest-rated movie of 1996 is now available on a special video also featuring Harvest of Fire: An Amish Story which has interviews with cast and crew. Look for that right after the movie and look for the video at participation Hallmark Gold Crown Stores. For information as to where your local Hallmark stores are check out the Hallmark website at http://www.hallmark.com/ or AOL members go to Welcome To Hallmark .

UPDATED!!!! Now the soundtrack which includes the Oscar-nominated score to Valley of the Dolls has been released on CD! It ofcourse has the "infamous" bed picture on the cover of Anna, Sharon Tate and Barbara Parkins. There is also a picture of each of the actresses head's inside pill shaped frames on the CD itself. There are also several photos from the film on the inside jacket. Suggestted Retail:$16.95




Patty Duke Internet Links:

PATTY DUKE WEBPAGE http://members.aol.com/Duke80/index1.html
My own site dedicated to the versatile actress.
(UPDATED THIS PAST WEEK WITH A NEW LOOK! THERE ARE STILL A FEW THINGS MISSING FROM THE PREVIOUS PAGE INCLUDING THE GUESTBOOK. EVERYTHING WILL BE BACK UP TO DATE SHORTLY)

The Official Patty Duke Home Page http://pattyduke.media3.net/

Official website homage to Patty Duke.

My Patty Duke / Lyndel Sue Page http://users.hsonline.net/timcox/index.htm
Great page by good friend, Tim Cox which includes his Patty Duke and vast record collection.

Patty Duke Fan Page http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/1368/
Site that even has a "Patty Duke Want List"!

The Patty Duke Show Got something to say about our favorite TV star? Than mouth off here! (AOL MEMBERS ONLY)

JUST FOUND!!! Valley of the Dolls http://www.foxhome.com/valley/htmls/menu.html
For the 30th anniversary re-releasing of the video of "Valley of the Dolls", 20th Century Fox has set up a special website celebrating It's rather small, but great!

COMING SOON:

STACEY O'BRIAN (NETTIE701@IOP.COM) AND I ARE WORKIING ON AN ANNA/SEAN & MACKENZIE ASTIN PAGE. IT WILL BE OUT SOON.





ANNA TV LISTINGS FOR THE WEEK:

Chain Reaction

Game Show from 1980 on Game Show Network for the next three weekend days starting on Saturday/early Sunday at 2:30am.

Host:Bill Cullen
Guests: Patty Duke, Joanna Gleason, Brian Patrick
Clarke, Nipsey Russell


A Family Upside Down

105 minutes- U.S.A., 1978, Video
Directed by David Lowell Rich and starring
Fred Astaire, Helen Hayes, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Pat Crowley, Patty Duke Astin, Brad Rearden
A heart attack forces a retired house painter and his wife to become
dependent on their grown children.
Fri Mar 6 07:00A MAXE- Cinemax East
Fri Mar 6 10:00A MAXP- Cinemax Pacific


A Killer Among Friends

120 minutes- U.S.A., 1992
Directed by Charles Robert Carner and starring
Patty Duke, Loretta Swit, Margaret Welsh
Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Angie Rae McKinney, David Cubitt
Based on the true story of a jealous teen who murdered her best friend,
then moved in with the late girl's family.
Wed Mar 4 02:00P LIFE- Lifetime East
Wed Mar 4 05:00P LIFP- Lifetime Pacific


A Matter of Justice

240 minutes- U.S.A., 1993
Directed by Michael Switzer and starring
Martin Sheen, Patty Duke, Charles S. Dutton
Jason London, Alexandra Powers, Nora Denney
A grieving mother embarks on a personal mission to avenge her son's
murder and gain custody of her grandchild.
Sun Mar 1 02:00P LIFE- Lifetime East
Sun Mar 1 05:00P LIFP- Lifetime Pacific

For the entire March TV listings, please check out my listings page on my site PATTY DUKE TV WATCHER http://members.aol.com/ANNAPEARCE/indextvlist.html

Also look at my current trade list, updated all the time! Remember ONLY videos are for trade! MY TRADE LIST http://members.aol.com/AnnaMDP/indexmylist.html

Here is a rather amusing article for "A Christmas Memory" that I recently found over the web that I thought you all wold enjoy...

Patty Duke Settles In

Sunday, December 21, 1997


A CHRISTMAS MEMORY: Based on a short story by Truman Capote. With Patty
Duke, Eric Lloyd, Anita Gillette, and Piper Laurie. 9 tonight, CBS.


