WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL PATTY DUKE NEWSLETTER #10!!!

Hi, sorry, but this is going to be a short newsletter. Just felt guilty about not doing one in a while, so I wanted to make one, but it will not have most of the usual stuff. I'll do another one later this wekk with all of that. This one will just consist of two articles that I found which I find interesting, TV listings for the week and a download picture. Thanks, Bill.


SEEKING JUSTICE - AND A CHILD PATTY DUKE AND MARTIN SHEEN PLAY PARENTS
OF MURDERED MARINE IN MINISERIES ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch )
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PATTY DUKE, who played a grandmother seeking custody of her grandchild
in the recent docudrama "No Child of Mine," offers a variation on the
theme in "A Matter of Justice," a two-part story airing at 8 p.m. Sunday
and Monday on Channel 5.
This time, Duke teams with Martin Sheen in the fact-based drama, in
which parents search for the truth about their son's murder and attempt
to take back his young daughter from the wife they believe murdered him.


The drama begins as Mary and Jack Brown (Duke and Sheen) reluctantly
watch their teen-age son Chris (played by Jason London, seen in PBS'
recent "I'll Fly Away: Then and Now") leave home to join the Marines.
Soon after entering the service, he falls for an alluring older woman
named Dusty (new "L.A. Law" regular Alexandra Powers), whom he marries
secretly. They have a child, and not long after that, Chris is viciously
murdered.
The grief-stricken Mary becomes convinced that Dusty had something to do
with Chris' killing and sets out to win custody of her granddaughter,
Christine. After fighting a seemingly endless stream of bureaucratic red
tape, she achieves her goal, only to find that Dusty has already taken
the child out of the state.
Mary then summons all her remaining resolve to retrieve the child and to
ensure that Dusty pays a just penalty for her apparent role in Chris'
death.
Charles S. Dutton ("Roc") and - Jeff Kober ("China Beach") also appear
in the drama, which has TV-movie veteran Leonard Hill ("I Can Make You
Love Me: The Stalking of Laura Black," "False Arrest" ) as executive
producer.
"Ever since I was a child," Duke reflects, "I really got to know the
importance of `not giving up,' as Annie Sullivan put it." (Duke, who won
an Oscar in 1962 for playing Sullivan's pupil, Helen Keller, in "The
Miracle Worker," later won an Emmy for playing Sullivan in the TV
remake.)
"Anytime I meet anyone who shows a particular ability to stick to what
is right and true, and to fight for it, it engenders in me - great
admiration," Duke continues.
That is how Duke says she responded to the real-life Mary Brown, whom
she met toward the end of filming "A Matter of Justice" last summer.
"Above all else," the actress says, "we had motherhood in common. I
never want to know her pain. I only want to be a very tiny part of
helping others to see that that kind of pain doesn't need to be
experienced by so many people."
The actual Mary Brown says she is delighted with Duke's depiction of her
in the miniseries, adding that as she watched some of the footage for
the first time, - "I sat there and I cried for this couple, not
realizing it was me. That's how great she was."
Brown recalls that in the process of seeking custody of little
Christine, "I fought every authority legally. I could not sleep at night
thinking that a woman whom I felt very strongly had been involved in the
death of my son would have custody of his only child.
"I went to every congressman I knew, to every district attorney and to
private investigators. I did whatever was necessary, and I would do it
again, only I would know how to do it better this time.
"When the Marine Corps notifies you (of a serviceman's death), all they
tell you is, `We regret to inform you. . . .' Now, I would immediately
call the staff judge advocate of the Marine Corps and skip three months
of fruitless names and telephone calls."
Co-star Sheen, known for his impassioned support of numerous social
causes, says "A Matter of Justice" met the criteria he seeks in many of
his projects as an actor.
"Very often, the dark side is what illuminates the light," he explains.
"I think that's part of the equation of this story. The power of this
woman going up against the powers that be, and coming away with some
measure of justice, despite the heavy losses - for the sake, primarily,
of one little girl - is worthy of any story to tell today.
"What I'm basically into is how people change, how they deal with crises
and how they grow, and all of that is part of why I chose to do this,"
Sheen says.
"Last, but not least, is that I finally had an opportunity to work with
a friend I have admired as one of this country's greatest actresses, and
that's Patty Duke."


Copyright © 1993, St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1993, St. Louis Post-Dispatc

Jay Bobbin; Tribune Media Services, SEEKING JUSTICE - AND A CHILD PATTY
DUKE AND MARTIN SHEEN PLAY PARENTS OF MURDERED MARINE IN MINISERIES.,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 11-07-1993, pp 05.


HOLLYWOOD CIRCUS COMES TO PATTY DUKE'S TOWN ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch )
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TO HEAR Patty Duke tell it, the Northern Idaho town of Coeur d'Alene
will be holding its collective breath until May, when NBC announces its
fall TV season.
Normally, Hollywood and Coeur d'Alene have as much in common as the
Jacksons - Michael and Andrew.


