TV briefs

Press, 16 January 1985, Page 11

TV briefs

Soaps oversexed NZPA-Reuter London A British women’s group is preparing to break the law to protest what they say is too much sex in the American television soap operas, “Dallas” and “Dynasty.” The 30,000-member National Housewives Association said it planned a campaign to withhold part of the SNZIO4 annual licence fee all television owners must pay. “If any good would be done by going to jail, then I would be prepared to,” said the association’s president, Irene Watson. She said sex scenes should be excised from “Dallas” and “Dynasty” before they were shown in Britain. “All the bits about marriage breakups and hopping in and out of beds should go,” she said. “The sex and violence on all channels these days is beyond a joke.” Jungle wedding NZPA-AP Los Angeles Dynasty star, Pamela Bellwood, wed photojournalist Nick Wheeler in a colourful ceremony performed over the Christmas holiday by a Buddhist priest in a Nepalese jungle, said her publicist. The December 30 wedding culminated an eight-year romance between Mr Wheeler and Miss Bellwood, who plays Claudia Carrington in the ABC prime-time soap opera, said publicist Marilyn Heston. The ceremony was held next to a reflecting pool, 30 minutes upriver from the Tiger Tops resort owned by the best man, Jim Edwards,

she said. Resort guests stay in treehouse-like structures affording a view of the jungle flora and fauna, she said. The bride, groom and best man arrived on elephants painted in the Nepalese tradition. Securities suit cut NZPA-AP Los Angeles A judge has dismised a portion of a $225 million lawsuit by the actor, Sean Connery, that alleges the producer and distributor of his James Bond movies broke United States securities laws. Mr Connery’s suit, filed last June against the producer, Albert R. Broccoli and two of his foreign production companies, challenged the basic structure of Hollywood’s profit-partici-pation agreements. A United States district judge, David Kenyon, dismissed 12 counts of the civil suit in a written ruling acted December 28, but the action went unnoticed until last week. The dismissed allegations attempted to show that Mr Connery’s contract guarantees of certain profits and box-office receipts constitute a security and that those guarantees amounted to an investment by Mr Connery in the films. The judge rejected the definition of a security put forward by Mr Connery’s attorney. However, Judge Kenyon left standing the actor’s other allegations that he was defrauded by Mr Broccoli and the films’ distributor, MGM-UA Entertainment Co. of Culver City, California.