By VIRGINIA ROHAN
Staff Writer


Patty Duke, an actress for most of her 51 years, developed such a fast
bond with Eric Lloyd, her 11-year-old co-star in tonight's "A Christmas
Memory," she even bought him a little dog like hers.

"I had one of my little Yorkies with me -- she's my travel dog. He was
just crazy about this little dog, and I was able to find him one," Duke
says.

"Eric and I, thank God, hit it off immediately, I think partially
because I have such built-in respect for child actors, because of my own
history."

That illustrious, but sometimes difficult "history" -- which Duke
chronicled in her book "Call Me Anna" -- also enabled Duke to show
patience with Lloyd ("The Santa Clause").

"He's a little boy, and at times, his concentration wasn't there, but
thank God, the part of me that's a mom, and a former child actor, would
think, 'He's not supposed to be able to react like an adult,'" says
Duke, who was a teenager when she won an Oscar for "The Miracle Worker."

"Sometimes, I would get cross with him, and use my stern voice, but then
he'd look at me, and he'd grin, and I'd grin, and we'd laugh about how
silly this work that we do is."

"A Christmas Memory," based on Truman Capote's autobiographical short
story, is about a young boy named Buddy (Lloyd) and his best pal, his
childlike and lovably eccentric cousin Sook (Duke).

"I first read the story, oh, in 1970, and it became one of those books
that I tucked away, and I'd give to a new friend, when I wanted them to
know I liked them."

The closest person to Sook that Duke ever knew was the grandmother of
one of the people who managed her career in childhood.

"She wasn't childlike, and she was very tall, and heavy, with enormous
breasts, and yet, there was a directness and a simplicity about her that
made me feel that I was enveloped in a real comfort zone in my life that
I didn't have otherwise," Duke recalls.

These days, she lives with her husband, Michael Pierce, in Northern
Idaho, far from the Hollywood hubbub. "When I come to work, I'm fresh
and green. I'm not a part of that daily showbiz thing. And my work has
grown tremendously," Duke says.

Her next television project will be a CBS movie reunion of her classic
"Patty Duke Show" (1963-66), in which she played identical cousins Patty
and Cathy Lane.

"We probably won't even shoot it until May," Duke says. "At first, I
didn't think it was such a great idea, but one of the producers has just
been so tenacious, and I thought, 'Oh, God, if i don't do it when I'm
50, when am I gonna do it?' The thrill is, we have found everybody from
the original [show]."

Duke hasn't a clue as to what the plot will be. Although a friend has
jokingly suggested a sort of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" scenario,
in Duke's mind, Patty and Cathy "went their separate ways."

Another project Duke hopes to do, in tribute to her late mother, is a
TV-movie remake of "One Red Rose for Christmas," which originally aired
as part of a live television show, "U.S. Steel Hour," that Duke did in
the late Fifties.

"Helen Hayes played a nun, and I played an orphan," she says. "It was my
mother's favorite thing, of all the things I ever did, including
'Miracle Worker.' This one somehow got into her heart."

A two-time author -- besides "Call Me Anna," she wrote, "A Brilliant
Madness," about her struggle with manic-depression -- Duke has also
"flirted with the idea" of writing another "quasi-autobiographical"
book, this one about women hitting middle age.

"Most people are very gracious about my aging," says Duke, before
launching into an anecdote about a little girl she sat down next to on a
bench in a mall recently.

"Her grandmother ... leaned down and said, 'That's Patty Duke,
sweetheart,' and the little girl looked at me, and looked at her
grandmother, and said, 'What happened to her?'"

How did Duke react to that?

"I laughed," she says. "I thought, somewhere in there there's a book."




QUOTE:

"We Love ya Jenny girl. Sleep with the stars."
- As "Jean Monroe" in "A Killer Among Friends" (1992) looking up at the sky, relieved that her daughter's killer wad finally found.


Trivia:

Last week's question:

"On what show was the last time Anna played Patty and Cathy Lane?"
Hint: Don't go searching for your episode guides!

Answer: The Answer was the gameshow Password Plus from 1980. She played Patty for three days and Cathy for two. Each were playing for a different charity. Contgratulations for Dave Stein (Dstein280@aol.com) for being the first one to answer the question correctly!

THIS WEEK'S QUESTION:
In what movie/series of Anna's did she have an identical kitchen to a very popular mid '80's-early 90's show. Name the Anna program and the show. (Hint: Anna had it first and many "behind the scenes" people were involved on both shows.)

DOWLOAD PHOTO:

I thought that this photo that of the "Neely O'Hara" cake my friends gave at my sixteenth birthday party in 1996 is very funny, and would like to share it with all of you!:-)