That's one of the reasons Duke lives in Coeur d'Alene with her husband,
their young son, and horses and dogs on six acres near town. She's part
of the Hollywood sanity seekers who have migrated north in search of a
life.
And THAT is the reason a whole TV crew has invaded Coeur d'Alene in the
middle of winter to shoot six episodes of Duke's new NBC one- hour
family drama series, "Amazing Grace." The show will premiere later this
season, then compete for a slot on the fall schedule.
It all started when a NBC executive asked what it would take for her to
do a television series, Duke said last week.
"I said, `I don't want to,' " she recalled. "And he said, `But what
would it take?' And I found out that I had a price."
Duke told him the series had to be shot "in my back yard." He said,
"OK." The agreement, which initially stunned her, made Duke happy enough
to do the series.
"We have recognized in our industry . . . that people are finding a way
to live that is more comfortable for them," Duke said. "And if they want
a person (like that) to work for them, then they've got to make some
accommodations.
"And the accommodation was made for me to shoot where I live, so I don't
have to leave my family. I'm as amazed as anyone."
But what accommodated Duke disrupted the lives of others, such as
co-stars Dan Lauria and Joe Spano.
In "Amazing Grace," Duke plays a divorced former nurse and pill addict
with two kids who turns her life around and becomes a minister for a
small-town church.
Lauria (the father on "The Wonder Years") is cast as a friend from her
former life who remains attracted to her and close to her children.
Spano (Lt. Henry Goldblume on "Hill Street Blues") is a detective who
finds the new minister both troublesome and fascinating as they cross
paths.
Lauria and Spano have homes and wives in the Los Angeles area. Neither
was thrilled about the remote location for the new series, which is
shooting mostly around Coeur d'Alene but also some in Spokane.
"When I was first told that we were going to Idaho," Lauria said, "I
said to my agent, `I don't want to go to Idaho.' He said, `Fine, we'll
turn it down. What makes you think the next series won't be Alaska?'
"So, if I had to go any place, it's really beautiful up in Coeur
d'Alene."
Lauria didn't sit back and sulk about his relocation. In Los Angeles, he
had been running a weekly play-reading series for aspiring playwrights.
Already he has become involved with theaters in Spokane and Coeur
d'Alene.
Spano took a different approach, choosing to commute from Los Angeles so
he could maintain a life with his wife, Joan, in their home in the Santa
Monica mountains.
Lauria said if the series is picked up for next season, he and his wife
Ellen will relocate to Coeur d'Alene while episodes are shot. Spano said
his wife's work wouldn't allow a relocation, so "I'll be moving back and
forth."
The work of getting a series ready to air has been more demanding than
Duke imagined when she negotiated her back-yard show. She has been
rising at 3:30 a.m., going to work at 5 and returning home at 7 or 8 at
night.
"It is not exactly how I had envisioned it," she said. "I thought I
would see my little boy go from five to six. I missed that part."
Duke said the arrival of an entire TV crew in Coeur d'Alene was "like
watching the circus come to town." But it was, she added, a well-behaved
circus.
"I'm very proud to say that we have a company of people who are
respectful of where they are, of the people who live there all the
time," she said.
The TV circus has also become a moneymaker for townfolk, Duke said.
"Suddenly there are production offices and fax machines and scripts, "
she said. "It is a cottage industry at the moment in Coeur d'Alene and
I'm sure Coeur d'Alene is afraid it'll go away. It does certainly stoke
the economy in that little city."
That explains the continuing interest in whether NBC - and the viewing
public - will like the first six episodes enough to warrant a return for
the fall season.
"It's great fun to walk into one of the local stores and have somebody
say, `Did we get a pickup?,' " Duke said. "It belongs to all of us now.
I don't know what I'll do the day I have to say no, but they seem to be
very forgiving people there.
"I'm sure they'll just tell me I should send away for my minister' s
license and do it for real."

Copyright © 1995, St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1995, St. Louis Post-Dispatc

John Engstrom; 1995 Seattle Post-Intelligencer, HOLLYWOOD CIRCUS COMES
TO PATTY DUKE'S TOWN., St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 01-19-1995, pp 06G.



Before and After
****
100 minutes- U.S.A., 1979, (CC)
Directed by Kim Friedman and starring
Patty Duke Astin, Bradford Dillman, Barbara Feldon
Art Hindle, Conchata Ferrell, Rosemary Murphy
A housewife goes to a fat farm to shed pounds only to learn her husband
is being unfaithful in her absence.

Tue May 12 12:15A PLEX- Movie PLEX
Tue May 12 05:50A LOVE- Encore Love
Tue May 12 12:55P LOVE- Encore Love
Sat May 16 08:10A LOVE- Encore Love
Sat May 16 04:35P LOVE- Encore Love


The Miracle Worker
****
120 minutes- U.S.A., 1962, BW, Video
Directed by Arthur Penn and starring
Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory
Inga Swenson, Andrew Prine, Kathleen Comegys
A dedicated Anne Sullivan helps young Helen Keller emerge from her
silent prison in this Oscar-winning account.
Wed May 13 02:00A TCM- TCM Turner Classic Movies

No Child of Mine
***
120 minutes- U.S.A., 1993
Directed by Michael Katleman and starring
Patty Duke, Tracy Nelson, Susan Blakely
Markus Flanagan, Marshall Teague, G.W. Bailey
A grandmother fights for the right to raise the handicapped child her
daughter is putting up for adoption.
Fri May 15 02:00P LIFE- Lifetime East

The Swarm
*
150 minutes- U.S.A., 1978, Video, In Stereo
Directed by Irwin Allen and starring
Michael Caine, Richard Widmark, Katharine Ross
Henry Fonda, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Patty Duke Astin
A world-famous entomologist leads a life-and-death struggle against a
horde of maddened killer bees

Sat May 16 08:00P FAME- The Family Channel East


When He Didn't Come Home
(No rating available for this NEW movie at this time.)
120 minutes- USA, 1998, Premiere, (CC), In Stereo
Directed by Paul Schneider and starring
Patty Duke, Robert Floyd, Kelly Rowan
Dave Nichols, John Bourgeois, Karen Glave
A devoted mother fears the worst when her 26-year-old son disappears
after getting involved with a manipulative woman.
Tue May 19 09:00P CBS- CBS Network


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Here's the TV Guide ad to Anna's NEW movie, "When He Didn't Come Home" (thanks to Vic for the scan)